Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1855-06-07

Free Soil-Know Eothirgs- their Portraits
Dallianoe-Ths pre- sent State Of The Case
Correspondence between tWs Masnates Re
fections.
Assuming that there is in the principles
Of the FREF Soil party, which should induce
honest men, solicitous for the good of the
Common wealth, 10 attach themselves 10 il, O
multiplicity of reasons might be given why il
should above all things avoid a connection
with that complication Of political, social, ant
moral maladies, best described by the name
it has selected for itseif-KNow NoTmrNGIsM
The secrecy, which is the principal feature
in the character OF this organization, so con.
trary 10 the spirit of true repubiicnnism, SC
provocative OF fanaticiSm, intolerance and pro-
scripiion, so fruitful in everything that is un-
wise in council and unjust in action, should
admonish those who, profting by lessons
taught through the past would guard against
miSchielS in the future, 10 avoid all connec-
lion with those influences and those practices
OF which only one thing is ~ceTtain-that they
cannot, by any possibility, be productive OF
aught but evil.
Assuming. again, that there is that in the
principles Of the Know NOTHING party capa-
BILE oil affording an excuse 10 o good citizen
for associatlng himself with its operations, the
reasons aTe'equally hume rouS why il should
shun every appearance Of a coalition with
that element which, from the day it entered
into the politics OF the Union, has produced
nothing but misunderstanding to the bur.
dens oil those II was professedly intended 10
benefit, and provoking more personal bitter
ness, party strife, and sedition against the
Government, than all other causes put toGeth-
er. We mean FREE SoIIIsM-ANTI-SLAvERY
ABOLITION Claiming TO be actuated by
higher laws than God has written or man
enacted, It's history is a picture Of lofty pre-
tensions and mean performances, disfguIed
throughout It's whole extent by pharaSaic big.
otry, tending constantly toward personal cru.
city and social diSunion. Spurred forward
by a blind nd one-ideal philanthrophy, the
charities OF life are forgotten, until, in the
light OF experience, it has become demon
stralaOle that a community of AbolitiOnistS
would be an anarchy of fends.
A party which should cOntsin within its DO.
som The noxiouS principles Of both these or
carnations, would indeed be portentous.--
Possessing, in these manifestations, many
points OF unity and resemblance, they spread
Out In each direction, enclosing almost every
political lGea that is unwholesome, anii.Amer-
lcan, and antl.republican. A combination of
such elements, in the same society,
would be like the CONNECTION Of a famine and
q pestilence; and If there were not q benef-
Client provision in The ways of Providence, I'M
uer which moral poiSons are permitted 10 neu
trallze, IN their admlxiure, the malignity each
Tue other, the spirits Of men m light well
quail at their mutual approach. As it is
whether a coalition or otherwise, the world
has no occasion 10 lose its eq~uanimity and in
me midst oil these manifestations of the wrath
man, we may be assured that there is one
in whose hands our Union, civil liberty an6
he pubic peace are safe, until He, in the
'lentitude OF His wisdom and goodness, shall
otherwise determine.
Standing upon the outside OF all these do
ngs-and feeling no sympathy with either
AnoW NothingiSm or abolitionism, we have
he night, Tor amusement or instruction, TO
"slch ana chronicle the proceedings of both,
Employing them as may be necessary, to point
moral Or acorn a tale. II may be that it is
natter ol regret that political affairs have
o gone 10 seed in these United States, that
mere Is no party extant having a name and
10 which a right thinking man
IAN belong ; but whether lamentable or not,
re tact Is apparent. = n y y n Peace
o the ashes Of poor old Whiggery--the most
especlabie Of the lot-which for a long time
he synonym Of political death, has,al length,
one out. lis name is a thing for the anti.
uarlan. lis principles have been outrun by
generation whose speed is more remarkable {
nan It's progress; and It's editors, like the ap-
endages OF a kite, are dangling at the tail Of
NOW N~othingiSm, to secure themselves from !
apSlng into nonentity.
When we commenced this article, we did &
OF intend TO do more than introduce 10 the i
sauels OF The Commercial a few extracts [
moving the present condition Of the courtship G
nd ualIlance now going on between Squire 7
NOW NOTHING and Dame FREE SoIL. in which ;
former enacts the part OF an ardent lover, 4
lille the latter stands upon and /
18th the prudish air of an ancient virgin talks i
bout marriage settlements and honorable in