New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-11
THE X. n. NATIONAL CONTENTION
Correspondence OfTbs n. Y. Tribune.
FIFTH DAY-Ss1URDAY.
PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, June

;r,o-,apt The Catholic question was re0pened again
cd freely discussed on the motion 10 admit to seats
=. delegates two men from Louisiana, who claim to
vrpresent that branch Of Know-Nothingi sm in that
State which lives up to the Protestant test. They
were not regularly elected by State Council but were
nevertheless admitted. The Alabama delegation re-
rais stn untouched though in violation OF the posi-
ton taken by the Council in the Louisiana case. Mr..
k-cf Of Massachusetts made strong speech upon the
olc question, con'ending for tie rigid excl lson OF
az Catholics from the Order This Is undoubtedly the
feeling Of the organization, and it must destroy Its
mower in louisiana where contrary principles ana
practice are popular.
Al the meeting yesterday afternoon disgraceiul
soenes of disorder and confusion took place, growing
ont Of the gross noxicaton Of several members from
the Southern States. One from North Carolina in
sisted on making speech, while so much under the
influence of liquor az to have no command over his
senses or his body. He was too drunk even to give
way to the appeals Of bis friends 70 sit down ana keep
Quiet but rambled on incoherently to the morthcs-
ton and disgust Of the decency Of the body. One
great difficulty all the week in the way Of the har-
rnonous and rapid dispatch OF business, has been the
habiua partial intoxicaton Of many of the members,
and when the Slavery debate fairly launches, scenes
of violence may not unreasOnably be apprchended
The propriety of having session OF the Council
fcy dessert has been strongly urged for several days
even by Southern members, especially on this ground
The labors Of the Committee on Resolutions have
been proracted through to-day and this evening Or
their results definite knowledge can yet be stated
None Of its members TO be susceptible tospntual
influences. The oracle gives forth no certain sound.
Yet it appears to be understood that they had warm
discussions the Slavery questions, and settled their
positions by close votes Ii ever the record OF their
action reaches the public eye, | imagine it would
show extraordinary ard interesting facts. And
suspect there are some Northern who would shake
in their shoes did they behold the relation of their
oourse upon this Committee pacarded before their
constituents The very secrecy of this organization Is
fhe greatest encouragement to doughaceism.
There is little doubt that the resolutions of the Com
mit,ee and Council will either be alirmayely pro-
slavery or else entirely ignore the subect but their
triumph will be the death-warrant Of the organization
Monday or Tuesday at the latest will bring affairs to
a crisis. Many Northern and Western members are
very impatient at The prolongation of the meetings.
Some will leave on Friday at the very latest. They
say these Southern gentlemen who have niggers to do
their work and make their money for them can easily
afford TO stay two weeks but for lis who have to
do our own work and earn own living, we must
be about it, Yet they desire to settle the position OF
the party on the Slavery question before leaving, and
will Try TO have brought up Monday in the Coun
Gil by an advance report on that subject from the
Committee.
1t is believed that Catholic spy has been discov-
cred in the Council in the person of one Of the men,
bers from extreme Southern State. He IS observed
taking full notes of all its proceedings, is exclusive in
his devotons to silence and non-acton save when the
Catholic question is up when he is quito on his tops
has been going TO the Of the Jesuit Father
Gannd who is stopping at one Of the principal hotels;
and finally and conciusivey in the eyes of those who
are watching him, he was observed to make his din
exclusively of fish on Friday! There Is good
deal of burning Indignation getting up in bigoted
Protestant hearts on the subject and threats of
piosion in the Council over ii are muttered in various
quarters. If the Northern members, who are not
dough-faces leave the Council for its action on the
Slavery queston--as do not see how they can help
doing-they will issue brief address TO the nation
stating their principles and calling for rally of all the
opponents of the Administration upon it. Look out
IT, II will be the standard point of the long-wishcd-ior
true Northern party
In the election of the Rev. Mr. Rugg OF the Massa-
chusets delegation Chaplain Of the Grand Council,
the Union received terrible shock and all the more
severe that nobody was lorewarned Of it. Mr.. Rugg
is Uriversalist in bis theology and as all Massachu-
sets men are accounted Abolitioniss over the line,
(always excepting A. B. Ety. why, he is a Unlver-
saist Abotionst. So soon this doubly-damned
fact was noisod about horror and Indignation were de-
picted upon the faces of the Southern chivary. To
hold men in slavery, to sell them like cattle in the
mari e. to prostitute their wives and daughters to the
lowest purposes of a bestial lust is that patri )tsm
which is the highest attribute of religion at the South
but Uriversalism oh horrors is rank infdeiy, and
il will never do in the world to recognize il as reli-
gion or in connection with religious services in behalf
of oven body of men grateful as this Know
Nothing Council ought to be for its generous immune
ties. 1t positively refreshing TO see how the ro-
Heious principle of the Southern members shocked
at the idea of having UniversaIst to pray for them.
Even drinking and swearing were interrupted while
this new danger to the Union impended. Massachu
sets was begged beseeched tormented to take away
this bitterness from their lips And She consented, and
for once saved the Union from going to smash. The
Rev. Mr. Rugg resigned and the drinking and swear
ing were resumed. And thai the chance of repeating
such shock to the Union and the religious sensitive
ness OF the Slave Ogarchy might be avoided, it was
concluded TO dispense with stated Chaplaincy in
future.
While on the happy vitality of the religious element
in this vocation Of the great men in the alton it
may not be amiss to testify to the appropriateness Of
the selection of Mr.. L. c. Andrews of New-York TO
discourse at the Union-Saviug Banquet on the Re
"Hgious and Civil Liberty" which ." sam proposes
10 ronaugurato in all their purity and perfection, and
of the "enthusiastcal manner in which he vndicated
the sagscity of that selection. 1t was accomplished
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