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	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Know-Nothings. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Knows which Side his Bread is Buttered (He).
		A secret political party of the United States, which arose in 1853, who replied to every question asked about their society, “I know nothing about it.” Their object was to accomplish the repeal of the naturalisation laws, and of the law which excluded all but natives from holding office.
		The chief principle of the party was that no one who had not been 21 years in the United States should be permitted to have any part in the government.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/9736.html (145 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Know Nothings experienced a precipitous decline, however, and in the 1856 election their presidential candidate, Millard Fillmore, carried only one state.
		The Know Nothings have not attracted much interest from historians, because the events involved in the coming of the Civil War eclipsed interest in a movement that was apparently only peripherally involved with Civil War issues.
		The Know Nothings - a name used by both themselves and their foes - started out as a semi-secret fraternal organization in the 1850s that was distinctly anti-immigrant.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0195072332 (858 words)

	Expert know-nothings - Ecademy
		Nothing wrong with the advice, per se, but it's a "contestant: Sibyl Fawlty; subject: the bleedin' obvious" moment.
		Yes, I know there is a legal requirement for a person to be acting in an ethical manner within his specialist field whether paid or not, but it doesn't necessarily follow that the advice dispensed is of any practical value whatsoever.
		Make sure the advisors know what they are talking about: collect testimonials about their activities in relation to similar cases to yours; make sure, too, that they practice what they preach.
	www.ecademy.com /node.php?id=51986 (610 words)

	Secret Meeting Of Know-Nothings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the 1850s, a 3rd-party movement arose, the Know Nothings.
		Except for the Republicans, the Know Nothing (a.k.a.
		Skolnick, in his ongoing series "The Overthrow Of The American Republic" (see www.skolnicksreport.com) revealed that the Know Nothings, contrary to what is thought, did not fade away during the Civil War (1861-1865).
	www.shout.net /~bigred/KnowNoth.htm (483 words)

	Getting the Message Out! The Second American Party System: The Know Nothing Party
		Their sobriquet apparently stemmed from the practice of members to say "I know nothing" about the order ifnonmembers asked them about it.
		In the congressional and state elections of 1854 and 1855 the Know Nothing party actually grew faster and proved far more damaging to the Whig party by siphoning off its adherents than the Republican party.
		That year the great majority of northern Know Nothings would join the Republicans in supporting John C. Fremont, and between 1856 and 1860 almost all the rest of Fillmore's northern supporters would become Republicans.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /message/ps-knownothing.html (209 words)

	OUR OPINION: The know nothings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		• Only 51 percent of American adults know that defense spending is one of the two largest expenditure areas in the federal budget (the other is Social Security, and only 32 percent know that).
		• Only 22 percent know that the current national unemployment rate is lower than the average rate for the last 30 years.
		You're not one of the "know nothings." It's a sad commentary, though, that you're in the minority.
	www.vvdailypress.com /cgi-bin/newspro2004/viewnews.cgi?newsid1096462917,66992, (522 words)

	The Know Nothing Party--Violent Acts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		During 1855 the Know Nothings carried the city elections in Indianapolis and Indiana, except for Evansville and Madison, and also captured the city elections in neighboring Ohio.
		Danger was associated with the elections, and in the cities of Cincinnati, Columbus, Chicago, and Louisville there were riots and bloodshed between the Germans and Know Nothings.
		.The Know Nothings arose in part because they feared that the Democrats had sold out to the foreign-born, and the Indianapolis Daily State Sentinel, a Democratic paper, condemned the Know Nothings outrages as being injustices to the foreign-born who had been loyal and useful American citizens.
	www.ulib.iupui.edu /special/digproj/circle/party.html (193 words)

	Getting the Message Out! Political Culture: Nativism
		They attracted working class and middle class voters angered by the job competition from immigrants, the increase in crime, public drunkenness, and pauperism that accompanied immigration, the supposed pollution of the body politic by ignorant immigrant voters, and an assertiveness by Catholic clergymen that supposedly threatened the nation's Protestant values and institutions.
		By far the most massive and powerful political backlash against immigrants and Catholics before the Civil War, however, came with the Know Nothing movement of the mid-1850s.
		During and after 1856, however, most northern Know Nothings were absorbed into the Republican party, and they would help elect Lincoln president in 1860, even though Lincoln himself had nothing but disdain for Know Nothings' anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic bigotry.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /message/ps-nativism.html (340 words)

	Catholic Online - Featured Today - THE NEW 'KNOW NOTHINGS'
		This movement was popularly known as the “know-nothings” because its members answered "I know nothing" when asked about their anti-Catholic aims.
		Pryor’s “Know Nothing” opponents strutted out some Catholics whose voting records are unfaithful to the clear teaching of their own Church.
		This phrase was used by the “Know Nothings in the nineteenth century.
	www.catholic.org /featured/headline.php?ID=303 (2058 words)

	Washington Monument: Building and Setbacks
		The chief suspects were members of a political faction known as the American Party, commonly called the "Know Nothing" Party.
		Members of the "Know Nothing" Party, gathered at the town hall and elected seventeen people to be the officers of their own Washington National Monument Society.
		With the decline of the "Know Nothing" Party, the bitter struggle between the two ended, and the monument and its records were restored back to the rightful Society.
	www.nps.gov /wamo/memorial/setbacks.htm (748 words)

	On Debating Religion
		Maybe there isn't a God; we educated people know there is precious little evidence for one, let alone for ideas such as the Virgin birth or the Resurrection.
		Sometimes physicists may resort to saying that there is an inner core of mystery that we don't understand, and perhaps never can; and they may then say that perhaps this inner core of mystery is another name for God.
		There is nothing wrong with that, but it is irritating that they almost never admit this is what they are doing.
	www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk /dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/1994-12religion.shtml (2243 words)

	Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850's:0195089227:Anbinder, Tyler:eCampus.com
		Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850's:0195089227:Anbinder, Tyler:eCampus.com
		In this important book, Anbinder argues that the Know Nothing's phenomenal success in the pre-Civil War era was inextricably linked to their anit-immigrant and anit-Catholic political agenda as well as to the firm stance their northern members took against the extension of slavery.
		Nativism and Slavery presents the first comprehensive history of the Know Nothings and a new perspective of the political crisis that let to the Civil War.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0195089227 (109 words)

	Know-Nothing movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thus activists opposed to immigration began splitting off from the major parties and forming secret groups, coordinating their votes and throwing their weight en masse behind candidates sympathetic to their cause (regardless of political party).
		When asked about these secret organizations, members would reply "I know nothing," which led to them popularly being called Know-Nothings.
		This movement in effect gained control of a large number of local offices, especially in the North, through the early 1850s ("in effect" because the officeholders were still technically either Democrats or Whigs, as the Know-Nothings were not yet an actual party).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Know-Nothing_movement (912 words)

	Daphne Dispatch for KIDS!
		Unfortunately, the Know Nothings were unfair to many of the immigrants.
		The Know Nothings passed laws that made life very difficult for immigrants.
		The Know Nothings were only around for about ten years.
	www.ustrek.org /odyssey/semester1/111100kids/111100daphknowkids.html (408 words)

	Who Were the Know-Nothings? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		So, one thing we know is that the election campaign took place in the context of Worcester's business leaders and many of its skilled mechanics all working together to rebuild the city and its industries.
		We also know that Know-Nothingism was strong throughout several northern states and was especially strong in Massachusetts.
		One of these factors clearly was a breakdown in voter confidence in the older parties, especially the Whigs (increasingly, native-born voters in the North turned away from the Democrats because of the strength of the southern wing of the party).
	www.assumption.edu /users/McClymer/his270/K-N.html (456 words)

	The Anniston Star - New know-nothings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		During this soon-to-be-over (thankfully) political season, there have been those who, in the heat of debate, have told people of a different political persuasion, "You don’t know what you are talking about." There is now evidence that backs up that claim.
		A new Cato Institute study conducted by Ilya Somin, an assistant professor of law at George Mason University, concludes that voters are ignorant about the candidates and their positions and do not know enough about the issues to make an informed choice on Nov. 2.
		Politicians know this and so they often seek to restrict the flow of information to voters, preferring poll-tested buzzwords and assertions about the patriotism, faith or honesty of the other candidate.
	www.annistonstar.com /opinion/2004/as-insight-1020-0-4j19r1735.htm (512 words)

	The New Know Nothings § Lean Left
		But the people who call people who try to better understand what is going on “excuse makers” or who dismiss evidence that causes are at the heart of suicide terrorism are shutting down that discussion.
		And there is nothing morally wrong with working to address the grievance.
		They prefer to bury their heads in the sand and pretend that the very concept of grievances is ridiculous.
	www.leanleft.com /archives/2005/07/30/4367 (987 words)

	The Elegant Variation: PARANOID KNOW NOTHINGS
		Today's post in which he shines the cool, clear light of his criticism on the bottom dwellers over at ULA is a model of the form, and a reminder at least to me, about how blogs might be used.
		Thus the ULA is the latest in a long line of advocates of the notion that literature is a matter of "saying something," preferably in the least embellished and ambiguous way, of using fiction or poetry for doing "something relevant to American people’s lives," as another of their pronouncements has it.
		One hardly knows what the King's real problem with Birkerts's criticism actually is, since here (and in the rest of the piece) all we get is petulance, fake iconoclasm ("sucking up to Joseph Brodsky living in the woods reading a lot of books"), and ad hominem attack.
	marksarvas.blogs.com /elegvar/2004/06/paranoid_know_n.html (1734 words)

	The New Know-Nothings
		To atone, he will then invite a documentary film crew to follow him around as he lectures the rest of us about the importance of voting.
		In this way, they do know their limitations.
		Armed with nothing but his pretensions and a camera crew, Downey lit out on the campaign trail.
	weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/823zmnxz.asp (547 words)

	Know-Nothing movement
		These organizations baffled political managers of the older parties, since efforts to learn something of the leaders or designs of the movement were futile; all their inquiries of supposed members were met with a statement to the effect that they knew nothing.
		Field guides: when you know nothing about elk, a good field guide can put you on the right track in a hurry.
		(Flashback: to know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain ever a child--Cicero).(Frances Bellamy, author of the Pledge of Allegiance) (The American Enterprise)
	www.infoplease.com /ce5/CE028691.html (528 words)

	A Web Undone 2: Know Nothings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A recent study finds that high school students know little about the First Amendment and care less.
		Part of the problem is that school newspapers are being cut owing to budget constraints, so students are not obliged to confront issues...
		Part of the problem is that school newspapers are being cut owing to budget constraints, so students are not obliged to confront issues of free expression first hand.
	www.williamsonday.com /archives/000539.html (151 words)

	USA Trivia Know Nothing Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Founded in New York in 1849, the American Party or Know Nothings began as a secret patriotic society called The Order Of The Star Spangled Banner.
		Members were instructed to keep all aspects of the Order secret, and when asked of its purpose or particulars, they replied "I know nothing." Hence the name Know Nothing Party.
		Their popularity and numbers grew so fast that by 1854 they were able to call a national convention and nominate a candidate for the president in 1856.
	www.usatrivia.com /apmknow.html (106 words)

	'Know-Nothing' Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The American Republican party, formed (1843) in New York, spread to neighboring states as the Native American party and became a national party in 1845.
		Many secret orders sprang up, and when outsiders made inquiries of supposed members, they were met with a statement that the person knew nothing; hence members were called Know-Nothings.
		The Know-Nothings sought to elect only native Americans to office and to require 25 years of residence for citizenship.
	www.thesequencers.us /WhatsAMetaU/knownothing.html (195 words)

	Commentary Magazine - On the Horizon: The Highbrow Know-Nothings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		...In fact, he knows-and presents with a large and genuine intelligence-almost everything we have learned about Stalinism and, even more important, the Stalinist per"ON THE HoRIzoN" this month offers two short articles...
		...Yet Miller, like Lewis and Pound, has written almost nothing that does not show on every page the marks of haste, arrogant carelessness, and simple linguistic barbarism...
		...He knows too that "false politics, of sham-underdogs athirst for power-which treated the real poor, when they were encountered, with such overweening contempt, and even derision...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V15I2P81-1.htm (1962 words)

	National Review: Know nothings: U.S. intelligence failures stem from too much information, not enough understanding
		The double surprise of India's nuclear tests in May brought on the usual round of CIA-bashing in Washington and in the national press.
		Moreover, the U.S. is unusually clueless on things it really must know, such as what stands to happen in post-Suharto Indonesia, the security of Russia's nuclear weapons (and scientists), China's intentions about virtually anything outside its borders, Japan's economic and trading strategies, or the state of the North Korean regime.
		Former CIA director R. James Woolsey noted that the India surprise was not only a failure of U.S. intelligence but also a ''failure of academics, of think tanks, of the press,.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n14_v50/ai_21102283 (1239 words)

	The Know Nothings By David Cogswell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The administration's new mantra is "We didn't know nothin'"
		The paper is lending, in a sense, its editorial voice to these unnamed "government officials," who could have been mailmen as far as we know.
		Or no one knew nothin' except what you already know we knew.
	www.davidcogswell.com /Political/KnowNothings.html (231 words)

	The New Know-Nothingism
		It's no accident that it is mostly liberals who tend to inspire this bit of illogic, and nobody does it better than Krugman.
		The so-called Krugman Truth Squad, led by wannabe Ayatollah Andy Sullivan, succeeds in nothing so much as embarrassing itself with its small-minded obsessiveness about matters that the Princeton by way of Yale, MIT and Stanford economist clearly understands better than they do.
		Krugman, who had been a mainstream economist for most of his professional life, was not radicalized by reading Marx, as some on the right would have it--and some on the left might wish.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20031117/alterman (942 words)

	Daphne Dispatch
		Shrouded in secrecy, their members unwilling to be publicly recognized, the Know-Nothing party caused political uproar during the 1850s.
		And he grew disgusted at the politicians who did nothing to help the poor and everything to help the rich.
		So in came the Know-Nothing party, telling him that immigrants were taking his job, that politicians were corrupt and didn't care about the working class, and that the only way to improve the situation was to turn the government back to the people.
	www.ustrek.org /odyssey/semester1/111100/111100daphknow.html (1064 words)

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