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The “Know Bettings”—'What1* theirMission?Whatever may be the result, or grand finale of the great invisible organization now going forward in the United States, under the supposed title of “Know Nothings,” the victims. of its irresistable power have but themselves, an assinine stupidity and the cupidity of their brazen, wily leaders to blame. Wherever priestcraft and jesuifcism have set ther seals, songs of sorrow and outraged liberty have marked the hour. Humbled, and, in a great measure, defeated in their aspirations abroad, these banes to human progress and human rights have not only ventured to come, but have set their tents, raised their standards, and built their camp-fires of insolence ana intolerance in this, our own dearly-bought native land. Our shores are free—free as the winds of the ocean that fan them—to the oppressed and would be free, of whatever faith or nation. But, when jesuitical conjurers—priestly mountebank—follow the flying hordes of Europe's vomit, and here essays to organize the intolerant and abhorrent doctrines of Romanism in our very midst, and to our most unqualified disgust—aye, and fear, for we know what tracks of blood and desecration have followed jesuitical history— it behooves us to organize even secret societies; if it needs must be that for present purposes, we should play fox with the fox, and tell these bold invaders to stand—thus far shall ye go, and not a rod beyond.What is meant by these “Know Nothings,” we don’t know. So far as we are capable of judgiug, from information obtained by outsiders and the signs of the times, no secret society was ever organized on such a magnificent plan as the “Know Nothing” Association. Their powers united must prove invincible; and their numbers!Ho1IWh of 1 reti will moi upc the pay mo: a wImei in t out to 1 gar and lar| the mo die; the ing as i say In ; the afU ha} at t of : it tlt; in ; witwillAllcouacrthr
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Indianapolis Indiana Free Democrat
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Thu, May 11, 1854
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