The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-11-23
NO. 4l2.

y-,s,, not only HdttofedD an ms pOSHtOIt, Ot~
a .'cy;cqn in his heart. The People sciu recog-
i. ne statesman and the patriot, and cteuate
I 49,, ,-;6 greater upGnimity than has been ,cit-
",,, siince the days Of Washington"
=. another number it reiterates these views /:
NJ feel confident that the South has no
,.,,;Us point of political union tciM any other
~. at the North except the Kno,o Nothings !;
IT, H., {6ry occupy the only national ground. The
G. Grav Wings have been overslaughed by
~, o5berents of Seward. The Nebraska Dem
-, claim this bill as triumph over the
9Th victory achieved for Freedom. The
r.ea.Soilers are open in their opposition to our
ii,o.,;rutional rights, and the Democratic Hards
,ccused by the Free-Soilers of having select
q tbe same platform which they have adopted.
Nh whom can the South act in the coming
astopsl elections! Certainly only ,rih those
.,io are plelged TO support the Constitution and
-, ltcs. to maintain the Union, knOlotng no
N,r,5 no South, no East, no Vest.
With the facts we have adduced, it is a
,,ockery of the good sense of the people to ask
:. 70 affiliate with either the Wings or the
democrats of the North. There is neither
,strioism nor prudence, honesty, nor devotion
:, the rights of the South, in seeking such ALI
aucs
Concurrently with these declarations, we find
JoHy NJ. CLAYTON, the auxiliary of Senator
D,ull.s in pushing through the Nebraska bill,
although he declined to vote for it finally, be-
cause il did not come up to the standard of
NonInteryentiOn-placing himself, in public
speech delivered before the late election in Della
ware. on Native American ground, advocating
the Know Nothings, and predicting the impossi-
lliiy Of any national union hereafter on Wing
or Democratic ground. Speaking of the dis
i.nsuished men belonging to the order, he re-
marked
Il know not upon what authority it is stated
t1r The late President of the United States is
d msnler Of the KnOn Nothing order. But
do know that great number of the most in
rTigent and patriotic men of this country have
adopted the principles and joined the society of
til, secret party"
In relation to the main principles of the
American Party, as he calls it, he Announces
81 will not" says he, Support for office a
man who claims to be a Native American, an
rss h. plants himself upon that platform. If
he seeks my vote, he must do it by protesting
nv principles. He must not tell me that some
other party besides the American party here
has nominated him for the Office He must
come out plainly, and say that he asks support
on the principles of the Americans. If he
asks the support of the American party, he has
~ right TO accept, ioithout our consent, nomi-
nltDn from another party, protesting princi
Pies which we, as Americans, have never
adopted"
Referring to the excitement aroused at the
North by the Nebraska bill, he says:
Repose for the passions of men is required
20 save us from ourselves. At this crisis, when
! think there is far more real danger than has
ever existed before, las the sequel will soon
show | rejoice that an American party is to
be found in the country, around which / and
other men who think as | do, can rally. The
Wing and Democratic parties having, in differ
cnt sections of the Union, made the Slavery
question part of their respective creeds, are
split into irreconcilable divisions, each about
equally ultra in their views, and equally I'M
charitable in their abuse Of each other In one
third of this State (so-called) Democratic ticket
Is run, upon which one-half the candidates are
old and active Wings. In another part of the
State an effort has been made to get Wings to
serve on Democratic ticket, but, j hear, with
ont success In other States, the division
among the Wings is such, that it is quite i'm
possible that another Wing National Conven-
ton can ever assemble again. And if another
Democratic Convention should again make
that effort, MS 1T probably will, there can be no
real heartfelt concord in such a body. A
party strong enough to sustain the Govern
mrnt in the trials to which it will inevitably
soon be subjected, ought to be desderatum
with every right-minded American statesman.
" IN appeal to American national feeling for
such purpose ought not to be in vain and |
DO not believe it will be in vain. In every
State and IN every section of this Union there
Is now an American party"
The repeal of the Missouri Compromise
aroused the Anti-Slavery sentiment. The de-
mand Of the People of all the free States was.
Tor fusion Of parties, so that they might give
a TAR expression at the ballot-box of their hos
hty to the measure, and to the system of pol
icy OF which it was but one emanation. In
all the States, except Pennsylvania, New Jer-
'ey, New York and Massachusetts, the demand
vas complied with, and a Republican move
mrntr SO called, was the result, absorbing the
Wing aud Free Democratic Parties, and utterly
Frustrating the Administration Party. Every
Indication was fair for the formation Of 30
Alical organization powerful enough to take
possession Of the Federal Government in 1856
and place it on the side of Freedom. But the
Wings in Massachusetts,, New York, and Penn
'yI'anla, stubbornly rejected the fusion move
ment: their leaders hoped to be able to absorb
the Antl-Nebraska feeling, and make it tribu
lar! to the re-nsttution of the Wing Party
suddenly as if by magic, we find new Party
without any principles on the Question of Sla
''i! SpungIng into life, determining the cleo
"'h IN PENNSYLVANIA, powerfully influencing il
I'll Ne" ork' reducing the Wings to meager
minority IN BOTH and overwhelming all parties
IN Massachusetts!
FOR this result, the Wing leaders in those
'''A'e' must blame their own infatuation or
Se'hSh ambition. The fate of their party is
sealed and for this we have no tears to shed
mad tins been ALL the country would not have
suffered But, their ill,judged policy, while sub
'erung their own Party, gave power to another
Nn'ch now threatens to check, if not paralyze
he Republican movement, and to afford one
more opportunity for the Slave Power to tri
"inPn IN the Presidential contest. If this coun
=, 10 De afflicted with another Pro-Slavery
'''i'ent, 1t will have to thank the Know Moth
"'y-but that Party could not have reach
- 'N present power except through the infatua
w" anu s'ubbOrnness of the Wing leaders il
'"'sE'Sama, New York, and Massachusetts,.
WI, "H', remains, now, for Anti-Slavery men
c, any Democratic, Independent Democratic
10 we Republican movement be abandon
snail the issue between native and for
O'fh citizens be suffered to supersede tn,