Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-02-13

THE ELECTION OF SEWARD IN NEW 1Ohh'
We think that the True Wing, in its zeal to de-
fend the know nothngs of New York in the case
of Stewards election to the Senate, really brings
grayer charges against the order than any we have
uttered. The amount of the defense is that the
know -nothings who voted forSeward pioiated. tae"
oathsf Wbyl what sort of an organization is ms
whose leading members are 50 thoroughly aooh-
tionize that they perure thenaselVesto carry CUT
olitionism What reliable and trusty 'dsienuers
of the South are these lnow-nothlngs!
much worse case against them, suggested py the
True IVlio. than we had supposed possible. are
we still to be told by that paper that know-noth-
ingism is against abolhonlsm
Rut the course of the know-nothings OF New
York heinp explained as the result of perjury,
what has the H-tre Whig to offer in explanation of
the course of the same faction in Massachusetts,
There the Legislature was still more strongly
know-nothing, and there these know nothings
have elected to the Senate more fanatcal, though
less able abolitionst than Seward. Wont the
True Wing try to explain this? Were these Mas
sachusetts know -nothings PICTURED also? And is
the South to be asked to rely upon men who do
not hesitate to perure themselves on all occasions
when their votes are wanted against incendiaries2
Since the True Uhig feels called upon to explain
the election of Seward-not to deaouncs tive
direct the attention of that paper TO certain pro-
oeedings which lately transpred in Boston, OF which
we should like an explanation Mr.. BURLINGAME, q
leader in the Massachusetts Senate, and also in the
new order, delivered lecture before the Anti
~ Of aral
and violent denunciation of the South, he proposed
the following plan of practical operations
" If asked to state specifically what he would
do would answeT-lst, repeal the Nebraska Bill ;
ID repeal the fugitive slave law; 3D. abolish slavery
in the District of Columbia 4th, abolish the inter
State slave trade. Next he would declare that slave
ry should not spread TO one inch of the territory oil
the Union; he would then put the government &C
tually and perpetually on the side of ireedom-hy
which he meant that bright-eyed boy IN Mss'a'
chusetts should have as good chance for promo
ton in the Navy as boy of one OF the first tsmI
lies in Virginia. lie would have foreign consuls
take side with the noble kossuth and against the
Panel butcher Bedini He would have judges who
believed in a higher law, and an anti-slavery con
stituton an anti-slavery Bible, and an anti slavery
Godr'
But Mr.. BURLING AME did not stop with this dec
upon the +" new order the responsibility Of all hi
views. Hear him.
"He was encouraged by the recent elections il
the North and he defended the " new movement,
which he said was born of Puritan blood and wa
against despotism of all kinds This new party
should be judged like Others, ~ its fruits. 1t hat
elected champion OF freedom to the United State
Senate for four years, to Gil the place of a mai
who was false 10 freedom
This champion of freedom was certain no
torious trckster, named HENRY WILSON, recently
elected by the Know Nothing Legislature to tn
United States Senate; and this parsonage sa
among the digniares on the platform during tn
delivery of the speech. At the conclusion of it
he was called upon, and opened his response in tn,
following strain
"Mr Chairman and ladies' and gentlemen Thu
is not the time nor the place for me to utter word
You have listened to the eloquence of my youne
friend, and here TO night endorse every sentimen
he has uttered In public or in private life in ma
iorities or in minorities, at home or abroad | in
tend to live and TO die with unrelenung hostility
TO slavery on my lips. | make no compromise:
anywhere a: home or abroad. | shall yield moth
ing of my anti-sayery sentiments to advance my
own personal interests to advance party interests
or to meet the demands of any Stale OF section o
our country.
What has the True Wig to say for Henry WI
SOM Were the Massachusetts know-nothing:
"periured' also2 Even the New York Herald, the
leading advocate of acknowledgment, says of WI
son that "the first man elected by the know moth
ings to the United States Senate is the most ianati
cal and implacabe abolitionist ever sent TO that
body He (Wilson) endorses all that Garrison OF
Abby Kelly Foster could urge in opposition to
Southern slavery, excepting the Immediate disso-
luton of the Union"
In Michigan, these know nothings, with CON-
plete control Of the Legislature, have instructed
Gen CAss to vote for the repeal of the fugitive
slave law Ard the staunch old patriot tells them
that he puts them at defiance and will neither obey
nor resign Are these Michigan know nothngs
'peuured?" And, whether they are or not, can
the True Wig make the people of the South be-
leve that they have better friends in the Michigan
Ilnow-nothings than in Gen. Cas-? We should
Ike to hear that paper on this point.
THE MAILS.
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