The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1856-08-06
A Chapter for the Journals
Benefit. 81


effort to extricate himself from the dilem-
ma in which he placed himself in regard
to editing Know Nothing paper in
Pennsylvania He emphatically denied it
and we proved it on him. he suffers the
stigma of falsehood to be nailed on him
without an attempt to sustain his char
acter. In his last issue he says:
ave have become an important parsonage.
Henry Clay and all the other great men of the
nation have not cost the editor half as much
time as we appearto be doing" (How modest
for the championD ale has discovered us to
be Know Nothing because we at one time
published a paper in which we advocated the
principles of Americanism."
Here is a full admission that he pub
lished q Know Nothing paper, and the
very issue before is the one in which he
so emphatically denied it
The editor proceeds to say:
But that sall the old abuse of foreigners
charging the mass rthe italics are our own] with
being ignorant, many of them with being pau
pers and criminals, was paradedi in his columns,
is as false as the neither pit, and when the edi-
tor penned these words, he knew that he was
wilfully and deliberately falsifying, as nothing
which he seen in the paper to which he refers
bears the semblance of abuse of our foreign
population"
We made the statement about his abuse
of foreigners from what we saw in the
file Of his paper which we examined; we
say that it is true, and the people will
place no more reliance in his denial of this
statement than in his denial of the fact
that he published Know Nothing paper
at all. We have not that file in our pos
session and of course cannot give all the
evidence upon which we founded the
charge, but we have couple of stray
copies of his Pennsylvania Know Nothing
paper, and will give few extracts from
their editorials:
aHerein lies the germ of that national feel
ing SO earnestly battled for by our countrymen
that more stringent test should be applied to
the acquisition of American citizenship by the
modification of the naturalization laws, SO as
to purge the atmosphere of the baneful infu-
ence of every RED-MOUTHED FOREIGNER
who seeks to engraft his own crude notions
upon our Republican tree."-The Boy Of '76
January %, 1856.
Does that "bear the semblance of abuse
of our foreign population ?"
ain fact we are constantly receiving
sThe dregs and feculence of every land
and unless some barrier is interposed to stay
the tide of heterogeneous population that i:
flowing in upon US we shall soon be schecke6
with all compilations of mankind and spotted
with all crimes. .','--T The Boy If '76, Januar.
o. 1856.
Does that "hear the semblance of abuse
of our foreign population :"
aIf the early patriots saw in perspective th'
necessity for such forcible expression of thu
principle that Americans must rule America, W,
of to-day, in the full flood of FOREIGN PAU
PERISM, VICE, INFIDELITY, LICENSE ant
RoMANISM, can justly appreciate the foresight
of our Revolutionary fathers. The Boy O
'76, July 8, 1855.
Does that shear the semblance of ;
abuse of our foreign population ?''
The above extracts are fair specimen
of the whole file, SO far as we examined
them, yet this editor has no hesitation il
saying that he published nothing bearing
the "semblance of abuse of our foreigl
population!
The editor closes up his article by offer
ing to us reward of $40 we will prov
to our readers by affidavit that he eve
was Know Nothing.
This is brave, certainly-very brave
when he knows that the members of tha
order are sworn not to diyulge the nam
of any member. But if we cannot &c
an affidavit, We can get other authorit
which, unreliable as it may be, is conclu
sive against him. We find the followin
bin the Boy of re:
ave rather had notion, although we nevt
lvcntured to express it as a conviction, that W
AS MEMBERS OF THE GREAT AMERICA
PARTY, er-oficio, by virtue of our callin
were pre-eminently entitled to the constitr
4 tional platform"
Will the editor discredit his own test
mony?
If we are considered severe on the cd
tor, this is our excuse: he commenced
most bitter and vindictive personal wa
/ fare on our character, and it become
necessary in self-6efence to show how muc
or rather how little reliance is to be place
in his most solemn asseverations.
A Scheme that Wouldn't Work.
i The Fremonters, in their desperation
make q respectable show against Mr.. b