Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-08-08
showing Their Hands,

II will be Remembered by all who hay'
leep themselves posted upon the diileren
j political moves Of the day, that, eve
! Since the rise Of this new.fangled party
ctllcd know Eothings," that its oppo
neuts hi the slave States charged tlias ]
: was nothing more than The old Viii
Abolition party Of the North in disguise
which lad called to its aid the Abolition
party proper and the Frec7soii portion o
the Democracy, and had, by that means
swept the free States clean Of everything
like desire to. uphold the institutions o
tie South or give them that equality
= which was guaianteed to them by tht
Constitution. This was stoatly denied
By it's friends. They held that; it was
national IN all its views, and that il was
gotten mp for the express purpose offfee-
ing the councils. Of the nation Of extremes
! of every party, apd to secure The rights
Of the South upon firm foundation, or,
in other words, ldi us and our institutions
alone to rest upon the guarantees of the
Constitution. andb as far as the extension
Of slavery was cpncerned, it was to be
loft solely to the choice Of the people in,
shabiting the different Territories. ! Well,
they succeeded III getting into. power IN
almost every one of the free States,
and now hold the -reigns Of the govern
tment in thoir own hands. And what is
the result? They have returned to the
national councils Abolitionists f:s-the
deepest dye-men pledged to deny the
rights Of equality to their Southern
brethren--who have said that no slave
ownershall have any ofthe rightsofcitizen-
ship beyond the presentlimits Of the Slave
States, and that those limits never shall
bcextendedt and that they will do all in
!. their power to harass them even after
they are so confined. That this is a true
statement we refer to every declaration
ever uttered by one Of their leaders, and
! to every act and expression of the Legis-
latures where they have the majority
In some S ates they lave passed laws
denying the use Of their jails to any
United Safes officer who may be called
upon 10 aitlin5capIurihg q runaway slave,
and making tie State officers, WHO aids
him, subject to fine imprisonment, and
forfeiture Of Office. In others they open
~ invite their citizens to rob their south
crn brethern Of til cir property and then
ridicnle them when it is done. These
things are all set forth and expressed by
them in tho various platforms thty have
lately put forth, and every one Of their
candidates for State offices are pledged to
four things, viz: the establishment of
the Missouri Compfqmise line, the repeal.
Of The Kansas Nebraska bill, the abolish,
sInentof slavery in the District of Column
bia and no more slase States ever to be,
admitted into the Union These are the
leading doctrines Of the northern Know
Nothipgs, and would to God it were only
, their doctrines, and that they had no
aiders and abettors IL encora1e Them in
the slave States: The tendency~of the
southern portion of the party at this time,
we are sorry to say, shows q leaning that
way. Keneth RayncrY their big gun of
the South, stands check by jole with VIII
son and Gardner on the restoration Of the
! Compromise and condemnation Of the
Nebraska bill, and when once man be-
gins 70 associate with bad company he
rarely stops at one Of their vices. But
sWhilstwe can point ont many individuals
Of tie South who go 30 far, as yet we have
seen butone Know Nothing press boldly
advocating their doctrines and another
that has an awful squirting that way
In our issue Of the. week before last, we
eadcayorcd to show the leaning Of the
"Kanawha Republican upon these sub
jeets: we deemed tour duty to do so, ana
We will, continue to call the attention Of
the people to that Or any other paper
pursuing tie same course.
ttis well known that Immediately after
the passage Of the Kansas Nebraska bill,
there was society formed for the avowed
purpose Of abolitiohising both Territories
hwasea the.tE migrant Aid Society"
TWAS gotten up in Know Nothing M,ssa.
chusetts, and is anothersone Of the beau.
tiful offspring Of this detachable national
party. Well. they failed in their attemp
---they had succeeded in flooding III,
Territory with lawlcss mob, sent Their
"a East as they were landed off Of lhc slip
that brought them oyerfrom Europe, an,
Instructed, by ttlt Know.N Nothing part
Of tile North, WHO had sworn on the hol
Bible and Cross never 70 allow them I'll
rightof citizenship, to,o:e down nativ
horn American, cilizeps and rob them /
al, 81 tISv;nss fail,.d IN fheirioly;;ac