The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-13


THEY DENY THE BLACK FLAG OF PRESCRIPTION.
If the doctrines of the know-nohings unjust and OPP
pressiv aristocrac and contracted bgoted and noer
ant the hardhood with which they deny doctrines
scarcely less disreputab We notice that their present
effort is to convince the Catholics of Louisiana and Mary
land that they not hostile to that religious Col
Albert Pike who an original New England ederalist
ranspanted to Arkansas promising the people of the
South that the meeting of the grand know-nothing
council the antiCahoc test will be removed Indeed,
it stated that the Arkansas poet has gone far
his hearers that there hostility to the Catholics
the part of the know-nohings This is genuine
mancing, and shows how readily evil communications
corrupt good manners. We do not know which is more
entitled condemnatonthe sincere adoption of religious
intolerance principle Of the know-nothing platform,
the affected reputation of it by the leaders But for the
sentiment Of religious fanatcism which has stimulated,
exists upon hostility to the Catholic church, there
would been the shadow of chance for
the know-notngs 1t was this that called into the field
the three thousand cergymen who insulted Senator
Douglas and denounced the Nebraska bill 1t this
that helped the aboonsts to send sixty aboonst cler-
gymen into the legislature of Massachusetts, and elected to
Congress number of fanatics 1t this that pursued
Joseph r. Chandler cherished wing he was and drove
him into the shades Of private life The knownothngs of
the South could do without the help of the bigo
and fanatics in their upon the democracy than the
democracy could do without the intelligent and liberal
minded of the country Intolerance is the very life
and soul of the order and The only element upon ch The
know-notngs North and South may be said generally and
sincerely agree Had these things not been true it
possible that the know-nohing national convention, Of
which MIR. Pike member, would have excluded the
Catholic delegates from Louisiana The religious fanatics
in that chamber well knew that to admit those
delegates would be off the strong right of the
order to denationaze it, and make political
machine instead of great engine OF religious intolerance
And strange to say that this proscripve idea inn
portant the know-nohings in the South it is to those
of the North for while helps the abolitioniss of the
North defeat the democracy it at the time tries to
assist the wings of the South in the labor of love-
Is it not them most dishonest and shameless thing to
attempt to deceive the southern people with the idea that
this vital doctrine of the knownohng party is not sincere
ly entertained and promise that it shall be extirpated
in the face Of the recent vote of the national convention OF
the party against the Catholics of Louisiana?
While this bold game is going on however, the
Pixies and the Rayners the Wilson's and the Johnston la
boring show that the democracy the Catholic party
In the teeth Of their prescriptions, and with every
day showing the fact that thousands Of Of all sects
and persuasions raying against the know-nohings
edemocrstic flag they attempt excite the very
peudices against their averares which they themselves
falsely repudste
ANOTHER HIGH TRIBUTE TO THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.
Thos I, Preston Of Richmond, Virginia in a letter
the Fourth-oJuly celebration that place thus frankly
his position in the present crisis of affairs in the