The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-10
WHAT THINK YOU OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,

WHAT THINK YOU OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
MoULroNBoRo, N. H., AprH q, 1855.
We conclude, that if DIR. Bailey had been
here in New Hampshire, last March, at our
election, that he would not have been much
displeased at the results. Three good and re-
liable men to represent us in the House of
Representatives, and two AntiSlavery Sena-
tors, one Of whom, no doubt, will be your old
friend, j. p. Hale. In view Oh this, we can
submit to all the odious and obnoxious terms
which the Era and its correspondents some
times use, in writing of that Presidential Sect"
so much spoken of by politicians everywhere.
The Era has advised, in times past, that the
Free Democracy and Anti-Slavery men should
even vote for Wings and Old Line Democrats.
provided they believed they could advance the
Antl-Slavery cause thereby. / am not n mem
Der of the new organization, nor do | contem
plate joining but | would not condemn my
Free Soil friends, or my Anti-Savery Wing
friends, for the course they have taken. 1t was
clear case Of political necessity that compel
led them to join it, or suffer themselves to be
utterly defeated thereby.
The prejudices, if you please to call them so,
of very large majority of our active, laboring
young men, who repair to Massachusetts, and
other States for employment, are very strong
against the Irish. All the different Protestant
sects have been taught by their clergymen
that Catholicism as and lC0uld be the greatest
enemy that Professionalism would have to deal
with. Anti-Slavery men are not responsible
for these existing circumstances. They found
Know Nothingism was introduced hero; and
among its members was Governor Baker and
many of his political friends. The question
was, with them, Shall we suffer the Pro-Slavery
Democracy to get control Of the clements on
which the prominent idea ofthe Know Nothings
was founded, and be entirely defeated, or shall
we give this new organization an Anti-Slaverv
| character, and infuse it with our own ideas Of
the Slavery question? What is the Know
Nothing party in New Hampshire? If New
Hampshire people are to be Judges, the Pro
Slavery presses, the Wing and Free Soil press
es, and the rank and file of all political parties,
have already pronounced it, in its political &c
ton, Anti-Ne6raSkd anil Aati-SiaoeTy. Il can
never take on Pro-Slavery action, or even neu-
traEty, with any expectation of success.
Why who compose this organization Ten
thousand of the Free Democracy, $4,000 Anti
Slavery Wings, 700 AntNebraska Democrats,
and perhaps 5000 Old Line Democrats, who
from other motives have Joined the new organ
lzation. Let there be prospect of perverting
it to the support of Slavery, and it would fall
to pieces in New Hampshire much quicker
than it sprang into existence. There is no
hope for it, unless it takes strong ground on the
Slavery question in our next Legislature.
The only basis of hope FOR the Old Liners is
in the expectation that those leaders who are
ambitious for Office will get up quarrel with
each other over the Senatorships. But we
trust the hopes of the old Concord clique of
politicians will be bitterly disappointed by the
wisdom and self-sacriice of the coming Legis-
ature.
1t does seem to many, if not a majority, of
the true Anti-Savery men of New Hampshire,
that DIR. Baileyis getting to be lille factions !;
else, why will he not allow his political friends
to be their own judges in what they believe to
be true Anti-Slavery political dcti0R7 The
Hunller presses of this State use the same kind
Of arguments and epithets, to drive their men
out of the " Secret Cabal," as they call it. But
so they term Know Nothingism, Abolitionism,
and Free-Solism. If there was any prospect
of its favoring Slavery and its supporters, the
Ne,c Hampshire Patriot and its kindred presses
here would be all in love with it. But, on the
contrary, they denounce it as AbolitionisBl,
hoping by this to frighten Anti-N ebraska men
who were Democrats back to the old fold
Our old Pro-Slavery Democracy here find
most excellent consolation in quoting, for our
edifcation, extracts from the New York TriJ-
une, Ecening Post, and National Era. They
would have US believe that the editor of the
Era neCer had anything but his own aggrand
izement in view; or that he had changed his
views; or else that t0e had ceased to be Anti
Slavery men. And we would here say to the
Era, that its friends are perfectly willing it
should express itself opposed to Know Nothing
ism, but let it do so without calling in so many
odious adjectives, to describe the "meanness "
of the organization, in which so many of the
true friends to the Era in New Hampshire are
to be found. | do not think many of them
will prescribe the Era, by emitting to renew
their subscription, even if it does think less of
them for their "poitics."
If Know Nothingism is to sweep over the
South, as indicated by the Era, there is then a
great necessity that it shonld be made Anti
Slavery North. We would ask the editor, how
New York is to be saved from the Pro-Slavery
influence, unless Know Nothingism in the free
States is made Anti-Slavery?
JOSEPH French.