Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-05-22
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To Wings, and particularly 10 all Wings WHO
will allow no Wing 10 vote ont side Of our trends
the K. N'a--l'lle Legislature Of Massachusetts, Is
Know Nothing, OF American ttulsGly so calledl
alloyef. The Senate has Just passed law, SOME Of
lie provisions Of which, we now give below, aud
ITO ioaII we believe Is entertained, but that 1t
will be passed by tile ohet House, by large ma.
IotitE
~. The ninth, thirteenth, and fourteenth SEQ.
tlous are fot the purpose Of prohibiting MnSsa:
cluselts officials Of every Kind fotl acting al all
fol ietutn Of alleged slaves.
10. The tenth, eleventh. hltl iwell Nh sections
deprive OF oil Stale Offices the man WHO giants
CeilIhcae fOr The Ietutl or an alleged slave, nnd
the attorney who acts as counsel TOT the catllalIt,
incapatiMting The former ffoln lheteulet holding
any Office OF trust, honor, OF profit under The laws
OijlIe Commonwealth, aud lie latter from thete:
ofIet ptsctlsIng In the courts Of lle Slate.
10. Tile fifteenth aud sixteenth secliullS, at The
same time that they provide commissioners t0t the
defence Of The alleged slave, expressly allow uhY
volunteer attorney whose services Ole desiteu w
theIlclenjani to act In The case,
~. The fugitive slave act having been declared
al once Unconstitutional and lnchtISlldn by the
lIy tile Governor aid Council the seventeenth sec.
ton Is 10 hfeyent ile use VI The Stale III SONS and
ialls TOT Tile Imprisonment OF those who dlsoOey
Its Provisions"
These provisions nulllfy The gteat and leading
elements Of The laws submitted BY MI Clay, and
yocaled by MI. Webster and othet pattioSs, ad.
passed w oonstess shortly betore Nj. oIay's
death, and are tie enacinieuts usually called The
Compromise Laws The same Legislature voted
tofelnOye Judge Lotng from bis office because, ps
bis otictpI oath bound him 10 DO, lie undertook 10
putin force the Compromise Laws Of Co0gtess,--
The principles Of a party ATE known by Its acts,
@altes Is known by lis fruit, II ibis bc the con.
duct OF tAe mistaled American party in Massa.
ciIuseIis, what will II be Ia Virginia. II This Te
lis conduct 10 lie gteea tree, what will II be III
the dtSl
The patty Is demanding power hete, and Saying
only give US the powet and what laws We will
pass fOt the benefit Of America, presume we
may take lhs lOinss Of The same patty In Aiassa.
chusetts as sample, but lie patty here tell us,
that tile principles Of the American patty IN Mas.
taebuseits are moi tiIe principles Of tue party In
Virginia. This apology IS unsound and can not
sstFe shsti lath 70, they themselves being, thewt.
psses prove that this American patty is one and
The SAME eyerywhete, and gteat national patty.
Hut no general OF national patty can besulEeted 10
have one sci Of principles fot lie North and an.
other M the South, These ensctnleats Of lie
Massachusetts, Legislature are The measures Of The
Know Nothing or American party in that staIe,-
The Union Of tie United States and such enact.
ments cannot stand tOgsther-tAey ate at war with
the YeY elements Of union, And no patty eau
be called, OF have any claim 10 Ge called, ma.
tlonal patty, whose principles are hostile to tile
Union, OF ate one thing in Massachusetts, AMI an.
other liz yifginia--one thing at The Moth and an.
othet thing OF the South. Q,