Washington sentinel., 1855-02-10
THE AMERICAN ORGAN.-THE MAS
sACHUSETTS ELECTION.

WHICH ~ Was COnIeTTeu.
THE "AMERICAN ORGAN MAS
SACHUSETTS ELECTION.
The american Organ, Of this city, has cul-
tivated the South with assiduous tenderness.
Indeed, it has addressed itself almost entirely
10 that section of the country. 1t has expressed
the strongest pro-slavery sentiments and spoken
with much rancor Of the Abolitionists. 1t has
time and again declared that between Aboli-
tionism and Know-nothingism there was no
sympathy, no alliance; and has endeavored to
convince the South that between the two there
is an impossible gulf. But cherished tancies
are often dispelled BY rude Implying facts, and
feryid rhetoric is often answered by relentless
and memorable figures. So has il been with the
fancies and the rhetoric of the 0rgan.
The election Of General Wilson TO the Uni.
ted States Senate, by the know-nothng Legis-
la,ure of Massachusetts, aided by the Abolition
sentiments recently expressed by him, has al
tracted the attention of the whole country, and
shown, beyond all donbt the close alliance be-
tween Northern Abolitonsm and Northern
know.nothingism. The thing was so plain,
papabe, and bareiaced, that we did not doubt
that il would draw forth the thunders OF the
organs wrath We remembered its express
ions Of loyal attachment to the Institutions Of
the South and lis hot denunciations of Aboli.
tionists, and these memories led US to hope
that. like the New York Herald, (another
Know.nothing paper it would condemn the
foul alliance.
Rut We have been disappointed. 1t has not
even been disoreetly dumb. In its issue of
Thursday last, it undertakes TO defend the
election Of Senator Wilson. Ii commences It's
defense by alluding to the recent platform pro-
mulged by the Democratic State Convention Of
Ohio, and charges that their platform is more
abolition in its character than the sentiments
Of General Wilson. Ii accuses the Democratic
press of passing over this platform in silence,
and being too unsound, too corrupt, and too
timid to publish the Ohio resolutions, and ex.
press dissent from them. 1t even makes this
assumption the basis Of an argument intended
TO proye-what? An alliance between De-
mocracy and Abolitionism.
We and the Organ viii, no doubt, be frank
enough to own it, called attention to the Ohio
platform so soon as it was promulged, and ex-
pressed our decided disapprobation Of the res.
olutions in il that related to slavery. We know
Of no Democratic paper, hereabouts, save one,
that has given any manner Of countenance to
those resolutions. That one is the Washington
Union. Whether the Union intended its
silence for appreciation, is not for us to say
1t would be charitable to suppose that its pass
ing over these resolutions in silence, and al.
together suppressing the most Objectionable
one (which the Organ charges) were rather
the indications Of disapproval and mortifca.
ton, than Of acquiescence
But, while we disapprove altogether, as we
have repeatedly said, of The resolution to which
the Orgaa refers, we altogether reject the in.
depreciation placed on il by that paper. 1t is
not, in any sense. an Abolition resolution In
deed, taken in its connection with other reso
lutions in the platform, on the same subject II
amounts TO nothing more than a timid attempt
Mt mystiGcation. We can approve OF nothing
short Of the absolute and unqualified recogni.
ton Of all the rights Of the States of this Union
But we do not hesitate TO declare il as our
opinion, that this Ohio platform goes infinitely
farther in its declarations in favor Of slavery
ihan any Whig or Knownothing convention in
the North will dare to 20.
ii i'll becomes the organ to chide Democratic
journals for suppressing the Ohio resolutions,
lin which il is mistakenly when it absolutely
suppresses the speech, the Abolition speech,
made by General Wilson only few days ago.
Instead Of publishing the rank Abolition lee.
turc Of Mr.. Burliugane, and the remarks Of
General Wilson, in which lie endorsed ercyp
,rord OF that lecture, the organ is guilty Of the
disiugenuousness Of quoting from The Boston
BE-. "the organ of the American party in Mas
sachusetts," an article which says among other
things:
"The views OF General Wilson are those Of
n States Rights man. lie is a strict con.
structionst, and would not medde or inter.
fere with the institutions Of Georgia or Louisi.
ana, any more than he would tarnely submit to
al interference with those of Massachusetts.
Now which best knows General Wilson's sen |