, 1855-09-07
The true PRINCIPLES exposed.

torious Judge Jeffries, and his supporters,
that the ends justifes the means" This
has been the living, breathing, acting prin-
ciple of tyranny and despotism from time
immemorial, and tits to this day. The princi-
ple is known to be more directly opposed to
the Christian religion, to the morality, the
peace, the quiet, the very existence of a
Christian community, than any other ever
planted in the bosom Of man. Because it
DESTROYS entirely all the natural honesty
of the soul, and gives to man more the char
acter of reptile than of II humaRs being.
Yet the oath-bound proscriptioR1 of our
day have confessed to be thes s1f1e oates Of
this principle They have an object in
view. That object is to obtain control of
the ofrairs of our government, or in other
words, to get possession of the Offices of
government. That o6ject-that end is a
uudablc one To attain it they justify any
meaus-thcy appreciate any course. They
do not hesitate to violate their conscience-
tlesccrate truth-disregard their honor, and
trample upon patriotism, only to attain that
one end. To witness the proof Of this as
scrvation read the following declaration
lately made by the state wigwam Of Louis
lana.
"Thc American party of Louisiana, in
having covered its proceedings mp to this
time with the veil of secrecy, has keen in
nnenccd by considerations Of the greatest
Importance, to secure the successful attain
ment of its object. This secret in its cle-
mentary organization is now approved by
its deliberate judgment as having been per
fcctly proper and just, and the success of
the rapid organization Of the party is the
best proof its policy In all governments,
and at all times, all party organizations
have been more or less secret in their ac-
ton, and particularly so in the sources
whence they derived their counscls The
country is already divided into two pow
erful political parties, whose leaders had
been employed for years drilling the masses
into the belief that its Woprety depended
upon the success Of their several measures,
or rather of placing them in power to car
ry these measures into effect.
Who does not sec how eagerly the lead
ers, both great and small, Of the old par
ties, would have combined to crush out the
life during the struggling moments of par
turition, or even in its early growth, Of an
element so adverse to their party existence,
and so certain to deprive them Of the "spoils
o office 2" Who that understands the in
Aucnce ofparty in restraining the impeiuous,
urging forward the timid, and controlling
the masses with the slogan cries Of Democ-
racy and Whiggery, does not see that it
would not have required an infant Hercules
to have destroyed the American party, if it
exposed its first efforts at union to the as
sault of such q combination Its formation
and its existence would have been an i'm
possibility Deeply impressed with this
belief, we met in Secretion the purpose OF
organizing. Yast.s.ss
Does this not look like full confession
of the principle above mentioned p" We
met in secret for the purpose Of organiz-
ing ?"-Trne. You know too well or rath-
er the Ned Buntlines of the organization
know too well, that such principles could
never get in open broad day the sanction
Of sufficient number Of the American peo-
pie to take the name of faction even. The
American people are intelligent, thinking
people. The principles of know-nothing-
ism will not bear the scrutiny Of lnteli-
gence, nor will they do to think about. To
go in the night and subscribe to them in
the dark when they are befogged in the
filthy atmosphere ofperjured oaths, was the
only means by Which you could ever have
gathered an organization sufficient to be
called o party. In that way your deceit
would perhaps hide for time the means
while nothing but the end was held out to
the view. Of the lay-mcmbers. But 1t could
not last, unsuspecting honesty can not, and
will not, cooperate wit assembling fraud.
Hence the humiliating confession of the
Louisiana wigwam-and the sophistical
causes given for its secrecy. With much
bettcrreason Lopez, poor fellow, might have
Justified in the eyes of the world, his unfor-
tunate expedition against Cuba, or Col.
Walker might have plead innocent to the
charges of fllibustering made against him
when he attempted to capture Sonora. We
have heard of boy who stole money to
support, his widowed mother He was a
know-nothing in principle. In politics as in
the ordinary affairs of life, it is only when
the means used are honest, virtuous, and
true, that the ends attained are justi6able
DO- Mr.. GEO: w. CoRIIss has received