The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-06
The Know NoshiHgs and AbsiiGS0aism.
Nsw YoRK, Feb. 8, 1855.

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M. BESNIrr:-
Ireceived the enclosed letter from . gentleman In
Virginia ON the LIST inst, and ct once forwarded the
accompanying reply, which you are at liberty to
publish.
Permit me to say, after . osreful perussl OF your
able editorial in this mornings HERALD on the sub.
ject OF Mr.. Stewards reelection, that IL the efforts
Of the American party fail to defeat him il win not
be through any serious detection in their ranks, but
through the t~reschery Of individuals. For instance, in
locking over the names of those present at the recent
Legislative caucus | find that OF Mr.. Stuyvesant, of
this city, o membe Of tine Order OF United Ameri.
caIr, woo re ,eived the support Of tee American
party, among whom he could not have polled fifty
votes bad 1t been known ne would support Nj. Ssw-
aft for the Senate.
Much as such a resul. is TO be deprecated in it's
effect upon the party in other states, the election OF
Mr.. Seward viii at least benefit us la New York,
by enabling us 70 purge our ranks ol traitors aud
t,icksterf, WHO join an organic alton WITH the pee
m~editstsd design Of b~etraying il, and assume al
Obligation With al arr sere ytnsee 10 break IL In spi.
it If uot in the letter / could almost coaseat to
Mr.. Stewards election If 1t would lid US OF such men
as LittlejohD, S'uyvesant aud other smau satellites,
sfBding them to the c~pnseEisl atmosphere OF the
Utica and Syracuse cabal. Yours, respectfully,
j. W. Bryce.
NEw YORK, Feb, l, 1855.
J. rfMtrELAKn, Esq, Charlottesville, VI. =
DEAR siR-l have just received your favor of the S0th
ultimo, stating that 'the effort Is now being MADE by
Mr.. Wise, mall his harangues before the people, to cate
the impression that the Know Nothing order IL no other
than an anti slavery party in Disguise, Z" and asking my
views on the subject. | hasten TO reply, although |
THEREBY deprive myself of tho opportunity to discuss this
unwnrranted aspersion Of a great and purely patriotic
movement as fully as the occasion demands.
From an intimate and early association with the Ame-
ricau party, | can safely pronounce the charge OF aboli
tionism against that organizatio in the North, to be utter
ly an entirely false. ! do not know what may have been
luded TO, ror do ] know whether he Is recognised as a
member 10 good standing Of any American organi-
ists-especialy those pulpit politicians who, unmind-
full Of Christ's rebuke TO those who asked, 'Mastcr,
is y lawful that we give tribute unto Cesar, or
not'' degrade their holy calling by mingling with party
s~trife-haye attached themselves in some instances to
the American party, as they have to the d.mocra-
tic or wbg parties, to serve their own unhallowed
purposes. That our organisation itself, however, is
pure, both in'principle and practice, from any uch heresy
to the constitution and the Union, / proudly and defiant
ly assert. The men who have adopted the Farewell Al
dress Of George Washington as their political text book,
can never be traitors to their country, or to any portion
oft.
need sea freely call your attention to the facts that the
most prominent abolition newspapers in this State, such
az the Albany Journal and the NeW York Tribune, are
arrayed in deadly hostility to the 80 called order of Kns =
Nothings, and that the impossibiiity OF using that order
TO promote the political views Of their Magnus Apollo,
VIM. II. Seward, has given rise to . spurious o~rganiza
ton, which, though regarded among US rs a small po
tato' affair, created for a time among our friends abroai
serious appreh ,nsions Of a split In New York. if Mr.
Seward Is beaten in the Senatorial contest next week,
his defeat will be owing 10 the efforts OF the Order; aud
venture the prediction that IL any member of the New
York legislature, who has been hiti erto affiliated with
the American movement, votes for William ii seward,
he will hereafter, and forever, be spurned aud repudi
ated by the organization.
In conclusion, l have no words to express my
detestation of the political trickery which attempts to
purposes; and ] beseech my brethren of the South ia
discredit the false and slanderous report, and to spurn
the demagogues who originate or give currency to It,
Your American brothers OF the North offer you Their
hands in fraterral regard for the common welfare of our
whole country. They demand OF you no sacrifices, aud
they wish TO infrl nge none OF your rights. They desire
to bury in oblivion the slavery question, with the me.
mory Of all the hesrt-burnings it has occasioned-to
leave ii where the constitution leaves 1t; and they pro.
mise sacredly 10 regard the rights Of the States. They
do ass, however, your earnett co. operation In their
labUrs and sacrifices to preserve our dearly bought /,
situations from foreign aggression and domestic traa.
chery, that our linked arms may bind indissolubly
our sacred Union.
You are at liberty to make such use as nav sesm
proper TO you Of this hurried sp'stle am, with re
spect, very truly yours, John W. BRYCE.