Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-05-24
Know Nothing Intolerance.

out an existence corresponding with the
circumstances OF its advent, could be ex-
pected. Washington city is the nuclea.
where It's debauched plans are hatched,
and iiom which are issued the bills which
give direction to the rank and file. Re.
Gently, the vindictive and unjust purposes
oil the party have been most significantly
sIgnslized. Not only Ibis, but the tenden-
cy OF the Know Nothing party to coa]esce
with the Black Republicans III the carry
ing ont OF their conjoint designs has
been most clearly demonstrated. The
law regulating the municipal election
OF the city, heretofore, has required mat
each voter must pay school tax before
the 3lst of December il each year as the
qualihtation for registered vote at the
succeeding election, The aw was enacted
before the hub-bub abou. foreigners which
o. late years has SO Exercised the sons of
TIE siIes OF TO. Tne foreigner becoming
citizeh after t'ie 31st Of December and
before the election, would be entitled to
vote under the law, because he had been
registered and paid the necessary school
tax before the 31st Of December. The
| rative born citizen, who might become of
age after the 3lst Of December and before
the day OF the succeeding election, could
not vote, because he had not been regis
tered before the 3lst of December ard did
not pay the required school tax. A NTH
nicipal election is about TO come off The
Black Republicans and the Know Moth
ings having determined to take al! the
advantage possible of their ascendancy in
Congress, took up the election law, and
proposed an amendment, by which no
naturdlized citizen should be entitled to
vote who might become citizen between
the 3lst of December and the day of the
succeeding election. Mr.. Cobb, Of Geor.
gia, il some very forcible remarks, urged
the injustice OF the proposition, from the
fact that :he payment of the school tax
was the qualification that conferred the
vote, and that the native citizen could not
be registered before he was of dge-hence;
il he should become Of age after the 31st
of December he could not ote OF hay.
ing been registered in due time. He did
not however. contend for depriv,ng the
native citizen of his vote after he became
Of age. He argued that, as citizens, tl.ey
should be entitled to equal privileges I'M
der the laws, and insisted that both the
native and naturallzed citizen should be
entitled to vote, even if the native citizen
should become p years of age alter the
31st of December. This would have dis.
pensed with the school tax qualification,
as provided for under the old law, to the
native oorn, and Disseminated that much
agains. the naturalized citizen. But the
earnest and forcible appeals of Mr.. Cobb
to the majority combination had no effect
They passed the following clause offered
by MIR. Campbell, Of Ohio:
Be ii further enacted, That no person
being na,usalized between the SAID day
of December and the day of the succeed
ing election shall be entitled to vote at
such next succeeding election.
The vote upon the passage OF the pro-
vision. was strictly party, the Democratic
party voting against, and the Know Moth
ing and Black Republicans voting for
We find Garlic, of Virginia, and BUR-
lingame, of Massachusetts,; Henry Winter
Davis, of Maryian and Lewis D. Camp
bell, of Ohio; Humphrey Marshall, of
Kentucky, and Henry NJ. Fuller, of Penn
sylvaDia, standing side by side in the con-
test. What does this signify Nothing
more, or less, than that there is now going
on an afnalG amation-a fusion in Congress
OF the Know Nothing and Black Repub-
lican parties, preparatory to the Presiden.
tial conflict Mark 1t! The Black Re-
publicaDs and the Know Nothings are to
be one and the same in opposition to the
Democracy. Not only does the indication
in Washington fearfully portend this re-
suit, but the actual declarations and reso-
lutions OF the Know Nothing State Con.
yention of Virginia, fully prove the fact
that such is the game to be play ed. The
South is to be betrayed, if the treachery
o. Southern Know Nothlngs can do it,
We m. IKE bold to declare, that the reso-
lutions prepared and offered in the late
Know Nothing State Convention, by A.
II. H. Stuart, constitute TREASON TO
THE SOUTH. Every member Of the
Cows n,ion who voted for The infamous
sentiment promulged by hat resnton,
should be arrested and tried as STRAIT
ORS This Is strong language, but we
mean to justify it in this issue Of our pa.
per. In another article we have more
fully discussed the merits OF the action Of
the Convention.
The K. N. Hector.
We had intended, this week to devote