The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1855-03-02

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.rous efforts are abandoned the better
i'll it be for US and those who are to fol. i
w us in this heritage of freedom" a
= l.
he Political Aspect in Ohio becoming
Interesting.
The fusion Of. last year is getting into
npid confusion this year, and the prospect !
now, that a very decided majority of
he people of Ohio will be rallied against |
he secret, bigoted Know Nothing Order
# politicians. Mr. WADE, the Free Soii1
Of Congress from the Cleveland
district, writes home the following emphat-d
c letter. Mr.. Wade, in last October, was
reelected to Congress, by a powerful ma
jofity, by "a FUTON Of all the isms of that
region. Now, the Know Nothings have
just held State meeting in Columbus, and
are setting up for themselves, while the
Free soilers are ra,lying their forces I'M
direct hostility. to the dark and secret
Order. e .'t''@' .
r From the Ghlrdon Democrat
WASHINGTON, Feb. Is, 1855. Z
j. S. WRIe4T, Esq.--DEAR SIR have
taken the liberty to toward to you the
Washington Organ, the daily Know Moth
ing paper published at this place. and claim.
inc to be the national organ" Of the
Order. You will sec that its great effort
is to ignore, entirely, the, question of sla-
very. Indeed, il this paper be the true
exponent of the views Of the Know Moth
ings, then every question hitherto consid-
cred of national concern, is to be sunk
under the all-important question OF the
supremacy of 10000, 600 Of Native Amer
leans over 100000 foreigners. The
thing is too preposterous for men Of sense
to entertain for moment. ! feel conf
dent that the intelligent people of North
ern Ohio have maintained common schools
in their midst too long to be humbugged
| by a sham SO utterly unreal as this. Bul
Southern politicians have no higher opin-
| ion of the farmers and mechanics of the
free States, than to expect them to bt
taken in by just such shabby gull tray
and with this opinion Know Nothingisn
is running like wild fire through the slayt
States.
The census Of 1850 shows that ther'
are 1og foreigners in the free States 70 on
in the slave States, The shareholders
alarm at foreign influence" therefore, i
either hypocrisy Or a folly, and there j
no escape from this dilemma,
The inference from this newborn anti
foreign zeal among the shareholders, CA
be accounted for on but one hypothesis
and that is, their expectation that this yea
will swallow up anti-slavery at the North
and they, the shareholders, wil be IN
condition to take the Know Nothing move
ment under their own patronage, and s
use it as to overthrow the anti-slayer,
movement in the free States, and thereb,
reinstate the Joint domination OF dough
faceism and overseerism.
[ have no fears that among a popula
ton so intelligent, and SO thoroughly i'm
bued with the anti-slavery element as thos
of Northern Ohio, this anti-foreign move
ment can be converted to the base uses Z
the slavery propagandisls. / have not
therefore, participated in the alarm of tn
National. Era, and others Of our ant
slavery papers, on this subject. My cor
fdence in the integrity and intelligence
the people of the free States is unabate(
and | cannot and will not belieye that the
are prepared to sacrifice their hostility
the real evils and the real danger of th
spread of human bondage, to the hypocri
ical and senseless howlings of the slave
holders and doughfaces against the evils
foreign inAuence-an influence never "
made formidable 10 any interest of IL
country, save only that Of human freedol
and not to this, but under the lead Of Il
newborn patriots who are now utterm
such dolorous wall over the evils grow
ing out of the presence of so many 70
eigners among us. True. none more sen
ible that the voting anti-slavery men Ca
have felt the crushing weight at the ballo
hoy. nf ignorant foreign dupes Of our III
tive-born demagogues.
4 But this delusion of the foreigner cou
not last; and this the tools and toadies
slavery have been sagacious enough
discover and hence their efforts to get l
crusade against foreigners, as dive
, sion in favor of the sinking cause of 81
. very propagandism. Do not let the peoI
. of the glorious old Reserve be cheated o
of their birth right by ony cry for he
: aoming as it does, from the half-strangl
i Shareholder. No, let us dispose Of the
. = our great and formidable enemies, and '
will then easily take care of the papis
: and whoever else may be dangerous
i impartial civil liberty. E. WADE.
n AID AND COMFORT FROM SOUTHERN sLAvl
h - Cavv poal,r n oro vn nntinpd th,. fact n