The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-07-26
GROANS OF THE BRITONs."

1t is refreshing in this hot weather to hear
the groans and witness the contortions of the
doughfaces and slaveocrats, called forth by the
evident tendency of events in the free States.
Mr.. Toombs said that the waings and clamor
of the Aboltionists and Free-Soiers, over the
Nebraska Bill, was music to his ears and,
humping his breast with his fist, he proclaimed
to the Senate and the country, that their lam
entations did his heart good. But it is now
our turn to rejoice at the calamity of the Propa-
gandists, and TO mock when their fear cometh.
The Neio York Herald says:
"Joshua r. Giddings, the ruling spirit of this
Ohio Anal gamation Convention, may be con-
sdered as the embodiment of its principles
and purposes. True, he thought its resolutions
were rather mild; but they are certainly strong
enough for any sectional scheme short of open
and immediate armed sedition against the Fed
eral Government. The sum and substance of
both this Ohio and this Indiana ngger-worship-
ping Convention is sectional crusade against
the South for the Presidency.
"They speak of a National Convention, but
the thing is absurd. Their National Conven
ton, like that at Buffalo in lS4S, and that at
Pittsburgh in 1852, will be bounded on the
south by Mason and Dixons line and the Ohio
river, only the party enrolled under it threatens
to be thousand times more formidable and
dangerous than any Anti-Slavery combinations
not excepting that of the Missouri agitation of
l8l9-'20. We see before US now no loophoe
of escape from the perilous contingencies of a
sectional scrub race involving the most hostile
and embittered elements of sectional ealou
sizes, hatred, violence, discord, and disruption.
In the North the Anti Slavery Fusionists are
riding rough-shod over all distractions. They
have absorbed the new American party through
out the New England States they have redu-
ced it to capitulation in Pennsylvania; they
have swallowed it up at a mouthful in Ohio
and Indiana; and almost everywhere else
throughout the Northern States, excepting the
State of New York, we find the Know Nothings
playing second fiddle and acting as tide-waiters
to the Seward Holy Alliance. This is a de-
plorable state of things" &c.
The american Organ, of this city, says
"Our seeding allies seem absolute dough
faces their platform seems tame and harmless
alongside Of that promulgated by the Red Re-
publicans of Columbus; and upon a competi-
ton for the vote of those who are anxious to
repudiate the action of the Federal Government
upon the subject of Slavery, we presume that
the platform of the seceders could not obtain
one in one hundred against that of the Free
Sellers, for this is crisis which admits of
no neutral ground. We must maintain the
law as it is, or drift away into an illimitable
ocean of innovation. The fanatics, with a
shrewdness which sometimes characterizes in
sanity have restrained the zeal of their follow
ers, until those who had been incensed against
the Missouri legislation might have Joined their
ranks. They now find it impossible to do so
any longer; they proclaim their purposes; it
is war of agitation, even to the dissolution of
the Union, or the destruction of every fraternal
tie which binds its members together.
ain this object they have accepted the aid
of aliens of every cline, of fanatics OF every
faith, to overthrow an institution recognised by
law and usage. They may, without lnconslst-
ency, offer a Cabinet appointment to the IA
pists, and foreign missions to foreign refugees.
Americans who dread the enmity of foreign
and fanatical foes even more than the imagi-
nary aggressons of your own fellow-citizens,
are you willing to follow these enemies of the
Union in their nefarious and reasonable pur-
poses? Reflection, and the terrible depths Of
that chasm now opening between your purposes
and the avowed objects of your enemies and
ours, will convince you that the only safe plat
form is the law as it is. Let US, then, close
ranks upon that platform, abide by and main
tain it against all enemies"
The Washington Union says:
{" Abolitionisna leads the Column.-The fell
spirit of Abolition boldly marshals the way
Of the present opposition to the Democratic
party. 1t has contributed the largest amount
of money and of men to-the grand Anti Demo
cratic movement. All others are allies, Just as
the Turks are allies to the French and English
in the Crimea, and will be used like the Turks
their possessions seized, their rights incaded,
and themselves made the heDers of rood and
drd,oers Of acater for their new masters"