Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-03-03
Anew kaOw Nothing Principle Caflifs.
Land Bill.

! first sprung into existance, has moi
been SO great as to have ubliterated
tfronla any sound mind heremembrance
of the principles first advocated BY it.
Their original battle cry Of .'Do1c!l
ao;h Foreigners and Gathotiqs
which one bid fair to sweep the land,
still rings in our memories. though
the banners which bore it@aloit' are
| stamped to tatters, and buried IN OBJ
1ivioh's grave. The glorious if corr
rcctly applied, motto, that /" Amert'
caus must rule America," which for
a time was so basely misused to Pso'
4 mote party ends, though now lost 10
the eye, is stiHfrcsh in cur remcln'
brance. - :
=. Those, and there companions have
gomez Their faIlacy exl osed, their
supporters completely vanquished,
they are now deserted. Foreigners,
Iifthey behave themselves, are no lon
ger denounced rs unfit TO. exercise
| the rights of frcemeu. Even Catho-
Tics may, worship God rs they
see fit, and haye nollc Ct the pryil..
eyes given to them by their Creator
taken away fsom tllcm by their tel-
, low men: They arc now uIlMlolested,
not because Know Notl,ings chooses
it, but because the people have de-
+tcrmined to protect the rights OF eve
nv class, evc:l though they be ever
so small minority. =
We rcad Of u foolish man who
built his house upon the sand, AMI
h l,em the vain .decended, and fthc
floods ea.ac, and beat upon that house
it fell. like that house, Know Motif
ingism fell. because it was founded
atIon neither justice or equality, the
Fasting basis OF a. free government.
But We do not read-of any one SO
foolish as to again attempt to rear
a, structure upon like unstable
ground. And yet Nnow Nothingism
in this vicinity is doing this unhearl
of toolishncss. DESERVING its former
site, it now seeks torebuild its castle
a mere quicksand. / - ..-
The mirery foundation upon which
the leaders ii Know Nothingism are
now striving to put together their
scattered materials, is called, by them
selves, ."GAR1ILE's LANn BILL an
UNCONSTITUTIONAL appropriation Of
Tie sationol. 0emdim." For their
battle cry they will sound aloud the
hackneyed appeal of ,''oppressirt
taxes" which they would remove by
appropriating to their payment prop
.erty to which We, as State, have no
right. g., ~
S1ch is the issue KnowNothing-
ism is now attempting to. :aake, aid
which We of course, are willing to nc
cept. tits the old ana long explol,
ed one of theuppropriation of govern
mcnt property to State uses. OF it
self,¬oriously unconstitutional. and
devoid of any really iustit,ving cause.
it appeals to the preiudices. ami not
not to the reasons, OF the people for
its support. -
The particular phrase in which
This exploited idea has been received
aud presentell-to the pnblic, now call
ed ,.Carlile's Land Bill" we know or
care. very litae about. : AS far as we
have~seen, no mention has been made
of it thus far in the proceedings OF
the resent session of Congress, nor
have We heard of its being published.
In fact wc1imagine the intention of il
is more probably to makc it 1na$8Mr.
'Callile once more upon the people of
this District, than to SECURE its pas
sage before Congress. As precious
electioneering preparation, the potcn-
cy Of which might soon vanish if left
exposed to light, it will kept a sub
lime secret until the canvass coHrc
mences, then for the firstrtime to be
unfolded to the publie>saze, illustrat7>
ed and cxplainedby the oily tengneo Of
ITS notorious author, the political trail.
tor, JoHN S. CARLILE. -
=. To show tile entire lick of merit
ofthis new movements not difficult
task. It advocates almost universal
~ deprccate the large grants of land
which have heretofore been made to
build improvements in the Western
States, and yet they now take the
fact Of these admitted wrongs having
been allowed as-an argument to show
that we sheuld do likewise. 7hcknow
lodging. it to be wreng in them thus
to have filled their treasures from,
that, ofthe General Government, they
adopt the thief's plan, who, seeing
one man robbing his ncighbor. i'm
mediately does the same thing him
self, quoting his conscience by the
convenient argument, that while
it is going, / might as we'll have a
slice or not" a. 49, =.
In like manner, the eject oru&e O..
the proposition, is, at the present time
entirely'fabulous, except it be, as we
have suggested, to retrieve the fast
failing fortunes of Mr.. Garlic, at this
particular crisis. OF its passage be