Washington sentinel., 1855-03-16
ANOTHER LESSON AND ANOTHER
WARNING FOR THE SOUTH-NEW
HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.

1t strikes. Whether this be an instinct or an
impulse of generosity, it gives fair warning of
the reptiles presence, and affords the oppor-
tunity of escape. That man who disregards
the warming and refuses to avail himself of the
opportunity, is stupid and fool-hardy.
A great snake has ratified in the free States.
1t is the new secret Order. 1t Kissed in New
York, and protruded its venomous and forked
tongue. 1t afterwards ratified in Massachusetts,
and in the last few days has repeated its warn
ing in New Hampshire
But we will quit figures of speech, and come
to the plain, visible, and palpable reality.
There is one secret that Northern Know
nothingism has been unable to keep. That
secret is its abolition propensities and princi-
pies. Wherever an election has taken place
in non-slaveholding State, in which it was,
of itself, too feeble to cope with the Democ-
racy, the needed strength has been supplied to
it by the Abolitionists Freesoilers, and un-
sound Wings. Wherever it has achieved a
victory, as an organization, it has been shown
that it was thoroughly abolitionized.
We will content ourselves with two illustra-
tions. Massachusetts was carried by the
Know nothings. Massachusetts, was known to
be Thoroughly abolitionized State. The State
legislature was with perhaps one or two ex-
ceptions) composed Of Know-nothings. 1t was
part of the Know-nothing platform (so the
Organ of this city informs us) to "ig,lore" the
question of slavery.
The Know-nothing Legislature of Massachu-
sets elected General Wilson to the United
States Senate. The Organ (the Know-nothing
Know-nothing triumph. 1t sounded the trum-
pet. 1t was jubilant 1t ran into ecstacies
1t declared that General Wilson was State
Rights man." 1t ignored the endorsement by
the new Senator of Mr.. Burlingames rank Abo-
lition lecture, and told the South that Senator
Wilson was sound and trustworthy. 1t opened
correspondence with that Senator. II pro-
pounded questions. He replied, and he de-
clared that he was State-Rights man. The
Organ was triumphant. 1t was exultant. But
the time came for Senator Wilson to speak.
He spoke in the Senate chamber. He broke
the seal of Know. nothing secrecy and an,
nounced himself the opponent Of slavery. He
voted and he gave abolition votes. The Senate
adjourned. He returned to his home. Since
his return, the old stereotyped excuse-circum-
stances, has drawn out letter from him. That
letter is dated Natick, March 10th, 1855. It's
published in the Boston Telegraph. Not hav-
ing room for the whole of it, to-day, We pub
lsh paragraph from it, in the following
words:
" Nineteen years ago I solemnly resolved to
gre my humble efforts an pirate aud 'R public
TO the Anti ,Sldrery cause. hare done so, and
an doing so / hdoc acted tcith men Of al par
fes and tchile tire Ierpect 10 continue IL 10 So
This action has subjected me 10 tie charge u
political Inconsistency and personal ingrafitude
IN the past and erpect Il ,ciu subject me 10 the
same IN the future"
This is the Know-nothing, the Southern,
Know-nothing State Rights" Senator.
Now we come to New Hampshire-the
Granite State, as they call it-in which an
election for State officers has just taken place.
AL accounts concur in representing it as a
Know-nothing triumph-and all accounts con-
cur in representing it as an Abolition triumph.
The Know nothings, the Abolitionists, and the
Wings all united, coalesced, fused. They de-
feated the sound, conservative, State Rights.
Democracy. They swept the State, although
their majority is said to be only four thousand
They elected their Governor, two-thirds Of their
Legislature, nearly all Of their Senators, and
the whole Congressional delegation. This is
Knoao-nothing ABOLITION victory. Southern
know-nothings will be expected to be clamor-
GUS with JOY. They will be required to shout
and huzza, Long live the Know nothings Of
Massachusetts, and New Hampshirel!l" Well,
let them shout Let them, like idiots, throw up
their hats, lii up their voices, and huzza for
these triumphs that are the triumphs Of Aboli.
tionists--triumphs over the Constitution, over
State Rights, over Slavery: triumphs that
PLACE ANTISLAyERY MEN IN THE
SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENT
ATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES.
Now we come to Virginia--proud, ancient
Virginia--the Old Dominion. She has Know.
nothing party in her venerable precincts. For
the first time, an ism--the basest Of all isms,
because the most clandestine-has lifted up its
head within her sacred borders. Disloyal TO
the proud and imposing antecedents Of that
Commonwealth, reckless Of her inspiring tra-
dtions, and disregarding her distinctive and
prominent characteristics, men have been found
within her limits TO raise the standard Of Know
nothingism and to join in jubilee over the
Abolition victories Of Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire.
never deal in epithets) is, that they are blind
and ignorant. That they mean to be true TO
the institutions of their native State we believe.
But practically, they are not true They have
allied themselves with an organization at the
North, (which they call national, but which
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