The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-11-23

Vice Presidents. The petition is in the city
archives, the other facts in the journals Of the
day; and yet / am now charged with being a
Nebraska man"
Certainly, it would seem from the reply of
Judge Allen, and the documentary testimony
furnished in his letter, that Mr.. Gardner had
forgotten some passages in his own history,
which sustained the Judge in his material
allegation, but this does concern us now. 1t
is sufficient TO know that he placed himself
publicly on Anti-Slavery ground, while the
Know Nothing candidate for the Governorship,
and is now bound by his recorded declarations.
But, the peculiar policy of the Know Moth
ings cannot be carried out, except through the
action of the Federal Government. Naturali-
cation laws cannot be repealed or modified but
by Congress. Foreign-born citizens cannot be
left out of the numerous Offices under the Fed
eral Government, but through the exercise of
the patronage power of the President. All that
the Know Nothings have done in the States is
merely preliminary. They claim to be a Ma
tonal Party, and their chief concern is with
National objects. Acting in their several States,
in State affairs, and under the oath of secresy,
it is easy enough to manage in reference to the
Slavery Question. All they have to do is to
have prudent reference to public opinion and
the absence of any platform on the subject
Of Slavery, facilitates this accommodating pol
icy. In one section, their action is Pro-Slavery;
in another, Anti-Slavery; in another, simply
Anti Administration, or Mont ommittal
Let us recapitulate
Mr.. BENTON, the only Republican from Mis-
souri,, who cherishes the Ant-Slavery doctrines
of Mr.. Jefferson, and had the courage to speak
and vote against the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, ascribes his defeat to the Know
Nothngs and the american Organ, Just es-
tablshed in Washington, as the National organ
of the new Party, says:
"The final political demolition of Thomas H.
Benton, Credited by himself to the votes of the
Know Nothings,) was triumph, of which our
Missouri friends may be Justly proud and upon
which we congratulate the American Party
throughout the land"
Do the twenty thousand Free-Soilers who voted
with the Know Nothings in Massachusetts re-
spond to this
Mr.. Mort, the pro-Nebraska candidate of the
proSlavery Administration Party in Pennsvl-
vania, for Canal Commissioner, is elected by
an unprecedented majority. Do the Free Soil
Know Nothings feel proud of this result?
In New York, they put up a Silver Gray
Fillmore Wing, with the express view of defeat
ing Clark, and Seward We have the testimony
Of the New York Express, that the nomiua-
ton would not have been made had Clark and
Raymond remained on the Wing Syracuse
platform, which, we all know, was non-com-
initial as to any practical action. The proba-
bility is, that the movement has resulted in the
defeat of Clark and in the election Of a Liquor
and Nebraska candidate What said the New
York Know Nothing Standard, while the indi-
cations were that Seward was Frustrated? In
New York, said that Journal the work of the
new party was ''to rebuke the higher law, woolly-
ism, and all other isms not compatible with
the just rights of the People, and therefore, es-
pecially, Sewardism and it was nobly DONE"
Mark, Sewardism, not as a representative of
Whigery or Monopoly, or the Commercial
Interest, but, as the representative of the
higher law" and Anti-Slavery sentiment, is to
be put down. This is the mission of Know
Nothingism in New York, according to the |
Standard Are our Free Soil friends prepared |
to sustain it in such " mission? ?"
Hear, too, how the Richmond va. } Examiner, |
a paper which advocates Slavery and the Slave
Trade on principle, as necessary to high civil
cation, approves of the Know Nothing policy
in New York:
"Now as to the results. First of all, let us
congratulate the country upon the humiliation
of SEWARD. SCOTS defeat stripped him of half
his strength, paralyzed one-half of his body, and
disfgured the arch-agitator. To the surprise
of everybody, that extraordinary, invisible,
body, the Know Nothings,
finished the work which Pierce began.
"They throttled Seward with the most extra
ordinary ease and grace, and left him, dead,
mangled, lying high and dry above the lowest
possible ebb Of i'll luck, upon the political pot
tersfeld of New York. The Tribune and its
now bowling a wild and horri-
BILE dirge over the remains of their martyr. We
do not fancy the Know KOthings, but ali honor
to them for having crushed TO the earth, and
trampled under their feet, the boldest and most
fanatic that ever endangered the
peace of great Republic
Strange times these, when Fillmore Wings,
Dickinson Democrats, Slavery Propagandists,
and Free-Soilers, can unite in a common Hal
lelujah!
From the acts of the Party, let us turn to
the declarations of their organs" The New
York K1Oo Nothing Standard says:
"Under these circumstances, but one course
is left. The American organization is not |
local institution-it extends East, West, North |
and Southland an entire reputation o eUery-
thing ike AbOiniOntSm was necessary to pre-
serve its integrity and unity. This independent
nomination, therefore,, is q guarantee TO oar
Southern friends, that whatever the parties of
the North may do, the patriotism of the masses
knows no distinction between North and South |
Whether Mr.. Ullmann and his associates on
the American ticket are to be elected. or not. |
we feel convinced that the men of real princi- |
pie attached to the American organization in |
this State will vote for them, and thus exhibit |
their complete alienation from all party corrup- |
tions."
The NashciHe (Tenn.) Wing copies this
with the following predatory remarks, showing
the favor the new order is beginning to find
among shareholders, fearful as they are Of all
secret movements:
"The leading sentiment understood to be
protested by the Know Nothing or Ameri-
can party, and corroborated by many of the
results of their organization must in its leeiti-
mate operation, lead them to oppose every sec
tionalism at war with the peace and prosperity
of the Federal Union a peculiar devotion to
the perpetuity and true glory of the Union be-
ing the apparently recognised basis Of their ex-
istence as party. 1t may be that, in some To-
Il Al