New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-28

marc imperious and exsctng than we had sup
posed. They spurn the profiered sbasemeHt ten
dered by the doughface leaders of the National
Know-Nothings. Like s man who comes into
the cave Of brigand or on the deck Of pirate
TO enlist, and is distrusted and kicked out so is
il with the Northern volunteers who offer to en-
list for the spread of Slavery in an army which
the Missouri villains are simply the vanguard.
Ii might be thought that the National Know
Nothings Of the North would not care to show
their faces in the light Of day, after such signal
rebuff, such notable repuse of their first dis
tnct tender of submission on the soil Of Slave
State. They have made their disgracefal pro-
posals only to have them spurned and spit upon.
Virginia rejects the proffered homage of the new
party, on the ground that fresh traitors are the
last 70 be trusted. All the Southern men of in
telligence distrust these extemporised dough
face politicians and they have succeeded in
making the masses of Virginia distrust
them too. The olgarchy confde only in
well-tried traitors. The SIayeOcracy in Vir-
GINA have tasted the fruits of the Admins
tration of Pierce, in the cultivation of which
Douglas, Toucey, and others of equally infamous
distinction in the North had so large a hand, and
they like them well. On the Kansas-Nebraska
bill the Administration sold itself body and brains
to Slavery, and for that act it has been dis
tnctly and emphatically repudiated throughout
the North. There is therefore an eminent fit
ness in its being sustained in Virginia and in
every Southern State. For il is Southern all
over. II is pro-Sayery all over. 1t is COM
mitted wholly and irretrievably to Southern in
terests 1t has done more for slavery than
all the Administrations OF this government since
its foundation. Even John Ty.er's, which
acquired Texas, or James X. Polk's which
brought US so large slice OF Mexico, never
suggested the faintest idea Of giving up all our
territories to Slavery, an act which the present
dynasty has absolutely accomplished so far as it
was possible. 1t is thus no wonder that Virginia
sticks by the Administration that has done 50
much to further the interests OF her one great
northumberland But the pr0pO-
siton of the National Know Nothngs to become
just as great traitors to Freedom the
existing dynasty is none the less shameful
full rejection is none the less significant.
The great lesson which the Virginia election
teaches is one that we have often taught, name
ly, that the time has come when the slave oil
garchy make and intend TO make, the spread Of
Slavery the main, and indeed, the only important
article in their creed, and when they intend
neither to have nor uphold any Northern allies
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work. Finding the Democratic leaders already
debauched and ready for their uses and from
their antecedents entitled to more confidence
than they could place in the leaders Of any new
organization, they act accordingly. This elec-
ton shows that the oligarchy mean to stand by
the so-cslled National Democratic party as their
most efficient ally, and to eschew and repudiate
Know-N Othingism, however national" These
facts are significant and full Of instruction for
all who are not wilfully blind to the teachings
of events.
The question at once arises, How do the
Know Nothing leaders propose to treat the new
phase of affairs Their prestige is gone. They |
have lost the great charm Of success, which was
the only valid capital they possessed upon which |
to enter into extended operations. They have |
got now to stand upon their merits, a forlorn
task truly, and it seems TO MS hopeless one
Yet as party, broken-backed slough it be, |
it must make shift to stand some
how VIII it now, with TIE hopelessness |
Of the effort thus disclosed, further attempt the
supreme folly of propitating the slave oligarchy
by proposing To DO its infamous work of extend
ing the area of Slavery and gripping tae growth
and power of the Free States The grand |
Know. Nothing Conclaye assemblies at Philadel-
phia on Tuesday of next week, when may /
expect rich developments on this head along 1
with the discharge of blue lights, rockets and
signal-euus BETTING craft in distress.