Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-03-15
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IFrom the Y. Y. Courier.

From the n. Y Courier.
The Know Nothing National Convet,
ton has had its appropriate result. A
body made up in about equal proportions
Of apables and aciicables, york.
ing from beginning TO end IN D confusion
and turmoil that was absolute chaos-stuI-
tiff ing itself 5y taking delegation lroisr
Roman Catholic constituency, in dirrss
contsvertion of one of the very first arti-
Giles OF its creed-breaking up all previous
platforms and leaving the fragments in
state i'll which no one knows whether
they belong to the Order or ne.-itself
lettering for days apon the very brink of
disruption and towards the last not able
to prevent the breaking away Of one full
thiid-the body fully enough woundup
It's career by settling upon man who
! stands entirely aloof from the organization
Ia mere outsider. We,do hot DENY that
the nomination actually made was the
best one that could have been mad" under
the circums'ances--we are bound to pre-
sumo that it was bat the circumstances
must have been cruel indeed that ,mpo.
sed such necessity. tits the first time
in American politics that party has ever
been Obliged to so out Gifts own pale for
all available candidate. The case is the
more extraordinary in the fact that il is
altogether unkaown what the sentiments
OF tbs nominee are towards the party and
It's objects. He has made no drclaIat;on
OF those sentiments. There is nothing in
his previous official life to show that hi,
views accord with those OF the Know
Nothing party. A maJoiity of the dele.
gates trun his own State, who musr be
presumed to be best acquainted with his
actual relations to the party, made a wri,.
ten protest against his nomination, IN
winch ii was declared that "tl!e nominee
us no member of the American party: he
"has never been inside of Council room
and no act oil his life. no word spoken
"or hue written by him, which we have
''any knowledge Of. indicates that he has
''any sympathy with the party, or would
carry out its principles; and stigmatised
the nomination as ia betrayal Of the Amer
lean movement, ii traitorous attemp, TO
wrest it lIom its purpose" We will not
say that SO harsh language is deserved
Tor the act finds perhaps n sufficient ex.
tuse III the necessity-but it is undenia
bic that the nomination is a virtual relin-
quishment oi the distinctive principles OF
the party heretofore protested. The oar.
y that dares not TO go into battle undera
leader and with standard of Its own, is
no longer patty--it is mere collectio
oil mercenarics. 1t no longer fights for q
cause; spoils are its only object.
SO far as regards respectabiity, md digs
nihed purpose and demeauog every che
must admit that the Republican Conyen-
tioh at Pittsbufg was superior, far suneri-
Or to that OF the Know Nohngs at Phil.
adelphia. The one contained scores of
citizens who had exercised the most res.
possible functions in civil or Judicial life,
and whose names are knosn from one
end OF the county to he other. The
other had but mere unit here and there
who ever received ang real mark of gu5-
ac confidence; the most Of its member.
were the obscuIest no5odies, withou, ca
paeity, without influence, without the
! siiehtea. claim to personal consideration.
The proceedings OF the Republicans were
all marked with perfect good order, vs. ith
moderation, and with dignity. The nro.
ceedings OF the Know Nothings were but
one continuous stream of confusion, OF VIC.
lenee and Of vulgarlty. One of the last
acts of the Republican Convention was to
vote that the speeches and doings of that
body should be printed in pamphlet
form. The most ridiculous Know Moth.
irg in the Know Nothing Convention
would have never ventured to render him.
sell and his fellows so ridiculous as to
make similar proposition to that BODY
we do not quarrel with the nomination Of
I'Ir. Fillmore: but we do rot believe ,ha,
any observing man can conclude that eth
CT the qualities OF the prospects of the So
called American party, as SUCH have been
improved by the open show il has Just
made OF itself in Philadelphia.