The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-01-03
FROM MICHIGAN.

DETROIT, Dec. l8, 1855.
| commend the course of the Era during
the past year. Your manful and well-sustained
tight against the proscriptive dogmas of Know
Nothingism, | have sympathised with and ad-
mired; and ! can share with you the warm sat
isfaction you must feel at seeing your UNDECIDED
predictions Of warning fulfilled so completely
by the events Of the autumn elections.
In our State, Know Nothingism has lost its
vitality, or mostly so. In the southern tier of
counties, it still has the sympathy of number
of AntiSlavery men. Politicians are afraid of
it. Its operation is too irregular to stake hopes
Know Nothings in New York and Massachu.
sets, so far as | can learn, have only stimulated
the National Know Nothings among us to a
spasmodic action. But one man Of any prom
inence as an Anti-Nebraska maa, in this State,
was delegate to the Cincinnati Convention,
and he refused to vote for the ma orty platform,
and think will soon come to see that the only
present hope of Freedom rests in the Republi-
can movement.
But notwithstanding the above, do not think
there will be any open, avowed, opposition to
Know Nothingism by the Republican press Of
this State. Last year, the Republican party
could not have succeeded, tits generally thought,
without Know Nothing aid, and the same is
feared of the coming year. Know Nothingism
will undoubtedly be subordinated to the Anti
Nebraska sentiment; but then fear it will hold
balance of power, which will render it dan
gerous. l know that the cry of down with the
Pope " is of considerable power in Michigan,
but nevertheless believe that there is in the
hearts of the people that detestation of slave
extension, and the growing insolence of the
slave power, that would command success for
the Republican party, without any assistance
whatever.
Moreover it is best to do right. If Freedom
or Slavery is the issue, let us maintain it singly
and alone. We can concentrate more force on
q single point. Why dissipate our strength on
several points, when the demand is pressing that
it should be concentrated on one? No one pre-
tends that we stand in immediate danger of the
Pope or the foreigner, but every one must see,
that if Freedom is not now triumphant, she
must be Frustrated for years, long years, we
fear to come. With what consistency can we
plead the Acknowledgement of the slave, while
we would prescribe for birth and creed the for
eigner and Catholic?
know manytrue and prominent Anti-Slavery
men in this State, who fully sympathize with the
course you have pursued, and / believe that
what you may have lost in defending the right
will be more than made up TO you.
1HISOOOhIANS GOING BA Ch-A GOOD
STORY.
SHAWNEE RESERVE, KANSAS TER,
December 10, 1855.
The war excitement is dying away. A num-
Der of our Missouri neighbors returned yester-
day; the rest, it is reported, will be along to-
morrow. They have fired several cannon off
to-day. Shame on all such doingsl You per-
haps have, or will, before you receive this, hear
all the particulars. The Missourians say
"D-n the Yankees! They are more stub
born than we anticipated. We expected, after
marching up there, and firing our cannons and
guns in their hearing, they would submit. But