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on such a magnificent plan as the “Know Nothing” Association. Their powers united must prove invincible; and their numbers! count the leaves of the forest. They are established, it is said, to subvert foreign chicanery and Jesuitism. A masonic order —omnipotent and omnipresent, and holding constant communication with every portion of the Union; silently and secretly breathing, like theinvinsible wind, with an overwhelming force, capable of uprooting the envenomed tree of corruption, it will soon be seen and felt by the world.The sons of Washington will no longer tamely submit to the idiotic audacity of interlopers, and the shadows of an insult offered to the names of their American emancipator would be destined to incur a speedy rebuke. Truckling politicians, who, for a vote of any hue—dastard Americans, who, for a personal object, would bow the knee to foreign insolence—they are, and will be, “spotted,”The papal conspiracy is represented to be of a far more insidious character than has been surmised. We do not vouch for the truth of this revelation; but, from several instances which have come to our knowledge, we fear the story is not without foundation.And, in conclusion, if there be such beings as “Know Nothings,” they have coalesced by thousands, like subterranean fire, to undermine and explode the strong-holds of troglodytes and gnomes. Deeds-—-notwords—is the “Know Nothings” msethalan. No beacons blaze on the hills—no braying of trumpets; they exchange with each other an outwaid visible sign, of an inward grace, which none, save our own fraternity can comprehend. How, or when they “show cause”—we don’t know.Maternal Affection.There is nothing on earth more reliable than a mother’s love. In youth and in age, in prosperity and in adversity, in sickness and in health, in joy and in sorrow, a
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Indianapolis Indiana Free Democrat
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Thu, May 11, 1854
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