Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-06-11
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We notice feeble attempt on the part
of correspondent in last weeks Register
Of this place, over the signature of Fay
ette," to frighten the friends of temper
ance, sobriety and good order, from their
efforts in favor of this worthy object, by
shaking at them the raw hands and bloody
bones of know. Nothingism.r We here
present the first paragraph of the attempt
ed frightas we find it in the Register:
Viewed by the light of the experience
that we have had for the last five months
Of the temperance movement in Ohio, and
the developments made in its progress
since its advent in Cincinnati, there is no
longer any reason to doubt that the cru
sade, in the smaller towns and villages, has
been either diverted from its original pur-
pose, OF was at the commencement, moth
ing more or less than the deep laid plan of
a powerful party in our midst to inaugur-
ate in 1874 the Know Nothing sentiment
and exclusiveness Of twenty years ago
The skirmishing parties throughout the ru-
raj districts having been driven in, it re-
mained for Cincinnati to develop its true
intent and purpose. They have been fore
ed to cast aside the mask and now Moth
ingism in new dress stands unveiled in
all its native charms. The political robe
that enveloped the bantling of "a and
which afterward formed its winding sheet
has been changed this year to the white
robe of moral reformation. Its original
purity, however, did not last long, the
spots of the leopard can now be seen dis
tinctly through its thin covering, and no.
body can be deceived as to its ultimate ten
dency.
Are we to take it for granted, as seems to
be inferred from the spirit of this para
graph from "Fayette,' p that all foreigners
are opposed to the temperance refOrm-that
intemperance is peculiar characteristic of
the foreign born citizens? This it seems
is the implied admission of the writer re-
fered to-an admission or reflection upon
their character, which foreign citizens, as
class. will not thank Mr.. ''Fayette" for
making. Assuming his damaging position
as he does, he then with the hope of excit-
ing the prejudices of foreigners against ma
tive born citizens, again puts his foot in it
by assuming that opposition to temperance
is Know Nothingism. We can assure the
writ er that if the advocacy Of temper
ance is Know Nothingism, he will find q
great many Know Nothingites in the coun-
try, but we do not understand that temper
ance has anything to do with Know Moth
ingism, and there never will be a Know
| Nothing party made out of temperance,
unless Know Nothing party is formed by
foreign combination against the moral re-
form efforts Of American citizens. A
Know Nothing party will have to be form
ed of foreign-born citizens, and it is use
less for the correspondent of the Register
to attempt to rattle the raw head and
bloody bones of Know Nothingism in the
face of temperance advocates with the
hope Of frightening them from their adyo-
eacy of their moral principles.
Again the writer says:
"Since the inguration of the crusade here
the HERALD has been its champion, and
from week to week, to the exclusion of al
most every other item Of local or general
interest, its columns have teemed with
temperance news.''
Well, we believe we have had something
to say in favor of temperance and sobriety,
and we have nothing to take back or regret
that we have said on that subject. We on
ly regret that we have not the power to
persuade all men to be temperate in all
things. Drunkenness and its consequences
are the greatest evils against which society
has to contend requires no argument
to convince every well-balanced mind of
that fact; then why should it not employ the
best energies of the best and most pbilan-
thrOphic men of the land to avert its ac-
cursed spread and its terrible conse-
quenees. We know that intemperance is
wrong, and that temperance is right; there
fore, we advocate the latter, and no taunts
from the Registers correspondent or any
other quarter, can frighten us from advocat-
ing cause which we believe to be right
and which the christian world ackEowledg.
es to be right