Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-06-11
Reasons why sold Line Wings" cannot
act with the Known othings.

We have read with much pleasure series
of exceedingly-well written articles IN the
Nashville (Tenn.) Union, in which an old
line Wing of the State discusses the course
proper,to be taken by the old-line Wings m
the pending Presidential contest. From the
concluding number of the series We extract
the following conclusive reasons against CO.
operation with the Know Nothiugs:
In the northren States, where Abolitiorism
find its only adherents, it is confessedly true
that its only antagonist is the National Demo-
cratic party. The American or Know-Noth-
ing party is as thoroughly aboitionized in the
free States as the Black Republicans them
selves. In proof of this fact l need only ad-
duce the unanimity with which, in the cleo
ton for Speaker, they united upon Banks, in
the undisguised spirit of aggression upon
Southern rights which signalized the pro-
ceediugs of their national convention at Phil
adelphia and New York; the universal demon
stration of abolition prolivities among the ad-
herents- and supporters of that party Old
Wings who are guided by the great conser-
vative and national principles which they have
alwaysclaimed to be the distinctive character
istlcs or their party; cannot support the can
didates Of the Know-Nothing or American
party
sfist Because by voting for Fillmore and
Donelson they divide the strength of the ma
tional forces, which should be arrayed in solid
column against the Black Republicans.
"2nd. Because the Know Nothing candi-
dates can only be elected by attracting to their
support the Abolition Americans of the North
and therefore the success of that ticket would
be virtually defoat of the national party and
a triumph of Abolitionism.
80 Sd. Because the measures and principles
Of the Know Nothing party are directly in
conflict with the Fundamental doctrines of free
government, and with that freedom of con-
science in questions of religious faith, which
is the dearest inheritance bequeathed to US by
our republican ancestors.
"4th. Because secret political societies,
the members of which are bound together by
solemn oaths, are immoral in their tendency,
dangerous to liberty, inconsistent with the
spirit of republicanism, and unnecessary in a
fee country, where every citizen has right
TO express his opinions upon political subjects
without let or hiudrance.
&" 9th Because all their political principles
and practices are at war with the principles
and practices of the Whig party, which they
eepudiate and condemn.
a. 9th. Because true Wings cannot, in the
exercise of proper degree of self-rospect,
support the candidates of party the men,
bers of which, under the solemnities of oaths,
have virtually bound themselves to exclude
all Wings who have not taken upon themselves
similar oaths from the honors and emoluments
of Office in the Republic.
These insuperable objections to a union
of Old Line Wings with the American or
Know-Nothing party conceded, we have only
one of the two alternatives left-eIther to re-
main inactive spectators of the conflict between
the sectional Abolition party of the North and
the National Democratic party of the Union
or to assume position in which our influence
may save the country from the portentous
evils by which it is menaced. AS " higs, we
owe no allegiance to any party, and least of
nj to that one which by its detection, accom-
plished the destruction of our party. and
whose leaders ingloriously beg to be released
from their portion of responsibility to the
country for what they term its obnoxious acts
and violated pledges"
The article concludes with this eloquent
paragraph =
The old Wing party, as al organized
body, no longer exists: it has perished at the
hands of those in whom it most trusted it
has fallen by the treachery of pretended
friends: but let not its epitopb be written un-
til it may be recorded that in the great strug-
gle between the nation and the sectional and
sectarian factions which menaced its integrity,
the last expiring efforts of its disbanded, but
still patriotic adherents, were directed to the
preservation of the Union without concessions
and the constitution without mutilation.
Then
"-whe the tree
OF freedoms withcred trunk puts forth leaf.
Even for its tomb garland it will bc.''