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FEARLESS ANI FREE.
Unfurling our banner, we iling to the breeze
An ensign’unshackled bv midnight decrees;
We shun not the glare of the day’s hallowed
light,
Which is ever unveiled to those in the right.
We call to'our standard the fearless and free,
Who firm ill tin; right, can ne'er hend the knee
At the shrine of the bigot, or treat with derision,
iu v j- Or* Hit it.\ -ilik. oppression. • •
\Yc “stool) not to conquer,’’ we scorn it with
pride,
That a son of Columbia should e’er he denied
The right of a freeman, to honors of Stale,
Bequeathed uiitg all —the gOvd .tuu the great, j
We fight not for honors* or mystified creeds,
But aim at the right, in words or in deeds,
And battle for freedom, of action—of thought—
Unfettered, unflinching, unviiuquished, un
bought! Y
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ißisfdlamous.
TAKEN AT IIIS WORD.
OR THE DOUBLE BRIDAL.
A few years ago I made one of tlie
I seventy-nine passengers on board the j
j fast steamer, Emily Barton, bound up 1
; the Tennessee. A pleasant, intelligent j
j go ahead captain, a good steward, and a
social, refined company made the trip j
one of pleasure—indeed long shall I re
member the saucy Emily Barton, and
her superb living freight.
< >no lovely summer evening it was '[
! whispered that we were to have a wed
ding before the boat reached her desti
j nation—said whisper started first low j
; and near the,stern, somewhere in the
vicinity of the ladies’ cabin, and speedi
ly making its way to the ball, the boiler
I deck, and then to the main; like the |
snow-bail rolling down the mountain,
gathering size, form and momentum, a.- j
it rolled forward, until the principles in 1
; the interesting scene wore not only
pointed out, but the parson with some j
1 scraps of the history of each fiction, fact
and surmise, all bushed up ingeniously,
i leaving one in that half pleasant, half]
i painfal state of suspense and doubt, thal
opens the eyes so wide and strains the j
■ k-w *u> .
piling ircocfy.iii. * * ;
Well, we landed to wood at a niagut
tioeiu* beech bottom, the tall, heavily i
leaved trees with silver grey trunks
making a deep shade, while they, with
; the grassy green bank that bore them, ;
wore imaged in the glassy river, so clear,
so true, that inversion only pointed the
, false from the real; while cutting this
charming spot in twain, came murmur-!
; lu g “ crystal spring brook, scarcely four !
! spans wide, to lose itself in the mass of
'I ennessec waters, they in return to he
J alike lost in the boundless sea.
No sooner was the staging out than
there emerged from the ladies’ cabin a
fine, manly looking fellow, dressed in
i faultless taste, intellect beaming in every
j feature, while over his face perfect hap- ’
j piness shone like Phorus on the sea.— 1
Leaning on his arm, was the most love- j
able woman it had ever been my. lot to I
behold, her line hazel eyes—tell tales
that they were—speaking deep emotion, |
and her expressive lip (ptivering with
suppressed excitement, while her dress,
step and grace, was that of a queen.
“There they are! That’s her!—OH
how beautiful ! ’ hurst from many a lip, ‘
as we instinctively made way to let them
pass to the altar, and where that was
wo had about as clear an idea as a trans- j
cendentalist generally has of what they !
are talking about. But one thing ' fun’
ahead, and to fellow in their wake was
the way to see it. As the la4fcs pitssed
a gallant arm was offered to each, and
tiiu ( we inarched out of the cabin down
the stairs, across the staging, and up!
the sloping hank. Some fifty yards up
the brook the pair stopped, and joining!
hands they stood with the clear water j
between them—bridged as it washy twin- j
inp fingers of love as [Hire as itself, j
All was silent, still, until broken by the]
minister reading in an expressive man- i
ncr: “ An'i of the rib the JUml took from i
man, uuule he woman and brought her
to mail. Adam said this is bone of my ’
j bone and flesh of my flesh, she shall be I
called woman because she was taken out
iof man. Therefore shall a man cleave
unto his wife, mid tii :y shall bo one'
j flash.” He then closed the good and
holy book and offered a most touching
I and beautiful prayer—not a heart hut
seemed to feel the earnest appeal to the
throne of (Trace. Then asking the usual
<|iic.stions he pronounced them husband
and wife.
I The bride slowly sinking on her
knees, raised her beautiful face all cov
ered with tears, clasped her hands, and
i in the most touching swoct voice, trem
ulous with emotion, said:
“And now, oh, merciful Father,
grant that our lives thus united may;
peacefully Sow in one, wen, as this riv
ulet, until wc reach the river of death, i
undivided in faith and conduct, and be
permitted to enjoy thine eternal smiles
in the laud of tiie pure and blessed.”
Every pulse deemed stilled, hoping flu
'more of this beautiful drama. Not a
word, not a movement from nil that 1
throng—rd), all was happiness. Oil,
lovely panorama, how thorn art graven
on this heart! The happy man was in
the act of imprinting a kiss upon the
smiling bf ot his ij; ignifkent bride.
ROCKVILLE, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11,1855.
when tlie clear tones of a manly voice
started all from their pleasing reveries,
and the universal gaze rested on a tall,
handsome Tennesseean, whose eagle eye
spoke the man a fit representative of the
State where sleeps a Jackson.
“ I can’t stand this any longer. 1 ]
can’t by—pardon ladies, hut 1 have a .
proposition to nutko on the good faith of 1
a man who never lies or trifles. 1 must I
make it or die; so here goes: Now l i
will marry on this spot to any lady who ,
has the nerve to face such music. Look I (
at mo, and if you can love mo as she j
lores (pointing to the lirWr) 111 p mini si H
to lie a husband to you, such a husband i 1
as a true hearted man will make a wo- 1 1
man who comes trembling under his!,
; wing. I say further, that no spot of!
i shame attaches to my name, or ever j
i shall, and this nrn. shall support am! pro
tect the one that will trust it. Who’ll
take me? and his eyes ran slowly and
steadily over the crowd of handsome
women around him. His earnest man
lier and novel speech had aroustkl an in
tense excitement, all were surprised and ’
deep sympathy with the fearless excited
orator, when, to the astonishment aud
delight of every one, a fawn like, blue i
j eyed girl from the flowery hanks of tic.: j
Alabama, stepped to his side and looked 1
confidently up to his eyes with her hands ■
on his arm, and said—
“ 1 am thine.”
By this time his arm was around her
j waist, aud parting her curls—black as
the raven at midnight—looked stead
fastly in Iter face for a moment and
i “signed tlie contract” with a kiss that
: all the married ladies afterwards pro
; nounced to he of the genuine sort, per
: fectly satisfactory. liaising his flashing
eyes with a triumphant expression from
the pleasant job just mentioned, he said :
| “ Where is the parson? Send him
here—on tills spot we’ll bo made one. (■ I
never lot such luck pass me by waiting !
a minute, so go ahefid,” and on that spot, j
where first they met, were they solemn-!
I ly united forever.
When tho words, “what flod has
I joined let no man put asunder,” died
away, a shout went up, that awakened :
the echoes for miles, every hand was ex
tended to the happy, lucky, venturesome !
! fellow, and every lady in that crowd
'j pressed the lips of his trusting wife. For !
a moment I wished I were her, hut I hi- 1
stuntly recovered my seif [secession. acd '
. er-in ijV .V ; ~ e —* .
Kissing fucli other always seemed a
: waste of sweetness, hut they know best, j i
| and laughing, shouting and happy, we !
all returned on hoard.
Our generous captain set a splendid :
supper, tlie clerk made out two certifi
cates ; they were signed by the parson
and seventy-four witnessed—five more
| made nine youknow, men and women
; all told—every body signed.
Then we danced, we laughed, we
j made children of ourselves, lie that as
it may when the watch was changed at ;
solemn noon of night, the bluffs cm the
dark shores of the river returned only
tho echo of the hoarse coughing of the
engine of the Emily Barton, for we:
slept, and our dreams vainly tried to vie
with the lovely reality of the evening.
BKACTirri. &K.NTI m ent. — The beauti
ful extract below is from tho pen of lion.
George 8. Hilliard :
’ ‘ 1 confess that increasing years bring
with them an increasing respect for
those who do not succeed in life, as those
words are commonly used. Heaven is l
; said to he a place for those who have
not succeeded upon earth ; and it is sure
ly true that celestial graces do not best :
thrive and bloom in the hot blaze of
I worldly prosperity. 11l success some- i
1 times arises from a superabundance of ]
qualities in themselves good—from a
conscience too sensitive, a taste too fas
tidious, a self-forgetful ness too romantic,
a modesty too retiring. I w ill not go 1
jso far as to say, with a living poet, that 1
j the “world knows nothing of its greatest 1
men,” hut there are forms of greatness, 1
ior at least excellence, which “ die and J 1
| make no sign there are martyrs that 1
! miss the palm, hut not the stake; there I
! are heroes without the laurel, und con- 1
1 querors without the tiiumiih.” 1
... 1
Marriage. —The following are the i
■ opinion l of two prominent holies upon 1
• tlie subject of marriage: 1
“ Marriage is to a woman a state of l
slavery. It takes from her the right of j
Iter own property, and makes her sub- j
missive in all things to her husband.” |
Lur;/ S/on*.
“ Marriage Is a state of slavery ! aye,!
but the bonds are silken and easily worn. ;
! Marriage is the sanctifier of love—an in-1
stitution which acknowledges the right
of woman to ho protected, and the duty;
jof man to protect her. The offices of
wife are not thoso of slaves. IVhat high
er destiny hcneatli the sky than to in- 1
struct the infant mind in thoughts of i
purity!—What holier mission than to
soothe the turbid torrents of man’s pa*.
1 siou by a word— a look—n smile ! It is
,to woman that this work is given,
j Woman, in her vocation, may cheer the
. tired spirit, may lend hope to the dc- !
' spending, iijm v whisper love to the lone
ly—while tium may toil, and traffic, and
fuss, and fret, and grow savage. Who
would exchange places with him !”—El
la Wentworth* t Journal.
A child is born. Now bike the germ
and make a bud of inoral beauty, fait!
tiie dews of knowledge and the light of
virtue Wake in it the richest fragrance
and the.purest hues, and above all. api
Out yen keep its fact clean.
Polilid.
James B. Clay on the Stump.
This gentleman, tju surviving son of
Henry Clay, and tlujowner of Ashland,
lias, it seems, taken the stump against
Know-Nothingism, igidhids fair to prove !
himself worthy of the blood that courses
in his veins. As tkero is, doubtless,
great curiosity to . ,t. tho \ ws, off
tho all-absorbing i’-j' *cf bin whose
•principles am'. -i ■■ *. ,u-o move
nearly than those a( iy one ch;o, he
modeled after those of this gentleman's
revered father, wo copy from a Krruk
fort (Ky.) paper the following report id
his remarks, and B of another g<
tlcman, who, for n ary years past, hat
been at tho head of tlie Whig party in
Kentucky: with whom his influence, re
sulting from his high character, enlight
enment, nerve, and attainments, has been
unbounded. We may add that lie (Mr.
Beck) is now being enthusiastically sus
tained for Congress by the Democratic
party of liis district, who nobly waive
all minor consldeiatinn# to aid in the
election of a patriotic gentleman oppos
ed to the most dangerous cabal that ever
essayed to undermine free institutions.
[From the Kentucky Statosimu, July in.]
Yesterday was a grcitdiy in this city.
It being court day, a great many people j
from the country were inlthe city. It;
had previously been aitntnucod that. Mr.
Janies B. Beck, one of thej most distin
guished and able lawyers in our city,
and .Mr. James B. (.'lay, sin of the sage
of Ashland, and owner ot*the old fami-!
j ly scat, would address the people on the j
political topics of the day. There was !
great anxiety to hear both gentlemen, j
and at the appointed hour the court
j house was filled to overflowing.
Mr. Beck spoke first. Ildlmsalways '
i been a Whig, though of irUependent
j thought und action. He spokV for two.
hours, and made one of the Lost able
and efficient arguments against Know-
Nothingism that we have listened to du
, ring the present contest.
His speech tin .< igho'it, was powerful.
argumentative, w<viiiLng, rmiiJhsloe; 1
• ■■t- tot ky. ctgv> ,■ *-iect upon U. :
audience.
T1 ie next gentleman who took the stand i
was Mr. James Jt. Clay, who, as we 1
J have already remarked, is the son of the
great Statesman, and has succeeded U
tlie paternal estate of Ashland.
*
Mr, Olay said that this was his fir,.l
effort at a public speech, and nothing
less than the profound interest which he
felt in the grunt questions at issue, could
induce him to appear on this occasion.
Never before had such extraordinary,
such alarming, such novel questions been
I presented for the political consideration
.of the American people, Histipprehen
sions were aroused in view of them, and
ho sometimes trembled for the fate of his
country. The idea that this govern
ment was to be taken into the keep
ing of a secret, political, oath-humid or
ganization, which set up unconstitutional
test oaths, ami the members of which
were hound to each other by the most
terrible obligations, which was to him
most ahinotgg, and snouhl in his judg
ment, urotflfc the appro!)ansious of every
patriotic man in the whole country.
Mr. Clay denied thatstlie platform put
forth by the late K ikov jtfotliing coliveii
vention at Philadelphia, was the real
platform of the party-^fcrty’did ho call
them, said lie; no, thcyJure not a pirty
in any proper acceptation of tlie term.
I’urtiee have heretofore been open, pub
lic and above hoard ; hut this is a secret,
oath-hound, political organization, which
is seeking after tho political power of
the country, by ways and means un
known to the law, and iu palpable
disregard of the long-established usages
of tho poople and the history of the
government. Tt sought political power,
not by open and fair means, but by se
cret plottings, by cuhallstic [Hiss-words,
by signs and grips, upkuown to the peo
ple at largo, and iu palpable violation 0 f
the whole spirit and genius of the gov
ernment.
No, lie said, the true platform of this
extraordinary organization is to ho found
in their oaths and ritual. There were
I to be found the things which they were'
| sworn to do and to carry out; and look-]
: ing into these oaths and ritual, lie found '
that their objects Were to strike at the ]
immigrants from other countries, to fll*-!
franchise, to degrade and disgrace them,
by depriving them not only of the right
1 1 Americanize themselves, but by cut
ting them off from the rights of hospi- j
' tality and humanity. They also sought'
to disfranchise and degrade another class!
of our citizens, whether native or foreign,
on account of their religious opinions,
in plain violation of the constitution of
the country, and regardless of the plain
est dictates of justice slid humanity.
Mr. Clay said that rather than submit
any extended remark* of his own on
these subjects, ho had chosen to collate'
the expressed and authentic opinions of 1
the obi fathers of the republic; and lm]
'rend extensively from the writings of
Washington, of Jefferson, of Madison, I
j of Jackson, of ..Quincy and others.
fie eon cl timid his happy efiort by say
irig,that though the old whig party, with ;
which he had always acted, was broken'
ami dispersed, yet iic there as
‘Die of the oil rear i dot that onei
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powerful and great party; and iu that
capacity he protested against this new
secret organization, as fraught with dan
ger to his country and its liberties; and
he called upon all tho old liners of the
whig party to join him in the protest.
i T. L. Cliitgman on Know Notliiiiglsm.
Hon. V L. Clitigman has just issued
1 an address to his fellow-citizens of the
eighth congressional district of North
Carolina, which is full of sound truths,
timely warnings, and tolling periods.—
He believes, in Mho present, o rials, that
the pulitkvl .list.i ter ( art only, bu j’u.'uiiioJ
with the knife, and accordingly the knife
is used, and even his opponents must
concede, with skill, daring, and advun
, tage, In the course of this address Mr.
Clingmnn says:
“Be this as it may-j fellow-citizens,
you must hoar in mind, as I have con
stantly maintained in my speeches, that
the great morel principle of tho Order is
faU’ leunl , as "its great political principle
■ 's hostility to the right of self govern
ment now enjoyed by the American peo
pV. They arc striving to carry out this
! latter principle by depriving the citizen
' of tho right to vote, nt all elections, ne-
I cording to liis own judgement, and sub
jecting him to the control of a set of se
cre political managers.
“ This is the direct object of (lie move
ment, and it indicates its /loliticalprinci
ple. But the mruiie by which they seek
to carry out this purpose are those of
deception, fraud, and hypocrisy, in all
j their phases. They are attempting to
dethrone truth from her sent aud elevate
I feht hood in her stead. They are stri
ving to overthrow the moral system of
the Creator of tho Enivorso, and substi
-1 Into in its place tlie policy and practice
of Satan tho ‘J'rin cof Dttrleiust owl
Felle r of Lien.'
“Tlieso, therefore, the two cardinal
maxims of the new party, constitute an
; insuperable objection to it. Even if the
measures of govi rmontal policy they
profess to have in view were ever so de
niable, their adoption in practieo could
jot atone for tlie destruction of our pre
sent political system and the general cor
ruption of public and private morals.—
lint in fnft their programme of measures,
; ns proclaimed by themselves, has noth-
I ing to commend it. Whatever it asserts
of truth consists of propositions that no
; rusty tn itrts eotmtiy tteutrs, wfitte tnos*
of its doctrines which are pet uliar to it
party are falso ami misclih >Tius tii tn¥*
j extreme.
•The main object of their association
is to secure for themselves tlie public
offices of tlie country, and they expo. 1
; to accomplish this by a mean, cowardly,
and malignant persecution of classes
whom they consider too feeble to defend
;! tin ■niselves, and whom they are striving
j io render odious by appeals to the st ilish,
bigoted, envious, and malicious feelings
I of our race,
“While other political parties have
1 sometimes been accused of aiming at the
' spoils of office, these people avow it to
' he their main purpose—may it not be
I their solo purpose?—to secure the public
plunder. 'They do not, however, adopt
the open, courageous plan of the highway
robber, who faces you in tlie sunshine,
hut they practieo the covert, secret, and
1 cowardiv mode of the midnight thief.
1 “Their sole chance of success is in
1 getting men outside of their order to vote
1 for their candidate. Have they any
grounds to hope for this? Kcmcmbcr,
fellow-citizens, that every member of this
I order of know-nothings, ns well ns their
tl candidate, has taken a solemn oath that
- lie will (ill all offices of the government
I with none hut members of the order; in
I other words, they have all sworn that
they will keep out of office every man
who is not one of their order! They
- not only intend to exclude foreigners and
, Homan Catholics, hut they have hound
i themselves by the strongest oaths nit to
f let any man— notire though he he—yes,
• revolutionary soldier though tie also he—
• hold any office, from that of President
■ down I.> the lowest station, nukte hr
■ hlow/iI hrhnoj ttt their fuller A veteran
, hearing on his person the sears of Bun
■: ker Hill or King’s Mountain must Ist ex
, I eluded from all official station, because
■ he refuses to surrender that liberty for
M which he fought, and join a petty, secret,
■! oath-hound sooioty, never dreamed of in
I the earlier and better days of tho repub
tj lie.”
ij Mr. Cllngman concludes:
:| “The practical working of the system
; alone should have thrown the entire routh
; against it. it. has constituted a mask for
! the great abolition erusadeof the North.
, Under Its cover and by felon strokes front
; its ambuscades there was cut down many
i a goiid und true man, who fearlessly stood
in the deadly breach defend the cou
j stitution, and with It to protect tho rights
of our section. Fidelity to our generous
allies—honor itself, the moving spirit of
i bravo men—demand atonement. At any
I rate, shall we leave our friends—our de
fenders -unavenged, und unite with their
slayers ?
_ ‘ ‘ Duty to ourselves, loyalty to the con
stitution and its cardinal maxims of civil
and religious liberty, devotion tv n prin
ciple higher than all earthly things, alike
, demand that wo shall stand in opposition
Pi this new order.
| “By repelling and trampling it under
j foot, fellow-citizens, you will viodicaft
the ejrnat fee hue of our republican sys-!
; tern; you will proclaim your regard for 1
j integrity and truth, alsivo all else; you
j will protect religiontitsclf from tho eor-j
| ruptiug embrace of political hypocrisy, ;
and you will place public and private:
; morale on s still firmer basis,”
ANOTHER WHIG TRIBUTE.
At a meeting of the Democrats of Be
'; xnr, Texas, on the i>sd of June, Judge
Bcckskh, a landing Whig, addressed
the mooting, from which w*e take the
following stirring passage:
JenoK Bucknku was then called upon,
i Hu said the position iu .which he found
, himself placed was tho-most novel one
, ho had ever occupied on any publie oc
casion in his life. And let liio give, said
lie, to each gentleman present, whig
, j or democrat, the assVtr.ince that I go in
: for the resolutions the.’ ..[ainst, kuow
."| notliingixm, and Cturihn? njmtf tnmhr
l sively to them, and that I desert no prin
eiple; for I may announce, on this occa
sion, that from my earliest youth to this
time I have ever been united with tlie
whig party. I hold that those resolu
. tions in regard to know-nothingism in
volve principles of more importance than
, ever divided the whig and democratic
, parties in all tho time during which I
have rend newspapers, or listened to the
discussion of political principles 'in our
. country. And I hold that those gentle
men who have been associated in tlio whig
party—l care not if they have joined the
know-nothing ranks—should now Htop,
after the duvelonements which have been
made through nil the portions of the coun
try -that they should now stop, and, il
their tocrct sworn organization will per
mit them, withdraw at once, and stand
• once more upon the ground of the noble
leader of tho party, ever tho boast of the
American people, and applauded by the
democratic party, for the open, frank,
and manly course lie pursued upon every
■ political question which was ever agita
ted in the country whilst he trod tlie
stage. Let mo ask those gentlemen—if
: therwbo any of them who belong to this
know- nothing party—do you believe that
at this day, if the great Henry Clay
were living now, ho would he found
, creeping into .cellars and swearing fidel
ity to political midnight associations—
Henry Clay, whodeclared that ho would
rather be right than he President.
“Ho continued: Look tit tho princi
ples announced and generally regarded
as tho established principles of this know*
nothing party: are they not at war in
: their very nature, with American prin
| ciples? Do these gentlemen who call
j themselves the American party —do they
>, Jnv-iiy principles? In tin'
■ late contest iu \ irginia. in, democratic
S* T eojre Vzssrv .. J VjViti’--; Wl 1 >T"
! m Tennessee, whore thoiyimHss is warm
j now between the democratic and know.
, i nothing parties, tho democratic is ropre
! seating American principles. What,
gentlemen, err American principles? Is
. it not an American principle that no man
shall he proscribed on account of his re
. ligious belief, whether ho believe in a
(toil or not—whether Atheist er Deist—
whether a Catholic or Presbyterian, ora
Methodist ora Baptist, or whatever creed
he may profess ? Does not the Constitu
, tution of your country tell you that none
, are to he proscribed, none to he deprived
, of the right to vote, to hold office, and
. enjoy the privileges of un American citi
zen, on account of their religion? Does
, the know-nothing party advocate that
principle? That is a principle embodied
I in tlie immortal constitution of your coun
try—in the constitution which has gui
ded our country from the weakness of
. infancy to tho vigor of manhood, and
, spread its fume throughout the civilized
world. That is an American principle,
, and this know-nothing party is tho miti
. American, and not the American party.
And again"; Do the genius and spirit of
our institutions require that we should
throw open our doors and efl’er an asy
lum in our country to the oppressed of
t all hinds? Aml when we have invited
them to our shores, docs it accord with
the genius and spirit of American insti
tutions to hold them aso/e es/ or do they
, require us to maintain and to sustain them
here until qualified, under tho constitu
tion, and lien to admit them, as citizen*
to equal rights with ourselves.
“ As an instance of tho practical
working of the know-nothing duetrino of
proscription on account of origin, he'al
iuded to the case of Mr. Riiselius, of Lou
isiann—a man who stood high in tho cs
, tiumtion of every intelligent gentleman
j in the Hlmte, one of the ablest lawyers I
in tlie South, standing at the very hend j
of the bar in New Orleans, with a prac
tice of £2,000 or SS,OOO a year, hut yet 1
I a man of whose services as chief justice
the know-nothing lawyers had bound t
themselves by an oatli to deprive the
, State, on account of his foreign origin.”
Secret Politic,*!. Societies.—They
have been tho curse of every country in
which they have existed. In Franco they
, caused the streets to (low with the blood i
, of its best citizens. In Venice they do
, stroyed tlie liberties of tlie people and ;
■ struck terror into the hearts of the good i
and virtuous. In America they have dis- j
. graced the name of American citizen, 1
. prescribed good nu n on account of their
religious creed, warred on women and
. taken from them tile means of obtaining
I the necessaries of life, attempted to de
. stroy the freedom of speech, the right!
, of suffrage, and violated the sacred privi- j
, leges of tho ballot-box at thu capita) of
! the nation. All this it has done, and!
more. If n secret society ever get# the j
control of the affairs of this country, then
good bye to all those privileges and bless-!
ings which we as American republicans !
now hold dear.— lleh, Hepuh.
Tho reason why some people nut. on
: airs, is because they have nothing else
1 to put on.
Volume 1.-YNlil.
“The the title
of a weekly in New Or
: leans by a min inters of tho
l Methodist Episcopal Church Hfctlls:—
■ Not withstanding the
out by the national conven
tion iu the
I plank, the Advocate the pro
. seriptive spirit of the secret order in thu
, tine, tolerant spirit ot Christianity.—
I That paper says:
“The proceedings- of thti convention
i lately assembled in Philadelphia were
. watched by us with interest. Keclesics
■ thnffi auiiMtus wocttitp.rly An
. attempt, was made, principally by south
. ern men, to throw them out. But Utc
. testwas affirmed, and liiijMv
“ joatfirmeft.. ‘Theßoman Oatholio Church’’
. is miimH, distinctly. ‘Kesktaneo’to it is
. propounded among tiny, things ctndem*
i 111,11 <ho things agenda. If wo read cor-’
■ rectly, every is proscribed. Ho
may ho an American—-native, gnod, and
- patriotic; lie may sYtlyimd practically
deny the power of tlioVopc in civil mat
ters as an inference from the ooclesin str
eak ’ Yet, for his religion's sake, lie is *
barred * advancement to all political sta
tions—executive, legislative, judicial, or.
diplomatic.’ This is a test to which our
religions principles and republican in
stincts, tlie spirit of our institutions and
liberty ot conscience, as interpreted by
the ago, are all opposed. No party hold
ing it, however excellent be other prin
ciples held iu combination, may expect
to pass before the conservative people of
tho United States, especially of thu South.
It cannot •budge a step—it cannot stand
with this millstone about its neck.”
A citizen of Morgan county, Inch,
who had been so luced into a Know-Noth
ing Council, gives the result of liis ex
perience to the publie,'through the Mar
tinsville Monitor, in the following preg
nant paragraph:
“Header, you may think you hate
Know-Nothingism; hut until you are ini
ated into its secrets, and witness some
thing of the height and depth of its in
iquity, (lie solemn mockery of its rituals,
and the completeness of its tyranny-!—its
fiend-like indifference, and its utter dis
regard of moral honesty, you will not
know whnt to detest. Then if you are
true to yourst-lfe ynnv nunt/v, and your '
Hod, you will have so great a aelestfttlos, ■
for tho Order that you will avoid a bonn !
•jnmUtJtr.fltfcw.aa.a, Jcuhtgi.giie, -
i and shun a lodge as a Upas tree.” '
Hun. Jackson's Anoernn Son.— Tho
Nashville Union states that Mnj. A.mihev
. Jackson, the tvlo/dnl mm end heir of
Urn. Jackson, hi* prirete *rr refery dur
ing e jMirtion of hi* tulininiolreliun, aud
the present occupant of the Hermitage
is a firm and consistent Democrat, ami
utterly opposed to Know-Ncthingism in
all its features. This is also the position
of all jhe family connexions of Hen. Jack
son, m Tennessee, who lmvcs ever been
Democrats, with the exception of Maj.
Donelson. The same pajq|#ftys of the
gentleman: _
"Maj. Andrew J. BoneUon the few-
Iher-in-teie of the Finer-Mothiny ceiuli
dufe for Ontttnmr nf thin Stole, an j has
not been successful in applications for
otfiee to this administration. He hjff not
a half a feather’s weight of intlmfice iu
Tennessee, and it is understood that ho
lias just been defeated for the Know-No
thing nomination for tho legislature iu
this county. This explanation may bo
useful at a distance,”
Kkuoioch Test in I’omtioh. —Tn a
speech delivered at Frankfort, Kentucky,
’ on the 24th ultimo, before an assemblage
of tho “ Finer JVething Order," the Hon,
John J. Ciiittk-okn, while adverting to
the general principles and objects of tile
order, laid down some qualifications which
uro in keeping with the liberality nu<!
manliness of his character. In reference
to the Catholics ho declared that "he
was utterly hostile to imposing any pen
alties, proscription, or disability upon
' any man on accotmt of liis religion. He
knew native (,'atbmics. He knew native
Catholics in Kentucky, in whom, as citi
zens, or patriots, or soldiers, he had os
! full confidence ns in any other men of
I any faith whatever, and for whom ho
I would vote if they were before him us
j candidates. Ho felt sure that they
; acknowledged no allegiance to the Popo
i that was superior to their allegiance to
their country, or equal to it. He would
trust Kentucky blood and Kentucky
principles against all the seductions of
any foreign Power.”
Know-NotßLnoishi. —When some fu
ture American annalist, says the Vieka
| burg Sentinel, comes to detail the rise,
! progress, and decay of tho factions
which have coalesced under the name
jof Know-Nothings, to overthrow tho
; Democracy, his work will he arranged
! and written somewhat in the following
; fashion:
CHAP. r.—ltisK or the Okiieu:
Jack and Jill went up thu Hill.
CIIAP. IL- Oiuhct or the Coalition :
To get a pcil of water.
CHAP. 111. -What nsrrL on* wino or it:
Jin k fell down and broke his crown.
| CHAP. IV. W HAT tIEKEL THE OTIIEU :*
I Aml gill uome tumbling after.
There are about 5,000 negro voters in
; New York. They have reported that
] t licy eon concentrate tire entire vote nt tho
next presidential election. They are or
ganized under the order of Kuow No
‘ things.