Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-20
Mr.. ). n. savage. or tennessee.

The Nashville Wing says;
We have had placed in our possession hand
bill, printed at printing Office in this place, and
containing circular letter signed ]. IL. Savage,
Gainsborough, July 5, 1855, from which We make
the following extract
Fellos0- Citizens To correct misrepresentation,
destroy falsehoods, and present briefly the points
in issue in the canvass, address you this letter.
Since the first Of june rumors have been start
ed at the places where Mr.. Cullom and myself have
spoken, that he had certificates 70 prove that
was Know. Nothing. ! was satisfied that Culom
was the author Of these reports yet secretly and
ffaudulently were they put in circulation, that
could not find any man who would acknowledge
the fact that Culom had done it. l charged him
in debate with being the author of these reports,
and each day challenged him TO bring forward his
proofs, which he failed to do
On the 22d of June, when Governor johnson
and Colonel Gentry spoke at Carthage, Colonel ii.
Bradley, gentleman of Smith county, informed
me that Cullom had offered him certificate to
read, which Cullom said was from Washington or
Philadelphia, and which would prove that (Sav-
age) was as much of Know Nothing as he (Cul-
lom) was and that if he Bradley voted for me,
he would vote for Know-Nothing. Colonel Brad
ley refused to read the certificate, and Culom re-
quested him to say nothing about the matter,
informed me oft
charged Mr.. Cullom with these facts and cir
cumstances to his face in debate at Celina and at
Gainsborough, on the second of this month, telling
him that man who would pursue this dastardly
course, would, in my opinion, shoot man in the
back, whom he would not meet face to face. That
I was not Know-Nothing, and acknowledged no
allegiance TO any secret order, nor had ever been
member Of the American party to which he lCul-
lom) and Colonel Gentry claimed to belong. That
as he refused to produce his fraudulent certificates
should assume in debate that one of two things
was true--that he was slanderer and had made
it, or perjurer and villain That if the certif-
cate was false AMI fabricated, it being found in
Culloms possession, and used secretly for his ben
eft, the law presumes him the maker. But if the
certificate is really from Know-Nothing lodge,
then, according to the blue book stated by Colonel
Gentry to be the true ritual of the Kuow-Nothngs,
Mr.. Cullom has sworn these oaths;
lst. "That you viii never, under any circum-
stances, mention the name of any person or per-
sons, that you may see present, or that you know
such an organization to be in existence"
I'd. That you will not, under any circtna-
stances, expose the name of any member of the
order or reveal the existence of such an organiza
tion."
How them ask, can Cuom and his worthless
agents, who are writing and secretly circulating
this base certificate over the district, escape the
charge of being peUurers and villains, II the facts
are as they would make the people believe them.
Their pretended certificate proves nothing-nor
would forty thousand of their oaths prove me a
neutrality-suspicious. they would reveal thing,
If true, which they had sworn to conceal. Who
could trust perjured lodge that would give such
The TACT that Cullom has this certificate, may
prove that he is a Knew-Nothing, otherwise the
lodge would not furnish it to him, and also
that am not one, for if was the lodge would
not help him to destroy me, upon the principle
that the Devil kno,os his own.
eve have given, says the Wing, so much Of Col
Savage's circular contains what every reader will
understand to be direct denial, on his part, that
he either is now, or ever has been, Know. Moth
ing, 1t is evident that at the time of preparing
the circular, Col. Savage was ignorant Of the pub
LEGATION, in the washington City, /" american Or
gan" Of the 30th Of June, Of the most iirefsgable
evidence that he was initiated into the Sixth Ward
Council Of that place on the 18th Of January last,
and that on the 23d of the same month, he ad-
dressed that Council in behalf of the principles Of
the Order"
How, in view of these perfectly welLestablished
facts Colonel Savage can deny, as we understand
him to do, that he was ever member of the Or
der, it passes Our comprehension to understand.
But, though he knew not of the publication in the
american Organ, when he prepared his circular,
the friends here to whom it is presumed he has in
trusted the supervision Of the printing Of the cir
cular, must be well aware Of it. and Of the concu-
sve nature of the profit furnishes OF the Colones
having heen member of the Know Nothing Or
der, and they, II seems to US, have placed him in
a very awkward and unpleasant position by allow
ing the circular to be printed at all We sutjoin
the conclusive evidence, as publishedin the Aner-
lean Organ, of the Coloners having been regular
ly and formally initiated into a Know-N Nothing
Council In Washington city last January, and Of
having subsequently made speech to the Council
in behalf Of the principles Of the Order.
Then follows the article referred to, from
the Organ, which is already familiar to our
readers