The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-10-26
THE JOURNAL.
Lutte A. TAYLOR, Editor.
River Falls, Pierce County. Wisconsin
Know NOfliLg isn,.

Of all the empty cries,-all the un-
meaning itical-watchwords that were
ever used to influence voters, and blind
the people to the real, vital issues of n
political contest, that of Know Nothing
ism, at the present time, is the most
empty and unmcaning.
The distinctive principles of the Know
Nothing party were always odious to the
people, and the party has now no distinct
and separate organization. 1t is dead !;
but the disagreeabe odor of its dissolu-
ton seems to be very offensive to tho
Democrats-perhaps because they were
its firmest friends and chung closest TO It's
decsying corpse.
Now that the party, as such is dissol
we'd, and the charm and power of mystic
ry no longer clothe it, we apprehend that
the motives which lead many of its mem
ers to join it are becoming understood
They joined it, not because of sympathy
with its doctrines of prescription, bur be-
cause it afforded means by which desired
onds could be accomplishment offered
advantages for securing local and tempo
rary results, and when those results were
secured OF the chance of securing them
was lost, the organization WAS discarded
and becamea thing of the past Is
The Know Nothing party was crushed
by the pressure ofsuperior strength--dis-
solved by the force of other more pressing
and important questions. The members
of the party have gone into other parties
and wherever they are, they are identified
with the cause which they have espoused
and should be treated simply rs Demo-
Gratis or Republicans.
EThe assertion that tho Republican par
ty is proscriptiye in policy and principle,
is too absurd to demand q denial. Its
platforms are before the world--it is the
liberal party of the day-it embraces i'll
its ranks great majority of the earnest
and true hearted apostles of the rights of
1T recognizes Man ms MAN, what
ever his creed or birthplace, and is labor
ing to sap the strength of tho terribly
proscriptive system of slavery, and for
the abrogation of prescription ofaI kinds.
True, there are hypocrtss in every church
-pretenders in every sect rccrcants in
every cause. Massachusetts has some
natural old hunkers in the Republican
party, who have. damned themselves and
disgraced their associates by imposing I'M
just restraints upon n man, because he
happened to 10 born on the Emerald
Is!e," or perhaps on tiat peninsula which
Europe throws ont into the Northen sea,
but every intelligent man knows that the
Republican party have Numbered condem
nation on Massachusetts for the decd
The most bitter and, biting wound that
has ever been inflicted upon our citizens
of foreign birth, was tho Lis Clerc and
and Hofer letters of Sec, etary Cass, but
the prompt and energetic protest of an
indignant people forced the Administra-
ton to back down from its position and
assume one more in accordance with the
American idea of citizenship and protet-
ton.
The sentiments Of any sect or party
are always faithfully written in its creed,
and we invite careful attention to the plat
form of the Republican party in this
State, (Which is in this paper,) and to the
platforms of the Republican party. when
ever and wherever written. They will be
fond free from the least. faint of pro-
scription. We are fighting the battle of
Republican principles. Each step of our
success will be step forward in the work
Of securing the rights and liberties of oil
men. IF every man who dislikes Know
Nothingism, and desires to labor for its
eradication, will work with the Republi.
cans, he can rest in confidence that his
labors will result as be desires"