They had no belief in the proscriptive doctrines, and were willing that men of foreign birth and Catholics should have their just rights, and expected to destroy the Know Nothing Party in its turn when it had destroyed Whiggery and Democracy.
Hoar highlights the inclusive beliefs of certain political factions against the Know Nothing Party's exclusionary practices.
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What was said helped to arouse public attention, and the masses of the people--always pure and incorruptible--set themselves earnestly and successfully to reform the abuses.
And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.
His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
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