The daily union., 1856-01-30
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against political party too s acts demonstrabiy show
whatever may be i's Pretsssons u hones, un MN is
umaon that the world had OF ia existence was 10 on
saugh upon democrats in general and Nebraska men In
particular And please remember as we pass along who
suffered FIRST on IT, when il had neither name nor
platform for, when asked why, ngbung under an anti
Catholic flag they killed nobody but democrats they said
Il was because the democrats fought against them
Now suppose that actual existing operative sworn
combination of this kind is ten thousand times more rep
rehensbc than the simple endeayors of single individual
| 10 enlist a church against political party alone
But startling and parrieda as Is your doctrine - Va
aopeaiion IL is Infinitely in the abstract Turp
tde 10 enlist Tor rather try to enlist church organiLa
lion against any party matter h thai parfy BEL
Why Doctor such teaching coming om You should raise
shout Of triumph from all the pirates bandits and assas
sins IN the land They have only combine, 10 concert
their schemes in secret and publish 10 the world polu
cal platform and forthwith becomes criminal to array
church against tbem To Try TO do tl A political
narty nav make hostility 70 Meihodsm article of their
creed aud would be criminal IN me 10 advise my church
10 oppose i'll The know-nohings allow the Catholics TO
oppose them and where their vote counts heavily even
embrace them but You would not allow even Caho-
lie to counsel his people against this party fonr doc
rine ,nonstrou brother and, coming rom one of the
best heads of church, u proves demonsuaoy mat
know-pothingism il when took the pen against
IT, is udofeusibe Whether it be right or wrong to array
! a church against political party depends entirely
rpon the character OF that party Ii il intermeddle
with churches--f II form coalitions with churches
against church-f its professed object be TO rob
a church of its civil privileges-f il be immoral in its
constitution and revolutionary in its tendenciehen II is
The duty Of every Christian individually and every church
collectively, to oppose IT, And u displays all these I'M
oomely features in the only manifestations which II Is
pleased to make of itself while IL conceas from the public
view lis counse its plans It's machinery and its member
ship the duty becomes imperative aud the more npera-
live The stronger the party Such regarded the know
uothugs 1t reserved for this party TO work IN the
darko unite religion and pocsto gather recruits by
hspersto nose for them about schools and colegesto
cement political bonds by oaihsto devise plan whereby
ministers OF the Gospel might become politicians without
eproof and persecute without dscoyeo put the con-
sciences of in the keeping OF ohersto bind its
members not only to vote but 10 hight under dictaton
Such the nnerwoking of the order What the outward
Kissing, beatng, and coughing down such men as Wise
and Dougas destroying balotboxes and buchering, in
aud around their blazing dwellings, men, women, and
children.#
ernment Witness the enacting in Washing
ton the legislation of Massachusetts, the criminal trials
in New York Can native expect lnsuce from judge
jury Of foreigners foreigner from these native Off
Gals a Protestant from Catholics Cathokc from
Protesan,s2 Alta trial in Massachusetts, know-nohings
excused themselves from tesying to facts important to
Justice on the ground that their testimony would subject
them to (knowno nothing) pans and penalties And the
Judge decided that these volunteer selfassumed response
bies placed the witnesses within he rule sthat no man
is bound testify to facts that will crimHate hmselfp
They testified however, very freely against the Catholic
who was ON his trial What confidence will those who
main in the lodges have in those who left them What
confidence those who left them in those who remain IN
them
Before the magnates of the ORDER gathered Phlade
pha were pleased release the members themselves in
cuded course from much Of their oaths required
them conceal their membership and the membership OF
least 100000 strong is safe TO assume that each of
them was questioned his membership the member
ship of others least times average How did
thew meet these Questions? How were they obliged to
them under their oaths? Why by-what shall
call them brother speak truth without giving oence2
will call them nar,ahs knowing softer name for them
Here were scattered broadcast the
whole surface OF the Union The first fruits OF know-noth
ipgism. Many very many Of them dropped from the lips
of Christans How the most Of these 100000 got
the ordcr2 BY members pretending ignorance of IL
they under oath not TO acknowledge their
bershp or to disclose the of the brotherhood They
must therefore been guilty of wilfu deception with
every prosee they gained Say that 100000 were gained
in this way and we have 100000 more nntruhs dis
tribued through the country he price OF many
verts TO know-nobingsm. Thousands and hundreds Of
thousands left the order and they almost unanimous
y testify that they found it not 10 be what 1t was repre-
sented 10 be- For time all who withdrew and spoke
against denounced perured knaves and traitors
This false according they found the thing to
agree disagree with the representations Of il made 10
tema candid representation of it, as We have seen could
been made TO them by The law OF the order If
true what food Of nqut poured out Of the order when
they left i'll II false what language Too to char
acerze the ealumny heaped upon them by their recent
brethren .
Mr. simon Wolf OF Pennsylvania who writes like man
wisdom and truth after detailing the atterng but de-
lusye by which he induced TO join the
know-nohings thus concludes Hoa declare hd, IN
life Of sxty years haoe nepe found IN pr,eae ~ public
IA politics or ~ a. Church or IN State much decea
Jaehood and corruption as found IN The se.yied .A,ner-
iean party"
To this let me add the testimony Of man. little older
than Mr. Wolf who did join the American party
] born and raised (if Mr. Hyer please; see Wor-
ceser Mr. H. in the State Of Georgia where there
$4,000 know -nothings, not Of whom, will
ture say, viii assert that he knows bemish my
moral character have mingled much and disputed much
in politics and in law. | have been twenty-eigbt
years member Of the Methodis, church and sixteen years
minister of the Gospel and called dotard
or fool or kened 10 clown under mems own signatures
or charged with alsehood and urpi,ode by Methodist
preachers, until came in conflict with know-nohings;
have | been, In the whole OF my life,
much illuminated have been by know. nothings
aud their champions In the last nine months Never did
such ntoersn arrogant insoept overbearing in
consistent vindictve party this IL bellies into op-
position 10 II and then tells that minister OF the
Gospel, have right To medde with politics | reply,
them the hundreds Of preachers who IL should
IT, II reoins that II is religious in lis character
again respond, ii II be religious, surely religious
have right TO discuss It's orthodoxy and to counsel
my brethren who belong and il again repeats that
il IL pofuieaf It's rriigion Is reduced article aNo
Office for Catholics" SO of its politics mo Office for
forcgners LIS religious exercises consist ocoasonoiv
in runmaging into ladies' wsrdrobes, riding Catholics
ras mocking their ices assung their persons and
bstterng their houses of worship lie political exercises
consist oocqsionany) iu killing foreigners firing their
houses and giving their bodies to the flames It's pro-
cssed instrument Of reform is the baotbox and IL the
baotbox will work 10 its liking II destroys the bal
ot-box One would suppose that party might deter
apprehension Of serious opposition than Is
political parties generally and certainly had the know
nothngs done than this should have in
tcrfercd with them But what do they dot Why, they
substitute government for that which our fathers be-
queathed government secret in its operations, des
potic in its principles and revolutionary in ia tendency
Hear the sovereign power speak This organisation not