The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-10-04
TO OUR ADOPTED CITIZENS.

Among the many desperate efforts that the
orators and writers of the Radical party are
making to prevent that downfall which we
believe inevitable, none is more false than
the charge that Mr.. Greeley was originally
one of the most proscriptive of the Know
Nothing order, and that he never sympa-
thized with down trodden Ireland in the
wrongs inflicted upon her by English mis-
rule. AS regards this charge of utilization
with Know Nothingism, before we proceed
to give the proofs of its being most menda-
cious assertion, we will ask our readers to
give their attention TO the following, from
the Know Nothing record of Hon. Henry
Wilson, the associate with Gen. Grant on the
Radical ticket: H
From the San Francisco Monitor we learn
that the Radical candidate for Vice President
addresstda public meeting in 1856 at Boston
in the following delcctable and highly edify-
ing language:
In the heart of the foreigner beats not single
noble impulse, not one throb of patriotism. He
is so brutal and degraded that he has no sympa-
thy for anything but cabbage ana lager beer, pota
fit only for the hogs or the pen. All the oaths
in the world cannot bind him.
Evidently warming up as he proceeded in
his harangue, he said:
Some tell me that foreigners are intelligent
Yes Intelligent. Look at the Dutchman smok-
ing his pipe and if you see ray of intelligence
in that dirty, idiot-lookng face of his, show it
to me-
Pretty strong language this. Wonder
who Mr.. Wilson ancestors were? Ofcoursc
they were not foreigners. They were created
on special purpose that he might be able to
say there was no foreign blood in his veins.
But here is gem of oratory, and from the
same pure, unadultcrated fount:
We must change the laws of the land, and pre-.
vent these ignorant degraded paupcrs here from
voting and holding office; villains and rufflans
who cOngregate in and around our villages and
large cities, and live by stealing and begging
from the Americans: Some say they have rights
So they havc-the rights to live under our laws
and till the soil, and do as We bid. They are in
fcrior in intellect and intelligence to the Amer.
leans, and they must be and shall be put down,
and kept down, If ii has to be done at lie point of
the bey0aet, and NTH ponder and iead.
Now, in striking contrast to this malignant
ctfusion of Mr.. Wilson, we turn with pleas.
IRE to the following bold and manly defiance
of The threats of prescription, which we find
IN thr tribune of October "a, 1854:
We are every day greeted by some sage friend
With caution against the certain wreck of our
Influence and prosperity which we defy by oppos-
ing the secret political cabal commonly known
as 'the Know Nothings." One writes us that he
procured 100 of our present subscribers, and will
prevent the renewal of their subscriptions in case
VIC persist in our present course; another won
ders why we aoiU destroy our influence by resist
ing the popular current, when we might do so
n much good by falling in with it and guiding it
No one can ever have taken the Tribune with
any expectation ofiinding 1t an advocate or fav-
orer of any such movement as that designated
Know. Nothing. When Nativism was rampant
in this city and Philadelphia, ten years or more
ago, we stood as its most determined antagonist
And now if any would prefer to discontinue the
Tribune because it is and must remain opposed
to every measure or scheme of prescription for
opinions sake, we beg them not to delay
one minute Oh our account. We shall all live
till II Is ourium to die, whether we earn q liy.
Ing by making newspapers or by doing some
thing else.
This plain and unequivocal language to
a brazen and unpriucipled faction fast grow
Ing into powerful party, before whose
threats, or seduced by its offers of political
preferment, hosts of public men succumbed,