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	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Know-Nothings.
		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.
		Knows which Side his Bread is Buttered (He).
		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)

	Expert know-nothings - Ecademy
		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.
		Nothing wrong with the advice, per se, but it's a "contestant: Sibyl Fawlty; subject: the bleedin' obvious" moment.
	www.ecademy.com /node.php?id=51986 (610 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850's
		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.
		The Know Nothings experienced a precipitous decline, however, and in the 1856 election their presidential candidate, Millard Fillmore, carried only one state.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0195072332 (858 words)

	Washington Monument: Building and Setbacks
		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.
		The chief suspects were members of a political faction known as the American Party, commonly called the "Know Nothing" Party.
	www.nps.gov /wamo/memorial/setbacks.htm (748 words)

	OUR OPINION: The know nothings
		You're not one of the "know nothings." It's a sad commentary, though, that you're in the minority.
		• 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.
	www.vvdailypress.com /cgi-bin/newspro2004/viewnews.cgi?newsid1096462917,66992, (522 words)

	Getting the Message Out! The Second American Party System: The Know Nothing 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.
		Unlike the Republicans, moreover, Know Nothings flourished in the South as well as the North.
		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.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /message/ps-knownothing.html (209 words)

	Know-Nothing movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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).
		When asked about these secret organizations, members would reply "I know nothing," which led to them popularly being called Know-Nothings.
		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).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Know-Nothing_movement (912 words)

	Getting the Message Out! Political Culture: Nativism
		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.
		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.
		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.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /message/ps-nativism.html (340 words)

	The Know Nothing Party--Violent Acts
		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)

	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.
		There is nothing wrong with that, but it is irritating that they almost never admit this is what they are doing.
		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.
	www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk /dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/1994-12religion.shtml (2243 words)

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

	Who Were the Know-Nothings?
		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.
		We might, on the other hand, speculate on the extent to which factors which underlay Know Nothing success elsewhere were especially salient in Worcester.
	www.assumption.edu /users/McClymer/his270/K-N.html (456 words)

	Catholic Online - Featured Today - THE NEW 'KNOW NOTHINGS'
		This phrase was used by the “Know Nothings in the nineteenth century.
		This movement was popularly known as the “know-nothings” because its members answered "I know nothing" when asked about their anti-Catholic aims.
		The Pryor nomination is not the only evidence of the growing influence of the new “Know Nothings”.
	www.catholic.org /featured/headline.php?ID=303 (2058 words)

	The Know Nothings By David Cogswell
		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.
		The administration's new mantra is "We didn't know nothin'"
		Or no one knew nothin' except what you already know we knew.
	www.davidcogswell.com /Political/KnowNothings.html (231 words)

	The New Know Nothings § Lean Left
		But the know nothings steadfastly refuse to admit that.
		It is as if no one was allowed to provide and answer for why water freezes other than “God said so.” They are deliberately choosing to know less than they could about their enemy.
		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.
	www.leanleft.com /archives/2005/07/30/4367 (987 words)

	The Anniston Star - New know-nothings
		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.
		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.
	www.annistonstar.com /opinion/2004/as-insight-1020-0-4j19r1735.htm (512 words)

	Know-Nothing party
		Members, when asked about their nativist organizations, were supposed to reply that they knew nothing, hence the name.
		As its membership and importance grew in the 1850s, the group slowly shed its clandestine character and took the official name American Party.
	search.eb.com /elections/micro/324/88.html (424 words)

	A Web Undone 2: Know Nothings
		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 of free expression first hand.
		Part of the problem is that school newspapers are being cut owing to budget constraints, so students are not obliged to confront issues...
	www.williamsonday.com /archives/000539.html (151 words)

	USA Trivia Know Nothing Party
		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
		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.
		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.
	www.thesequencers.us /WhatsAMetaU/knownothing.html (195 words)

	National Review: Know nothings: U.S. intelligence failures stem from too much information, not enough understanding
		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.
		Similarly, who's to know what is happening on the Indian subcontinent?
		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 Elegant Variation: PARANOID KNOW NOTHINGS
		Listed below are links to weblogs that reference PARANOID KNOW NOTHINGS:
		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.
		Gilbert Sorrentino once wrote of the act of "saying something" in a work of literature that "A writer discovers what he knows as he knows it, i.e., as he makes it.
	marksarvas.blogs.com /elegvar/2004/06/paranoid_know_n.html (1734 words)

	Know-Nothing movement
		Field guides: when you know nothing about elk, a good field guide can put you on the right track in a hurry.
		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.
		(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)

	Commentary Magazine - On the Horizon: The Highbrow Know-Nothings
		...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...
		...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...
		...Lewis also loves the longest, most latinate words he can find, even if he doesn't know how to use them...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V15I2P81-1.htm (1962 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / The Know-Nothings
		Its members were hatched in secret societies and were trained to respond, ''I know nothing about it" when asked about their organizations.
		The most famous of these secret societies was the Order of the Star Spangled Banner, founded in New York in 1849.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/01/09/the_know_nothings (404 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Know-Nothings at Epinions.com
		The Know-Nothings are a group of middle-aged adults named Boris, Morris, Norris, and Doris.
		In this first Know-Nothing book (there are several Know-Nothing books in this "An I Can Read Book" series) we meet the Know-Nothings and find out that they are very hungry.
		If your child knows or is able to easily sound out most of these words, and isn't intimidated by reading pages with several lines of text on them, then this book is probably just fine for them.
	www.epinions.com /content_167433899652 (663 words)

	The New Know-Nothings
		In this way, they do know their limitations.
		If journalism, like politics, is show-business for ugly people, credit the news-gatherers with this much: We know our 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)

	The Know Nothing
		Now that I know you want to be one of us, (confidentially, with a knowing smile) I know nothing.
		Oh, in that case, I'm a Know Nothing.
		I didn't know if you were one of them.
	www.celticfringe.net /plays/know.htm (1066 words)

	American Party
		Saying that they knew nothing about such activities, the nativists wreaked havoc with their votes in 1854 in the existing party system.
		Originally, nativist party members had worked through a number of secret societies, clandestinely throwing their support on election day with powerful effect to sympathetic candidates.
		They won sweeping victories at the state and congressional levels.
	www.course-notes.org /parties/american.htm (769 words)

	St. Joseph Messenger: History [2]
		Whenever a member was asked about the group, he would say, "I know nothing." Thus they became known as the "Know-Nothings." They accepted into their group only native-born Protestants who were unrelated to Catholics either by blood or marriage.
		Their movement to stop the flood of Catholic immigrants is known as nativism.
	www.aquinas-multimedia.com /stjoseph/knownothings.html (775 words)

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