Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-06-15
The Relation between Know Nottingham
AbOlitiOnlsm.

The Relation between Know otnInslsTn and
AbOlitonIsm.
For the purpose of imposing southern and
exerng influence the elections pending in that
section of the Union, the INSCRIPTIONS leaders of
know nothingl>m persist in denying the close sympa-
thy of their order in the free States with abolition
ism Mr.. VIM w. Walk, know-nothing meT Der
of Congress in New York to the rescue of the
secret order in North Carolina, by publishing letter
which he Tepes the charge that the know nothing
party at the North is tainted with aboIitonism The
New York Tribune, the great champion of Sewardsm,
takes issue with Mr. Walk. From It's reply
tract the following, which will be of service 10 south
ern men in arriving at correct conclusions
Now, will admit, for the sake of argument
that The opinion OF Mr.. Walk Is perfectly correct
respects the know. nothnSs of New York though even
he cannot pretend that the order can command ma
iorty of the electors of the State Here it is true
that the order is in the hands of pro-savery poltic
and Office seekers, who never having got Office
otherwise, have embraced the new party desperately
as the sole chance of sating their greedy ambition at
| the public crib In New York national know moth
ingsm conceived and brought forth it's last great
effort having been the initiation of Mr., Fillmore, amid
tears and other sOemntes, into the third degree of
the mysterious brotherhood. But when we turn to
the other States of the North there is not one except
it may be New Jersey, where the edrivng inter-
est Can muster men enough to make respectable re-
giment. Certainly it has foothod in Massachusetts
, where Governor Gardner cherishes the solemn
conviction that the great duty of Congress is not only
to prohibit slavery in every Territory under
troll, but otherwise to do everything which can tend
to make freedom national and slavery sectional.'-
Nor has it any strength in Maine, where the Stale
council OF the order has just passed such resolutions
as the following:
6. RESOLVED, That the Declaration of independence,
the tone and tenor of the constitutions the ordinance
of 1887 the words and deeds of the founders of this
republic, all indicate that forefathers intended
that slavery should be sectional, lot national-empo-
I rary not permanent.
! :" Resolved, That we SolemnIy protest against the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, the passage OF
the Nebraska-Kansas BILL and the fugtive-save law
as violations Of the rights of the free States and tend
ing TO the destruction Of the free institutions OF
country.
as Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to use our
utmost eXerons to free national Territories from
the curse of slavery, and that we will never consent
under any circumstances to the admission of another
slave State TO this Union
/ "' Resolved, That any attempt to commit our order
in the free States to the advancement of the Interests
of slavery, to ignore it political question, to stamp
it as side issue, TO enjon silence upon US in res
pect 10 its evils aud encroachments deserves and re-
ceves our sternest disapprobation and dissent
Il ''These propositions rather too srong to be CT
ted by Mr. Walk but we apprehend that they do nc
more than express the feelings of the mass Of
men who have seen fit to Join the order in all the free
States, with the single exception of New York, and
perhaps New Jersey. Throughout New Eng land
Ohio Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa. the great
body of the know -nOthngs animated by the same
spirit the slavery question those of Maine anc
/ Massachusetts,
RHODE ISLAND Town ELECTIoNs-In Cumberland
the know nothings succeeded by majority muct