Washington telegraph., 1855-05-02
IFror, the Louisville JDurTlai.1
The American Party.


The Standing charge. the daily charge,
made by the Southern anti-Know Nothing
organs against the Know Nothing party of
the North, is that it is an abolition or
Freesoil party. Throughout the whole
South there is not single anti-Know Moth
in, organ that does not press this charge
upon all possible occasions. in season and
ont OF season. It is the main charge, in
deed the one charge. upon which the South
ern anti Know Nothing leaders rely for sue
cess. Take it away from. and they have
little left. And it should be taken away
from them. 1t is as false and calumniOus
charge as the very genius of mendacity
and malice could invent Whatever sins
the mass of the Know Nothing party of
the North may have to answer for here or
hereafter abO!itionisIn is not one of them
Undoubtedly there are abOlitiOnists among
them. and undoubtedly in some few locali-
ties the abolitiUuiSts predOmitate among
them. but take the whole of the Know No
thidg party of the North together. and it is
sounder at heart, sounder in principle, and
sounder in action upon the great slavery is
sues than any other party in that section
has ever been known to be. Its strong eff
forts to nationalize itself by sinking the sla-
very agitation so as TO be able to harmOnize
with the Know Nothings Of the South
have been and still continue to be very great,
and the degree Of its success is cheering to
the entire patriotism of the nation If the
slavery agitation is destined ever to be al
layed. that mighty work is certain to be
accomplished by what is called the Ameri-
can party, which. if We are correctly inform
ed Low requires of all Its member solemn
obIigatior to adhere to the Constitution and
the Union III any and every emergency
that may arise
If the Northern Know NO;hines were
abolitionists or freesoilers, they would not.
as they are accused of doing. seek to dis
courage the immigration Of foreign hordes
into Ibis country They know. as every
body else does, that ninetentfs Of the
immigrants who land On our shores are
aboIitionist. and, if they themselves were
abOlitionists. and were looking around them
for the most effectual means of promoting
abolitioniSm, they would hail with joy the
coming Of these foreign allies and pro-
mote it to the extent of their power. IF
they were AbOlitionists, they wonid throw
no conceivable impeachment in the way of
the rushing stream by which the foul lake
Of abolitioniSm in this country has receiv-
Cd and is receiving its chief supply. They
would stretch forth their arms to the people
of foreign lands. all Of whom are abolition
lists 10 come over and aid in the destruction
Of slavery To say that the American par
ty is an abolition party. and that it is s;rug-
ling at the same time 10 shut out the ire.
mendOus tide of foreign abol:iionists setting
upon our shores. is nothing less than mon
strouz absurdity.
We have repeatedly stated The fact, a
fact, which deies contradiction. that all of
the regular freesoil organs, which surely
ought to know who their own friends are.
and nlneteen-twentieths of all the freesoil
leaders Of the North, who certainly know
who their co-wOrkers are, denounce the
Know Nothing party of the North as pro-
slavery party even more vehemen;ly and
vindlctively if possible than its Southern
enemies denounce it as :. freesOil party
Take up the violent, bitter and influential
treesoil organs Of the country. take up the
Washington National Era, the New York
Tribune the New York Evening Post, the
Albany Evening Journal. the Buffalo Ex-
press, the Cleveland Leader, the Plaindealer,
&c, &c-, &c. from alpha to omega. take up
The speeches and letters of the abolition or
.tors and .denagogues, take up those of
Seward and Wade and Giddings. and Chase
and Sumner. and you will find that all these
fTeesoil newspaper organs and all these free
sUll orators and letter-writers are fierce in
their denuncIatIons of the Know Nothing
party OF the North. not only as an ally of
slavery and foe of freesoilism, but as the
dlrest and most dangerous foe that Forth
ern freesollism has ever been called on to en-
counter. We have before us extracts from
fhe declarations of these Northern freesoil
newspapers and leaders to prove all and
more than all that we have here said. but
we could not publish them without maxine
this article much too long to be gene rally
read
The overwhelming mass then of North.
ern abOlitionism is deadly in its hostility to
the Know Nothing or American party-
And We say with the distinguished editor
OF the Richmond (Va.) Wing, that We are
at loss to conceive how any honest South
ern man, with this fact staring him broad
ly IN the face, can unite with the Northern
enemies Of the South in deuouncing for ab
oaRlonism party which those enemies de
scribe as tending to repress agitation, to pu
down fanaticism, and blast the hopes of the
abolition party This ground they all take
from Seward down to the pettiest, Sew
ards ffuakeys; and urge it upon the
Northeia 'eople with all the zeal ant
Jury chara, ,'eristic of abolition madmen.-
ne have in armer numbers quoted from
NeSard. from Greeiy. from Adams, from
weed, and host of others known to be
determined and inveterate enemies o