Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-07-27
SOMEWHAT scARrD.-TIoHrrs1Ne THE Rr1Ns-

20 tremble for their supremacy over those whom
hey may have got into their councils. They begin
o find that catching persons who have not seriously
reflected, and keeping them after they are caught
and after reflection and examination have done their
work, somewhat different affairs. All through
he country men have come out, cried aloud and
spared not. Men here are prepared to do the same
Thing The sceptre of the rulers Is falling from
their hands, and they feel it, They dread the effect
of open come out f" through the papers. They
know many Democrats who have been got in and
are already sick of it-so many Wings even who are
that they dread every breath This
counts for the articles in Mondays Herald and Tues
day IS Commercial reviling those who come out and
proclaim the unsuitableness of the order for good
Democrats or free men, The evident object is hold
them in by the terror of the lash. The following
sentence from the Herald is slight specimen of the
ohiurga,ions of the Know Nothing press in this Dis
trict Poor creatures" saith the Herald, " beev-
ing that an abject remuneration their former indie
pendent course of action will best cOnciliate the
tyrannical leaders from whose rule they have but
just escaped &C., &C., sc and sO-forth In prose
and poetry the Herald calls those who renounce
Know No,hingism and openly say so, Poor crea-
lures l' Fools " g Poor Fools y all of which may
be regarded as intended be terror to evil doers
1t is, however, simply amusing-a capital joke, in
fact, for the Herald to attempt to scare into
keeping their mouths shut about 1.-the order" and
then talk about "independent course Talk
about party tyranny-what, we ask, can compare
with the tyranny of calling man up and reprimand
ing him if he ce egecs to vote for the candidate
nominated by the secret council, and if he neglects
second time, expelling him, proclaiming him per-
jurer and traitor, unworthy the respect or conf
dence of good men?
Men are coming out of the order daily, and we
know il. We ask of no ran to g come out " pub
Iicly, if he ion't think proper to do so. At the
same time we cannot see that it would be any betray-
al of confidence to do So even upon K. n. showing.
1t would be at all. The Know Nothing Conven-
tion at Philadelphia allows members to state the ex
istence of the order. and their connection with
it. This being so, why may not they state the fact
that they have left it, and their for doing
There are here and elsewhere, hundreds of good,
straight forward Democrats staying in L" the order
against their own judgment and wishes, because the
idea is kept before them, that they have taken an
irretrevable sep-that they have gotten in, and will
be marked men they come out, and SO forth. This
is all wrong. Men will not be kept under by such
terrorism as this. If they feel like coming out they
will do so. If they feel like stating the fact pubick
ly they will it, undeterred by the denunciations
of the Know Nothing organs, the Heralds epthets
of Poor Creatures 8. FOOLS" poor FOOLS" and SO
forth They will come forth and be independent
with full liberty to east their in the coming
test as their wishes and convictions may lead them
with none 10 reprimand or expe them for so doing
There is still plenty of time before the election and
we have no doubt many very many, will avail them
selves of it
The power-the dread inspired by secret order
of this kind-exsts only by submission TO it. This
once withdrawn and its whole power and influence
is gone There will he q meeting of the council to-
Friday night, and there will be designations despite
any attempts to prevent it, scare men into hold
ing on
For the Journall
NEWBERN, July 2lst, 1885.
MEssRs. ED1ToRs:-Never before in the history
OF our country, have we had much to fear a
dissolution OF the Union. The fanatics, of both a
civil and religious stamp, have entered into league
for its destruction. Even men, who profess to be
ministers Of HIM, who proclaimed that " HIS kingdom
not of this world, have prosuted their sacred
calling and descended into the strife of politics to
obtain temporal power. Truly, we are in those 'lat-
ter days spoken of in Revelations when antChrists
to be prevalent, and were, if were possible,
10 deceive the very elect In view then of the blows
that endeavorng to be struck against civil and
religious liberties it becomes every christian and free.
to raise his voice in order 10 pu, down tanatcism
in whatever shape form it may assume-cryng
aloud and sparing not.
1t seems hardly credible that now, in the middle
of the Nineteenth Century, in Nation that has been
80 signally favored by ALMIGHTY GOD, that such an
organization could have been gotten up that called
| M N 0th Rnt iC onlu Z
prove the depraved nature of mans heart unenlight-
ened by the truths of the Bible. From the known
history of It's leaders, and of those who the orr
gnators of the Sect is forced TO the conclusion
that it is composed principally of those who have
been disappointed In their aims for political prefer
ment and their upes ;he latter class being nveigled
into the order by false pretences, and many of whom
are leaving the ncern as fast rats do sinking
ship.
From expose OF the sect. published in the STAN
da?d and other papers, that an Individual up
on joining surrenders that nalienabIe Trnciple the
brthrght of every freeman, the liberty of choosing
who shall be his rulers; and that its members are
called upon to exclude every Catholic and foreigner
who may come TO this country from choice being in
ved by the laws and constitutions OF the Federal
and most of the Stale governments Surely if these
the long kept secret views of the Tote leaders of
the whig party, cannot be surprised to see the
fall Of that powerful and ably advocated party
person would infer that He, who rules the desti-
mes OIL Nalohs anu governs the heaTt6 ana actions
of men according 10 the counsel of HIS own will, "
had decreed It's destruction let it assume whatever
shape and name it may-and | believe that many
dixie MYSELF who have hitherto honestly believed in
most OF its doctrines believe longer and will
hereafter vote with that party which manifestly has
been the means, under Providence, of keeping the
old Ship of State clear of the shoals of exclusive
rights for certain classes of citizens, End from the
isms of fanatcism | believe it 10 be now the duty
of every citizen who loves his country 10 sacrifice
any and every pet scheme he may entertain for the
management Of the goYernment to the general w