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Before the war he had been a "Know-nothing," and had been exposed to Toombs' withering fire upon that class of politicians. LeSeur met the fugitive with a laugh and a friendly oath. "You have been fighting me for forty years," he said, "and now that you are in trouble, I am the first man you seek for protection." General Toombs had not traveled too fast. The country was swarming with raiders.
The know-nothing books may alarm you; but many a better man Knows he knows nothing and says so, and lives the best life he can. If there is a future state, face its hopes and terrors gravely; The best path to it must be to bear life's burthens bravely. And even if there be none, why should you not live like a man, Enjoying whatever you have as much and as long as you can?
Atkins, who built the hall, and was a strict Orthodox man a Know-nothing, got them to play "Break the Pope's neck," which made a deal of fun. The oldest people sung some of the old New England tunes, in the old New England way. How well they went off! in particular, "How beauteous are their feet Who stand on Zion's Hill; And bring salvation on their tongues, And words of peace reveal."
"But, my dear fellow, do be serious," protested I. "You know, as well as I do, that we should be swamped the first time we fell in with a capful of wind." "Maybe we should, if we went to work like a couple of know-nothing land- lubbers," retorted Bob; "but if we went to work like seamen, as we are, I should like to know what's to purvent our sailing round the world if we like! Answer me that."
Thus he wrote in a private letter, dated October 30, 1858: "I understand the story is still being told and insisted upon that I have been a Know-Nothing. I repeat what I stated in a public speech at Meredosia, that I am not, nor ever have been, connected with the party called the Know-Nothing party, or party calling themselves the American party.
"This is a peculiar emergency, sir," Morrison insisted. "Outside are massing all the elements of a know-nothing, rough-house mêlée. Even the Legion boys don't know just where they're at till there's a showdown. I can depend on 'em right now while they're waiting for that showdown. They'll fight their finger-nails off to hold the plain rowdies in line.
The assembled editors purposely set the Bloomington Convention for a somewhat late day in the campaign, and before the time arrived the political situation in the State was already much more clearly defined. One factor which greatly baffled the calculations and forecast of politicians was the Know-Nothing or American party.
It was this state of things which made possible the curious interlude of the "Know-Nothing" movement, which cannot be ignored, though it is a kind of digression from the main line of historical development.
Henderson was one of the most fascinating of women, amiable, desirous to please, approachable, and devoted to the interests of her husband. If some of the women, residents in established society, were a little shy of her, if some, indeed, thought her dangerous women are always thinking this of each other, and surely they ought to know-nothing of this appeared in the reports. The men liked her.
Why what an infant you are, Washington what a guileless, short-sighted, easily-contented innocent you, are, my poor little country-bred know-nothing! Would I go to all that trouble and bother for the poor crumbs a body might pick up in this country?
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