The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1857-01-31
From the Richmond Enquirer.
NORTHERN KNOW NOTHINGISM
AND ABOLITIONISM.

While in the South the bigoted spirit Of
Know Nothingism has been effectually crushed
out we perceive that in Massachusetts,, whence
it sprang, the monster still rcars its rampant
head. Gov. Gardiner in his late message,
declares continued war upon the adopted citi,
zens, because their patriotic votes aided the
national Democracy in putting down the Black
Republican party. Hear what he says:
While this horde Of foreign born voters have
thas stricken down noble cause Chat of
Fremont. (which appealed to the moral scnti-
ment and enlightened patriotism Of our conn
try, it only affords another confirmation of n
fact which our whole history establishes, that
the foreign vote, with hardly an exception, al
ways has been, and in the nature Of things
ever will and must be, attracted to that party
which, under high-sounding gcneralitcs on the
abstract rights of man, always practically CO.
operates with slavery at the South. and ban
shcs from its platform the moral questions,
and nobler instincts, and more enlightened
sentiments of the age
Again, Gov. Gardiner says:
And it is this alien body which has decided
in the past many of our great national cleo
TONS and in the future, unless checked, is des-
tined to thwart many of the noblest move.
ments which New England, cooperating with
New England sentiments morality md edu-
cation-diffused through the great West, may
undertake in behalf of freedom, humanity and
the nobler spirit of the century. 1t was the
deadenng influence Of this body which coun-
teracted the great Northern uprising Of the
last national election For wherever New
England sentiments New England education
and New England morality, by reason Of State
colonization from the indigenous and unmiXed
population of these six States, were. diffused
and prcdominated there, without an exception,
the cause of free territory triumphcd.
TO counterfeit the increasing influence of
the adopted citizens who have stood by the
Constitution and the Union, in resisting the
anti-slavery foray of New England against
the rights of the South, Gov. Gardiner recon-
mends the establishment of "a Legislative COM
pact with the incoming race, that if they
choose hereafter to make their home within
orr borders, they may do so, freely participa-
ting in our gratuitous educational privileges,
protected by our laws, defended by our gov
crnncnt, elevated by our republican institu.
tons, but subject to the sole condition that
they shall take no part in the selection of our
rulers or the administration of our government
udtil they are fitted by experience to under
stand its workings and appreciate its bless
ings."
In other words, this free soil, Know. Nothing
Governor of Massachusetts, urges the adop-
ton of something similar to the proscrptive
bill introduced into Congress by Mr.. Humph-
rcy Marshall of Kentucky, requiring a resi-
dcnce of twenty-one years before the'Privileges
of citizenship can be conferred upon the for
eign-born The vote upon the motion to sus-
pend the rules of the House in order to con,
slider the BILL is pregnant of evidence of the
almost complete identity between Northern
Know Nothingism and Abolitionism. Not
one Northern or Southern Democrat voted for
the motion. In its favor were 80 votes, viz:
81 Southern Know Nothngs, Northern
Know Nothings, and 63 Black Republicans.
Does it not follow inevitably from these
facts, taken in connection with the message Of
Gov. Gardiner, that it is necessary to stiht
the voice of the conservative foreigners, who
come to mingle their destines with our owl
people, in order to perfect and carry out the
Black Republican crusade against the institu
tons of the South?