Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-09-21
TTP WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
-----,,1oTor. \. c.. FRIDAY. SEPT. 81, 1855.
T,,-- r,.rsId and the Democratic Meeting.


e. f.or, the classic precincts of Holly Shelter and
rTor Rlac RIVER and continues its reference by
fascinating an assemblsge composed, " the late
ont. American meeting" And, Furthermore, ''should
Ike 10 know what the persons present at the meet
ing knew concerning the purport and spirit OF the
resolutions they adopted" Fellow citizens-Demo-
Gratis Of New Hanover county, are you antl-Amerl-
cans" because you cling to principles dear TO you
and refuse to forsake your principles and your party
at the dictaton of bound, secret, prOscrptve
association Do you meet in free and open meeting
in your Court House and pass resolutions you do not
understand, as insinuated by the organ of the Know
Nothing party in this place? You are not. You
do not. The Democrats of New Hanover are think
ing, intelligent men, devoted to their principles and
TO their country. They do not 'KHow Nothing -
they do know under what party and in pursuance of
what principles the country has been carried forward
to its present high position among the nations.
The following resolution is quoted for the purpose
of beng commented upon:
Resolved That we have no sort of sympathy with the
Know Nothing order sefstyled American party. we
dislike its sec ecy illegal oath its unconstitutional ten,
denge is political @ a Snb a Or5 op
ed to the spirit country and subverslve OF its nstl-
(utons.
The Herald asserts that the Know Nothing order
or self.styed American party is not secret. Since
when has ii no, been secret ? Was not the meet
inc advertised in lis own columns Tuesday CT last
week, six days ago only-a secret meeting, and does
mt the Herald know such to be the fact : Its " H.
legal oaths" Does the Herald pretend for moment
tho, the oatbs administered in a Know Nothing coln-
oil are LEGAL oaths that they are administered by
the nersona or for the purposes authorized and per-
IL Of
" It's unconstitutional tendencies" Congress can
not prescribe any man for his religious behet' ana
that the order does not ask Congress to violate
the Constitution in this respect but proposes 10 effect
the very same object by combination II Is pFe1end-
ed that its tendency is not unconstitutional. ms IS
the merest bubble. 1t is unworthy OF grown up
men, 1t is ridiculous in the extreme.
" Political Prescription" why, for the first time IN
the history of the country every little office Is made
political and heralded as a Know Nothing triumph
The Constitution Of the order in this State lays down
how the State Council is 10 govern the Legislature
how all officers to be elected by the people are to be
nominated in secret council How Mayor and Com
gissioners are to be elected, how the very smallest
details of local government are TO be controlled IN Sc
cret council We neel only contrast the State OF
nearly every town in N. Carolina with what 1t used
10 be- to see the spirit in this matter as compared with
what it was before the advent of this new order
Religious Intolerance why the order not SIM
ply strikes at men, but it qU0aep because OF
their religious belief The first article of the con-
sttution of the order in this State, section z says
that a person to become member of any subordi-
nate council in this State, q must be natve.born
Protestant either born of Protestant parents, or
reared under Protestant influence and not untted an
marriage qyh Roman Catholic.' It enters the do
mesc circle Ii strikes at the wife through her hus-
band and the husband through his wife. 1t says 10
the Catholic lady that she bears the brand of lnte-
rioritv-that the man who dares to follow the die
tates of his own heart by uniting his destlnles with
hers becomes mark ed in the land OF his birth
Not ntolerant in religion! No. 1t only wars upon
helpless women 1t only interferes with the wife OF
mans bosom, that's all
It's abolition connections and afinities" We
know and the Herald knows, that although the reso-
lutions of the Philadelphia council were passed by
majority of delegates, they were voted against by the
representatives Of majority of constituencies and
that even of those States at the North whose dele
gates did 20 foE the portion in regard TO slavery
every one New York included) has since repudlated
that part If the party be, claimed national
y, oOOAlVAOIAo|i'
it rejects this it has no earthly claims to nationality.
So much for that AS regards the resolution con-
graduating the Democratic party upon its recent
triumphs in all the Southern States except Ken
tucky, we have this to say The broad fact stands
out that the result of mob violence in louisville was
to prevent votes being poled for Col Preston, the
anti.K.N. candidate for Congress in Louisville, as
also for the anti. Know ohing candidate for Cover
nor in the State hundreds, yea thousands of Demo-
Gratis native we'll as foreign. were prevented from
voting Did the Democrats beat themselves off from
the polls? Did they start riot to prevent their own
voting nonsense! The result proves the nature OF
the affair by showing who reapel its benefits.
In Kentucky alone of Southern States abolition
candidates Tor The Presidency have obtained votes
The Buffalo candidates obtained hundreds of votes
and the spectacle OF that notorious abotonst, Cas-
sius NJ. Clay addressing his infammatory appeals to
thousands. is there by no uncommon. And
not Clay alone but preachers of abolition, from Ohio
and we have been Informed by gentleman of the
highest credbiltv, that occasion, to his know
edge, if we mistake not Clay actually insisted upon
and enforced the right of of the worst of these
characters to address large public meeting and he
did do so. There certainly is leven of abolition
ism in portions of Kentucky, opposite to Ohio
1t is all nonsense and worse than nonsense, for any
one TO attempt denial.
Mindful of the scriptural injunction, against an
swering certain people according 10 their folly, WI
have sedulously avoided the fuss and fummery style
of thing to which the Herald resorts A mere jar
gon, composed of abuse and exclamation points
without argument, or even an attempt at argument
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