The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-08-29

TOTAL, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 90
When Congress assembled and the election Of
Speaker came on. eighty-lour out of these nnct
knowNothings proved to be Abolonists md vote,
Ior Banks OF Massachusetts, The recently nominate,
know.Nothng Black Republican candidate for Gov
ernor In that state. While Mr. Banks was admitte,
70 DC an Abolitonist. he also declared himself ;
sworn member Of The Order. In the course of th
House proceedings, We find that Mr. Lccher said :
Now let me try the gentleman from Massach,
sctts. does he belong to the organization callet
Know-Notbingsy"
Mr. Banks, in reply, said
y belong TO nm organization that know Il
Is called by the name of Know-Notbing Int that
answers the description that Is generally understood
ny inc name IN my own town. Nobody has asked
me the question. | have never declined to answer
IT, ana nobody has screwed ne up to it,
lhis Is the same Banks who was willing "to LEI
inc Union slide' and who believes in an amalgama
ton of the black and white races.
During the same election Of 1854 the Known
lngs defeated the Democrats for Governor IN ion oi
the frcc States viz Morrill, Of Maine over Paris
national Democrat; Mctcalf, Of New ITnmrshire
over Baker. national Democrat Gardner. Of Mnssa
chusetts; lloppin, Of Rhode Island Minor. of Con
necticut Grimes, Of Iowa Chase Of Ohio oynr
Mcdili national Democrat Bingham Of MICHIGAN
over Barry, national Democrat and Pollock. of
Pennsylvania. over Bgcr, national Democrat.
The whole ten Governors Thus elected MI voted
for Fremont, are Ahoitionsts, and hostile 10 tha
South This same party then In the free STATE.
elected and aided in cecting eleven Senators Of The
United States viz
Fessenden, Abolitionist aud Know Nothing from
Hal
and know-Nothngs from New HAMPSHIRE ovor
"cns, aud Williams national Democrats; HENRY
Wilson. Aboitionst and Know-Nothine from Mas
fschnse'ts' to succeed Edward Everett, national
wing; roster Tor the long term. and Gillet for the
SNORT term, IRON Connecticut, the former to succeed
inc latter both Abolitionsls; Charles Bulkee.
know-Nothlng and Abolonist, from Wisconsin.
Ihey also aided in eecting Seward from New York,
Abolitonists Harlan, of Iowa. Abolitionist. over
Dodge, national Democrat Trumbull. from Illinois
over Shields, national Democrat
thus 1t was for the first time in the history ofl
those States, that all the Governors Senators. ANA
clghty-ionr out Of their ninety members of Congress
turned out to be Abolitionsts Of the doepqst dive
and were elected us Know Notlings Such were
some OF the traits Of the first years work az thn
know-Nothing Order in the free States. we cannot
take time to go into their local legislation slrL ~
the appointment Of their famous Hiss smclling
committee gotten up by the Legislature of slpssachu
sctis TO visit all the Catholic schools and under the
pretence OF hunting up evidence of the inqulstion
insult .he nuns IN charge-sucl their net of null-
hcatloh' IN refusing to the Federal authorities the
use OF their Jalls for the safe keeping of fugitive
siaVes-such as their act authorizing the admission
OF negro children into the public schools upon an
equality with the whites-their act to permit MI
negroes to vote who could read, and dsfranchise
all white persons who could not read their act
expelng as paupcrs all poor foreigners from their $
territory But to continue |
During the last Presidential election. almost tho {
entire party in the free States, that had short fine
before belonged to the Know-Nothing Order. tho I
same party that elected the ninety members of Con-
bIess inc ten Governors and eleven Senators, threw
'h the mask and voted for Fremont for President !,
nr Fillmore received for the Presidency in no one
u 'he iree States even respectable vote lie re-
'.Veu IN the whole United States the electoral vote =
u ous one state From the time the Know Nothing ,
III 'ue Tree states made Its appearance, up to
n's VINE IL mas, upon every occasion when assem- :,
"'u III o'ale convention, adopted resolutions hostile
o 1he south and against the Introduction or any :,
more slave States. V Wy u
IN addition to this, the X, N Order at this time
las no separate organization in the North from tat
i the Republican party. Black Republicanism and .
are one and the same thing Fror ~
VI the Northern States, the K N. Order hos mo- ~
'ected single member to the next Congress n =,
us been absorbed by Black Republcansm II &C. :" :,
lolished Abotionsm as positive element of now. ~
III Inc NORTH and then dissolved its organization w.
Aceps In few States Wherever IT yet has an ex ~,
.ehce' IL Is secondary to Repubcanism and is r.
lllea with it, In Pennsylvania at this time, the wi
s..'e members OF this disbanded party are sup be
'f"ns "iimot, the notorious Aboitionst for Gov. IN