Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-06-08
The Best Joke of the season.


The Best Joke the Season. l
Bennett is out ia the Sundays issue OF the Herald
the Know Nohngs, and explains very satlsactor,
ily the cause of their recent defeat in yTglnia-l
from his article:
Our first scanty returns from Virginia were delu
siye. The subsequent actual figures, as they have
rolling in upon u.s. have scattered the hopes OF
the new American party to the winds ney nave
fought the battle appointed the test OF their nation
atty and their strength and they have, as it now ap
pears. lost it, There is yet bare possibility tor
Fournoy but an equal chance of an increased ma
ioity for Wise The seventytwo thousand enrolled
members of the Virginia lodges. which, in conjunc
ton with the outside wings and democrats were 10
have carried the State by from fifteen TO twenty hous
and majority have vanished into the air If, instead
of this promised triumph, they defeated, the pres
ige of these invisible invincbles is broken-they
reduced to their starting point-their present or
ganizati, does not answer its purposes-they now
stand confused agglomeration of discordant factions
for in falling before their Sebastopol they have lost
the Crimea
why is this? How happens it that the grand
expectations of the Know Nothings in the Old Domn
ion have been SO extensively dished? II is easy to
explain The numerous and suicidal affiliations Of
the Ms of the North with the abolitionsts and
free soiers, especially as developed in the disgusting
and treasonahie proceedings of the late " Niger
shipping" Legislature of Massachusetts, have done
| this business in Virginia AS we have repeatedly
urged upon this new party, ii is now abundantIy
proved, that something more than war of extermi-
nation against the Roman Catholics, and the proscrp
ton of foreigners by birth, and something better,
more cpen and more definite than this mysterious
third degree upon the slavery question, is required
for the building up in this country of a great ana
powerful national party. 1t is manifest that
although Know-Nothing coalition with free sellers
may re-elect Seward 10 the Senate from New York,
carry the States of Pennsy wanna, and Ohio and Mi
chigan, and Indiana, and New Hampshire, and
although with the adoption of the disunion, infdel
and niger loving denominations of Lloyd Garrison
and Theodore Parker, it may secure clean sweep
to the brotherhood in Massachusetts, from stem 10
STERN yet it is clearly manifest that such triumphs
are but waste of ammunition and can end In moth
I ing but disapI ointment TO all concerned
/ awe presume that the delegates to the National
Council of this new American party, on the 9th OF
June, at Philadelphia, will now 60 there pretty well
convinced that for national campaign twill not sut-
flee to depend upon gr and signs, and secret oaths
and the relentless prescription of born aliens and
protesting catholics. The Know Nothings will now
perceive that the crisis require them to show then
hand, to proclaim their principles, and declare wheth
er they intend hereafter to mix themselves togethe
with nigger-stealers and niger worshppers, they
have done heretofore, or whether they intend to Gu
aoof from the anti slavery factions, and plant them
selves upon substantial Union platform"
X
The scattered democracy, doubt not, will pluck
up courage everywhere, from this great victory O
it to be great victory. They stood alone. faith
less and Inefficient administration had broken up the
party everywhere else, and these terrible Know-No
things had not left single democratic State to swear
: by New Hampshire, which stood firmly by Virgin
ia in the great popular revulsions which elected Har
risen and Taylor, had been overwhelmed among the
rest, as by avalanche, in her last election. The
Virginia democracy. stood alone and the decisive
BATTLE whether the party should live or die rested
upon the shoulders of Henry A. Wise. There were
defecons in the rank and fe-the wings of the State
hailed the invasion Of the Know N ohings as SURE
harbinger of victory; the wing party cheeruy nrerg
ed itself in the mysterious order-they sold them
selves for of pottage which it they have
lost-they staked everything upon single card; bu
they counted without their host. MIR. Wise tough
the fight with unexampled energy, endurance, ant
skill From his first speech to his sixty fifth, he pac
tised the Napoleonic offensive system of operations
and thus kept his advesaries upon the defensive from
the first to the last. He wasted words in glorify
ing or excusing condemned adminstration-he was
ted no tears upon recent democratic defeats. He wa
appointed to make battle with new enemy, and hl
fell upon him at pe nell, and kept at him to TIT
end OF the chapter. If there be in Virgin;
who not informed by election day of all the alb
clifton associations and acts and all the nunnery do
lngs OF the Know Nothngs of the North, from the re
election of Seward to the Joseph Hiss case and tn
Massachusetts notification law then it was becaus
ne failed TO seize the opportunity in not atendn,
some one of the sixty-fve stump speeches Of MI
] Wise.
He concludes his article by nominating Mr. Wis
for President