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


its first number, opposition to " all higher
law doctrines by which the Constitution Is 70
be set at naught, violated, or disregarded -
thus giving currency to the slang misrepresen,
alton of Anti-Slavery men so fashionable anon,
pro-slavery politicians. Referring in anotbe-
number to the project of Constitutional Par
ty, started by the obsolete George NJ. Dallas. i
inquiries
" Is 1t possible these politicians have not ~,
discovered that the people have themselycs d
ready formed, and raised into eB1iReBce. n ~.
Conservative partyf
Have not these politicians heard from H.,
Northwest, from the North, and from the Ea.,5
DO they not know that in New York tia
American party is composed of sound cor,
servative elements entirely? DO they not know
that the Hards and the 'Silver Grays con,
pose the American party in that State? Do
they not know that in Massachusetts the Vb;,,
the Democrats, and the Free Sellers each ran
candidate for Governor, and that the Amor
car party took up an independent conserol
are Oai0n man for Governor, and elected him
by vote far exceeding all the votes cast far
the three other parties? DO they not know
that the American party in the Old Bay State
Is pure ndtto'adt party?
Have Wilson, Burlingame, Knapp, De Witt.
Banks, &c, become "nationalized" according
to the ideas of this organ of their party?
Again; "Our friends" says this organ.
have never yet refused to vote for Demo
cratic Hard or Silver Gray Wing, when.
ever such a candidate has adopted our prnci
pies. The election of Mott in PENNSYLVANIA
and Kinks in Baltimore, are only two ont Of
many instances in which Democrats have been
sustained and elected by the votes Of our
friends
Is 1t true, then, that our Free Soil frieui,
who are swallowed up in Know Nothingi,m
will vote for Fillmore or Clayton, for the Presj.
dency provided they be sound Native Ameri
cans?
Our Union-Saving organ grows enthcsi
astic as it proceeds. The efforts of Webster
Fillmore, andthe Compromises Of 1850, TO save
the Union, are rivalled by what the Know
Nothings have accomplished in this line.
william H. Seward and his allies. II sar.
" are now, We trust impOtent for mischief. The
American party has in this single year. By
its conservative influence, dome more for N,
preservation cfthe Union, than has bern done
an the last t,centy gears, SGuipg and ercrpiiny
the patriotic efforts ofthe Union party IN is56.
whose laborS had been rendered nGuqht by the
laundering follies of this Administrator. II
is our firm belief that both Bentonisna ami S,1,
drdtSm are nor crushed, and that, if the yatr,
otto portions of the people continue to rany
around our standard we shall form CONSTR
tire, Unt0nLOctRg, and LtJertypreserring putg
whose power will arrest the Vaccinations of
demagogueS, and render the Union perpetual"
According to this, our Free Soil friends have
been entrapped into an Organization, whose
great mission it is, to exterminate Bentonism
and Sewardism to revive the Compromises Of
1880, and defy their authors Was it for this
Mr.. Fillmore performed his tour to the South.
year ago?
Again, the american Organ brings authori-
ties to sustain its pro-slavery position:
The New York correspondent of the Bali.
more Sum- over the signature of Ioa. and
under date November 10th, makes the follow
ing truthful and important communication
published in the San of Saturday last to wit:
The Know Nothings are national party,
and Will not enter into the Seward crusade
against Slavery. They would probably. had
they known their strength, have secured larger
vote IN the western countless and have elected
Ullmann. So far from disbanding, they are
taking measures for the extension of their organ
ization in the interior of the State, and are con.
fident of being able to control both State and
city elections hereafter. They will probably
make a repeal or modification of the naturaiza.
ton laws test question in future elections,
and particularly in the Presidential election.
a. The Anti-Slavery movement in this State
has been checked by this election, though it
does not demonstrate any Partially for the Ne
braska bill. In fact, that question was over
Swallowed by the more pressing issues between
the various parties to the liquor question:,
" bad liquor, good liquor, and no liquor" Both
the Temperance question and Know Nothing
ism exerted more influence upon the result than
did the Nebraska question
. 1t is true, strictly trHe, as stated by the Bal,
timore Suns intelligent correspondent, that
the hfOtc NOthings are a NATIONAL PARTY.
and aciH not enter into tie ,Seardrd cr1tsnis
against iSdrery
1t is true, also, strictly true, that hc Anti.
StdceTy Increment IN NeiC York has been cteci-
ed " by the late demonstrations"
Where is the Know Nothing Press that speak,
for Liberty, that utters an indignant protest
against Slavery Propagandism, that protest,
against these doctrines and designs thus boldly
attributed to the Know Nothing organization,
by its authorized organs? We know Of none
Now, when an organization, embracing IN
its membership Shareholders and non-Sayehod
ers, Slavery Propagandists and Free-Soers,
Hards and Silver Grays, Fillmore, Clayton, Pol
lock, Wilson, and Burlingame, undertakes to
plan its National operations, and select its Ma
tional candidates, what will be DONE Shall
the candidates be Anti-Slavery or Pro-Slayery-
for the Fugitive Act or against it-for the divs
ion of California or against it-for Cuba with
Slavery or against it-for the existence of Sla-
very within Federal jurisdiction or against it,
All these Questions are of vital importance
the People have made up their minds on them,
pro or con--no man could be selected as a
Presidential candidate, whose opinions are not
decided respecting them. Would the Virginia
Know Nothings OF the Massachusetts Know
Nothings be willing to take candidate on trust,
without understanding his position' Would
the former consent to vote for Pollock, or the
latter, for Clayton or Fillmore7
Let us say to our Anti-Slavery friends, who
have either joined the Know Nothings or voted
for their candidates-ttis neso or0anizatioa is
beginning TO be looked to by tie South, esperia-
ly By Southern Wings, as the only basis fr
tohdt they call National Party that is.
Party, which, ignoring the Question of Slavery,
will permit its policy on that Question to be
silently determined by Southern management.
The Semi Heekiy Creole, Of New Orleans speaks
confidently on this point. Referring to the