Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-03-12
Great Know.NOthing Bolt i'm New York.
THE STATE ORGAN OUT AGAINST FILLMORE AND

THE STATE ORGAN OUT AGAINST FILLMORE AND
,....- .- B.. ... SLAVERY.
The Albany State Register, the official State
organ of the New York know-Nothings, has
openly repudiated Fillmore and the platform
upon which he stands The Register is power
full journal with the "Americans," SO called, of
New York, and wieds larger influence among
them than any other X. n. paper published in
the Empire State.
WE CANNOT AND WE WILL NOT DO IT.
When the American Party SO far as this State
at least, is concerned, sprang into existence, it
was said by its opponents, that it was but he
National or ''Silver Grey" faction of the Wing
party seeking resurrection under new name,
and, under new guise to go forth recruited and
strengthened by levies drawn from the American
and Protestant sentiment of the country. 1t
was said by its opponents that its claim to Ma
tionality rested upon its proclivtics towards the
support and extension of the peculiar institu-
tions of the South. That the same pro-slavery
sentiments held by the Sver-Grey portion of
the Wing Party prevaded the American Organi-
zation, and that if successful the end would be
the elevation of the same old leaders surround
ed by the same cliques, and that its movements
would be guided by the same hards which gave
direction to the course of that party. We, in
common with hundreds of Others occupying re-
sponsible positions in the American Party, de-
MED this The great mass of the Party protest
ed against and repudiated it. But that which
was libel upon the American movement, has
come to be prophecy. The first Presidential
Convention has been held, and what is the result?
We see placed in nomination, and that almost
exclusively by Southern votes chow it was done
We will show hereafter) the head and front, the
great leader of Silvcr-Grey faction. We see
clustering around him and rejoicing in his ele-
vation the same old cliques clamorous for his
success and eager to gather the spos of his tri
umphs.
By this nomination, We have not only been
harnessed as a party into the service Of fac
ton but we have been committed to the propa-
gandism of Slavery. We have got to fight the
battles of Slavery-for embodied in the candi-
date, is whatever of the Pro-Slavery sentiment
there is of the North. He is committed to it by
his antecedents, by the great leading features of
his Administration. We have got to fight for
the Fugitive Slave Law. We have got to sus-
tain the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise,
and the Kansas and Nebraska Bill. We are
compelled to stand in defence of Squatter Sover-
eighty, and uphold the long catalogue of wrong
and outrage which have followed the breaking
down the barriers against the extension of hui
man Slavery. We have got to stand from the
beginning to the end Of the campaign, side by
side by Slavery Propagandism for we tell the
American people that it was that power and that
alone, which placed the nominee of the Ameri-
can Convention in his present condition. Itwas
because it saw in the man himself, and in his an
tecedents, a platform which answered its pur-
pose, that it gave him its support.
The first step to be taken is, to betray the ff-
ty thousand Free Soil Wings and Free Soil DEM
ocrats, who enlisted under our banner. We
have got to falsify our pledges to them that the
American movement was not Silver-Grey or q
Pro-Slavery movement We have got to falsify
our pledges to them that we would ignore the
slavery issue, and stand upon ourb American
Principles, leaving the utraists North and South,
to settle that question among themselves. We
have got to do all this, because in the man him
self, at the North as well as the South, we pre-
sent the slavery issue. Having thus betrayed
our friends, and falsi6ed our pledges, we have
got to swing from our American moorings into
the service of the Slavery Propaganda and fight
its battles-for our candidate, by his antece.
dents, compels US to do so.
In this position of matters, the question arises
What is to be done? Others may do as they
please. We will keep our faith. We will not
falsify our past pledges. We will not betray a
great Cause nor the friends who have con6ded
in u.s. As an Editor, we will not take back our
assertion that the American movement in the
State of New York was not Silver-Grey move
ment. We will not take back what We said in
addressing, during the last campaign, more than
forty public assemblies of American men, that
the American Party was not Pro-Savery party.
We have no stomach for the battles of the Sill.
ver-Grey faction-we have had enough Of expe-
| rience in that way. We have no stomach for
| the battles of Slavery-AND WE WILL NOT FIGHT
THEM.
We were content and anxious to ignore the
| subject of Slavery; we did what We could tc
| Danish from discussion the whole question, ant
| leave it where it belongs-to Congress and the
| Federal Courts but driven from this position
of neutrality, and forced to choose between thu
betrayal of the American Party into the service
of Slavery, or the abandonment of nomination
in which the Free States had no voice, w
choose the latter. We 60 with the entire Ameri
can Party of the North, save fragment of Nev
York and New Jersey alone; and if we mus
take sides ON the great issue of Human Slavery
we take the side Of New England, of Pennsylva
MIA, Ohio, and the entire west Compelled a
last as they were, to choose between unitin
Americanism with Slavery or Freedom, W
choose the latter; and in full view Of the conse
auences, we, being forced to strike, will strik
with those of our American brethren who hav
added to their platform, Freedom to all territc
ries-no more Siare States. .....s.