Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-12
From the Louisville journal.

The standing charge the daily charge, made py
he Southern anti now Nothing organs against
The Know Nothing party Of the North, d that u 70
an abolition or keesoh party. Throughout tne
whole South there is not single anti-knoW-Noin,
Ing organ that does not press this charge upon al
possible occasions, in season and out of season. II
Is the main charge, indeed the one charge, upon
which the Southern anti Know Nothing leaders re-
Iy for success. Take IL away from them, and
they have little left. And II should be taken
away from them. 1t Is as false and calum-
NOUS charge as the very genius of mendacity
and malice could invent Whatever sims the
mass of the Know-N Nothing party Of the North
NAV have 10 answer for here or hereafter, aboli-
tionism is not one Of them: Undoubtedly there
are aboltionists among them, and undoubtedly In
some few localities the abolitionists predominate
among them. but take the whole Of the Know
Nothing party of the North together, and Il Is
sounder at heart sounder in principle, ana sounder
in action upon the great slavery issues than any
other party In that section has ever been known TO
he Ia sirona efforts 10 nationalize itself by sink
inc the slavery agitation as to be able TO har-
monize with the Know-Nothingism OF the South
have been and still continue to be very great, ana
the degree of its success is cheering 10 the entire
patriotism of the nation II the slavery agitation
Il destined ever to be allayed, that mighty work 10
certainly to be accomplished by what Is called the
American party which, if we are correctly INFORM,
CATION to adhere to the Constitution and the Union
N any and every emergency that may arise.
If the Northern Know.N othings were abolition
;sts or free-solers they would not as they are ac-
cused of doing, seek TO discourage the immigration
Of foreign hordes into this country. They know,
as everybody else does, that nine-tenths OF the I'M
migrants who land in armies on our shores are
abolitionists, and, II they themselves were Adolf
tionists. and were looking around them for the
most eifectual means of promoting aboitonlsm,
they would hail with Joy the coming OF these ior-
cion allies and promote 1t to the extent OF their
mower. If they were abolitionists, they would
| throw no conceivable impeachment in the way OF
the rushing stream by which the foul lake OF aDo-
litonism in this country has received and is recev-
ing its chief supply They would stretch forth
their arms to the people of foreign lands, all Oh
whom are abolitionists, to come over and aid In
the destruction of slavery. To say that the Amer
can marty "a an abolition party and that it 10 strug.
/ Cling at the same time to shut out the tremendous
tide of foreign abotonists setting upon our shores
| is nothing less than INDUSTRIOUS absurdlty.
We have repeatedly stated the fact, fact which
defes contradiction that alt OF the regular iree-
/ soil organs. which surely ought TO know who their
own friends are, and Of oil the
freesoil leaders of the North, who certainly know
| who their co.workers are denounce the Know
Nothing party of the North rs pro-slavery party
even more yehemently and vndictively If possible
than its southern enemies denounce it as freesoil
party. Take up the violent, bitter, and influential
freesoil organs Of the country take up the Wash
inoton National Era, the New York Tribune, the
New York Evening Post, the Albany Evening
journal, the Buffalo Express, the Cleveland Lead
err. the Cleveland Plandealer, &C.. &c, &c, from
alpha to omega take up the speeches, and letters
Of the abolition orators, and demagogues, take up
those of Seward and Wade, and Giddings, and
Chase, and Sumner and you will find that all these
freesoil newspaper organs and all these freesoh ora
4 tors and etter-wrters are fierce in their denunci-
atoms Of the Know-Nothing party of the North,
not only as an ally Of slavery and foe of free
soilism. but as the direst and most dangerous foe
that northern freesoilism has ever been called on
to encounter. We have before us extracts from
the declarations Of these northern freesoil news
papers and leaders, to prove all and more than all,
| that we have here said but we could not publish
them without making this article much too long to
| be generally read.
/ The overwhelming mass then of Northern Abo-
litionsm is deadly In its hostility TO the Know
i Nothing or American party. And we say with the
| distinguished editor of the Richmond (Va.) Wing,
| that we are at loss to conceive how any honest
| Southern man, with this fact staring him broadly
in the fce can unite with the Northern enemies of
the South in denouncing for abolitionism party
which those enemies describe as tending to repress
| agitation, to put down fanaticism, and blast the
hopes of the Abolition party. This ground they
all take, from Seward down to the petties of Sew
ards hunkeys; and urge IL upon the Northern
people with all the zeal and fury characteristic of
\ abolition madmen. We have in former numbers
quoted from Seward, from Greeley from Adams,
from Weed and host Of others known TO be de-
| termined and inveterate enemies of the South and
Southern institutions and they all as we have said
without solitary exception, concur In denouncing
I the Know-Nothing movement inimical 10 abo-
litionism and favorable 10 the South and agree in
the policy Of opposing It at all hazards and to the
last extremity. /.
Is this policy importing nothing the part
oethe abolitionlsts at the North : Has Il indeed
| no important significance No motive No OBJ
jectf IL II reasonable 10 suppose that these abo-
lition fanatics would be willing to throw cold water
on great popular movement which promised to
inure TO the benefit Of them or their cause Have
they ever been guilty Of such folly before. Such
downright stupidityf Such lack Of common sense
and common sagacityf Why, who doubts the
wdness, the penetration, the political foresight
Of William II. Seward Who, in all the South,
takes Greeley 10 be a fool Who considers Weed
wanting in cunning Who regards either silly
enough not TO perceive when movement or par
ty Is calculated to promote the progress Of abo-
litionism And who has ever known either Of
them not TO catch eagerly at any and everything
which could be used 10 advance their schemes and
inhict injury upon the South This being so, why
have they not caught convulsiyely at know-Noth-
ingism, IL as alleged, the Know Nothing movement
is an abolition movementf Is not their conduct
in this respect totally and utterly incomprehens-
bleS Can il be accounted for upon any hypothc-
sis whatever, consistent with the stale and far
fetched allegation Of the Democratic press at the
South
There may be errors, and important ones, in the
creed Of the Know-Nothing or American party,
but we again say that party Of sounder nstionai-
ty does not exist. Some Of the Democratic organs
and leaders in Kentucky denounce II as an aboli-
ton party but this Is always the one great weapon
Of their warfare against any and every man or party
that they think proper 70 oppose. They denounced
General Harrison as an aboltionist in lS40 they
denounced Mr.. Clay as an abolitionist in 1874,
they denounced General Taylor as aboltionist
in lS4S, they denounced General Scott as an abo-
litionist in 1882, they denounced the whole Wing
party as Of abolitionists in zach and all Of
those years and have been thus denouncing II un-
Ill within the last few weeks and they would de
nounce Christianity itself as sbolitionism II they
believed that they could thereby ir their clutches
upon the political spoils Of the nation
Arrnrr TO DFTAN sr1rErs SLAyrs or a WRIT