Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1856-09-30

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THAT the Missouri Compromise was un
constitutional. and thereforeyit was nigh
Ito repeal it; that new. States shall be ad
mitted into the Union, with % withou
slavery, as their Constitutions are >framet
land adopted. .ll4s...sz--.-.gg..:zs..-5,.
These are Democratic principles, an,
Hare the very opposite of-those held by tn
BLACK Republicans. The Democrat.
party is the peculiar advocate Of the Con
Institutional Rishtsofthe South; the Blacl
Republican are bitterly opposed to South
Iern Institutions and to Southern Influenced
iknd are the peculiar advocates Of Free.
Ieoilism, Free-loyeism and Ere inontisnp.
Thus the two grcat parties stand befort
1.-The eountry-the Black Republican party
entirely sectional, and denying the Souti
| her Constitutional Rights;-the Demo,
ttrasic party. the only natlfonat party ii
the Union, advocating equality to all. the
States, and: concluding for equal rights
70 the South in Pesepling the common
territories. From tie great lakes to the
Gulf OF Mexico, from the Atiantic to The
Pacific, the Democratic party stand +or
one common platform, contending for The
Constitutional Rights of every Sovereign
State in the Union; and this can be said
Of no other party of the Union.
Let us now examine the position of ths
Know thing party on this all-absorb
ing question. F -
1t maintains every variety Of opinion
on tie questions in controversy between
| the North and the South. live look, al
their national platform, adopted at Phil.
Iadelpkia, in 1865, we find that the famou:
| ioth section contained good deal advo,
eating the Constitutional Rights of tho
South: If we look at their platform
adopted in February, 1856, at Philadel'
lphia, we fad The l2th section excluded
because a majority Of the members who
composed the X. n. conrentiqnwere Free
..So7ers. They took tie position that
National Conventions should "iignore the
Slavery question" land shame " irginia
be it said, that one of her own sons adyo-
Feated this heresy. In some portions Of
the, conEedracy we find Know Nothings
denouneing the passage of the Kansas
Nebraska Bill whilst in other scctions'we
find them applauding the principles Of
that Bill. Some are for ignoring the
slavery question in National Conventions,
whilst sotherssare proclaiming the Consti-
tutional Rights of the South in all their
National Conventions. Some denounce
the, repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
whilst others sustain its repeal. Their
national platform in 1855 advocated the
Constitutional Rights ofthe South. Their
platform of 1856 rejected the 18TH Sec
ton and ignored the slavery question.
And, in reality, the Know:Nothiug can
didate for Presidency, Willard Fillmore,
stands upon platform made by Free
sellers. We therefore assert, that the
Know Nothing party, as party, have no
definite or fixed views on Me slavery
question. The Know Nothings Of the
North and the Know Nofhings Of the
South Hold very different opinions con-
cerning the Constitutional Rights of the
South. As a party they attempt to hold
q compromise position between the Black
Republicans and the Democracy. Half
Free-soil and half slavery. This
however will not do. A Constitutional
Right ought not to be compromised.
In a word, the threeparties stand thus:
the Blsek Republican opposing the Con-
stitutienal Rights of the South; the Dem
ocratic party advocating those Rights,
and the KRow-Nothing party, being
neither Fish, flesh nor fowl, .onlthis i'm,
Portant question having no fixed views
or prihciples-prefer to ignore" the
slavery question and the Constitutional
rights of the South.