Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-09-13


THE RICHMOND WING AND KNOW NoTHINGIsAi.'
"Ths Dat s beginning got of tho bag. The wbg
party 10 evidently preparing to affiliate with this fungus
Organization Of Know NOTTINGHAM. Its presses-skilsd
work TO accomplish this object The result easily DO
anticipated The whig party heretofore respectable from
lie numerical strength and the admitted talent OF many
Of In leader 10 the desperation Of It's political all Is
tanly tending to alliance h, II not absolutely merged"
10 faction whose basic OF organization 10 fraud upon
popular observation-disclosures It concoas from tho people
the principles Of he organization aud the they
propose. With the death Of Clay and Webster tho -hg
party aPsed from the guardianship aud control Of
men, into that Of political feebooers, whose only desre
success and spols The chivaly aud genius Of Clay
which hrst animated them has given place the cold
calculating jssuitsm Of John n Clayton OF Delaware
The intellect and national though consolidating pat.
riosm OF Webster has been left to moulder in the Tomb
Of hashfed while the cooy 6endish combinations and
incendary plottings Of Seward rule ascendant in the
JUDAH"
"These observations have been suggested by the lead
log article In the Richmond Wing Of September 4th We
do not think that any read that article without
for shstion with this faction Of Know Nothngs-
90 carefully prepsred-the language used guarded
tho phrases automatically modified aud suggestive
instead OF direct n their forced
to the belief that IL than expressed unless
the common sense and patriotism of the Wing masses
rebel against this degradation Of their party
expect 70 see the party Of Clay and Webster merged into
mere faction, whose nsme is outre and disgusting
their principles are repugnsut to republicanism."
We take the above article from the Lynchburg
hepuohedn. We must return our thanks to the Re
publican for the very high compliment which its in
tended re6uhe to the Wing party conveys to ourselves
we were not aware that our phrases $50 dipo.
matcally modified and suggestive. Our only de-
sign was to fathom the mysterious developments OF
the Enquirer and its adjuncts We distinctly stated
that we had no affintes with the Know Nothing or
Sanization, and we repeat that declaration. We are
now as ever strict adherents of the Wing party as
party. We are opposed to the encroachment of the
Executive powers on,the Legislative, and for
keeping in the proper place "the balance wheel Of
governmental action" We are the advocates of the
liberty Of speech-of the unbiased freedom of con-
science in matters Of religious faith the unshackeled
license oil popular suifrage,-restraned only by the
rules and principles of constitutional restrictions
We believe in the purity and fidelity of the people, as
much as those who make great deal more noise about
their unbounded confidence in the dear people. We
cherish the ballot box the chief buwark to our
republican institutions, and hence natural solicit
tude for its purity and independence. Does the hold
ing OF these general principles constitute an atfila
ton with " this fungus organization Of Know
Nothingsmt"
Why then are zoe to be tainted and derded be-
cause we are silent in denunciations against the
Know Nothing organization? We in fact know moth
ing Of the aims objects Interior purposes of this
new organization Of men except what we derive from
the public prints of the day. and did say and nov
repeat that if it is the object Of this order to dsarm
the demagogue Of his appliances to the foreign vote
counted Al SUCH that symp Utilised with the effort
And more than that; if the day has arrived or ever
shall arrive, IN our time, when in this country the
Protestant influence is to be assaed by the Catholic
powerwe shall not fail to raise our voice against such
. move. We seek such issue, on the contrary we
c:precate it and hope may arrive in this land
Of liberty and religious freedom. But should the
demagogue succeed in raising it we shall be found
where have ever been, the advocates of religious
freedom untrammclled by Popsh Bulls and uncon-
taminated by potico Catholic authority We war n
the Republican and its party contemporaries against this
issue.
We may add, that it is not our PURPOSE or design
to court the Know Nothing influence in the approach.
ing elections. We shall ad here to our old line of
policy without going out Of the way to aft late with
any fungus organization" as the Republican is
pleased to denominate Know Nothngism At the
same time,we shall not pour forth denunciation upon
any order Of intelligent, patriotic American citizens,
without good cause for doing SO. II the Know Moth
fail to denounce them. If they merely seek to coun
teract the banefu influence OF combination Of for
eigners against Americans at the polls, we shall say
God speed them n the noble effort to unite the popu
LAT suffrage oil the voters OF America, on q common
ground, untrammeed by the imposition Of any and
every ingredient hostile to the free exercise Of the
elective franchise, and the unrestricted enjoyment Of
religious belief We have said thus much in candor
and sincerity, in regard to position on the Know
Nothing question But what say the Republican and
Enquirer to the question we have propounded on
more than one occasion TO the Editors of the latte
journsl-totH they suPporta Raop Nothing candidate
for c6fee' unexpectedly request a categorical an
swer to this enquiry. Shall we have t1
The New York soft Shell Resolutions.
The National hteHigeneer publishes several ex-
tracts from Northern papers on the subject of the
New York "Soit Shelf Convention. We quote some
Of them below. The Albany argus Hard Shell
DEMOCRACY rdicules the action Of the Convention
thus:
Who can laugh at the efforts Of faction so utterly
and fororn 80 entirely eneebled by dssensons
ano orerences among themselves bring ts chosen
delegates Into line 10 is own State ConventionY
IL will be seen that the committee on resolutions aE
yer prouacied conference, extending through night
were unable 70 agree, and had finally 70 come in with
majority report, Abjab Man being among the leading
dnsentisnts aud that the committee were divided 90
were the Convention when called vote upon the esou
on,one hundred and forty nine delegates or more than
onetnru OF the entire number voting thereon recording
their names 10 the negative
And such resoluuonsl How tender. footed. ambsO,
y'y sue oHcumoendi6os on the subject of Nebraska
How cautiously worded In respect TO Pierce and hi, Ad
mnisusuonl How measured and guarded even with
reference 70 the Official Of present Executive which
has been 50 ysuningy pointed to as the Of
his availability '"'"e VI
"And Jet, with all this deluson these milk and water
resolutions could not be made paatabe 10 tuohds N
the Convention large minority fthe dissentien,s n,
whose special accommodation they had been tbus rnodi
fed and subducd, boed and Of these shaking on
the dus, OF their feet against the concern left the room
I'VE hear also that there quorum present when
the lac, two nominations msde the Convention of
I'VE hundred and twelve having dwindIed down to ess
than two hundred and that they adjourned sine die 10 the
worst possible humor with each other"
The New York Post CSoft Shell DemocraO con.
graduates itself upon the Freoso complexion Of the
resolutions and proceedings Of the Convention
throushou.-is highly gratifed that the Convention
pronounced the repeating Of the Missouri compro.
mise "aeEpefient and unnecessary" and thinks that
the resolutions adopted were far less scrve than might