The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-04-30

other privileges not mentioned. they will
adjust themselves withouS legislation, and
the freeman aud it's friends fight man OF
straw when they prate about them"
RfZly-It is not easy to comprehend
what the above fummery amounts TO. IT
it refers TO The origin of slavery, by the
African barbarians making captiveS OF
each other, separating ''moth and child,
and all other family relations, and selling
the victims 10 the slave traders Of Eng
land and New England, then we can re-
joice with the Tribune that the slave trade
is forever abolished. As there never was
''concubinage" and never can be "without
CONSENT" il is presumed the Tribune re-
fers to the numerous cases of rape upon
white women by negroes occurring since
the reign of Radcal!sm commenced.
Tri6une-''We would here close. but the
Freeman insists npon being personal, and
we mean not to be outdone in this line of
editorial courtesy. Ii goes back to 1854,
fourteen years ago, and, after cOnjuring up
the ghost of Know Nothingism, is horror
stricken to remember that the editor Of this
paper had seen Sam when he was alive.
Yes, we were a Know Nothing. The
! hDCW ANUluiIlS SdhlAtllOAi " ehS SctaNlAoiiSd
to rid the country of the giant corruptiOns
Of the Democratic party. and it succeeded
as far as was then possible. No matter now
about the means employed-the end justi-
fed them. 1t was fighting fire with firc.
But, mark We! the Know Nothings did not
involve the country in a bloody civil war,
as the Democratic party afterwards did,
nor did it resolve itself into a murderous
Kuk Lux Klan. When its mission was &C
complished. it died and was buried anG
nejther foreigner nor Roman Catholic is to-
day the worse for its having existed"
RepH-Here the Tribune is at least
candid. He bravely admits what very
few K Ms have the honesty 10 admit
that he was Know Nothing. Yes the
editor of the Tribune entered the Know
\. thing lodge and there swor. solennly
upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty
, God that lie would never, FoR ANY OFFICE,
VOTE FOR FOREIGNER Or ROMAN CATH
oIICl He tel, Us that nolC Republicans
vote for foreigners and Roman Catholics
/ Now the grave question arises, does the
! editor OF the Tribune vote for foreigners
and Catholics when on the Republican
| ticket? He says be does Then the al
| tentative presents itself, that he has com
mitted moral perjury by violating the
oath which he took in the face of high
heaven, never to do so. And he cooIly
excuses himself with the standing apology
for every crime, that ''the end justifes the
means" ''No matter how about the
means empIoyed-the end justified ihem,"
says the Tribune ''Get money, Samivel,
honestly if you can--but get money!"
was old Mr.. Weler's advice to his SON
and the editor of the Tribune is faithful
follower Of the doctrine. But ''neither
the foreigner nor the Roman Catholic is
to-day the worse of its having existed"
How know you that ? Wasn't the
slaughtered Darsie the worse for it 3
| Were not large number of the purest and
best men in the country driven from her
councils and marked in private life by the
Vaccinations Of this hellish cabal For
eigners and Roman Catholics were ''the
worse for it'-society was ''the worse for
it'-social decency and our character as
people were ''.he worse for it,
Tribune" But it is a mean thing to en-
deavor to stir up strife between those who
were political foes fourteen years ago. and
who have long since smoked the pipe Of
| sectarian and tratcrnai peace. AS well
might ars revive the recollection of the ex
! traordinary clerical feats OF the editor OF the
! Freeman when he was a resident Of Morris
/ county, or tell the world, what he would
| doubtless gladly wish forgotten, that he
! the said editor, was one Of the first, the
very first, members Of the Republican party
/ of Cambria county, regular reader of the
! New York Tribune and a believer in all its
| tenets. which We're the same then as now
! But we will not refer to these things! We
are opposed to fighting with poisoned
arrows"
| Rep'y-But it seems we have done a
mean thing in referring to the 7rtbuac's
/ former Know Notbingism We fail to
''see it, in that light. The former politi-
cal associations of press or an editor,
are a fair subject of comment, and we
COMPLAIN of no man for referring to the
past political career of the FREEMAN or its
| editor. When the editor of the Tribune
was Know Nothing the Tribune itself
was a Know Nothing paper. A man
! should never JOIN an association which he
! becomes ashamed of afterwards, But if
il is mean of rs to charge the editor of the
| Tribune with being a Know Nothing,
! how superlatively mean was ii for him to
be one. He is valiantly blowing the Rad
ical trumpet no,o-fourteen years hence he
will be equally ashamed of that, ard
think it mean to remind him of it. Ncr
should we seek to galvauize into existence
the defunct carcass of Know Nothingism
Only that Hick man, and other Of the mo, e
candid Radicals, still show that it is
latent in the Radical party, ready to crop
out whenever a political necessity requires
it. And, notwithstanding the Tri6aa1e's
pretended liberality to foreigners, whenever
the desire to obtain or retain power makes
it necessary TO dnff the Radical and don
the Know Nothing, it will stand just
where it did in 1854. While its editor,
in common with many other X. Ms, has
too much intelligence to lmbibe the igno-
rant prejndices against foreigners and
Catholics" whenever the thirst of power