New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-02

-. shsSow of doubt ou his attsc hnent 70 the prn-
ciples Of tbs Order. lie was the Temperance
candidate. spd no man questioned his devotion 90
Lir,or Prohibition; while both his antagonists
we're License men. He wss 8 consistent sad
ernest Anti. Slavery, AntiNebraska man, waite
both his sntsgOusts were committed 30 scqnl-
escence 10 the triumph OF Dougiassm. How
came it, think sou, that be was rejected o. the
Council snd fourth candidate who WAS neither
Temperance por Anti Slavery man, was nom
mated instead How came they TO prefer defeat
with Ullmsun to triumph with Clark Does tlis
question ADMIT Of more han one answer
We know that candidate for Congress in this
City, whs was himself nOw-Notbing " was
required By the Council to pledge himself pre-
liminary to HE nomination BY that body, to vote
life 1ibly sesiDst Vim. II. Sewsrd for President
in case be should be a candidate for that Office
sDd the election should go to the House. Add
this is but one of many cases q like character.
We DO not know a single instance in this State
where prominent Anti Slavery or Maine Law
nan has been nominated for Office by the Know
'Nothipes,' though we believe one is promised a
good berth in Massachusetts. But We do kno1
mspy Temperance men who were for Prohibition
| frat aud other things afterward until they be-
came Know -NothiDgs; since when they have
tried TO make Temperance subseryient to Nativ-
i'm, and have voted down Maine Law candidates
for Assembly electing AUTHORIZATION Know
NothiDgs instead.
We hear that the late Know Nothing Grand
Council at Cincinnati formally resolved that the
Order shall be neither Pro Slarery nor Anti-Star-
syy. That is nominally the position maintained
for the last twenty years by the late Democratic
psrty, and we may fairly expect the American
Party" as party, to take a position on the
Slavery question abreast Of that of Tamminy
Hall.
Though no nomination for President was msde
at Cincinnati, the names of prospective candi-
dates for President were freely canvsssed and
these we're most prominent;
| GARRET DAVIS, of Kentucky.
| MuLARD FILLMORE, of New York.
John NJ. CLAYToS, Of Delaware.
Gen. SAM. HoCsIos, of Texas.
JACOB BROOM, of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Davis is a respectable upright man, but
stubbOrnly conservative and pro- Slavery; Messrs.
Fillmore and Clayton, our readers know; Mr..
Broome has loBg been a prominent Native in
Philadelphia, and is Member of Congress elect.
Not one of these has lately been suspected of the
"fanaticism' of believing all men rightfally free
aud equal.
We believe the " Know Nothing" array is
destined to prove the deadliest foe Of Anti
Slavery, Temperance and every other Reform
movement; and we see that the slave.dryers are
beginning to vie with the Union Savers in hailing
the know Nothing lodges as admirably suited
to their uses. Aud in aoy movement like this,
politicians by trade like the shareholders, will
slways outmansge the men who live by their
own labor and can bestow but a casual attention
upon politics.
We might multiply these considerations, but
enough. We ask thC Sc who really mean Anti.
Slavery and Temperance to look on calmly for a
reason and see if we are not right Those who
mean nothing and care for nothing but success,
will not heed what we say, and we do not expect
to satisfy them.