The true Democrat., 1855-12-18
From the Boston Post, Nov. 30, 1855. Know Nottingham and Abolition
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From the Boston Post Nov. 30, 1855. Know Nottingham and Abolition
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 The recent triumphs, here and there. of the i-now Nothings, have made this party iublant and confident. The New York Mirror, though its note of victory was good deal too loud in writing about the planting of their victorious banners" said, "they are in power in New York, Ohio California, Louisiana, Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, Massachusetts, Connecti- cut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island-and"; and 1t names over so many States they can carry. This was too fast. Louisiana does not belong to them; abolitionists claim the glory of Ohio; New York is in fog, and the fate of u e great commercial State, by democratic folly, is between the devil of sectionalism and the deep sea of prescription; and some of the other States will tell the world where they will be when the spring opens.
 But the organs of this party are figuring out q national triumph. What beautiful national harmony there must be between the Know Nothings of Maryland and Kentuncky who stand on the Philadelphia platform, and those of Ohio and Massachusetts, who openly denounce this Philadelp phia platform as the very zenith of political iniquity; between Know Nothings, who go for letting slavery alone, and Know Nothlngs who go for the restoration of the Missouri line, and for warning on the aggre.- sion," as the phrase is, "of the slave power"
 As this party is now indulging in national aspirations, it is well to keep in view its ground, work of action, as to the slavery question at the north. Wherever it has triumphed, it has put He rankest sort of abolitionism by tue side 0f the raakest sort of Know Nothinglsm. The New York Mirror claims Chase's election in Ohio as a Know Nothing triumph. Need we spend words to show what this was? What Know Nottingham did ill Ohio it has done everywhere else at the north; it has protessed the rankest abolltlonism; to be as anti-savery as the stffest of free soilcrs.
 Here in Massachusetts it has been so from the first. It would be useless to go over the his. tory of It's first campaign, and cite columns to prove this. Then a large portion of the free sollers worked secretly and openly for Henry J. Gardner; then, he, the Know Nothino candidate, wrote letter of the most ultra anti slavery cast: going for repeal of the fugitive slave law, and iercely denouncing the Nebras- ka bill. His inaugural was of the same tenor, abolition enough to suit the most violent abolitonsts
 | What this party, up to last October, had done for the anti-slavery cause here in Massachusetts was briefly, but accurately, summed up in an editorial of the BEE, the organ of this party in Massachusetts. These are it's words:--
 "What has the American party of Massachu- sets done for freedom and morality? Elected Henry Wilson to the United States Senate.
 What has the American party of Massachu- setts done for freedom and morality?
 Elected its entire delegation of United State. Representatives who are unit upon the ques tion of anti slavery.
 ' What has the American party of Massachu. setts done for freedom and morality?
 PasSed through is State legislature, the per sonal liberty bll-an act which no other State ever has or dared pass
 The American party of Massachu ;otts, anc we assert 1t without fear of contradiction, ha. done more-in deedy, not worIs-for the cause of human freedom than any other State. or by any other party, whether whig democratic, treesoil, abolition, liberty or republican, that ever had an existence in this commonwealth They never did anything but pass resolution: and utter big, smooth words. The American party has done everything, and left nothing tc be done, at nast this season."
 This party the Bee is right-did more in ono yearto further the ABOLITION CAUSE thar all other parties that ever existed in this State put them all together Think of it. Ar abolition SenatCr-an entire abolition delega ton in ngress-Res01res by the 7eqislature 9th, Bee omitted this service) ploaouacing He fuq. h0e slape laW unconstitutional, APPROVED BY GOVERNOR GARDNER-the personal H berty bill! What a record! What party car beat this in one year? What party could dc more for ab0iltjoHtsm and onaychyl
 It was on this abolition record that Governor Gardner's friends urged his renominaion upon the 1chole party, at the fusion convention. free. sollers and all They claimed that he was as good treesoiler as there was going. But they dld not succeed, and bolted at Worcester Then convention of his own party renominat- ed hlm. It was personal affair altogether He attended the convention on this occasion and made speech abolition enough to suit anybody that way inclined He slashed ava, right and left. He pounded the slave power.' and aimed at Judge Kane a "killer., The Governor spoke of Judge Kane as "an inf1 nous slaUe caching commissioner at PAZadeZDIta mho Ih hope ,oW WJe tmpeacAe{ tor hscondmt 5etor He neat Congress- aJM t0ere there, / ,rouM c7teer July gee 'ay vote n ttUor of s,ech mpeacHnaent and, as to aboitionism in lump, he vowed the following vow:-
 4 confess ana an anti-slavery nGn. / ,0il oppose n public or priuate life he aqqeessions Q slarerH So help me Goa! so long as / Hue."
 So much for the nationality ofa Governor, jus reelected, by this party aspiring to be nation al. Ii we turn to the platform of the party the Massachusetts party, what do we find here How national Is this? This platform stood fo months at the head of the journals of thi: party on the cue cf the election it ,cas circtlateo tn hond-blNs to the door of euery uoter; it is now endorsed every day by the Massachusetts know nothing journals. Here are its additional blanks called the Springfield platform
 Whereas the aggressive policy which has been uniformly pursued by the slave power from the commencement of our national exs- tence down to the abrogaton of the Missouri compact, evinces determination to crush out, the spirit we'll as the forms of liberty from anon. us, and to subject the free States to 2 relentless despo ism; and whereas. the success of the southern delegates to the national coun. eli recently held in Philadelphia, in making abject and accomplishing submission to pro- slavery legislation fundamental article in the creed of the national American party, render. It imperative upon us to express our view: upon the great question of the country anc the age: Therefore we declare:
 l. That the action of the legislative. execu- tive and judicial departments of the govern ment ought to be controlled by the principle taught by the framers and purest interpreters of the constitution, that freedom is national and slavery is sectional
 2. That repose for the country and stability to the Union must be sought by relieving the general government-so far as its jurisdiction extends--of all connection with and accounta- blllty for American slavery.
 4. That the independence and sovereignty of the State in its legislation and judiciary should bc maintained inviolate
 4. That the great barrier to slavery, ruthless ly broken down by the repeal of the Missouri prohibition, ought to be speedily restored, and that in any event no State erected from any part of the territory covered by that compro- mise ought ever to be admitted into the Tnior