The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-12

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travelling for The ssss Of Alabama and Tennser as
r. JANIS O. LEWIS. and SAMUEL u. Lewis
O. W. JAaEs, No. Harmon street. Cincnas ONE s
general travelling agent Tor The Western states ana reAas
assisted BY j. THOMAS, j. r. DssT, wA. II. THosAs,
YsssT c. NJ L. W,ssaAx. A. l.. CHrLDs, and Dr. WV iH~s
Receipts Of either win be coed.
ARROGANT WHO DICTATI0S IN VIRGINIA TO
"KNow-NOTHING DEMOCRATS"
Ii is notorious that the democrats In the know nothing
lodges are largely in The minority The wings who hold
the power in these lodges having been long time Out OF
position in the State governments and in the general admin
isration naturally enough anxious to take care Of
themselves first good deal Of dissatisfaction is the re-
suit and this too is very natural The Lynchburg Vir-
ginan old whg paper is therefore evidently alarmed
the prospect and shrewdy tries to change the issue BY
attempting TO intimdae against leaving the
cret order on the ground that if they do they
get back into old party The following the lam
guage of the yirgiuian Of the 18th of May:
But the democratic know nothings have immense
stake pending contest and they must for
frequently reminding them Of it. In our Judgment they
will but half discharge their duty to themselves and to
their principles ii they content themselves with pas
policy and silent vote at the present crisis Every
man Of should take up his cross and become
FOUNDER and teacher Of the faith bis neighbos The
election hand but that their exertioDs may
accomplish important and decisive results in the interval
Wing know -nothiDgs do but little propagandists
slang Of the Wise party that the wnothng movement is
wing trick and that know-nothngs wolves In sleeps
clothing.
$50 industrious have been tho followers of the regency In
circulating these misrepresentation and artfully
they appealed to the party prudces OF the democracy that
thousands Of Virginia democrats who warmly approve the
doctrines Of the American party, nevertheless shrink from
aocatng themselves with it, from the idle apprehension
being entrapped in terrible wing plot Now the
peculiar province Of the democratic know nohings ap-
proach all such persons and dabuse their minds Of
false impressions They know well the fasty Of the charge
that the American movement wing trick and they
reute to the satisfaction of any intelligent and unpreu
diced democrat They disprove the thousand other cal
umnes with which the country Is rife to the prejudice of the
American organization, and by which public sentiment
abused and misled respecting its true character and objects
No party grossly msrepresented and Sian
dercd than the nohings and from quarter would
the Of these caunies with much proprety
and effect from the democratic members Of the order.
Honest and unprecedented democrats would listen with
ton and respect to their old political associates and give
claims Of the party to their support fair and candid
animation.
sTh is all the -nothngs ask, and all they need to
insure We appeal then, the democratic men,
ber OF the order TO bestr themselves and spare efforts
advance the for the next three weeks They the
missionaries who do towards the accomplishment Of
the great work which lies before
OF the important consequences involved In tho
ing election to the democratic OF the party
have heretofore had occasion to speak but
bear reverng to the subject We repeat that them the
present struggle is Of life DEATH of victory annhi
son In daring to dispute the DEGREES of the Richmond
ogacy and in setting their faces against the renegade
nominations at Staunton they have committed the unpar-
donabe sin. they fail in their present efforts to throw or
the inoerabe yoke party tyranny they may read their
own fate in the history Of all unsuccessful revolutions Their
chains win be drawn than ever, will
set upon their oreheads Va will be the doom pro-
nounced upon them by their conquerors at Richmond and
executed by the egemen OF the regency throughout the
Commonwealth They will find themselves the victims of
WIN srksva
sparng than yet pacsed upon any party this
State To satisfy themselves this point the democratic
notngs have only read the editorial
the Wise newspapers or listen to the harangues of the Wise
orators"
The old federal Lynchburg virginian talks like a
despot to his subjects, and like an overseer to his
slaves The democrats in the new order are not only
to be tered in their actionsnot only to be driven back
andkept back in the dens become
the hewes of wood and the drawers Of for these
their scconstituted whig masters The vrginian sets
before them their work. and commands them do it The
task, glance will show is not Of highly hon
orabe delicate character The democrats in the know
nothing lodges directed to become tho public "ms-
sionaries of lying and Of hypocrisy They arc to be
forced out upon errands Of deception They
be the crculatos Of the counterfeit notes Of their wing
leadersthe peders Of the Of New England abo-
in Virginia. who failing to seduce the democracy Of the
Old Dominion by prctences of democracy have last
boldly assumed the garb and boldly adopted the creed Of
the who opposed Thomas Jefferson and whom he ex-
PEELED from Office for carrying out the very doctrines
ayowed by the Virginia wings. How convenient to have
this subtitle scheme candied by democratic applause
How adroit to have these odions doctrines urged upon
public acceptance by democratic echoes and democratic
orators How easy the game of deception prepared in Sc
cret by the Bottses the Flournoys the Moseleys the
Stewards the Rveses &c. &c. and other welknown foes
Of the democratic party when the democrats the order
be compelled out and help these leaders Office
by denying that the know-nothing scheme is wing
movement out-and-out or what has become almost
the same thing, abolition movement
1t apparent from the maesteral Of the Lynch
burg virginan that the democratic know-nohings are
getting little lnkewarm At the signs Of the times and
by Satisfied with their associates They
TO have begun "hold back rtte They cannot
avoid the proofs Of wing management and control in their
order; of abolition outAges resulting from know-noth-
ing movements in the North and they cannot shut their
eyes to the fact that North and South the great body Of
the democracy aroused and against the new flu
sion Of factions under the of the secret party Hence
it Is tina, they must Be dpen 10 the work W their whg leaders
in Vugin,agoaded to the van Of the conflict and com