On the record
It was a secret oath-bound political order, and its demand was the proscription of Catholics and a probation of twenty-one years for the foreigner as a qualification for the right of suffrage.
Source
gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “It was a secret oath-bound political order, and its demand was the proscription of Catholics and a probation of…”
Editor's note · Context
Julian describes the Know-Nothing party as a secretive political group with discriminatory demands.
Share
More from George Julian
It was hollow and false, and the best men in the party felt it.
It rallied the Whig masses like a grand battle-cry.
They cripple a great national industry and source of wealth, and insult the principles of American jurisprudence.
The system of public plunder inaugurated by Jackson was in full blast, and an organized effort to reform it was the real need of the hour; but here was the weak point of the Whigs.
Other voices in this conversation
