The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1855-07-06
A Know Nothing Resolution.

A Know Nothing Resolution.
We ask the serious attention of --E'E oou'''er"
,ho rou---mg resolution introduced by the
immaculate Editor of the Know Nothing Organ,
before the late National Abolition, Sumalian,
Knoa0 Nothing Convention, which recently as.
sembed al the City OF Philadelphia -
Resolved, &c That this National Council without
expressing any opinion upon the constituronaIity
OF the Missouri Compromise, as original propo-
sirion, but, considering the repeal of said Compro-
mise mpolilic and wise, and there existing dou bis
To The pracIi6ility and exPediency of restoring
said Compromise by Au,c, this National Council
hereby declares, that the American party ought
not to either inSiM upon, urge, require, Tie cd.
mission Of any Territory into The Union as q
sLaye State pcbich AeS North Of the Compromise
line i; and that, on the other hand, said party " i'll
Interpose objection to the admission of any
Territory into the Union as slave State, which
lies South Of said Compromise line 5hus virtu-
ally restoring. VithOut legislation, the original
com11act anuoe bet,ceen The North and South IN
$780,
Now what does the above resolution mean,
but that the Know Nothing. Organ, which is held
up for its devotion TO the South, was and is will
ling 10 surrender ground Of the most vital i'm
before the country, is the admission of Kansas into
the Union as State. Under the lead of Doug.
las and other noble Northern men, the sec,ional
and degrading line Of the Missouri Compromise
was blotted out, and thereby to Southerners was
conceded, as an &C; OF simple JUSTICE the right to
carry their property into the Territory. In the
progress of time and in spite of the organized i'm
igration movements of New England Abotonists,
The Southern men have acquired ioothold in
Kansas by the popular vote, with a bright pros.
pect of establishing their rights under the conslf-
tuition which gives equal protection to all sorts of
property. Just at this important crisis when the
South is about TO have justice done to her citizens,
such friends Of the South as Kenneth Rayner and
the American Organ, step forward and denounce
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise as a blum.
der" and as ''the most reckless act of legislation
recorded in American history
The American Organ goes still farther and calls
upon the whole Know Nothing organization TO
wipe out practically this awful s. bluader," and to
virtually restore without legislation the original
Compact made between the North and South in
ls2O-in other words to give new life 20 the de,
grading Missouri Compromise, and to restore
gross and unqualified act Of injustice and degra-
datiQn TO the South and all this TO copcrIiate the
aboIlllonists, and to give peace and harmony to
the great Know Nothing party. Blu; the reasons
given are if possible more monsirous than the
proposition ITSELF They are that the whole ques
Ion is a mere shadow Of an abstraction that all
the Southern men in the Philadelphia Council ar.
gued that Kansas could not be slave State, and
that not one single member Of the Council was
heard TO express a wish that Kansas should DC
slave State.
What an extraordinary representation The South
had in the Council men who instead of standing
by the South in the hour Of trial and danger, and
when by the Union OF her sons the South might
acquire practical justice and benefit, threw down
their arms TO the abolitionsts and surrendered al
discretion, all the rights Of the South Accord
ing TO the Organ, every representative of tho
South surrendered the whole question, and threw
the whole weight of his position into the anti
slavery scale, so far as Kansas is concerned
Is not the Organ condemned out of its own
mouth, in the opinion Of every true Southern man.
when such sentiments we have above quoted
are publicly proclaimed the VOICE Of even the
Know Norhings Of The South, how can they expect
to dupe the South by hoLLoac platforms into an
utilization with detestabIe a party1 Every
step taken 10 patch up the dsjoin;ed fragments of
"Sqns," exposes the deception in a new and more
damping light. The whole concern is a yrelched
cheat, and the whole South will, like Virginia, re-
pudiate aud spit upon it,"