Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1855-05-03

UT'ln continuation ol our remarks YES
tenlay, we ask why is this Know Nothing
organization secret one, and why is no
man voted Tor unless he isl member of
the Order and demeans his character by
secret pledge ofhoaor, given in manner
that he would decline in any ordinary bust.
ness transaction? II is nothing but pros
cripiion. Will any man pretend that An
derson Z. Rose, the young man from Block
Island, who is just being educated, is
better American in heart and in spirit than
our present worthy Lieut.. Governor, John
J. Reynolds Or that John r. Bartlett is
better American than William r. Wat
son, who has been waging newspaper
war against The foreign voters for the last
ten years, and long before this humbug
Know Nothingism ever entered the head of
Ned Buntine, one of its principal founders,
or any other such worthless loafer? o,
that Charles Hart is purer and more un-
defiled worshipper of the goddess Liberty
at the American shrine, than Christopher
Robinson Or that Samuel A. Parker
would fight any more vaiantly in defence
Of the American system than Samuel B.
Vernon These are grave questions, and
truthful answer is matter of Importance
in the argument. If these questions are
answered in the negative, as they must be,
then these men have been prescribed and
turned out OF office simply because they are
not members of this worse than Jesutical
order, for no one will pretend that our
present State officers have not ably and
faithfully discharged their duties, in all
respects during the past year. 1t is con-
tended by those who pretend to be most
faithful in the Order, and to worship its
principles with an earnest devotion, that the
Wing and Democratic parties have become
corrupt, and they intimate by their conver-
sation and conduct, that it has been reserv
ed for them to purify the great political
body-corporate in reply to this, all that We
have to say is that if any such corruption
existed in The two great parties, they have
both been materially relieved of their dis
eased parts by the organization of this Or
der, for it has become the reservoir of the
same. We do not mean by this remark to
be understood as saying that there are no
worthy men in the Order far from it. 1t
has contained and still contains many ex.
celent and worthy men, who, by some
strange infatuation, or with the misguided
hope of accomplishing some particular OBJ
ject, have been beguilcd from the path of
political rectilude, and scduccd into this
whitened sepulchre many of this class
have already Withdrawn, in disgust, and
very many others will speedily follow their
example. The only link which unies the
most jealous of this Order is the cohesive
principle OF plunder and as soon as all the
Offices are disposed of the once powerful
compact will be like the baseless fabric of
vision. 1t will be but short time before
this Order will vanish, and parties will be
divided the same as before,-,hat is, those
who are worth having will return TO their
former political associates. Both parties
will learn good lesson by this movement
they will have ascertained who can be
relied OH, when principles are at stake, and
who can be trusted when storms thcken
and break wildly and furiously about them.