Washington sentinel., 1855-01-06
1.-THE LAST LINK Is BROKEN,--
WINGS AND KNOW-NOTHINGs IN
VIRGINIA.

Wing when the american Organ dictated the
terms and the basis Of union between the
Wings and the Know-nothings of Virginia,
led US to believe that such union was inn
possible Our contemporary took high grounds.
1t would not contemplate, even as remote
contingency, the surrender Of the proud old
Wings Of Virginia to the new secret and AFRO
CANT organization. 1t chided the Organ for
its presumption in announcing, as in effect it
did, that the Wings must take the Know-noth-
ing ticket or get along as best they could, with
out Know-nothing support. But-and we are
sorry to record it, the pride evinced by our con-
temporary was but transient-its dignifed scorn
lasted only for day. 1t must either have
found that the Organ was inexorable, or else
that SO many Wings have joined the Know
nothing organization as to make Wing con-
vention of respectable numbers altogether i'm
possible. Certain it is that our contemporary,
in its issue of Wednesday last, throws away its
pride and casts off its dignifed disdain. 1t
devotes wellconsidered column to the pres
ent condition of affairs, and advises against
"a Wing convention" and respectfully and
kindly suggests to such of (its) friends as en-
terrain a wish for convention, to abandon it
at once-at least for the present" The ,Whig
says "it is better and safer, in our opinion,
not 10 rely too confidently upon our own
unaided strength, but so to act as to gather
to our side men of all parties and persuasions
who are sick Of misrule."
The object says the Wing, in forming this
coalition is "to expel the Goths and Vandals.n z
By "Goths and Vandals" it means the Demo-
cracy, whom it thus describes: "In short the
time has come, when the bats and owls of
purity, the lewd creatures Of a day, the vile in
sects and vermin of an hour, that are begot Of
political confusion and thrive only in political
corruption, must be driven from place and
.power--crushed, exterminated forever" These
are lovely words, and they come with a bad
grace from our contemporary, who, but the
other day chided us for speaking in harsh lam
guage of some of the Wings. But we submit
it to the candid reader to say, if the Wig has
not in the above lines drawn q faithful and
striking likeness of the very party whose aid
il now seeks, and to secure which it has hum
bly, lowered the old Wing flag, and submis-
sively said that its party ought not to hold a
Convention to nominate Wing candidates.
Now, we have word or two to say TO the
old line Wings of Virginia Are they pre-
pared to abandon their principles, give up
their organization, and surrender to the new
organization, that processes to be as hostile to
them as it is to the Democrats. Why and
wherefore should they do it? Are they inferior
in intellect, in morals, in social standing, and
in 8decency,'' TO the members of the new and
secret order2 1t is declared by the Know
nothings, that they prefer running Democratic
to Wing candidates. Do the old line Wings
also prefer such candidates? If SO, why do
they not declare in favor of the candidates ol
the pure and not the spurious Democracy
But whatever our respected contemporary, the
Richmond WAig, may do and whatever the
bulk Of the Wing party may do, we do not Lsse
leve that the old line Wings of Virginia will
succumb to new, a secret, and clandestine
order.
But it is the boast of the Know.nothings
that they number Democrats as well as Wings,
in their ranks. To such Democrats, if any
there be, we have word to say. If they are
trading niercenary and unprincipled politicians,
who are looking altogether to the spoils, we do
not expect to reach their hearts,. But if they
are honest men, we do.
Do they not know that the Know-nothings
are mainly composed of Wings? Do they not
see that leading organs Of such Wings as have
not yet and formally, joined them, recommend
that their candidates shall be supported by the
Wings? Do they not see in these things over
whelming evidence that the Know-nothing
order is nothing but q Wing trick? 1t is alb
surd to say that this order is not reconstruc-
ton Of dilapidated Whiggery; and, if SO, the
honest Democrats who have joined it are out
Of place. They ought to be and are, ashamed
of themselves. Nor do we doubt that they
will abandon the organization before the cleo
ton comes on. .sa.ts.
But Abolitionism has something TO do with
this new organization or else it would not so
flourish in Abolition States. We present the
evidence. One Of our exchanges says: HThe
following resolutions we're adopted at a con.
yention of Know-nothings in Massachusetts,.
AS the current Of isms sets from the North
to the South, it would be well in Virginia, to
watch the flow Of the poison:D
"tResolved, That we hail with hope and joy
the recent brilliant success Of the republican
party in the States Of Maine, Iowa, Indiana,
Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and we trust these
victories are foreshadow Of others soon to
come, by which the free States shall present
one solid phalanx Of opposition to the aggres-
sion Of slavery.
Resolved That in the present chaotic con.
dition Of parties in Massachusetts, the only star
above the horizon is the love of human liberty
and the obhorence Of slacery, and that IL IS the
duty Of all anti-slacery men TO rally round the
republican party, as an organization which in
yites the united action Of the people on the