Know-Nothing Candidates

JENKINS, MORDEN

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 5/9/2009 at 08:20:09

Maquoketa Sentinel, July 24, 1856.

Excerpt from letter to editor in Maquoketa Sentinel, July 24, 1856, signed “A. L. O.” regarding the Know-Nothing Party candidates in the 1856 election in Jackson County.

“J. W. JENKINS is a man wholly unfit to fill the dignified office of State Senator. Of impudence, bigotry and vanity, he can scarcely be excelled; but that he possesses a just and equitable judgment, a true discernment or sagacity so essential to so high a trust, I leave with you voters to determine.”

“WM. MORDEN, one of their candidates for State Representative, has long since been politically dead and buried; at the last election his requiem was sung. That this conglomerate, heterogeneous, mass convention should attempt to resuscitate one who has so long been consigned to oblivion, is an insult to the intelligent voters of Jackson County.”