The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-02-01
Gbs Doits Of tbe 4sopls.
RsrelaiiOns, XIV, ,.
FROM INDIANA.

am delighted with your continued expo
sitions of the Native American Greed. You
dissect Know Nothing with truly mastery
hand, causing him to feel that YOU probing
his malady 10 the very core, and at the same
time mercifully preventing all unnecessary pain
to the sufferer. | do not wonder that your OPP
ponents, in endeavoring to meet your argu-
ments, conceal their real names from the
public.
In an article written by me, which appeared
in the Era of the 9Th of October last, headed
/" A Voice from Indiana, and in a more recent
one on Know Nothingism, [ have presented
some views, in which | am fully confirmed by
further observation and reflection. | refer to
these articles now, mot wishing to repeat what
j have said, merely as embodying some reasons
for the policy which think ought to be pur-
sued by the Free Democracy of Indiana, viz !:
the early and thorough reorganization of the
Anti-Slavery men of the State. In my judg-
ment, the time has come when we should de-
termine how much was shadow, as well as how
much was substance, in the late Anti Nebraska
triumph, so that VIC may not only garner up
the fruits of our victory, but if errors have been
committed, provide necessary guards against
their repetition. We must SECURE the future
by doing the duty of the present. The party of
Freedom in this State is completely disorgani-
zed. In every part Of our country the ravages
of Know Nothingism are becoming visible.
Actuated more by a sckly desire to enlist the
multitude on our side, than by an overmaster-
ing fidelity to our cause, and relying upon the
prestige of numbers, rather than the force Of an
honest example, We are beginning to find our
weakness in what we mistook for our strength.
We have no longer central organ Mr..
Vaile the late editor Of the Free Democrat, be-
gan to show signs of wavering early last sum-
mer. He readily adapted himself TO the Anti
Nebraska movement here, making no sort of
effort to control it, to make it tell beyond the
simple question of restoring the Missouri Com
promise. He is well understood to have joined
the Know Nothings, and his columns, during
the campaign, were plentifully supplied with
articles indirectly favoring the Order, and thus
displacing and subordinating the Slavery issue.
Finally, as the browning act of his course az
an Anti-Slavery editor-having secured his
subscribers for a year to come, by their ad-
vance payments for the Free Democrat, in the
faith that that paper would be contnued-he
has, all at once, without any previous intima-
ton, transferred his subscription list to the
indianapolis Journal which is not now, and
never has been, an Anti-Sayery paper, in any
just sense of the term. So ends the Free Dem
ocrGt, and such is the reward it bestows upon
Its friends who have STOOD ny il for the past six
years
] would not pretend to advise, much less to
dictate, as TO what should be done under exist.
ing circumstances, but l beg leave respectfully
to suggest to the real Anti-Slaverv men of In.
diana the propriety of an early rally, in general
convention, for the purpose of considering the
question of a thorough organization of their
forces anew, upon the substantial basis of the
Pittsburgh platform, and especially against
know Nothingism; and for the further purpose
of establishing at Indianapolis an independent
efficient, and uncompromising press for the ad
vocacy of our cause In the mean time, would
inquire whether We in this State, cannot better
secure the interests of Freedom than by sub
uniting to the attempted transfer of ourselves
to the Journal Should we not at once repu
date all completely with this act, all connvnnce
at IT, by disseminating the Journal, and sending
our names to the Era, so deserving of help, fol
Its fearless and selfsacrifcing spirit, its uncom
promising integrity in standing by the Right
and its unequa1led ability in defending it2
With all becoming Difference for differing
opinions, submit the foregoing suggestions
hoping they may be thought worth considering
and that the right thing will be done. trust
at all eventa the Era win be sustained, for
find that Just in proportion as it is read, Know
Nothingism is palsied, and genuine Anti-Slavery
truth vitalized. Yours, Gro. W. JULIAN.
BEAVER COUNTY, Pa, Jan. Is, 1855.
have read with much interest numerous
articles in your valuable paper, upon the sub
3. iect of Know Nothipgism," or Native Ameri
cansm = and your editorials have caused me
much serious thought. The wonderful succes.
and power of this new party las it has now as
sumed that relation to the country has pro
duced astonishment in the minds Of rejecting
men, and they are led to inquire, "What ha,
produced this result Why is it that sec
Odd members of the Democratic party, mer
who have been AS true as steel, from the earl,
DAYS of Jacksonism down to the past summer
and Whirs of the Clay school, who gloried il
having enlisted under their great leader whei
he frst marshslIed the National Republicans
and FreeSoilers and Liberty men, all unite IL
this new organization
have endeavored to give myself satisfacto
nv answers to these questions, and with YOU
briefly as possible.
Vii set out by asserting, that at no period
within the last thirty years had the people o
this State become so thoroughly dissatisfied
nth their old parties as during the past year
4 grest number of Wings believed that tbs
sxistence of that party, as National party, hae
tarm;nated With the defeat of Gen. Scott, and
that 4 was practically impotent for good. Thou
md believed that the forces Of that party
corA never be marshailsd upon another Pro
Slevcrv platform, and they had resolved thai
- would no longer serve as make-weights to'
They could not but see that fhs
Mower had stricken down the tarif, hst