Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-10-06


they have elected are all abOhiiOnists; and past
acts of their lives individually will prove it, and
II We Will wait patiently till next session of Con-
gress we will it daily developed and proven
by their speeches and their votes. At the same
time we will see the few northern democrats yet
left standing firmly up and battling for that Con-
stitution which is the only charter of souther-
ner's rights now left to rely upon. Senator Ben
Jamin again says:
SAT the last session of Congress proposition
to repeal the fugitive-slave law commanded eleven
votes in the Senate! The recent elections of
northern senators have displaced many of the
firmest and most consistent supporters of public
law. Shields of Illinois, Dodge of Iowa, Petit
of Indiana, and Norris Of New Hampshire-all
able, eloquent, and Independent statesmen, who
tearlessly struggled tor our rghts-have been
succeeded by avowed free-solers, and in the pre-
sent state OF public opinion at the North, enter
tain no doubt that proposition to repeal the
tugitlve-slave law would find twenty advocates in
the Senate-in that Senate to which we have
been accustomed to look the last refuge of the
Constitution
ed eleven votes Who were they' They mere
northern Wings and AboHhanistsi Who were your
best friends-the Wings or the Abolitionists? Or
was there any difference, The Wing was the
same as the Abolitionist, and the Wing is now
the know-nothing.
Not one democrat voted with them. twill be
asserted that Chase and Summer lcere Democrats!
~ IS false Those men have been repadiated by
the democratic senators for years. They are
not admitted to Democratic caucus by Democratic
senator's They are elected from caucus, and that
election is enforced by the northern as we'll as
southern Democratic senators, who declare that
they belong to, no healthy political organisation,
and refuse to counsel with or recognise them, or
any others like them, who disavow the Constitu-
ton Of the Uuted States, whether by words or
votes. Chase and Summer are .dbolitionists
They avow it, and Chase is now the candidate for
governor OF Ohio, and is nominated and supported
by the fusion party, to wit: the Abohtionists and
hnoW -nothings, Summer and Wilson are acting
with the same concern in Massachusetts,.
Who are the men over whose defeat Mr.. Ben
Jamln las southern Wing and true lover OF
ms country laments SO bitterly? Shields, Dodge,
fettt, and Norris. Are they Wings or Know
nothings! No; they northern Democrats, every
one OF them, and voted to sustain the fugitive
slave law, which is law expressly provided and
secured to us by the United States Constitution.
Who OF the senators from the North sustained it !?
Wings! not one. None but northern Democrats.
The facts here quoted from the address of Mr..
Benjamin are true to my own personal know
ledge, and will receive the sanction of every
senator from the South, of any party whatever.
The Democratic senators all know and declare
them to be They are true, not to the fugitive
sidFC law uloue, Dul also 10 lie NdHsds uiiu
Nebraska bill, and Missouri Compromise, and to
all questions, of any and every nature whatso-
ever, relating to the rights of the South in her
slave property.
| That the Know-nothings of the North and the
old Wing party of the North mainly, if denied by
an intelligent politician, can only be denied by a
| hypocrite and creature so low and depraved as
to excite our contempt and call for our pity.
There are well-informed and honorable men in
the know-nothng party, but they will not de
| that, with the exception of renegade Democrats
| and original Freesoilers, it is made up wholly OF
the old Wing party.
of that party (the Wing party at the North)
we have the concurrng testimony to those facts
of hundreds of intelligent wings in all parts OF
the South; among them | will only name a few,
and they that well known, and who have
long sustained themselves in the public eye, an
| by the confidence, admiration, and votes OF the
| Wing party of the South, ito wit: Toombs and
stephens, of Georgia; Kerr and Clingman, OF
North Carolina; Dickinson and Preston, of Ken
lucky; James c. Jones, of Tennessee, and Ben
Jamin, OF Louisiana; four senators and four rep
resentatives in Congress, each one of whom has
been star in the old Wing party, but now ut
| teriy repudiates the know-nothing party; and
every one of whom, with the exception perhaps
of Clingman, refuses to this hour to yield up his
| opposition to the Democratic party.
| This, then, is the Know-nothng party of the
4 4Noiti, Us DGuJdiuiH uus Sohlioi
of the next Congress in the House of Represen-
tatives. This, then, is the Know nothing party
which has defeated and destroyed the sound con-
| stitutional democrats of the North, over whom
he laments and has sent to the legislative hall so
| great number of freesoilers as to give them alb
solutely majority! This, too, is the Know -no-
thing party which is NATIONAL, and our southern
know-nothing party are the politicians who
stand before the world their srorn brothers, and
who invite southern men to join them, and thus
| to abandon their fellowship with the faithful
democrats of the North who are pressed to the
wall, and TO side with and give aid and comfort
| TO our own most bitter foes
To take course like this, with full knowledge
of what we do, were bitter task for any southern
in any party; but for democrat 10 do IL is de-
| grading indeed.
Whiggery and know-nothingism are synony-
nous upon all points of the slavery question
The northern wing or know nothing abandons
and makes war on his weaker southern wing
brother, declaiming openly that the defeat of the
northern Wing party was to be attributed to the
dead weight which il carried by recognizing IN
their national platform the constitutional rights
of the South. So all such national platforms
and recognitions repudiated by both the old
Wing and the new Know-nothing party. The
northern wing and know-nothing brother repud-
ates and spits upon the rights of his southern
brother
at the South, SO they adhere to the men that re.
pudiate, denounce, and Willy them. They are
sworn to do So and they seek TO swear all they
can seduce TO the same loathsome task.
On the other hand, northern democrat is true
to the constitutional rights Of his democratic bro
ther at the South; and though pressed to the
earth by his powerful know nothing foe, abused
as dough-face and slave Of the southern peo-
pie, he still shouts aloud for the Constitution and lis
inrioiabiity.
This is a true picture. What shall a southern
man Of any party do under these circumstances,
But, above all, what shall a southern Democrat
dor Abandon the northern Democratic brother
join the national Know-nothing! Punic faith
between united brethren were angelic faith by
the side Of an act like this
Imagine the feelings Of a northern Democrat,
struggling to maintain that constitution upon
which your rights, hopes, and existence are depen
dent, reproached as your friend, repudiated as a
traitor to his own section, and slave TO the
slaveocracy. Imagine his feelings when the
Wing and know-nothng comes forward with the
southern poll-books in his hands, and taunts him,
saying: "See what you do; you labor for the
heartless, impious and degraded southerner, who,
in defiance Of humanity, holds human beings in
bondage from the cradle TO the grave, and now