Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-05-03
VOL. 3.---NO. 228
DAILY VIRGINIAN.
he Know-Nothiugs in Virginia "A sweeping
Revolution.


Revolution.
The Know Nothing candidates for the suffra-
es OF the people of Virginia are very frank in
approximation of their principles. The latest
ase before us Is that of Mr.. Lttlobury N Ligon.
no new American party candidate for Congress-
n one OF tho central districts of the State. In
Is circular letter to the people of the district,
uohshed IN the Lynchburg pirginian, he says
hat his anteoedents have been democratic. but
hat he considers the existing differences between
ae two old parties of tho country of very little
ccount, the lines of demarcation between them
aving become almost invisible
new question, however, has been raiaed.
hIoh he considers of absorbing and vital mpor
ance-the new question of curbng the growth
I the foreign elements which, Of late years
ave exercised such marked and powerful inAu
nee in our political elections. Speaking of the
eoessity of a check upon tho present tremen-
GUS increased of tho foreign vote under the facil-
ties of our existing naturalization laws, Mr..
lyon says: This foreign population which to
he extcxt of some 100000 annually reach our
hores, hasten 10 tho now States, people them.
nd then exclude slavery from their borders by
tate constitutions
This is the SoutLern view of the subject. and
10 key 10 the spread of Know Nothingism in
irginia and throughout tho South Thew say
nat the mass OF our European born citizens nre
nti- slavery IN sentiment-that they settle in the
zee States because of their prcudicos against
he peculiar institutions of the South-that thew
onstitute very material portion of nll the anti
lavery parties and factions of the North and
hat they are annually swelling the anti ti-slayery
INKS, particularly in the new States and Terri
ries of the Northwest with alarming and con-
lnnaiy increasing aocessions. Hence, among
he most ultra suvcholdng communities of the
outhern States, we find tho Know -Nothings ri.
ing INTO the ascendancy upon the ruins of both
he old national parties that have lived out their
ay henco the remarkable progress of the Know
>olhingsln IN Virginia upon the all-important issue
them OF self preservation. Their balance of
over may be secured by arresting the growth
I tho popular vote of tho North over that oc
le South and this they think. may be done by
stringent modification total repeal of the
aturalizaton laws, This modification or total
'peal being the corner stone of the Know Moth
ag platform, Is the very thing therefore, which
carrying this new American movement spon
nncously forward in all tho Southern States
gainst all the expcdients of resistance and over
II sorts of distractions
suppose, for example, the term of naturaliza-
ion were extended at the next session of Congress-
twenty one years, whnt would be tho result
would probably cut off ono hundred thou sand
our European reiniorcements, who, under the
resent general law and existing local usages in
he Northern States, would vote upon tho Presi-
'ongress TO DO elected with the new administra,
ION " lie the accumulation of foreigners"
n tho North, therefore, from their pressure upon
he native working classes, upon Protestant ideas
md outside politicians, has rallied together the
natives to the ranks of tho Know Nothings in
'hc one section, the single but vital consideration
III checking the present alarming increase of the
Northern anti slavery vote is quite sufficient to
lead the Know Nothings to victory in every
q hpr IF ha Ifn,n
We have no doubt that this is tho secret which
lies at the bottom of the my sterious and extraor-
dinary growth of Know Nothingism in Old Vir-
gna and tho South. From all present appear
ances, too tho new party coalition in that State
will overthrow Mr.. Wise and the Pierce Democ-
incy with prodigious majority and if Virginia,
the citadel of the Democracy in the South, be
thus carried, the rest of tho Southern States, in
the order OF their elections, may be reasonably
expected to fall into line without much resistance.
With the South thus reyolutionized, the Know
Nothings will be able Ia command the Presiden-
tial election upon n Union and constitutional
platform, throwing such sedilions and disorgani-
Eiug branches of the new party as that in Massa-
chusetts entirely out of the calculation. In this
light every thing hinges upon the Virginia elec-
tion, and the result there will be tho most mpor-
tnnt, perhaps, in its consequences of any State
election in the political history of the country for
the last fifty years.
Let the conservative KNOWN -Nothings of the
North prepare for fusion with their brethren of
tho South upon some common national platform.
Better dispense with their anti slavery affilia-
tion in this quarter, than enter the presidential
campaign divided into two or three sectional fac
tions. The democracy, shutng off the incubus
of this administration, may yet tako the field as O
homogeneous aud powerful national party. Let
not that be forgotten. Tho defeat Of Mr.. Wise
and the old rotten democracy by a large majority
in Virginia, will not only be great and power
full revolution in that State, the like of which has
not happened there for fifty years past, but it
will be tho forerunner Of Know Nothing revo-
luton in the whole Union, but perohance a Know
Nothing revolution also in Engand-and over
all Europe.-Neie York Herald.