Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-04-20
Mr.. Bum Again.

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MIR. Bum Again.
MEssRs. EDlToRs.-The following is the speech OF
the Hon. Augustus Cesar Bum, in secret conclave on
the night of the 4th ins in defence of the nunnery
committee. Having already reported one OF the
MANY speeches of this remarkable statesman, have
supnesed the public would be grateful, and thank
the Post, for another By what your occG-
.tonal reporter in position TO report speech
delivered before the ORDER" in the secrecy of the
night with locks turned and windows fastened down
against all the world and the rest of mankind it
s not necessary TO state at length would only re-
mark that ventilators are not always closed when
bolts are thrown IN
It may be proper to preface the speech with one or
two Introductory observations. The do'ngs OF the
nunnerv committee under consideration. NOT
few of the members thought they had put their
foot n and that if they had not done most illegal
act, they certainly had very silly one. Slas T..
Peep. brother of Titus A. Peep, in short speech
admitted that the Legislature in the first Instance
and the committee in the second, were justly the
laughing stock of the whole country for the ridicu-
lous step into which both, in their fanaGcism, had
been led, and he thought the people would hardly De
such fools as to let them off with mere laugh
! (. Take my word for it," said Mr. Peep, there are
thousands of men in Massachusetts who never for.
give, and many hundred thousands who never forget
Retracton is only course. go for erPungtng
! the recoYd.' At this stage OF the discussion, Nr
Bum was slow y to get upon his legs. HIS 1T
tie rel dog, which he had all along held under his
! npnL dTm was carefully dlu vi VIC ouSiilS hC nAu
occupied. and all eyes were turned on the member
| from Essex or from regions jjacent.
Mr. Chairman,n said Mr.. Bum, 6 Expunge the
record 2" " retract ~ No sir never never sir! -
Retraction would be acknowledgment of know
nothing fallibilIty. Retrac or expunAe and we are
gone forever Why? Gentlemen talk as if we are
bound to do right-lo do an honest party would
| adm it no such absurdity. Do we not exist in con-
travention of common sense-ln violation OF the
spirit of the constitutional opposition to every
81 'lnlI1 af
retracting! No, Mr.. Chairman, am for dupica-
ting (Mr. Bum auctlOneer) the outrage,
if visiting the nunnery were an outrage. J am tor
creating committee to visit every family OF Joreegn
extraction" in the state. If Tight Peeps brother
is frightened he withdrawal OStatize, mlZZle.
What right, beg leave to ask, has an Irishman or
German Catholic to close his door against any Amer
lean who chooses to overhaul his domicils No. no,
Mr. Chairman. am for walking right into every
thing that ever crossed the Atlantic In fact, sir,
our next move must be against every American born
who has ever visited Europe Thin you man can
step foot on foreign soil without acquiring ideas hos
tile to genuine Amercansm 1t can't be done, sir.
1t never did happen. Call TO mind the Lawrences,
the Everetts the Elots and hundreds of other Mas
sachusetts men amt they eternaliy talking about
London, and Paris, and Rome and other foreign Ua-
ges? always Dragging about the great lords and
barones and the great temples and prncely palaces
Such men will write whole chapter about some old
cathedral and its old nasty trappings. Think of that
Men in ecstacies over Catholic meeting house! II
isn't in mater that man come away uncontami
nated We must set faces against AL travellers
in Europe They corrupt our county, and they'll
corrupt know nothingism if but half dozen of them
get Judgment in the grand {" order"
Mr.. Peep-Will the gentleman allow me to make
one inquiry
Mr.. Bum--Tweny if the gentleman desires to-
Mr.. Peep-l wish to ask, and I hope the gentle
will inform us, how nation 10 keep
up our relations with foreign countries unless Amer.
IcanS the character Of m mia ssa1orS
visit and reside at foreign courts?
Mr.. Bunl-( After some confusion and long pause
I'LL answer the gentleman. Veil haze inter
course; we'll neither send receive ambassadors
Well stay at home, and England and all her Deepen
dences Especially cathoic) may be ID That's
my answer TO the gentleman
But 10 return 10 the question before Why al
} this now about visit to the Roxbury school Why
this bluster in prose and blank verse; I'll tell you
Mr. Chairman. The committee did not half do til
duty. Its lip and attentions, it seems, be
slowed too exclusively on the young misses. Huc
the lady superior received magnificent know moth
ing hug she would have filled the ears of news
papers with complaints. The fact is there were too
many young men that committee. 1t needs re
constructing. 1t wants of the bone of the legs
lature and less of its muscle. shall move TO
morrow an addition TO that committee, with instruc
tons to visit every private Catholic dwelling in the
commonwealth; nay more, sir, every Catholic hous.
of worship. | want to know who does the cooking
for the priest and who strs up their feather beds !
There must be no hacking out now-no step back
ward. We are in for it, Mr.. Chairman, and our sal
walton depends on going ahead. The whole thing
know, is humbug; but our party is a humbug-tht
most magnificent one this country has ever seen ant
shall we, lis orignators, kill it? Never, sir 1t will
die soon enough without any aid from us. One bias
(and ii will come) of AngIoS Saxon common viii
blow the whole concern ky-high. Till then, let
reap the fruits of our still successful cheat If Peer
and his friends, if friends he have, sick of the
party, all have to say is, the space they occupy II
our councils is worth more to than their presence
Less conscientious men in abundance will be found t
t fill their places.
Here Mr.. Bum took up his dog and resumed hi
S seat amidst storm of applause and few hisses.-
Mr. Peeps reply the reporter may furnish SOM
future occasion. A. T.
Which being interpreted means Alpheus Thistle
reporter for the Boston Post great occasions only
= From the North Carolina Standard
= Thunder Coming!
The following card from Mr.. Tate, of Haywoo
county, (says the last Ashevlle News is only III
> precursor of many more such blasts which will b
heard before the first day of August Honest unsus
. pecting men may be ured into Know Nothing lodges
but when they learn the truth, they WILL like Amer
can freemen shake off the letters with which poltcs
. tricksers have sought to bind their will and thei
conselences We are informed that Mr. Tate is a re
spectacle citizen and that his statements are entie
:, 70 the fullest credit
y WAYNEsv11LE. N. c., March %, 1855
d Mr.. EDITOR believing it to be the duty of eve
ry citizen to expose the misrepresentation and trick
of designing men and politicians, ask you to Civ
,, place In your paper to this note
NOT long since, at the urgent and repeated socits
Is ton OF certain persons, was induced to oin the Sc
ciety commonly called the order of Know Nothing
n lately established in this county After being init
ID aed' soon found that the whole object and aim wei
e entirely different from what had been represented
~ me. While do not admit that thu oath M socroc