The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-06
AMERICAN RECORD AT THE NORTH.

AMERICAN RECORD AT THE NORTH.
The anti-American orators in Tennessee
are travelling over the country and charging
that the American, or Know Nothing party
North is abolitionized-tha which nothing
could be further from the truth. So far, the
acts OF the party there have been freer from
the faint Of Abolitionism than those of any
party that has had an existence in that section
for the last twenty years. Read the follow
ing from the Nashville True Wing, every
statement of which is incontrovertibly
true:
The American Record al The North-The
! Charge Of Aboiitionism COMPOUNDED!
| We understand thut gross misstatements
are sometimes made by anti-Amercan can
didhtes in this State, representing that the
elections in the North furnish conclusive evil
dence that the movements of the American
party have promoted Abotionism. Now,
let us go to the record; for It's the habit of our
I.Opponents to make bold and sweeping asser-
tons without proof.
OF the congressman elected to the incOm
ing Congress from the Northern States, just,
thirty tpO are set down as know Nothings'
-to-wit: Eleven from Massachusetts; five
from OHIO; two from Pennsylvania; four from
Connecticut; three from New Hampshire, and
two from Rhode Island. Let us see who
\ have been turned out of office to make place
for these thirty-twO members of the Ameri-
can party! Let us 60 to the records and we
will find that ne was the man who introduce
ed in the last Congress the bill to repeal the
Fugitive Slave Law! Seven others were men
who voted for tina. anti-fugtive slave law
bill! and one other was the man who, in the
last Congress, steadily and boldly advocated
upon the floor of the House, The social and
political equality nf The negro l0ith the phue
man, urged that one hundred and sixty acres
of land each, should be giren to the free ne.
grOeS Of The No-ih! Ten others were either
anti Nebraska men or free sellers; and still
another was WiImot Proviso member vino
has voted to prohibit slavery in all the terri
tories of the United States! There were but
six Nebraska men displaced TO make room
for ms many Americans, while five ofthe thir-
ty-two wert members reelected to fill their
own places. Now what results have we here?
OF the whole thirty two members turned out
by the American party, ticenty of them were
abolitonbts, freesoiIers, anti-Nebraska men,
or anti'irgitive slave law men! while fire, in
Guiding j.Scott Harrison, the sound, national
whig, aid estima6le son of the lamented
Presideit Harrison, were reelected rs Amer
leans; AID but SIX Nebr ska men were dis
placed. The position of the remaining men,
Der, Maurice of New York City, beaten by
Mr.. Vauk, American, we have not been able
definitely to ascertain. MIR. Walk has de-
fined his position in Charleston paper
as that Of as sound conservative union
man.
Does this look like the Americans were
promoting AbOlilionism See. They hurled
out Thos. Davis of Rhode Island, who made
blackcr abolition record in the last Congress
than any other member from the North
They "crushed out" Thomas d Elliott of
Massachusetts, who introduced the antifugi-
tive slave bill in the last Congress-they an
initiated Croker and Edmonds, and VALLEY
and Tappan, Wentworth and Dickinson and
Carpenter, all Of ,ohom roted for that anh-fu-
gaire SLAVE la,o bill! They put quctus to
John q. Goodrich, who, not only voted for
the anti-tugtlve slave law in the last Con
gress, out was tile President Of the Abolition
Emlgrant Aid Society, organized for the
purpose of Aboiionlzng the territory Of
Kansas. They stopped the wilma" of Harry
Hubbard, who in 1919, in the New Hampshire
Legislature, introduced resolutions urging
prohibition of slavery in all the territories of
the United States, and fully endorsing the
votes of the New Hampshire Congressman
in favor of the Winot Proviso. And yet
Americans are charged with promoting Abo-
litionism in the North!
In auditinn N tha thirty -two uhn Wprp
elected as "Know Nothngs," and are set
down in the published list as such, there are
ii few other members who were voted for by
the American party, though not running MS
American candidates, among whom we now
remember MIR. Wheeler, hard shell dem.
ocrat, and Mr.. Ravens, n silver grey wing,
Of New York-both sound, national men.
Of the Governors elected in the Northern
States in the last year, four have been elected
by the American party; and in one other in
stance they run Il candidate for Governor, but
unsuccessully. Of these, Governor Gardner
OF Massachusetts has evnced his conserva-
tive character in vctoing the bill to remove
Judge Lorlng; and Mr.. Ulman, who wns run
IN New York, is silver grey wing, sound on
the slavery question: Ofthe Governor elect
OF New Hampshire and Of Governor lioppin,
reelected by the American party in Rhode
Island, we have not been able to find any
evidence that they are abOlitionsts.
We might go on with this investigation as
to public offices filled by the American party
we might show that all the treacherous
members of the New York Legislature who
voted for Seward have been expelled from
the Order-we might exhibit an array of
facts showing conclusvely that the American
party has been been busily engaged in lop-
ping oflits unsound members in the North,
and placing itself upon broad, sound, ma
tiona platform. But this would be extend
ing the present article to too great n length.
We have done enough to knock the props
from under all the big and little anti-Ameri-
can candidates who are spouting through the
country to the effect that the the American
Party are promoting Aboltionism. Let
them be careful hereafter how they make
: their statements. Let them look to the re-
cord.
REMovAL.-rhe Washington Star init
: mates that the President has removed from
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