The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-04-19
MOB VIOLENCE ADVOCATED.
From HE same. AnriI 3.

Americans from voting, and had resisted th
public authorities, thus committing a doubl
outrage upon American laws, the America
Party would have done no more than the infs
nous conduct of such scoundrels merited. w
do not advocate, nor would we encourage sucl
summary punishment for such outrages but
nevertheless, We repeat, that when gangs o
foreign rowdies deprive American-born citizens
Of their birthrights, by force and violence a
the polls, there is no adequate punishment pro
vided by the laws, and we would be slow t.
censure our people for taking the case into
their own hands, and administering an ade
quate punishment
| THE Know Nothings since then have held
public meeting in Cincinnati, and severely
condemned the proceedings justified by the
"Organ."
WITHOUT SPOT OR BLENIISH-NEVER GUILTY
OF a SENTIMENT ADVERSE TO SLAVERY
From tie same, same date.
We have Just received letter from Ken
lucky, dated Stanford, March 22d, and written
by X. Carson, Esq, from which we make the
following extract:
"On last Saturday, it being the first day of
our Circuit Court in this place, James Chris
man, our ex-Congressman, made severe at
as all Abolitionists in the North, and making
you out one also; and to prove it, he said
his negro, that waited on his room, was missing
one day. and he asked him, on his return where
he had been, and he said he had been over to
Georgetown, TO Masonic procession, and that
they had the finest speech that ever was made /;
he asked him who made the speech for them
negro masons, and he said, the editor of the
american OrgaR made the speech"
We regret to be Obliged to notice such mis-
cradle, contemplate, palpabte. and unmnigated
faLsehoodS, and trust we shall seldom have &C.
cosion to do so.
We never attended any sort Of procession in
| Georgetown, nor elsewhere, within one hundred
miles OF Georgetown; we never made speech
III Georgetown, Of any sort, kind or description !;
noe nerer uttered an ABOLITION or 4Anti- .Slarery
sentiment since ace reached the age of manhood,
nor before, 10 our knowledge,) and we defy Mr.
Chrisman TO prove either one of these positions,
ecen by negro testimony!
Whether it is allowable in Kentucky, to
predicate a charge Of such intdmy, and to de-
.fan'ethe conductor eta public press, or any one
else, upon TIE testimony Of a negro, is point
we leave to Kentuckians.
THEODORE PARKER, WENDELL PHILLIPS. AND
THOMAS w. tHGGiNSoN, CHARACTERIZED
From the same, Apra 6.
| Commenting on the trial of these gentlemen,
now in progress.
The Massachusetts rebels of l77G took up
arms IN defence of law. The Massachusetts
rebels of 1879 take up arms to subrert law
which their own statesmen, Ames, Dexter, and
Webster, aided in enacting, and the constitu-
tlonalty of which their own judges. Story,
| nd
WIDE difference, indeed, between the rebels of
l776 and the rebels of 1853. The comparison
might be pushed indefinitely, but we forbear to
insult the memories Of James Otis, and Josiah
Quincy, and Elbridge Gerry, and the Adamses,
and their compatrlots, by contrast even with
tho rretcAed and infatuated creatures. ,rLo
an oar day render tie atmosphere of Boston
absolutely .tetid ,rith the e6inria Of their base
| ness.
This is an appropriate place for the follow.
ing items, full of instruction to our readers.
The Know Nothings of New York have
published their platform and principles. The
Clereiana Leader says:
1t would seem, that the task of preparino
both was submitted to a committee composed
AS iollows j. n. Reynolds, Hon. T. NJ. Wood
ruff, NJ. ID. Reese, +. Russell, r. A. Watkinson
Charles A. Whitney, James c. FORESTER, James
ID. Oliver, John l.. Hone, Stephen A. Pierce
Edwin j. Brown, w. j. A. Fuller James Hill
yer, John Vanderpool.
This committee proposed the platform and
principles above referred to; they were adopted
by Council No. II, of New York, published by
its authority, and under the name of its Presi
dent, 5. II. Kirby aud its Secretary, A. Blais
dali, with the declaration that it had been O,
would be adopted by every Council in the
State.
"The whole thing, with George Laws letter
is a scheme to prepare the People for the
third degree-which is Cotton and Pro Slavery
through and through, degree designedly with
held from Cleveland and Cincinnati-until at
ter the Spring elections. Indeed it is an echo
of the sentiments of George Law Boldly. il
proclaims the doctrines avowed at Baltimore
IN 1872, and announces its Pro-Slavery purpose
thus:
The large and commanding masses Of
American citizens-the surest support and de
fence of our Republic, whose love of country is
untainted by selfish aims, and who, imam
bilious of political preferment, have no other
interest in public measures than that which re
fers to the public welfare-have seen, with
anxious concern, the intractable temper with
which. parties have, of late, sought motives fol
contest in the most dangerous sectional ques
tons; the wicked zeal with which these partie.
have driven the country to the verge of civil
commotion the art with which they have ex
asperated the passions of excitable commu
mites, by appeals of the press and the forum t
opinions and prejudices peculiarly susceptible
of mischievous exaggeration and, above all
the reckless ardor with which they have sough
to array the North against the South, and tn,
South against the North, in hostile division
inilaming the sensitive pride Of each by angr,
defamation and sharp defiance, until they have
brought even our sacred Union itself into ieop
ardy. These agtations our gravest and bes
citizens have witnessed with equal alarm ant
Indignation, and they have found themselve
impelled to invoke the patriotism of the nation
to mediate upon the remedy which shall re
store peace to the distracted minds of the dis
putants, and supply better purposes 10 emplo!
the energy that has been deC0ted TO this nnh0p
py discOTd.'
VIEWS OF T. :. FLoURNoY, KNOW NOTHING
| CANDIDATE FOR THE GOvERNORSHIP Oh
| VIRGINIA
From has letter, dcceptiag the nomination, da
ted MarcA 22d, and published in the Aneri
can Organ, april G.
l endorse fully the basis of principles of tn
American Party, believing them to be the mos
conservative presented 10 tie consideration o
the country since tie establishment o. our inde
peRdeace.
The rapid increase of foreign immigration i
well calculated TO excite alarm, and the powe
of the Government, both State and Fedora