The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-02-09
rim Mss lPpIAN AND Ti KNOW



aisaippian, q create the impression that south
ern men ana Mtssissppiqns are IN league with
the Abolitionists Of the North, we feel il ou
duty q defend them, with might and main, from
80 shameless "a accusation. The charge. TOO,
comes with a bad ZEE from those who prefer ii
from the Missssppian and the Locofoco press
generally, when the fact is that they themselves
stand side ~ side. 'scheek 81 jowl,' with the
Tribune, The National Era, tie Albany Evening
Journal, and nearly the whole host Of Northern
Abolitionists d determined and reckless oppc-
sition to the Know Nothing organization We
say, Tint though knowing nothing Of the move
ments and policy Of the Know Nothing party.
yet, when we see such unfounded and calunlni-
uous ass aults made upon those who belong to
that party at the South, we feel constrained to
repel them with the Indignation and contempt
they deserve we have frequently cited ample
evidence on that point from some Of the leading
and most influential Abolition journals at the
North enough, we should think, to satisfy and
convince tile most preiudiced and bigoted anti
Know Nothing IN the State. Butwe we're mis-
taken---the more facts you produce against the
charge they make, the more freely they indulge
in denunciations 81 Know Nothingisn, as the
rankest, most dangerous, and most despieable
species Of Abolitonisn. This, however IS to
be expected from desperate men in a desperate
cause.
But i is On old trick---one that the Demo-
cratic organs never fail to resort to on all occas
sions when they think the interests Of the party
demand. They have denounced the Wing party
Of the South as Abolitionists and all for politi-
cal effect, and when they themselves believed
not word Of the tale they were telling. And
soft is with Southern Know Nothings---they,
too, are discovered to be Abolitionists. But the
miserable story won't bear repeating much long,
er---it is daomed---all intelligent men now boot
and scott at it.
But we wish, in behalf Of those men who
compose the Know Nothing order II
and the intersst q tlut ana u CITE an
extract ron No. the Abolition
81 81 Ellington q order to show
what Northern fanatics and destructives think
of the new Ism, as Democrats delight to call it.
The Era maintains that the Know Nothing
will seriously diminish immigration
from Europe; and that the diminution of immi-
grafton viii materially subtract from the politi-
cal power Of the North, and materially weaken
the strength of the anti-slayery alliance there,
because most foreigners settle in the North, and
are opposed to the slave institutions of the
South. This is a very good argument for an
Abolitionist, like the Era man; but why South
ern men should denounce and ridicule move
ment which AboItionists say is calculated and
to suppress slavery agitation, to over
throw the Abolition party and to blast the Abo-
Iition cause, is something which we are utterly
unable to comprehend. But the extract f1om
the Era speaks for itself;
"Haye they forgotten that the foreign immi-
grants direct their steps to the free States! That
The vast preponderanee Of their population over
hat of the slave States, the superiority Of their
political power, and the multiplication of free
States, with an increase of their power in the
Senate, are largely attributable to the influx of
DIEf4l la4AtAl8 Tic lCAA1N9 VI
1867 as a basis for calculation, the political
,oWer secured to the slave States by the three
ifths' representation of slaves, was balanced, |
md little more, BY the addition to the political
lower of the free States BY the foreign-born
,opnIation! The shareholders have not forgot
en- IT That which, more than anything else, /
rins their favor the Know Nothing movement,
econcilnp them almost to the secYesy of the
Order. is its tendency to reduce the tide Of for
ion immigration and thereby retard the growth
f the free States. The demonstration among
he German naturalized citizens against Slavery
ending the Nebraska Bill, awakened the APP +
rehension that the time might come when the
Weight of the naturalized vote might be thrown
nto the scale Of Freedom.
There it is. IF Know Nothingisn can break
p the nest Of Abolition pirates at the North
nd destroy their meat and drink, we, at least
hall not feel called upon to say much against
!. But where stand the Mississippian and those
Democrats that denounce the Know Nothings
s Abolitonists.
HonR1B1E OArH "a beautiful young woman
amed sullivan ii San Francisco lately inflicted
70 desperate stabs with knife upon man
Serrison. He had promised her marriage and
hen left her to despair and ruin. Upon her
rest letter directed to her false lover was
,und upon her. person, and from it could be
cen
How hate can burn
In hearts once changed from soft to stern,
And I'll the false and fatal zeal
The convert to revenge can feel.
Now, Harry, to tell you that have loved you
--tElat / would have laid down my life for you
bat II sickness bud laid You On q bed would
ave worked for you and tended You as the fond
mother would her child that If crime or re-
had been yours would have clung to you