New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-05
SECRET OATHs.

election Of Gov. SEWARD 10 the Senate, wherein be
warned certain Of bis fellow me nbers against the
rioaton of their oa,hs of which vote for Gov. D.
would convict them. This warning WAS not given
in allusion to any oath prescribed BY the Consti-
tuition ard laws of our State, but VIGOROUSLY re-
ferred to a secret, extra judicial obligation i'm
posed on them as members Of the Native Amsri-
can Order commonly termed Kno v-Nothinss."
And, whether the osths Of that Order do justly
bear ,uch construction or not, it must be taken
AZ uncomfortable that, in the apprehension OF
Mr. Headley and his conftderates, they mean
what be says they do. Let Us consider them for
a moment in this light:
AB.orC we will not say Headley CT Ste
veps, for that mil ht be deemed personal-s nom-
mated and supported BY the Wigs or Democrats
az their candidate for the Assembly. It ulti-
nstely traDspires that he ia a member of this
,ecret Order, and is sworn to obey its res,ripts
in his action as legislator But this is wholly
concealed from hundreds who vote for and help
elect him. When he comes to vote for Speaker
or Senator, it comes out that he is devotee Of
SAM" and as such sworn to prescribe many
of those who were duped into voting for
him, and to blast the expectations of hun
dreds who supposed him untrammeied aud free
to vote for Gov. Seward, Gen. Dix, or whoever
might be the candidate Of the party with which
he was ostentibly identified. Is this fair, Reve
rend casuist from Orange viii Mr.. Stevens
evince common honesty to ward those Adopted
Citizens who voted for him in voting that none
but Knov-NothiDg will answer for Senator
And is your course any more honorable toward
those friends Of Gov. Seward who labored to
elect YOU
Looking at this matter in the light Of simple
honesty, we hold that every Kno~-Notalns,
nominated and supported as Wing, Democrat
or Temperance man, who yet holds his secret
Know Nothing oath paramount to bis publicly
proclaimed political principles. is doing that
which should bring blush to his face whenever
be meets an anti Know Nothing who was daped
into voting for bin last November Is not this
the obvious truth
But our Reverend friend is in the Literary
line-dabbles at times in History, and has taste
for Poetry, if not taste in it. We do not know
whether he regards his own works as Historic
former Characteristic through the medium of the
latter. Whether he was conscious Of it or not
bis impre cation on the head. of his fellos Mem
bers VII o have L" seen Sam without being hoppled
by him is an almost exlct parallel to the case OF
"The Yelled Prophet of KhOra:san," whose
stosy 10 told by Moore in his Lalla Rookh, aud
whose sounding promises of Reform and stu1ions
conceament of his own lneaments fully equaled
those of Ned Buntline himself;
There. on that throne which the blind b=sf
or Million. raised him sat he Prophet Chief
The Sr'st MoS.Ssa Ger eis teap hss sass
HIS SsIIliIs bros al could bear the light"
Bat "all is not gold that glistens;" much less
is that Purity or Philanthropy which stuiiously
bides itself from public view while Wanting i.s
own PROJECTIONS. Its alluring pretenses are
usually
Fslse views. like that horizons fair deceit,
Where Ear;b snd Heaven Tut ss,! 10 nee"
The Yelled Prophe. in his private character 10
found soliloquizing after this fashion:
80 shall they build me slt.r, in their zeal
Mhe. lnavss .tsl minister and f'ol'shaii tneeli
Written ia blood-aud 81 z tgy may swel
The sail he spreads for Heaven with blasts from Hell"
And when at length bis disguise av.iled him
no longer. be discarded it, and revealed features
most revolving and abhorrent:
"No church yard shoul esugh Lin serng In the liht
Ofihe blesi ssn eer blasted harlan sight
With line susnts 80 foul % fierce those
IL imIosteI now n gTil ling m0ekery shows
There ye wise SAINTS behold your isht, y star
YeUos!d be dupts sne victims, and ye are -
Yet this arch swindIer, when lis most cherished
victim resolved to burst through his tolls, para.
lived her with q reminder Of her horrid obliga.
tions in spirit which none, till Headley, has
ever equaled;
oh ye. III eJ WIKI thee
Scarce had she sad
Those breaftess words. hen voice deep and dfesi
- that Of MONKS wssiDs up the dead
From their fret slice " start ins twas 20 both.
Ruug thi the easement near IT., OaAi Thy Oars -
But the Prophet did not win, even BY the help
of this terrifying resort, and We doubt that his
Reverend imitator viii succeed any better. AZ
all events, we urge him to ponder well the career
end fate OF the Yelled Impostor Aforesaid, and
draw at leisure the neral.