Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-04-25

ed them worthy Of your support, o. they
\ are men who have acted with us as long
as we would give them Office, and who,
finding their influence waning. have gone,
ike traitors, to the campof their political
adversaries and who receive anomipation
al their hands as reward for their treach,
cry. Tie very Know Nothings them.
selves dispiso them in their hearts, though
with their lips they praise them. r
! Why is it, them that they take such
men, The reason is obvious. They
want 10 elect Wing Governor Of Virgin,
Ia, and they know that il must be done, II
Idone at all, with Democratic votes, and
this accounts for the fact Of their ssising
upon every Democrat who is base enough
to acknowledge the fact that he has been
a knaye OF a fool al his life, and BY that
Acknowledgment proves himself unworthy
of the support Of any sensible and honest
man. Now, we believe tits right for a
man 10 change when he finds lie is wrong;
but does he not prove, if he has adyoca.
ted au error for number Of years, that
be is not the man TO be trusted at this time
With an office, because he may be wrong
again. The Whigparty don't wheth'
or they Elect Democrats to Congress or
not--thayF only wish to- secure enough
Democratic votes to elect FlournoyI Coy
ernor; and when that's accomplished, they
will tear the veil Of no. partyism from their
faces, and show Whiggery in all i's hor.
rid deformity; and when tho stupefed
Democ rats who have been duped into his
support complain that they have been de-
ceived, the y will put their thumbs to their
noses, and with "grinning mockery, as
did the yelled prophet Of Korassan. ex-
claim, + "...s 1912 :
your own eredulty has placed YOU be re;
. Ye would be dupes and victims, and ye are"
By what means do they expect to nc,
complisb their object? BY appealing to
tie best feeling Of our hearts--the love Of
country. Americans should rule Amer
ica." Who denies this? None Of any
party; but there is no party in the and
who have voted for foreiners, as theyicall
them, for office ofteney than the members
of this Know Nothing party, themselves.
We could not help being amused at the
gusto with which some of our Kuow-N0th-
ing Wing friends swallowed that senti-
ment, as it fell from the lips Of their can
didate for Congress, at the Courthouse,
last Wednesday. You would sup
posed that none of them had ever voted for
Beuhring. q Dutchman, in preference TO a
native Virg;nian to 60 to Richmond TO
frame the OF. anic law Of the Stale, or that
any Of thcmhad ever voted for John Hall
for Senator. Oh, now they were horror
stricken; and as their renegade candi-
date wfithed and twisted like a monkey
with hot chestnut IN his stomach, his
Know Nothing audience seemed as much
astonished at the sentiment that "tAmeri-
cans should rule America" as was The
honest Dutchman who con- mittel suicide
when he heard the startling tact. that his
countrymen had over-run. Holland.
We would call the attention of Demo
Gratis to the facts herein set forth. The
Democratic party has always gone upon
the principle that Americans were capa-
bic of ruling America, and they have al
ways appealed to. the intelligence Of the
people, openly and above board, and not
to their prejudices and passions. Know
Nothingism is but another trick Of your
old political enemies to gull and deceive
you; and it is but another way to carry
out their darling object of electing a Wing
Governor in Virginia. Many of the hon
est Wings say so; and they also say, and
will fulfill their saying at the polls on the
4th Thursday in May next, that they pre-
fer. voting for Mr.. Wise, an open and avow-
ed Democrat, who has drawn their afec-
tons to him by his manly and able sup.
port Of Western intrests, in prefsrenceto
Flournoy, Wing, who has not the man
illness to come outand avow his principles.