Washington telegraph., 1855-05-23
The American Order.

We copy the following from the editorial
columns OF The Austin (Texas} STATE Times.
the leading Democratic paper Of Texas.
whose editor is now President of the Dem
ocratic State Central Committee. We pub
lish the article to show how some leading
Democrats regard this Organization. and as
refutatiOn Of the charge that it was gotten
up, and is controlled and directed by Wings:
The unparalleled success of the new par
ty, wherever an election has been held
throughout the length and breadth of the
land. would seem to indicate that '.Know-
NOthingism is :. very different ss1a than it
was at first declared to be. by Ia portion of
the press (see State Gazette 2Ist) 1t is
true, that the alarm was sounded, and the
liberties of the country declared to be en-
dancered BY the deliberations of "secret
society," in the incipiency OF the organiza-
ton, BY those who dreaded any rival near
the throne of the hitherto invincib!e de-
nocracy: and the engrafting of any new
principle into the creed of that party, was
he'd to be dangerous by many. who having
long enjoyed the only benefits for which
they baiiled-the spoils-no matter vheth-
er the evils for which that party contempla-
ted remedy had become linsupportable
or not The conservative spirit Of the
American people is seldom diverted from
its usual channels. by trivial causes but
once aroused to sense of impending dan
GER, the whirlwind is net more impetuous,
nor the lightning's fash more sudden. than
the efforts Of these same people to reform
and throw OF that danger
The unarimity with which the politicians
Of every caste have adopted the principles
Of the American Order is the very best
evidence OF It's being democratic princi-
PIE, and no foreigner has any right whatever
to complain. for they come TO this country
with the full knowledge that here majority
have the right and power to rule. and by as
serling that right, ard altering the laws of
naturalization. they violate not even an i'm
Piled contract. In his social condition the
foreigner is governed by the same laws that
rule the native born. and whether good OF
bad, they must operate alike on all If
they seek cur shores with the hope of ruling
Us, then they are unfit for citizens, and
have no right to complain of the purely de-
fensiyc rule Of the k1ow-NOthings, who
are determined Americans shall rule Am
erica
Long hefore the organization Of the pre-
sent Order, We were fully convinced that
the immense emigration OF foreigners to the
United States from the shores of oyergrown,
impoverished and beSotted monarchies and
deSpOtiSns, was an evil instead of bIes-
sing AS the most spotless surface is the
easiest diSfgured, 50 The purest social con-
dition NAV be the easiest polluted In the
language Of Governor General Of Cana
ca, Sir Francis Head, to "annihiiate the
liberty of the United States, no surer
means could be adopted than by sending to
our shores, the degraded and vicious over
plus Of her population To roll back
tlis tide If possible and If not. TO re-
strain hgeiT po,iticaL 71o,Cer 10 the at
nlost. as tke creed Of tie h9aosr-Nothinrs
and he Ieto opposes such a result Is 40
l0reT Of las country. ant consequently
not Democratic Republican,
So tremendous has been the emigration
TO the United States within the pas, few
years. and so indiscIiminate from all pa-
tons of the earth. that these foreigners
formed 4 distinct political power, sufficiently
strong and important to excite in other
great parties struggle for their alliance
and possessing 10 feelings in common with
those whose birth-right was in the land
they were ever willing to throw into the
hands OF the highest bidders the priceless
boon known to free people-the right of
voting; and by so doing exercised an iDf1u-
ence as powerful as it was pernicious. To
remedy these evils Know NCthingism spruno
INTO existence, and triumphantly is it per-
forming its mission.
Before know -Nothin qism Was fornd 70
be very different ism than what il WIS 81
frst declared to be- (ride the State Gazette
OF the 2lst inst; We ike to quote our an
thorItyl the secFesy of the institution was
said to be ITS principal and most beiDons
feature ct the Democratic party Itself
originated in meetings as. secret - 49,
OF the Masonic order, or the conclava of a.
Pope, and ultimately succeeded in the orar
throw Of the old Federal party. The Tam
many Society, which has so long existed in
New York, was, and is still, a secret partv
tue democracy Of which no one will pretend
to deny In fact. no political party is en-
flreIy free from the charge of secresy, and
as long as car present system of Govern
ment shall exist. secret caucuses and con-
elaves Will be held to concoct measures. ma
t1re plans and insure successes. The GREAT
est moral reforms of the age have been ac
comPllshed through the aid of secret asso-
cations The Samaritan and the Templar
nave secretly concOcted plans to disenthraIl
tne victim OF Intemperance, and with closed
doors hidden from the world, have devised
means 10 carry the sunshine of delight into
many a wreiched hovel, and to send bOundino
mo husbands arms discarded wife. and