Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-01
SENATOR WILSON STILL A HERO.

stitutional, pro-slayery party, is really amusing
When asked for the evidence to sustain their
assertion, they point to no platform in which
their pro-slayery sentiments are embraced ;
they point to no triumph in the free States, Of
their party over the Abolition party; they point
to but one single thing, and that thing is de-
claratien imputed to Senator Wilson. They
have, in their despair, caught up the following
paragraph, which is floating through our ex-
changes;
General Wilson gave the closing lecture of
the anti-slavery course, last evening, at the
Temple. He explained for himself the posi-
ton with regard to slavery that he had occu
pied for twenty years, and called upon all 10
oppose any party that should try to smother
the anti-slavery sentiment. He assumed that
this course had been the death of two great
parties, AND MUST BE OF THE OTHER
PARTY NOW FORMING He said THIS
PARTY WAS PERILOUS TO THE ANTI
SLAVERY SENTIMENT, and called upon
the antl-savery party to KILL OFF the
AMERICAN doughfaces, as they had the
Others"
Here is the proof that the only sound pro-
slavery party, is the know-nothing party.
| The twists and turns of this Massachusetts
Senator, General Wilson, have been so extra
ordinary as sadly to perpex his Know-nothing
friends, and previously to embarrass his jealous
| associate IN the cause of the new party, the
conductor of the american Orqdn. Senator
| Wilson endorsed Mr.. Burlingame's rank Abo-
| lition lecture. He was the Massachusetts
know.nothing Senator. The Organ was
| alarmed lest the new Order should be damaged
by the Senator's Aboitionism. 1t tried to con-
ceal it. 1t "ignored" his remarks on the occa-
sion of the delivery of Mr.. Burlingame' lecture,
and ostentatiously paraded in its columns an
extract from the Boston Bee, in which the SEN
ator was pronounced /" Safe rights man. and
| "strict constructionist." 1t went farther than
this, and opened correspondence with Sena-
tor Wilson, which it triumphantly published to
the world as conclusive evidence of his sound
ness. Scarcely was the ink dry, before the Sen
ator got up on the floor Of the Senate and
poured forth such torrent of pestilent Abo
litionism, that the Organ was forced to aban-
don the Boston Bee, give up the cherished cor,
respondence, and confess that Senator Wilson
was a Know-nothing Abolitionist A few
weeks have rolled by, and the organs Estate
it should be so) is represented by the Organ
which chung to him SO long and so lovingly, as
very frebrand and a horrible incendiary, who
cannot stay in so pure, virtuous, immaculate
ri p.c1 tl,oK
nothing party of MASSACHUSETTS!
Where the above extract came from, we do
not know. But it amounts to nothing. Sena-
tor Wilson has so often stultifed himself, that
what he says is not worthy of moments con-
sideration. Besides, SENATOR WILSON is STILL
A MEMBER OF THE KNow-NoTHING PARTY, which
the above extract represents him as denounc-
! ing. This, however, is not astonishing. The
man who could be both "strict constructionist"
and Abolitionist at the same time, can do al
most anything.
How desperate must be the condition Of the
members Of the Order South, when they have
! TO rely upon such meagre and insufficient evil
dence to prove that this party is an antaboli-
| ton party.
They forget, too, the contradictions and in
consistences, in which they become entangled
| Did not the american Organ solemnly declare,
when engaged in the pleasant duty of defend
ing Senator Wilson, that it was the policy and
the purpose of the Know.nothing party to
ignore" "stihe, and "strangle," the slavery
question: Did it not say that it had no more
to do with that question, than it had with
banks, tariffs, &C., &c.2
Then, how ridiculous and absurd is it to at
tempt to persuade intelligent people that this
new Order is the only sound party on the ques-
ton of slavery. Where is the article in the
Know-nothing platform that proves the party
to be proslavery2
| But we have some evidences to which we de-
sire to call attention. We will proceed to give
them.
Senator Wilson is Massachusetts man.
Massachusetts elected a Knownothing Adolf.
ton Legislature. That Legislature made Gen.
eral Wilson, Know.nothing and an Adolf
ZIONIST, United States Senator. The Massa-
chusetts Legislature has not changed its opin-
ions with regard to Know-nothingism, or
Abolitionism. We have two recent and very
striking proofs Of the truth Of this assertion.
That Legislature has lately proved its Know
nothingism, by appointing the infamous Nun
merry Committeeman its Abolitionism, by
adopting the address for the removal Of Judge
Loring, because he recognised and executed
the Fugitive Slave law in the case of Anthony
Burns, Virginia negro.
Now, if those rank and loud-mouthed Adolf
tionists composing the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture, adhere to the Know.nothing party, why is
not that party good enough for that immacu-
late "strict constructionist," Senator Wilson,
who was elected by them2 Is that spotless man
more Of an abolitionist, than the raving luna
tics and incendiaries who appointed the Nun.
merry Committee and passed the address for the