The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-29
DANGEROUS MISREPRESENTATION OF THE
SOUTHERN KNOW-NoTHINGS.

cret party through the southern States Stimulated as IL
mainly u.s. by the widest hopes of office and power dece
ton and fasehood Of freely INDUCED in by IT'S
aspiring leaders The exaggeraons Of the northern know
nohings far into the shade by the inventions Of
these ardent southern associates In the free States
the General Pierce is the staunch protector Of the
institutions the South is the very best weapon in the
knownothng armory and is used with effect against the
democratic party In the South the aishood that General
Pierce the protector of these institutions used with
equal industry, if with equal Upon this
huge and scandalous calumny many inferior and reck
less fabrcatons are piled and this edifce Of false
hood is defended with zeal by many who viii soon be
ashamed Of the proagae and disreputabe purposes
which they have been willing lend themselves Many
of their exhibitions of reckless partisanshp in this drec
ton gross and ridiculous, however that they
only be the result Of ignorance and nexperence We feel
ndsposed to charge that to design which is at least in
cases palpaby the work of unnformed and unob
serving mind Such prints indeed, as the Louisville Jour
nal delight in the circulation of Islander against private
character from love of the pasme and of
certain prefer sehood to fact in their assaults upon the
democracy and the Journal has awaysiad large brood
of followers who think that it is folly for them 10
strain at gnat while the Journal is always ready swa
low camel We charitable enough TO believe how
ever that there exceptions TO this rule
The last refreshing exhibition Of know-nohing
candor and may be found in late number Of
the Charleston South Carolina Newsa paper conducted
by delegate the late national know-nothng conven-
on and therefore, it may be supposed conversant with
the ridiculous and notorious political events the day
In the News of the goth of July find an article ded-
Gated to correction Of the mistake of the Charleston
Mercury the subject of the late know nothing and abo
lition convention in Ohio which is curiosity in more re-
spects than one and which is published to the people Of
South Carolina the honest truth Here is a specimen
extract which we propose answering under three heads
Under the caption, Know nothingism in Ohio, the
Mercury this morning in fact msepresents the proceedings
of the democratic freesoi convention of that State Q)
Fair criticism should have led it hold them up the ed
fcaton of the national and southern democracy We hope
least it took the lesson home itself exponent
Of democracy. But to have imputed them the know
nohings is queer mistake. Its anti specace
be colored that object the hue Our
intelligent contemporary should not make such bunder
Some folks might mscoDstrue them
The Mercury gives the resolutions there is word
the order and its principles objects in them gives
the State nominations; they all democrats They
for governor lieutenant governor and supreme judge 2
The Mercury does ought to know that there never
was be- State convention of the American or
der other than meeting of its State council and
that this not such State council Nor was it an in
formal and still less declared assembly of know notng
The results prove it, 50 The nominee for governor
Chase, the par ercence the leader of
the democracy of Ohio He not member Of the Ama.can
order and the Mercury did or should know it, as Chase
has been associated with them The in
Ohio would make nominations except from its
The dealings of the Mercury in its mysteries should have in
formed it of that.
The nominee for lieutenant governor Mr.. Ford He
il democrat and he is also American"
l. How could the know nothing convention be 'demo
cratic body when its whole object is destroy and up
root the democratic party and the constitution of the Uni
ted States AS evidence of what of democratic
body was the following from whig-aboition
papers in favor of the know-nothng ticket in Ohio
useful:
From tie Lebanon (vvarren COY Star.
The ticket will thus be seen, admirably divided both
politically and seconal and destined to be elected by
majority overwhelming that the slave democracy will be
so eectuay beaten routed and slain that it will
again raise within the limits of Ohio the black banner of
slavery
From Logan (O) Gazeie.
CLAY wHres-It is little remarkable that should APP
peal preudses Of Clay wings against Mr. Chase when
the great between parties relates
mated by Clay with which his fame intimately identified
which Chase sought maintain nvioate and which his sup
porers seek to restore. We Clay whig and it is
Clay wing that would sustain Chase in
his glorious opposition to the repeal OF that compromise
which of the chief monuments to Clay memory
OF all other men, Clay wings should in this crisis be the
friends of Mr.. Chase.
O. The Mercury (says the News) gives the State nom-
nations They all democrats. They for governor
acknowledgement, and supreme judge Let look
these extraordinary Mr. Chase is the candidate
for governor There is democratic paper in Ohio
that does not oppose his nomination There is dem
ocrat in Ohio that does denounce him. And why has
ha haan Inns diated nd off he
tell the people of South Carolina that he is rejected and
accommodated by the democracy of Ohio and has been
for years because of his reasonable hostility the
tutiona rights of the South Precisely the may be
said Of Mr. Brnkerhof the know-nothing candidate or
supreme Judge who left the democracy the subject
the Wilmot provso during the Mexican war; and has
acted with them since These things notorious and
challenge contradiction. AS to Mr. Ford, the candidate
for lieutenant governor whom the News calls democr
and know-nohing, he has been wing from the begin
ning wing of the most violent type and his
inaon is hailed with especial satisfaction by the old abo-
lition wings of Ohio The Charleston News might well
call Corwin and Ewing wings The composition of the
whole ticket is as follows;
Governor.-Salmon p Chase, aboon;st
Lieutenant Governor-Thomas Ford abolition whig
Auditor of State.-Francs NJ. Wright abolition whig
State Treasurer.--W. H. Gibson, old-line whig.
Judges Supreme CourtJacob Brnkerho IAN abolition
i who left the democratic party alone because of lis