Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-01-30
Correspondence to the Richmond Enquirer
LETTER FROM NEW ENGLAND.

Correspondence TO tic Hichn'onh "
LETTER FROM NEW ENGLAND
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The New York Herald. | notice. i, cnSaEon IL t u
lirrculcam task OF maxim, the South ncm.,J . wa
Northern A~tnli,imlislu, in it, recently sun. ,"''
Of Known othingism, is, at the prc.,'' mI!nnen'' Nv
tualIy engaged in committing Hai''".n :p"m Wv !"
whole says that print at yesterdnf, W.in
ih,I,;onis,. Ia, IN. now nariy follow up the work.
Now, such marines aS Mr.. John VI. ltnlfs, lln kicl-
mnnd Wing clique. the Herald ; '"SInia e"rTespoh.
dents, and other converts 4" ~ n"aipu@ "i
Eunv. ,,Liu,ism. ,unv affect TO believe this; but the
,J s,ilur. ui Democracy, who have saved the
.tnuprI, shin .OlI Dominion. in worse gales, iii not
50 dirty ones, y will hardly ito So. When virginia
Deliberately makes up Eer mind To follow in the lead.
lcndcrs-whcn her people have become so lost TO their
own interests: 80 ~iurgrtiul of the great statesmen in
whose school they have been taught their political
lessons; 40 devoid of shame rs 10 commit their for
,upcs 10 such onc-idrn dcmngogucs Us the Wilson's,
Gnrdnrrs, Hulcs, Murrils. Summers. et al grnnS Omnc
uf New England pnliticians,-theII, and not till then,
will they barter their pnlitical birth-ri.ht for the clap
trap at kn"w-N"fhingism When the Herald ertols
the late Ambition message Of our new klow-N Nothing
Governor, Gardner, in which he dcnouncrs the prim-
IlIl. III SINN'IN I-llt tulNll Cblllllltl III lUt'
NrbraSka- kansas bill "a violently lis any one of our
three thousand and odd New England protesting clrri-
cal fanatics, and in which he goes even 81 far Us To re-
commend its repeal, and hints nj the passage of n
State law, by the Massachusetts Legislature now in
session, HuItyiHg the national Fugitive Slave law,
does ii do 80 with n view TO seriously cripple the
Massachusetts Abolitionists!'-O would it not much
rather prefer Ia have these fanatics run riot over the
whole thlrty-une States uf the cunfcderncy, if thereby
the present emineutly national and patriotic measures
of President piprCp's numIli,f ration nirlL meet with
popular rebukc, and the personal enlnity oi lis editor
thus be gratificd III his present unhuly crusade nsailI"t
the national Exrcutivci
Let Us see how Know otllingism il "cripplins the
Massachusetts AbolitiOnists." AS | write, our cmI.
irutly know-Nulhing Legislature, now in session i'll
this city, are engaged i'll clccting Henry W ilson, for
years the very head and front Of the Frcc-sOll party
OF this Commonwealth, 10 succeed such Il man Us
EDWARD EVERETT for six years i'll the United
States Senate! Tho result, nj the time write,
HIS not been announced but ! predict th"t
Mr. Wilson will receive a more unanimous '"'c'
i'll both branches, than was ever before gwen u" any
candidate, although Certain pnpcrs have thkchcohs'n'
cradle Iains 10 represent TINT there Is a strong npln
sition Ia him. The truth is, that this good OLD Com
monwcul;h. once true Ia the nation during the krIo-
lutiunary contest, has almost always been p"iiiicnIly
crooked ever since. She has now alter having pass
ed through the various tcrtuuus changes "t federalism,
sw,lt.r,ai in aboli;iOmism, and vrrgcd IN treason Ia the
Constitution and Union. tnullv mnd, II last Leap III
To TINT uH,ma-th"Lc OF fannticIsm-twors even than
lbniitionism nnd all other iSils combined, for II merSeS
the whole category "A nOw-. NOihfRgTIm! G"d grant
that, fever her head again CONES above water, her
people may open their eyes 10 their present stale nl
political degradation, brought upon them rs n lcslti-
mate result uf their manifold political sIns-tliat they
may embrace the true republican doctrines oil lh"iias
jefferson, and finally Le SOmrd0dg'
| have said that Know "thingism embraces the
whole category of fanaSa nj nIic.idcHiaIns, which, for
ten years past, our Northern dcnln-"Eucs, the !cgiti-
mate sriuiIs ut Hartford Convention irdcrailsin, have
,lrur,,.I i,tD the nuliiiIul arena lar Their private nj
vullcrncnt. What the OHIO State journal, n reliable
Wing and Frcc-s"il organ says ct IFS operation in the
West, is most enphatirally true oil New England
This is its language:
~ ne K"Or- .Nothm"s hare co-oP~rnhrL anil "0rkrd
tatAjnRy mM tie dnt'-Nc6'asGI amd aui,-$iarery
YMr PcOplc."
Nothing can be more true: THE ENTIRE kSOw-
NOTHING ORGASIZATIoS or THt NORTH, u At rms
MOMENT UNDER rHE CONTROL Of rHE vnrING ARo.
IIIIoSIsrs. Let the South mnrk we'll this taci, nnd
tnkc heed before it is too late! II Virginia ar any
Itlrr Southern StAtc, should lac drawn into the trap,
md surrender itself into the arnI Of this AbhiItI"h
wolf in Sleeps clothing, the worst will be lis own.
\ our people cannot plead ignnrancr--thht they in'r
l"t been duly lOrcwHrncd. Here, IN New E.nginlld,
hey have before them the results OF klow-NothlnS
sn, III giving To Vermont, at lis last election, Il more
aiatical set uf abolition rulers than that misguided
State ever had bciorc-Govcrnor, L. Senator, Stale
,tliccrS, everything. In Maine il has placed III the
char, another oi the same stamp CONTROL,
ID the State officers in like manner, and furnished
luo,lrr ultra Frecsoilcr for the |. =. Senate. The
ame il true of Massachusetts. Here the ubolitionists
he men who nullify United States statutes by physl-
al force, who first coax your servants 10 run away,
md then md aud abct IN NUMBERING those | mtri
officers who are sworn 10 return them 10 y"n,
mdcr Il law made in accordancc with the It'll
Of the luitcd States Cunstitutini-tlirs
nrn control this infamous " Order, v which,
hey boast daily III the rtrc"t- "f Boston, Is
destined. through the agency "t Wings aud dISnp-
'nintud politicians Ia sweep through, not only iln
DID Dominion, but the entire Snuth, When TINT
imc arrives, we may reasonably hope 10 see II little
.urc harmony between the religious scots "i the
iurth aud South. For in,tancr, nt -. members
composing the lower branch of our State Legislature,
are Know othlng~. Only one Democrat WIS
'hUsen; who rcInnins true Ia his cause, wlliu some
our ar five claimed Ia have been elected by the
Wigs, have never yet shown their hands ~ siich.--
About ~ of the members. including the >icnscr, are
portion III the three thousand AMI "dd
Luti- y rhra,ka professionals. .IhrF" Is pTcbdbLY no! a
nan NJ these SiTfg rkrrtc0i h nO,r- .NOhtRgS, rio r0"M
,dma " rhrg yma" tr0m " SOhfhrra state "af' IL"
,Ripi. But SrcAt il "brh!lIrrlIond ~ tircat ar: the
les which bind together the members at the lIiystrri-
JUS "urucr."" Who knows that Know NnilIngIsm
i not the great fore RUNNER Of The millennium Who
;nows that the Southern lion may not soon quicti!
ne down beside our old Northern black ram! An
he Southern cttTgy haze To d0 Ia gam ~dfmHidHc'
nto The pHipHS If .NOythcra aJoittOnistS. as 10 JOIN
nc Of their N0ihiHg IOdg"S, amt 6erom" III"
ot abOli'OR drmag1gHrS. This Is the great pa-
remedy fnrrcligious dlssrnsion- the great heu!-all
or sectional bruils and strife. SUFFOLK.