True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-02-01

history has been evidently that of pro-
slavery Wing, but we speak now only of
his present position. Brown, Lieutenant
Governor, is a Free Soil Democrat and Fu-
sionist. Of the Senators and Representa-
tives elected, enough is known to be toler-
ably certain that reliable man will be
chosen to the United States Senate, and
effectual provision made for protecting the
inhabitants of the State against the fugi-
tive slave hunt
"Thus have acted the Know Nothings of
Massachusetts. How spoke they? l will
read resolution from Know Nothing
Convention in Norfolk, Massachusetts:
"'Reso1red, That we hail with Joy and
hope the recent brilliant success of the Re-
publican party in the States of Maine, Iowa,
Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and VIC
trust those victories are foreshadowing of
others soon to come, by which the Free
States shall present one solid phalanx of
opposition to the aggressions of slavery"
"Is this unbroken testimony of deed and
speech nothing? Will the South unite
with this Northern Know Nothing move
ment animated with the sentiments of So
cialism and Abolitienism? Will the South
enlist in crusade of Socialism and Aboli-
tionism, that she may exclude from our
councils men, who, like Castor, wove lau-
rels in the history of North Carolina, or
who, like Porter, Louisiana loved to honor,
graced the Senate Hall? Will the Whig
party of the South go into it? I ask tho
Wings of the South, why did you break
up your old party organization? Did you
not do it because the Northern wing of it
was too much A6ozitioniseds Did not the
Northern members say to you, 'let us agree
to disagree upon the question of slavery
and sooner than agree to this, did you not
break it up? Will you now enter into
new organization with these same men, and
agree to disagree upon the same subject?
If your devotion to the Constitution and
the South made you break up your old
party organization, will you trample upon
that devotion in joining a new one? I
now ask the Wings of the South, and they
are gallant men, whether they will abandon
and break up their old party, with its saints,
its confessors, and its whole army Of mar
tyrs, and fall abject and helpless into the
clutches of this new order, with its past Of
pauperism, and its future of abolitionism
and consolidation Will the Democracy
of the South 60 into this new order? Will
they abandon their old cause of State rights
and Constitution? Will they desert their
old flag which they have waved so often in
the breach and over the field, and have il
lumined even in defeat, and ferment in this
, new order? The member from Massachu-
sets, (Mr. Banks, the champion of the
Know Nothings here, abandoned the DEM
ocratic party because 1t pas not Free Soil.
Has he hecome pro-slavery? Shall the
South contract this alliance? What pic
D ture rises up There stands the sculptur-
) ed genius of socialism and prescription,
: grinning hate against the South, with the
saturnalia of emancipation in the front,
: while the member from Massachusetts is
I seen in the back ground flying wildly with
: adherence from the black hearse of slave.
: ry,' his footsteps lighted up with lurid
glare of burning convent in Charlestown
y If this picture be real, will the South be
y dragged into it? If such there be, I pray
:: God that the painter may do, in charity
" what the painter of the sacrifice Of Iphig
l. enia did in skill, throw a mantle over the
e features of the victim. Mr.. Chairman,
7 have discussed this new organization with
n as much impartiality as could bring te
is bear upon it. I wish to wound no one
= but + would saue the South and the char
IS acter of our people from danger and de
&c