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=Teacher Primary Source Page=

Ann Pember, Malden High School
== Ann's Lesson Page


 * [|www.familysearch.org - Mormon Church Ancenstry/Census Information]
 * [|Births, marriages and deaths in the town of Malden, Massachusetts, 1649-1850]
 * [|History of Middlesex County - Malden info during 1800's p. 134-137]

[] Know Nothing and Crusader Newspaper article

[] Second article, Boston

Uncle Sam's Youngest Son, Citizen Know Nothing

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc/062) Examiner's questions to enter the Know Nothing party

Transcription of the Know Nothing Oath: "In the presence of [|Almighty God] and these witnesses, you do solemnly promise and swear that you will never betray any of the secrets of this [|society], nor communicate them even to proper candidates, except within a lawfulcouncil of the order; that you never will permit any of the secrets of this [|society] to be written, or in any other manner made legible, except for the purpose of official instruction; that you will not vote, nor give your influence for any man for any office in the gift of the people, unless he be an American-born citizen, in favor of Americans ruling America, nor if he be a [|Roman Catholic]; that you will in all political matters, so far as this order is concerned, comply with the will of the majority, though it may conflict with your personal preference, so long as it does not conflict with the Constitution of the [|United States of America] or that of the State in which you reside; that you will not, under any circumstances whatever, knowingly recommend an unworthy [|person] for initiation, nor suffer it to be done, if in your power to prevent it; that you will not, under any circumstances, expose the name of any member of this order nor reveal the existence of such an association; that you will answer an imperative notice issued by the proper authority; obey the command of the State council, president or his deputy, while assembled by such notice, and respond to the claim of a sign or cry of the order, unless it be physically impossible;. . ." []

The Know Nothing Party Platform 1856 [] Transcription of the platform, Philadelphia 1856

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[|http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=mg2terminal&L=7&L0=Home&L1=State+Government&L2=About+Massachusetts&L3=Interactive+State+House&L4=History+Resources&L5=Governors+of+Massachusetts&L6=Commonwealth+of+Massachusetts+(1850-1900)&sid=massgov2&b=terminalcontent&f=interactive_statehouse_govs_gardner&csid=massgov2] Governor Henry Gardner, Know Nothing governor of MA from 1855-1858

Emory Washburn Newpaper Article (BPL Historical Newspaper)

http://www.masshist.org/objects/2005january.cfm East Boston Council meeting 1855, minutes and principles

http://www.masshist.org/objects/transcription.cfm?transcriptDir=masshist&transcript=lincoln18550824.xml&queryID=492 Letter from Abraham Lincoln, explaining his disgust over the Know Nothing party

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08677a.htm List of some attacks against Catholics in New England by the Know Nothings



(from BPL print room 11/13/09 - taken by kgrace)







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