Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-07-04
From the Richmond Enquirer
The "NatiOnaltyp~Oi Eaow.lotAia!Ism
Failure.

~ presses anu spGdkcFS. during me
Virginia campaign, that Know No
thingism in thefree States is ulladul. !
tcrated abolitionism No sooner is
there patched up a platform, with
an odorofnatiopality but hollGay and
inefficient, than the representatives
oftwelye ) tate4 with tile 'conserva.
tiyca Governor Gardner at .theirI
head, openly sc Fede and adopt. and
publish to the world a thorough anti
slavery and proscriptiTe series ofres-
olutions. These seceders a re Just
as good know-Nothings ns their
brethren they left behind, and their
influence as i" Americans" will beck
erted with more zeal and influence
THAI ever, to wage a bitter warfare,
not only against the South, hut
against the civil and religious rights
: of a large portion of our tellow-citi-
zens. How truly has been, realized
the charge of alliance between Know.
Nothings and abolitionists rf the
North! How just is the following
language of the Chicago Tribune, a
Know-Nothing organ, on hearing: of
the defeat of"Shm" in Nirgininl
1--WE take it then, that not only t.
Il all hope of a national Know-Noth-
ing party foolish and improbable,
but that the Kn4w Nofl,ing party in
the South. has seen the day dawn
which shall witness It's derease A.
4 mcricaaism IN Ne North Is afrea3V
arowealy and rrc4lqimntlV anH-Siarsr1,.
=Americanism in the South curs ed in
the eyes ofSouthern men beyond re-
defhption by this faint, is d0oaaevr 10
'ce,taiA death. Att TtrHT Is 1EFr trT6
THE PARTY is rnd NoRru. Culess q
blindness like tn ut ofSaurs has fall
len upon #, its members will so act
that this shall not be taken from
them and the once omnipotrnt tSaa'
be lett homeless paupcr in thclanl
of his. birth" -. - f.. ...1.-
But to show the rottrnncss, and
treachciy ofthe fnationaT platform
<adoptcd by the fragmentary ConScA
t<tion at Philadelphia, it is sufficient
! TO give the evidence orlcading Know
Nothing organs in New York. A
correspondent of the New York Tx,
press writes from Philadelphia; + -:
i "Tctmajwiy rF&3ufioas are no tcS
# The schsc.ofMc CpArcatiop. DESPITE
! The Pro -Slaveryi4m, he NVrhcjmGt,
are free 10 cHscrtaif htGiro:on opiaioas.,
J The New York Herald bears still
Stronger testimony TO the deliberate
and perfect che at of. their lauded
platform. Its article we give in fill
Its most signifc pnt, as itju5r1y ar,
CUES chat sintc the action at Phija
deIphia, the kh6w- Nolllings ~"WiI
now fall backAeadh State on it. OWL
passions, &c, citlrcr On slavery o.
= anti-slaycry, and t)4ls have a lrrrrt
.chaiicc to carry the elections al, Hi.
year than they otherwise could have
dome The *. Y. Herald gives {
strong Illustration in the ease of iht
New \ ork Know Notfiings, whom
the course of the Northern Aux
Southern men rclidrcs tj'om-aH CDa
r .Nt0mjScio S2uhlcra sentiment" Net
7 iIy this Know othing ,nationaIitg;;'
by the confessions Of its o@yn organs
il the hollowcst humbUg Of the day
How can,thc South be dipped by sucI
'avowetl trickery, tile result rpr-wAir'
j. to, ALLOW the SuoW- NOfInugs O
/ the Noftl to" spill ii pom thdplatIornf
and carry ont their schrmos Of nbo
ltlon in full libestyP The complet,
. abolitionizing of the Northern VIII:
!. party crushed the Wing party ut tn
South and gave a glorious victory t,
T the National Democr Hcy The sam,
result vii necessarily ehsue, fron
the acknowledged abolitionism o
Know Nothingism at the. North
! The South will follow the gloriou
I lead Of Virginia, in fepudiating sud
+ rmonstrous humhuS as know.NotlI
! ingism, such sncaking and ippu
dent appeai-to the worst principle
and passions of the Buntlinitcs.- 4:
r But here is Tie whole Of the y. y
+ Heraltl's article, wlrith no Southcn
man can read without a fixed deter
nination to resist know-Nothingis
to he.death: , t. i = . .
1 Grant 5FZdrc::ua |n tic PAHmlG}pAi
II + Kao,o AThiHg Connect on ShrcrR +
t MW Brilliant Prospects Of the ~
tMi'c. .. '.. =. N
The proceedings Of the great Ma
tional Know Nothing or Amcrica a.
Party Council tvhichtookp place yes
terday in Philadelphia, will attracI
! in. a most especial manner, the at
tention Of the public. On the sla
very question, as might have bee
naturally expected, there has bee
:. b decided split. The platform nd
ported by the committee, which re
ceived "a rnajoritylate On Wednrsda.
night, has been publicly repudtatc'
by many of the Northern State.
beaded by Massachusetts, in Scric
Il Of scperate resolutions , passed III
special meeting and addressed +
the people of the United States
We refer Our readers for the curiou
particulars to- the report in anothe
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