Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-05-28

characteristics Of the worst and most dan
gerous classes of society in Europe, In Eu.
ropes most corrupt and ignorant times;
while the latter (the ends and aims Of Know.
No.hingism) would necessarily lead to the de-
struction Of the rights Of the South, and Of
the American citizen throughout all the States.
He explained the identity between the anti
catholicity Of Nnow Ncthingism and that of
England in the times of Guy Fawkes; and
he placed In glaring light the features of
the acts of the Know Nothings which he
believed to be identical with those of the
organised bands Of the oath.beund assas.
sin societies who prowled over middle Eu.
rope in the middle ages, each man of them
with dark lantern in one hand and a con
cealed dagger in the other. His brief paral
lei between them, their doings and their ten
denotes was 90 powerful as to indace those
who hung on the outskirts Of the meeting to
put down the right of free discussion in this
city, to howl as We have more than once
heard packs of wolves howl when, after skulk.
ing from the light Of day, they assemble in
the immunity Of the shades of moonless
night, as though to warn jewellers on the
prairie that they lived in the vicinity of smeh
neighbors
Mr. Wise, proceeding, said that his joy was
not on account of his own triumph, bat be.
cause he had broken the lance and and shiv
cred the shield Of tho most dangerous enemy
of the liberties of his country known to its
history; describing the elements of that dan
ger somewhat in detail. He had got his fsot
on Sans neck, and intended to keep it there
until all Sans power for harming the liber-
ties of his countrymen were defunct past pos
sible resuscitation. He owed his triumph, he
said, to the indomitable true Democracy of the
Old Dominion and to her patriotic and con-
sentative Wings, who have nobly locked
shields in defence of their country's conaitu-
ton and laws and of the equal rights of Amer.
lean citizenship, the sheet anchor of American
liberties. Tho contest had not been one be.
tween Wings and Democrats; but between
them, on the one side, combined, and COM
batting the men of the State of bad passions
and worse principles, and the deluded but
honest persons who had temporarily gone off
with them from both political organizations
under sinister leadership and counsels, and
were struggling to subvert all the rights which
our forefsthers won for rs with their blood
from George Ill, under the hypocritical pre-
tence that they were the peculiar .Ameri
cans who should, of right, rule America ~
IN fhA nf has 4
a most eloquent ana impressive tribute to the
spirit of patriotism which had induced the
thoughtful. and really substantial citizens of
both political parties to lock shields after a
bitter contest with each other Of thirty years
duration, to defeat the psricidsl purposes of
such men as that moment hung no sling At
him on tho outskirts of the vast assemblags
But the increasing noise of these last men
toned parties compelled him either to desist
or risk the entire destruction of his lungs,
tried sorslJ, as ne explained, in the preceding
one hundred and twenty days canvass So,
thanking his friends present for the compli
msnt they had paid him, after attributing i.
to their devotion to the cause of the Cons,itu-
ton and religious and civil liberty and equal
ity, whose standard bearer he had been, he
withdrew amid deafening shouts Of the multi
tude
In the course Of his remarks, while taking
glass of water, some one concealed in the
middle of one Of the bowling packs before de-
scribsd, sang out, /" Give Us little of your
holy water ~ Mr.. W. instantly seised the
opportunity to rebuke his insulters in a way
that will never be forgotten by those who
heard him. He said tina. their conduct there
proved how much they stood in need of any
thing which would cleanse their hearts
and minds Of the leprosy of infdelity, vice,
crime and bad passions, which, together, made
them such dangerous enemies to their country.
He advised them, if holy water they would
have, to 90 to their High Priest for ito
Theodore Parker, who stood higher as mem
Der of their order than any of the rest of the
thousands Of abolition clergyman OF the North
who ruled its policy, which they had sworn
fearful, If unlawful, oaths to carry out
He referred them also for Holy water to the
seventy Know Nothing clsrgymen of the Mass.
Legislature, who, in carrying Quit purposes OF
Know NOthinsisms had deliberately deprived
native born whites of the south, and of their own
State when their parents happened to see the
light FIRST on the other side of tho Atlantic, of
the right of trial by jury, and had endowed tho
runaway negro with that right, to be exercised
in his favor by abOlitionis;s only, rather than
by freemsn Of tho vIcinage in which his of.
fence against the laws had been committed
&c He recapitulated, with great effect, tho
offences of these clergymen against the CON.
stitution and the laws Of their State and tho
Union, against civil and religious rights, 30.
The impression Of what occurred before
Browns hotel on this occasion made strongly
in favor Of Mr.. Wise, more through the unjusti.
fable, outrageous and dastardly conduct Of the
providers on the outskirts of tho meeting, than
through the effect of his remarks which ow-