Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-10-17
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me aaFty Of Fragments in..the North.

lSe measures tnat were then paSSeus anu
dissolution of the Union seemed almost
inevitable. Mr.. Rives, then Minister to
France. wrote a lengthy letter home, pic
turing in it the sad and unhappy condi-
ton of his country, as it appeared to him
while '' at foreign point of view. am
not at very distant I" point of view" yet
am far enough away from the Old Do
minion toFbe. inathe midst of the buffetiug
elements of detraotion that sweeps the
North, and threatens more terribly the
safety of the Union than did the tempest
of 1850.
Here we are on the brink of dissoEu-
ton, without commanding trusty pilots,
to guide the ship of state safely through
the raging storm" the mighty have
fallen. ~ The sage defender Of the Con-
| stitution has goneto his gilded home. and
the commanding eloquence of the conser-
valve statesman of the South-Henry
Clay, is heard no more-aud that party
which they did lead SO long and SO well
through all the distracting influences of
party warfare. has fallen.a and fungus
"a disgrace of factions has grown up in
its stead.
| my object in writing home, is to place
before my friends few truths, which can
only be gained by mingling, and listen
ing to the people in free state you
are not aware of the loathsome, degra-
ding harangues that are daily ushered
from intelligent looking, political buck
sters against the constitutional rights of
the South. In the North. all OF the isms
have united in one, and after sitting all
their old worn out, and rotten issues from
their creed, they have found that one
principle left-rbarely one, that they will
loudly contend for, which is, not 10 these
words. but whose purpose is the same
ga 0aOn eOith all the Southern rigLtS-PitcA
IN, and free the myers honestly # you can.
dut free the niggers! And while the masses
nave SO styglan purpose in their hearts,
they have their braying sorcerers and ia
naIIcs at work, denouncing the Pierce
Administration, and vomiting worm W God
and gall against the whole Democratic
party. No where can go, without hear
ing bitter anathemas showered upon the
institutions of my beloved Virginia. and
think it high time for the southern Know
Nolhings to be on their guard against
The degrading and secret mountebanks
of the Northern wing of their party Of
fragments.
Here in Ohio, the ow-Nothing, free
soiler, and abolitionist have combined to-
gether under the title OF Republicans, for
the purpose of electing the demagogue and
scamp, Salmon p Chase, governor-and
by casting all old pretended issues aside,
and lusing all their rank and file for the
purpose Of carrying out one solitary prin-
ciple, they have placed Chase astride
OF it, and expect to succeed in landing
bin safely in the GubernatocaI Chair Of
Ohio. How bitterly this new tangled or
ganization abuse the Democratic party,
and particularly the Northern wing-how
they call it the pro-slavery party, because
it countenances the sight Of both sections
Of this glorious Union-because it. is
not freighted with unnatural preiudices
against The South, and that it gIories in
the name Of national party,-and is the
only national party.
A few evenings ago, | heard distin>
guished Know Nothing of this Stale
Zone Welsh deliver harangue. and in
abiding to the Northern section Of the
Democratic party said, g that he would
rejoice to see every Northern Democrat
a beggar, and that he would refuse the
crumbs that fall from his table, to Stephen
A. Douglas. Geo. Medill or Dr. Odds if
they were starving, and he hoped yet to
See poor slaves that are now drudging in
the South. rise up from bondage and
drive the Northern Doughfaces. And
such wild, disorganizing sentiments are
used by all of the ranting fusionists, here,
and in all other portions of the State.
The Cincinnati Times in trying to make
it appear that there is national Know
Nothing party, by having the name Of
old Allen Trimble paraded at the head Of
its columns-butit is sham, regular
cheat there is no such party in existence,
and never can be, which the Northern
and Southern people well know. and
which will fairly come to light whenever
the two sections attempt to unite on a
man for the Presidency. The truth is,
the Times like many other popular pa
pers, is bought up by number of veal.
thy wire-workiug demagogues, who wish
TO deceive the Southern Know Nothings,
aud whose chief aim is nomination for
the Presidency by that party. They know
that the Times is extensively circulated
in the Southern States, where butfew 9TH
er political Nortern papers are taken, and
that the southern Wings will swallow
down the deception, and think it is the
same old coon in the North that it "used
to was,' only that it has swelled by the
hosts of young and curious Democrats
that have gone over to welcome his new
name. The contest here lies between
Medill and Chase, TrimbIe is undoubred-
ly out of the question, and will only get
portion Of the old line Wings and some
scattering Know Nothing to support him,
which all of the papers that advocate his
cause are we'll aware.
They thought for time.in the North,
| that they could sncceed in Ioco;y;Drr tL..