The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-06-14

eyes"
"What did he do?"
+" He che,oed tobacco aohe7a nobody else ,cou7d
hare nothing to do icih it," was Bob Holmes s
answer.
The boy was permitted to take his seat.
CINCINNATI CORRESPONDENTS
CINCINNATI, ONO, June 3, 1855.
To the Editor of the National Era:
The following Republican papers in this
State have expressed preference for the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Chase, for Governor:
Ashtabula Sentinel, Ashtabula county; Vest
ern Reserve Chronicle, Trumbull county; T17tt
American, Mahoning county; Nep Lisbon
aurora, Columbiana county Salem Ropub
lican, Columbiana county; Summit Beacon
Summit county; Portage Democrat, Portage
county; Independent Press, Portage county
Jefferson Democrat, Geauga county; Paines
rifle Telegraph, Lake county Ae.'ina Gazette
Medina county; CEeceland Leader, daily Gu
yahoga county; Independent Democrat, Eorain
county; Progressive Age Coshocton county
Cadiz Republican, Harrison county; Noun,
Gilead Sentinel, Morrow county, Scion Of Ten,
perdnce, Megs county; ohio Columbian
Franklin county; Eleoator, Franklin comfy
Ripley Bee, Brown county, Wilmington hide
pendent, Clinton county; Free Presbyterian
Yellow Springs,) Green county; Springfield
Nonpareii, Clark county; Type Of the Times
Hamilton county Religious Telescope, Mont
gomery cosnty Home Companion, Hancock
county; Logan Gazette, Logan county; ST.
Mary's Messenger, Auglaize county; Free
Press, Allen county Raulding Democrat, Paul
ding county; Vdnpert american, V anwert conn.
ty; Daily Toledo Blade, Lucas county; Mau.
NEE Times, Lucas county; Republican, Will.
Hams county; True Free Soiier. Williams coun.
ty; Cincinnati Daily FolksJlaat, Hamilton
county; Cincinnati Daily German Repu6li-
can, Hamilton county Cincinnati Hochpaech.
ter, Hamilton county; Columbus JOlkStriJun,
Franklin county; Sandusky City Intelligent.
blatt; Toledo Ohio Stats Zeit,sng; Cleveland
Waechter an, Efie-making, in all, fortytwo
papers Ia addition to these, the Ne,o York
Tribune, with circulation in Ohio of 1900
and your own paper, with It's large circulation
in the State, will exert great influence on the
question.
Mr.. Chase is undoubtedly the choice of the
masses Of the People; and unless the Know
Nothing wire workers manage the card better
than we think they will be able to, he will be
nominated.
The Virginia election has very much damped
the ardor of the Hunker Know Nothings
They used all their influence to help their
brethren in Virginia. The Cincinnati Times,
the leading organ of the party in the West, pre-
pared some three editions Of their paper, and
sent about 10000 of each edition all through
Virginia. The matter was entirely different
from what they publish here, and contained
several Pro-Slavery articles, to prove the ortho-
doxy of the Know Nothings on the Slavery
question. We have seen one that was sent
back here from Virginia. The following are
correct extracts from it
eyes, most palpable humbug, that the
American party is an Abolition party !" who
ever thought or said it was?l cor that it in
any way or manner favors disunion!" [Ot
course it don't. Southern editors" Hunkers,
of course, "and a certain class of Hunker politi-
clans. are never tired of charging the Ameri-
can party with having strong Abolition tenden-
cies, designs, and aspirations. 1t has been
bruited throughout the South that Abolitionists
and Wings controlled the whole Order, and that
it's designs are to aboltionize the Southern
States, and dissolve the Union To support
these assertions, no arguments have been
educed, for the excellent reason that none
exist" That is a fact.
"The fact that William Henry Seward was
elected to the Senate from New York is moth
lHB. he HUc hultTlCdH party uScu
able means to defeat him, antwould have done
so, had not treachery-dark, shameful, des-
picable treachery-operated in his favor. In
Massachusetts,, a man was chosen to the United
States Senate, who is pledged by letter not to
renew the agitation Of Slavery in Congress
and the prevalence of American sentiments all
through the Southern States shows most certain
ly that the american party IS not an Anti-
Stdcery organization. 1t abjures all agitation,
either of Slavery or disunion. 1t is not an ally
or tool Of either the AntSlavery or Disunion
parties. IL takes upon the former question q
Just ground; cAich is, that the abolition of
Stdrery is impolitic, un,otse, and IMPOSSIBLE.
1t grants to the South all her rights, and at the
same time frowns upon every attempt to render
one portion of our Union hostile to the other
"Let them read such papers as the National
Era, the Neto York Tribune, the Albany Eren-
ing Journal, the NeU York Post, Buffalo En-
press, and the Clepeland Leader, or any other
abolition newspaper, if they want further author
tiles. They will find Know Nothingism de-
nounced belied, and scoffed at, worse even
than by the Hunker press. They will read warn
ings to the Abolitionists not to be enticed into
the American ranks, and long laudations of
foreigners, for they are nearly all Abolitionists
from the moment they land. Mark that fact;
and yet the North is enacting stringent immi-
grafton laws, and taking the right of suffrage
from every imported citizen. How do these
things, fellow citizens, accord with the asser-
tions of the Southern Hunker press? Do you
think that Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas,
and Florida, would support the American ticket,
if it was tinctufed With Abolitionism2 Are
the thousands and tens of thousands, who belong
to the Order in the South, utterly blind and de-
luded2 We fancy not. We do not believe
that the sixty or seventy thousand citizens Of
Virginia, who are said TO belong to the Ameri-
can party, have been such egregious simpletons
as 10 join the Abolition society! Why, absurd
ity is stamped upon the whole thing; and every
real member of the American Order knows it.
"We wish now to talk to the people who do
really know something who have seen one
Samuel in the course of their lives. You,
gentlemen, knoW that this charge of Abolition
ism is false, and without one shadow of found
alton. You know that the American party is
national, not sectional.
"Once, again, let US warn citizens of Virgin
la-the American party pIscLAIMs ABOLITION
ISM, root and branch. 1t has no fellowship with |
men of the Greeley, 'Se,oard, Wade, or Gid
dings, stamp"
From these extracts, it will be seen that their |
most widely-circulated organ in the West de- |
clares the position of the Order to be that of |