Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-09-09
Schuyler CoIfax a know
Nothing.

deSlrouS OF catching the votes OF all our
. adopted citizens, and especially eager to
i become member of Congress though their
votes, we snall eadeavor to tear the mask
. from his brazen- facedness, and show them
} the envy and malicious hatred ranking in
his bosom against them, because of their
foreign birth. In this, as in all other
charges we may prefer against Mr. Colfax,
we shall appeal to his own record; and
| the only chalice we shall present to his
lips, shall contain the venom of his own
words--the Kissing poison of his own
breast. It's well known that the Know
Nothing party carried the election in this
State in 1854, and succeeded in electing
nine out of eleven members of Congress;
yet, whilst a hideous cry against the citi-
zens of forign birth was kept up by the op-
position press, and the minions and
satellites of the leaders, the victory was
: won under the disguise of a Peoples
t arty' movement. 81
Emboldsned by their success, however,
it soon became apparent that deception of
the foulest, rankest nature, had been
practiced upon the unsuspecting Foregin-
ers, and that in voting for the candidates
of that party they had assisted in electing
to Office men sworn to deprive them of the
richest legacy of citizenship-.he right to
vote Scarcely had the ink gotten dry up
on their certificates before many of the
men elevated not power and place by these
} honest, patriotic people, headed mobs
, armed with bludgeons and brass knucks--
and the bloody riots of Cincinnati, Louis
vile, st. Louis, New Alabany and hun
dreds of other places told a tale of blood
shed and malice, a tale of Woe and horror
r these honest peopl5 can never forget.
| These Foreign born citizens, unable
longer to bear tyrannic oppression had left
their homes and friends, kindred and fam
lilies, severed. the tenderest ties of life, and
come to our shores in the pursuit of liberty.
There was a charm in the idea of a h,me in
America asylum for the oppressed Of
all nations--and hither they came, deeply
lmbued with a desire 10 avail themselves
of the b;ne6ts and privileges of the freest
government on earth, little dreaming that
hordes of political, mendicants lay in
r ambush under the Tree of Liberty, ready
for their Slaughter, and thrsting for their
blood. But they were soon undeceived
and the Iiieblood of thousands of these
inoifensive people cries to Heaven against
the atrocous, rnhuman marderers. And
the lives OF men, even, failed to appease
the wrath of these infurate1 mobs; women
and children alike were butchered TO satatc
an internal appetite for blood. Is it asked
of us who is responsible for these acts oil
outrage ana brutality?--We reply the lead
ers of the party--the men who either coun-
seled the acts, or framed excuses for those
: who committed them.
But, says one, Schuyler ColfaA
| never belong to the order, for he wrote
home from he Philadelphia National Know
, Nothing Convention that he was not
member. and if he was he didn't know
where his Fay was to come FROM"
Very true, say we in answer, he wrote
e such communication to his paper; but lie
9 rs look to the sequence of his being there
and from that we may learn something a.
!, to the truth or falsty Of his asseverations
Il In the first place, John w. Dawson, editor
: ofthe Fort Wayne Times, who acknow
lodges that he, himself, was elected as one
of the delegates from this state, in reply tt
an article in the Toledo Blade, says:
1.-The Blade ought to know ifit does not
: that Mr., Colfax was not a member of the
n National Council by courtesy, but by direc
:. connection and membership, and that the
y State Council could tolerate no man to pro
tect her in that august body who was no
: willing to endorse her ritual" -
He futher says
1 "ThiS we knew because we were elected
= from this district, but subsequently resign
" ed"
So much for that, although Mr.. Colfa,
wrote home to his paper that he was not
delegate, it afterwards transplred that HI
IF acas a delegate, and that he was in constan
action with other members. A majority
of the delegates finally adopted the policy
of abandoning the sseresy thas had hitherto
screened the order from public gaze, where
g upon fifty-seven members. including Mr.
COLFAX, bolted the action of the Con
vention, and issued an address to the
constituents. How is it possible that
man could "boit" the action of n convention
e unless lie was member? But that is no
/. the spot the shoe pinches. The mask o
- SeCiscy uSiiIS renCeeu, ho %" bt ohc'
T" that he could not longer remain unexposed
l. and that his double-dealing must be mad
= manifest. ee 3t
The New York Tribune, in an article en-
titled tie ''Bolter's Address, referring t.
s the Philadelphia Convention of Know
II Nothing,s says: 3.a
N The seeding members of the Know
Nothing Convention have taken the occa
% sion of the separation from that body t.
: isue an address to the people of the Unitet
Is States, which may be found in anotLe
sr part of this paper.', u s5
4 Now. itmust oe palpable to every on
a that man could not "secede" from
Convention unless he was member of it
'e body-therefore as no man could get int
a Know Nothing body without all tn
) grips and signs Of the order, of course MI
Colfax must have been a member Blu
we have yet more dirsct proof fof Mr.. q Col
a fax's identity with the Order, for of tn,
j. rBolters" seven are from Indiana, and The
ID affixed their names to the Boilers Ad
70 dress" as follows: "Wm Cum5ack
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