True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-06-20
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VIRGINIA ELECTION

AS may DceApecseu, the Administration
papers are SrowihginstiIy over the Triumph
of the Slave Power a. The rrccentelection in
Virgnia. They hail IL as the forcrunn!r
of future democratic success; and the Ohio
Patriot cvcnj Is 50 bold as To affirm that
this victory Of the SIavcOctacy is SO bril-.
liant, as to warrant the Conclusion tina: the
democracy need have no fears as to the re-
sdlt Of the next Presidential election. No
party, not based upon the principles Of
Freedom, and opposed to the prostitution
Of the powers of the General Government
towards sustaining and extending the III!
stitution of slavery, can obtain the support
of Ohio or the North. Virginia plainly
asserts that she prefers Slavery to tree
Ameticah principles, and the fact that the
Know Nothings Of the North have always
fused with the great Republican party, IN
its opposition to the slave holding interest.
it was clearly impossible for the order to
make the slightest show of success in vir-
ginia, or any other pro-slasery State. The
State Journal, in commencing upon tbis
subject, makes the following remarks.
Tried on its naked merits, the Admins.
trotion would not be able to rally anything
like majority of the people of Virginia
But, when the contest was narrowed down
to the question whether Administration,
Nebraska Locofocoism was more true and
reliable as friend and ally of Slavery and
Slavery extension, than tho Know Nothing
party, it soon became evident 10 cur mind
that Virginia would, in all probability, re-.
main where it has been, at the head ofth
Slave Democracy of the Union. The pre-
ponderauce of authority was decidedly in
its favor. 1t could point to tho services
OF that party in securing the annexation Of
Texas, in prosecuting the Mexican War for
the purpose of procuring still more Slave
Territory; in the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, by which Slavery has been
established in vast and fertile region where
heretofore, it had been excluded; in the
purchase of territory from Mexico, and IN
its strenuous efforts to buy or steal Cuba;
all for the benefit Of the Slave holding in:
terests Of the Union. In all its acts, the
Slave Democracy has been true to the Pc
culiar institution, and the orators and pa
pers on that side were not idle 10 arrayins
these facts, strongly and frequently before
the people of that old Slave holding and
Slave breeding State. '''''' ''.
On the;other side the Know Kothings With
a strange infatuation and disregard of his-
torical facts, insisted that they were the
true friends and defenders of Slavery, and
that their opponents ought not to be trus-
ted in so grave and important an emergen-
: cy, . r
The American organ at Washington, ac-
f cused the administration with a. desire 10
8 sustain the people of Kansas against the
e inroads Of the Missourians. It insisted
that the order was the great bulwark thst
e was to staed up between the slave holders
r and propagandists and the "Aboitionists"
s of the north, as they termed every man
l. who did not openly espouse the pro-slave'y y
s dogmas Of The South. But these Know
!; Nothing papers and orators while pander.
|. ing to the sentiment of that people, could
in not change the stubborn fact that, every.
d where in the North, the order had stood
oe up manfully for freedom and against Sla-
e. very aggression. The elections in the free
ne States were standing records Of the fact
I'd that Know Nothings opposed the Nebraska
,e swindle. In New England The expression
id has been decided. The election ofWilson
I'd to the Senate, flom Massachusetts,, csuld
ID not be denied. The fact that an entire an.
Is. tiNebraska anti-Adminisfratioa delegation
- was elected to Congress from Ohio, witt
IN their sad could not be denied. They vo
m ted the Anti-Nebraska, anti: Administration
e, ticket, and helped to give it $4,000 ma
- jority. Itwas not difficult for Wise ant
the Slave Democracy to show these facts
They did show them. They alarmed. tn,
a proslavcry men of Virginia, and it is. no
a. surprising that shcshave again taken thei
of stand in favor oftho nro.slaverv Adm;,,;s