Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-06-16
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Party sIovements at the North.

Tho exact form and pressure which parties may
rscs;ve before the next Presidential election, may
still be matter of doubt and speculation but recent
developments have already rendered it certain that
the elements for the construction Of some sort OF
party likely to take the place, at the North al least
of the now thoroughly disorganized National Wing
party" are rapidly being collected IN view OF the
next great contest We fear too that these elements,
so strangely constituted and compounded, will resolve
themselves into great sectional anti-slavery and
Southern organization as well in name as in fact
Even while voting in body against the Fugitive
Slave Law and the Nebraska Bill, wing politicians
have heretofore made professions of national feeling
however hollow; now, believe that even It's SEM
Dlance is to be cast away, and attempts made TO rally
every ism and wing of opposition at the North, for the
formation of great sectional party, with the view OF
operating upon the Congressional elections and Secur
ing the Presidency.
The recent rise and progress Of the "Know' Moth
ings" which, apart from the veil of mystery thrown
around it. is neither more nor less than the old Native
American party of 1874, combining the elements Of
opposition to all citizens of Foreign birth, with those
of prescription towards the members OF the Roman
Catholic persuasion, has afforded some grounds OF
speculation in regard to the aims objects and constlu
tons of that organization which speculations are now
pretty nearly obsolete las these have been very plainly
DEVELOPED in recent elections in which that association
has taken part; and it is worthy Of remark that in
all cases in which their influence has been felt, it has
been with the effect of securing the of the
whg candidates; and in all at the North, where
such candidates have been successful, they have
stood upon ground openly and avowedly antl-South'
ern Indeed not the btterest "Know-Notbing" OF
all the Know Nohings'' could have launched fercer
denunciations against the "lrsh Kerns" than did
Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips and the Anti
Slavery convention at Boston, against the same, who
as United States Soldiers called out in defence
Of law when threatened to be set at naught in the
attempted rescue Of Burns; and their denunciatons
lid not stop with these soldiers, but included all citi
zens of Irish Birth who it seems did not sympathze
with their incendary movements and appeals, but on
the contrary in the natural excitement of their feel
ngs arising from the murder of Bachelor, may have
used threatening language with reference to the real
murderers--the cowardly meters TO murder, Parker
and others. Even Greedy and Beecher, the great
PhdGnthropists who sympathise so warmly with all
the world and the rest of mankind, at distance,
willing to swell the cry, and swelling tsince their
abolition vagares have been 80 numerically handled
by Mitchell and Meagher in The Citizen" These
people are now as good "Know- Knothngs" need
be-
At q time when events may at any movement hur-
ry us into war about Cuba, in which England, con-
siandy jealous of our growing power, would gladly
interfere TO cripple US if she dared, nothing could
better play into her hands. and those of her Adolf
ton emmissares and propagandists, than to stir up
mutual heart burnngs and suspicious between native
citizens and those adopted ones, whose impulses
would lead them rush to the standard of the country
N case of any outbreak with that arch propagandst
of freedom for negroes and oppression for white
The recent municipal election in Philadelphia ex-
hibited pretty fair instance of the amagamation of
these iSmS. Robert T. Conrad, the Mayor elect of
the consolidated city, nominated by the Wings
he was nominated as per agreement, by the "Know-
Nothings-aS per agreement, also, he chatechis-
ed, and out against Nebraska-he was also
nominated by the Maine Law Vaux the Dem
ocratc candidate, ran simply Democrat, and al
though the Democratic party was stronger than any
single organization opposed to it, yet it suffered Wa.
terloo defeat, from combination of the whole. Op-
position to the South brought into the canvass
religious prejudice was brought into it, Anti-foreigr
feeling was brought into t-everything that could
awaken prejudice or gain votes The result is before
US. multitude of factions has triumphed over one
party The thing to a considerable extent took
place in 1914 but the ramifcations of the plan
broader and deeper and more extensive operations
are contemplated.
in the election, some time since, in the State o
Connecticut, which has since borne fruit in the cleo
ton of one Wing and one Freesoi United States Sen
ator from the State, although the Democratic candi
date for Governor outnumbered his Wing competito
by many thousands of votes, yet he was prevented
from obtaining clear maj orty by the vote of the isms
especially the Free-soilers and in the Legislature
the combination of all the snas secured zebra
ed majority, by which the Wing candidate for Gov
ernor, although so far behind on the popular vote
was yet chosen, and all the other Offices divided
among the coalition the main element of which wa,
Northern sectionalism.
The same game was tried il New Hampshire bu
without success. The Legislature of that State ha.
met and chosen Democratic officers, over both Wings
and Free-soilers, who held a joint caucus.
careful survey Of the aspects and development
OF Northern politics will show that similar agencies
are at work all the surface of that great division
OF the Union the objects and tendencies of which ART
towards the consolidation of great conglomerate,
party deriving strength from every iSna and promi
sing pap to the hungry of ALL yet having one ralyn,
point in opposition to the South, one common oppo
nent against which to wage war-the Democratic par
y-at least so far the President is the representa-
tive OF that party. The know Nothing" the Wing
and the fshy Democrat will go together, and tn
South, among them all, find friends only in those wb
have boldly stood up at the risk of obloquy and pc
htlcal extinction at home for what they believed