The Englishwoman In America By Isabella Lucy Bird
























































































































 -  Some of its principles savoured of
intolerance, and of persecution for religious opinions, and it ignored the
subject of slavery - Page 433
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Some Of Its Principles Savoured Of Intolerance, And Of Persecution For Religious Opinions, And It Ignored The Subject Of Slavery.

This can never be long excluded from any party consideration, and, though politicians strive to evade it, the question still recurs, and will force itself into notice.

Little more than a year after the Know-nothings were first heard of, they came into collision with the subject, in the summer of 1855, and, after stormy dissensions at their great convention, broke up into several branches, some of which totally altered or abandoned the original objects of their association.

Their triumph was brief: some of the States in which they were the most successful have witnessed their signal overthrow, [Footnote: At several of the state elections at the close of 1855 the Know-nothings succeeded in placing their nominees in public offices, partly by an abandonment of some of their original aims.] and it is to be feared that no practical good will result from their future operations. But the good cause of constitutional government in America is not lost with their failure - public opinion, whenever it shall be fairly appealed to, will declare itself in favour of truth and order; the conservative principle, though dormant, is yet powerful; and, though we may smile at republican inconsistencies, and regret the state into which republican government has fallen, it is likely that America contains the elements of renovation within herself, and will yet present to the world the sublime spectacle of a free people governing itself by just laws, and rejoicing in the purity of its original republican institutions.

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