, 1855-08-10


so actual voters in the county when there
were was better than 400 cast.
Now, one Of two things is certain. They
either practiccd complete fraud upon the
people, Or else the people had great SYN
pqthy for the organization. If the people
ase deceived by you, gentlemen Know
Nothings, | wouldn't be in your place for
double the profits of your Official stations,
but if the people sympathize with You, then
you have nothing to fear, nor neither has
your confedcratcS, and all you can make
known at any time This is a question
for time to solve. | believe YOU have
practiccd deception, and that the
masses have no sympathy for your organi.
zation, and that eventually they will come
down on you with rcdonblcd fury. You
are trying to believe, and cause others TO
believe with you, that the people of this
country will forever frown on me for leav-
ing your band AMI exposing your trcach.
cry. My conscience tells me am right,
and while il SO tells me | shall continue to
do as have done. Can You place your
hand on your heart and say that YOU feel
" all right" If so, "pitch in." Ifyou can,
it is more than could at present believe.
The Know Nothing socicly-or at least
the society commonly known by that name,
although it is not its real nam,-and by
the way--it is by this means that many of
them try to forgive their conscience for ly-
ing when they deny belonging to that par
Iy-ought upon such strdiaing--has been
in existence in this place for nearly year.
They receive their keys" from Oregon, as
for charts they have none. The organ
izdtion sails without chart, and dcpenas
upon rotten broken down politicians for a
helm: their compass a weatlcr-cock, that
turns the way the wind blows the hardest,
consequently there is no wonder when they
ran afoul Of the breqkers They met semi
occasionally until the conycn;ng OF the legis-
lature last winter. when they appointed II
regular time for meeting, anu the members
of which there was about dozen Mt that
time, skulked around and by artful devices
and cunnngmaa9avers, succeeded in suck
ing in two or three ofih sap-h?adcd men,
bers first, and then they operated up
on others until at last, believe they swal-
lowed thirtcen Of them, all members of the
House, that body of assembled wisdom Of
which the people Of this terctory will ever
feel proud. After the adjournment Of the
legislature, they continued to meet as best
they could, from place to place, in the dark
holes and gaTrets of the old waste houses
in town, until they increased their number
on their books to l06; my number was 81
They had regular time for meeting, but
if il happened to be moogshining night,
then meeting was postponed, until dark
time. Awhile it was uptown aud awhile
it was downtown, and now and then lover
the water |af ..
Nothing was said about politics until
the time Of the holding Of the democratic
county convention, when snail stir was
made in the way Of proposals for tie Knew
Nothings to have something to say in the
coming election as to who should be elect
ed. About the time that united ! think
there was very near an equal humber Of
democrats and wings in the concetn, but
shortly afterwards grand rush was made
by the wings, and they soon gained large
majority. As | before stated, MY number
was 81, and when left them, fhey num-
bered LOG. ! do not recolleG of more
than democrats joining after did, all the
rest were wings. Another thing, / don't
believe that they have ever succeeded in
getting more than 8 or 4 froc-soilcrs into
the wigwam. The political question was ogi-
tated in the wigwnm until atCipst they held
a convention and nominated, from the nom
inees Of the wing and democratic conven-
tions, candidates to be voted for by tue
Know Nothings as KllOic Nothiags. They
nominated wings and democrats, and
this is the time that left them. do not
know whether that nomination. was with.
drawn or not, but do know that they did
not stick to all their nominees.
go URBAN Il. Hicks.
= (IS be continued y
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