Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-17


with ssSam',.. Payne to be
Supported by the Know Moth
ings-. Dem0cratic State Con-
vention Forgetting the "Dear
FOreigners.D
We have ever looked upon the profes-
sions of love and sympathy manifested by
the Democratic leaders for the naturalized
citizens of the country as the merest sham
in the world, believing that they sought
only to use them as tools, to be cast aside
when it was profitable so to do.
i Year after year, in the free States, these
leaders passed resolutions in favor of free
labor, and inviting the oppressed of every
land to come and fill our vast unoccupied
territories with enterprise and prosperity.
Then, with some show of sincerity for the
foreign emigrant they resolved that slave
ry should not 60 into the vast territories of
the United States, because it would de-
grade free labor
Thus ]. W. Gray, the democratic editor
of the Plain Dealer, in his paper of No
vembe1 %, l84S, says:
."What say you free laborers of the
Northa Are you, in our present and flu
ture acquisitions of territory going to let
nabobs of the South monopolize the soil
with their large plantations and compel
you not only to compete with their wealth,
but degrade yourselves to level with their
slaves, by competing with slave labor
AS men, you are already excluded from
the Southern States. You cannot labor
there and maintain your dignity as men,
Labor is disgraceful there, and the Southern
aristocracy are determined to make it so
every where. Give them the power they
will do it. Give them more territory deed
ed to Slavery and they will do it."
By such language the Democracy, in
the free States, led the naturalized citizens
to believe that the Democratic party was
the party of human freedom and in favor
of preserving our Territories for them and
their children free from the degrading in
f1uences of slavery.
But now how stands the case? Forget
full of the dignity of free labor, forgetful
of the fact that slavery degrades it, forget
full of the multiplied instances in which
they have resolved that the Territories of
the United States should be sacredly held
in trust for freemen and the descendants of
freemen, they now take their stand upon
the Dred Scott decision, which Mr.. Buchan-
an in bis letter of August 18th, says, con-
firms the doctrine that slavery "exists in
Kansas" and of ofnecessity in all the Terri
toriee by virtue of the Constitution of the
United States.
To this degrading position has the
Northern Democracy been driven by the
insatiate demands of Slavery. And, just
at this moment, too, we begin to notice
the symptoms of an approaching amalga-
nation between Mr.. "Sam," and Miss De-
mocracy. The billing and cooling has been
going on for some time and somewhat Sc
cretly, lest the "Dear foreigners" should
take the alarm. 1t is now perfectly clear
that the Fillmore movement was started by
the Southern Democracy to defat Free
mont. The plan was to divide the North,
while the South should be unit for Bu-
chanan and Slavery extension. And now,
since his election, we find Know Nothing
ism and Democracy have fused at the South,
in most delightful harmony.
And how stands it at the North? In
New York last spring, in nearly all the
towns, there was cordial fusion of these
two elements, against Republieanism. In
Ohio the SYMPTOMS of a union are at this
time clearly apparent. Here was a Fill
more vote of some twenty five thousand
and if Mr.. Payne could get that and yet
keep all the 'dear foreigners" his chances
of success are good. So the Democratic
State Convention which nominated him,
although it could resolve to support the
enormities of the Dred Scott case and en-
dorse the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise, which has opened up the vast Terri
tories of the United States to the march of
slavery, somehow strangely forget two reso-
lutions, which they have heretofore re-
solved and re-resolved over and over again,
viz: that they loved the "dear foreigners"
with love surprising the love of woman,
and that they hated the Konw Nothings
worse than they hated his Satanic Majesty.
Not one word of these two "staples" in all
their resolutions.
The ground work of the union being
thus laid, mark what follows. A Know
Nothing County Convention of the County |
of Muskingum, where Mr.. Fillmore receiv-
ed last fall 1892 votes, resolved, August |
3Otb, TO support H. B. Payne and the en-
tire Democratic State Ticket. In Madison |
County, where Fillmore had 473 votes, the |
Democratic Convention adopted the ticket |
nominated by the Know Nothings, every
candidate upon it being in full communion
with the order.
AT the Know Nothing Convention held
in Marietta, August 29tb, the following
resolution was adopted:
Resclved, That if the American State
Central Committee and others having
charge and holding prominent places in
the American party in the State, deem it
expedient 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 American party Of
old Washington will most cordially and
emphatically acquiesce in and sustain that
measure with their vote. 's, -
Next in the order of events in this re-
glon, we have the advent among US of the
"lnlmltable Joe Geiger," the high priest of
"Sam" in Franklin County, who amused
the crowd a few evenings since with dis
play of ground and lofty tumbling. Two
ha -