Tombstone epitaph., 1888-06-16
That movement was in the nature of

That movement was in the nature of Democratic revolt. Daniel CConnell | had spurned the blood-money of the slave obligarchy of the South, and the rallying crys of his repealers, "Ireland for the Irish" was paraphrased by the shareholders with the counter cry of "America for the Americans" The Democratic cities of Baltimore, Louis vile, and St. Louis ran red with Irish blood, and almost half . million Demo crats in the slave holding States seeded from the regular Democratic organization on fhe issue of "America for Americans" In the Presidential election of 1856 the Democratic State sf Maryland actually cast majority vote for the ''Know Noth- ing" candidate.
 Then, as now, the Know-Nothing movement was essentially Democra,ic movement. In the States that were then and now Republican the Know Nothing vote was small. The State of Maine never polled quite 1000 votes for that party, and while ia 1856 the States of the Solid South gave Fillmore, the Know-Nothing candidate for President, 47o,46s votes, the total vote cast for John (. Fremont the Republican candidate, in all these slave. holding States was only I,Ie4. In 1861 the vast Know. Nothing army (479.464) was absorbed bodily by the party of seccession-or the Dem ocratic party, which was one and the same thing, for their was practically no Republican party in the South.
 There is again apparent on the surface of Democracy an outbreak of this vener- able disorder of Know. s,hinsism. Its pretensions to patriotism, it's solicitude for American institutions, are false and hollow. It is thespiait of the aristocrat and the Troy, . malignant jealousy of the frswning power and influence of the Irish-American element in Democratic politics, 4 sample of that spirit is given us in the action and utteraaces of Mayor Hewitt and in the loud assexs of the Mugwump and pro British newspapers of New York City. Every true Ameri- can, every faithful Republican, every friend of liberality, charity, and humanity, can afford to stand back and view com. placently the feeble e6ort of the Demo- cratic bosses to commit Aa,I ka,T on the bowels of the organization.
 But no true American, no worthy Re. publican will yield to the temptation to act with it or sympathizh with it. It will present itself in various plausible and at. tractive forms. It will endeavor to create an immigration problem" Immigration, despite all its evils. has made this country the greatest country on earth, and will bear it still higher to it's manifest destiny, and the party which struck the letters from the limbs Of 100000 black slaves and gave to the emancipated the sword and shield of suffrage, will never coun. tenance the odious doctrine that any vir. tuous foreigner, (on account sf race o, creed or color merely shall be excluded from the privilege to live and labor or our soil.
 Nor should honest poverty or honor able rags forfeit his claim to our sympathy and fraternity. All Europe labored and brought forth America. The blsod o these people is mingled in our veins their rugged hands have carved upon the surface of this nation cuts and 6ls more enduring than the Pyramids of Egypt their sweat has cemented every structure of our material greatness and their good red blood has flowed with ours in min gled tide on every battle. 6eld of the Republic. While yet the countless mil lions of uncultivated acres hunger for the hand of toll. while mining lands unlimited lie waiting for development, let no Re publican voice raise discordant note appealing to sentiment of sel6shness o, bigotry inconsistent with the dictates o reason, justice, nature and gratitude. | It is eur right and duty to exclude the criminals of Europe from the privilege. of our society and eitisenship, Europe must not be permitted to make our coun try the dumping ground of her peniten' tiaries; and it is our right and duty te insist that no extravagans notions of the meaning of liberty shall warrant any mar or set of men ia disloyalsy to our institu tions or defiance of our laws.
 | But if there is to be a revival of Know NothingismI if the Democratic Mayo and the Mugwump press will insist upol . revival of Know othingism; iftbe evi genius of race hatred is to be iayoked; i the co-religionists of Lafayette and . Carroll, Jack Barry and Phil Sheridan and the companions of Shields ant Meagher and Corcoran and Mulligan ar, to be made the pariahs of political societ, in America, and if the flag that was born, beside the Stars and Stripes over tn. gallant Goth at Fredericksburg is ts Ct banned and hidden out ofsight unworth, to be displayed, let the unsghteous task be committed to the haRds of Democrat. Mugwumps and Tories.