Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-08-24
A Bid for the democracy.

correspondent of the Charleston Mercury, " X"
writes truthfuy and in readable style the follow
| ing under the above heading:
Where, )" innocently asks some of our Know Moth
| ing friends, are the Know Nohings to come from,
except from the Democracy 2" The naiuette of this
question, is absolutely refreshing. Has the party
ALREADY become sick of its allies and, like the pro.
dgal son, is it even now casting wshful elances for
return to It's fathers home Is it about TO repudi-
ate its lineage and desrous of forgetting the pit from
winch 1T was digged, and the rock from whence it
was hewed! or, sensible of reaction in public SEN
ument, does it hope by call upon the Democracy,
10 escape the just consequence Of lis reckless appeals
TO CIVIL and religious pre- udice in It's desire for spoils
place and power?
" 1t has nothing to hope from the Democracy
they have no points in common. Their principles
eIernal principles OF right. The other on those Of
1uson, ike the chameleon, rejecting tie tints of
every passing life. The one reposes its confidence
IN the landmarks of the past; the other in the pre-
Judlce OF the present. The guarantees to every
citizen his rights under the constitution. The other
creates distinctions in citizenship and errays class
against class The one advocates religious liberty
the other proclamS a war of sects. The one bases
itself upon TRUTH amply vindcaed by history, that
secret political associations have ever been disastrous
to the interest of liberty The other itself secret
political, Sectaran association which knows no pa
trlotlsm beyond its limits, and no higher desire
than that OF placing its asprans in the seats of pow
er !he one seeks to preserve the constitution, by
s'ClS W tue principles OF It's founders. Ihe other
mas cast overheard the compass by which they were
guided, and adopted one of untrue metal, which ex-
perlence has shown must lead the shin of State if
tney have charge of the heIm into peril and disaster
II not to total ruin, 1t is against the Democracy
that Know Nothingsm has waged its bitterest war
Has 1t ever arrayed itself against Whiggery? Why,
1t has opened wide IFS bosom, and cordially welcom-
cd to Its embrace-the fragments OF that dismember-
ed party Has it as party, contended against
Aboltlonlsm Why, it has clasped hands with il,
with it, and riumphed with it, in its war
upon the Democracy. Wherever It's banner has
been unturled. it has had inscribed on its folds hos-
lty to the Pierce Administration Democrat, who
standing on the Kansas Nebraska Act, has been true
to the South and valiant for the constitution and lis
rights The triumph of one has been the defeat of
tue other: 1t has achieved victory over the ene-
mles OF the South 1t has won its Iaurels in the de-
eat of her friends. At North, East, at South at
West. it is pluming itself against the advocates of
constitutional rights 1t is found, at this day. in the
held IN open hostility 10 nearly every Southern states.
Ian who has distinguished himself in the cause
of the South, or place in her affections by de-
Votlon to her principles And though here and there
some OF her true but misguided friends may be found
within its limits yet it may with truth be affirmed in
general that as on the one hand it has fraternized
With the Freescil party, the other it has gathered
within It's folds nearly every unsound politician of
he South There can be, then no fraternity between
Know Nothngism and Democracy. There must be
rst agreement of prinCple.n