The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1855-07-25
the party creed, and forfeits its member

the party creed, and forfeits its member.
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But the Times declares that the partv
IN the South, failing to establish consti.
tutional Union, will dissolve the Union.
Now we would ask our cotemporary where
is the hope, with the party divided and
dlscordant, as it is, that it can establish
the Union on a constitutional basis? 1t
admits the impossibility, when it says that
the national hopes. of the party have bugs,
into a bubble, and that the party "has be.
come sectional" Again, the Times tells
us, that If the "ex;sting laws upon the sub.
Ject OF slavery, are infringed upon. the
Southern American party are pledged to
sustain their solemn resolves, and carry
out the principles Of the party at all haz.
ards" What pledges and principles q
We know of none, but those OF the plat.
form, and they are national, and cannot
be carried out by the Southern wing, with.
out the cooperation Of the Northern.
But leaving these points, what assn.
rance has the party in the South given us,
that it has any thought of resistance or OF
Southern Union. Judging by its acts
the very opposite is the truth. We have
already seen how it stands on these ques
tons, in tie matter Of its platform. LIE,
us come to its acts. In Virginia it nomi
mated for Governor, Mr.. Flournoy, a rank
federalist, and Wing. In Tennessee its
candidate is Mr.. Gentry, who advocated
the abolition oft the Slave trade in the Dis.
trlct OF Columbia. In Georgia, .he party
with selfstultification almost incredible
adopted, in one breath, the PHILADELPHIA
Platform-and in the next. its very oppo.
site-the Georgia Platform, and conclu,
ded by nominating for Governor, Judge
Andrews, than whom no more abiect sub
missionist lives in her whole borders. In
Louisiana, the Know Nothings have nom.
mated Mr.. Derbingy, the very incarnation
OF consolidation and Whiggery. These
are the acts of the party in the South
the atrenrrdn or rae 'rnnes,"rnend 7 them to
Now, we doubt not, but that IN ovu...
Carolina the party is ready for resistance
ready for Southern Union. All partie.
in the State occupy the same position
But where are the evidences that outside
of her limits the party shares in this feel
ing" When, therefore, the Times stand.
sponsor for its future conduct, we beg it t
give us the benefit of its knowledge, ,ha
we too may share its hopes.
We have thus briefly reviewed the his
tory of Know Nothingism. Whether a
Philadelphia, amid the denuncia,ions O
Wilson and his horde, or in Virginia
Tennessee, Georgia or Louisiana-lookino
to its platform and its oaths, or iudgino
by its acts in the North or in the South
we see nothing to support the claim o.
the Times-nothing to justify it in its ex
pectations. But more than all, little righ
has this party to the honor of being 9
Southern Union Party-when il has drag
ged from the dust into which they wer,
fallen, the blocks and stones of national
ism, bribed Southern men again in th
shambles-excited anew the rage 70
sPoils-planted thorns of dissension be
tween churches and classes in every pre-
cinct in the South, and brought division
amongst us, which in all the annals of his
tory are marked with the torch and the
sword, and whose, effect already visible, i
to weaken and PROSTATE, and destroy us