Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-12
sENA TOR WILSON AGAIN-NORTHERN
KNOw-NOTHINGIsM


have nothing to do then, indeed, Virginia and
the South would not be convinced, though one
should rise from the dead.
We have from time to time presented facts
and arguments sufficient to shake the faith of
the frmest, and to challenge the convictions
of the most unwilling. We have shown that
throughout the whole North, Know nothingism
is allied with Abolitionism. We have shown
that in Massachusetts,, New Hampshire, Con
necticut, and, indeed, in all the non.slavehold-
ing States, Know-nothingism is the synonyme
of Abolitionism. We have shown that where
ever ii has succeeded in those States it has
elected Abolitionists, and wherever it has en-
barked in contests, its candidates have been
infected with the faint of that foul disease.
1t has laid proud old Massachusetts in the
dust. 1t has covered her with contempt 1t
has made her Kissing and a byword among
her sister States In league with every ism
and every heresy, it has carried Generalization
and disgrace into every place in which it has
obtained the ascendancy. 1t has raised san
culinary mobs in Chicago 1t has distinguished
itself by fraud, violence, and bloodshed in
Cincinnati. 1t has insulted pious and helpless
females at Roxbury. 1t temporarily stole ster-
ling old Pennsylvania from her Democratic
allegiance, and covered New Hampshire and
Connecticut with dismal pail So great, and
so shocking have been its excuses, that it has
started back, aghast, at its own vileness.
Honest men are quitting it, as sound men quit
leper. In no place does it repeat its triumphs.
Those triumphs are but the triumphs of an
hour, which will be followed by the penitence of
lifetime.
There is one man who has been destined by
the gods to be the chief hero, the very Ajax
of the Know-nothings. He halls from the
godly and scholastic State of Massachu.
sets. His name is Wilson. The Legislature
of that State elected him United States Senator.
He sits in the seat of Webster.
Senator Wilson's political career. has been
brief but eventful. He keeps himself promi.
nently before the public, and by series of re-
markable political gymnastics, in which he was
aided much by the Editor of the american
Organ, he has alternately startled and Disguised
all observers.
He was elected as Know-nothing. His
election was hailed by the Know-nothings,
North and South, as great victory. The De-
mocratc journals charged that he was an abo-
litionist and pointed to his election as evidence
of an unholy alliance between Abolitionism
and Know-nothingism. The charge was de-
MED. 1t was proved. The proof was ques-
toned, and, as win be remembered by our
readers, most pleasant intercourse and CORE
spondence sprang up between Senator Wilson
and the Editor of the american Organ, which
developed the fact that Senator Wilson aspired
to the character Of "strict constructionist y
and "State-nghts man." Scarcely had the
Senator and his friend the Organ paraded their
correspondence before the public, than Sena.
tor Wilson, much TO the chagrin of the Organ,
rose up in the Senate Chamber and gave utter
ance to the rankest abolition sentiments.
The Senate adjourned, and General Wilson
returned to his home. Soon curious spec.
tacle was presented. The very papers here
abouts that boosted of his election as q Know
nothing triumph, and that declared him to be
Staterights man, absolutely undertook to
read him out Of the Know.nothing party on
account of abolitionism. They said that the
Massachusetts, Know-nothings (save the mark y
we're too sound on the slavery question for him,
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The only proof they gave of this was that the
Boston Telegraph represented him as saying,
in speech in Boston, hiatt american party
,ods perilous TO the anti-sldpery sentiment In
noticing which, the Telegraph, the Abolition
organ Of Boston, says:
General Wilson has nerer made anu such
declaration as IS ADORE attributed TO him, and
the extract which is credited 10 tie Boston Tsle.
graph neUeT appeared IN this paper until no,o.
We are unable to say it is forgery, or whether
it did appear in one Of the other Boston pa
pers."
General Wilson is still a member-more
than that, pillar of the new Order. 1t seems,
too, to be his fate to be perpetual thorn in the
sides Of his southern brethren. No sooner is
one difficulty patched up than he makes an
other. He torments and perpexes his friends
most terribly.
He has made another speech in the last few
days. 1t was rather lecture than speech,
and was delivered in the city of New York, I'M.
der the auspices of the New York Anti-slayery
Society We make some extracts from it for
the benefit Of the Know-nothings Of the South,
who we hope will read, mark, learn, and in.
wardly digest them. These extracts are as fol.
lows:
"The predominance Of Anti-Slavery sentiment
in Ohio and the District Of Columbia we're then
adverted to, and the Speaker went on to say
that strong as the Anti-Slavery movement now
is in this country, there is extreme danger and
peril. / owe it to she truth, he said, to speak
what know on that subject. Ant-Slavery has
met power, has fought power, and has defeated
power; and to-day il is master Of every free
State Of the North, and may, If it choose, die.
tate the future policy Of the Republic. The
present Administration has been defeated every
where in the North and now, predict here
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