The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-05-29

roots presented in die atoms of disease.
The Virginia Election The Result - The
Lesson to the Know Nothinss.
With the defeat of their favorite candidate
and their fine expectations in Virginia, the
new American party will hardly be puzzled to
discover the causes Of the disaster. They will
readily perceive that the South are not pre-
pared to coalesce with any party, upon any
professions, which has SO strongly committed
itself in the North to the abolition propag anda
as this new American party. They will per-
ceive that parties are judged in the South by
their acts, and not by their local professions
by their official conduct, and not by the caba-
listic touchstone Of the third degree"
This new party entered into the Virginia
canvass full OF confidence and enthusiasm. The
field was inviting. Demoralized and broken
up everywhere else by faithless and feeble
administIa alton, it was supposed that the demo-
cracy were paralyzed in Virginia. And so
they were and the Know Nothings might have
revolutionized the State had they been equal
to the magnitude and important bearings of the
contest, and had they shaped their line of ac-
the Order in the North seem to have acted,
from first to last, as if tLey had but one special
object in view-the destruction Of their
party in the South. At the outset Of
this late Virginia canvass, the Know
NotbiDgs there had the encouraging as
sistance given them of the reelection of ". Fl.
Seward to the United States Senate by Know
Nothing votes. This was followed up by
series of anti-slavery resolutions in the New
York and other Northern Legislatures, more or
less Know Nothing in their composition, sufi-
cient to give to Mr.. Wise the staple of his
stump speeches throughout the State. This
made the work Of the Virginia lodges an up
hill business; yet they might have overcome
these impediments but for tue perfdious, dis
organizing and reasonable proceedings of the
Massachusetts Praise. God Barebones Legisla-
ture.
Under the circumstances, it is surprising
that the Know Nothings have done so well
among the sensitive and intelligent slavehold-
ing people of Virginia. That people knew that
the Massachusetts Legislature was almost
unanimously Know Nothing they were aware
that the seditious niger worshippers who
called for the removal of Judge Loring, who
were guilty Of the Hiss Nunnery Committee,
who elected Gen. Wilson, the abolitionist, to the
place in the Senate once occupied by Daniel
Webster, who passed over their Governors
veto the atrocious notification act against the
Fugitive Slave laws, were the chosen represen-
tatives of this miscalled American party of Mas
sachusetts. The people of Virginia knew all
this, and J ct they have given larger vote, we
dare to say, for the Know Nothing ticket than
has ever been given to any ticket opposed to
the democratic party. They gave this vote under
the belief that this new party was progressing
to healthy national organization, in spite of
old Bay State. Had the late New York State
Council boldly repudiated aud cast off their
Massachusetts brethren, and openly denounced,
in conservative proclamation, the sedftious
doctrines of Senator Wilson, they might have
carried Virginia. But they were content to
patch up their constitution and ritual, their
signs, and grips, and passwords, while the ram
pant disunion speech spoken by their brother,
Senator Wilson, in this city, and the abomnable
doings Of their brethren in Massachusetts, were
permitted, without a word of dissent, to work
ont their natural consequences in the merci-
less hands Of Henry A. Wise
1t was somewhat remarkable that after the
repeated friendly admonitions thrown out from
various sources, including the columns of this
journal, of the necessity devolving upon our
State Council to make diversion in favor Of
Flournoy, that they should so entirely disre-
gard the matter as scarcely to give it mo-
ment's consideration. Now the threat of Gen.
Wilson, that "any party in the North which shall
attempt to ignore the slavery question, shall
ricans" and the Philadelphia National
Council in the face. What is to be done? We
understand that Senator Wilson and the Order
in Massachusetts, will most probably be ex-
PEELED from the American party as national
organization This will be good beginning.
The next essential step will be a substantial
Live Oak national platform not limited to
subscribers and the dark lantern" but pub
lished to all the world in the face of day. after
the good example of Council No. II, of the
Fifteenth ward of this city.
There are materials enough, and issues
enough, ard time enough yet for the organi-
cation of great national American party.
The crisis is favorable for thorough going
revolution-the people are wiliing-they have
been moving in this direction, even in Virginia;
but they Of the South are not prepared to
strike in the dark. The Philadelphia National
Council is called upon from Virginia for some
thing more than the modification of secret
rituals and constitutions.
Hon. JOHN WENTWORTH ON GEORGE SANDERS
MIR. PIERcE's TREACHERY.--In another part