The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-24
KNOW -NoTHINGIsM NEW PHASE or ADOLF
TIONISN


In the Richmond Enquirer Of last Wednesdays issue
find letter from Hon. John Cadwsader, Of Philadelphia
to Henry Orr esq Of this city The letter is in reply
number Of questions propounded by Mr.. Orr, and
covers most Of the great political issues before the
country It's length alone prevents its insertion in eur
columns In reply to the question whether the know
nohings and aboonsts have not acted together in send
ing nearly unanimous abolition delegation to the next
Congress from the anusayehoding States Mr. Cadwal-
lader triumphanty successful in bis Identification Of
know-nothingism with aboitionsm. He says;
cat every State county and other municipal election
since which formerly established local democratic
majority has been the WORTH the successful vote
opponents has the result of secret combination
Of abotionsts and feesoers with wings native Ameri-
cans and discontinued of the democracy united
der the know nothing organization have said that tins
organization would have been everywhere at the North ~
poweress without the aid abolition and soil vote
the soil and abolition vote would have been ingn
cant without know nothing cooperation II New York u
included in these observations IL is because cannot re-
gard vacating democratic vote having of late years
established party majority The sealed book OF her
politics has always been great mystery as Snownoh
ngsm to the uninitiated."
Again:
The repeal of Nebraska bill the pretext Of is
pretended opponents Their hostility really TO the tug
The real object Of their combination with the
know nohngs is its repeal They orbear yet to agate
the question openly when its agitation attempt
ed in 1852 of twenty Of the hiryone States
at the presidential election showed the strength of the democ
racy with its legitimate supports OF southern patriots on the
hand uphodng the rights Of their naturazed brethren
and naturazed Americans the other hand sustaining the
constitutional rights of their southern eowctaen Our
hope dividing these forces to conquer They
know that if either support withdrawn the force Of
the democracy aided only by the other would be insufficient
to resist their combination Should it succeed the fugitive
would be sacrificed assuredy the naturaza
ton laws"
The southern know-nohings, we are aware openly re-
pudiae all affiliations with the aboltonists but
theles the union between these two PARTIES is complete
as compact and conederacy make it binding perfect
and successfully operative The who opposed tn,
fugiive-save law and the Nebraska bill the who
perfected the know-uothng organization and who ar
now welding its secret power in the confident belief tina
they will yet be able overthrow the great national dem
ocratic partyyet be able break down those consti
tonal barriers which have hitherto preserved us as
ton Of free sovereign and equal States and yet be able 10
ndurate the South in the binding cords of snacsm and
inposture At this particular juncture when old issues
are lost sight Of and when the gends of all isms fac
tons and parties gathering under the black wings OF
abotonism for oray into the slavehoding States IL
would be as well for southern to inquire into the
meaning of the idoc cry about papacy and foreigners
and to ascertain possible where foes to be expected
and where friends be found in the approaching
hours of trial
The passage OF the fugtye-save law test which
the South ought not to forget BY many southern states
it regarded the only compensating feature in
the weknown series of compromise While ht
attempt is making by aattery and falsehood to in
treduce the South the secret political organization Of
the New England aboltonists seasonabe profit may b.
derived by again reviewing the recorded vote Of the two
houses of Congress the final passage of the ugtvesave
bill The vote stood as follows