Washington sentinel., 1855-02-14


is pledged to vote for the repeal of the Nebras-
ka bill, the repeal of the fugitive slave law, the
exclusion of slavery from the Territories and
the abolition of slavery in the District of Co
lumbia. He is elected by the Kno,c-notiing
46ol'tioniSts. The American Organ, profess
ing to be a States rights paper, says it is all
right and halls his election as know-nothing
triumph-ior, says the Organ, claiming to be
a States rights paper and at the same time dig
noring" State rights:
why should we denounce the action of our
party IN Massachusetts, in electing General
Wilson, or arraign General Wilson for enter
tanning or protesting individual hostility to the
institution Of savery?'
Suppose, in the same manner, that a Presi-
dental election comes on-and this new secret
order was established with that view. Suppose
that the council or convention nominates a
rank and foul Know-nothing Aboltionist for
that high Office. There can be no objection to
It, for, according to the Organ, the Know
nothings have agreed to ignore the question of
slavery.
This is lovely show for the South and for
Southern rights. The truth Of this whole mat
ter, in our judgment, is, that the Wings, being
beaten, the Abolitionists being beaten, and the
Northern Wings and Abolitionists being almost
Identical, they have fallen upon this secret
order with the stipulation that all other ques-
tions shall be ignored, in order to entrap the
Wings of the South. Many Of the Southern
Wings have closed their eyes and stumbled
into the dark lodges of this new clandestine
and dangerous order.
But we have another point to notice. The
Organ not only defends the election Of General
Wilson, but undertakes to vindcate itself from
having published an article from the Boston
Bee, in regard 10 General Wilson's opinions on
slavery, instead Of General Wilson's own
speech. The Bee, the Knownothing organ Of
Massachusetts,, represented General Wilson as
proclaimed himself an Aboltionist when he
endorsed every word of Mr.. Burlingames Alb
clifton lecture. The Organ, fond of ignoring,
ignored General Wilson's speech, pronounced
WILL OWh hPo, pCSauSC ~ w as oil <hpOiitiou
speech, and published for Southern Know
nothing consumption the remarks Of the Bos
ton Bee, which represented him as a strict
constructionist. But the Organ claims that it
published letter from General Wilson, in
which de declares that he "maintains the ma
tionality and unity Of our republic, and the
Democratic doctrine Of States rights"
Admit that the Organ did So 1t amounts
to nothing, for General Wilson has distinctly
declared that he is for the repeal of the fugitive
slave law, the repeal of the Nebraska bill, the
exclusion of slavery from the Territories and
the abolition of slavery in the District of Co
umbia. General Wilson's doctrine of State
rights, may be the organs doctrine of State
rights, but it is not ours.
But to conclude, the Organ says:
"The Sentinel publishes an unaut1ienticated
report Of Senator Wilson's remarks at the Bar.
lingame lecture, vouched for by nobody, and
then accuses Us Of suppressing Senator Viii
sons real opinions Really the accusation bor-
ders upon the ridiculous!'
" An unauthenticated report !" We hardly
know how to reply to such disingenuous
inuendo The Organ knoics as well as we do,
that Senator Wilson did make the remarks i'm
puted to him. They have been published in
all the Abolition and Know nothing newspapers
of the north. They were expressed openly and
in the face OF large assemblage. General
Wilson has not disclaimed them, his friends
have not denied them. He made them. The
Organ should know it as we'll as we do, and
yet it seeks to make the impression that they
are vouched for by nobody They are
vouched for by everybody except the Organ,
and if southern Know-nothings permit them.
they had better remove TO Massachusetts at
once and join the Abolitionists.