The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1855-06-08
NUMBER 10

their peculiar views, and act with the
friends of freedom. They no more pro-
pose to come into the State convention as
Know Nothings than we do as Whigs,ssor
as Mr.. Giddings and his friends do as Free
soilers. They will not ask to have their
peculiar faith on the foreigner question
made part of the platform. They will
not insist that the candidates to be nomi-
mated shall be of their Order. They will
come Just as much divested Of their party
Allegiance, as will Mr.. Giddings or any
otl.er member"
Mr.. Giddings--not at all softened-in-
sists that since the Republican party was
formed the Know Nothings had sprung
into existence, and that they are secret
political organization, distinct from all 9TH
ers. Hessays:
81 would no more coalesce or unite with
adhering Know Nothings than with adj
herring Wings or Democrats, or Sag NIGHTS.
Not man Of the Republican party would
be willing to unite with adhering Wings
or adhering Democrats. / would yield
to the Know Nothings no privilege that
would not ask for myself, and l certainly
would not think of going into Republic
CAM RConvention while adhering to another
political party"
The Editor-in an attitude of supplica-
ton g..
1--WE respectfully submit, in this view
of the case, that it is not wise and discreet
for any true "friend of freedom to say
he will not act with or vote for Know
Nothing, unless he will come out and re-
nounce and denounce the Order. We
have not renounced our faith in the dis
hnctive features of the old Wing creed.
We would be hypocrite and a E, if We
should so declare. But we are willing
they may stand in the back ground, at
least till other pressing and vital questions
are settled. When the emergency requires,
we shall still 'adhere' to them. We ex-
pect Mr.. Giddings and his Free Soil friends
to adhere to their peculiar views. We
shall not ask them to renounce them. We
trust they are willing to let them rest till,
by our united strength, we can destroy
the last hope Of the slave propagandists
lin Ohio. Then, if we cannot agree, we
will differ like men. Sufficient for the
day is the evil thereof But till the time
comes, let us make vigorous war upon the
Slave Democracy Of Ohio"
Il Mr.. Giddings, as Jupiter Stator, deliv-
ers his flnalty--the humble suit Of the
Know Nothing editor rejected:
II II therefore arrive at the conclusion
Fl that our duty. and our policy is to stand
Il firmly and ndfmmovably upon our principles,
r turning neither to the right nor to the left.
Q forming no alliances; making no bargains;
: coalescing with no party; standing upon
= the issue already formed; ignoring all
l. other parties save the outspoken advocates
of oppression and Slavery. To them We
n give battle. That we should respond lit
orally to the call of the Committee, and
{ send Republicans, and only Republicans
to the Convention: and that we should
there nominate Republican candidates and
no others; that we should vote for Repub-
lican and no other candidates. ! think
that any other course will result in the dis
ruption of the Republican organization.
Let all who forsake other political organi-
lzations come with us. Let us greet them
as friends, as co-laborers in the cause Of
liberty. Let our State maintain its present
proud condition, and coming generations
will rise up and call us blessed"
Is it not awful? Joshua R. Giddings
triumphing over the poor remains Of that
Whiggery by which, for fifteen years, he
has been cursed and mathematical, in
every form of inverted benediction! And
that, not because, he is better or Whigge-
ry worse, than in past years, but because
the latter is humbled in the person of its
Representatives. 1t is not thatit is dead
and buried; for these are things that hap
tpen to all that is human, institutions as
we'll as individually dead and buried
Eas it is. it left memory to which an act
of post mortem dishonor is an offense,
wrong in any, but especially disreputable
to the executors Of the departed We
confess we never expected to see the time
when the Editor Of the Ohio State Jour
nal, still writing himself a Wing, would
be found at the feet Of the Ashtabula pol
itician, praying for permission to cling to
his skirts, as the only haven Of safety he
lis able to devise. Better, when the good
old Whig ship went down, she had carried
with her the last soul Of the crew-better
that she had gone to the bottom with her,
drums beating, her colors flying, her guns.
shotted, and her men at quarters, than to.
rot and sink at the dock, to be fshed up.
: by wreckers, and sold pieCe-meal in pay
ment Of salvage. #