Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-06-26

WIN. F. RITCIITE & ROGER A. PRYOR, EDITORS
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE a3, 1888.
THE NEW YORK KNOW-NOTHING RATI-
FICATION MEETING ADMITTED TO BE
FAILURE.
In the National Intelligencer we find prominent
place given to an article Of the New York ComHei
cial Advertiser, reviewing the proceedings Oh .''
boastcd Know Nothing ratification meeting A'''
referring to the differing reports OF the numbers pc
sent, the Advertiser says that "a more reiioie ',
cation of the political strength dlsplayed ID '"o
that upon neither OF the stages was to 10 seen es
New Yorker of high public standing or OF
political influence"
Tn further yindication of its position that tne pro
fessed endorsement of tho Know.Nothng platform
bv tbe pcople of New York city is baseless VISION
the Commercial asks "oould this be national move
mept in which 10 representatives FROM free States up
peared to take part We say from no tree state
because, although the meeting was hcld IN Nc" A'fA
not New Yorker that could pretend TO ropreseh
tativc position took part in 1t. Ana the' W. asAeo
ourselves how happened this indifference Oh inc Pa
Of inauoualm and this lack Of popular enthusiasm
which VIVA an apparent We recalled the unior
mee.ing at Castle Garden, the high personal charac
fer and social position of its prominent speakers ane
the marked Responsibility and glowing enthusiasm O
its audience. The contrast was striking And yet Inc
purpose was proessedly tho samo in each, and' any
thing, the prctonsons on the present occasion were
greater aud tore was the reputation of success tc
support those pretensions. How camo H. men, ''
pass, that mass meeting in New York could not DC
H.. - IS thn mr. -
Certainly New York will never 60 against the Unior
and New York city least of all. Neither Will sh'
ever be found cooperating with geographical o'
sectional party against the South we can trace ths
lack of cordial sympathy with this movement 10 nc
other cause than that it wus felt that this was not
national business, and that, while her delegates
refused to seccdc with the one section, Ne"
York cannot sympathize with the no less secionalisn
of the other and desires to administer an emphatic
rebuke to the first attempt made by political Ma
tional Convention to embody the idea of geography
cal party. There is another feeling that no doubt
exerts its influence asanss the Know Nothngs viz
its assumption Of beiug erclasesly American and, by
sequence, its denial of true patriotism or heartfelt
American feeling to all who do not embrace its plat,
form and join its organzation-its claiming to DO par
is so maniesty unjust and unfair go notoriously con,
trary to TRUTH that it gives the party very unsettled
hold upon the public mind. Americanlsm Is IN tact
of no party on American soil. You might talk OF al
American party III England, in France, or any
| where elsc but the moment you appeal to the Anne
rican party in America the appeal becomes genera
and not partisan. And this truth will be very appa
rent in q moment il we put aside the points which
distinguish the Know. Nothings from other parties
Suppose they were to abandon opposition to Popery
and to our present naturalization laws, neither oi
which doctrines is i'll any special sense an American
tenet, since American citizens by no means unlver;
SALLY hold them where they stand as party =
There remains nothing distinctive in their creed there
is nothing to rally party upon. Do they say, Anne
ricans must rule Auerical' 80 says every American
Whig or Democrat and so feels every AmericaE.-
There is room for dsputatiop or controversy
about it, it 10 truism You might well raise the
cry, This Republic shall be Republic Nobody
di.putes it. We are all Americans, heartily, in life
aud o, uEnlu, ar. - --.-,-.L-----
shsll be American Wings, American Democrats or
American anti.Popery and anti-naturallznhon men,
A MODEL DISAPPOINTED OFFICE SEEKER.
The Kuow-Nothing presses are shouting their 10
p>soys over the Know Nothing speeches maze IN
Nov York nv Andrew Jackson Donelson, who has
abandoned the Democratic party anu joineo 'he eu'-
wort, faction, because President Pierce did not think
proper to appoint him Minister to Berlin or Consu'
70 Liverpool, for which places Andrew jackson Do
nelson and nobody else, thought himself peculiarly
,o,6ad In the same strain writes the Alton llhnos)
Courier journal falsely protesting Democracy but
,,vavs seekinr to disorganize the party. The Cou-
rier says:
"Andrew Jackson Donelson, the adopted rec son and
heir of Old Hickory, the proprietor OF the hermitage
in tho rarIen of which repose the bones OF the nero
of New Orleans and one Of the most inhuentlal De-
mocrats in Tennessee has written ietler III Tmcn
he denounces the course pursued ny Go,otio ,onn'
son, who is Leading on q clustsSo 4Gc'tT' ''S
W. Ioucisnf declares that he Is not an abolition
ist uur nulliher nor, What s "olso .no h;i ~
supporter of the Pierce administrator witcn GU
abolitionism in the North, and nullthcatior
in the Suuth-that ho is espouser OF tnat unswerv
inc, impartial policy, which prompted Ga 1icEory &c
sove!c the ,di'.s OF nuliincason IN South
poicy cspoused also by Iinetenths OF the iennessee
(Democrnts-that no il unwilling to have his old-ta
shionod sentiments modified either by the JACOB
! ,add,rism" OF Governor Johnson tho higher Law
is,n'' oi .he ,,Uoitonists br the 'nEtlogonlsu o.
the fire ecters, 9s interpreted hy the Hartford coroh
tion in e North aud The Nashville convention in tht
South.
::s,r. Donclson seems to be Of opinion that therc I
probability that the two extremes oi the parties
row so bitterly arrGYeo against each other, VIM Guy.
run then. selves into the ground Whllc tncre Is Is
conscryasii genuine PATRIOTISM tna W'oa I!
extremes, around Which, when rejection sucGeeus
the nasacs will rally FOR the honor OF the constutlo
and tho perseverance, OF the Unon-a party that VIII
concede nothing that is right, and will submit 70 nc
thing thar is Wrcng'
While the Juduses Of the Chicago Press and o
Wentyorth's Democrat find, in the overthrow OF tn
Know-Nothing Thugs OF Virginia, no cause OF re
ioicng but rather Of regret their Alton condjutor II
the language of tho Springfield lll Register, "hope
that similar result in Tennessee may be avered, hs
onse the foster son of se imroIal Jack cen has for
,o,,en the teachings Of the old chief and become
soro,bead. and sides with Hindoo federalism agains
ANDY Johnson, the Democratic candidate for Gov
crnor of Tennessee! Because the bones of the OH
lie in the garden bequeathed his degenerate heir
the Alton Courier deems it pst the tus that lionel
con .bouid u,rio letter denounoing Johnson's cru
sode AGAINST Tennessee Hndoosm! Benedict Arno
-. de,r to Washington before he became a traitor
,.a,a,, Jocl son Donelson is entitled to re
enact after passing similar process Though se we're
Thousand times tLa adopted son OF tho grcat man
the Hermitage 49,.
"Wo quote the significant extract which we Civ
above 70 show to the Democracy of Illinois the ten
dencies and objects of the disorganlEers Who swaye
tho Iludoofssiop Legislature at its late session.
was hoped by these men that tho southern pomoera
cy would be completely oyersaughed by the latte
a day phase of federalism and thus deha'lonah"e 'n
Democratic party but they have been to'led In thc'
o antleiraons. Virginia fouta tic Hindoo here'y' an
tho S"rc-hesds of Chicago wall, while 'hsr Ano
conrero betnkes himself to Tennessee to oe'piaSc
renegadcs there who arc seeking traitorous enos co
sonant with their own