The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-06-09

On Know Nottingham.
The result Of the recent election in Vir'
GINA has given to the Know .Nothings
everywhere. something of the sensation
which man generally feels when cataract
of cold water tumbles upon him without
previous warning. The blow has been
more than stunning. for it seems to have
knocked everything in the Know Nothing
party brain-if ever it had any-entirely
into nothingness.
Those who Wanted loudly, have sort
of bated breath and whispering humbleness
for present use. Being beaten, and having
no principles of right to rest upon with
manly pride, or to point to in vindication of
their course. Being beaten, and having
thus been shattered back again into the
many I" isms out Of which Know Nothing
ism was manufactured, with the express
view Of carrying political power, the spoils,
and everything else, at the expense of every
principle Of freedom and Of religious liberty
they stand amazed and know not what
to do. Those whom many of the leaders
deemed fast adherents, have proved to be
"summer friends only, and now that they
stand on the defeated side, are taxing their
ingenuity how to climb the fence and get
over. They cannot see their way clear, and
the roar of the discordant elements in the
whipped army Of proscriptionists, is suffi-
Gent admonition to keen and time-tried
politicians to either desert at once or re-
main neutral. ...eg
1t is astonishing what an effect the Viz
ginia election has exercised. 1t was an eX-
plosion which was needed to purify the po-
litical atmosphere shock necessary to
bring men to their senses, and make them
think. Both have been pretty well accom-
plished and it is somewhat amusing, now,
to see the feeble efforts made by Know
Nothing organs to put something like a
good face on the matter. Foremost in this
is the paper recently established in Wash.
ineton which accounts for the overwhelm-
ing defeat of "Sam" as follows -
/. All the Irish on the Public Works
voted for Henry A. Wise.
2. A large number of democrats joined
the order for the purposes of deception.
3. The disafected old liners of the wing
party voted for Wise. ..-t
4. Virginia was lost to the Know Moth
ings by their bad management and over
confidence -.........
These are all true,-very true, and OF all
them, the last the truest Of all. They were
lost by overweening confidence, such as all
temporarily successful parties possess. They
lacked the ballast Of principle to keep their
political ship in trim, and they had more at
heart the love of the spoils than the love of
country. The greed Of gain, and the lust
of power blinded their eyes and being
tossed about bv every wind Of doctrine, with
out proper CORE TO steer-though sure
beyond peradventure of reaching in safety
their desired haven, they were suddenly en-
quilted in the great sea Of democracy, over
whose pillows they were confident of riding
buoyantly.
The people have risen to show needy adj
veuturers aud INSCRIPTIONS politicians, that
they still value our Constitution and the
rights it ensures and the Democratic
party, purified by this new-made and newly
drowned thing called party, will come
into the field in future contests far better
prepared to gain victories than ever, for the
weak points have been discovered, and
traitors and the vacillating have been, by
their own actions, shut out from her COM
munion. -.... ...