Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-06-22
THE KNow-NoTHING CONVENTION

The Louisville Democrat makes some comments
on the result of the Philadelphia convention,
which are worthy of deep consideration in the
South. We copy these comments below:
Wonder if the Know Nothings will now confess
that we were right all the time wheH we told them
that the order North was Abolition? Are they
now convinced, or must they wait for SEINE further
demonstration? Let them now hold up the mirror
before their own party and look for its nationality.
What are they now but mere South American
faction, with foolish crusade against evils that
don't exist All they now have that is distinctive
is their war upon Catholics and foreigners and on
this point they are divided A majority OF the
Southern delegates at Philadelphia, voted to admit
Catholics into their Grand Council. The crusade
against foreigners in the South is silly to the last
degree. Comparatively few foreigners come to
the Southern States The evils OF foreign immi-
grafton that have been dsted upon at such length,
are confined to the free States.
The result in Philadelphia and the explanation
of it, is slsy. twas ferosly sectional contest il
the same party. The South came up in force
New York only. OF the free States, aided them
The delegation from New York represent only
sbou. one-third of the voters of that State. They
are the Fillmore men, IN opposition to the Seward
party. They are powerless in the State of New
York Then there was the District of Columbia,
the Territory Of Minnesota, without vote under
our Federal Constitution. Delegates from these
two places were admitted. By this management,
the majority voted for Democratic platform upon
the slavery question. The rest of tie free States
left the Council The Convention met to nation
slize, and denationalzed the party. 1t is now but
Il South American party, sectional faction, and
powerless OF that, even in its own section.
In order to nationaZe it has been compelled to
itS vic Sie-
band its cohorts that have all its laurels, and
commence anew discredited and broken down. No
pretence OF nationality can now be set up by tie
new ORDER its effort to nstiOnalze has completely
sectional!zed it. 1t comes South for aid and COM
fort and has nothing to recommend it here but a
terror of the Pope and of foreigners, and their
stock of rituals, signs, CRISP, and passwords.
Wecopgratnlate the heroic Douglas, and his COM
patriots OF the North, uoon the result. Their enc
mics scattered. A majority have been compell-
ed 10 indorse the doctrine that Cass initiated
in his Nicholson lett and that Douglas defended
aud carried in the Nebraska Kansas bill After all
the deuunciations of Douglas and his party his
enemies have to make the Notifying confession and
publish it to the world, that his policy must stand
that no better can be done.
1t ID frequently stated by know netnings that all
parties North Abolition-that they are no worse
than Others in the free States We don't wonder
~ IlIIC at w nl IOI luelr paper ana thousands OF
them read no others, don't tell them the truth on
this subject Are the people, the voters of the free
States who voted for this very platform last year in
all the free States that voted for the Democrats who
all Sustained Douglas and the Kansas BILL Abolition
ists2 They fought these know-nothng seceders
from this know-nothing Convention-sre they Alb
oltionists2 Intelligent men know better. There
is not paper in the Democratic psrty North that
does not take national ground, that IS not for the
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are sustained as Democrats who are not of the same
policy. Papers that have made war upon the Dem
ocratic party and its creed often quoted South
as Democratic authority because the editors were
once Democrats This species of mendacity to de-
ceive the South is common.
We could, with equal truth, quote the New York
Tribune Wing authority or know-nothing au-
thority. The Democratic party North have sdyo-
Gated and sustained every measure of peace with
the South, and they now the only advocates of
the Nebraska Kansas bill in the free States, with
the scattering exceptions we have often noticed.