Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-03-27
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the constitutional and legal guarantees pro-
vided for in the institution of slavery.
"This is one of the most distinct and unequi-
vocal signs Of the times, and should serve as a
warning, if warning were needed, to the Wings
of the South.
"When the Wings of the North proclaim, in
the face of the whole country, that the cement
that holds them together is hatred of southern
men and southern institutions-that they are
determined to outrage the first and to break
down the last-when they proclaim this Vandal
purpose in Congress and out of Congress, in
public and in private-when they make this
declaration at all times and places, it is not
possible to conceive of continued union be-
tween them and the Southern Wings.
"Men 10th to renounce their old party associa-
tions, may endeavor to solace themselves with
the thought, that while they are at daggers
drawn with their quondam northern associates
on this great question, there are yet other sub
ects on which they can agree. We tell such
that they would do themselves and their coun-
try grievous wrong. This question is the
absorbing and vital question. The Northern
Wings have made it the Aaron's rod that swal-
lows up all other rods, and unless the Southern
Wings have determined to give their cheek to
the smiter and their property to the spoiler,
they cannot longer affiliate with their northern
brethren"
Now, what has become of the Northern
Wings who in and out of Congress were in
favor of the repeal Of the Fugitive Slave law?
They have, with very few, any exceptions,
united themselves with the abolitionized Know
nothings of the Northern States. All the re-
cent elections prove this. We have, from time
to time, elaborately and in detail cited the evi-
dences of it.
What has become of the Southern Wings,
who in Congress and out Of Congress opposed
this motion? Are they not in the same organ
ization in the South. We fear, we believe, we
almost know, that the great majority of them
are. Nor DOVE here, or at any time, mean to
accuse Southern men of being Abolitionists.
They quit the Northern Wings because the
Northern Whigs after fooling them for years,
at last proved to them by gradual encroach-
ments, that they were Abolitionsts. Quitting
them, they did not know where to 60. Much
tother relief, the Know-nothing organization,
pretending to "ignore slavery, sprang up in
the North, at this crisis They Joined that
organization. But after seducing them, the
Northern Know-nothings, bad as ignoring"
slavery is, at last refused, like the Hon. Mr..
Buringame and Senator Wilson, of Massachu-
setts to stick to that sitting process called
ignoring" They grew insolent at the North,
the Know-nothings, and they came out dis.
tinctly and rankly against slavery, as they
used to do before they cloaked and masked
themselves under the disguise of Know
nothingism.
Now we behold great organization that
boasts Of its extension from the extreme north
to the extreme south, from abolitionized Mas,
sachusetts to slaveholding Texas. We behold
Southern Wings associated and affiliated with
Northern Abolitionists, infinitely worse than the
Wings from whom our southern brethren indig-
nantly separated.
We know that the objects Of these northern
and southern Know-nothings are different, as
regards the slavery question. The first are
false, and the last true. But the true men, we
fear, are stupidity playing a political game OF
blind mans buff, and permitting their dishonest
associates to lead them into secret society
which would disgrace deSpotism-a society
which is as much defled by deception as it is
cloaked in mystery.
Where, meanwhile, is the great, honest Ma.
tional Democratic party2 1t is in its old place.
It is everywhere, as it is in Virginia-opposed
to Northern Know.nothingism and opposed to
Northern Abolitonism. 1t will die in its tracks
before it will surrender to either.