Washington telegraph., 1854-11-01
The Mass Meeting OF Last Night.

The Mass Meeting OF Last Night.
In pursuance of public notice a Mass
Meeting assembled last evening in front of
.the City Hall, Of Citizens of Washington
favorable to the protection of civil and reli-
gious liberty, and opposed to the principles
and objects promul gated in the resolutions
said to have been adopted last week at the
meeting of friends Of the Administration at
Carusis saloon
The meeting of last night was very nu-
merously attended, and was called to order
about half past o'clock by Mr. Noble D.
Larner.
The names of the following gentlemen
were submitted as officers, and unanimously
confirmed
PreSjdeRt-CAPT F. a TUCKER.
Fice- -PreSidentS-W William Wilson, B.
o. Taylor, DIR. f. Howard, Henry Nourse,
J. c. Harness, Sidney DeCamp, Gen. Jno.
NJ. McCalla, Samuel McCauley, Dr. c. w.
Davis. B. S. Kinsey, p. II. Pearson, and s.
S. Brigs
Secretaries p Dickson. Henry
Hay, j. W Barker, and Edward Hart.
The President, on taking his chair brief
ly expressed his thanks to his fellow citizens
tor the honor conferred upon him.
4 committee on Resolutions was then ap-
pointed, consisting Of Dr. r. Finley Hunt,
Gen'I J NJ McCalla, J p Hilton, james
Owner. VIM Dixon, j. L. Smith, and J II.
McBlair; who, after brief interval, repor-
ted the following preamble and resolutions;
WHEREAS, a public meeting Of the citi-
zens Of Washington was held at Carusi's sa-
loon on the 10Th inst, upon call made in,
and approved by the Executive organ. the
proceedings of which, in the resolutions
said to have been adopted at the meeting
and in the speeches of certain selected ora
tors at subsequent adjourned meeting, are
now spread before the public eye in the col
umns Of said organ and its kindred presses
with appreciation and whereas, said re esolu-
tions, however dressed up in abstract pro-
tessions of patriotism, assail principles dear
to the American heart and necessary to the
safety of the Constitution and to the peace
and prosperity of our country and where
as, the Executive is invoked therein to re-
move from employment such office-holders
as entertain those principles, thereby to per-
petrate ruthless prescription of both Wings
and Democrats for an honest difference of
opinion: Therefore,
l. Res0LUed, That mere professions of
love to the Constitution and to civil and re-
igious freedom, when contradicted by ac-
tions, cannot deceive the sensible and vigi-
lant guardians of American liberty. whose
apprehensions have been excited at beholding
the strides that have been made towards a
complete control Of cur Government by the
subjects of Foreign Potentate well known
as the avowed enemy of our whole Ameri-
can system, to whose overthrow they are sol
emnly devoted
,. ReSoIUed, That, as vigilant custodi-
ans of that benefcent system of civil and
religious freedom bequeathed to US by the
Fathers of the Republic, it is our duty to
meet and repel all insidious attacks upon
our liberties as we'll as all open assaults !;
and we view with indignation and alarm the
assertion of principles and purposes, on the
part Of the recognised opponents of the Ro-
man Catholic Church in the United States,
subversiye OF our Republican institutions.
which constitute aggressi0ns of such a char
acter that if not now resisted will lead at
no distant day to the overthrow of the Am
erlcan Constitution and the complete estab-
llshment of despotism.
3. Resolrcd, That while, in the past
political visions of the country, as Wings
and Democrats, we have struggled in hon
est conflict over contested principles and
measures, all of which are now settled yet
IN the present crisis of danger to all that
both parties hold dear, we will bury every
remembrance of past opposition, and pledge
to each other our lives, our fortunes, and
our sacred honor not to cease our exertions
until our country shall be freed from the
dangers that now menace it.