Washington telegraph., 1854-11-01


al creed, sacred regard for the Constitu-
ton In all It's provisions, upon which are
based our glorious American principles
freedom Of speech. freedom of opinion, free
dom of conscience, freedom of the press,
together with a school SYSTEM for the diflu-
sion of Intelligence, sanctifed BY an open
Bible as the rule of faith and practice, hold
ing as an established principle that intelli-
gence and virtue are essential to the success
of a free Government.
5. RcS0lred, That while we welcome to
our country the victims of tyranny from for
eign lands, and offer them place by our
side under the shield of our Constitution,
we claim fer Americans the right to govern
their own country and those who do not
like our Government have our hearty con-
sent to 60 elsewhere in the pursuit OF hap
piness,
6. ReSoIcd, That the fourth resolution
of the meeting at Carusi's Saloon recon-
mending to the President of the L. States
the prescription of all officers Of the Federal
Government who may have thought fit to
beceme members of the association of Know
Nothings-a recommendation which. before
its adoption, had been recognised and acted
upon by the Executive Of the United States
proposes an alarming and dangerous in
fraction of the principles Of self-govern-
ment, and calls for the prompt and decisive
rebuke of all the free citizens of these Uni.
ted States, without distinction of party, sect
or creed.
{. ReS0lred, That every Protestant de-
nomination of the United States maintains
the Constitutional principle Of separation
of Church and State-in which principle
/ many American Catholics sincerely concur
while on the other hand the Papal
Church abroad openly, and always, and ev-
erywhere maintains the doctrines of obedi-
ence of the civil to the ecclesiastical author
ity, both in Europe and America the sad
and ruinous effects Of which, in the one, are
seen in countless emigrants flying from its
! tyranny and misery TO our own happy land.
and in the other, in the Ignorance and pow
erty of the masses, in the wealth and vices
of the clergy, and in the ceaseless insur-
| rections, massacres, and proverbial instabil-
ity of our Southern sister Republics.
s. ReSolcea, That upon these principles
we appeal from the opinions whose procla-
NATION has caused this meeting, to the peo-
pie of the United States; and, although we
might infer they are an exponent of Execu-
tive feelings from the official positions of
those who controlled the proceedings, yet
we will still hope that the President, who
alone has The power. will arrest the proscrip-
ton already begun Of faithful office holders
both Democrats and Wings, for daring to
entertain American and Protestant senti-
ments, and will reject the mercenary sug-
geStion urged upon him by the fourth reso-
luton of the meeting last week as covert
scheme to crafty the appetite Of oifice-seek-
| ers at the expense Of many who zealou sly
and efficiently aided in his elevation to pow
er, and whose removal under existing cir
cumstances will fix an indelible stain upon
him as a man and as the President OF the
United States.
s. Res0ired, That having seen the de-
nunelations that almost daily issue from GER
tain presses against the "fusionists'' of the
| North, who are denounced as absorbed in
the traitorons factions which distract those
States, by which they are one after another
being placed in opposition to the Admins
tratlon, we are astonished to hear the pres
sing invitation in the second resolution of
our opponents to men of political opinions,
without regard to their political antece-
dents to form 4 fusion" with them in
their future actiou,-an invitation broad
enough to include Garrison, Abby Kelly,
and Fred. Douglas, besides their coadiutors
in the two Houses of Congress
10. Resotred, That We too, appeal to
all Americans who love the Union, which
must be preserved and the Constitution.
which establishes and maintains it, and the
rights of the States, which compose it, and
especially to the religious, the moral, and
the order-loving classes, to unite with us in
efecting the reforms necessary to the safety
and prosperity of our country, believing as
we do that it is high time the career of
interested aud unscrupuleus demagocues
should be checked, and the Government be
placed in the hands of men acquainted with
its character and spirit, and who duly value
lis countless blessings.
During the reading of these resolutions
many of their sentiments were loudly cheer
ed They were adopted with but few dissent
ing voices.
The meeting was then addressed by Jno.
NJ. McCalla. Edward c. Darlington. G. w.
Gutter, Sam'l Chiffon, Vespasian Ellis, and
Edward Hart, Esqs., each of the speakers
being frequently applauded in the course of
his remarks.
Mr. Ellis, at the conclusion of his re-
marks, offered an additional preamble and
resolutions, as follows:
AND WHEREAS, We believe in the COM
potency, ability and right of American-born
citizens to govern their own country, there
fore
Resolced That we viii not vote for, nor
assist In elevating foreigners by birth to of.