The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-01

tvesaye law or 10 abolish slavery in the District
Columbia, to prevent the admission Of slave
States shows that be regardless Of the interests Of
the section in which he lives and indifferent TO the pre-
servation Of the federal Union. Whilst Mr. Wilson and
his abolition associates disclaa all ideas Of interfering
with slavery In the States the necessary consequences Of
the OF their avowed designs must be It's al
innate abolition Ia the States We need not elaborate this
proposition lis truth viii strike every mind capable Of
Election Hence repeat with emphasis that
no southern who understands the real puor Of the
nothing platform Of Mr. Wilson maintain his
nexion with that organization without foreiting all claim
10 friendship for southern institutions
In the next place we maintain tina, The recent develop
meats AS to the close affinity between abolionsm and
in connexion with the letter Of Senator
Wilson and its formal endorsement by the abolition Lead
ers yusfes the belief that the ultimate interference with
slavery main object sought be accomplished by the
diffusion Of know-nohing lodges through the South To
disclose such an obec, would necessarily defeat It's
pishmen and hence is not only essential to its success
that profound secrecy should be maintained but avoid
arousng the wachful suspicious OF southern men, il Is
deemed important put forth professions OF devotion to
State rights and to congressional non-intererence With
slavery in the southern States To gain foohod in the
South abolitonm willing TO avail itself of the popular
preudces against the influence OF excessive foreign i'm
migration and Of the Roman Catholic religion but that il
has object accomplish beyond these questions cannot
be credited by any who comprehend the true nature of alb
oonsm. Opposition to slavery is its great original and
paramount sentiment Whatever efforts it makes, what
ever combinations coalitions it forms, whatever phases
assumes, it looks ultimately to the accomplishment
Of one grand ohest--the abolition of slavery in the
southern States When it processes to repudiate the
idea Of interfering with southern institutions by means
Of congressional action it does not thereby abandon
its Fixed and immutabe purpose of accomplishing its
object in some way When its readiness to sup
port the doctrine of State rights and TO leave the subject
Of slavery to the States where exists it does not pledge
itself TO abstain from devisng and prosecuting means
within the slave States to accomplish its ends by State
legislation We need not enumerae the many ways by
which the abotonsts seeking years create
and duse amongst southern men feeling OF opposiuon
to slavery. We look upon the sending OF know-nothng
organizations into the South means OF concentrating
and giving efficiency to the antsavery feeling supposed
exist in large portion OF the southern population
The secrecy which gives to knownothngism its chief
element of has characterized the influences hereto
directed TO the creating Of southern antslavery SEN
ment Newspapers pamphlets books and every species of
cheap literature mbued with ant-sayery doctrines have
been silently but extensively circulated whilst antislavey
missionaries in the persons Of and
Misunderstanding agents and preachers have found their
way and exerted their influence upon the South In
connection with these facts TO be borne in mind that
the larger portion of the people Of the South not
ers Of slaves are therefore, supposed by abolition
lists to be directly interested the side of slavery To
concentrate and render effective whatever antislavey
feeling exists in the southern States with the view u
maey Of producing division amongst the southern people
constitutes Judgment the main purpose Of the abo
onsts who seeking to send the know-nothng organ
zation the southern States If there be in the South
the material Of antsavery party the wit of man could
not devise ingenious plan for its development i'm
bodmen and efficiency for action than that contained in
the know-nothng organization That the abolitionists
believe there is such party there and that they seek
ing through the knownothng organization to enable it to
hold the balance of power between the two parties in the
southern States we think the facts and the reasoning
have add uced fully establish We submit the conclusion
to which we have arrived the calm and discriminating
Judgment southern men, with the earnest hope that they
may see danger which them before its fearful
consequences have involved them in iretrieyabe ruin.