The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-05


acting with the concern in Massachusetts,. ~
Who the whose defeat Mr. Benjamin Gas a
southern wing and true lover OF HE country amens SO
bitterly2 Shields, Dodge Petit and Norris. Are they
wings w-nohings2 No they northern democrats
every one OF he and voted TO sustain the fugiuyesaye
law which Is law expressly provided and secured to us
by the United States constitution Who OF the senators
from the North sustained IT'D Whigs2 not None but
northern democrats
The facts here quoted from the address of Mr. Benjamin
are true to my personal knowledge and will receive
the sanction Of every senator from the South of any party
whatever.
The democratic all know and declare them to
be So They true, TO the fuguvesnye law alone
but also 10 the Kansas and Nebraska BILL and Missouri
Compromise aud 10 all questions of any and every nature
whatsoever relating to the rights of the South in her slave
property.
That the know-nohings of the North arethe old whig
party of the North mainly if denied by intelligent pol
ucan only be denied BY ypocre and creature so
low and deprayed 10 excite contempt and call for
pity.
There wel-infomed and honorable men the know
nothing party but they will not deny that with the excep-
ton OF renegade democrats and original freesoers il is
made up wholly of the old whg party.
VI that party (the whg party at the North we have
the coneurrng testimony to those facts OF hundreds of in
tegent wings in all parts of the South among them
will only name few and they hetare well known, and who
have long sustained themselves in the public eye and by
the confidence admiration and votes OF the wing party Of
the South 10 wit: Toombs and Stephens of Georgia
Kerr and Clngman, of North Carolina Dickinson and
Preston of Kentucky james c. Jones, of Tennessee and
Benjamin. OF louisiana four senators and four representa-
old wing party, but utterly repudiates the know
nothing party and every OF whom with the exception
perhaps OF Cngman refuses 10 this hour to yield up his
opposition to the democratic party
This, tlen ID the know-notiing party of the North,
which, Mr. Benjamin says has control of the next Con-
gress in the House of Representatives This then is the
knownothng party which has defeated and destroyed the
sound constitutional democrats of the North whom
he laments and has to the legislative hall great
number of ree-soiers TO give them absolutely major
ity This too is the nownoihng party which is Ma
TosAL and southern knownothng party are the poll
iticans who stand before the world their brothers.
and who invite southern to join them and thus
abandon their fellowship with the faithful democrats OF
the North who pressed to the WALL and to side with
and give aid and comfort most bitter foes.
To take like this, with full knowledge Of what
we do, bitter task for ana southern Of any
party; bm for democrat 10 do is degrading indeed
Whiggery and ACKNOWLEDGMENT synonymous upon
all points of the slavery question The northern whg
know-nothing abandons and makes his weaker
southern whg brother decamDg openly that the defeat of
the northern WING party to be attributed to the dead
weight which It carried by recognising IN their national
platform the constitutional rights Of the South. So all
such national platforms and recogntons repudiated
by both the old whig and the know-nottng party.
The northern wing and knownothing brother repudates
and splits upon the rights of his southern brotherA
But is all that is sought by the apostles at the
South they adhere tile that repudiae denounce
aud Willy them They sworn to do So and they seek
to all they seduce 10 the oathsome task
On the other hand anorthern democrat is true to the
stuiona rights of his democratic brother at the South
and though pressed the earth by his powerful know
nothing foe, abused douglace and slave Of the
southern people, ne still homs aloud for ne constitution and
its iagioinbIity
This ID u true picture. What shall southern man of
any party do under these circumstances? But above all
what shall southern democrat do? Abandon the north
democratic brother! join the national Snow-nohing
Punc faith between united brethren angelic faith by
the side of an act like this
Imagine the feelings of northern democrat struggling
to maintain that constitution upon which your rights,
hopes, and existence dependent reproached your
friend repudiaed traitor to his section and n
slave to the sayeocracy Imagine his feelings when the
wing and knownothing forward with the southern
poll-books in his hands, and taunts HIM saying: See
what you do; you labor for the heartles mpos and de
graded souherner who in defiance of humanity holds hui
beings in bondage from the cradle the grave ahd
they repudiae you and depisey for your pusan
Unity. On the contrary, we knownotngs rpuasqts them
and their idors, and denounce their ways of life
their nhumaniy repndate their principles their parties
their politicians and their religious professions and their
clergy and denounco them in public and private in the
newspapers in Congress- and the stump, and here
hc result kick them and they respect u.s. Treat
them they deserve, and they have honorable heart
they leave you and, making parties old, Mey joia
themselves and all our protests and published horror
for them can't drive them of. Look at the result you
slave the South Their orators repaliate and daaace
you miserable corrupt aJoio-ea deocrats and turn
tous; and they send with Joy their po-boois,
showing great know-nothing victory in Kentucky, and
again in Tennessee, and draw battle they claim, In
other States and the proudest in their southern landas
Morehead, Flournoy, and Gentry such their peo
pie love TO honor and to ollowake the lead in this
fare upon you, you miserable northern democratsr'
How long you expect northern democrat to hold
up be held up by his people, under this state of tho
case2 What he the object TO be attained which
dear as to indemnity the wrongs thus achieved by partsans
hopes and lives well the political
principles aud honorable hearts Of those northern patriots
falsely desert and sacrifice?
If there still doubts in Tie mind Of any to the facts
and 10 their duty TO themselves and their fellow
citizens OF the whole South let them go the records of
Congress and they will find that the Wimot proviso
The tngvesave law the slave trade in the District of CO.
lumbia, the slave trade between the southern States the
Kansas and Nebraska bill, the MissourCompromse line
the admission of Texas slave State the admission
of any slave State whatever into The Union hereaf-
ter the legislation and the judicial action of north
States in which The wings and know-nohings have
the majority and indeed in all and all questions
touching remotely the slavery questionnd they
will find that the northern wings and knownolhings in
n solid body have made the South. Go again to
the Philadelphia know~notng eonventop and witness the
bitterness and vindotive hostility between the northern
knownothngs and their southern brothers IL will satisfy
you that the eud is reconciable and that any that
may be made is made only for the miserable motive of
tanning power and the spoils Of Office Witness the long
srugglethe reluctant concession Of halfway national
platform followed instantly by indignant secession and
Reputation by than half the northern States; Wit
ness again. the fact that the States whose delegates ratified
this miserable platform this hollow trap for the south)
have either repudated the platform In their State councils
prepared TO make union and put forward candidates
by fusion of parties and of have put forward such
will suit the iree-so party
Look, again, at the northern material Of that Phlnde
phia conventions and defy them TO show five men, or
in it from The northern States, whose acts and
votes and speeches. il they have any OF record do not
them to be trpe-solers.
These the You invited by honorable south
TO trust to unite WITH to rely upon brothers
and all you guaranty for them is past life of hostility
YOU and present wisbywashy platform, which has al
av rpp by