Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-01-13
south-side Democrat.

The South-Side Democrat, published at Pc
tersburg, Virginia, has the following very sage
remarks concerning the American party in New
York
g In spite of the expressed sentiments Of William
III. Seward in opposition to this order Of Know
Nothings and their principles 80 great is the abo
lition element in the order, that in the State Of
New York. there has been great split in the party,
new division has been formed, and there is now
in the Empire State grand Know-Nothing Coun-
Gil, with subordinate branches pledged to the cleo
ton of the arch agitator and fanatic William Ii.
Seward, to Senatorial chair in Congress.
We implore the South to look at this fact. AT
an early day, Seward, Who with NIL his fanaticism,
is not fool, foreseeing the inevitable ruin which
must eventually overtake every politician who allies
himself with this party, expressed himself opposed
to the organization, on the floor Of the Senate.
g Having thus volunteered to oppose them, 1t
was not presumed that they would feel other SEN
timents than those of unqualified opposition to-
wards him, but recent developments evince that
the nature of the order is too strong for the preu
dices or the sensibilities of its members, and
second State Council has been formed Of those
friendly to Stewards election despite his defiance
which in three months numbers, according to the
Herald, over fifty subordinate lodges IN that State
If the South-Side Democrat had taken any
pains to obtain correct information on this sub
ject it would long since have known that the
Know Nothings who have formed new Grand
Know Nothing Council in New York, are the
original friends Of Mr.. Seward-the same men
who defeated Mr.. Ullman last October, and
who have been denounced as spurious by the
regular Know Nothing party in New York
We have repeatedly adverted to this spurious
party in the Empire State, in our columns,
which party, it is well known throughout the
North, was conceived in sin, and brought
forth in iniquity.' This spurious party con-
triyed to smugge into the Know-N Nothing State
Convention of New York, last October, some
seventy or eighty members, who used their
best excrtions to procure the recognition of
Governor Clark MS the regular Know Nothing
candidate; and, failing in this, they abandoned
the Convention, and held separate Convention
at Utica, where they nominated Mr.. Clark, who
had been previously nominated by the Seward
Wings Their treachery elected Clark
The South-Side Democrat ought to have
known these facts, as they have more than once
been stated, not only in the american Organ,
but in the New York Herald and other north
ern papers. This spurious party was brought
into existence under the auspices of Seward,
and the original design was to break up the
Known Nothing organization, and hence the
determined purpose Of the true American
party" at tho North and elsewhere, to defeat
the elevation Of this intriguer and hypocrite.
If the South-Side Democrat is very anxious
to find out where political abolitionism can be
most readily found, let that press examine the
proceedings Of the late convention held at Co
lumbus, Ohio, by the Forney and Pierce De
mocracyl
The South-Side Democrat would do an act
Of sheer justice TO the South, If it would pub
fish the resolution of that Democratic con-
rention" denouncing slavery Let there be
no such "dodging" in the latitude of Peters
burg, Virginia, as the Forney and Pierce
presses in this neighborhood have practised.
viii the South-Side Democrat give its readers
light on the question: win that press, or wiU
it moi, publish the proceedings of the afore-
said convention, held by the Forney and Pierce
Democracy Of Columbus, Ohio in which
Raosc- nottingham and SLAVERY were both
denounced in the same BREATH We doubt
whether it will, but we shall sec.
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