The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-02-28
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derived from the native Americans, Tue Iruheo
Unions, or the secret societies, rs the wnole
together constituted dense, andless, day-la-
boring no.property mass whose interest IL
clearly was, to have and to hold properly
wherever it might be had, its "Free Sou, tea-
ture became apparant, looking to the terrific
rial possessions of the Government. Each
step in the line of its formation and each INK
in the chain of its bgotic, exclusive and ava.
ricous principles, was an easy and naturai
gradation Thus was the orner oil know-No.
thingism, whose advent startled the "orid
with its portentious energy, forth orgal'ca.y
and politically, and thus We readily solve lts
mystery Though usually supposed TO nave
been born in day, as well us to have term,
mated as briefly its singular existence, it had
been evidently maturing for many years usoer
the progress Of agrarunsm and constituted
crude development Of that principle founded
inerradically in the breast OF the Northern
masses.
All this becomes more apparent when ex'
umnng into the reason why the Know No
thing party so qu cky passed away and came
to be so easily absorbed by Black Republican,
| ism: that reason is discovered IN the fact that
the principles Of the Know Nothing party, de-
rived as they were from the nrcindices that
| cOnIrOpu Ille blpIHtHls VNL VI hilNh ~ 6'N't
rendered il inadequate 10 the accomplishment
of those agrarian desgus, that composed aiter
all. the grand and fundamental idea aud policy
of its constituent members. lis antl-Catholc
and anti-foreign features closed the doors OF
its lodges against nearly one half OF the no
property and day laboring masses Of the North
TO be found among the Catholic Irish and
German population Its leaders early dls.
| a.; &C. &C. aud rlt to alliJlV
the remedy by removing its vel OF secrecy.
You will remember the question was mnch
, mooted in their journals, but 1t was by thls
time seen by William H. Seward, that though
! the veil of secrecy was removed and lhe doors
f Of its lodges thrown more widely open, It Iad
, already offended too deeply thousands ana
! hundreds of thousands who properly belonged
, TO the aprarian ranks, ever to be made the
, basis of a thorough consolidation OF the agra
rian sentiment and that the success OF TINS
G santiment depended entirely upon concen'ra-
G ted union of the no-property classes, Cathohc
) and Protestant, native born aud iorclgn porh
: He determined, therefore, to divide, distract
0 and break up the order. For THIS purpose
j. aided and assisted by Horace greeley ANA .he
4 Tribune newspaper, he threw his trends ihto
h the lodges in all directions, and thus onlalheo
l. the control of their proceedings at the Nor'h
d Then came the triumph of Henry A. wise ae
II the South which more clearly demonstfateaito
ir him his previously conceived policy oil sec
vs. tional issue. In the confusion, antagonlsii
le and irrctreyable disasters into when the
L. Know Nothing party had now fallen through
H. these movements he unturled the Banner oi
ID Black RepubcaniSm, having inscribed upon
"1He simple majoriiy priacipie IN Gorernme"'
"a Natural and polaicM eqnaHy 0monS aH me"'
- ~ Uuirrsaliiv of MGr0ge 0moag aH men! 1"f
- - eration an an matiers boH soc,ai and fef'g'o"
81 and The deaicaiion If Me paJ'ic lands 70 free
~ domm-Through the columns of the Tribune
- - he made Mr. Jefferson father these ar'inl per
-, versions of the real principles OF that eminent
hv Statesman and phiIanthropist, and rallied al
:, - the jnrring and diScordnnt clements of agrarI
~ =, auism to their standard. Under the broae
H. display Of this standard he perceived that nj
on CLASSES of day.laboring and no.propcrty cltHeh
H., in the non.saveholding States. (together w"
m ~. n,nv perhaps, IN The dareholding States
10. might stand IN amity; Catholics and Protes
ho tans, Americans, Irish and Germans, Free
;os lovers Mormons and Amagn gnmatonsts, sllon'
~. .od minded Women and mldeS, Free sollef'
ost Free Negroes and Abolitonists!
ng Thus was the political standard OF the "hao
yes ical Democracyr' the Red Republican," star
the durd! the standard of the Sans Cnotes"
on the French revolution Of 1890, beneath whlf
ne, was pcrpetrated the blood-curdllng massac'
to of San Domingo, and the general robbery
md property holders in France! the standard
nu- the Gracchi, of Marius and Caesar at Rom
nal. that, cncrimsoncd in the artera tide OF slang
ov- ter swept triumphantly over the PROSTATE Il
the critics, and only pcrishcd in the funeral pyrre
the the Repubc this standard, in each and a
the one and the same! the principle the same! u
Sc designs the same the end the same! M@S 10
No The AGRARIAN staadaM unfarled IN cur fa@a!
,rty Seward, always willy and wary, as wen
nee sagacious, knowing the difficulty OF proa''ei
arty sufficient blending Of his materials TO ,'su
OBJ success in first struggle for the IreS'aens
ems, you will remember, deferred his claims uli
the 1860 but n substitute II Johl " fre'ho
znti. was selected, who embodied III himself eve
as idea of the standard and the leading Sentlme
rity, of each ism of the party Anal gamaiIon''
otes. frce.loyers, and Mornons found III nm Ii
olics of questionable birth, aud uncertain ORG
, thc free-soiIers found iu him one who seeming
5 on erasped his full share Of the public doma