Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-23
From the N.Y. American Times


The logic Of the anti-American party is rather
amusing than otherwise. Mr.. Wise, of Virginia,
exhausts the subject himself and most assuredly
his hearers, trying to make out that the Northern
"Know- Nothngs" are all abolitionists The Seward
orators and organs have been equally tedious in at
| tempting to prove that these identical Northern
"Know-Nothings" are no abolitionists "at all, at
alT-but simply accompces of the slave holders in
the attainment Of their "nefarious ends"-by which
mysterious phrase (which appears in every aboli-
| ton paper on an average ten times day-and
has for the last twenty-five years. is meant every
thing that Is enormous, atrocious and sanguinary,
the precise details Of which the writer's like Ser
geant Buzfuz in his elaborate speech against Pick
| wick, are not, however, lin condition to ex-
plain" That North and South should be belaboring
the new American organization with precisely OPP
posite arguments, must appear to the ingenious
mind, at first blash, rather mystifyng. The spec
tace of Messrs Wise and Seward, working together
in the same yoke, is certainly very funny one,
and suggestive Of strange Incidents Indeed we
may, without any violent stretch Of fancy, imagine
Mr. Wise to have written this congratulatory letter
10 his co-laborer
AcooxAck COUNTY, Feb, 1855.
DEAR SEWARD: You have licked those Internal
New York "Know-N othngs." God bless you for it.
They have been writing letters and sympathizing
with their felow-rascals down here in the "0ld Do
mnion," and have badly damaged my case. / am
whipping them round the stump, however, with the
abolition argument-and hope, by appealing TO sec
tional PRIDE and arousing sectional prejudice, TO win
the day. see you played that game in New York
II is the only successful for agtators like you and
l. But adieu-I must be of to the stump.
Believe me, sir, DC.
To which we may fancy Mr.. Seward to have
made the following cordial reply:
WASHINGTON, Feb, 1856.
DEAR WISE: Your generous sympathy is duly ap-
preciated and fully returned, as you have already
seem by an article highly complimentary to your per
sonal worth, in the Daily Your course in the
gubernatorial campaign displays your usual judy
ment and acumen. II is only by sectional agitation
as you justly remark, that we can thrive. The best
friends Of my cause are those southern politicians
who are continually abusing the North, and thus
arousng that spirit q hostility ana revenge a c
the southern statesmen Of your school have prohted
in similar manner by my course towards the South,
YOU well know With sentiments Of the greatest es-
teen, am, sir, &c.
An association for the protection Of home
industry has been organized in New York, and an
Office has been established in Broadway where the
working-men of that city are invited to call and
sign pledge to use clothing and other articles Of
American production only.
- The engagement with Mile Rachael to visit
the United States has been signed by all parties
She will be paid 200 900 francs for two hundred
representations, to be given wherever may be
deemed proper that Is TO say, six thousand francs
Al. 200 for each representation. Six hundred
thousand francs win be deposited at her bankers
in Paris, before the departure, which, in case Of
her being sbipwrecked, reverts to her family.
- Information from Paris on Jan. nth says
that Judge Mason's health Is improving as rapidly
az his best friends could desire.
- DIR. Blarck, German physician Of Gin
cinnati, after preliminary examination, has been
held In 81 900 bail to appear at court and answer
the charge Of improperly puncturing an anuerism
in the leg, the patient having died under the ope-
ration,