Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1855-01-31

The Democratic papers are HItu WIN me
orossest and most indecent abuse OF the American
party. The vocabulary Of bllingsgate has al
most been exhausted in heapng opprobrious cpl
thets upon the free born American patriots who
have dared to lift their voices and combine their
energies, for the purpose of resisting the political
influence Of foreign paupers and criminals, priests,
patentates and popes. and placing the government
of our beloved country in the hands OF those who
are thoroughly imbuel with the spirit of Repub-
icanism and ardently attached to the principles
of civil and religious liberty. They are de-
nounced as the Ozark lantern party'-cowards
and assassns, no better than thieves and bur
glars-a craven hearted set. who are afraid TO
show their faces in the light of day. This is the
kind of language applied by Democratic newspa
pers and Dem 9cratic orators to portion Of their
fellow citizens, whose objects, So far as we are
advised, are patriotic and commendable, while at
the same time these scribbers and spouiers are
practically CO operating with the secret poi'ico
ecclesiastical Order Of the Jesnits, and covering
the most degraded and debased of our foreign pop
ulation with iulsome hattery In the name of
patriotism we protest against this ungenerous'an and
indecent warfare upon native born Americans, as
cupable prostitution Of the freedom ofthe press,
not justified by the principles, objects or crganza-
ton of the Know Nothing party.
Prominent among these Anii-Americ,n revil-
ers stands the Democratic candidate for Governor
Henry A. Wise who, even before his nomi-
nation, placed himself at the head of the foreign
battalions. SlRce the commencement of the can
yass he has denounced the Know Nothings on
all occasions, in unmeasurel terms. Ia his
speech at Prince Edward G. II. he likened them
to ''sheep poking their heads in the fence corner
to avoid the SUM-" to the ''assassn, with a
stealthy tread and blue light in his hand" and
said it was significant fact that the ''lodges in
Virginia, were opened by Methodist Clergymen
who belong to the Northern Conference" TINS
intmating that the large and respectable ecclesi
astcal body alluded TO is tainted with Abolition
ism. In the same speech in which this stigma
was affixed by Mr.. Wise upon portion Of the
Protestant Church. he stood forth as the cham
pion of the papacy, and asserted that the religion
Of Rome was as consonart with civil liberty as
the Protestant religion,
Mr. w ise and his party have made the same
discovery in regard to the know-Nothng PARTY.
that they have made in REGARD to every other op
passing party since the commencement Of the
slavery agitation. ,4boiiionism is the great sta
pleo discourse on the stump-the prominent. topic
Of discussion in the Democratic newspapers. At
FIRST it was Wing movement in disguise; now
it is an Abolition organization, pregnant with dis
asier to the South and to the Union, notwith-
standing it has the bitter opposition Of Greedy.
Seward. w Wentworth, Chase, Giddngs, andall the
leading Abolition organs. Whether this old
WORKOUT, apidated, demagogue game will a
vail the Democracy again, as it has in times past,
will be seen or the Fourth Thursday in May
The hobby has been rode as ''he idea of Knew
Nothingism" rides Mr.. Wise, like nightmare"
and we hardly think it is possessed OF sufficient
vitality to bear him safely over the Jordan road
he has to travel before he reaches the Gubernato-
rial chair.
The analhemas heaped upon the Know Moth
ings can only injure Mr.. Wise and his party, and
policy, if not good manners shonld dictate more
moderate aud manly course.