Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-05-26
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Convinced th5es arsS the defeat
of their beloveaNC Garlic, the Know No
thing press ar9 now busily engaged in
trying to prejudice the minds of the PEG.
pie in theirfayor, BY asserting that every
Democratic paper inthe distEletsis edited
by Northern men. How fag the aceusa.
ton is true, VIE can only answer for our,
selves. We were born and raised irflle
Valley5of Virginia, our parents before Us
were born thearre,-we have benz out#Eq a
our native State but@onee II ouF lives
passing thrrotgh Maryland On QUIZ way
h;ther I've are strictly So0atefn irAeye-
~ sense Of ths term, holdfag no affinity
With, OF sympathy ftor, any negrosstesl
M abolition Yankee Know Nothing AMI
never intend ID have. But let us exam
me into the past history of our Know
Nothing contemporaries, and Show them
of for awhile III all their Southern purity:
Who waszit THAT, three years ago. intthis
office, (While under the control Of Mr..
Alfred5 claiaad the election ofsuch men
.Giddings, Chase, Seward ~ Co, as q
KnoTs Nothing Victory? Who was it,
and where did We come from2 ltwasthe
Know Nothing editorpf the Kanawha Re.
~publican-a native Of Black Republican
Connecticut. Who vas il that rolled
out his cannon,#and cried out one han.
sdred guns f5rIi New York and Ohio
when they eldcted their abolition mem.
bers Of Gongrass sand claimed it as q
victory over Democracy ? The Know
Nothing editot of the Rayenswood Y il
einia Chronicle, if we mistake not, a ma
I've Of Ohio. Whowas it that crowed
over the election of the abolition preach
crs to Congress, from the Northern States
and endorsed The opinions Of John S,
Garlic, faytoriiFng the repeal of lie Kan-
sas Nebraska Bill, and the festoratieno oil
the Missouri domproImisd The%Know
Nothing editor of the Parketsbur@ Ga
zette, and his friends Of THE Kanawha
Republican, Rayenswood Chronicle and
pleasant Independent Republican
Yet these gentlemen, with tho files oil
their own paphbrrs to prove their North
ern plrocliyitieHs heretofore, now stretch
their hands Heayenward, and roll up
their. eyes Will all the s6lemnity Of d
|moonlit tombstone, and ery out in their
agony Of seuIA4at the inglorious defeat
that awaits thpeeir av6rite-"1U four 81
Me Denocrqtiid PoperstR Mts congressiton-
al District are e1ited By Hoyfhern men ~
1t is true thatAthe associate,edito of this
paper was boin in Pennsylvania, but 50
far as his opinions in. regafd to slavery
are concerned DE Isl quite las sound as
those Yirginidns who for years have Won
SHIPPED at the Shrine of such worthless as
John Minor bots, of Virginia. and
Henry " iinte Darts, of Maryland
H,estoa HepdlR. II
In answer to.the above Know Nothing
charge, that Tile Democratic papers in
this eungressiona District are edited by
Northern meb, we will STATE that the
Kanawlla Valley Sur is. edited solely by
Yirgipians, a4d Virginiaps5 tooo who are
derotedly attached to the great political
principles of the Old Dominion ; who
pride themsels s upon her past glories,
upon her present condition, and upon her
future greatness and who hold in atter
contempt the many iasm$x that haze efigiA
mated in ratnkeedom, aud especially
Kaow-y ottdiin isna. Can the papers adj