Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-04-20
DODDRlDGE
For the Enquirer.
TILE KNOW-NOTHlNG ABOLITION PARTY

For me Enquirer.
TIE KNOW-SOTHING ABOLITION PARTY
Mrssys. Editors: | see Il long editorial in the Pen
nv Post of the 18th, endeavoring TO prove that tbs
Know ~othin9s were tho rro-slavery party, and, Ec,
T,JEa, the Democratic party the anti.sluvcry. Now hOw
funny. How green he must think the people of Virgil.
nia are, when they knO~ what party, both in the
North as we'll rs in the South, has always stood NJ
for the interest of, and done every thing for the
South tha. !Ias ever been accomplished. Where would
have been, I ask in all candor, tho Fugitive Slave
Law, Z i: had been left to the opponents Of the Dem.
cratic pa-tyl Where would have been the repeal OF
the odious and unjust Missouri Restriction, and the
passage Of the Kansas Bill, thereby giving the
Sou:lron the right TO ~cmigrntc TO any territory Of the
United States with h- slaves, il they had been left
TO the opponents of the Democratic party! Who aid
ed the South in passing these measures! Were they the
opponents Of the Democratic partly No, indeed not
one single Wing North, or Abolitionist who nov conf
pose the know-Notling party, can be found in favor
Of those measures: and still the Know. Nothinss
South say they are the pro-,lavery party. lftl,cy are,
all | have TO say il, they are certainly acting with
the un,i-slayery party North, in oppo.lng the Dem
ocra;ic party, who have heretofore uniformly been
tho true friends OF the South.
If the Know-NOthings ure real tr"Hd, of the South,
they are, certainly, very strange trismdS-thcy take
very curious ways of showing their iricndship-tur
they invariably, when they have the opportunity,
vote against and turn out, las they have done III all
the reccn; rlcc,ions) the friends aud supporters OF the
NDNli-hstA We N"I lfol'' ~ - u' '''t
friends. Now, | will ask Know o,hingism if II is
really satisfied with the recent elections North! Does
it prefer Trumbul To Shields, or Seward 10 ID. ).
Dickinson, or Pollock to Bigler, or Durkce t.
Dodgc7 The last named in each State woH!d GER
tainly have been elected by the Dcmocra:"-ihe first
hare G,ta ,Iccted by the Know o.ll:ngs over the first.
roe, also, in tive Penny Post of the 2ith, list OF
the STATE. which have voted for Knnw-EU,ainGi.m in
tho :. ape of i pyramid, commencing with Maine nj
the toy ,li endins with Massachusetts at the b"sc,
and huzA.:..g and rejoicing over what Sam hue nc'
complished. Now, | have no doubt, all the true
sricnds Of tho South feel more like weeping over such
n monument, when they behold such blocks in the
monunent-put there, too, by sam Ia self-styled pro-
slavery urganiza!iUn) aH Pollock Of Pennsylvania,
Seward of New York, Gardner aud Wilson Of Massa-
]chusc,ia, and not 4 single block in Sans monument
of Southern comPhrr,oH. aud. in New Hampshire,
they have another block all cut out Ia add, viz J.
p. iIale-and mark you, If he is rot elected by the
Know-NOthing Legislature, elect of New Hampshire.
We are in hopes Old Virginia will not have a place in
such C monument. Instead of n monument Of merit,
il should Lc e "tOmLtone" Of know-No,hingism.
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