In Illinois the Know-Nothing order split into two factions, 'the Sams' insisting upon an anti-Catholic program and 'the Jonathans' proposing not to antagonize Catholics who owed no civil allegiance as distinguished from spiritual allegiance to the Pope. The Jonathans triumphed" (Know-Nothing Party, pp. 54, 103). Exactly what the Know-Nothings meant by "Sam" is not apparent from these extracts; but fortunately the question need not further detain us. One more statement may be considered here. In 1882 A. S. Palmer remarked: "SAMBO, the ordinary nickname for a negro, often mistaken as a pet name formed from _Sam, Samuel_, ... is really borrowed from his Spanish appellation _zambo_,.... A connexion was sometimes imagined perhaps with _Uncle Sam_, a popular name for the United States" (Folk-Etymology, pp. 338, 339). It may be doubted whether any one has ever seriously advanced the notion that Sambo is formed from Sam or Samuel, or that there is a connection between Sambo and Uncle Sam. "This _Negre Sambo_ comes to me," wrote R. Ligon in 1657, "and seeing the needle wag, desired to know the reason of its stirring" (True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados, pp. 49, 50, 54). Before 1700 we read of "Sambo negro helping caring goods" (New England Historical and Genealogical Register, XXXIV, 98). In the _Boston News-Letter_ of October 2, 1704, an advertisement stated that "There is a Negro man taken up ... calls himself _Sambo_" (p. 2-2). In 1716 "Sambo a negro servant" was married to Hagar (New England Historical and Genealogical Register, XXXVIII, 27). In the _Boston Gazette_ of July 22, 1765, "a Negro Man named _Sambo_" was advertised as a runaway (p. 4-3). In the _Massachusetts Spy_ of February 17, 1813, we read: "The moan of the poor black man interrupted the sweet song of the mocking bird. We could not distinguish all the voices that rose from the field, but the ear caught a fragment of the poor negro's song:--The lash of the driver forced a scream of anguish that moment from Sambo, and we heard no more" (p. 4-2).