Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-22
NUMBER 100.
From the Albany Register.
I" The National Know N N0things., ?,

| The New York Tribune Is In great trouble about
the course Of the Know Nothings on the questie n
OF slavery. A few days since, with the Evening
journal, II was shouting " the Know-Nothings aro
the allies OF slavery" that their success would
| tablish slavery in every State in the Union TIE
proceedings Of the State Conventions Of the order
in Massachusetts, and New Hampshire put com
plete stopper on that misrepresentation and 60
acting on the rule when detectedin one falsehood,
of raising smoke under which to escape, by tel :
ing another--the Tribune raised she shout, thu
the Know-Nothings Of Massachusetts, and New.
Hampshire had all turned Abolitionists This mi !
representation was for Virginia consumption, whclo
the game Is to represent tho order in the North as
Abolitonists--while In this State the falsehood 4
circulated that In Virginia and elsewhere the order
Is strongly proslavery and that after ALL the Know
Nothings are nothing but set of slave-drivers.
The Tribune now calls this last description as
"the National Know-Nothngs." We accept IL Q
term OF the Tribune but dissent from the interpr,
tation. The Know-Nothngs are NATIONAL Ii,
every sense of the word. They are national on
the question ofslavery- the Tribune
and the other sectionalists seem to think quite i'm
possible There is national ground for all ques-
tions--a ground which national men, and all who
are yet unwilling to see the Union wrecked, split
in two by the wedge Of sectionalisln, will occupy
Sectionalism is no remedy for slavery 1t proposes
none. 1t will prove, however, if not checked, the
destruction Of the Union. While shouting over
the evils growing out of the condition ofthree mil.
lions of negroes, II would plunge into an infinitely
worse condition twenty millions Of white men, be-
sides wrecking the government that secures n
greater sum Of liberty both to individuals and all
who live under it In the aggregate, than any other
ever devised by man. These sectionalists seem
never TO comprehend tho ehite interests of the
natiolr-of commerce, of agriculture of manufac
lures, of improvements, of educaton--and, above
all, of patriotism, by which alone the Union, tho
vessel In which are contained all these other nte-
rests, can be maintained and preserved These
factionsts never take this view of the subject 1t
is the National" view and it rejects, utterly the
idea great as the evils resulting from slavery are
that they may be remeded by sezing upon one
section of the Union SO as to rule the whole, and
thereby give fatal blow to the great interests will,
which more than twenty millions Of our own peo-
pie, to say nothing of the civilized world besides,
are SO intimately connected.
There are factionists--Sectional men, who would
divide the Union tomorrow, all on account OF
savery--both at the North and the South And
happily too, there are national men," Know
Nothings," II you please--as well at the South as
the North, in every State in the Union. And there
are, too thousands of sympathzers because they
are, as the Tribune says, Irrational" More than
anything else, at this moment there is needed
fresh and earnest spirit Of nationality; and more
than anybody else, to degree far greater than any
other combination of men, they whom the Tribune
terms "Know-Notbings," undoubtedly share In this
spirit 1t is the substrata the superstructure, the
filing in, and the topping off the temple Of their
patriotic worship. They are band Of brothers,
not in the free or the slave States, but scattered
throughout the Union, recognising II as a partner
ship, embracing interests Of incalculable import
ance TO Notwithstanding free expression of
sentiment concerning all questions--but frowning
upon, and firmly opposed to, whatever is calculated
in the slightest degree to ALLEVIATE the different
States Of this Union. We thank the Tribune for
the term, "the National Know Nothings"