The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-07-19
Another lse,urned Pfodleal.

ufV Ho1iota uutuau Hdturo IL ~ tIu<
that all men are over.credulous TO tho honiet
and seducing words Of promise il man. Tn,
eyanescont strength Of Know Nothingism lai,
in this trade upon the credulity and geueros
lily OF frail human nature. Whatever evil
men complained Of in society these mel
promised to remedy. Whatever wrongsthert
were in the public policy they promised IL
reform. They offered as certain cures for al
ailments Of the body polite as The vendef o.
patent pills offers for the ills Of the human
system. Men who thought all men as hon
est as themselves bought-and were sold.
Others fell into the ne, from itching ambi,
ton; and like Themisiocles OF old betrayed
The cause of the people but when the time
came 70. arming against the good old cause
and leading on the fray The weapon fell from
the nerveless grasp; and the Persians mus
lead themselves if Greece is TO be attacked
We remember right well the shout of Joy
that went up all over the State when BEsJA.
MIN H. BRLwsTER was welcomed as an apos.
tate by his'old enemy, and how the evenues
ofthree provinces were set apart for him
when they should once be taken. He was
tempted with the promise OF the United States
Senatorship. He had been disappointed in
his aspirations in the Democratic party, and
had seen ~demagogues in some OF lis high
places. He was brilliant, enthusiastic and
ambitious-he was sorely tempted and he
fell.
Yet has he not been lost. He has seen
how the panied flesh pots in the Secret Couu-
Gil were filled only with husks and he comes
back in the spirit of true repentance TO warn
the brethren Of his fathers household aud OF
his early faith.
He was invited BY the Know.No,hiDgs to
address them al Reading on the past Alb Of
July, and in answer sent the following man.
ly and modest letter OF declination:
SATURDAY EVENING 23d June, 1855.
A York Buildings, Walnut ST, PhiPa.
Ny DEAR Sir IL received your letter To-
day. ! cannot accept your invitalion-I do.
sire 10 take no active part in politics. Be-
sides, | feel obliged 10 say, that ] do not sub
scribe 10 The doctrines oil The American Par
ly, as they have been pronounced Ivy The
Convention. As have before this said, il
viii be well TO correct The abuses of The Nat
uralization Laws, secure their proper admin
istra.ion, and amend their d~efccls-fuuher
than this I am not prepared to go. To do
more would be to do evil, and Tho end is per
seculion. 1t has been the hope Of all men
who valued the right and duty of suffrage, 10
correct tho errors of our two great parties,
with reference to the naiuralizcl volers.-
But evils, which ai.er all in a country like this
can only be transient, should mol be remedi-
ed by subverting the very foundations ofre-
publican democracy. We must not attempt
TO check tho abuse of a great principle BY
trampling the principle itself under foot. SUI
frage is a political right, but as we have hilh-
eric taught and practiscd, il is a human right
due 10 a man, because of his manhood. Be,
ing governed by society, he may say how he
shall be governed. To regulate this right,
would be proper-,o abridee and wholly re-
fuso il, would be wrong. To frown down
and punish demagogues, who would combine
bodies of Natnralized Voters 10 corrupt and
demoralize The Democratic party, and abuse
the Democratic principle Of suffrage, would
DO right and Just. To prevent By law, the
recurrence OF those pernicious conspiracies
is all that should be askcd-more than that
would be 10 make slaves of those men who
were prescribed, strip them of their manhood,
and degrade a republic of Democrats INFO a
popular ~despoiism. For my part, never
have thought, and | can never believe, thai
it is either wise or inst 10 enact laws and en-
courage opinions, that will result in religious
or even political intolerance. II is hard
enough from the very in6rmities of our ma
lures, TO suffer our individual Judgments 10
be tainted with prejudices arising FROM differ
ences Of opinion /; but lei us not corrupt our
laws or our political organizations, with the
,o,so,, cf religious or political persecution.
Such things end in tyranny, degrading alike
TO the ruler ana yhe ruled-whe,her the ruler
be a great popular party or monarch, or
tho ruled be a miserable nich or a wretch
ed beaten down minority. # Is az 'hhu-
man. q.
Two hundred years ogo, in the fury ana.
confusion OF the Great Rebe Hon, Milton, that
old blind republican, thus proclaimed the
simple nIinciple upon which all rational, all
legal liberty must depend" No man who
knows augbf, can be SO s,ppit as to deny that
all men naturally uere born Gee, being the
image and resemblance OF God himself"--
Let us not in our resentment at those who
have abused their freedom and hurt US, do
that which would violate religion, liberty,
honor, safety, all conceInmentsj- divine or
human.n
am, Sir, with respect, most truly, SC,
BENJ. II. BREWSTER.
To Mr.. Chas. K. Robson, Chairman, SO ,
Reading, Berks Co.. Pa.
Mn. SUMNER, brother Of Senator SIMMER,
and at present in London, endeavored TO
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