The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-04-18
GOOD Advice TO Old lime wings.

GOod Advice 80 Old lime Wings.
Hon. NTordecai Oliver, Of Missouri, elected
( TO the House of Representatives as a Wing, on
being arragned by the Liberty Tribune" as u
deserter from the Wbig party, has replied in
long scathlng letter. He SAYS that when the
House met, three parties unfarled their banners
the Democratic, the Know Nothing. aud The
Black Republican, but the Whig party was not
I there. CT the Know Nothings MIR. Oliger
writes:
''Ihe Know Nothing party exults in the ru-
in Of the Whig party, boasts of having destroy
/ de 1t, ISLANDERS it in lis grave, and then d-nands
FQf ! understand your article aright) the allegi-
ance and support of the few surviving Wings.
! The powrrlrss patriot might be as Justly accn-
sed Of treason tol refusing 10 swear allegiance
10 The conquering invader Of his country, who
had rXtprminated his race, as a Whig, for rtfu-
sing fralty to the usurpirg organization which
boasts Of having the blood of the Whig party
on its bead. And here let me observe that the
Know Nothing platform has not even one sin
gle plank-the Know Nothing creed one single
| aiticlr-of th- stern stuff Of which the Wig
platform and Wing principles composed.
Though Know Nothingism has arisen on the
ruins of the Wing party, il has not made use
Of The Stalwart tnbrrs which bore it and lis
varying fortunes for so many rventful years.
AT present these treasures liz neglected. await
ing The hand Of some mightirr architect than
even SAM who built the fabric of Know Moth
ingisln in one night. Elrcted as Wing, |
emphatieaIly reject the new test of Know
Nothngism, and even if the majority Of those
whose sufigagrs gave me a seat in Congress
have subsequently, Joined The order, and adhere
to it, deny their right TO try me BY er post
tacfo law.'
Mr. Oliver comes down on the doctrines Of
Know Nothings in plain talk. He says
81 should BE- wanting in candor if withheld
my conviction regarding the peculiar doctrines
Of the Know Nothing party. These doctrines
are qualified or unqualified hostility TO natu-
rallied foreigners and Catholics, native and for
eign, residing in the United States. Speaking
simply as an American citizen, deem these
doctrines absurd and prrnicious, aad if incor-
porated into our laws. (Which cannot be, how
ever,) fruitful of great evils. III Catholics be
traitors, the proof Of their guilt is not TO be
found on the pages Of our history, and no vote
Of mine shall help to make them traitors BY
branding them with that opprobrious erht+.
shrink from pronouncing three millions of men
perjurors and traitors, without being able to al
iege one overt act in support of the appalling
accusat6n''
Mr.. Oliver urges the CLAY and Webster
Wings to join The Democrats in the following
way:
''Do they want encouragement? IF they
do, rt them hear the words of their own loved,
vrn1ratrd Clay, at Lexington, in 1880, antici-
Pating the ruin of the Whig party as national
organization. In substance he said; When
ever the Whig party shall become merged into
miserable, sectional, abolition party, ! will
renounce ii forever, and in the future act with
that party, regardless Of its name, which stands
by the Constitution and the Union Now,
there can be no doubt Of the fact, that the
Democratic party is national and assert my
conviction to be, that II is the only party in
America that can overthrow abolitionism, up
bold the Constitution and the Union, and that it
will do SO if all truly national patriots will un-
sheath their swords and rally under It's ample
banner, with the high resolve to conquer, or 10
fall all gIoriously on the field of strife"