Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-09-23
The Democracy Joining Hands With
"Sam"-Payne to be supported by
the Know Nothings.

1t is now perfectly clear that the Fill
more movement was started by the
J Southern Democracy to defeat Fremont.
The plan was to divide the North, while
the South should be a unit for Buchan-
an an Slavery extension. And now,
since his election, we find know-noth-
ingism and Democracy have fused at
the South, in most delightful harmony.
And how stands it al the North? In
New York last spring, in nearly all the
towns, there was a cordial fusion of these
two elements against Republicanism.-
In Ohio the symptoms of a union are at
this time clearly apparent. Here was
a Fillmore vote of some twenty-five
thousand, and if Payne can get that
and yet keep all the ''dear foreigners"
his chances Of success are good. So the
Democratic State Convention which
nominated him, although 1t could re-
solve to support the enormities OF the
bred Scott case and endorse the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise, which has
opened up the vast Territories of the
United States TO the march of slavery.
somehow strangely forgot two resolu-
lions, which they have heretofore resolv
ed and re-resolyed oyer and over again,
viz: that they loved the "dear foreign
ers," with a love surprising the love of
woman, and that they hated the Know
Nothings worse than they hated his Sa-
tanic Maj ,stv. Not one word Of these
two STAPLES" in all their resolutions.
The ground work of this union being
thus laid, mark what follows. A Know
Nothing County Convention in the Coun-
ty Of Muskingum, where Mr.. Fillmore
received last fall 1922 votes, resolved,
Aug. seth. to support H.. B. Payne and
the entire Democratic State Ticket. In
Madison County, where Fillmore had
437 votes, the Democratic Convention
adopted the ticket nominated by the
Know Noihings, every candidate upon
it being in full communion with the
order.
At the kuow-Nothing Convention
held in Marietta, Aug, Goth. the follow
ing resolutiong was adopted:
RESOLVED, That if the American State
Central Committee and others having
charge and holding prominent places in
the American party in the State, deem
it e%xpedient to withdraw Col. Van Trump
from the canvass and give the vote of
the American party throughout the State
to Henry B. Payne. the Democratic
nominee for Governor, that the Ameri-
can party of old Washington will most
cordially and emphatically acquiesce in
and sustain that measure with their vo;e.
Next in the order Ct ev, nts in this re
gicu, we have tie advent among us of
the "inimitable Joe Gei!er," the high
priest Of "Sam" in Franklin County.
who Unused the crowd a few evenings
since with a display of ground and lofty
tumblng. Two years ago he went in
for Trimhle. last year he blowed for Fill
more, and this year he sweats for Payne.
Then he denounced the dutch and
''Irish" as dangerous elements in the
body polite: but now he sleeps in the
same bed with III. B. Payne, who loves
them so much, ''dear creatures hat
they are"
The issue OF this marriage will be like
the Siamese twins, Slavery extension
joined by an indissoluble ligament to
Know N othingism. They are natural
allies, for the latter keeps away foreign
eIs, who hate slavery, while slavery ex-
tension marches in and takes possession
OF our vast Territories. j