The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-06-15
ASHINGTON CITY,
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE IS, 1865.
TIE SOUTHERN DELEGATES TO THE KNOw-NolH-
ING CONVENTION.

sitting in Philadelphia have fully developed and demon
strated the predonanee of the antslayey element in the
northern wing OF their party. This fact which have
abored without ceasing to impress upon the southern
mind aud which southern presses and southern politicians
have aboed with equal pers,ency to controvert and con-
ceal is placed beyond the possibility OF further DIS
quite In the free States the know-nothing organization
has been from its origin the instrument used Dy ano
ltonism for the promotion OF its reasonable designs
This fact had become apparent to southern men VINO had
attached themselves the order that they were coerced
by selrespec to make effort to throw OIL the odiam
which their abolition association rapidly fixing upon
them II was 10 consummate this purpose that they sent
delegates the national council mbed at Philadelphia
They had recently repudated northern whggey because
OF its afietion with abolitionisIn and had accepted in
its place the Illuminating alternative of striking the wing
flag and running up that Of know-nothingism After
eaasing to he wings and consenting to become know
nohings they made the discovery that know-nothngism
at the North was nothing than aboionzsd whig-
gery,he thing under another name that they SO
recently repudated unworthy Of their association The
assembling of the national council furnished the only
cape from the odium which pressing upon them They
gladly avaled themselves Of the and eagerly
paired TO Philadelphia.
There kind ofdfcuty now in understanding the
compromising the tactics of the southern delegates
to the convention They had gone into the organ
zaon upon the calculation that their party could ride into
power upon the popular preudces prevailing against for
egners and Catholics The victories achieved by the
order in henorhern States developed the close an
~ existing between it and aboonsm, and necessarily
created in the South stronger preudices against know
nothngsm than those existing against foreign mmgra-
ton and Catholicism 1t followed that in swapping whg
gerry for knownothngsm the southern wings lost more
than they gained Their loss consisted in separating from
them the flower Of their party, who refused to be
transformed into knownothings and in mourning the
odium Of having coalesced with organization whose
fruits all Injured to the benefit Of abolitionism To
the ground lost and to wipe the faint of abo
ntonism. the southern knownothngs suddenly became
enthusiastic and Union savers and repaired
philadelphia under the pretence Of nationazng know
nothingism under the of "Amcrcanism" and to
Union platform that would exhibit them to the
South model patriots They had turned know-nothngs
the political benefits of the pejudices prevailing
against foreigners and Catholics and but for the develop
meat of their association with northern abolitionism they
would have been content float the current into the pos
Of the pols Of victory and have left glorious
Union to the special protection and guardianship of the
democracy Having found that their political bark was
rent Of aboonism, they determined eclipse democracy
itself in their devotion to the Union in that way make
the popular sentiment in favor the Union available both
in escaping the odum of their abolition association and in
attaining the great object of their laborshe posses-
sion Of the spos That the southern know-nohing del
egatss sincere friends Of the Union we do not
doubt, bat We deny to them any special credit for
the zeal they manifest because we ses evidences
of motives melting hsm Il 1t rheh H5e axrda ad
enlisted under that of know-nothingsm the Union was
IN as much danger as but their whole alarm then
from foreign and Catholic influences To avert the
terrible consequences threatened from these influences they
made the midnight council chambers ring with dennncia-
tons of the alien and the Catholic Not word was then
uttered as to the danger of disunon from slavery They
reioced over the rumphs of know-nohings the North
and repealed with patriotic indignation the democratic
charge that those victories really the trumphs of
abolitionism Now, however the danger that looms up
and frghens them in the slavery question: and the
poor foreigners and Catholics beginning be passed
over US comparatively harmless creatures.
The idea of Matchmaking Acknowledgment upon any
other than an anti-slavery platform is absurd and
preposerous that discard entirely the belief that
the southern delegates the convention ever INDUCED
such hope They must have assembled at Philadel-
pha with full knowledge that they would meet there
the champions of know-nothngsm who claim that their
victory over the South and the constitution and
over the Union is half accomplished in having secured the
aseendenoy in the next House Of Representatives They
must have known that these champions abolition
ISIS than know nothngs, and that compromise could
DE made with them that did anti slavery its
hostile position towards the institutions of the South
MOST OF these southern delegates had been wings and their
experience wings must have taught them that any sound
national platform that majority Of the committee might
adopt would be spit upon and repudated by the know
nohngs of the North To suppose that the southern dele
gates hoped to induce the delegates from the northern
States 10 surrender their abolition schemes and agree
upon sound national creed would be TO impue to
them far more of stupidity and knos-notAingism than
would be complimentary to their intelligence We reject
the idea therefore, altogether that they went to the
convention with any such hope They went there to
make proof Of their nationality by insisting on
sound platform, and by that relieve the south
ern know-nothings Of the imputaon Of sympathzng
with ebolitioniss They there to make platform
on which they could stand in the pending elections in the
south, and to which they could point the evidence
southern know-Eohingism only national but espe
eay devoted to the federal Unon They hope return
TO the South with this evidence their nationality and
succeed in wardng off the crushing blows falling 80 thick
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