Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-08-19

k now Nothing, and whose last trick and aims we
recently detected and exposed will be of some use TO
society by serving as ane Illustration of the natua-
tion the presumption, the shameessress the perti.
racily, and the insensIbty to principle which mark
the last struggles OF drsparing faction. What brazen
confidence in the power Of rickery aud marnuvrng
displayed in The nero attempt to defeat the Demo
cratic party, by which collection of people OF all
politics. and of any politics, and Of none Of some few
Jealous Of foreign skill and labor OF others whose libra
ry consists Of al illustrated Fo1's Book If Martyrs
Of the remains of party who hate Democracy more
than they love their country, and lastly, of number
without enough moral stamina to declare themselves
openly of any party; wha, une1amped folly to sup
pose that such heterogeneous combination, the
fse the fag ends Of every clique and party, united by
only one aim and that is at the pocket of Uncle Sam,
could bo suffered take the management of the af
fairs of these United States
Shameful, ire1cusabe wold DO the notification by
ou, country of the generous, self confident, national H.
beraty of which abroad and at home Americans have
ever proudly aud justly bousted 1t would be an injury
aud insult to those whom orators, authors, repre-
sentstives our laws and constitutions, have hospta
bly, invited To shores; al invitation in which al!
sections and parties, and attached TO this
little minded dark-antern association have joined.
By the display OF such wish, by the contempt
and hatred printed and spoken, which this most
generous aud un-Amercan faction have exhibited,
every foreigner among us is more or less Injured
And the chief result Of Know. .Nothngism will be
painful recollection the minds Of foreigu.born
fellow citizens, that thousands Of Americans, whom
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themselves together against them in secret and en-
couraged and sought to place in power reckless men
who seemed to enjoy long suppressed pleasure in
rlicuIng, diaparaging and abusing. those who with
good reason thought themselves welcomed hithcr by
the American people.
This hybrid production, generated by some un-
known accident, nourshed by the corruption of poltl
cal DEATH tourshng only in darkness and secrecy,
calls itself "Amercan." a. if Americans, free men
in their own country would for fear of any number
of foreigners, sneak into hole. aud corners TO defend
their liberties aud amend their laws. When
forced TO this miserable necessity, which, possibly,
may bc justfable in Italy, to be able to say a." nm an
American" will not he much Of all that knowNo-
tugisn has done or il likely 10 do, regret nothing
more than that at its solicitation, seduced by lis vile
Establishments, our once worthy formidable opponent.
the Wing party should, Just on the eve Of It's disso.
luton, have descended TO wslow and die i'll thUse
dark and muddy ways il would once have loathed.-
IL is rs though brave soldier should turn assassin -
Imagine il You can, you that were once Wings, your
Henry Clay creeping into the culvert or, Daniel
Webster calling himself Kuow Nolhing-@or Icing
one, and denying it! This short.ved monsirosity
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non tha, has appeared on our SOIL suce The departure
Of Arnold.
When this singular and monstrous organization
first crawed into existence, its loudcst cry was down
with Pupery! BcwHre OF the Jc.ut-! 4 few old
women and few rar-sr',mg. S0nad, ANXIOUS P'"-
tes,ans such as Ned Brniliur, caught up the "ords,
thinking to &c; up an txctclEeni against the Cntto-
cs which would be quite safe and pleasant to them
selves But the cry. was too ssa!e and this froteah
body had cunning enough in its head to see that al
attempt persecute aud cast odum on any religious
sect would not pay. So the design was Abandoned,
as TO the outside public, though, 1t il reasonable I"
.,oect still, secretly entertained for the sake OF
tanning those who labor under Poperhob;a.
With An Indifference to principle altogether with
out parable! and Of which no association, acting III
v,
uunn and adopts the secrccy, the double meaning. the
two facedncss, the eyasions the .lrsuiry' IN iact
Of which it accused portion o their ,!!ow ci'lzehs.
Had we any fear OF the JesuIts, or Of Rome, did we
believe them TO be consp;ring against us, We should
suspect TINT this organization was their work. AL
ways reserving much in secrecy. though sometimes
making some public manifestations when convenient
sometimes anonymous, sometimes assuming come
catching name, sometimes denying its name; working
bv means which give full scope to cunning ana I'M
principled men, even reporting iIs own DEATH while
working more secretly and actively than ever; sure
v no,hipp can be more jesutcal than all this. II the
members of such an order must call themselves
"Americaus," let them at least prefix "AborisinaP
or add "Indian" and then the name will not be entire
~ inconsistent with their mode Of warfare. They
ou,bt TO thank us for this hint since Judging from the
past in few weeks their present 0l'as will have be-
come too odious aud discrcdtable. "Ihe Aboriginal
American party," would sound well, and would be II
mara r.snactsble name to die with than that foolish
though moi entirely unmeanlnc one they first went
by II would be also, though that will be but asght
considerations n more honest name, because 1t wonld
not imply the liberal, tolerant spirit the candor
strsiph; forwardn"ss, courtesy and generosity, on
which people Of the United States pride themselves
and which sione must put end to on ntolcrant je
su,ical political association.
In countries less free than ours it has been settled
tim, "a cat may look ut king" and, however much
il i. to be regretted, we cannot prevent Fremont
from irving to sit where Washington sat; nor thing
Of shr.ds and patches, mn anonymous, masked dark
lantern rang, from styling itself american" or Nn.
,;onsI american" or Native American" or LIMITED
Am.rcnn," or "True American" or anything else
still more inappropriate, if possible; and presumng
n offer 70 take the helm of State in hands that have
shown themselves fit and skilful only for secret un-
rhnnded work. These are the last efforts OF dy
ing factions, enraged at seeing the inevitable trl'
umpb of true Democracy-a final triumph, thn' will
in great measure to our country settled poll
cv which whatever new issues and new troubles may
srise will be regarded as the true national American
policy of the United States