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June 23, 1854
The Athens Post
Athens, Mcminn County, Tennessee
What is this article about?
The New Orleans Crescent mocks a Democratic newspaper's fears of the Know Nothing movement, highlighting how it has disrupted Whig politics and even defeated them in places like Connecticut.
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The New Orleans Crescent notices very neatly the wailing of a Locofoco sheet in that city:
"The Know Nothings are a sore thorn in the side of the Courier. It sees raw head and bloody bones in the association. Beneath the disguises which it attributes to it, it fancies the whig face everywhere grins out, and it warns the democracy of a cat in the meal tub. A whig movement! Bah! Why, in many towns the Know Nothings have completely routed the whigs, and they scarcely knew where the blow come from. In Connecticut this was emphatically the case.—Strange whig movement to defeat itself. It is worse than the fabled act of old Saturn eating its own children."
"The Know Nothings are a sore thorn in the side of the Courier. It sees raw head and bloody bones in the association. Beneath the disguises which it attributes to it, it fancies the whig face everywhere grins out, and it warns the democracy of a cat in the meal tub. A whig movement! Bah! Why, in many towns the Know Nothings have completely routed the whigs, and they scarcely knew where the blow come from. In Connecticut this was emphatically the case.—Strange whig movement to defeat itself. It is worse than the fabled act of old Saturn eating its own children."
What sub-type of article is it?
Politics
What keywords are associated?
Know Nothings
Whigs
Democrats
New Orleans Crescent
Political Commentary
Connecticut Election
Where did it happen?
New Orleans
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Primary Location
New Orleans
Event Details
The New Orleans Crescent comments on a Locofoco (Democratic) newspaper's complaints about the Know Nothing movement, portraying it as a threat disguised as Whig influence, but notes that Know Nothings have actually defeated Whigs in many towns, including Connecticut.