Excerpt from Political Nativism in New York State In tracing the evolution and fate of this interesting political experiment there have been many difficulties resulting from the peculiar nature of the organizations which sprang up from time to time to voice the sentiment of nativism. One of the features which has been especially productive of in the pages of writers on political history has been at there have been two classes of political organizations in American politics. One class is that with which the public is most familiar today. It is an organization whose extent is national, and whose aims include that of securing control of the national government. An organization of this sort culti vates exclusiveness in the control of voters. It seeks itself distinct from other political organizations and the division clear-cut between its adherents and lar organizations. We call it a political party. The second class of organizations are less familiar today than they were fifty years ago. They are of the type which Mayor Harper of New 'york city, in 1844, called a political organization distinct from party. Usually an organization of this sort has ndima tional scheme of effort, but plays its part in state or local poli tics.' The Special characteristic of this class, however, is not the area which it covers but the nature of the allegiance which it demands from its members. It is not exclusive in its claims. It permits its members to belong to other political organiza tions and to act openly with them. This type of organization the writer has preferred to call a movement rather than a party. It was these movements, which sprang up to represent the issues which the organizations of the regular parties refused to assume, that caused the extraordinary' con fusion of American politics in the decade of the fifties. The rise of nativism, as well as many other phenomena in Ameri can history are best understood when the real nature of a movement is kept in mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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