Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-07-02

now. but conceal them from the less
informed Of their party, that they
may try their credit one more deal.
COMING TO THE CONFESSIONAL.
The late Know Nothing disaster in
Virginia has put the Richmond Wing
ON the conf ssionh. 1t now acknowl-
edges what has heretofore been plain
to every one not wilfnlly blind. but
which the opposition press, with one
or two exceptions, have pertinacionsly
attempted to conceal and deny. The
Wig, it is true, short time.after the
late Presidential election. owned to
the fact that the Know Nothing or
ganization was a magnificent failure,
but with that single exception, the
opposition press has steadily main.
tanned that it was all it professed to
be, and would eventually triumph.
The late and third miserable failure
in Virginia, however. has made the
thing too apparent TO warrant the at
t mpt at longer eoncealment. The
Wig makes the following open con-
| fesslon:
We have no new opinion to advance
in regard to the condition and pros
poets of the American party, as a
national organization. For two years,
ever, since the Virginia CUB rnatorill
election-w We have. been firmly con-
WINGED, and have often so expressed
ourselye S, that the American party as a
national party had almost ceased teex-
list. But what was mere opinion before
was proved to be fixed fact BIZ the
result of the Presidential contest last
fall. That election clearly demonstra-
ted the non-existence of the American
party.as national organization. Mr..
Fillmore.as the nominee of the party.
received the electoral vote of only a
single State in the Union. In each
of the other thirty States, he was
beaten overwbelmingly-in most Of
them, indeed, he was not in the race
at all. In every South IN State.
except Maryland, although, obtaining
a respectable vote in all, on account
| Of his m ,oeration, and wisdom, and
justice while President, he was yet in
sad minority in. all; while in the
North, in most ofthe Northern States.
he received scarcely any vote thus
showing whatever the American par
! ty has been before, that it Was COM
pletely disbanded and broken up.
Again: the Wig says
With all these disagreeable and
stubborn facts staring all parties and
the whole people in the face, it would
ali be absurd and dishonest for any
one now to contend that there is such
a thing in existence as national
American party. Nor, so far as we
can see, is there any present hope of
the reorganization of the American
party upon national and available
basis. Even supposing that it could
holG its own in the Southern States.
or that it could obtain the ascendency
in majority of the Southeren States
of which there is no. prospect-it is
evident@that without at least strong
popular vote to back it in a majority
of the Northern States it would be
unfit for seryicein any future nation
al campaign. In short, its career, as
IA national party is at an end; and it
would be the height of folly to at
tempt to disguise fact, so perfectly
obvious to all men.
This is all true and honest. No
man cangliusay a word thes extracts
contain. They are true now and
have been true for three years. The
northern wing of know nothingism
was abolition and free soil from the
first, and grew worse, till IT had the
strength and courage to exhibit itself
unmssked before the public in the
Philadelphia National Convention of
1856, andin the election ofan I'M.
broken Black Republican delegation
to Congress from the free States
These facts were just as apparent then
as they are now, yet thousands of
Southern men were found to continue
their affiiiation with this section of
their order!
TERRIBLE TORNADO AT PANA, ILL.
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