The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-05-12

Till q broad pinioned Eagle descended and nuns
? Round the once happy craft like an angel of light;
81 Inspiring his army these monsters to STAY,
Or perish rs with the invaders they fight s..S
To keep them from tearing her colors away!
.AMER1CANus.
Arc tho 1s.ao,Y-Notl,ings Aboiitionists!
The standing charge, the daily charge, made
by the Southern anti-know-Nothing organs
against the KNOWN othing party of the North,
is that it is an abolition or tree-soil party.
Throughout the whole South there is not a
single anti Known othing organ that does not
press this charge upon all possible occasions,
in season aid out Of season. 1t is the main
Charge, indeed the one charge, upon which the
Southern anti Known Nothing leaders rely Tor
success. Take it away from them, and they
have little lcft.-And it should be taken away.
from them. 1t is as false and calumnious a
Charge as the very genius of mendacity aud
malice could invent. Whatever sins the mass
of the Known otiing party Of the North may
have to answer for, here or hereafter, abolition
ism is not once Of them. Undoubtedly there are
abolitionists among them, and undoubtedly in
some few localities the abolitionists predominant
among them /; but take the whole OF the Know
Nothing party of The North together. and it is
sounder at heart, sounder i'll principle, and
soullder in action upon the greet slavery issues,
than any other party in that section has ever been
anown to be. Its strong efforts to nationalize
Itself by sinking the slavery agitation so as to
be able to harmonize with the know-Nothlngs
of the South have been and still continue to
be very great, and tic degree oil its success
is cheering to TIE entire patriotism CT the ma
ton. Ii the slavery agitation is eyer to be
allayed, that mighty work is certainly TO be ac-
complislel by what is called the American
party, which il We are correctly informed now
requires Of all its members a solemn obligation
to adhere to the Constitution and the Union in
any and every emergency that may arise.
If the Northern Known things were aboli-
tienists or frpe,soi.ers, they would not, as they
are accused If doing, seek to discourage the
immigrationof foreign hofdes into this country.
They know as everybody else does, that nine
tenths Of the immigrants who land in armies
selves were abclitionists, and were looking
promoting abolitionism, they would hail with
Joy the coming Of these foreign allies, and Pro-
mote it to the 'eytent Of their power. Ii they
Nele pon'loilsts' my %pulo 'Aroa III o''r
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chief supply. They would stretch forth their
arms to the people Of foreign lands, all of whom
are abolitionists, to come over and aid in The
destruction OF slavery. To say that the Amer
lean party is an abolition party, and that ii is
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,anonrcn thn Knuv. Nnth;nm ,,orty or tbn Nor,b
a. y nro.sIavnrr mortS nran na,. roho,no..t /.
md Tindirt;rciv # nossih1c than tie So,tbo,y
enemies 1ann,,nce il az . f,4.aso;l nnrtv. Take
u, the y;oJcnr' hitter and ina,,anT;ai rrea.s'ij
orsnns Of thc com,+rr take mn fhn W,,vl;noIe,
EafjpoaI I'm. thc NewYork Tril,ana The Sew
York l5ycninn Posi-, tlo Sihnny Even;nr .jnnr-
mi. the BuHalo E,ynross The G}evpland e,dar
tho Cleveland pluinIealnr etc atc atr From
nj, bn l., n,nraa . tain IN, Tho scoachas and let.
trrs If tlr oT7ol;tion o,atGrs .rd Ja,a,moa,,es
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.,nd Ill thcsa ,,aos,,;I o,at-rs and la1 r It, ~;a =.
bare iiercc in thcir danunc;af;nns ,e tha Ennu.
NotIinm r.rtv RI tha Nnrth ,uot nnlr q . wv
aljv of sI,yery and a fHo nj free nS;liSm bnt ~.
,hS direyt and mos, donrero,,s foe that nor,l,arn
trrc-soiIism has ever been caiIcd an to encn,n.
,er.-We have before ms eytrncts from the do.
Carnations Of The northern frpe-soil nowsnonrrs
and leaders, to prove all, and more than all,
that we have here said but we could not nuh.
ISL them without making this article much too
long to be generally read.