The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-08-23

| tef success thah ne attalneu. he fougnt MI
enemies with their own weapons and bea
} them. ffthey mined, ne counterminded.- -
lf,hey plotted and organized in secret lodges
J he constituted lodges of his own, or went in.
10 theirs, and beat them even at mystery. II
they renounced past political fidelity, Whie
or Democratic, he, without any effort, renoun.
ced loo. If they swore eternal enmiiy 10
Catholics and nauralized citizens, he swore
as hard as they. ltwas with Them all Death
TO the Romans" Punic sympathy and Pu-
mic faith. | confess Go not see how any
Know Nolhiag" eau find fault with MIR.
Cameron. And this accounts, in my poor
judgment, for the feeble result of The seces-
sion which took place from the Senatorial
caucus. The deserlers carried vi ilh them, as
marks of shame in Know Nothing eyes, the
fragments of their broken oalhs, oaths of f.
deity 10 secrecy and obedience. They had
on their breasts the 3" Scarlet Letter." and the
could not get rid of it, or hide IT. And thus
itended. ] am sorry 10 refer 10 all these mat
tiers, filed as they are with painful memories,
bot they are too Illustrative of the domination
ofthis secret and dangerous party to be pass
cd in silence.
During all this time, the State Committee
was not called together, and if ii had been
could have done little good. The melancholy
iaci had by this time developed itself, that out
OF The thirteen, of which Eumser the Commit.
lee consisted, seven il was believed had join.
Ell the secrel order, some cheerfuy and
readily, aud from congeniali.y of feeling and
opinion others venture 10 say, reluctantly,
blushingy, and under what seemed an over.
bearing necessity. Whether hereafter, hen
The account for these misdoings comes 10 be
settled, any distinction will be made between
those who readily and those who unwlnaly
battered away ancient political opinion, it is
not Tor me TO say.
confess that, during This spring, was
anxious that our Committee shoald meet, if
only 10 enatle some OF US to speak out aud
to let an organized body in Pennsylvania
have the honor of striking the first blow at
the secret party. The elections in New York
and Virginia, and The local spring elections
in this cry occurred first, and gave Tho wound
from which the life blood of the organization
is flowing away. Nothing could be more
cfedliabie 10 The ua;ion- more fatal to this
new party, than The almost conte mporaneous
election OF Senator Seward and Governor
Wise, The one q northern Whig the other
southern Democrat ! men of widely different
opinions, out on this great question standing
shoulder TO shoulder in defence of the Con.
stiIution, religious liberty, and equality of
political rights. 1t was proved 10 be beyend
Ihe power OF any secret conciave or its mis-
sionaries of mischief, eiieclually TO rally
through the length and breadth of the land
the secret rebellion 10 the Constitution.
On the go OF July, ten months after we
separated al Pittsburg, The COMMITTEES met in
this city, and then determined, and you we'll
know, made no secret of my resolution, TO
bring this matter oil Know Nolhingsm before
the Committee, and ask its action in the way
OF distinct and emphatic reputation. felt
+! 1t my duty as u mailercf self.respect. be-
iieved lha my Philadelphia fellow citizens,
whom Immediately represented, expected
OF me, and | think, having lried long to de-
serve their confidence, aud having earned it,
and being very proud OF it properly esl-
maie public opinion on this point. Here, in
Philadelphia, this secret party drew its first
breath aud gained its fret victory and here,
in Philadelphia thas met It's frs, reverse
and will breathe its last, No one can mis-.
take its coming doom.
What occurred in the Committee you
kaow To the proposition to call Wing
! Convention cheerully assenied, meaning,
so soon as the call was determined on, 10
TO ask the Committee, by manly decara-
lion OF principle, to free that Convention on
lis inception from the suspicion which since
this secret party has existed, has hung round
every political body that has met | there
fore offered and asked The Committee to
adopt The following brief but comprehensive
resolutions, every word of which had been
well considered, and for every word of which
| am willing 10 be responsible.
Resolred, By the Wing Executive Com
mitee OF the State of Pennsylvania, that an
address be issued by this Committee calling
the Convention to meet at Harrisburg OPP,
and asserting The following principles OF &C
| tion
| 1. Disapproval in The clearest and slronges,
form OF all SECRET political associations as i'm
moral aud unconstitutional, opposed TO the
principles OF our republican form OF govern
meni, and utterly subversive of the conf.
dence which ought 10 subsist among polili-
cal friends.
2. Condemnation especially of that form
of secret political association which pro-
scribes American citizens on account of their
religious opinions or their place of birth, this
Committee and the Wing party recogni-
zing in its broadcast sense, the constitutional
principle that every man has right to wor-
ship God according 10 the dictates of his own
conscience, and that organized political pro-
scripton on account OF religious belief would
BIZ an interference with that right.
8. Disavowal by this Commilee collective
ly and individually Of any connexion with or
sympalhy with any such secret political or
ganization.
4. The assertion of the feeling common 10
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