Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-10-03
An Apostle of Observation-Disclosures

TO 1anatlC1sm. BARBOUR.
An Apostle of Know-Nothingism.
John D. lmboden, Esq. Fillmore
Elector from Staunton, has been travelling
through this country for the purpose Of
enlightening our people upon questions OF
political economy. He addressed an au-
dience in Beverly on the 22d ult.. and
subsequently in Buckhannon. Weston
and Clarksburg. In Beverly he was met,
and his assertions refuted. by Sam. Crane,
Esq. and in Buckhannon and Weston,
we learn that he was successfully met by
John Brannon. Esq. In this place, he
had urgent business out of town, and
could not wait to hear reply from Jas.
Neeson. Esq, Of Fairmont. 1t has been
unkindly suspected by some, that his back
was too sore from the castigation given
him before his arrival here, to submit to
such a repetition of the dose Us he was
likely to receive. aI.
If the doctrines avowed by him are
those Of his party, We would advise him
and his friends 10 confne their dissent
nation to Fanouil Hall, and Hartford,
Conn, and refrain from their expression
in an intelligent and national community
He threw the responsibility of the slave-
~ agitation upon the South and the Dem
ocratic party, and apparently charged
Mr.. Calhoun and the Democracy Of Vir>
GINA with being the cause Of the aggres-
ions Of Northern fanatics upon the rights
OF the South. He even forgot that the
chief laurel in the chaplet Of Henry Clay
was the Missouri Compromise. and sought
to charge that eno1mity upon the Demo
cratic party. He shed great crocodile
tears over the abrogation of that equitable
measure, but forgot to tell his audience
that it secured the lions share Of the pub
lie domain to the North, while it scarcely
permitted pittance to become Southern
in its institutions. In speaking of the I'm.
fortunate sectional struggle that was go,
ing on in the country, he said that it was
foolish for the South to contend for the
mere empty right of carrying slaves into
the territories that the South only had
100 electoral votes, while the North had
l76, and that we must compromise with
Northern fanaticism or be driven to The
wall. In short. he advised his audience
to give up all their natural and Constitu,
tional rights, and cry "amen" to the ia,
naticism Of the niger stealers. In fact,
we are not sure but he made himself La
BILE TO an indictment for incendiary Ian
guage, as We are quite certain that his
remarks would have been loudly applau.
ded by the most rabid emancipation mob
in New England.
He admitted that Willard Fillmore was
Prejudiced against slavery, but thought
with all his prejudices he should be elect.
ed President. because he signed the Fu>
gitive Slave Bill, but neglected to say tina,
that bill was passed by Democratic
Congress. and he was pledged against
the exercise Of the veto power. He allu-
ded to the increased pay of members OF
Congress, and endeavored to hold the
Virginia delegation responsible for it, al
though he admitted they had voted
against the bill.
But he capped the climax Of all his &C.
centricities by charging upon the Demo
cratic party the responsibility of the press
ent increased tax in Virginia. He is a
a member of the present Legislature, and
had served term or two before and of
all the internal improvement men in that
body, he was the most ultra and reckless
in voting appropriations from the State
treasury. He, with other friends of the
so>oalled "leading lines" expressed a
willingness to see the people Of Virginia
taxed to double the amount imposed upon
them at present. and until they groaned
under the weight of the burden, as they
were not afraid 70 share the rssponEibfi.