nian Democracy bring into this
Union one million of Spanish Papists--black, brown, sorrel, and
tawny--under the guise of acquiring Cuba for the South: let them bring
eight hundred thousand French and English Papists, under the name of
acquiring Canada for the North: let them bring two millions of Mexican
Papists--brown, tawny, red and black, being a mixture of all colors and
all nations--under the specious pretence of "extending the area of
freedom"--let all this be done--and your party, made up of native
traitors, and foreign vagabonds, and Catholic paupers, are aiming at
it--let it be done, I say, and farewell to liberty, and all that is
sacred in this country! With five millions of Papists in our midst--four
millions and a half being of foreign birth, and four millions speaking a
foreign language--all taught from infancy to hate and detest
Protestantism as a crime--an American party would become an absolute
political necessity. Well do the Free Soil papers comprehend this
matter. Hear the infamous but influential _Chicago Tribune_, one of your
Douglass organs--one of your foreign Catholic organs. I quote from the
paper itself:

"It is now a well-attested fact, that Atchison is a member of
the Superior Order of the Spangled Banner, or Know Nothings,
and that his infernal villainy in Kansas has been carried on
under the protection and patronage of the lodges in Western
Missouri. This is a matter that all men in the North should
understand, that Northern voters may be exceedingly cautious
how they give countenance or support to an Order that, in any
of its phases or localities, is capable of producing such
results. It is further said, that the members of that Kansas
Legislature, now outraging all sense of right and justice by
their devilish enactments, are the chosen men of the affiliated
Know Nothings in Missouri and Kansas, who back then up in
whatever thing they do. Atchison and his gang are the friends
of the Order, and through it and Southern Know Nothing support
they are sure that their efforts to establish a despotism in
the Territory, if necessary, at the point of the bayonet, will
be successful. These facts account for many things heretofore
inexplicable, and they develop the true reason of the hostility
of the border-ruffians to the foreign immigration that would,
under other circumstances, people that vast and