THE GE s''` Eel
Democratic Delegate Convention.
The Democratic Delegates elected in the
several boroughs and townships, met in
County Convention in the Court House, in
Huntingdon, On Wednesday evening August
15, 1855, and organized by calling NICHO
LAS CRESSWELL, of Alexandria, to the
chair, and appointing GEORGE W. SPEER, of
Cassville, and J. R. HUNTER, of Petersburg,
Secretaries.
unre ex of a d, till now cn
. On motion of T. P. Campbell, Esq., the 1
cealed,liable p
with the onents
jealousy cree of conscious err o or
following pledge was adopted : ! or conscious weakness, from all but its sworn
We, the undersigned Delegates to the Dem- i adherents ; and all disavowed whenever con
ocratic County• Convention, held 15th Au- venient, by the party whose principles they
gust, 1855, do solemnly upon our honor seve- pretended to expound. Ever till now have
rally declare that we are'not•members of the l we been called to oppose measures and men,.
Society or Order generally known as "Know( whose supporters were neither afraid nor
Nothings," nor 'of any other political order! ashamed to maintain and defend them in the
or association holding doctrines calculated to l li g ht of day. Ever till now have we been
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prescribe any citizen politically or otherwise I called on to combat systems of local or na
on account of his religions opinions or place tional policy which, however obnoxious we
of birth, and-that we never have been mem- may have thought them, yet recognized as
bers or belonged to any such Order, 'but that fully as we ourselves do the social equality
upon the contrary we are opposed to its doe- of all, and preserved sacredly inviolate the
trines. e political privileges of every citizen. But in
N. Cresswell, John R. Hunter, these latter days newfangled doctrines have
Samuel Isenberg, H. °daily, arisen, with fiery zealots to advocate them,
Gilbert Chaney, Wm. NlcNite, which strike at . the very fundamental prin-
Daniel Massey, John Vandevandery eiples that Democrats 'in all ages and coun-
H. S. Graham, Martin Orlady, tries have maintained.; which seek virtually
W. A. Copely, George Borst, to disfranchise a portion of our citizens, and
Wm. P. Taylor, T. F. Stewart, practically deny the equality of social, civil
Geo. W. Speer, Jacob H. Miller) and political rights. And a party which de-
John Porter, J. A. J. Postiethwait ) nounces with bitter invective and indis-
John G. Lightner, David klenderson, criminate slander, men of lives the purest
Jas. J. Goodinan, ' Hugh Seeds, and most blameless, for the crime of being
John Scott, Joseph Isenberg, I born on another soil, and which, amid the
Thos. P Campbell,. Jas. B. Carothers, light of the nineteenth century, reverts with
John Johnston, L. Hoover, kindred blindness to the exploded errors 'of
Jonathan Frazier, John Gordon, a darken age, and pursues a whole sect of
John Gemmill, Seth Benrer, i Christians with all the means of persecution,
Rob't Cunningham, Jno. Dougherty,' jan advancing civilization will permit, and
John Jamison, David Hamilton, Ithat, too, with a bigoted intolerance that
Geo. Eby, Jr., Sam'! Miller, ' . would dolcredit to mediceval barbarism, solely
Jas. Chamberlain, Jacobßig4e, a because they choose to worship God in the
Jas. A. Campbell, Nathan -G. Horton.. - ' creed of their fathers! Nor does this doe- i '
The Convention .then proceeded to ballot
trine want for followers, its iniquitous na-1
lure and destructive tendeneies ) masked-by
for • a Representative delegate to , the next specious sophistries; horrified by exaggera-
Democratic State Convention,—and for Con- I tee and distorteif pictures of the crimes andi
oppressions of the buried past ; seduced by
ferees to meet Conferees from Cambria and
Blair counties to select a Senatorial Dele-
the delusive promise of a purity that was
forever to banish .the corruptions of pasty,
gate—which resulted in the selection of Col. and aided by the powerful attractions of rnys-
Taos. P. CAMPI;ELL as Representative deleter y and-secret association, aided, too, trot a
gate, and Jone GEMMILL, SAMUEL T. BROWN little by an organized system of wholesale
calumny; multitudes of sincere and patri
and GEo. W. SpEER, Conferees. otic but prejudiced men, many of the unre- -
The following resolutions were then read fleeting and most of. the disappointed and
and adopted unanimously : ambitions, rushed into a party of whose real
aims and purposes they emphatically knew
Resolved, That the secret political society
be , nothing tudtil they had taken the fatal step
commonly known as "Know Nothings,"
that bound them _to an organization from
its true name what it may, which pros,cribes '
1 which there was no retreat, save under the
men because of their peculiar creed in wor
: charge of perjury. and the threat of the trait
and
God, or the place of their birth,
ot's beard ; plunged blindfold into an asso
and sinks the will of the individual in a I
ciation whose only avowed purpose was war
blind obedience to the commands of irre- !
e _ ! against their brethren! stripped themselves
sponsible councils, is an institution ant'
publican—degrading to the . man of a irn or !in their infatuation of .their right of private
honor and calling for the open oppos a ; judgment, and surrendered their personal in
in
dependence in unresisting obedience to the
reprehension of all, true American Ili s. i
; behests of conspirators, concealed even from
It shall meet with ours.
1 their own associates. Nor is it to be denied
Resolved, That this convention reco7lorn -'
to the Democracy of Huntingdon county at it has grown with the rapidity and the
xuriance of the prophet's gourd, but we
Hon. A. Plumer, the Democratic noird
are happy in the confidence that its decay
for Canal Commissioner, as a suitable person .
, i and,downfall will be equally speedy and slid
to receive their votes.
den. Its monstrous teachings and destruc-
Resolved, That the action of the State con- ;
tive results require , not the bitter experience'
vention of '52 in disfranchising this Con- !
i
of then- evil working to condemn them.
gressional District, and selecting a man to
Calm reflection and sober reason already ena
represent it on the committee to chosedele
ble_us to detect the mad ambition that lurks
gates that did not live within its borders or
i behind the gilded mask of EXCLUSIVE patri
reflect its sentiments, was most unfair, un
otism,
ore to-carry out the designs intended exci-
and the fierce intolerance that deludes
just and anti-Democratic, and that the fail- i
its own votaries with the pretext of zeal for
red our liveliest gratification.
religious purity. ft is, however, in the na- 1
Resolved, That our Representative and Sen-
lure of man that this very delusion should I
stimulate its followers to the most strenuous
atonal delegates to the next State Convert-•
efforts to extend its sway, to absorb or to
lion are hereby instructed to irtsist upon the
crush all that opposes its course, and no er
adoption of -the. Congressional District sys- ; rocs are so dangerous as those that assume
tem as the fair and- Democratic mode of se
the garb of peculiar virtue. They are ac
lecting Delegates to the National Convention,l
;espied upon the faith of their professions, and
and that they are fully authorized to resist in
time must elapse before the hollow mockery
the manner they may deem most expedient 1
gather they Thusd.
any and every attempt to stifle the views of - is expose
any portion of the Democracy of the State. i the main the well meaning, the enthusiastic
and the credulous, with just a sufficient in-
Resolved, That this Con vention does not by 1
opinion ; fusion of the d'esigning, the prejudiced and
the foregoing resolutions express any
upon the subject of the next Presidency. the crafty, to govern and direct the whole
movement towards their own narrow views
A motion to nominate-a ticket was amend -1 or selfish purposes. • Enthusiasm, too, neces
ed so as to select a committee of five persons I sarily tends to degenerate into fanaticism,
by ballot to do the same, if the same can
that wilfully shuts its eyes to the plainest
dictates of reason, is inexorably deaf to every
agree, and if not, to be empowered to call command of justice, and tramples without
the COnvention together again. pity or remorse over the prostrate form of
The first ballot resulted in the selection of I mercy, pleading for the suppliant victims of
the following gentlemen as said committee: Oppression or of Penury. So the snowball
of the thoughtless school-boy, reckless of the
Taos. F. STEWART, DANIEL MASSEY, W.M.
ruin he causes ' rolls even growing, down
McNrre, GEO. W. Speen and HENRY Roza-) the Alpine steeps till it crashes an avalanche
of destruction on the devoted hamlet. Such
is the inevitable tendency of the doctrines
now advocated by this new party of self-
styled Americans, and similar must be their
results, could they ever be carried into ac
tion. Doctrines which strive 'to subvert the
cardinal principles of Democracy ; which re
fuso social, political and even civil privileges
to a portion- of the people, which recognize
no longer the distinctions we have ever up
held, the distinctions instituted by an all.
wise and Omniponent Providence, those of in
telligence and virtue, but substitute for them
the accidents of birth and the incidents of creed;
the accidents of birth, involuntary; and the in
cidents of aCreed, traditional; which introduce
a new standard of party fealty and inaugur
ate a new shibboleth of patriotism. Sustained
by a party which admits of no neutrality, of
no discriminations, but ostracizes all who re
fuse "to'swear in the words of the master":
which absorbs all lesser issues; or impudent:
ly claims their force to swell its own num=
hers ! Such are the doctrines, such is the
party we are now called to combat; and we
are justified, nay, we are bound, by common
brotherhood, by common citizenship to in
vite to join us therein, all who have a higher
regard to the rights of man than to the
clatms of party, all who "love not Caesar
less, but Rome more." And while we do
so as, by our action of this evening we have
done, we in no respect alter or our
time-honored and success-approved position.
Ever have we battled for the rights of man
kind for the brotherhood of whatsoever mi
nor issues, whatsoever temporary measures
may have heretofore divided us, these are
longer in question; they have either become
obsolete, or they have been decided, or they
are merged in the new issue. We appeal
therefore now, (as the only organized defend
ers of the rights of man, and the guarantees
of our glorious constitution,) to all who love
liberty and equality, to all who hate proscrip
tion and intolerance, to array themselves be
side us. Little care we,:now that the parri-
ERTS.
The following resolutions were then adopt
ed :
Resolved, That the committee of five per
sons elected by this convention be vested
with full power to meet a like committee on
part of the old line Whigs of the count) ,
and agree upon, and put in nomination a
ticket for the various offices to be filled this
fall by election—to be supported by the dem
ocratic party—and if they can agree upon
said • ticket we hereby pledge it our support,
as if the same had been• nominated in full
convention—and if the said committee can
not agree upon a ticket, that they be instruc
ted to call this convention together again and
report their action under this resolution.
Resolved ,That the said commmittee have
power, and are instructed to confer by letter
or otherwise, with our friends in Blair coun
ty, in relation to candidate's for the Legisla
ture, so as to secure harmonious action on
that subject.
Committee to meet at Huntingdon on
Wednesday, August 22, at 5 o'clock, P. M.
On motion, the President was ordered to
appoint the usual County Committee, to con
sist of one person for each township and
borough in the county.
'On motion, Resolved, That the'proceedings
be signed by the officers and published.
On motion, Dr. A. B. LEE, of Mt. Union,
addressed- the Convention, as follows:
M.R. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN :---I have
not the vanity • to think that in responding to
your call, I can throw any new light on the
subjects which• will form the chief elements
-of the apprOaching canvass, and at this late
brim after the fatigue of a protracted session.
I am, only reconciled to this trespaf.s on your
time and patience which that response in
volves, by the reflection that on ehtering into
such a canvass, - propriety, nay, dt ty, requires
that we should state our sentiments in re
gard to its prominent issues, and the views
which have determined our action in meet
ing them. And here we have to remember
that the struggle in which we are about to
engage is no ordinary one. Hitherto the Dem
ocratic patty has had to _contend against a
party whose oppusition was at least open and
manly, whose measures' and position was
avowed, and' their line of policy distinctly
indicated ; which did not go before the grand
tribunal of ultimate jurisdiction, the delibe
rate judgment of the people, with measures
concocted in secret, and dimly shadowed
forth by organs of doubtful authenticity ; each
denounced in turn by others as incorrect or
cidal blow is aimed at the bosom of Liberty
herself, what names or tribes may have hith
erto distinguished her sons, and we will
with our whole souls honor him whose blade
shall parry the stroke, that ,Would wound
our coalition mother, carelessly what forgot
ten dgnornination he may_ have heretofore
been known. Appealing to these considera
tions we feel that our action to-day has been
what the crisis Demands.
And now let us turn for a moment to re
view the principles and measures of this new
party whose ends we are called-on in com
mon with every citizen to promote: 2
think there is no mai*, movement, but hai
some basis of right howsoever
slender, on whicheie:•!::.: : : - .:M . i""!ded. Be it then
our task to separat:se , ;e:a rue from the false
and to weigh iron impartial scale the predom
inating element. Of abstract propositions
multitudinous are the aspects, and scholastic
or metaphysical ingenuity may torture into
innumerable shapes, each fortified by its syr
logism the simplest proposition. Bet thank
Heaven these refinements are not necessary to
the common understanding, and we can arrive
at the nature and character of a policy by a su
rer and a 'Shorter route, albeit-it be somewhat
' sough and unpolished. We may test theni
by their practical resulti: Time and space
would fail were We to take up each separate
proposition of our antagonists on its own
merits, and indeed many of them - arebut
repetitions of themselves, mere - tautology.—
But we may analyse them in their general
scope and tendency. The chemist when a
compound substance is submitted to him for
examination subjects a part of it in solution
to the action of re-agents in e test tube and
by the results thus obtained he learns the
character of the whole. So will we do, and
by observing the tendency and necessary
action of 'a part shall we learn the nature of
the hole. And while doing so, if we find it
incumbent on us to denounce the principles,
let us carafully discriminate between the
selfish and designing few and the many hon
est but misguided men, whose mistaken im-.
Pulses heve plunged them into error, which
perhaps they even now perceive, but see no
way by which they can retreat from the
false position in which, partly from ignorance,
partly from generous tho' ill-directed feelings
they have,. become involved. For far be it
froin me, or us, however much we may dis
pute with a large portion of our 'fellow citi
zens; or however wrong we may think their
views; to doubt their sincere patriotism, or to
believe them only hypocritical friends of our
common country ; 'even though they may set
up the claim to exclusive purity, or to be the
only Americans par excellence in the land,
invidious though the claim be and unjust the
imputation. But it is legitimate to esteem
them misguided through passion or mistaken
through prejudice. To pursue.then our ex;
aminat ion of the characters of this new doe
trine, let us state the case as- its own expo
nents declare it. First, all-who are not born
upon our soil must necessarily be untrue to
our institutions.
,A horrible proposition ; let
us see the evidence. Turn we to the annals
of oar own beloved country. Do
. weefind it
here? Oh no 1.-no man denies that bayo
net of old Conrad the Hessian deserted to
Washington was driven as deeply into the
ranks of despotism as'that of Johnathan
himself, or that his desceriaants have not con
tributed their fair share to the subsequent pro
gress of our common country as 'those of
the other. Even calumny itself ie.,' here at
fault and . is 'driven for cause of accusation to
grope among the ashes and charnel houses of
a past world for, the grisly spectres that are
4o fright us from our propriety. Nor is she
more successful in painting to any present
infringement of our institutions, but is for
ced to the base alternative of sowing suspi
cion end inculcating fears of some undefined
and impossible - horror. But what cures fa-
naticism for the results of experience and
wherefore should facts stand in the way of a
'theory What matters it that no crime has
been proven against the adopted citizen.—
He is to be candemned on SUSPICION; the
good and the bad together, the wise and the
irznorant, the virtuous and the vicious, all are
to be involved in one common condemnation,
and thiS, not because of any wrong they have
done but for fear they might do some, rever
sing the maxim of Jaw that every man is to be
presumed innocent .till proven guilty, but
rather that every man shall be esteemed guil
ty till proven innocent. • And as a corrollary
from this doctrine of distrust, that the power
of doing harm (or good either) shall be taken
away from every man who might possibly
abuse it. It is useless to say that this doc- '
trine contemplates no legislative restrictions
but relies on moral influence alone, This is
but a subterfuge. Who has ever seen a fa
naticism of any sort• confined within the
bounds originally assigned it ? And what'
matters it whether the effect is produced by
moral means or by statute, so long atv a por
tion of our citizens are virtually disfranchi
sed ? The ultimate results is to establish
two classes of citizens, the one privileged, he
other laboring under disabilities, the one so
perior, the other inferior, of citizens and of
serfs. For to say that we will stay the tide'
of immigration, is to say that we will re
verse the order of nature. From the
great dispersion of nations on the plains
of Shinaar till the present' day, ever has been
the march of humanity westward, and as, well
might we try to resist the wild surge of the
Atlantic, as to dam opt the over recurring
wave of population." •Indeed they who advo
cate this idea are so few that it is a waste of
words to contend with- them. What then
follows That we must accept immigration
as a fixed and immutable fact and dispose of
. it as wisdom dictates. But equal justice is
the lodestar of wisdom, and justice with '
charity at her side bids, that the blessings we
enjoy we shall impart,' that we shall give in
like measure as we have received, and wis
dom teaches that where all are equal nothing ,
is left to create strife, and the spirit of deal-
ocsacy teaches that all shall be placed on
equal footing, and that whatsoever distinc
tions are gained shall - be -accorded 'to indi
vidual merit. On the contrary the ideas of
our opponents would build up alt impassible
wall of separation between the citizens of
our country, and to a portion would say,
"you are and must ever be excluded from
our privilege, no Matter what your merit,
no matter what . your deserts, you have been
born on foreign soil, and alien you must re
main, you are among us but you are not of
us, and you never shall be." What is the
necessary result, two classes are formed, a
privileged and a disabled class, and - the very
condition so much deprecated and now so
falsely charged by this misguided party.(viz,
a foreign party in the midst of the people,)
is inevitably created by the measures they
propose to remove the imaginary scarecrow
they hive set up. From this condition of
things, never ending quarrels and conten
tions must of necessity arise; when one por
tion of the community sets itself up to be
better or more worthy than the other, then is
the bitterness of partizan warfare tenfold in
creased, and if we add to this the additional
irritant of religious discord, who shall esti
mate the fury and the depth of the measure
less discords. No, wonder that the first
fruits of a doctrine so pernicious, should be
riots that have desolated ,our fairest cities.
No wonder that fierce passions should be
stirred up when the organ: of this party in
our very midst declares that "no true papist
can be a true patios." Who can wonder
that the heart should throb and the brain
madden when the reckless and blinded slan
derer denounces men as traitors by whole
sale without a tittle of evidence to color
the pretext save the suspicions engendered
by the evil thoughts that poison the heart of
the author ? What man can help being
roused to fiery indignation when he hears
himself accused of- black ingratitude to the
liberties he loves as his life, to the country
whose greatness is his glory, whose prosper
ity is his idol.- Who does not feel the hot
blood boil when he hears ir. hourly repeti
tion the foul accusation that he is hostile to
the institutions beneath whose shelter he re
poses, and waits but the opportunity to stab
the hand that 'has loaded him with gifts 2
And who while with manly indignation he
repels the base aspersion can control his
just anger within due bounds ? It is not in
nature. And what justice, what charity,
what reason must inhabit his breast who
makes these false accusations against all
men of a particular class or nation, without
any discrimination between good or bad, and
in utter disregard of all previous life or con
duct ? Who makes every man, how pure
and spotless soever himself may be, the
scape goat for the sins and vices of all his
nation. How would any man like to have
such a rule of judgment applied to hifieself
He would revolt with horror at the wrong.
And yet these sticklers for pure religion,
these boasters of their especial love for the
I Bible, never once remember the rule set
forth in its sacred page by divine justice
itself for the government of man, "whatso
ever we would that men should do unto you,
do ye also to them." Far other is their
course. Enjoying a land the most bounte
ous under the heavens, they ignore every
claim of charity. Blest Isse Heaven with
institutions the happiest, the most liberal,
they would show their gratitude by refusing
any share of their good gifts to their bretli
reie„ claiming for thmselves the largest lib
erty and thfulleet voice in forming the in
stitutions under which all must live, they
would diminish the privileges of others, pro
scribe them for exercising their tights - of
conscience, and refuse them, for no better
reason, all participation in the common gov
ernment. Proud of the advantages confer
red by birth and puffed up with. the insolent
pretension to superior virtue, they resem
ble the pharisee in the temple, and wrapped
in the mantle of self righteousness they
thank God that they are not as other men, sin
ners and hypocrites, (like these _French and
Irish) nor even as .-this- (Dutch,) publican !
Who does not resent - the .insuiting imputa
tions? Who does not feel that-these doc
trines if they were carried out must inevita
bly produce a never ceasing 'contention ; on
the one hand to retain the usurped superiori
ty of the preferred class; on the other to
break the galling distinction, and to regain
the lost privileges. Who cannot see that the
practical effect must be to brand as an inferi
or race all on whom the disabilities are in
flicted and to convert the political discus
sions of a free country into the unsparing
contests between a conquered people, and
their conquerors. It would isolate from the
mass of our citizens every foreigner who
should land cm our shores; would place his
rights and his liberty at the mercy of the
very men who denounce him 3._ deprive him
of all voice in making the laws by which lie
is governed ; would compel him to combine
in self defence and to obtain his share of the
coveted privileges from 'which he is debarred
by a baseless jealousy, that with a horrible
refinement of cruelty first stigmatizes its vic
tim as vile, and then makes-that a pretext to
rob him of his rights. These proscriptive
doctrines are doubly dangerous, for they ef
fectually destroy the very Americanism which
their adherents arrogantly claim to be the es
pecial defenders of. There is something in I
the benign and generous spirit of American I
institutions that absorbs and incorporates with
itself all that comes within its sphere, that
elevates and infuses with a higher life all
that breathes her air ; and the noble hospis
tality ttiat welcomes to her bosom with open
arms the wanderer and the oppressed of every
land, that wraps theni all with equal love in
the same wide mantle of charity, and stretches
over all with the impartial benevolence of
the Deity the same broad shield of power ;
that rouses the highest sentiments of the soul,
that gives a better estimation of humanity,
that obliterates all petty distinctions ; that
merges in its own full flowing stream every
affluent, and blends every discordant element
into one grand.and harmonious nationality..
This, this is the Americanism we love, this
,
the grand policy We cherish. To such a
nationality treachery is impassible and dis
affection an absurdity. And to say that a
government founded on equal justice and
equal protection to all alike, is to be subverted
I by a foreign element that has no real existence,.
working by means that no one can define, is
simply the chimera of a distempered fancy.
No, the danger .to our liberties will come
when we shall have deserted the principles
under which we have grown to greatness,
end when, by trampling on the rights of
some, we shall have set the fatal example
that in turn will involve us all in a common
ruin. Nor is the, fact that - these principles
create the very evils they propose to remove
their only injurious aspect. Not only do they
do this, but they drive all -moderate and rea
sonable men from the attempt to remedy the
evils naturally incident to immigration, and
force them to abandon every effort to correct
real abuses, lest they be accused of favoring
a creed abhorrent to their sense of justice.
Of the organization of this party I might say
much, but time forbids to examine it. I can
only refer for a moment to some of its feat
ures that are too repugnant to every feeling
of manly frankness and candor to be passed
in entire silence. What then are we to think 1
of-a party that studiously conceals amid night
and mystery all its acts and purposes; that
proposes measures- in which all have a com
mon interest, and by width all must be gov
erned in secret, and permits no open discus
sion ; that gives dissent no chance to be heard,
and virtually abolishes .the court of public
opinion, that denies to a certain minority
the dearest rights of freemen; that tramples
on history, reason and truth, to stain the names
and blacken the character of - whole races; that
condemns them without an overt act, 'and
punishes the good and the bad alike; that
ill/stifles deception, inculcates evasion, and
hugs suspicion to its heart ; that robs its own
members of their free : agency, and makes
them, under pain of perjury, the blind instrn
ments of a secret Council; that arraigns ex
emplary citizens without hearing, tries them
without defence, and sentences without jus
tice ; that substitutes intolerance for religion,
and combats what it deems error, by con
spiracy; that steps in between man and his
God, and says if you worship your Creator
in other form• than mine, you shall be politi
cally disabled !! ! Was ever such tyranny
heard of I Was ever tribunal so terrible since
the days of the Holy Vehnael Are we not
right to rally in opposition to it? Are we
not bound to call to our side all who love the
true g!ory.of their country, all who hate op
pression, all who feel the generous impulse
to shield the stranger in our house, as we
would the brother of our blood. And here
we see the reason that the good and true
men of the land of all parties and every where
are rousing themselves to put down this mon,
strous delusion, and I am happy to believe
that its days are numbered. Never have I
faltered one moment:in the confidence that
the sober reflection of the people would con
quer the.madness of the moment. We also
must take our share in the contest, and though
we may feellittle sanguine of present suc
cess, We are secure in the certainty of future
triumph. Ever battling for the right, defeat
has no terrors for us. Undismayed we ap
proach a foe elate in numbers, and flushed
with hope. .We care not. We have not been
enervated by victory nor disorganized by fail
ure: We accept the issue, and if we cannot
command succest, we will at least deserve
it. If the fates have not decreed to us a
Marathon, we can at worst make to ourselves
a Thermopylm. Though beaten, if beaten .we
must be. we will go down gallantly main
taining the post of honor, and with our, latest
breath,
" We will pray that come it may,
As come it will for a' that,
That man to man the warld a'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that."
On motion, adjourned.
N. CRESSWELL, President.
Guo. 'W. SPEER ) }Secretaries.
J. R. HUNTER
Snow Nothing Americanism.
Read the following heart-rendering details
of the Louisville butchery, from the Louis
ville Times:
"We feel that oar readers, like ourselves
are heartily sick of the disgusting details;
but our investigations, of yesterday and the
day before have brought to light still further
evidence of the brutality of the Know -Noth
ing mob, which, under the circumstances,
we feel it our duty to publish.
"The house of John Chievers, on Main
street, near Eleventh, was fixed. His wife
ran into the street with her chill in her arms.
She was surrounded by the ruffians and told
that if she did not return to the burning ruins
and bring out her husband for them teLkill,
that they would kill both herself and child.—
Frantic with despair, she permitted one of
them to take the child, and she return - cd to
the house, and told her husband what they
said. He immediately rushed out, to rescue
his infant from the murdetous wretches, and
t. as riddled with shot and left for dead, He
was afterwards carried, to the Infirmary of
the Sisters of Charity and has since died.—
He had not attempted to vote, and had offer
ed no violence to any human being. The
above pat ticulars were detailed to us by his
wife.
"Martin Connelly now lying dangerously
wounded at the Infirmary, informs us that he
was at supper when he discovered that the
house was fired. He and his wife ran out.
As soon as they reached the sliest his wife
began to plead for his life. A few gentle.
men attempted to save him, but one of the_
ruffians placed a pistol at his left breast and
fired. He also informed us of a man named
Munroe, boarding with him, who was shot at
the same time. Connelly is a peaceable
and inoffensive citizen.
"Dennis Long; another of the wounded,
lying at. the Infirmary, informs us that he
was reading a newspaper in the street, when
George Thompson a friend of his and a
know nothing, came and told hire that the
crowd at the polls were meditating at: attack
upon the row of houses occupied by the Irish,
and advised him to kedp in his house. He
went to sleep, and was awakened by the
shots. His two brothers were in the room
when he awoke. They discovered that the
house was on fire They attempted to escape
by getting on the roof of the adjoining house,
and from thence getting away, But no soon
er had they reached the streets than his two
brothers, who were in front of him, were
fired at and fell. He rushed on through the
crowd, but was himself shot, and remained
unconscious until he was carried to the jail.
His two brothers were killed. He heard the
murdered Quinn tell the mob that ho would
give them all The money and all the property
he possessed, if - they would spate his life and
the lives of his tenants; but the savages shot
him before the words were scarcely out of
his mouth. No offence is alleged against
any of these men.
Cassidy, a nephew of Quinn's was shot as
'he attempted to escape from the flames.
"George Hubert. an old German, living on
the corner of Ninth and Chesnut streets., left
home about four o'clock in the evening for
Portland-ay.,. to see a cow which he intend,
ed to buy. .While passing clown Main street,
he saw two crowds, one on the corner of
Tenth street, and the other near the corner
of Eleventh street. He was between them;
heared some shots fired; looked and saw a
man -lying on the pavement; saw two men,
Americans, go up and fire two shots at The
prostrate body, and would have fired the third .
but the pistol would not go off. Hubert im
mediately crossed the street to get oat of the
way. He was followed .by .a man who said
he wanted to kill him I.yith . a knife. The old
man told him he was going on his business ;
that he had nothing to do with the fighting:
that there was no use in killing a poor old
man. The wretch's heart appeared to be
touched; he, went off with the crowd down
towards Eleventh street. The crowd ham
ever, almost immediately returned again and
surrounded the old man. ; One of. them cried
out 'Let us kill the ,d—d old Dutch s—n of a
b—h.' He begged them to spare his
Another cried out that he would shoot him
for the fun of the thing, and immediately
placed a . pistol to his right breast and fired,
Hubert is now lying in a most critical con
dition at his residence on the corner of Ninth
and Chesnut streets.
An old German, whose name we could not
ascertain, living on Portland ay. between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth. streets, who had.
been sick for several months, crept under the
bed when he heard the mob approaching. He
was dragged out and shot through . the heart.
"The facts which have been stated in this
article can be relied upon by our readers.—
They have been gathered from the mast au
thentic sources.
We propose Continuing the history of that
day's outrages, until the country shall have
been put in possesSion of all' the facts.—
When that shall have been done we have no
fear of the judgement it will pronounce."
Popular Disturbances at Electiens.
One of the most deplorable evidences of
popular ignorance and prejudice, is the re
cent election riots_in the western cities. It
is something
. new connected -with popular
government, to find electors, after depositing
their votes, rushing with arms in their hands
and trailing conrion through the streets, to
be used in deadly conflict against each other.
It was formerly our boast, under republican
institutions, that all our revolutions were
peaceful ones, fought 'through the ballot 'box,
and decided by the popular, majority. - But if
such scenes are witnessed in Louisville, as
were recently enacted at Cincinnati, are to
be the accompaniments ofapopular election,
it will not be long before bayonets will take
the place of ballots, and every election be a
bloody revolution, as it is in Mexico and
Central America. We are net. yet prepared
to see the experiment of-popular:government
defeated by popular ignorance; therefore we
hope that some effort will be made by the
intelligence of the country to enlighted the
popular mind so far that sectarian and politi
eal fanaticism will loose its power to do ads
chief, and be made unable to destroy, by
civil commotion, a country which heaven
seems to have rained its choisest blessings
upon, if they were only used properly:—
Philadelphia Ledger.
From this new manufacture of popular
sovereignty, says the Pittsburg (Whig) Ga
zetts, we are indebted to the advent and pre
valence of Know Nothingism.' 'Wherever
-that proscriptive ism has reared its pestilent
head the Worst passions of- the multitude
have been aroused and-influenced; • race has
been set against race, and religibn against
'religion; the nativeehave been taught to hate,
despise and condemn men of foreign birth,
arid foreigners have been exasperated to the
highest pitch of endurance with taunts-and
insults which human nature finds it henna
bear. It is no wonder then ; that when the
two classes, thus pitted against each other,
come to measure their strength, there should
be a fierce and furious outbreak. '
It matters
but little who commits the first overt act of
collision; the grand cause which lies back of
all is the spirit and essence of know-noth
ingism, which leads necessarily and inevi
tably to a conflict between the races mar
shalled against each other. By their fruits
shall ye know them: do men gather grapes
of thorns or figs of thistles?
How to Build up a National Party.
Is it by uniting upon principles, or upon
men ? upon preferences, or upon prejudices?
If it be either of these, then we take the
broad, bold ground, that the present know
nothing party is a mockery and a farce in
every one of its pretensions to nationality.
That party is not united upon principle,
because the order in neatly every State, North
and South, has a different set of principles;
and upon the great question of State rights, a
question which is every day assuming a more
important aspect, it is separated by an abyss
which no human ingenuity has ever yet been
able to bridge over, even for temporary pur
poses.
Nor is this party Moderately harmonious
on the subject of men. Notwithstanding its
clamor against "old leaders," arid the wild
hunt for office, it fears to indicate a prefer,
ence, and trembles at the bare idea of being
compelled to make a selection for the prcsi,
dent ial race.
Even in its
,prejudices, this party is torn
with conflicting -opinions. In one, quarter it
is the Catholics who are most hated; in another
the Irish laborers; in another the G'orrnan so
cieties; and in still-another; the ghost that is
held up to frighten every body is that_ of the
politica! power of-the Pope. A know noth,
ing in Louisiana is friendly to the Catholic;
a know nothing in Alabama is hostile , to the
Catholic. In, Wisconsin a know nothing -is
eloquent in favor of emigration ; in Virginia
a know nothing is furious against ernigra
tion: Gov. Johnston,
.who . leads the know
nothings of Pennsylvania, is a thorough ad
vocate of abolition doctrines; Kenneth Ray
ner, who leads the same patty in North Car
olina, and is the bosom friend of Johnston, is
no less thoroughly opposed to abolition. In
Louisiana a foreign born citizen _heads the
know nothing State ticket; while in ilassa
chusetts a foreign born citizen,,nut yet natur
alized, is degraded below the • level .of the
negro by know nothing legislation.
- What a fraud upon language to say that
any such patty can ever be a national party.
Not to speak of the nationality of the
Democratic party, which is a part 'of the ex:
istence, and one of the causes of the Success
of that patty, let us Invite attention. to the
condition of the Whig party for years - past.—
It had many great elements of harmony.—
Its. leaders were great intellects. - Its mea
sures
. w . e,,se acceptable to the peas :of, its
members; and it answered only.to a com
mon name, but to common objects and aims.
- What an exchange this party is now offered
(and by too many accepted) iii the new secret
organization, with its Title great men, - it's. di
versified colors, its coflicting ideas, its abo
lition "head and heart 1 . 7 .-Washingtop.,' .Uition
OHIO.--The prospect of a Democratic vic-.
tory next - fall in the Buckeye State Ls, hridht
enion• daily. Salmon P. Chase is the nomi
nee of the Republican, or Fusion party, for
Governor. In the 'Convention ,which
nated him, the Abolition and Free Soil ele
ments predominated largely;' the peculiar
principles of the ..K. N.'s were ignoied- le . . the
platform adopted; and the , Vhigs
who bad joined in the corrupt coalition, were
treated by their allies with supreineconternpti
pretty much, in fact, as the TurkErtiave beein .
treated by France and England in the -East
ern war. But it appears now that the Free
Soilers have overshot the mark, and the . con
sequence is, that vast numbers of Milks and
Americans have openly repudiated the nomi.
nation of Chase. Thus the great Fusion Re
publican party is already split into fragments,
which not even the "cohesive, poWer of pat-,
ha plunder" can dratv together. In themein - - -
time, the Democrats were never better united,
never more harmonious, never more confident
Of success. They have re-noreinated Col. Me
di!! for Governor; who is one of the most popti
lar men in Ohio. As matters look now, he
will certainly be elected.
la" - The whole number of applications for
bounty land warrants received at the Pen
sion Office up to August 20 is 20,400 ; the
number examined, 41,8 0 0 ; warrants issued,
20,236.