Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-03-23
Testimony OF the Abolitionists

complete and irresistible proof, already lald he
fore the public, of the baselessness of Mr.. Wise
charge that the American movement is one adj
verse to slavery aud the rights of the South. Bnl
the Democratic press, relying upon the gullibIhty
of the people and trusting 10 the efficacy 81 an
oft repeated deception, continue thes" expert
ment- upon the popular crcdulity, render 1t al
xisablc that correct information should occasion
ally be furnished to cnnnteraet theso attempts.
This being the case. We avail ourselves II some
additional ambition authorities furnished by the
Penny Post Of Wednesday.
"George W. Julian, says the l'ostw" all re
,,onher. nerhaps. a. one Of the most sinking Alb
clifton scoundrels that ever dIsgraced the Halls
ofCongress lie vas the abolition candidate
for Vice President in 1852. liz instinct Is a.
good as ever vas pointers nose 10 detect the
lurking game What does he say He writes a let
ter. a Ia Wise. against Know Nothingi>m. lie
uses Rhetoric. and abuses II with as much taclll.
ty as Wise himself He says
tits notc I am con fdeni. doing more 10 per
ptfuate the hraidom Of the fret States 10 IN
Stare Poicer than all other agencies eom6t"ed.-
Nothing for this purpose could have been more
wisely planned or more opporiaheY concerted
hy the Shareholders and their Northern allies
Having sown the wind in the passage of the Ne.
braska bill, something must be done TO avoid
roaming the whirlwind. They saw til" North
eru skv darkened by omcns Of the coming
tempest and something must be donetn break
ats surres The people could no longer hc hum
plugged over questions about Bark, and ar
ifs: the old party lines were cfumhfng' and the
great crisis between Slavery aud Freedom WAS
rapidly and unmi~ takIngly approaching. All
eyes in the North were turning I. that struggle
which at last seemed Inevitable. Does anybody
familiar with the tactics of he south believe
that the birth Of the Know Nothing order, 1ust
at this crisis was an accident. There IS both
internal and external evidence that II was de.
sign
What, continues the Post, say- the Cleveland
Leader another most worthy orthodox Abolition
print, from whose pages the Incense OF hdtffd te
slarery and shareholders riNes, with the eame
constancy and intensity that his charact erlslc
odor exhales from the body ofthe cnraged skunk
Speaking Of that patriotic and truly national res
olution of Council No. - of Know Nothings, \.
York. which is destined to have an immortality
of enviable fame, the Leader says: "5Ie ,ehoie
thing NTH George Lars fetter IS Schems 10
prepare the people for ht I'D dsgfe lehich IS Cor
TON AND PEo-sLAtERY. II j, an echo Of George
Latrs sentiments, BOLDLY n rRoelAGMs rtE Doc
TRISEs AvowEp ~ Baltimore II le52, AND An
NouNcEs rl> pRo-sLAyrEN PURPOSE. The ad-
dress and the resolutions are all the most ultra
ohgarch would demand, not only because they
ignore slavery, but because they resolve to crre-t
to crush out" any discussion OF agitation ofihe
subject inside the order, and eutsideit they can.
Here then, we have PLAIN talk and plain acting
an authoritative annaneiatioH from me order in
Ns,c York"
"Again-Whst says the Wilmington (ohiol
Independent, another most uneNeeptiouabIe aboli-
ton sheet: as Il northern contemporary says.
"a most able and we'll conducted freesoii paper
After quoting the declarations Of leaders upon
the subject of slavery, it says
What more convincing evidence OF the anmit
igated pr0 SidreryiSm %. the new order could
any man require Here are letters, addressed
BY Know Nothings Il Southern olgarchs' as
surfing them that every means had been tried by
their order in New York to defeat the election of
Mr. Seward; and that the charge OF AbolitlonIsm
against the Order IN the North j. "uferig and
entirelu false" And yet we have men among Us,
members of this Organization, aud protesting to
be friends Of Freesosm, who, right IN he lace
of all this evidence. cling to the Order, and op-
pose and denounce the man who seeks to expose
its worse than Jesuit despotism, aud it, loyalty 10
the demands ola Southern olignrchy, We are glad
that there are men in Clinton County lrhoSe re-
gard for the interests If the sidrt aud :T their
own standing IN the ranks % freedom oEab1cS
them to deciare thfmssirfJ abs1tr,d tcom at con-
aection irith The hnelc- Nothing ofdG. There
are many such men mold linton. and their num-
Der is rapidly increasing. !he -itanEr Mjafad-
ton of nany Of oar citizens, that hRow Moth
ings would promote the triamh 81 freedom Is
being dispclled by IL most convincing evidence
TO the contrary"
The Cincinnati Enquirer lpem.) another
beautiful abolition sheet of great influence, and
thoroughly informed ON every thing That pertains
to its principles says in the issue of the 18th Of
March The Freesoiers hare ,eithdrG'cH from
the Knoe Nothing lodges in great numbers,
tcithin the last fele ,eeekS, and Instituted aew
secret political organization, WHICH HAS ABoII-
TIoN PRINCIPLES AS ITS MAIN cHARCrEHsTIe.'
This society, we are told by writer from Ohio
to the New York Tribune is called the Know
Something society of which some account was
given in yesterdays Post. Did any body ever
hear of one abolition society being established in
opposition to another No no The Know
Something's said the Knote Nothings mere too
much pre- siarery for them, and they must have
an Abolition -aciety. Abolitonists could not
stay in Knov Nothing society"
The FL DORADO AFFAIR.-rhe Washington
correspondent of the New York Times says
The friends of the Administration here assert
that the President has ordered that extreme meas
ures be taken, if necessary. to exact instant re-
paration at Havana for the outrage upon the stea-
mer FL Dorado.
We have heard talk of this sort before. When
the Black Warrior affair occurred, our Brigadier