M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-05-25
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AbOlitiOnism not one Of the sins
Of the Know Nothing party Of
tho North y!

Oh the AhOW NOtnlnS party OF
tho North y!
AS there will, in all probability, be
an effort made in this country. next fall
to hoodwink or wheedle the Free Soil
ers into the support OF the nominees Of
Nominal Peoples, but real Kaow
Nothing convention. TO be holden in Ju.
y next, we present the following opin.
ion of the design and tendency Of Know
NOlAfngism, entertained by the renown.
ed George d, Prehtice, editor Of the
Louisville Journal, copied from the
American Organ Of the 18th ult. The
editor OF the Organ, very truly remarks
Ia calling Attention to the article. that
1.-THE editors Of the Journal reside in a
Slave State, are owners Of Slave proper
ty, and HONORABLE DEFENDERS Of
the rights Of the South George D.
Prentice is not the man to defend aboli-
tionism, nor to sustain party with an.
ti-slaveTy tendencies. He knows what
he writes. and he writes what he knows
The Times, which has gone off, half
cooked, in the Know Nothing crusade,
is requested to put what follows, in its
Know Nothing pipe, and smoke it!
The Journal says:
Whatever sins the mass Of the Know
Nothing party Of the North may have to
answer for here or hereafter. abolition
ism is not one of them. Undoubtedly
mere are Aboitionisis among them, and
undoubtedly in some few localities the
abolitionisls predominate among them;
but take the whole of the Know Moth
ing party of the North together and it is
sounder at heart, sounder in principle,
and sounder in action upon the great
slavery issues than any other party in
that section has ever been known to be.
Its strong efforts to nationalized itself
by sinking the slavery agitation SO as
10 be able to harmonize with the Know
Nothingism Of the South. have been and
stll continue to be very great, and the
degree Of its success is cheering tu the
entire patriotism Of the nation. If the
SIdpery agitation is destined euer 10 be
alIaysd, that mighty Work is certainly
10 DC accomplished by phat is called the
AmerIcan party, which, if we are cor
rectly Informed. now requires of all its
members solemn obligation to adhere
10 Inc Constitution and the Union in
any aud every emergency that may arise.
~ the Northern Knop NOthing8 wers
aoolIIIonfsts or free soilsrs, they wOuld
NOT, as they are accused of doing seek to
discourage the immigration of foreign
hordcs into this country. They know as
everybody else does, that nine tenths Of
the immigrants who land in armies on
our shores, are abolitionists, aud, if they
themselves were abolitionists, and were
looking around for the most eflectual
means OF promoting abolilionism, they
would hail with joy the coming of these
foreign allies, and promote it to the ex.
tent of their power. If they were abo
litionists, they would throw no conceiv.
able impediment in the way Of the rush.
ing stream by which the foul lake of alb
oIitionism in this country has received
and is receiving its chief supply. They
would stretch forth their arms to The
people OF foreign lands, all of whom are
aOolitioaists of slaver), To say that
the American party is an abolition par
ty, and that it is struggling at the same
time to shut out the tremendous tide Of
foreign abolitionists settling upon our
shores, is nothing less than a Monstrous
absurdity.
We have repeatedly stated the fact
fact that deties ontradiction-that all
Of the regular Free Soil organs, which
surely ought TO know who their friends
are, and nineteen twentieths of all the
Free Soil leaders of the North, who GER
tainly know who their co-workers are,
denounce the Know Nothing party of
the North as pro slavery party even
more vehementIy and vindictively, il
possible, than its Southern enemies de.
rounce itas Free Soil party. Take
up the violent, bitter aud influential
Free Soil organs of the country; take up
the Washington National Era. The New
York Tribune, the New York Evening
Post, the Albany Journal, the Buffalo
Express, the Cleveland Leader, the
Cleveland Plaia Dealer, &C., J'c., &c,
from Alpha to 0mego; taae up the
speeches and letters of the abolition or
ators and demagogues; take up those of
Seward and Wade, and Giddings, and
Chase, and Sumner. and you will find
that all these Free Soil newspaper or
fgans, and all these Free Soil orators,
and letter.wiiters. are fierce in their de-
nunciations Of the Know Nothing patty
of the North. not only as an ally Of sla
very aud foe of Freesoilism, but as the
direct and most dangerous foe that
Northern Freesoiism has ever been CAL
led on TO encounter. We have before
US extracts from the declarat tions o.
these Northern Free Soil newspaper:
and leaders to prove all, and more thar
all, that we have here said; but we
could not publish them without making
this article much to long to be general
ly read.
| The overwhelming mass. then OF Nor
thern Abolitionism is deadly in its hos
tility to the Know Nothing or Ameri
can party; and We say, with the distin
guished editor Of the Richmond (Va.
Wing. that we are at a loss 10 conceive
how any hoEest Southern man, will
this fact staring hlm broadly in the face
can unite with the Northern enemies o
The Southin denouncing for Abolition
ism party which those enemies des
cribe as tending to repress sgitation, t,