Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1855-03-23

REPUBLICATION OF OUR ANALYSIS
OF THE VOTE In THE TWO HOUSES
OF CONGRESS- ON THE PASSAGE OF
THE NEBRASKA BILL.
Unable, without encroaching on our regular
files, to supply the demands made on us for
the issue Of the Sentinel in which we published
an analysis of the votes in the two Houses Of
Congress on the final passage Of the Nebraska
Kansas bill, we have determined to republish
that analysis. We do SO in our issue of this
morning. 1t will be found below.
This analysis may be used in the South,
with great effect, against that new, mongrel,
and piebald party, the Know-nothings. The
great triumphs Of that party have been achieved
in the Northern and Non-slaveholding States,
where the repeal of the Nebraska bill, the re-
peal of the Fugitive Slave law, the abolition
Of the interstate slave trade, the abolition of
Slavery in this District, and the exclusion Of
Slavery from the Territories, are the most pop
ular doctrines and the controlling elements:
The Knownothings are mainly whig order
It will be found by reference to the subjoined
analysis, that not one single Uhig from the
North voted for the Nebraska bill. If we were
called upon to designate in three words the
Know-nothing party Of the North, we would say
it is composed Of the Anti- Nebraska men.
These men are, or rather were, Of various hues
and stripes No,o, they are all Of one COM
plexion. All the Abolitionists and Free-soilers
were against the Nebraska bill. All the North
ern wings we're against it. All the isms were
against it. All the dishonest and mercenary
Democrats were against it. THEY ALL, with
q few exceptions, fused, amalgamated, united
in that new, secret and clandestine order, called
Know-nothingism. The vital principle, sole
cement, the single bond Of union, between these
hitherto separated parties, factions and isms,
was hostility to the Nebraska bill, which infer
entislly-nay, directly, was hostility to the
Constitution, to the South and to slavery.
THE ONLY PARTY IN THE NORTH THAT PRE-.
SERVED IT'S INTEGRITY, THAT ADVOCATED THAT
BILL, THAT VOTED FOR THAT BILL AND SHOWED
ITSELF, AND UNDER A FEARFUL PRESSURE TOO,
THE FRIEND OF THE CONSTITUTION AND STATE
RIGHTs WAS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
All the other parties melted away like SHOWS
before the sun, and fused like rivulets that meet
in harmony and mingle in love. When such
streams meet and mingle, they lose their former
names and take one and but one name. Such
is northern Know-nothingism. Were we called
on to give that foul political and troubled river
name, we would designate it as the river of
death. 1t lis made up Of the foul streams that
issue from charnal houses, cess-pools, hooper
and cutters. Now and then it receives chrystal
rill from the mountains and an obscure stream
from the shaded valleys. But it is in the main
q turbid and filthy river in which corpses float
mud prevails and corruption testers.
We will venture the assertion that every anti
Nebraska man in the United States with the
exception of a few who are cursed with melan-
choly idiosyncracies, or are halfcracked, but
honest men) are Knownothings. We do not
mesn to say that all the Know-nothings were
anti-N ebraska men. We only mean to assert
IT as our opinion, that with the few exceptions
we have made) every anti Nebraska man in the
South and the North is Know-nothing. MARK
OUR EXCEPTIONS
We invite the attention of our readers to the
following analysis. They will find it useful, if
they are sound conservative politicians; they
will find it thorn in their sides, if they are
bgotted Federal Wings, unsound politicians,
mercenary men, or crack. Drained lunatics.
We say now, as we have said before, that
we do not believe Southern men would will
fully, and with malice prepease, enter an abo-
lition organization. But we believe that those
who have joined the Know-nothings, either i'm
PEELED by hatred to Democracy, or through
ignorance, have united themselves with an
organisation which at the North is shown to
be thoroughly, entirely, and altogether abo-
litionzed. The sooner they quit it, the better
it will be for their fair fame, for the Constitu.
ton and for the country.
But without further comments, we present
the following analysis:
Analysis OF the Vote ON the Passage OF
the Nebraska-Kansas Bill through the
House OF Represe ntatives.
Taking the vote by States, the following re.
suit appears:
For bill. Agains, BILL Not voting
Alabama. ..........
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