The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-04-04
. RADICAL KNOW NOTHING USING
t.RI.ARNEYo

When the Amorous Captain attempts to
get off sweet things about the ladies, mar
ried or prospectiveiy so, he generally sac
ceeds. But the most elevated intelleets have
points of weakness. The Captain has his.
We are dslic>te about alludsag to !, bst we
are frequently compelled to do 50. While
Mrs. Cobb is running the political naohine
at Washington, as he claims her to be dong,
he would be an invaluable representative of
our district in congress, as his peculiar weak
ness would then become rod of strength.
But while he is thus in his element on fe-
smsle topics, and while his rich imagery and
poetic proclivities enable him to make floral
shrines of ordinary hill-sides, he should bear
in mind that there ends his especial forte.
When he commences to talk or write "horse
sense" he gets into deep water, and foun-
ders back to the shore, glad to sun himself
again on "mossy banks and beds of violets,'
which ever pervade his sophomore efforts.
This morning, after having emptied the
"vast caverns of his brain" in, perPetrating
'EfAsmas Twiggs," aad telling the public
about his new red faced baby received sin
an uncommon way" he turns his weary pen
uson the Irish. and makes such an effort to veil
his know -nothingism with the very cheapest
kind of flattery, that even the men whom he
would beslobber have raised laugh against
him. He is known to be an enemy of for
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as can be provea from the columns of the
Unsos, and as has been proven time and
again. His little schemes of deceit are clear
iy seen through by the men he foohshly ex'
poets to delude. What he has said and pub
lished cannot be wiped out by common place
assertions, or the ordinary tricks Of political
demagogues. The Irish know their friends,
and are quite as intelligent, and just as
abundantly able to form correct opinions,
as this offshoot from the cradle of know
noshingism. The hatred Of foreigners, with
which the air of Maryland imbued him, can
not be disguised, and never fails to hetray
itself upon the least provocation. We have
frequently commented upon his bigoted de-
nunciations. But a few days have elapsed
since he branded the Germans of Davenport
as ''infdels, free thinkers, copperheads, sore
heads, sohiskgttes, and Sabbath breakers
nor have our readers forgotten when he in
solently declared that the "Duteh, lrish
Welsh, DE, are sporn through as roters,
before they're had time TO learn aoAether an
american citizen soQS expected to sralk on
his hands or has .teet;n that they are
'ssaoraet Of oar language, o,o' tans, our
institutions ignorant Of ecGythi,sg that fits
a man for eitizensAip,r and that they "oat-
vote our respectable natire-born population"
Could impudent know -nothingism be more
insulting to our naturalized citizens These
are pretty sentiments to precede a disgusting
out-pouring of flattery upon the devoted
heads of our Irish citizens. After such a
display of spite and rancor, what weight can
be attached to anything he may say? Does
this radical know nothing suppose our nat
urahzed citizens can be fooled with such
chaf-even If i. is imported from MaryianGf