Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1856-10-02
Where Know Nothingism is to be Found

Where Know Noth1ng1sm Is TO De round
The real editor of the Kenosha Dem
ocrat, who does not and cannot deny
that he organized Know N othing Lodges
in this county, and made speeches de-
nouncing Catholics and the Catholic re-
igion, and advocating the 'disqualifica-
ton of Catholics on account of their re-
igion, still keeps harping on the Know
Nothingism of Fremont and the Repub-
tican party. Can Foreigners be deceiv-
ed by such arrant demagogueism?-
Has this editor abandoned his love for
Know Nothingism and Know Nothing
lodges? Has his hatred of Catholics
subsidized? Has he abandoned his de-
termination to prescribe them from vo-
ting and holding office on account of
their religion? We do not believe he
has. On the contrary, We believe he
recently joined and now acts with the
sham Democratic party for the reason
that he sees therein better prospect of
carrying out his proscriptive intentions
than he ever did with the Republican
party. The Republican party is a party
organized to advance, protect, and guard
the rights of all men. 1t goes against
the extension and naturalization of chat
tel slavery because chattel slavery is a
war of prescription upon humanity and
human rights. Seeking, as that editor
did, to disqualify men on account of
their birthplace and religion from vo-
ting or holding office, of course he could
not act with the Republican party; but
naturally attached himself to a party
which is seeking now to perpetuate and
extend the slavery of one class of men
on account of their color, he hopes and
expects will, if successful, extend their
prescription to embrace birthplace and
religion. And so, that party will. Ii
is a notorious fact that the sentiment OF
the South is hostile to foreigners and
foreign immigration. The papers and
politicians of that section of country,
make no concealment of their hatred OF
foreigners. The Richmond Wing, one
of the leading Southern pro-slayery pa
pers, said:
eve of the South, have cause now,
and shall soon have greater, to congrat-
ulate ourselves on the existence of a
population among us which excludes the
populace whichin effect rules some of our
northern neighbors, and is rapidly gain
ing strength wherever slavery does not
exist-a populacc made up of the
DREGS OF EUROPE, and the most
worthless portion of the native popula-
ton"
Governor McDuffie, a few years since,
in his annual message to the South Car
DINA legislature, said:
SIN word, the institution of slavery
superscedes the necessity Of an order o.
mobility and al the other dppendages o.
a hereditary system Of government"
This is the institution which the Rich
mond Wing says, keeps out the foreign
ers, und Gov. McDuffie says, is in effect
an order of nobility, that the Sham
Democratic party are seeking to extend
over all our virgin territories, and to
give the dominance in our government.
The men who utter these sentiments are
the men who nominated Buchanan, and
the men who will elect him, if he is
elected at all; and can any man doubt
that they will incorporate their senti-
ments into all the action and policy OF
the government.
How natural then, that men like the
editor of the Democrat, who organized
X. n. lodges and denounced Catholics,
should now join hands with the South
to perpetuate and extend an institution
which the Richmond Wing SAYS is to
crush out and keep down these men who
now vote in the north, which it calls the
edregs of Europe" and to establish
what McDuffie calls an "order of no.
bility."
Can not naturalized voters see thro'
and understand the labors and efforts Of
such demagogues. Can they not see
that these men are the worst kind OF
Know Nothings, and are endeavoring
70 institute the worst kind of Know
Nothincism in the government w
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