The true Democrat., 1855-05-29
Know Nothing Victories.

Know Nothing Victories.
 Southern Know Nothing papers make a great parade over Know Nothing victories in little and constables, but of the more serious triumphs of the order at the north-the election Of Se- nators, Representatives to Congress, Governors and members of State legislatures they lnain- tain in the south polite silence. They do not tell us of the defeat of the younger Dodge and the election of an aboLtionlst III hls place to the United States Senate: they say not word ofthe defeatof the gallant Shields and the cleo ton of an abolitionist to the Senate from llll- nois: they are silent about the reelection Of Seward. the arch abolition agitator, from New York: they are silent about the election of Wilson to the United States Senate from Massachusetts; they tell us nothing of the ma. ny members the Know Nothings have elected to the next House of Representatives, not one ot whom is friend to the south, but all breathing undying hostility to us and our institutions. Of the great Know Nothing victories at the north: southern Know Nothing editors maintain a stadied and discreet silence. Every election at the north of United States Senator or of a member to the House of Representatives, by the Know Nothing party, since its organization, has resulted in sending to the halls of the Na- tional Legislature, bitter, unrelenting uncom promising and reckless enemy to the Nebraska bill and the interests and institutions of the south. There is not c single exception in favor cf the secret order. North of Mason and Dix on'S line every Know Nothing victory has been an abolition triumph.
 Look at the next National House of Repre- sentatives, Was ever before the spectacle of House of Representatives opposed to the fu- gtive slave law, opposed to that plain and sa- cred provision of the constitution, opposed to slavery as itexis.s in the District of Coumb bla, presented to .he American people? And yet such is now the case. Even the admission of Kansas as slave State, will be ressted-refus- ed And what has brought all this about?- The plain answer is the Know Nothinss.- Those true and gallant democrats who stood
 
 ern fauaticisn have been, ono by one, destroy ed, and defeated by this secret, midnight asso- citation. Scarcely one from the north is left not one iS lett, where Know Nottingham had the sway.
 Men nf the south, think you if these facts were widely circulated and known, that the midniUht 1artv could flourish at the south ?- How will southern Know Nothing Senator or member of the House of Representatives feel when he goes to Washington and reports him. self to the grand council, whose mandates, re- sardlcss of the interests and wishes of his con- sttuents, he has sworn to obey? How will he feel when he looks around the council board and sees large very large majority of his associates and confedcrates, hatcrs, enemies, as saans of every thing that he or his coust- tuents at home hold dear and sacred? How will he feel? And yet such will be the posi- ton and the lot of every southern man who is sent by the Know Nothiugs to Congress. There he will either have to obey the commands of the abolition majority of his order, and join in the mcrciless warfare against his own people, or stand before the world pcrjured and dishonor- ed man.
 Such is the fruit of Know Nottingham. Si- lence is their game and policy. To boast over such victories, or even to make them known, they are full well aware, would prove their de. struction at the south