The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1855-06-02

AND WAS AGAINST DESP0TISM OF ALL KINDS. lHis
NEW PARTY SHOULD DE JUDGED, LIKE OTHERS, BY
IRIS FRUITS. HAad elected a champion Of freedom
to tie United States Senate for four gears TO
6AAe piace Of a man who ,oas false to freedom
and not true to slavery For himself he could
soy that so long as life dwclt in his bosom, SO
long'he would fight for liberty and against
slavery. In conclusion he expressed the hope
that soon the time might come when the sun
should not rise on master, nor set on slave.
Here Is . witness Of their own party, elected as
SUCH who bears testimony to the fact, that 1t was
originated Ia Now England, and boasts Of Its being
snti-siavery, and declares at the same time, that
Henry Wilson, whom the know nothings had elected
% champion Of freedom, had been selected be-
cause Of his abolition principles.
Read Wilson's endorsement of Burlngamc and his
doctrines. We insert 1t for the edincation of the
editor Of the Patriot.
Mr.. Chairman and Ladies and Gentlemen:
This is not the time and place for me to ut
ter word. You have listened to the elo-
qucncc Of my young friend, and here tonight I
endorse erery sentiment he has uttered In pub
tiles, at home or abroad. l shall yield nothing
Of my antl-slavery sentiments to advance my
own personal interests, to advance party inter-
est, or to meet the State demands Of any State
or section Of our country. hope to be able
to maintain on all occasions these principles,
to comprehend in my affections the whole coun-
try, want everybody to understand that in
clude in that term Massachusetts and the north.
This is not the time for me to dctain YOU
You have called on me most Unexpectedly toI
say word, and having done so, will retire
thanking you for the honor Of this occasion
ASS specimen Of the know nothing resolutions, We
copy the following. Many more Of the same kind
might be furnished, but let these suffice for the
present
Resolved, That Native Americanism Anti
Slavery, and Temperance are the foundation
stones Of our Order equally deserving our con-
sidcration; and that before giving our political
support to any man for any Office, we will i'm
peratively demand his entire commttal in fa-
vor Of these great and cardinal principles.
Resolved, That we soemnly protest against
the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise, the pas
sage of the Nebraska-Kansas BILL and the Fu-
gitive Slave Law, as violation of the rights of
the free States and tending to the destruction
Of the free institutions Of our country.
Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to use
our utmost exertions to free our National Ter
ritorics from fine 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 interest Of slavery--to ignore the politi-
cal question--to stamp it as q side issIe-or
to enjoin silence upon us in respect to its evils
and encroachments deserves, and receives our
sternest disapprobaton and dissent.
Published by order of the Council.
In order to palate the fact of the Know Nothing
party at the NORTH being tinctured with abotionism
the editor of the Patriot, asks the old Fogy Democ
sscy, what has become Of Martin Van Buren, and his
beautiful son joint" Does not the editor of the
Patriot know, that the national democracy have re-
pudiated Van Buren, since ls4s! Does be not also
know, that his son John, renowned his free-sosm
and declared his intention for the future to stand up
on the Baltimore platform! All these things were
known to the editor Of the Patriot in 1882 when he
claimed to be member Of the democratic party him
self In lS4s, Martin Van Buren,, was taken up, by
the free-so wings and democrats, and nominated for
President by their Convention held at Buffalo, In
that year. Gen. Cass was run as the democratic can
didate The admission by the Patriot, that all par
ties ut the north more or less tnctured with alb
ltionsm, proves the charge true against his own par
ty, but amounts to nothing more than assertions SO
far a. the national democracy are concerned. The
acknowledgment Is totally without foundation
There never has been q democratic organization
State, or national, that is liable to the charge Eve
rywhere the democracy have repudated abolition
fsn and every other ism. Every presidential and
State canvass for many years back show this truth
Robert Rantaoul of Massachusetts,, was not per-
mitted to take his seat, as delegate in the Balt
more Convention Of l84s because he and few 9TH
or democrats had coaeccd with the abolitonists In
the Legislature THAT State. Some democrats have
at times gone to the free-soilcrs and abolition
ists, but from that moment ceased to be members of
the democratic party. They are repndiated at once
and the editor of the Patriot ought to know II If he
does not. There Is not well Informed democrat
throughout the land but knows II to be So
Where is'the first scintilla of evidence, that the
Know Nothing or American party are opposed
to abolititonism! Where are the resolutions passed
by any meeting, Council, or organization of that par
ty condemning IT. II Is not in their PLATFORM 1t Is