Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-30
THE MASS MEETING LAST NIGHT.

Washington favorable to the protection OF civil and
religious liberty and opposed to the principles and OBJ
ects promulgated in the resolutions said to have been
adopted last week at the meeting Of friends Of the Adj
ministraton at Oarusi's saloon
The meeting of last night was very numerously attend
ed and called order about half past o'clock
by Mr.. NOBLE D. LARaER.
The of the following gentlemen were then SUBJ
.mited as officers, and unanimously confirmed:
President-Capt. f. A. TUCKER. Wee Prcsidents VIM
Wilson, b. o. Tayloe, DR.. +. Howard, Henry Nohrse, j.
c. Hardness, Sidney DeCamp, Gen. John M. McCalla
Samuel Bacon, James b. Phillips, Jeremiah Hepburn,
John McCauley, DR.. G. w. Davis, B. s. Kinsey, r. NJ
Pearson and s. s. Briggs Sseredries John p Dickin
son, Henry Hay, ]. W. Barker, and Edward Hart.
The President, on taking the chair briefly expressed
his thanks to his fellow citizens for the honor conferred
upon him. M M
Committee Resolutions was then appointed, con-
sisting Of Dr. r. Finley Hunt Gen. J. M. McCaa, j. p
Hilton, James Owner, VIM. Dixon, John L. Smith, and
]. II. McBlar Who after brief interval, reported the
following preamble and resolutions:
WHEREAS a Public Meeting of Citizens Of Washington
held ut Carusis Saloon the 10Th instant, upon
coll made in and approved by the Executive organ, the
proceedings OF which, in the resolutions said to have been
adopted at that meeting and in the speeches Of certain
selected orators at subsequent adjourned meeting
spread before the public eye in tho columns Of said
organ and its kindred presses with approbation and
whereas said resolutions however dressed in abstract
professions of patriotism assa principles dear to the
American heart and necessary the safety of the Con-
sution aud to the peace and prosperity Of country
and whereas the Executive is invoked therein to
from public employment such oice-holders entertain
those principles thereby to perpetrate ruthless pro-
scron Of both Wings aud Democrats for honest diff
ference Of opinion: Therefore,
Resolcea That mere professions Of love to the Con-
sttuton and to civil and religious freedom when contra
dcted by actions cannot deceive the scnsbe and vgant
guardians of American liberty whose apprehensions have
been excited OF behodng the strides that have been made
n of by the
ecs of Foreign Poentae well known the ayowed che
whole American SYSTEM whose overthrow they
solemnly devoted.
Resolved That az viglant custodians Of that bene-
cent system Of civil and religious freedom bequeahed
to US by the Fathers of the Republic it is duty
and rcpcl all insidous attacks upon liberties
well all open assaults and that we view with ndg
nation and alarm the assertion of principles and purposes
the part of the recognised opponents of the Roman
Catholic Church in the United States subversive Of
Republican institutions which constitute aggressions of
such character that if not resisted viii lead at
distant day to the overthrow Of the American Consu
ton and the complete establishment of despotism.
g. Rsolced That WHILE in the past political divisions
Of the country, Wings and Democrats, we have sug
ged in honest conflict contested principles and mea-
sures I'LL of which settled, yet in the present
crisis Of danger to all that both parties hold dear will
bury every remembrance Of past opposition and pledge
to each other lives fortunes and sacred ho
nor" to exertons until country shall be
| freed from the dangers that now menace it.
A. Rcsolued, That proclaim the cardinal prin-
ciples Of our political and moral creed sacred regard for
the Constitution in all provisions upon which based
glorious American MISREPRESENTATION of speech,
freedom OF opinion, freedom of conscience, freedom of
the press, together with school system for the diffusion
of intelligence, sancted by open Bible the rule of
faith and practice, holding established principle
that intelligence and virtue essential to the success Of
| q free Government.
5. RESOLVED, That while we welcome to country
the victims Of tyranny from foreign lands and offer them
place by side under the shield Of Constitution
we claim for Americans the right to- govern their
those who do like Government have
hearty consent to go elsewhere in the pursuit Of
| happiness.
g. Resolved That the fourth resolution Of the meeting
at Caruss Saloons recommending to the President Of the
United States prescription Of all officers of the Federal
Government who may have thought II to become mem
bers of the association of Kuo Nnthingsa recommends
which, before it's adoption had been recognised and
acted upon by the Executive Of the United Statespro-
poses alarming and dangerous nfracton Of the prin
cpes of egovernment aud calls for the prompt and
rebuke Of all the free citizens of these United
States without distinction Of party, sect, creed
/ Z. Resoced, That every Protestant denomination in
the United States maintains the constitutional principle
of separation of Church and Staten which principle
many American Catholics sincerely concurwhile the
other hand the Papa Church abroad openly and always
and every where maintains the doctrine Of obedience of
the civil to tho ecclesiastical authority both in Europe
and America the sad and runous effects of which, in the
one in countless cmigrants flying from its yran
ny and misery to our own happy land and in the other
in the ignorance and poverty of the Masses the wealth
vices Of the clergy and in the ceaseess instructions
massacres and proverbal instability Of our Southern SIS
ter Republics
s. Resolved That upon these principles we appeal from
the opinions whose proclamation has caused this meet
ing the People Of the United Staes and although
might infer they exponent Of Executive feelings
from the official positions of those who controlled the
proceedings yet we viii still hope that the President
who alone has the power will arrest the prescription al
ready begun of faithful office holders both Democrats and
Wings for daring to entertain American and Protestant
sentiments and will reject the mercenary suggestion
urged upon him by the fourth resolution Of the meeting
last week covert scheme to crafty the appetite Of
OF the expense Of many who zealously and
efficiently aided in his elevation to power and whose
mova under existing circumstances will FIX an indelble
1 stain upon him as and as the President Of the
/ United States.
O. Resolpsd That, having seen the denuncations that
almost daily issue from certain presses against the fusion
sts of the North who denounced absorbed in the
tratorous factions which distract those States by which
they after another being placed in opposition to
the Administrations astonshed to hear the press
ing invitation in the second resolution Of opponents
to of all political opinions without regard to their
"poltca antecedents," to form fusion with them
in their future actionan invitation broad enough to in
cude Garrison Abby Kelly, and Fred Douglas besides
their condjutor in the two Houses of Congress-
10. Resoloed, That we too, appeal to oil Americans
who love the Union, which I" must be preserved" and
the Constitution, which established and maintains it, and
the rights Of the States which compose it. and especially
to the religious the moral and the orderovng classes,
to unite with in efectng the reforms necessary the
safety and prosperity of country, believing do
that it is high time the Of interested and
pulous dema shoud be check and tho Govern
men be placed in the hands of acquainted with its
character and spirit and who duly value its countless
| blessings. ~ a$f ss}N
Daring the reading of these resolutions many of their
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