The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-09-15
THE ERUAES OF
KNOW NOTHINGIsM!
PrOscriptive Laws OF Massachu-
settS, Connecticut, Maine and
New Hampshire.

IfOSCflpttve Laws Oh MaSSacnus
settS, Connecticut, Maine and
New Hampshire.
"SAM'' has made his mark! His foot
prints are as distinctly manifest in the leg
islation of the States of Massachusetts, Con-
necticut, Maine and New Hampshire, as in
the bloody murders and diabolical outrages
at Cincinnati and Louisville. In those States
as in Ohio, "Sam" and "Sambo" united their
forces and formed party which they called
"Republcan." This Republican party
in those several States was composed of the
same elements and united for the same OBJ
jects which the Republican party" are seek,
ing to accomplish in Ohio. etthis "Repub-
lican'' Know Nothingparty succeed in Ohio
and we shall see the same results. 1t was
for this purpose that the State Council Of
the know Nothing Ordr which met at Co
lunlbus on the 9th of August last passed res
olutions graciously permitting the members
of the order to vote as their consoiences
may dictate (D in reference to the State
ticket, but instructing the Order through
out the State to perfect their organizations,
and to secure the nomination of men for the
Legislature who will stand upon and endorse
the platform of the Order; and it is for t his
: purpose that in every county they nominate
no man as Representative or Senator who is
not member of the Order. The object Of
this Republican" party, attempt as they
may to disguise the fact, is to deny to our
brethren whose misfortune it is to have been
born upon foreign soil, the rights and priv
ileges of American citizens, while at the
same time they are striving 10 elevate the
negroes to perfect political equality with
the white citizen. In the four Eastern States
above named, that party have been triumph
ant, and have developed their policy upon
this subject BY the passage Of laws prohibit
iting their courts from naturalzing foreign
ers, while in two of them, Massachusetts
and Maine, negroes are allowed the privieg
es of citizens after bare residence of one
year. In Maine and New Hampshire these
republicans" have passed law designed
10 cut off from the ballot box even those who
have already been naturalized, by requiring
them to present their naturalization papers
TO the Board of Aldermen or Selectmen OF
each ward and town, and satisfy that board
Of the genuineness Of the papers the jarisdic-
ton of the court granting them, and also
oftheir own identity as the persons to whom
they were issued, Thus requiring them to
keep constantly on hand witness who was
present when the papers were granted. and
to prove facts which ought to be within the
knowledge Of every officer Of election with.
out resort to testimony.
The odious alien and sedition laws Of old
John Adams, which rendered Federalism SO
obnoxious, bear no comparison in point OF
infamy, with these acts ofthe Know Nothing
Republicans.
Let the people Of old Porto ge read this
record Of infamy and say whether they will
lend their aid in bringing a like disgrace up
on the fair fame Of the Buckeye State:
NO. l.--MAssAoHusETTs.
tMsssachusetts Legislature, in Senate Monday, May
4 III u, 1855, Morning Session.l a@
Mr.. Hall, Of Plymouth, from the Commit
tee on Conference, reported the amendment
to the Constitution relative to the eligibility
to Office and the right of suffrage in new
draft, as follows: /. No person shall be. eligi-
bic to ofice.in this Commonwealth, unless
he shall have been born within the jurisdic-
tion Of the United States, or unless he shall
have been the child Of an Amerc IAN citizen;
born during the temporary absence . lone one or
both Of his parents from the United States;
and no person shall be entitled to vote in
this Commonwealth unless he shall have
been resident within the jurisdiction of the
United States for twenty one years; proyid'
ed that persons Of foreign birth who may
have been duly and legally naturalized, oil
otherwise qualified, before the adoption. o
this amendment, shall be entitled to vote il
this Commonwealth. d a@
In the House, Monday afternoon sesson, ,Msy lsss
The amendment to the Constitution, rela