The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1855-06-08

Assuming, again, that there is that in
the principles of the Know Nothing party
capable Of affording an excuse to a good
citizen for associating himself With its op.
erations, the reasons are equally numerous
why it should shun every appearance Of
coalition with that element which, from
the day it entered into the politics of the
Union, produced nothing but disturbance
adding to the burdens Of those it was pro-
fessedly intended to benefit, and provoking
more personal bitterness, party strife, and
sedition against the Government, than all
othercauses put together. We mean Free
Soilism--Anti-S nti-Slavery--Abolition. Claim
ing to be actuated by higher laws than God
has written or man enacted, its history is
a picture of lofty pretensions and mean
performances, disfgured throughout its
whole extent by pharasaic bigotry, tend
ing constantly toward personal cruelty and
social disunion. Spurred forward by a
blind and one-idead philanthropy the char
tiles of life are forgotten, until, in the light
of experience, it has become demonstra-
ted that a community of Abolitionists
would be an anarchy Of fends.
A party which should contain within its
bosom the noxious principles of both these
organizations, would indeed be portentous.
Possessing, in these manifestations, many
points of unity and resemblance, they
spread out in each direction, enclosing al
most every political idea that is unwhole-
some, anti-American, and anti-republican.
A combination of two such elements, in
the same society, would be like the con-
junction of famine and pestilence; and
if there were not beni6cent provision in
the ways of Providence, under which NOR
al poisons are permitted to neutralize, in
their admixture, the malignity each of the
other, the spirits of men might well quail
at their mutual approach As tits, wheth-
er coalition takes place or otherwise,
the world has no occasion tolose itsequan-
unity; and in the midst Of these manifes-
tatiohs of the wrath Of man, we may be
assured that there is One in whose hands
our Union, civil liberty, and the public
peace are safe. until He, in the plentitude
Of His wisdom and goodness, shall other
wise determine.
Standing upon the outside Of all these
doings-and feeling no sympathy with Ell
ther Know Nothingism or Abolitionism,
we have the right, for amusement or in.
struction, to watch and chronicle the pro-
ceedings of both, employing them as may
be necessary, to point a moral or adorn Q
tale. 1t may be that it is a matter of re.
gret that political affairs have so gone Ia
seed in the United States, that there is nc
party extant having name or organiza
i ton to which a right-thipking man can be-
Hong; but whether lamentable or not, the
fact is apparent. There is no evidence
Ithat Locofocoism, the chronic disease Of
-FOUR political system, has been purged from
|the Democratic party by its recent disas
ters; nor is there any reason to suppose
that success has, in the slightest degree
I mitigated the virulence Of the more acute
symptoms Of the Know Nothing or Abo'
! lition epidemics. Peace to the ashes O.
poor old Whiggery---the most respectable
| Of the lot--which, for a long time the
synonym Of political death, has, at length
I gone out lis name is thing for the an
Gquarian. It's principles have been out