The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-15
ANornER ApoLIrIoN pEMoNsrRArIoN RRoM THE

kNOW-NUTHlNGS.
The know-nothug State convention in Illinois, held
18th instant Springfield have adopted the abolition
PLATFORM learn by telegraph and call for the resto
ration Of the Missouri Compromise This adds another
State by the knownothng to the abolition column
Il is also another admoniton further proof not being
cessary the people Of the South that hatred TO their
domestic institutions and hostility religious liberation
and political equality and the thing in the
free States.
Illinois is State that has ever been distinguished,
long the democratic party held the power there, for
It's firm adherence and advocacy of the guarantees of the
constitution expressed and advocated by the dstn-
gushed Legislators from The South who took part in its
adoption The services of Stephen A. Douglas Colonel
Richardson and their associates in defending these prnc-
Plies and rescuing the State from abotonism, have made
their familiar the South household words
Even the wings of the South have hesated applaud
the gallant Douglas for his championship of State
rights and his defence OF their institutions when assailed
by the abolitonss of the North When in 1885, his life
threatened by those hostile domestic institutions
of the South in the city of Chicago for defending The
promises enacted during the first session Of the Thirty
first Congress and his advocacy of the rights OF the South
under the constitutions and when in 1854, the
influences in the city after the passage of the Kansas
Nebraska BILL denied him hearing IN justification Of bis
course upon that question: his bearing such TO
cite the admiration Of all parties in the southern States
Let the people Of the South take warning By the present
state Of things IN Illinois, and consider well whether the
people who have heretofore prosecuted Mr. Douglas
for his bold and satesmanlke course In he United States
Senate and who prosecuting him, would not finley
should obtain the power themselves destroy the
rights of the South, The of the know-nolhing
wings OF the South shown by their conduct in the late
convention at Philadelphia and their State conventions
held since that event shows that they in close
MON with these opponents and reviers OF Stephen a.
Douglas in Illinois The extraordinary spectacle is thus
presented Of union between the know-nolhng wings OF
the South and the aboonists Of the North. Further
comment is unnecessary
The dangers of these know-nothing conspraors
be too deeply deplocd They hold national convention
Philadelphia, and adopt platform which is at
pudiaed by the party in the free States Of its
alleged procvity to slavery, and by many in the slave
holding States as Louisiana of the religious
test The northern know nothngs being in the majority,
have made abolonism the controlling element in the
der Already have the know-nothngs of the New Eng
land States Pennsylvania Ohio Illinois, and Indiana de-
cared in favor Of abollonism and in the of few
weeks there will not be left corporas guard Of know
nohinqs in the nonslayehoding States who will be in IA
vor of the Philadelphia platform.
We do intend refer to the next national coun-
Gil of party controlled by abotionism and divided upon
the other principles Of its creed. We simply ask how
could any such organization administer the government
without destroying the right. of the States and plungiDg
our whole political system into anarchy and confusion
Which of the statesmen of acknowledged will sasac
torily answer this question?