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16 THE KNOW NOTHING ALMANAC 5
PREFAGE.
Tie unprecedented success of our Inst
year’s issue, induces us to continue the pubs
lication of our Trun Amentoans’? ALMANAC
and Wand-Book of reference for political
Native Americans, and we hope our patri-
otic friends will continue to patronize their
own Almanac, in order that its fleld of
usefulness may be extended,
There is no method for the extension of
knowledge and the promulgation of princi-
ples more powerful and efficient than that
of the tract system; and as this little work
ig sold at a very low price (especially in
large quantiti¢s), it may be assumed that
our little Almanac is an American and
Protestant tract. .Let those true patriots,
then, who sincercly desire to extend a
knowledge of our principles, invest either
one shilling or one dollar in so good a
cause, and those who can afford it could
not expend even a larger amount in a more
effectual manner for the dissemination of
our political doctrines than in the purchase
of this truly proselyting pamphlet. By dis-
tributing them broadcast over the land, an
incalculable amount of good may be accom-
plished; and especially if our true American
friends will send copies to those of their
deluded countrymen, who are still in the
chains of party, and continue to believe in
the honesty and truthfulness of those dema-
gogues, whose trade, profession, and prac-
tice of politics compel them to deceive, to
cheat, and betray the credulous ptople.
It is only by such documentary evidence
as we have compiled for the Almanac, that
the people can be properly informed as to
our American purposes, and in no other
way can we reach the individual attention
and final judgment of the people, touching
the patriotism of our political tenets, so
directly as by this method of placing the
Jacts before their eyes. In view of the cor-
rectness of our arguments in favor of a
wide circulation of our Almanac and Man-
ual, we contend that it is a duty incumbent
upon every true American, and eyery sin-
cere Protestant, to take a personal interest
in the work, and see that his immediate
neighborhood is well supplied with copies.
Our enemies are constantly at work, endea-
voring to divide and distract us—our inve-
terate foes, the lenders of all that remains
of the old parties, never forego an oppor-
tunity to injure tis—and it is only by off-
setting thelr infamous misrepresentations,
with documentary evidences in the form
of statistics, &c., that we can make head
against the Romish falsifiers of the truth,
and their allies, the native traitors,
You, readers, should do your duty by
sending a copy of this Manual to any friend
who is still a member of the tory parties;
for now there is.but one American party,
and its opponents are in the same position
of antagonism to the patriot party as the
tories were to the patriot army, during the
revolutionary struggle of our forefathers,
Let our opponents torture and distort the
truth as they may, no specious reasoning,
no political sophistry can alter the fact
that those who are constantly laboring to
fight down Amertcanism and Protestantism
are enemies to their country, and tories or
traitors to their native land.
_Acorrect understanding of our principles
is all that is required to set the people
aright on this subject; and if every Ameri-
can would do his share towards accomplish-
ing the peaceful revolution we are laboring
to consummate, then the work will be com-
pleted without the necessity of resorting to
& more desperate alternative, That * Revo-
lutions never go backward,” is an axiom as
unerring as fate, and the revolution having
for its aim the deliverance of our country
from all foreign influence, at home and
abroad, will sweep on to its final victory,
even though its course be through the qui-
vering hearts of our alien foes. Avert this
dire necessity, this desperate and inevitable
step, ye who prate of peace while there is
no peace—ye who censure Americans for
avenging the death of their brother Ameri-
cans—ye who preach submission, to the
hordes of foreign ingrates, swarming like
vermin through the land—ye who have
helped to “make your father’s house a den
of thieves "—ye who, “worse than the Infi-
del, provide not for your own household,”
but squander your rich inheritance upon the
unworthy stranger—avert the final appeal
to arms, and seal not your infamy in the
blood of your native land.
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