The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-12-20

understand them. Adopt, for the present those
comparatively simple ones that answered very
well when Henry Clay and l.. Cheves presided.
The old jockeys will involve you in inextrica-
BILE confusion, if you don't.
Item 2: Let the narrow, minded, who differ
in sentiment or opinion, scowl at each other
when they meet, as if they were about to take
an angry tug at rough and tumble; but let the
real gentlemen behave with all the courtesy of
French chivalry.
Item 3: Don't let your fiery Dukes" your
Hotspurs," on either side, ago off at half
cock" Keep cool as cucumbcrs, till you get
acquainted or, at least, till after the holydays.
Item 4: About WHITFIELD and REEDER-
with all proper Difference, seeing through my
spectacles-it is at least doubtful if either is
entitled to the seat:
WHITFIELD, for want of right;
REEDER, for lack of form.
Which the Pretender is and which the King,
Bless your good heart, is quite another thing"
Give both seats, as claimants; neither, just
now, as a Delegate.
Allow both of them proof Let each have
his wages. Refer the matter to an able COM
mittee. Send for persons and papers. Incest
igate the subject thoroughly. The precedent
is of more consequence to all the States, free
and slaveholding, than all Kansas is worth.
awhile, as Utah and Oregon are waiting.
NJ,
There would be no hurry, if the Secret As
ISOLATION of Slavery Conspirators were not urg-
ing matters to crisis. Incendiaries cannot
be arrested too speedily.-Ed. Era.
MILLvILLE, ORLEANS Co, N. Y,
1lth month 28th, 1855.
I consider it the duty of every true Repuhl-
can to oppose the Know Nothing Order. Many
Anti-Slavery men joined them at first, but they
have mostly seen their mistake, and backed
out. Last year, they elected their member of
Assembly in this county, by several hundred
ajority. This year, our Republican candi-
date has beaten them two hundred. We have
also elected Republican member Of Congress-.
/ also approve of the Era's views, in relation to
the Eastern war and the tariff. The Tribune
is much mistaken, if it supposes that its one
million readers endorse its opinions upon those
questions. l know many of its subscribers
who do not.
CAsTINE, MAINE, Noy 30, 1855.
1t is much to be regretted that any Anti-Sla-
very man should prescribe the Era on account
of its course in relation to the Know Nothing
movement. Every day seems to show that the
position you have taken is in the main correct
to show that no party can be reliable for Free
dom, which does not make the issue between
Freedom and Slavery paramount.
Straight-out Know Nothingism was one of
the chief agents in the defeat of the Republi
can party at our State election. Gov. Worrill
was the regular nominee of the " American /"
Order; but because he was committed TO the
Republican party, and to the policy of Lhiting
all who think alike upon the question of Slave
ry, the votaries of "pure Americanism
would not support him, and manyBf them de-
nounced him as bitterly as the Wings and Dem
ocrats did. And, in the coming year, Straight
out Know Nothingism we'll be far greater OBJ
stacle in the way of Republican success than
the ghost of Straight-out Whigery.
OTTAWA, MAPELLo Co., Iowa.
am glad you noticed the TltJune's state
ment, to the effect that the pro- Russian feeling
is as prevalent at the North as at the South,
irrespective of the Anti-Slavery sentiment.
pronounced it false on first seeing it, before
saw your article, so powerfully proving the con-
trary. l have not the means of knowledge ac-
cessible to yourself but it seems to me that the
AntiSlavery feeling is almost entirely with the
Allies. By AntiSlavery, do not mean mere
ly Nebraska. Can you, in future article,
disprove the Iri6aAne's statement, by particu-
larizing the Republican and Free Soil Wing
prints which sympathize with England and
France? l think of none now but the Era,
Boston Telegraph, Hartford Republican,, and
New Haven Palladium How do the Boston
atlas, New York Evening Post, Albany Jour
nal, and New York Times, stand upon the ques-
ton?
All, anti Russian, except the last. The great
majority of the Republican papers is anti-Rus
sian.-Ed Era.
PITTSBURGH, Noo. 4. 1865.
/ agree with you, that it is essential the Re-
publican party should be maintained and per-
fected in all the States intact and untraramelled
that the party should shoulder its g;ssat idea,
its appropriate burden only and go forth to
do what it may in the Presidential contest.
Mr.. -, believe, is in favor of a nation
al organization of Republicans, looking to CO.
operation, as to candidates, with the American
Order. / do not believe this is either policy
or philosophy. Three separate nominations
will serve us better than any fusion that can
be invented. 1t would send the election of
President to the House and if you have any
thing ike good fight in Washington this win
ter, no matter how it terminates, thee Republi-
can candidate can have one-third more electo-
raj votes than the Americans when it goes
there and then our chance would be as good,
at least, as it is now, for Speaker
But l meant merely to say, that, for one, l
do most cordially approve year counsel, as
must eli whose politics are bottomed on Anti
Slavery.
We hope our friend has mistaken the posi-
ton Of Mr.. --. The policy of coopera-
ton in the present case is corrupt and corrupt
ing. Onel issue, one party-that issue, Anti
!S1acery that party, the Repudtica'a-is our
motto.-Ed Era.
MARTINS FERRY, BELMONT Co. o.,
December 3, 1855.
1t is singular fact, that majority of the
Club have been Know Nothings, who take the
Era, because of its steady, uncoApromising
opposition to the Order.
l observe that my friend L. b.. of Cadiz,
Harrison county, says that the Triihble vote is
no index of the strength of the Order in Ohio.
My own opinion is, that, after subtracting
the original or Straight-out Wings from the
Trimble vote, the balance, say $4,000, is the
precise HindOO strength of The State at least,
in contest against Freedom. l was surprised
at the declaration of l.. L., published in the
Era three weeks since,) that Chase was q dead
weight on our State ticket. Now, | have
watched the movements in Ohio the past sum
mer with care, and l deliberately hazard the
declaration, that the 18th Of July Convention
could not have nominated any other man who
could have carried the State against such COM
| binations.
Governor Chase possesses more of the ele-
ments of popularity with the masses than any
man in the State.