Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-02-11
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY II. 1855,
The Know Nothing Policy.


last, by going again into full communion
with the Shareholders and slavery propagan-
dists. This aim is manifested in the choice of
delegates in this State, TO attend the pro-slav-
cry National Council at Philadelphia, on the
I'd. At the recent quarterly session of the
X n. State Council IN Boston, when dele
gates at large were chosen to attend the Ma
tional Convention at Philadelphia, Senator
George w. Warren declared himself " in ta-
cor of The Springfield Platform in Massac'~-
sets, but desired the delegates to go to PhiladsI
phia antrammeEed." Such is the language OF
Senatorial leaders of party once claiming
to have separated itself finally from any
Southern connection. This is perfectly SYM
bolical of the Janus faced policy on which an
attempt will be made again to humbug and
cheat the people into support of what they
at heart detest. 1.-The Springfield platform in
Massachusetts,, and the Philadelphia platform
at TIE South" are the incongruous elements
the monstrous compound which it is pro-
posed to crar1 down she threats of the people
of the North.
This tendency exhibited on the part of our
Know Nothing leaders, to go into political
union with the slayocrats and despots of the
South, in preference to union with the
friends Of freedom generally at the North, on
the broad platform of opposition to the domi-
nation of the slave power, as the paramount
issue, shows the heartlessness of all the pro-
PASSIONS fhax, have bara+o4ora IN q 10 of a4foah
ment to tree principles. After having carried
q State election by the. loudness and earnest
ness Of taeir appeals to the people as beingpe-
ing peculiarly the anti slavery party, they
now insult us, not only by proposing togo
again into solemn conclave with the rampant
slavery extensionists of Virginia, South Gar
DINA, and Alabama but their New England
organ, the Boston Bee, has gone so far as
to propose the name of one of the most ultra
and obnoxious Of the whole slavery propa-
ganda, VIM. R. Smith of Alabama, for the
Presidency glide the Bee of Feb. p This
Smith, it will be recollected, is the man who
defined his 4" Americanism' to consist in OPP
position to emigration to this country, and to
effect that object he advocated extending the
term Of naturalization 10 twenty-one years,
SO as thereby to prevent the building up of
the free States, emigrants invariably settling
there.
In his famous speech in the last Congress,
Judge Smith made furious onslaught upon
Kossuth and other European republicans, as
being "radicals' and Legislators" by which
terms he means those who advocate principles
which will inevitably lead to the overthrow
Of slavery. The bulk of the emigrants to
these shores being of such cast he goes for
restricting them by odious alien" laws
Judge Smiths principal charge against these
cmigrants, generally,is, as stated in his speech,
that they are in favor of such measures as the
following:
"The ameloration of the condition of the
working classes the lessening of their hours
of labor, to ten or eight ours per day; the in
corporation of mechanics associations and
protective societies; the education of poor
children by the State the promotion of edu-
cation, by free schools, and the prohibition of
clerical influence; the support of the slave
emancipation schemes of c. M. Clay; the
abolition of capital punishment" &c., &C.,
and other " radical ideas.
It is for favoring principles above delin-
Gated, that this model Alabama Know Moth
ing and candidate for Presidential honors,
makes his TRADE against foreigners" and
urges their exclusion from all the privileges
of citizenship, to the end that their emigration
hither may be as much as possible lessened.
We may add, that this is the tone of all the
arguments made by the Southern Know Moth
ings in favor of "American" principles. And
yet, men professedly standing on the "Spring-
field Platform fypocritically seek union
again with them.
And this VIM. r. Smith has further ex-
hibited his great Partially for "American"
principles by voting with the administration
democrats and the rest of the South for VIM.
Aiken of South Carolina, native of Ireland,
the owner of fifteen hundred slaves, for
Speaker, in opposition to Banks Yet .he
Boston Bee gravely proposes his name for the
Presidency, in connection with that of Henry
J. Gardner, for the Vice Presidency, at the
ensuing Philadelphia Convention In copy
ing, with approval, an article from New
York twelfth section Know Nothing print,
: suggesting the name Of this ultra pro-slayery
twelfth section "American,@ Smith Of Ala
bama for the Presidential nomination, the
Bee uppends the following:
In connection with the name of Hon.
William r. Smith, several papers have hoist
ed the name of HenryJ. Gardner for the Vice
Presidency. This would be a very strong
ticket Judge Smith comes from the Demo-
cratic party. and Governor Gardner comes
from the Wing party. With union of Ma
tional Americans North, South, East, and
West the American party could carry such a
ticket in triumph to the White House in
'56.'
Thus is the Springfield Platform spit upon
and de6led by the chief organ of New Eng
land "Americanism.
As further indication of the ne,o pol,cv
on which it is intended in future to rally the
Know Nothing hosts, or rather such of them
as are willing to forfeit every principle they
have hitherto professed, we give the following
extract from a speech Of that representative
and embodiment Of "Americanism,' Alfred
B. Ely, who is himself one of the delegates
to the Philadelphia Convention, and VIII do
what he can to induce his colleagues to &C.
quiesce in the pro-slavery doings Of that body.
Mr. Ely said in recent Know Nothing speech
at Dedham: