, 1855-02-24
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monty known order OF know nOthngs-thc class of
men comprising the order, their Obligations to sup
port members of the order for Office on all occasions
or not vote at all &c.
On the Atlantic side and in most Of the United
States the doctrine Of the organization ncucates and
the ritual prcscrbes foreigners from the right of suf
fage without first having resided in the country fer
period Of twenty-oue years
The membersAr not to support fer any of
flee @ honor or profit, any foreigner, or foreign or
Amef San member of the Roman Catholic church.
Although not strenuOusly insisted upon in this or
Oregon territory yet in the large cities Of the Allan
tic not only foreigners prescribed with American
catholics, but also the immediate descendants of for
eigners and of catholics to the third and fourth
generaton-together with all American protestants,
united in marriage with catholic ladies' debarred
from membership with the order, and prescribed from
holding office.
The ostensble object of the organization is declared
to be- to break down all existing parties, and elect
to Office none but American prOtestants--such as a
majority shall selectfor when all the members of the
respective wigwams are required to vote, or not vote
at all.
Why this opposition to the rights of franchise be-
ing exercised by foreigners? In order first to obtain
key to the answer, let us first ascertain how the for
that heretofore the mass of the Irish and German nat
uraized citizens have been supporters of the demo-
cratic party believing that that party advocated the
largest privileges to the masses, well the largest
amount of popular and religious liberty. And hence
it is that the trustees of the defunct whg party which
has, since the days of the repeal of the alien and sed
tion laws of the elder Adamssought through various
party names, to procure their reenactment in part at
least and hence it is that the said trustees now
making beld and secret movement, to disranchise,
by united blow Of almost numberess factions, the
whole foreign population of the country 90 that end.
That the present native American party received its
vitality in the death-strugge of expiring whiggery,
is too plain to admit Of argument and occasionally
member ofthe bygone party, has the boldness to de-
nounce, and the honesty to acknowledge the iegiti
mate paternity Of know nOthingsm. In reference to
the members Of the new and secret order, the Chicago
(l) Journal the oldest if not the sharpest whig
newspaper in Chicago, says:
" They are usually the sloughed Of, broken down
representatives Of whggery men whose services hav.
ing been dispensed with by the honester portions of
their party saw no course open for them but to steal
out OF the ranks and stab their former party friends
In the back whose natural procvities TO treason hav
ing been exposed led them TO the foTmationof other
parties where malice towards their betters and cra-
yaS ;aaS asr prOvender might be simultaneously graf
Rut the above ia not annlicalIe aIone IN the mem,
her. of tba uh,o no,+v prososssdlv omoc,a.ic krhw
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of freedom under the auspices of the democratic par
ty and exut in the safetv of our institutions and our
rabid and permanent growth in wealth and mower
until we have evoked the envy of surrounding nations
strange indeed that srcH men after our republican
form of government has stood successful exnerimen
tai test Of more than half centurv-extendinr, the
electiva franchise IN aliens and nassno tumnhantlv
thronOh wars and revolutions on tho batlte6ed and
at the baflotbox-uatiye horn. side by side with the
lrishman and Geman-should now suddeuly awake
to the danger of allowing foreigner to hold an office
or exercising the potical rvbt Of citizen without
first acouirinr residence in the land Of their aiop
tion oftwentv.one vearsi How ongbt tho bones of
the saoes of the revolution to rattIe with transnort
In their tomb - and the REMAINING republican hand
that assisted in the elevation of Mr. Jefferson To the
presency 70 rejoice that Il was reserved for the no
torous E. z C. JupsoS. alias Ned Buntline y now
under arrest in Maine, on a charge Of murder, and
whom the galows has long since levied upon-to turn
Native Americanism into Know Nothingism, and
not only assume that il is UNSAFE for foreigners to be
allowed the privilege Of voting without residence of
twenty-one years but that it is DANGEROUS to permit
foreigner, or even Roman Catholic AMERICAN to
hold any kind Of an Office and that they must be pre
vented from so doing! How rdiculous-how pros
crptive-how antirepublean!
Bv carefully prepared article publisbed in the N
v Tr;hpra some time since n WAS ossrr.d .tha, ,ho
loss to the United States heretofore annually accrung
through the labor and treasure Of the foreign immi
gration-seriousy arrested by the European war
would largely Offset the advantages derived from the
market afforded for our surplus agricultural products
enhanced and consequent upon that war--concluding