Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-07-27
James Pollock, a Member of the Know
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THE Washington COMMUNICABLE learllS1roIn
philadelphia that Governor Bgler applied for
admission into the society of Known othings,
| but was rejected d-Nelcs - g.
This of course is a fabrication of the most
| silly character 1t will deceive no one Go
vernon Bigler is known to be opposed to this
secret political religious society, and on all
proper occasions has denounced it as an at
tempt to mingle the bitterness of religious pre-
iudices i'll our political canvasses. The Wings
and their allies must tax their ingenuity for
! a more plausible invention, or they viii loose
| their old and well-established character for
adroitness in manufacturing falsehoods for all
occasions.
But James Pollock, the Whig candidate for
GorerRor as u member Of tie order Of Kn0lc-
| 4Nothings He joined an Phaadelphia, on
the ercnimg of the 1871 Of juno, and made a
speech on that occasion, In which he gave IN
his adhesion TO all the monster doctrines of
| that unconstitutional organization. James
Pollock, on entering that secret order, swore,
Id He ,1ouid not eote for or appoint to Of
flee any man acho acoS not born an this country
I ID He leoldd not cote for or appoint to
office any man aohO 6eLtered an the doctrines Of
| the Roman CutltOlic Church, achether born IN
this country etsctchere.
| 3D. He would not rote for or appoint to
| office any man 'chose father icdS not born tlt
this Country, and a belierer an the Protestaat
reisgtoa - .sz
These are the facts with relation to Mr.
Pollock. VIII he dare deny them? They
arc susceptible of the most abundant and con-
vincing proof. The time, the place, the cir
cumstances in connection with the admission of
Mr. Pollock are all well known. The members
of the Know Nothing organization claim him
as their candidate, and as a member of their
order, in full communion with all its proscrip-
| tive ideas. If Mr.. Pollock is selected, instead
! of the State Government being conducted on
| the broad, open basis of the Constitution, and
| the equality of all men under that sacred in
strument, the directing hand will be control
! led by the oath Of a secret society, proscrip-
tive in it's character, and bases upon the boil
dest and most ultra doctrine of religious per-
secution Mr. Pollock is sworn to deprive
one portion of our fellow-citizens oftheir equa-
! lty of rights because they do not worship God
in the same manner that he does; another, be-
cause they were not born upon the soil of this
| country, and still another, because their ia
theirs were not native to the country. or may
| have been believers IN particular religious
| faith. This is a new doctrine to be preached
on the soil of old Pennsylvania, and attempt
ed to be forced on her citizens by means of a
sworn secret society How will the honest
yemanry of the interior relish such an attempt
| to make aliens of their children, and ostracise
| them from the benefits of civil and religious
| liberty? The Star-chamber of England, and
the Inqusitorial institutions of other countries,
are justly reprobated by all lovers of the rights
of conscience but how do they differ in prac
| teal consequences from the order of Know
| Nothings. TO be sure, they deprived a man
of life as well as liberty. That was feature
Il i,
organization existed. The same spirit that
leads man to take an oath to prescribe an
other on account of his religious faith, will in
duce him to burn him at the stake, and the
Know -Nothingism, of 1854, of which Mr..
Pollock is member, is identical in all its fea-
lures with the most barbarous crusaders of
the middle ages.
For the purpose of counting success, the
Whg party and its candidate, Mr.. Pollock,
have affiliated with this society, and are bound
hand and foot to its bloody car Mr.. Darsie,
the Wing nominee for Canal Commissioner,
is not a native of this country, and hence he is
to be superseded by Mr.. Spicer, of the Native
American State ticket, and a member of the
Know-Nothings. In this manner the ticket
is to be prepared for the allied forces The
question, therefore, for the citizens of Penn
sylvania to decide is, shall the fire ofreHgious
persecution De ngHUcu III the SDHllnOn-
wealth, and its laws subjected 70 the 5lighting
influence of sworn secret order .? Shall the
ballot box and the jury room be polluted by
the presence of spirit alien to the genius of
our free institutions, and paralysing to all the
best and dearest interests of freemen? Shall
our Legislative Halls be converted into Star
Chambers where the religious opinions of
portion of our citizens will object them to the
auto do te of Known Nothing vengeance Shall
the Supreme Bench he invaded by this demon
and the administration of our laws subjected
to its fell and pestilential purposes All
these questions are attempted to be silenced
on the part of the Wings with the cry of An
Nebraska and the advance of slavery by
the establishment of the principle of self-go-
vernment in the Territorial governments of
Kansas and Nebraska.
This however, viii not satisfy the people.
They ask from the Whig candidate, Mr.. Pol
lock, an admission or denial of the fact of his
attachment to the Known Nothing organization.
Governor Big1er is not a nember nor did he
ever make application. Mr.. Pollock is a
member. We have given the time and place
of his admission-the oaths taken by him,
which are openly at variance with the consti-
tuition of the United States and that of the
State of Pennsylvania; and we now ask the
citizens of the Commonwealth Of Pennsylva-
MIA, if they are willing to aid in electing him
to the office of Governor of this State. 1t is
for them to decide. .-4,yus.
Horrible Cruelty at Poor House.
BUFFALO, July 21.-This afternoon, in
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