The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-24
NATIONAL KNow-NoTHISGIsn AND KAN.

treme subservience to Slavery, but we have
found out our mistake. The Union has not a
word to say in justification of the outrayes of
Missouri barbarians in Kansas, but sustains the
conduct of Governor Reeder, from the begin
ning; the PennsytuarSdn, as viii be seen by
an article on our fourth page, is severe in its
condemnation of the fraud and violence enact
ed; and the Albany Argus is very decided:
"Now, this is not the kind of popular sover-
eighty to which Democrats of the North, in
standing shoulder to shoulder with Southern
men in passing the Nebraska bill, consented.
1t does not meet our approval. We repudiate
it. And we call upon Southern men and South
ern presses to speak out and repudiate it also.
An opportunity is now afforded to the South to
show that to maintain national political
creed, it is not necessary that the sacrifices
should be all on one side. Northern statesmen
and presses have braved much of popular con-
demnation in standing up boldly for national
doctrines, and in defending the Just rights of
the South. 1t would have been much easier
for them to have hoated with the current, than
to have stemmed it. An opportunity is now
afforded for the exhibition of somewhat of the
same courage and justice by Southern men.
We at least are entitled to know, most ex-
phcitly, whether we are to be met by the same
good faith which we have extended to our
Southern friends. We say to the South, plainly
and honestly, that unless this is done, Northern
men, who have stood on a common platform
with the South, can stand there no longer.
Northern feeling will not tolerate it,"
While these Conservative and Pro-Slavery
presses occupy this honorable position, the Ma
tional Know Nothing paper in this capital, the
american Organ, which lately congratulated
the South on the decrease of the subscription
of the National Era, as conclusive evidence OF
the tendency of Know Nothingism to neutral
ize the Anti-Slavery sentiment, takes sides with
Atchison, Stringfellow, and Co., and denounces
the President, because he refuses to remove
Governor Reederl
May Sth, in long editorial, entitled, "the
Administration Abolitionized," it charges Gov
ernor Reeder with being an Anti-Slavery man,
with having engaged in Anti-Slavery intrigues,
with having acted in collision with the Emil
grants Aid Society, for the purpose of keeping
Slavery out of housekeeping, in word,
all the miserable Misrepresentation of Mr..
Atchison and his friends, put in circulation to
excuse their lawless conduct. And then it ap-
peals to the People of Virginia to show their
Indignation against General Pierce, for sustain
ing Governor Reeder, by voting the Know
Nothing ticket
Listen:
"We confess our surprise at the silence of
Mason, Hunter, Wise, Richie, Faulkner, and
others of Virginia, in permitting this fraud to
be practiced upon the South. Are their politi
cal hopes and aspirations permitted to stiHe
the emotions of patriotism and thwart the die
tates of duty? Is this their friendship for
Atchison? This their love Of Southern insti-
buttons? This their duty to the State of their
birth 2 Is Atchison wrong? Are Reeder and
Foney and the Anti-Slavery men Of Massachu-
sets right? We call upon the people of Vir-
ginia and of the whole South to ponder upon
these things. The contest for supremacy in
Kansas, and in the passes of the Rocky Noun
tains, involves results and consequences of
character too great to be lost sight Of or neg.
lected by the South.
WiU Virginia hesitate, an the coming
contest, to do Justice 10 Atchison, by rebuking
The Administration, and those tine-serring
presses and politicians acho are bapling ont
against the american party, and charging
as, acithout foundation or Justice, scith being
tinctured tcith abolitionisn, at the rery moment
they are atto~ing the FOyreys and Reeders to
Intrigue the South out cta Territory geogaph-
icatty as large as Virginia, the Carolinas, and
Georgiaf Which one Of the Virginia Admin
istration presses or candidates has raised
finger, or spoken a word, against the acts of
the AHti-SIdrery GOUernOr Of Kansas, tcto not
only essayed TO transfer Kansas from tie
Souih, INT wlto stands charged pith land spec
ulating and Indian pluudering, and no,o comes
forsoard and advocates measures which ,oould
iarOice the North and South IN a GIRL par!
HUNTER, WISE, and RrrcHIE, forsooth, are
not Pro-SIavery enough for National Know
Nothingisrn.
In another editorial, May 18th, the editor
pursues the subject, and again calls upon Vir-
GINA to vote the American ticket, sustain
Atchison, and condemn the President for sus-
tanning Governor Reeder 1t argues that the
Governor cannot reappear in Kansas without
producing civil war, talks of "the Abolitionist
murderer of CLARK" seems TO be horror stricken
that United States troops should shield him
from mob law, &c.
g If the President does not propose to sustain
Governor Reeder by the United States troops,
then why send him back to the theatre of his
speculations and of his AntiSlavery intrigues?
II he does mean 10 sustain him by force, and
if he shall thus plunge this now peaceful coun-
try into civil war, to carry out the views of
bis AntiSlavery allies, then upon his weak
head be the blood which will flow in the inevi.
table contest Why, at this very moment, the
United States troops shield from the fury of the
people the abolitionist murderer of Clark; and
yet We are taught to believe, by the Democrat,
an Abolition sheet in st. Louis, and its East.
ern copyists, that the violence which reigns i'm
Kansas comes from the Southern portion of its
people
''Such are the fruits of Executive dependence
upon Col. Forney-such the fruits of the coali-
ton between Forneyism and Sewardism. II
the time has not come for the people, as well
of the North as of the South, to burst the
thraldom of allegiance to such political trick
sters, who triie with the interests of the South,
and jeopardize the peace of the country and
the Union of the States, then the time never
will come, let them do what they mayl Will
the country, the conservative portion of the peo-
ple-the people of Middle and Southern States
or Of any of the States, sanction the use OF
brute force to quell a popular excitement in
Kansas, which the appointment and conduct OF
Governor Reeder has produced, and which his
dismissal would terminate
"If Messrs. Hunter, Mason, and others, who
claim to be the true friends and defenders OF
Southern interests will not now come on,
against Forney, Pierce, Reeder, Seward, & Co.
and support the conservative American ticket
in Virginia, which is pledged TO oppose the
| elements which sustain this miserably aboli
tionized Administration let them erfind fault
with the American party if it shall repudiate
them. We ask our friends in Virginia and the
whole people of that State to bear witness, thai
neither one of the Virginia Senators, nor an,