Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-04-26

thcy-a constituency not only honest and
educated, but one 10 whom the working
Of our lnltitutons is familiar, and who
have never accustomed themselves to the
requirements of Arbitrary Governments"
| The offer of fusion with the Southern
Know Nothinss is here distinctly made
a proposition to compromise, and unite
forces, with the distinct understanding
that the views OF Southern Know Noth-
ings in respect to naturalization, will be
carried out, and that as a qaid pro quo,
they will consent to the repeal ofthe Mis-
souri, compromise. Will this proposition
be accepted Developments within the
past SIX months, and other facts which fur
nish aid IN answering this question, lead
us TO fear, taat 1t will be by portion of
that party South. During the contest for
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
the votes and speeches in Congress Of
Henry Winter Davis of Maryland and
John S. Carlisle of Virginia, were in di-
rect consonance with The proposition made
BY the Seward organ They spoke Of the
| Nebraska Bill i'll the most coudemnatoiy
terms-denouncipg it as iniqultous and
uujHst--as violation, on the part Of the
South, Of plghted faith, aud IS un,ighte.
Gus and dishonest. Tt.ey voted for Hen
ry Nj. Fuller Tor Speaker, who declared
ne was IN ''abolitionist up to the hub
and was elected upon the grounds tina: he
would vote for the repeal of that act.
Through their votes, and their action, they
give aid and comfort to the Black Repub-
LEANS, and thus indirectly assisted in
electng Black Republican Speaker
The National American, the organ OF The
Know Nothing party in Virginia, the
Baltimore Clipper, the organ Of the Know
Nothing purity in Maryland. and the
Washington Organ, the mouth piece of
the party in the District of Columbia. and
the apologIzer Of burglars and h,gh,way
robbers, have all denounced the Nebraska
Bill as ubiquitous and DISHONEST" and
used the power and influence of their
presses TO bring odium upon the act itself
as well as npon those through whose
agency it become law. Do not these
facts irreslstib!y bring us to the conclusion
that those who sympathize with those
congressman and presses, can easily be
induced to enter into coalition with the
Seward party, by which each will have
at least a prominent ft AZURE Of its creed car
red out, VIZ: the Seward party. the re-
peal Of the Nebraska bill, and the Know
Nothings the repeal of the naturalization
laws, and dip at the spois Aud further:
The record OF W. H. Seward, during his
service in the councils of the nation has
been no more decidedly III favor of ADOLF
tionism than that OF Willard Fillmore
whilst in Congress and in State offices.
Mr.. Fillmore never, during his entire
legislative career, permitted an occasion
to pass to cast his vote for the most ultra
abolition measures, and 10 declare the most
embittered abolition sentiments. Indeed
even after his term Of Office as President
had expired. he declared in his Louisville
speech, that "he was sensible he had
drank IN with his mothers milk and
CHERISHED from his youth up, feeling
even prejudice, against slavery" Mr..
Seward has never said more. And we
here venture the opinion, that had Willard
Fillmore possessed the towering intellect
of Seward--the same power to originate
mischleyous schemes. and had he served
upon the same theatre al political lie with
Seward, he would stand now in the same
category. the Union over, where Seward
stands. II then, Southern Know No,hings
of the class we are discussing can support
Fillmore, in this fearful crisis, with his
anlecedents on the slavery question staring
them i'll the face, would it be too much
for their conseiences and their patriotism
to take up Seward, on the compromise
proposed by his organ and with the deca.
ration from Watson Webb, that Seward
sis now, aud ever has been, ready to
shoulder his musket. if Leeds be, to do
battle Tor the constitutional rights and
privieges OF every section ofthe country ~
and "that If elected President. his admin
istra:ion would be as strictly conservative
as an, which has preceded i. during the
present century"
These positions having been distinctly
enumerated by the Black Republicans viz;
Tha, the Presidential canvass is TO have
but one simple and pure" issue--the Re
peal of the Nebraska 3ill-that II is the
duty OF all who are opposed to the presep,
administration, whatever may have been
their antecedents, to unite with them. and
that a compromise would be terdered III.
Southern Know Nothings, in PROMISING
them the Repeal of the Naturalization
laws
We took the ground in an article on
the 9th of April, under the caption oil
Grave Responsiblity-the Presidency 4"
that the issue had to be met by the De-
moeIacy. aud that It should be met sq,lar G.
~ and without minciug. That in Older
TO do so we must put up a man who was
identified, in its length and breadth with
the Nebraska bill-who approved without
stint, and who would be willing to link his
fortunes with it, and either sink or swim.