Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-01-06

Known othingisu, not ouly avoids the Sla-
very issue, but, where it rises necessarily before
him, turns his face away from it. lie stands up
the very representation OF the policy and spirit Of
the Order, knowing nothing of Slavery or Anti
and the great revelation in Massachusetts,,
some Of our friends are attributing in great
par to the workings oi the Anti-Slavery Sentiment,
he attributes to the tyranny of the Money Power,
aud the eagernc 8 of US poor. miserable. oppressed
to escape from it by tho safe and ~eiiectual
of a clandestine association Such is
the dem Jnstratien of Know Moth sism in Con.
gr.ss.
Again, then, VIC ask. where are your Anti-Ne-
braska victories in Massachusetts New York. and
Pennsylvania How much are they WORTH No
man can answer-tor the results are mixed and vi
tiated, and time alone can show how much OF
the Anti.Slavcry sentiment entered into them.
Look next to the Western States. The Peoples
demand there was complied with. In Michigan,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. the oppo-
ncnts Of Slavery and the Administration united,
without distinction of Party. The Know-Nothing
organization liz is said, but who knows? was pow
crtul in those States. BE that rs it may, the pop
ular feeling was 50 strong for union against Sla-
very, that the Secret Order did not dare to r~esistit,
even had it leen free from the general sentiment.
1t fell in with it, contrived to regulate it in many
places, to determine its course and nominations.
Nobody knew how, but So it vas. Aud this fur
nishes the explanation wc presume, Of the low
platform of principles adopted in Ohio and lndi-
ana, and the studi0us efforts made in many places
to disclaim AbulitiuniSm, to keep in the back
ground prominent Anti.Slavery men, to exclude
from the canvass thorough AntI-Slavery discussion
But, the West was carried against the Administers
ton, and up went a shout; as II the Anti-SlaVerv
movement had accomplished the result. We too
rejoiced ut first, but n closer scrutiny INTO the
cause, character and results st the canvass, has al
loved our satisfaction. Had the canvass been
conducted alone upon the Antl-Slavery issue, ef-
cry State would have been rev0lutiOnized, ana we
would have calculated the results. We are con-
strained to admit that il was not so Conducted
May honest men were misled. So that the Adj
ministration were overthruwn, they did not for the
time feel very anxious as to the alliance 10y which
IL was effected. But now, will any one tell us how
many members of the State Legislatures, how
many of the Congressman elect are knOw-Noth-
incs' holding in subordniation or allegiance the
Slavery Question, and how many are trustworthy
Anti-Slavery men? No one can say. The results
are mixed, vitiated time alone can lift the veil
that now hangs over the chaos
Meanwhile, what DO we see? The Know-Noth-
ing orguus claim the widespread revolution as the
spec'al work of their Order. The Nebraska men
tell US, that had it not been for this new element,
they would have carried the country in favor Of
Popular Sovereignty as they call it. Whatever
we may believe or protest, the fact remains that 1t
is now everywhere disputed, that the late reverses
Of the Administration are to be credited alone or
chiefly to the Anti-Nebraska feeling. The slave
holders ard their supporters at the North find
comfort in ascribing them rather to the power OF
Known othingism, than that of the Anti-Slavery
Sentiment.
And, where is your Independent Democracy,
your noble band of Free Sellers, who for so many
years, through good and evil report, with infexible
determination, with signal disinterest edness, with
n clear philosophy, and a direct aim, waged wal
against Slavery and the Slave Power? Some Of
the leaders gone over to the secret Order; some o.
them plotting to carry forward the Anti-Slavery
cause and Anti-Siavery men, by tampering with 1t
by irving to out-general old Hunkers in using 1t
some of them silent and non-committal, in the
strange hope that a powerful secret Association
ignoring the Slavery Question, and embracing sucl
men as Fillmore, Clayton, Stockton, Houston,
Carrot Davis, Rayner, Ulmann, and Broome, may
be induced to help forward the Anti-Slavery move
ment,
And where are the masses Of the Party? Scat
tered, divided some, swallowed up in the new
Party some, without trust in one another all,
without organization. Some Of their editors have
become Know Nothings, and their papers show it,
for the Anti-Slavery discussion is no longer prom
incnt IN their columns.
Meantime, the Wings are again trying to make
head in a few States, Mt the primary elections, and
the so.called Democratic Party is only awaiting an
opportunity to reorganiSe in all the Northern
States, ignoring also the Slavery Question, but
ready to raise, Us its battle-cry, Down with Oath
Bound Political Secret Associations J"
A few months since, the free States bid fair tt
be united not only in the Congressional elections
but, 10 the Presidential election of 1856 in opposi
ton to Slavery and the Slave Power. Now, the,
are disunitcd-divided by Know Nothingism, rem
dere d helpless by Know Nothingism before tn
united Slave Interest. There is no discord in tn
counsels of this Interest. 1t has abated nothing
Of its claims, changed none of its plans. Cuba
Dominica, Kansas, Utah, California, Contra
America, are still embraced in the scheme of it
acquisitions. 1t has no fear of Catholics, for the.
do not flourish in the South. 1t is not troubled b.
foreigners, for the immigrant shuns the field 4
slave labor. But it encourages Know Moth
ingism, for it may succeed in checking tina
tide of foreign immigration which has so raj
idly enhanced the political power of the FIRE
States, and in reducing their political ~iniuenc
the naturalised citizens, whose votes, it apprehend'
ufmay yet he turned against its ambitious schemes
At all events, it rejoices that a new clement of e,
element and ascension has been introduced in tn
free States, the inevitable effect of which is
check and divide the A~nti-Slavery feeling.
The Eatonton Geo Independent Press, Dec. Oh
remarks
THE New York Tribune and National Era, til
two leading papers of AholitiCnism, are deadl
hostile against the Know Nothings, and the onl
reason they give for it is that this Order ignore
the Slavery issue, and has n tendency to divert III
minds of the people from tthe niger cause. Tn
Knop Nohings hare aLreaiy accomplished TIL
good. There can be no douM about that"
They have succeeded, very effectually," it says
Sin overshadowing the boisterous, clamorous fanat
les of the North" and it proceeds to philosophiz
in n style that Northern men should give heed 10.
"The North. " it says, sis led by excitement, ant
controlled by isms. The latest ism is always The
most popular, and commands the greatest number
of ~votaries. As a friend remarked to us the Other
day-one who was himself horn and raised at thu
North-if some bold fellow in Yankeeland SHOULD
fit out an expedition to the moon the Yankees would
forsake their all, and follow him. This disposition
to folio everything new, then, has induced tn
Yankees to quit, for a while at least, the nigge
question, aad open upon the Know Nothin
trail.
1--WE can't help rejoicing ut this, even though "
may be persuaded that the vicious pack is now 70
lowing a wrong track-we thank God it is not &
wrong track-just as, in past life. when engaged
the costly occupation Of fox-hunting. we were gil
enough when our dogs got after a drove of hog
Not that we Mnnted Them TO run hogs at all. b