Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1855-06-12
The Free press.


mir last week., issue we noticed IN article when
in the Free Press, which We thought refect-
"A liscrcsiit apou the Democratic party Tic sem
ssa.s a,3 -oot make an open, direct charge Ct
s ,yas very ipsinuating, and the inference
4t;t.Esco,ld he drawn from it was, that the Demo-
,sstv ia secure It's triumph, had been guilty
b;cl, 1isdemeanor The particular portion of the
,r,;re which we noticed was nothing more or less
than n comparison between the two parties in the
ate contest And the result of that comparison was
Aha. the Democratic party was dishonest, and it had
rcsorted to dishonest to insure its success
We did not believe that the Free PTces meant to
convey such impression, although the least DIS
eliminating reader could draw no other conclusion
1.-THE Free Press really intended suc inference to
be drawn from its remarks we have only 10 say we
are sorry it possesses so little charity There Is no
necessity for the Democracy of Virginia to resort 70
such insinuated means TO secure triumph The
people of Virginia are too closely Vcddcd 10 the
principles of that party and place too high an est
mate the necessity of their permanency, oforsake
Them under any circumstance. Again, the party. IS
too well of its united strength 10 be guilty of
fraud Il fraud really practccd in the late con-
test, the condition of tho parties would naturally
have led us to look Somewhere else than in the Dem
ocratc party to lind ii, But wc do rot charge tho
opposition with fraud or Eniarness so far as We are
cognizant of facts
As regards the riea roce vote and the assertion
that many men voted our ticket to insure them
bread we consider fully applicable to their party
our own. There may be indiriduai5 who may at
tempt TO exert an influence over the voters by en-
ployiug means which all honorable men abhor, but
docs he suppose ioE instant that those individuals
aye confined excIusvelyt0 the Demo cradc party, and
is the Know Nothing pa:ty compose! entirely ofmen
20 high toned and houorablS that not one could be
fouud,g would be guilty of using "such appliances
Come Mr.. Free Press, do you cling 10 the old eTPlo-
died. idea that the opposition to the Democracy is the
'all dccency" party? Ifyou do, we pity YOU If per
sons were threatened into the support of nominees
NC hope you will be candid enough to acknowledge,
that your party has a finger in the ric'
There are not great many Government officials in
Virginia, and We judge those By our own standard,
and also that of the Free Press. We suppose that
they would have acted would have done. II
they desired to support any other ticket honhe De
1nocratic one they should certainly have done So,
and we think they did Those who were dissatis-
fed with the Stanton nominations, were certainly
not compelled to support them, and we honestly be-
lievc there was no effort made by the Democratic
party to intimdate them and force ;hcn TO the sup
port Of its ticket.
We do. not think, nor did VIC intend in our Grt-
Gle TO insinuatc that the Tree Press charged the
courts with granting illegal naturalization papers.
We were astOnislcd al its assertion that flee Mo"-
sGRd foreigners were uaturaliacd" We wondered
how that could be possible and we were forced to
the conclusion that fraud practiced some where
We are confident that there not five thousand for
ciguers who are eligible voters, and if the Free
Press asserts, fire thousand naturalized, are
truly nstounded. We hope our neighbor will take
few of that number back say about foUrfth5 of the
tIckcst part
The article 10 which he refers copied from the Penn
syicantan, contains expressions, which had we been
the writer, We would never have used. In conduct
ing the past campaign we have studiously avoided
the use of any language which could possibly be of
fensive to the opposition. We have every occa-
gEon when we mentioned any Of The gentlemen who
were their nominees spoken of them and of the par
ty they reprcsentedn the most respectful manner
And we never made an effort to prove that the
Know Nothing party were aboIitiOn5tsO or even sym
patAisers We believe that they, Ike the Democ-
Tacy dcplorcd the success of the fool fanatics of
the North What we said during the campaign
we think the sequel of events will clearly prove
which was that if the Know Nothing party of Viz.
giuia chung to the National organization of that par
ty they would be compelled to take communion with
an arrant set ofbolitionists Every triumph of Know
Nothingism in the North has been n triumph OF abo-
ltionism and we challenge tic Free Press prove the
contrary They not only elected HENRY WILsoN
hut we haveyct TO hear the man whom they elevn-
ted to high places who is not an abOlitionist Will
the Free Press name few.