The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-06-21
rHE AHoLIrIoN WING OF Know .sorHINoIsM.


Almost simultaneous with the proclamation Of the creed
Of the majority Of the knownothings 10 national conve-
on assembled was the election the United States Sem
ate by the knownothing of New Hampshire Of that IA
natica aboitont John r. Hale This incident is good
key to the whole know-nohing movement and proves
anew II any additional proof Is necessary that however
easy may be for irresponsible individuals to talk and to
buster caoIs and to promise the action Of the know
nothngs in selecting representatives and senators In Con-
gress in choosing governors and legislatures is always
accordance with that sentiment in the free States based
upon unyayng hostility 10 the South and devoted to the
overthrow Of the TO the States under the federal
constitution.
Know-nolhngism has up 10 this moment In all its Sc
rous demonstrations, been purely northern organza-
tionan offspring of abolition, stronger than abolition it.
self because and novel Every Of its
attempts attain prominent power in the South has been
shameful failure The professions Of its leaders in the
free States and the pledges of their followers in the south
States that the principles and objects Of "he order
were conservative and national could hide from the
southern people the proof of the abolition victories consec-
utivey achieved through know nothing influence Hence
the organization became exclusive northern concern
attaining oohod in the South equal to that Of the old
wing party of the South which it to have mostly
absorbed and securing advantages except in the con-
tests in few southern city elections.
That knownothngism is expiring at the South that
II has healthy existed there doubt who
reads these signs of the times with ordinary The
leaders of the organization feel this to be and in their
desperate efforts to serve their southern allies they
to the ridiculous and inconsistent declarations Feel
ing yell assured thai know-nohingism and abotionism
The North closely Knitted together to be speedily d.
porced they lapish in national professions and loud
denunciaons Of thai sectonalism upon whch they hare
heretofore triumphsd.
But the great object Of the majority Of the know nothngs
Philadelphia was not more their few friends
the South than prevent the democrats Of the North
from recalling the democratic ranks all those democrats
who have been seduced by know-nohing Establishments
into the order This the way in which they
efecuay and safely and secretly, help the abolition
designs of Mr. Seward the secession of whose friends
from the know-nobing convention at Philadelphia was
like tearing out the heart of the whole party and whose
plan is to combine with the northern aboltioniss
that the northern know-nothngs will be compelled to join
them in order themselves The fact that know
nothngism has been effective engine against the demo-
cratic party in the free States alone drive all those
into Mr. Stewards party, the Cleveland platform
who desire defeat the democratic party and who look
forward to the day when the rights of the South may be
successfully withheld from herl
Hence it is that the other hand the democrats who
have been misled into the know-nothng organization and
who will go into Mr. Stewards party must be held
up their pledges and their oatns and encouraged by
national declarations the part of the Philadelphia ma
jority
That the abolition wing of the knownothing party is
the strongest and the controlling wing of the organ
ization and that it will be able for its
candidates, can longer be doubted. The other and
counter organization is blinds sham and will be
maintained only keep democrats in the knownothing
order and enable southern demagogues to cloak their
intrigues with the enemies of southern institutions.
1t has, in a word come to this The Cleveland Sew
ard wing of the knownothngs is the masterorganza-
ton of the North after the democratic party This is
the party which the southern know-nohings will be called
upon to choose in opposition to the democracy Contemp
ble the Philadelphia division is in all the
als of strength it cannot fail to become more and more
feeble the events of the times made known That
the southern politicians who have gone into the knownoh
ing order will be forced admit this full do not
doubt and equally free to believe that of them
have already secretly resolved to take Seward and his
scheme preference to the democratic party and its candi
dates. Let US, however, wait and watch.