Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-02-22

on the Twelfth Section They quartered him in No
vember at Cincinnati and Springfield, on the Fusion
Plank And last week they cut him into mincemeat
at Washington, in the grand final fight for Speaker
Pieces of him were found in all parts of the field of
battle Every camp has something of him TO show.
His skin is already, like Ziska's, in head
The Democrats big war tom tom And yet it will not
do to call him dead. He himself being judge, he is
not dead. There is life in HMM each particular
part of him. aye and alligator-like, tight. too. we
believe that We bound TO believe it, fol he says
SO. But of all these pieces which IS 6 Sam . the
Is Sam z" the true Sam ?? the verabe, Identical
g Sam 2" Aye, there's the rub. We can't answer
it. Who can?
| If it were the Slavery question alone which dis
tracted and divided the Know Nothlngs, their case
would not be singular All parties have suffered
| from that causc--and the Know Nothings the
less because they have striven 10 keep clear of it,
| The distraction Of the Know Nothings is not simply
from without--i has It's in the very elements
| of their being. They have not single homoge-
nous element amongst them nor single speclhc dis
tinctive principle. To the Know-No'hings OF LoulsT-
ana, Roman Catholicism is dsparagement; TO the
Know Nothngs of Massachusetts, Is the one lethal
| faint, the fatal curse. 10 Know Nothing OF
Virginia. secrecy Of operation is an ab0mlnatOn TO a
Know Nothing of New York, it is a s1nC qua nom
An Eastern Know Nothing wants forei gners excluded
from the ballot box for life Western know-Noth-
ing for term Of years y; and there are thousands
of Know Nohings, who don't want him excluded at
all, provided he is a good Protestant Know-Noth-
ing here the Bible read in all schools; Know
Nothing there wants it read in schools; and a
Know. Nothing Wonder don't want it read in any
schools whatever We defy their best<sfriend to
show solitary particular which the Know Moth
ngs of the different parts of the country are all
agreed--one which may be taken proof Of their
identity or exponent of their Individuality. Even
when we bound view of them in a single State,
where do we find any peculiar characteristic wrought
out by them into any peculiar act They have had
the control OF the government and legislation OF Mas
sachusetts what specific change have they there IN
trodnced What new policy have they Inaugural
ted J.! They have had, and now have, great power in
this State; what new laws have they made, or do
they propose, which receive their universal and eX-
elusive support? The plurality OF our present State
Assembly consists of Know. Nothings what is there,
in the daily proceedings reaching US, that shows the
fact. unless it be the scramblng for office, when the
chance comes We do not ask these questions taun-
tingly. We put them to recall, what we have again
and again said-that there is security for the eX
istence OF the Know Nothing party as an indepen
there is a good deal that is peculiar and laudable
too IN It's spiri--would have been better spent if in
fused into other parties 10 correct their motives anc
action. 1t has not solid substance and determinate
shape enough of its 10 fairly entte it to dis
linct and separate place in the political arena tt
part in any really great struggle must always be
secondary one. and usually, we have ust it
dlsorderIy, selfconfcting one. It is not possible
that it shall reach the highest place in the nd
ton in stormy times like these Live Oak WON'T hel
1t, nor all the salt in which live oak ever foated
t5-From MIR. Whitaker, we have Klosterhem
t by Thomas De Quincy, author of L" Confessions o
f an English Opium Eater" with Biographical pre-
face by Dr.. Shelton Mackenzie The DR.. says tha
f Klosterheim is written in De Quinceys best style
! 1t cannot fail 10 be interesting work. Boston
r Whittemore, Niles anu Hall.
Also, Teverino by George Land (Madame Dude
want This book received and noticed som
time since. Fetridge & Co., New York.
We have before some books of graver an
more important character, notice of which we de
> fer until we can more fully examine them.