Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-08-27
Collar aa a Know-Nothinp,

Really the most disgusting period in
the history Of American politica--eEcept,
perhaps, the period embraced in the rule
Of the present Radical party--was two or
three years in which that most villainous
organization, Know-NothiRgsm, flourish.
ed. Schuyler Colfax now the Republican
candidate for Vice President, was at that
time editor of the South Bend (Ind) Reg
isteS, one of the leading as we'll as most
virulent Know Nothing sheets in Southern
Indiana. The horrors Of "Bloody Non
day" in Louisville, Kentucky, will never
be, and should never be, forgotten by any
foreign-born, especially Catholic, citizen,
We can yet see the flames of Quinn's Row
leaping toward the clouds, can hear the
the agOniEed cries of the Irish women and
children as they were being roasted to
death in the burning pile, ian see them
as they attempt to escape, caught upon
the prongs of pitchforks by the infuriated
demons who we're loosed from Know.
Nothing dens upon the devoted city that
day, and thrust back into the roaring and
consuming flames; pendent from lamp
posts on Main, and Third, and Fifth, and
jefferson streets we again behold the
bodies Of German Catholics; everywhere
we look, wherever we gaze, VIC see Ger
man and Irish Catholics butchered in
cold blood, shot down In the streets, or
hung up to lamp posts, and for no other
reason than being foreigners and Catho-
lies. II will not readily be forgotten that
every paper in the interest Of that order.
which includes every Radical paper Of
prominence to-day, excused, palliated, and
even defended the murderous doings oi
that day. Schuyler Colfsx's paper was
far from silent. An Indiana cotemporary
has taken the trouble to examine the hles
of the EOnth Bend Register, aad succeeded
in ezhuming the following;
nTHE RIoTs IN LoUIsvILLE--AH FIX
PREssIyE WARNING TO PoPEBY.--H -Howeve
much men may deplore the eifusicn o
blood and the destruction Of property
they canaot fail 10 read in the action o
THE aroused Americans Of Louisville, I
warning 70 Popery as plain as the hand
writing upon BeIsnuzSrr-s- palace walls
Il was 2 warning written in blood and
fame, and one that, If it pass unheedet
by the Pope and his blind and serVilI
tools in this country will be repeated in
every city, town and village in the land
The American people have at last awaken
| cd TO the dangers attendant upon the tel.
Grafton of Catholicism in their fair lsnd
of liberty, and they are determined TO rid
themselves Of the evil by the swift and
strong hand. Far DO IL from us to judge
and condemn them. They have beer
patient and lOrg-suaering, They have
found that Wsshington's instruction tC
his Oficer Of the guard, "Put none but
Americans on guard Tonight" was not
without meaning, Perhaps 1t is bui
poetic justice that the church which sc
long fed Chfistian martyrs 10 tho flames
should in turh furnish food for the fire
Monday ct Louisville was but the beg n
ming. Let IL teach The tools and slaves o.
the Pope wisdom, before every town and
city becomes to them another Louisville
| Schuyler Colfax, the, editor who penned
the above atrocous paragraph, for th'
zeal with which he Rdtocate the damua.
| ble doctrine Of KnoW-Kt thingism and de-
Tended the murderers Of Catholic men
| women, children, was rewarded by hi
party with seat in Congress- He hal
neyer retracted his Kndy-Nothingism
!, and In all his public career no man est
. mint ont a word he has ever written oi
spoken which would indicate even 10 tol
GRAFTON Of Catholicism. - Cape Gisardea'
MOI Democracy.