Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-04-25

Southern men without Distinction of par
~, TO ponderthe consequences before they
cooperate with this organisation. The
secrecy with,which their proceedings are
conducted, afford ample ground for eau.
ton and suspicion. A party which con
Eeeals all its operations and designs from
the public, may conceal some of its ulti-
mate purposes from that portion of its
own tyotaries to which a premature dis
closure might be hazardous. The same
principle ofpoitieal ethics. which justifes
deception upon those out side the order,
might excuse partial concsalmsnt from
those within. When you snterthis order
you assent TO the prepriety of conceal
ment as an agency in partizan contests.
How can you complain when it is prac-
ticed upon yourselves BY your own con-
federates Know-NOthingism does not
pretend to disclose to its Southern adhs-
rents its designs upon any of the ques-
tons upon which Federal Legislation can
really affect Southern interests. Will
you persist in arming this party with all
the powers of the Federal Government,
without ENDURING and approving its pur-
poses upon those questions, simply be-
cause you may happen to agree with its
views upon two subjects OF no practical
Importance to you. and concerning neither
Of which can any material action be had
by the Federal Government The fact,
that it discloScS to you its views upon
those subjects, while it carefully concsals
them upon more vital topics, ought Of it
sell to awaken your apprehensions.
While it attempts to delude you with the
fiction that opposition 10 FOreignism and
Catholicism, is an issue which overridss
all others. it is actively and rapidly fill
ing the halls Of Congress with men plcdg-
ed to measures of fearful import to your
interests.
Ifths designs Of Know -Nothingism were
even free from ccnsure. it should still
be repealed from your midst. In giving
COuntenauOe TO a secret political orgauiza-
ton. you are introducing an instrument
which may be applied to the most dan
gerOus purposes. Before you bring the
wooden horse within our gates be sure
that no armed enemy is concealed within
the fatal structure. If any party in our
midst ever assails the institutions of Sla-
very, its first approaches will be cloaked
in secrecy, similar to that which COR
ceals know~Nothingism The Worlds
Convention of AbolilIonists, at London.
recommended the formation Of ami sin
very societies in the Southern States.
Popular sentiment imposes a formidable.
and insup. rabte barrier 10 the pubic TX
ecUtion OF this plan. But when the OPP.
Grafton of parties have bpeoms secret.
how soon may wo not expect such An or
gnnizAtion as the Worlds Convention has
advised? We respectfully and earnestly
be-: you to consider whether any good
which this organization may bs expect ed
TO effect can compensate for the least vi
The evils that may follow in its train.
! What have we TO expect from the action
OF this party upon those Of other subjects
which the Democratic party has been &C.
custOmed TO regard as SO important in the
Administration Of the Federal Govern
nrnt? After the arduuus contest which
we have maintained for SO many years
Just AS the Democratic party is fully rs
tabllshed, and the country is gIadening
under iiS iuAuence-shaIl we hlndIy els
vatU into power party which may revu
lutioniEe the whole system? However
carefully they may conceal their political
views, it cannot be denied that this par
~ is principally composed OF the same
material which. combined under 4 ditIer.
en- name, have been in opposition hereto
fore to tho Democratic party. The same
indiscriminate hoStiIilies TO naiurnlized ci
zens that now distinguishes Know. No
thing ism, characterized Tho Federal par.
ty in the times of John Adams and to the
: Hartford convention. The Democratic par
~, under the lead Of jefferson and Madi
+ son, haV successfully encountered it here.
D LOf0rs and are NOT afraid 10 meet i
? again. The humiliation Of the Dem
ocratic party in the United States is the
, leading object of the Know Nothing or
, ganizAtion. Flushed with its Northern
B triumphs. it comes hero upon Virgins
soil, to encounter party chat wears the
insignia Of its victories through half ,
: century, and that has never known defeat
= Whenever disaster has overwhelsmnec
the Democracy of the Union, they have
always looked to the party in Virginia
l to retrieve the fortunes Of the day. 4
we arrest the progress of this new en-
envy, and lift the trailing banner Of oul
party, we rally the Democracy Of !hc
Sonfsderacy for successful struggle ir
the Presidential contest of 1856. If We
are defeated in Virginia. we disappoin
the hopes Of the best friends of the Con
stitu!ion. We are looked 10 with hope Of
with fear by the whole confsderacy
Let the Democracy Of Virginia be equa
to the emergency.
| JOHN RUTHERFORD, CHAIRMAN.
ANorHER.-Judge G. D. Camden. We
learn from letter inst recoiva6 from