The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1855-05-19
False and Fatal I0gic.

We have been not little interested at the hardi-
hood with which the Louisville Journal enforccs
know nothing doctrines upon the South. A late
number of that paper contains an article from which
we make few extracts a. choice specimens of truth
and candor
But since that time (thc 23d of February
the American party of the north has been ma
king the most sincere and earnest efforts to ma
tionalize itself by sinking the slavery agitation
it has resolved in its national councils that the
Union and the acquisitions of the constitution
shall be adhered to by its members in every
emergency; and it has so far succeeded in rid
ding itself Of sectionalism in sentiment and ac-
ton as to have drawn upon its head, from the
whole free-soil press and all the free-soi lead
ers, the most ferocious denunciations, as being
the foe of free-sollism and the ally of the
South"
And yet, within few weeks past the know moth
ings and abolitionists of the New York legislature
have passed the most violent and fanacal abolition
resoutions
OF Senator Wilson's speech, the Journal says;
Mr.. Wilson, in his speech in the Senate
on the 23d Of February, uttered very objec-
tionable sentiments He spoke, however, for
himself, and not for the American party of
Massachusetts,"
Aknow nothing leader in the legislature of Massa
chusetts-he friend and organ of Senator Wilson, as
his whole speech shows-said, in a late debate in
that body:
But the American party, generally, through
out the country-what of that What has ID
done? ! will speak solely of what | know,
and that is of the party in the northern section
of the Union Does the gentleman know that
the American party was material force in
nearly all the fusion movements of the different
states the past fall and present spring THAT
IN the great Northwest, and elsewhere, it was
in great measure a component part in the re-
publican organization? If he does not, he
will allow me to tell him he is uniformed of
the facts as he certainly has been of the phi
losophy of the American movement. Why, in
Maine it gives us Gov. Morrill,; in Pennsylvania
Governor Pollock; in Iowa, Senator Harlan,
in place of one Augustus Caesar Dodge; in IL
lnois, Senator Trumbull, descendant of Trum-
bull OF Connecticut, of revolutionary memory;
in Wisconsin, the congressional delegation, save
one; in Michigan, again the congressional del
egatlon save one; in Ohio, the entire congress
sional delegation, with no exception; in New
York, William II. Seward, even, for United
States senator, through the votes of the anti
slavery members of the organization; in New
Hampshire everything, sir Ia victory which is
to result | fondly anticipate, in returning to
the United States Senate, by almost unan-
nous consent, John p. Hale for another term
of six years !"
This extract also shows how contemplate is the
allegation that the aboitoniss against the know
nothings. Two questions may be asked in this con-
nexion of the Louisville Journal:
Why do the know nothings elect abolitionists only
to Congress if the latter opposed to them? Or,
Why If they are so orthodox and sound, do they
not elect one known national man either as a COVER
nor, senaior or representative - fni5n