Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-05-16
What Party hi Aast affiliated viii Foreign
ar Nations. ~ r.

We do notpropese 10 enter into a dis.
cussion Of this question, but merely to
citsa feginstahces Of the present and
past fofeignhm Of the opponents Of De.
mocracy. W. say opponents Of Democ.
racy, fof they change names so often It Is
impossible 70 Aesignata them properly by
any given MAMIE. In i84o they were cal.
led the Coon Skin and Hard Cider party,
in 1914 the Whig partyifsa 1896 the No
party, in i $50 the National Republican
party, and in ss46 win be Know.Noth-
ing party; it isproper, therefore, to desig.
nate them under the general name Of the
opponents Of Democracy. -"
You cannot ut this time, take up
Wing or Knows othing paper which does
not contain arEcles defending the course
olthe Governor. General Of Cuba and
~denouncing oufadministration as system.
atically engaged in getting up a quarrel
with Spain, ASH pre!ext for seizing upon
Cuba. 1t matters not whether Crit,enden
and forty native Americans are shot with.
out Judge or july, or the Black Warrior,
engaged in thepeaceful pursuits Of com.
merce, is fred unto, and has to submit to
be searched, Ghn. Goncha finds able and
easy partizans in the Wing and Know
Nothing press II Virginia. Let the files
ofWhig and Kr2w- Nothing papers Of this
State be examilied, and You will find ten
defences Of Cen Concha and his brutal
soldiery to single article breathing an
American spirit Yet, this is the party
that calls itself Mar excellence American.
And again, tits is the party which rails
to place in the Gabine. Thomas Corwin
Of Ohio, who played God that the Mex.
leans might welcome General Taylor and
his little band q Americans, native-born
and adopted, wish BLOODY HANDS
TO HOSPITApLE GRAVES" 1t is
the Same press aid the same leaders. who
invoked the vengeance Of Almighty God
upon the American people for defending
the fre.sides ard homes Of the Texans
from re.enactmspt, in 1916. Of the mas.
sacre of the Alamo, and campaign Of
OF Santa Anna, shich is at this time de-
Tending every outrage Of Gen Concha
upon our government or private citizens,
however uncallea for and unprovoked.
and at1thc same iime claiming to be cal.
aed the NATIVE AMERICAN party.
We could, III necessary 60 on and
show, that for Sc last thirty years this
party. which at tHis time calls itself the
American party. has been the consisten
AMI eager apologist anil defender Of all H.,
! tor,;,.a :.2r3rlmest, VITA w;,ich we have
| Eal+lay u.li"ii yS%hG,eycr. In fact. We
know Of no in,tar'e IN wkirh the WINS
press have ever thought oar government
right when ditEcul y arose with for
eign nation. Aud we must say in con
clusion. that sucls foreigners as Shields
and Others whose soices have been hcarc
inour national couhrils in defence Of thci
adopted country ard its rights, and who's
lie in the same good cause, are, in GU
opinion, mole suitable representatives o
the American people in the Halls of Con
gress, or the Cabip, !, than those Arnold
who, though reared in our midst, pra,
God a foreign and Catholic people ma,
welcome our ci:izef soldiery with blood.
hands to hospitabl6 graves. T--Linehbar
Republican. + w