American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-09-21

We hope that our readers will excus.
us If we refer once more to Gen. Wilson,
Know-Nothing record. That person
made speech ut Natick, Massachusetts,
recently. the purport OF which WA
that the speaker was q Know-Nothing
virtuous motives, and without In fact be
coming Know-Nothing ut ALL So, We
suppose, he took the solemn and tremen-
dous Oaths which the order required Of its
novices without meaning anything, and
most decidedly without meaning 70 be
true to them. This Natick speech, In view
Of the facts, viii convinee nobody, and
ought to convince nobody.
It is time, perhaps, to sum up this mat
ter. The facts proved, and not now de-
MED by the General are, that he became a
Kn0w-Nothing that he professed to en-
terrain the distinctive doctrines Of the
Known lettings; that he sat - delegate
In the Know-Nothing National Conven-
ton that he was elected Senator by
Know-Nothing votes. So much for prov
Mr.. Wilson responds by saying,th he
was q Know-No Nothing that while he pro-
fcssed to entertain the distinctive doctrines
Of the Known othings he inwardIy repu-
dated them all /; that he sat In the Ma
tf0nal Known Nothing Convention % del
egate for the purpcse Of Debating the OBJ
ject ofthat Convention; and that he played
: double game, and while he was 1t heart
friendly 70 Foreigners, he WINS acting with
men who WerA their avowed enemies.
But the case Of Mr.. Wilson needs to be
considered ~ whole, and we purpose now
to show It. We have not been cenanring
Mr.. Wilson for being . Know-Not hing,
Int for dishonorably sneaking cut Of #.
We have NO controversy about Know
nottingham. It L. not our habit to dis
~ n foor Int tn
Ism was live question, we fought it;-
now that 1t is dead, We care nothing
Rbput It, and have no controversy with
che hundreds Of Thousands Of good men
who were once deluded into . support of
It. But this Is the case Of q man who
now aspires to be Vice President of the
United States.
He vas asked whether he had mot been
! member Of the Know-Nothing party.
he replied, Indignantly branding as q
nonstrous and wicked SANDER the intima-
ion that he had ever said one word or
lone one thing against the equal rights of |
III citizens Of whatever color. race, or na-
Then 1t was proved by the un-
testimony Of Frank W. Bird, |
Albert Pike, and whole cloud Of wit
lesscs that he bad been duly elected, |
luly initiated and unc0mmonly active |
xnow-Nofhing. Then some Germans |
lere mailed him letter asking about it. |
They received . reply from his home. un- !
Ter his frank and bearing his signature,
latly denying that he had ever been q |
know-Nothfn9. Then r. W. Bird and |
'ther old friends Of his openly denounced |
linn as liar. Then he authorized an As
ociated Press dispatch, declaring the
German letter Q forgery. The Germans
hereupon brought to us q copy oftheir let
er to him, and his reply, In German, un-
Ter his frank, and in the same hand in
which previous German letters of his
we're written, duly signed as they had
cen, " Henry Wilson, per 81. A." Her
himself the amanuensis Of
he letter, admitted that he was in the
abit of conducting Senator Wilson's
'erman correspondence, said he had been
lstructed to answer this letter, and that,
ter preparing the answer, he had con-
lifted the Senator shout It. And kAs,s,
enatOr Wilson makes . speech, 40
that he was Know-Noth-
e. That Is his case; and the whole /
We have elected good many kinds of {
sople to our highest Executive Offices,
1t never Ialtry creature like this. We
'op Mr.. Wilson. We have, In times I
lst, regarded and treated him as an hon /
able man. No intelligent person need
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