New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-21
TIE KNow.sornIScs AND p MGR .rros


scribed here inmigrat on Of that class hi.hsr
viii be checked, aud emigration fson our
shores will begin We presume tae frs! branch
Of ire proposition 80 be true. But a, To sby
great flow Of people the other way, We have su,u
fsih b it, 90 far a. il can be Influenced by tue
con.id, ratons be suggests Tire trath il, there
La already beea a large back ward fax Of emf
Rfarts FIR several months, without reference TO
Know NottiI glenn. So many have cone wnIle
the industry OF the country bas been In declin
! ing ktate f om cur excessive Imports, that, fad-
Ing no'bitg 70 do, sud the expenses Of living
eIoImoUsy bieh, many have turned upon their
heel and returned whence they cane. Tass
have beer enabled to do ttis at almost no s,cri-
fee ss al from the fact tnat our chip Owners
have carried them beck at = cost OF only about
twenty dollars head including their subsistence.
Tbis ID hardly more than the same emg rants would
have had to pay 10 Ne w-York for food aud iodg
il g during The period Of time they would be On
board stip in sn ordinary passage to Europe.
With such fscilities il is no wonder that many
tmigraDts have returned, after having discovered
.be gloomy prospect which the industry Of the
county has afforded since las. season. But il 10
only sort Of cody ia the great tide OF emigration
| which has been setting upon our shores.
That the great stream may, however be seri-
ou'ls clicked by the Know Nothing movement,
admits Of little doubt Bat iss influence will be
by 10 means confined to Iri.h Catholics. II will
obsiruct the fOs ftbe great Germs Al i'm migration
as well. II will act upon the forehaaded farmer
Of tie Continent of England, aud Of Scotland;
upon tie intelligent aud conscientious lover OF
free Institutions everywhere, oppressed at h)me
aid seeking relief in free country; upon mso OF
small a, large properties, msny Of whom have
coLtl buted to our Da,ioDal wealth as We'll as 10
incIe5te our population within the last ten years;
upon mechanics tradesmen, men Of ingenious
hsndicraft in all pursuits, the numbers Of whom
au org US have alieady been sufficient t. build up
iLdepepde Mt branches of industry, to wh,h native
tklll has never yet turned its attention. We have
lOre siDce taken the tcum of Europe, IN populA.
ton, for it was the first to flow over the sides Of
the seethipg csuldrop, and are now receiving
be ter and m IRE substantial class of people from
all countries that send enigrants hther. The
Know Nothing policy tends to check the in
pIovement wbils it aggrsva.es the evils of the
previous sccessiOns by embitteriog them against
the native population, and driving them to regard
their religious dogmas with the feelings Of
martyr.
OF all the mischief which the Kuow-Nothing
movement is likely to epge1der none is more to
be deplortd than the influence II is likely TO have
upon our Catholic population. II drives them
to seek shelter in clannishness. If Catholics,
instead of being the objects of bgotry and
Suspicion, were treated in q spirit Of liberation
and hberaliy, their hold would soon be looseued
upon all foreign attachments. The children of
Cattol parents, born upon our soil if permitted
to gov up upder tbs Influences Of our free in
st,iutiors with all shat independence of spirit
ard tlat manliuess vi character tina. pertain
to people that recognize no distinctions among
men but those of worth aud genius, would soon
0utaTow the habiiiments Of their fathers.
child Of an Irish Catholic and one Of an Ameri-
can Protestant, growing up 10 The sane village
side by aide, attending the same school, rough
aud. tumbliDg it toge her through their childhood
and youth, would come into manhood with very
much the same set Of idess, and the same modes
of thought; and this, too, whether the DOusy or
the King James version of the Scriptures were
perused by the two l.ds-whether at home or in
school. The essential ideas Of American De-
mOcracy which every child growing up ia tue
country iubbes, provided he associate freely
with all, and not alone with one class or sect,
will forever prevent him from being anything bus
an American in grain II there be q Catholicism
which harms a man, 1t would be we'll worked out
OF him by such an association before he had eft bis
teens But the Know Nothing policy 10 adverse
the extent of this aversion, working for the csuse
of that very religious exclusiveness of which the
Kuo~. Nothipgs profess 80 much dread. They
pursue q course which promotes separation be-
tween Catholics and Observation-Disclosures ma.
tives and foreigners.
All experieBce has sho ~n this! FIRE will nOt
buru Dor water drown mans religious tenets
out of him, and that il is not BY any such eradi-
eating process that our zeslOss eau convert or put
down their tsgonists. Ga the contrary, the edu'
cation of our common schools 10 the great,
if not the only, lever wberewith TO over throw
all popular ignorance and superstition. IL 10 by
the .ffilistion and the mingliDg of the children
of all classes in the one democratic household Of
tie common school, that religious AMI national
sntssonisIus are to be destroyed. Natonalisesand
religious prejudices will alike sink out Of sight
uhcer system which aims at harmonic pg and
fusiDg the various elemt Its that are tossed TO-
eether upon our shores.
This is the only policy which can make us q