Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1855-02-14

ighf.-The Washington Union referring 70
the probable reelection of Mr. Seward
says
The abolition wing of the Know Nothing
party is as strong in New York as il has
proved itself to be Ia Massachusetts,. Who
will now assert that this new political organ
ization is not mere instrument powerful
and dangerous auxiliary-to accomplish the
fanatical purposes Of the abolitionistsY
The New York Tribune talking on the
same subject says
More than one Wing from each House
was absent who will vote for him, it is con-
fidently believed, and besides, should 1t be
necessary, there are Sufficient number Of
Democrats ready to come to the rescue. -
Union-saying, Slave-catching Know Moth
ings, with the rest of the tribe who are try
ing to hurl him down, may make themselves
as easy as possible under the circumstances,
for he win be elected.
REELECTION OF SENATOR SEWARD.
albany Feb 6.-Senator Seward was to-
day reelected TO the United States Senate,
receiving Is votes in the Senate and o9 IN
the House. The vote stood as follows; =
Seward IS, Dickinson 5, VIM. L. Allen =,
and five others one each. House Seward
60, Dickinson IA, Seymour Is, Hunt 5, Dix
7, and ii scat tering.
The New York Herald makes the follow
ing political classification of the vote by which
Mr, Seward was reelected to tho Senate
In the Senate he received Is vots-tbirteen
Wing and five Know Nothing. In the House
he received so votes-ffty-seven Wings,
seven Know No:hings, and three Democrats.
From the New York Herald.
THE ELECTION OF SEWARD AND THE
KNOW NOTIINGS.
To the Editor of the Herald: II notice
in your list of the members of the Senate and
Assembly who voted for VIM. IL. Seward.
several mistakes in regard to their politics,
or rather the political party to which they
belong. You give Seward in the Senate live
(5) Know Nothing votes,and seven y Know
Nothing votes in the Assembly. These are
mistakes great mistakes. There was only
one genuine Know Nothing Of the Barker
order, in the Senate, who voted for Seward.
He will be Immediately read out. The State
Senate, as you know, was elected IN 1893,
when the Know Nothing party was unborn
The Senate was Seward by large majority.
You have placed in your list of Know Moth
ing State Senators who voted for Seward,
the names of these members WIN. H. Rob
ertson, James c. Hopkins, George Richards,
Josiah b. Williams, and Abijah H. Walker.
The only one of these who has ever belonged
to the regular genuine Barker order is JOSH
alb b. Williams. The other four are mem
bers of the bogus Seward order, which met
atSchenectady and passed resolutions against
slavery. Thus you see that only one genu
inc Know Nothing Senator voted for Seward
Williams was the only Know Nothing Sena-.
tor who belonged to the regular Barker Or
der who voted for Seward.
Now for the Assembly
You make out seven (7) of the Know Moth
ing members of ,hat branch of the Legisla-
ture TO have voted for Seward, viz Edward
Fitch, Robert j. Jimmerson, James Kirk
land, John Z. Raymond, David Rhoda, and
John w. Stebbins. Jimmerson is an ex-
member of the Barker order think Steb-
bins is also the others belong to the bogus
Seward branch Stuyvesant did not vote
So YOU see that there were not so many X.
n. peiiurers as has been supposed. Leigh
and Littleiohn were members OF the Barker
order They were elected on condition that
they would oppose Stewards reelection
Blatchford was also elected by the order on
this condition.
You have placed several Know Nothings
rs Democrats in your list Hare are few
of those whom you recognise as Democrats
but who are Know Nothings, viz w. b.
Aitken. A. Fl. Ivans, and Ambrose Stevens.
The Know Nothing vote for the different
candidates against Seward, was, in the As
sembly, at least three-quarters OF the oppo-
sition. Although | am a member OF the
American party myself, still | must admit
that the Seward faction played their game
in mastery manner, if not honorably -
Many of the Wings were supported by the
American party on condition that they would
vote against Seward. Many gave written
promises that they would vote against him.
1t has been shown by the votes cast by
the Know Nothing members of the Legisla-
ture in favor of such candidates as Daniel
S. Dickinson, Daniel Ullman, Ogden Hoff-
man, Willard Fillmore, and others, that the
Know Nothing party is National party, in
favor of National principles and the Union.
The result of the late election will not tend
to injure the Know Nothing party North or
South. 1t will tend to nerve the American
party to greater energy and labor The
American party South know the difference
between the national genuine Barker order
and the paltry bogus Seward division, which
consists Of about five thousand members, at
the most. All those resolutions in regard to
slavery pnrporting to emanate from the X
N. Councils are manufactured in the Sew
ard division The object of these is to give
the impression in the Southern States that
the Know Nothing order in the North is COM
posed of freesoilers and abolitionists. You
may rely upon it as ''iixed fact" that this
is an understood arrangement between the
Pierce administration and Seward to sow dis
sentions in the Know Nothing ranks. and