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George Matsell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      Passin\u2019 across City Hall Square not long ago, with a friend, he reminded me of the excitin\u2019 time there was a New York one day, about thirty years ago, when Kingsland was mayor and Matsell was chief of police, and the Know Nothin\u2019 party was beginnin\u2019 to make itself felt as a power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Before tellin\u2019 the story of this excitin\u2019 time in the City Hall Park I may as well say a word or two about the Know Nothin\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mayor Ambrose Kingsland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      As early as forty years ago there was an Order of United Americans organized. This wasn’t intended for a political body, it was more patriotic than political, cared more for the country than offices, and made its greatest points in celebratin\u2019 Washington’s birthday and the Fourth of July. Simeon Baldwin, president of the old Merchant\u2019s Exchange, was a leading member of this order. He was Sachem of Alpha Chapter No. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The Native American party was a political body which took and carried further the ideas of the Order of United Americans. At one time this Native American party was a power in the land, especially in Philadelphia and out West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Then there was a New York society called the Sons of Columbia which was \u201cdown\u201d on foreigners and on Catholics because it was supposed most of the Catholics were foreigners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      At last the Know Nothin’s were started as an anti-foreigner party, and got to be a great party, too, both in numbers and influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why they were called Know Nothin\u2019s has never been clearly explained. The old members say that it arose from the fact that when one member met another he would ask, \u201cWhat do you know?\u201d to which the other member would reply, \u201cNothin,\u201d and then give a peculiar grip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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City Hall Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      The Know Nothin’s insisted first that a man to have any chance in politics should be born in this country. Pretty soon they went a step further and insisted that a man’s father should have been born in this country before him. And then some, not even satisfied with that, insisted that a fellow’s father’s father must have been a native born American. Well, the country stood the father business pretty well, and only laughed good naturedly at it. But when they insisted upon a man’s family for two generations bein\u2019 born in the country before he could have any chance in the country, why then the country wouldn’t have it at all. Besides, the organization began to be used by ambitious men in it for their own private ends, and that sort of thing is always fatal to any party that claims to be a national party. So it fell to pieces after a while but by its own weight, and after tryin\u2019 to run Millard Fillmore for President, the great Know Nothin\u2019 party gave up the ghost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      While it lasted the spirit of Know Nothin\u2019ism pervaded all circles, and made itself manifest in all classes and condition of men. It was especially observable in sportin\u2019 circles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Tom Hyer was a great Know Nothin\u2019, and incurred the hatred of a great many representatives of \u201cthe foreign element\u201d on that account. John Morrissey was an avowed anti-Know Nothin\u2019, and this antagonism was the cause of the original bad blood between Morrissey and Hyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One Day Lew Baker tried to kill Tom Hyer by braining him, in a row, with the butt end of a pistol. Hyer was fightin\u2019 with a chap called Turner, a friend of Baker\u2019s, at the time, and came near bein\u2019 killed between the two of \u2018em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      A policeman came into the saloon while the fight was goin\u2019 on, but he didn’t interfere. Hyer called upon the policeman to arrest Baker, but the policeman wasn’t a Know Nothin\u2019, and wouldn’t make the arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Lew Baker was a medium-sized man, with quite a pleasant face; he didn’t look like a rough, and was always well dressed; but before Tom Hyer got through with him this time he looked like a tramp. His clothes were torn, his face was cut and bleedin\u2019, and he lay sprawlin\u2019 in the gutter, into which Tom Hyer had kicked him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Years afterwards, when the Know Nothin\u2019s had died out, and Bill Poole was dead and buried, Tom Hyer and Lew Baker met again in a saloon. They would have revived their quarrel, but mutual friends parted \u2018em. But they separated with a curse, Tom Hyer denouncin\u2019 Baker as \u201can unhung assassin,\u201d and to the last Tom Hyer was fond of callin\u2019 himself \u201ca Know Nothin\u2019 who knew somethin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But I alluded in the beginnin\u2019 of this chapter to an excitin\u2019 time that took place in the City Hall Park durin\u2019 the height of the Know Nothin\u2019 excitement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 People had been \u201cexercised in spirit,\u201d as the ministers would say, about foreigners and natives, and the rights they had and the rights they didn’t have, and one mornin\u2019 a street preacher, a queer old chap, who boasted that all in his family on his father’s and mother’s side had been born and bred in this country since before the Revolution, was deliverin\u2019 a first-class native American harangue on the sidewalk in front of the Astor House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He found quite an enthusiastic throng ready to listen to and applaud him, and pretty soon his crowd of listeners blocked up the thoroughfare. The police told him to move on, but he said somethin\u2019 about his forefathers havin\u2019 fought and bled for freedom, and he wouldn\u2019t move on. The police didn’t see exactly why if his fathers had fought and blood for freedom he should be allowed to interfere with other people’s freedom of locomotion, and arrested him. The officers who arrested him happened to be Irishmen, and the street preacher called attention to this fact as he was taken along, and proclaimed that \u201cit was a gross outrage that a free, native-born American citizen should be taken into custody by foreigners, simply because he was opposed to foreigners.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A great hue and cry was made over this arrest, and an indignation meetin\u2019 was called to meet in the City Hall Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Know Nothing rally at City Hall Park, an evening in November, 1853<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      On the day of the meetin\u2019, it being well placarded, a tremendous crowd of people gathered together in the park, in front of the City Hall. There had been rumors that it was intended to free the street preacher at all hazards, so Matsell had doubled the police on duty. Seein\u2019 how big and threatenin\u2019 the crowd looked, Kingsland got nervous and consulted with Matsell. A number of extra men were sworn in as \u201cspecial police,\u201d and assigned to preventin\u2019 any disturbance in the Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cNed Buntline\u201d (Judson) and \u201cJack Brace\u201d (Bryce) were then prominent in the anti-foreigner excitement, and at this indignation meetin\u2019 Buntline and Bryce and other speakers ventilated their eloquence and kept the crowd at fever heat. Still no violence was attempted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Matsell had taken one of the leaders of the Know Nothin\u2019s to one side that mornin\u2019 and had told him solemnly, pointin\u2019 to the throng: \u201cThere are 100 special policemen in that crowd waitin\u2019 my orders.\u201d But the K. N. orator hadn’t wilted a bit, but only replied: \u201cThere are 100 special revolvers in that crowd waitin\u2019 my orders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But there was no disturbance, though there was plenty of the \u201craw material\u201d lyin\u2019 around loose, and it only needed a beginnin\u2019, such was the pitch of the excitement to which the crowd had been worked up, to have led to most disastrous results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      A company belonging to the Sixty-Ninth, \u201can Irish regiment,\u201d as it was called then, had been on a target excursion, and was passin\u2019 by the City Hall Park while the crowd was there. Just out of sheer deviltry the members of the target party took it into their heads to cross the park, in the very midst of this crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      They had the legal right to do so, but under the circumstances it was a very ticklish thing to do. They did it, though. They marched right through the crowd, the musicians playin\u2019 a popular Irish air, as if to defy the native American multitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      For a moment or two the situation was very serious. The crowd frowned and groaned, and some of the men drew their breath and cocked their revolvers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Had the leaders of the mob given the word then to resist the passin\u2019 of the target company; had any man in the mob forgot himself under the spur of the provocation, the City Hall Park would have been the field of riot and bloodshed\u2013there would have been more lives lost than there were in the Astor Place riots. It was a ticklish moment for all concerned. Mayor Kingsland was anxiously watchin\u2019 the scene from a window of the City Hall. Matsell stood prepared for any emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But the danger passed, and the target company passed with it. They Know Nothin\u2019 leaders on the platform addressed the crowd in the park, counselin\u2019 self-restraint, advisin\u2019 their hearers by their behavior, now under provocation, to prove \u2018emselves true and worthy American citizens. And their hearers heeded their advice. They let the target company pass through their midst\u2013but they didn’t give \u2018em an inch of room to spare, and it was close shave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Probably the forbearance of an over-excited crowd was never more strikin\u2019ly Illustrated than in this almost forgotten episode of City Hall Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Editor’s notes: There were a series of Know Nothing rallies in City Hall Park in November and December, 1853. The one featured in the above column was likely one of the latter ones, following the arrest of Rev. Mr. Daniel Parsons. Contemporary newspaper accounts do not mention a unit of the Sixty-Ninth militia regiment passing through the crowd, but it’s plausible–and the Sixty-Ninth was an all-Irish regiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Jack Brace” was the penname of Captain John W. Bryce, and newspaper editorial writer and former Naval Academy graduate. “Ned Buntline” was the penname of Edward Z. C. Judson, a writer and editor, who penned several dime novels, and later in life became a promoter of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. Judson disliked foreigners; in a much-publicized event, he was horse-whipped on the street by Lola Montez.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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