Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-08-18
..NEvER THROW AWAY YOUR DIRTY
WATER UNTIL YOU ARE SURE OF
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WATER UNTIL You ARE SURE OF
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Most of the accepted adages originated in re-
mote antiquity They were the suggestions Of
good natural and common observation
They have come up TO through the middle
ages, and been approved and emphasized by
modern times.
Had the Wing party only appreciated and ap-
piled the adage that stands at the head of these
lines, the Wing party would still have been alive.
But, disheartened by defeats, dispirited by re-
verses, and hating those who had defeated and
Inundated them, they most hsanely quit their
principles, abandoned their name, obliterated
their antecedents, and went pell-mell into that
political monstrosity called now-nothingism.
Its embraces the embraces Of political death
We are aware that many of the better sort of
Wings refused to affiliate with this new party.
They abhored its name, they despised its pro-
iessed principles, and their Every gorge rose at
the personal associations it would impose on them
But the bulk and body of them ran to it as rats
would run, swim, from a sinking ship But
the instincts o.. rats are unerring-those of the
Wings were not instincts but the suggestions of
despair.
Let them briefly review with us the course and
progress Of this party whose un-American doc
trines they have espoused, and with whom they
have embarked their fortunes
The new party achieved some successes in the
North, and they turned out TO be abolition
triumphs. They left their gates wide open in
order that all might enter who would call them
selves Know -nothings, and 10 and behold! there
was perfect swarm of Abolitonists and Free
sollers. They We're more astnte than the Know
nothings, and ayailed themselves of their mach-
merry to compass their wicked ends No tests
we're required Of them, and they went in, as it
were, with free tickets. They completely abo-
litionizcd the Order in the free States, and only
quit il at the National Convention in Pennsylva-
MIA after having sucked out all its vital juices
Having taken the kernel, they threw the shell
into the faces Of the Southern Know-nothings,
and posted of 10 join the 'know something's, !"
or the Abolitonists, who were then in session at
Cleveland.
Pocketing their patriotic rage well as they
could, the Southern Know nothings, aided by a
bakers dozen Of amphbious members of the
order from some of the non-slaveholding States,
made platform in which they most politely ac-
knowledged- God, but most impolitely left the
South to its fate hoping thereby TO conciliate the
North.
After doing this, they went home to their con-
stituents. Elections coming on in those
States, and they went home to work. But how
have those elections turned out: Only one OF
them, (and the only Southern State that will J
Kentucky, Las declared for them. Kentucky
in which the most murderous mob that ever oc
CURED in the South was gotten up to help them
Kentucky has ALWAYS plumed herself upon hei
devotion to Clay. The son and representative Of
that statesman and patriot opposed Knor-nOih.
ngism. In the person Of the son the shade o.
the majestic father was outraged
Beaten in Virginia, in North Carolina, in Ala.
bama, in Tennessee, and in Texas, they have
succeeded in Kentucky Great and grare VIC
tory for it is the grurs of many loyal naturalzed
citizens who would have split the last drop o.
their blood for our common country.
That the Know-nothings will carry any oihel
slave State, have no idea. We look upor
them broken, denationa!ized, crushed-dead.
What they will now do, is a matter Of curious
inquiry. That they will maintain their organi.
Zation, we have not the most distant idea The
newspapers that have espoused their cause and
embarked their hopes and fortunes in it, will Of
course, put the best face on the crushing disas
tiers of that young monster, Know nothingism
Their bread and meat depend on it, The words
Of encouragement with which they teen day
after day are the suggestions only Of their owr
sehshness. They flatter the order, that il may
be kept from disbanding If il dies, they die
and their speculatons will fail So there Is on,
think perfectly clear; il Is that the encouraging
words Of the Know nothing organs are the word.
Of hypocrisy and selfshness The whole state
ment, argument, and deduction, may be put into
sentence Thus
WHAT Is THE USE OF KNow-NoTH
INC ORGANS, WHEN THERE IS No
KNOW NOTHING PARITY
Looking, then, upon this party as discounted
and dispersed, the question is, what party
will be constructed Of the materials that com
posed IT.
There are already indications at the North Of
effort to relapse into old-fashioned Whiggery
and, in order TO gain vital element, to ally more
plainly and uneqivocally than ever old fashioned
Whiggery, with rank Abolitionism. At the
South there are distinct indications Of any
kind or character that we know Of Indeed, the
battle has just been fought in the South, and the
Southern wing of the order has not yet had time
TO rally It's wits, If wits il possesses. Its wounds
It's bruises, and It's purifying sores, have TO BE-
attended 70.
"Where shall We go'" is the great question tc
be determined, "for We cannot maintain an or
ganzation that wooed Us only TO deceive and
won us only TO destroy" Yes, where will the
men who composed il 90; for % somewhere they
must, They have lost all their true, able, and
trusted leaders; they have debauched all the fool
ish young Democrats, and ruined all the ambi-
lions young Wings that joined them Ii is for
them, not for us, 10 determine where they will
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But one word we have to speak TO them. II il
word of warning II is this: The timbers Of an
old ship, or of haunted house, bad material
out Of which to reconstruct. Disasters will