Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1857-08-14
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The HEcGET ELEcrOss AND rHx MORAL

The REcGET ELEcnOSs M tbs MORAL
THEY TEAK.
Beginning with the Virginia election, bel
last Spring, and continuing through the cleo
tons held in the present month, August, il
Kentucky. Tennessee. Alabama, North Caro-
lima and Texas, we had hat the national Dem
ocratie party has swept these States BY a.
overwhelming majority, scarcely leaving II
existence a fragment Of the once powerfu
Kaow Nothing order. The causes which haF'
lead 70 the decisive t~riumphs aud brilliant vic
tories Of the national Democracy, and to IL
overthrow snd annihilation Of the Know-Nc-
thing party, as a respectable partisan orgaui
zatiat d, are few, plain, and easily recognize
BY all who have watched TIE progress of polil
zeal events, and teach a valuable lesson iron
whichthe members Of the KaOE Nothing order
if they are " Use, Nil profit.
When Know N~otbingism FIRST made its debu
it was a secret oath-boand organization, haS-
ing only two political iless-ths deprivatio
Of Cathoiics and nsturalizsd citizens OF tie
rights guaranteed TO them by the Federal aid
State constitutions. Il is true they did not seeb
to ae Omplish their object bydireet means, bu
Indirectly, By binding the members Of The or
der never to vote for nor appoint aUy one q
these classes to any Office, aud when in theiI
power TO remoEe all such from Office.
The above were the oaly ayowed practical
measures Of he party, sxcep. their corOllary-
a change in the naturaliEaiiOa laws.
Upon these issues the K1ow-Nothing parry
was Overwhelmingly Frustrated in the Prssi
Dental election in 1886, oaly carrying Oh,
Stale, Maryland, ia the whsle confederacy.
So well satisfied were the KaOw-Noihh gs
themselves OF the unPopalsri'y Of their pTin-
eiples, tina: in the desperation OF despair the
sought to raise new issues to divert public at
tenuon from the hideoasaess of their doctrines
and to fix it upon something else.
Hence it is that we End hose twia h~umbugs,
Dis ribuaon and Alien SuFrage, lugged into the
CANVASS of 1851. Those who Introduced then
mast have felt heartily ashamed Of the poveTtl
Ct their resources at not being sufficiently
fruitful in sxpedienA to bring forth somethins
better calculated t5 answer their object aHo
deceive the people.
A portion, a small portion Of the Southern
e. iOw-NOtbings, for ambitious purposes best
kiioWn to themselves, SO far forgot the CALI
of patriotism and Of duty as to join the Blacl
Republicans in opposition to, and denunciatitr
Of, hat great act Of Justice to the SOuth-th
repeal Of the Missouri Compromise, and The
restoration Of the Constitution.
So bitter were the KaoE-Nothings Of IT,
Nashville District against this measure thai
zen. Z5LLIcoFFER was defeated in convention
By his own parrzsn friends, AM Gus. HESRY.
an enemy TO it, nomiaatsi for Congress- HEN-
ny declined, and Gen. ZoLLIooFFER boldly AZ
noanced himself as a candidate. There car
scarcely be a loubt that if an anti-Ksnsss-
Nsbraska-Bm EnoK-NOthing had run in tb'
Nashville Dis,ric-, his defeat would have besI
certain. Ia the Wilson District, READY wa
too smart to submit bis claims to a cOnvsnticr
Of wire-puIlers. He had voted for the Kansat-
Nshzaska Bill and knew the hatred borne HIN
by the Bsliftvs bat be was willing to true
bis claims and merits 20 The people. The Tt
suit is hat the people at the baIlot-box bsv.
endorsed aud approved his support Of the right
Of the South, whilst they have unsquiVoeall
coniemaed every opponent Of that bill, except
perhaps, MAYNARD in the Second District, sul
IN doubt.
The recent elections teach that the Southern
people are too wise, liberal, tolerant, and pa
trOtie to sustain any party which persecute
any class Of citizens, whatever may be the.
birthplace or religions faith, OF which prove.
itself fIithless and treaeherous to ire deares'
rights Of the South; and that they cannot b,
diverted from great Issues By such Transporter
humbags as Alien Suffrage and Distribution
VII our KnoE-No- hing friends never lear.
t6at the people Of the South viii trust only
those who m~sufully aud periodically uphold
sustain, and defend al their Constitution
rights, both civil and rsigioas2 Time alOI,
will show.
The grand result in the South may be summs,
upthus:
Vrginia-hfteen Democratic members of Cor
gress; KnoR-N5thiugs uos one. Democratic
It jorty in the Legislature, nearly one hui
dred.
K-ntucky-Democra'ic members Of Congress
eight KnOw-Nothings two, and perhaps cnll
one The Legislature largely Democraur
the Democratic Treasurer eleetsdby ten thou.
saud Hsjoriry.
Tennsssse-Dsmoerats elected to Congress
seven certain, and perhaps eight. Know
Nothings, two Kansas 5braska Know-Noth.
rigs aud probably ore auti-Kansss-Nebrask
Kuow-Nothing. Democratic majority in Ii,
General Assembly, from twelve to sixteen
Democratic Governor elected b. ten or twelve
thousand majority.
Alsbama-the Democrats elect the whole
Congressional tcks: By an overwhelming ma
J2rity.
Ia Texas the National Democracy ba1,
swept every hing before them.
The returns from North Carolina clearly IL
dieate a glorious Democratic triumph.
We mag feel assured tia: Georgia, Missis-
sip II and Louisiana, vii! roI up Democratic
msj0ritiss equal to their Southern sisters.
However, the recent election for Governor
ray have resulted in Missouri, the national
Democracy msy console themselves from the
fact that single handed they m~snfully battlsd
sgainst an unhOly coalition between the treaeh.
srous Bsntonites, the Emineipationists, an
the Kagw- Notbings.
II the KaOE-Nothings OF Tennessee can find
any erun5o OF comfort 10 RoLLiN's election (pro-
vidsd be be s.eeted) We envy cot them-thsiI
Joy
The elections throughout the South have
taught q great moral lesson. That truth
right and patriotism viii triumph OYER false
hood. error and sslfslnsss, aud that the South
viii not tolerate either civil or religious intoL
er8nee. May we all learn wisdom from the
inTsiu ibie lesson taught usIf
Democratic Majority in the Legislature.
TIE Nashville Uaioa, Of tie I2.h inst, has