Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-04-11

!. Iligion, Of country. Of Protestanfsn, Of .
: that Cd IIoves ind nap rsgards, tear dow
ne fairost fabric svsr erected by the bar
II man 81 watchsdcycf BY N onipotel
Deity-and somsOf The Southern me
have said, "Amen--so be itl'' And
Is done. Already have We seen It's horri
results. Frcemen and natives, ''trr
IAmericams,' :, IS they can themsalve'
have wrested the ballot-box-tho pallad
umof our liberties--from the hands Of I'll
proper authorities. and trampled II nth
dust beneath their feet, that the will :
tho majority, q expressed BY Il, might b
defeated. lifs3
The very name Of the party i an insul
70 an Intelligent being. God made man
reasoning being. and, by joining this 50
ciety, be prociaims himself q brute, Go,
says TO man, come, thcn, let US rcasor
Itogether"-the founders Of this oreaniza
ton say, "come, then" let us ''knov no
&ing-kt us shut our eyes-let US refus,
to reason let US follow the dictation D
ourssdsters, whom We have sworn to obey
Eand'vote and do just as they tell US
God says, follow the councils Of the wise,
the just the holy-the founders Of this
order say. follow and support any party
hack who will deserr' his principles and
accepta nomination for Office at out hands;
and in the free States they have done as
directed, and thc result is before you
reason has been dethroned and brute force
worshiped in ito steed. In New York
Bill Poole, the head Of ono Of the Know.
Nothing councils-who was distinguished
BY no mental qualities whatever but those
which disgrace humanity. q pugilist by
profession, andtwho was not only famous
for possessing the strength Of a bull, but
the ferocity Of .. hger, and who lost bis
life while engaged in a brutal affray, by
the hands OF one of his own associates
was shrouded in the flag Of his country,
and followed to his grave BY a larger con.
course Of people than attended. the burial
Of the immortal Webster. And in Gin,
cinnati, the destroyers of the ballot-box
marched to their hellish work under the
portrait Of the Abolitionist Taylor, the
knov nothing head Of the American par.
IT," with the stars and stripes--sacrsai
emblen p Of !, our oounty;;''. inonor-aoa,iuge
over them. But it is said. ''vho.n the
godsiatend to destroy they first make mad"
j We believe that THE H.: PARTY, bcgotten in
iniquity and born in sin, will rot, stink
and spew out in its own native North,
where itoriginated. There is not the ma
terisl in the South for it to operate upon.
Fortunately, for US, the black slave here
occupies the place Of the ,ehitc slave there,
and they arc the men, who, at the ballot.
boz give popularity to every. ism that my
knaye may invent. Hero in Virginia it
can prevail but % small ex en-, and must
soon disappear. This thing ofbeing afraid
to avow ones political opinion ms, aud to
work In the dark and under oath for the
oyerthrow--of apolitical adversa airy, is re-
voting to the feelings Of a free-born South.
erner. 1t may do for Yankee land, but
"will none Of it," ..
The result Of the election in Cincinna-
tt is cheering to the heart of every true
lover Of his country. . Farran, but for the
destruction Of the polls in two Of the
wards by the Know Nothings, would have
been elected bya large majority. The
Know Nothihgs have lost about6O votes
since the last election. We hail it as an
omen Of good. In short time this cor.
rup: mushroom party will sink into OBJ.
Iivion, and twill only be known and re-
by the conspicuous places some
Of its leaders will contriye to secure for
themselves upon tho pillory OF fame.
]. N. Patton, in la4s, pronounced the
Native American party Hell born and
he'll bound party" Balaam was proph-
1t Of the most high God, though he walk
I'd not after his ways--he warned Others
from the paths Of destruction, though he |
was lost himself. Patton, who is now the |
Know Nothing candidate; was made the !
prophesier Of their doom: and, poor man,
he, like Balaam, is lost with them. NV
Read the extracts in another column
Fead them ye who love your country, and
condet over them. 49,. 7 !
~ Since writing the above ws have
received, by the Franklin, late Cincinnati
papers, from which we learn that Faran
: elecled Mayor by 1883 majority, in |
'pite q the yillainy ofthe Know Nothings. !
The ppom;,s +&4 f. vi. !