Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-03-08
For the Montgomery County Sentinel.
The KnOw-not hing PlatfOrm-a One
Legged Stool.

LeSSeu StOOi'
Mn. EDITOR: Any person who has
tried to make comfortable seat out of a
one legged stool, can appreciate the pre-
dicament of the Know-nothing party at
this present time.
The architects of the Know-nothing
platform have given us specimen Of
their patchwork, which does honor to
the party, and comes up fully to the ex-
pectations of the Democrats, who in this
instance were like the old negro who
piously exclaimed, Dressed am dey dat
'spects nothing, for dey amt gwine to be
disappointed"
We thought the stool rather an uneasy
seat before, when it had two legs, but
since one of these has been removed, we
do not wonder that some, whose bump Of
caution was predominant, refused to trust
the rickety concern, when one of the
most important props was Withdrawn.
But the poor foreigners now must stand
the brunt Of Know nothing anathemas.
The Catholics of Louisiana-to their
everlasting infamy be it recorded-have
joined hands with the party that sought
to crush them, and have thus furnished
stronger argument against their pro-
scriptive principles than has yet been
produced by their former enemies, the
Know nothings.
And now, with their one-legged body
and two-faccd head, they would trample
under foot the rights and privileges of
foreigners, guaranteed by the Constitu-
tion-greet tae Catholics of the South
with the face Of the renegade, Andrew
j. Donelson, and the North with the
face Of Willard Fillmore.
Witness the shameful cowardice OF
these political weather-cocks. First,
they sought to build up party by oaths
administered unlawfully to the ignorant
and incredulous, recounting, in their
dark garrets and Getestable sink-holes,
all the dark and bloody stories of the
Catholics, (true or false, it served their
nefarious purpose, } from the time of the
first Pope to the present, ending the
harangue with the assertion that Cathol-
icism was everywhere the same-ever
proscriptive. But soon they saw they
had overshot the mark, and outraged the
good sense of their dupes, and must play
another game. And then arose the
war-whoop of those "injins" against for
eigners, having first made the discovery
that ndttce Catholics were patriots and
good citizens But now when they can
get few votes, as they suppose, they
admit a Catholic delegation, to gloss over
their former proceedings We can
scarcely decide which deserves the most
commisseration, the gullibility of the
delegation in taking the velvet paw, OF
the simplicity of their captors in suppo,
sing the talens were not visible in it
soft presentation.
But now foreignism is the only lee
left under their platform, and we may
expect some Of the tallest kind of hop
plug next fall, if we are to take last fall
as a specimen. We expect to see Know
nothing orators enveloping themselve
seyen-fold deep in the GLORIOUS flag o
our country" and shout at the top o
their voices, 4" Americans shall rul
America" (when did they not y "Sta
Spangled Banner" Hail Columbia,
(hear, hear }" Down with the Cath
the furriners," Sons of the Sires,
Put none but Americans on guard,
"No North, no South, the whole country
and nothing but the whole country
All those original sayings, with som,
more equally original ones, from Angel
No. 4 perhaps will be flung to tn
breeze, interspersed with antics suitabl
to the great farce in which the "intensi
iod" orators will be the principal actors
They will no doubt then hurl bacl
with defiance the charge of secrecy
We had specimen of this indignation
in the Maryland Legislature, which sooI
fizzled out, under the scathing remark
and energetic action of VIM. d. Merrick
and Gov Ligon. What has become o
the'smelling committee, could not they
bear the Cross
But the Democracy know how to NEE
their balderdash about secrecy. They
may out-brag us. but we ear 0at-vot,
thea, as the elections in Georgetown anC
Frederick will show. In the latte,
place they claimed 150 majority, but tn,
result disclosed an average majority o
20 votes over the Know-nothings, ant
thus will it be next fall, in spite of theil
midnight orgies, or dark entertainments