The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1855-09-21

his heart Of hearts he feelsthat there his no.
liest affections are garnered up. Fear, nee.
essity, common sense, may keep him here,
but he loves not the land Of the stranger.
cares nothing for its former glories, sheds no
tear over its former disasters.
With what reverence can the German re.
gard the name Of Washington, when he re-
members that his pathway to freedom was
ssrewn with the dead bodies Of German Eier-
cenariesf What exultation can the Briton
feel in the fame of Jackson when he remem
bers that 1t was won by trampling the lion
banner in the dust? 1t is not in human ma.
ture that they should feel as we do, and we
are false to ourselves when we put them in
power, or give them the direction of the law.
I Perhaps no party in this country has ever
been the subject of much invectiye AS the
American party. All the depths Of the Ian
guage have been soundedto fish up degra,
ding epithets To be applie3 to zen whose sin
consists in loving their own blood something
better than that OF. the stranger. Practices
which are daily used by other parties sud
denly become heinous sins when resorted to
by the Americans. and editors in the excess
of their zeal not frequently run into the most
ridiculous Inconsistencies. Ihave seen one
column of newspaper filled:with denunci-
at,ons2 of the secret feature of the order,
while the next not only purports to'give the
principles OF the party, but even the very
forms d initiation. One thing is certain
either those forms were forgeries, or all the
indignant denunciations of secrecy with
which we have been favored were hypocriti
cal pretences, in no way creditable to those
who employed them.
All parties observe more or less secrecy in
relation 10 certain portions of their tactics
The secrets Of Democratic caucus are a.
profound as those of II. Kaow Nothing Coun.
Gil, and the will of every member is more
completely subjected to the majority. A
Know Nothing, after his party have made
nomination, may abandon the order, and
then rid himself Of all obligation to support
it, but Democrats who has once taken
part in a cuscus is held in honor bound to
abide the decision of that caucus, no mat
ter how distastefu it may be. If the term
dark lantern party" was applied to the
moonlight plotting ofthose who manufacture
in caucuses and convention candidates with
out consulting the will ofthe people, it would
be much more appropriate. The State and
the National Councils having both removed
the injunction of secrecy, that reproacl is
disposed Of; in point of fact it never existed.
Their principles were known from the be-
ginning, and he must have been ignorant in :
deed who had any doubt of the aims and
purposes ofthe order. Bot it is alledged
that it is Wing trick gotten ap to injure
the Democracy. Such arguments are the
usual resorts of weak men, who, when reason
fails, attempt to enlist prejudice in their be.
half. The head of the order is an old.fash.
ioned Jackson Democrat. Wherever they
have nominated candidates they have taken
the iargernum' 'er from tie Democratic ranks
Judge Cone, of Georgia, who reported the
platform adopted at Philadelphia, is an
old line Democrat. He was a member of
the Baltimore Convention in 1874 that
nominated Mr.. Polk, and reported the reso
lutions adopted by that body IA principles of
the Democratic partr. How stands the case
on the other side Mr.. Wise confessedly
owes bis election to the Wings. .Messrs.
Toombs, and Stephens, Wing leaders in
Georgia, are at the bead Of the anti-Ameri
can party. and so with Mr.. Preston, in Ken.
tucky. Everywhere you find Wing leaders
among the bitterest opponents of American
principles, ard if it is "a Wing trick, they
have been aIong time finding it out.
There is another branch of the question
which approach with more reluctance than
win enable me to considerit dispassionately
Without belonging to any. church, I grew
up in the Methodist persuasion. 1t was the
faith in which my mother lived and died,
aud could not change itifI would. Am.
/ op. ti,e s.ai!icst bo as SPliisl, fell into my