Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-12-06
From Nashville True Whip


iltlon'sm, and that the Know Nothing victore,
In the Northern States are, in fact, Abolition
victories. We do not TINS read the signs O.
the times, and if our neighbors are right il
these assumptions, il is little remarkable. tc
say the least, that the Abolition leaders should
not know their own friends. The Washington
National Era, the national organ of Abolition
ists has an article of four columns, in its issue
OF the 23d, to prove to its followers that the
Know Nothings cannot be trusted to carry Oh,
the tCork Of antislacery agitation. We extract
from this article few nuts for the Union and
American to crack at leisure. The Era saws:
Mr.. BENTON the only Republican from Mis-
sour, who cherished the anti-slavery doctrines
OF Mr. JEFFERSON, and had the courage to
speak and vote against the Missouri Comprom.
ise,ascribe s.fs defeat to the know Mornings;
and the american Organ, just issued in Wash
ington, as the national organ of the new party,
saws:
"The political demolition of THOMAS H.
BEYpoy, Credited by himself to the vote of
the Know Nothings,) was triumph, of which
our Missouri friends may be Justly proud and
upon which we congratulate the American
Party throu .hout the land!'
Do1he twenty thousand Freesoilers who vo :
ted with the Know Nothings of Massachusetts
| respond to this?
Mr.. MORT, the pro Nebraska Democrat of
tho pro-e"rery Administration party in Penn
/ svlvania, for lanai Commission, is elected nv
~ unprecedented majority Do the Freesoil
Know .Nothngs feel proud of this result!
In New York, they put up Silver GREY
Fillmore Wing, with the express view of de-
fenting CLARK and SEWARD <
What said the New York Know Nothing Stan
dard, while the indications were that SEWARD
was Frustrated? In New York. said that jour
nal, the work of :he new party was, ito rebuke
the hi her law, woollvism, and all other isms,
not compatible with the Just rights of the PEG,
pie and therefore, Sewardism, and it was nobly
done. Mark, Sewardism not as representa-
tive OF Whiggery, or Monopoly, or Commercial
Interest, but, as the representative &C. 'he high
er law and anti-Savery sentiment. is to
be put down. This is the mission of Know
NGihingism in New York, according to the
Standard. Are our Freesoil friends prepared
TO sustain II IN such "misson?"
The Era next draws upon the columns of
the american Organ, the national paper of the
party, printed at Washington, for proof that
the hn"w Nothing or American party is any,
thing else than Abolition party, at the North
or elsewhere--and says of this print that
After committing itself in its prospectus
against the agitation of the question of slave
rE IA Congress or out of it., it proclaims in the
hrst editorial of its first number, opposition TO
all higher law doctrines by which the Con
situation Is to be set at naught violated, or dis
regarded thus giving currency to the slang
Misrepresentation of anti-slavery men so fash,
'".a0le among PTO.slavery politicians
Again: ''0ur friends" saws this organ. shave
never vet refused 10 vote for a Democratic
Hard or Silver Grey Whig whenever snch
candidate has adopted our principles. The elec.
tion of MoTT in PENNSYLVANIA, and links in
Baltimore, a re only two out of many instances
IN which Democrats have been sustained and
elected ny the votes Of our friends"
1t IS true then, that our Freesoil friends, who
are swallowed up in Know Nothingism, will
vote fnr Fillmore or CLAYTON for the Presidency.
provided they be sound Native Americans?
The Era, after quoting from the american
Organ, an expression of its belief that "SEw-
ARD and his allies are now "impofent for mis-
are n0,0 crushed" goes on to say:
According to this our Freesoi friends have
been entrapped into an organization whose
great mission it is, TO extermnate Bentonism
and Scwardism. to revive the Compromises of
1850, and defy their authors. Was it for this |
Mr.. FILLMORE performed his tour to the South
a year ago?
Again, the Era emphaticallv SAYS:
Where is the Know Nothing Press that
speaks for liberty. that uters the indignant
protest against Slavery Pro9agandism. that
protests against these doctrines and designs
thus boldly attributed to the Know Nothing or
by its authorized organs? We |
know of none.
Perhaps the Union and American can an
swer the Era's question.
In conclusion, the Era sums up as follows:
What remains, now, for An.i-Slavery mon, |
Wing, Democrat. Independent Democratic?- |
Shall the Republican movement be aba ndoned? |
Shall the issue between native or foreign born
citizens he suffered to supprsede the issue be-
tween Slavery and Freedom? Shall the Anti
Nebraska movement, stop midway lis course,
satisfied with having return ed small Anti Ne
braska majority to the next House of Repre-
ident shall be Anti Slavery or Pro Slavery p !
Will those Auti-Slaverv men who have united |
with the Know Nothing Party, or voted for its
candidates, continue their support to it, in the
ph rase Of "naionality" so called. it is now as
suming under the influence of JOHN NJ. CLAY
TON, and the FILLMORE men of New York? =
There is danger ahead. Honest men should
beware of being placed in position, entangled
by obligations, calculated to give rise to con-
hicting duties, to obscure their PERCEPTION of
right and wrong, to tempt them to compromise
or postpone the application of vital principles.
In a separate paragraph the Era says:
AS CLARK received only about twothirds of
the Wing vote Of New York, and BRONsoN a
quarter of the Hard vote the inference is
fair that these two factions supplied the major
ity of the votes for ULLMAN. The Know Moth
ing Party then, in New York, may be regarded
as principally a compound of the selfstyled
National Wings and National Democrats.
Don't our neighbprs think this a pretty good
compound" for the political meridian of New
York?
Pork.