The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1855-03-02


4 Terrible Rows--earoas ExciteineuI in the
New York Stnte Council OF Know NOIh-
ssings---ImPOrtant DisClOsures. 4
Ne invite attention tothe following lettI
ter, written by Moses Eames, memberI
of the New York House of Assemble, who
was lately chosen delegate e'to'the Know
Nothing State Council aosg in session 4" !
Swacuse. We take it from the New York
Tribune. Nocomments. are needed,
"AlDANY, Feb, ID, 1855.
"DEAR:SiR: Yours of tile 9th INST, con-
tanning certificate of my election as del
egate to the State Grand Council of the so,
called Know Nothing Order from my coun-
ell, No, 274, held in Rutland, Jefferson
county, was received. In my reply you
will see how your delegate was received
|by the Grand Council Of the State, now
lin session in the city of Syracuse,
81 presented my credentials at the Place
| of meeting, end was introduced to num-
Der of the order by the District Deputy,
Mr.. -; / was then escorted to the desk
of the Grand Secretary, paid the quarter
lly dues of my council you intrustcd me
with, namely, two cents for each member
4 of our council. After this CEREMONY |
was conducted to the main hall, where all
the delegates soon. assembled, being about
two hundred in number. The presiding
officer, Mr.. Barker, of New York, said:--
Before proceeding to business; + would
ask ifthere was any opportunity of there
4 being any listeners?' Being assured on
that point, the first business was to exam
i inc each person in the hall, for the purpose
of ascertaining whether they had taken. the
third degree. Those who had notteceiy'
ed it were taken into an ante-rQom, ques
( toned, and instructed further in the mys
teiies Of the order as the business to be
transacted could not, with safety, be done
lin the presence of any one who had not ia
7 ken the necessary oaths of third-degre'
: member.
| "Before proceeding further, they in
quired of each member for whom be vctec
4 at the last State election All those whc
had not voted tie Ullmann' ticket, (ant
there were about eight who had not dom
/; so, according to the instructions Of th'
2 Grand Council last fall, were required t.
2 acknowledge they had committed an9fens
against the Order, and ash to beJoryivea
9 and promise in all things in tie future 1
Z obey hoir superior. Upon so doing, not
aus tscSon.. and the gepenta,a members acer
: re-inStdtcd. ~.
. al, being member Of the Legislature
was invited upon the platform with tn
I officers Of the meeting, and. introduced b
? Mr. Barker, who informed the Grand Couil
J, Gil that | would make explanations in re
~ Ilation to my vote cast at the last election
=, While / was proceeding to do so, one {
2 the members asked me FOR whom | vote
Il for United States Senator. When ] rt
2 piled ,fos William Fl. Seward, it create
y great Excitement in all parts of the hail.
y Some twenty or thirty; more yehemer
! than the rest, rushed forward to the pla
form, Kissing, stamping their feet, gnasi
Z ing their teeth, extending their arms vii
/. .clenched fists, crying out, with counter
'e |ances flushed with excitement, "laitor,
,, "periurer, ''liar," "villaiu," and othereI
of Iithets, accompanied with the exclamation
t., "hustle him out, !" "down stairs with him,
e "thrpw him outof the window"
l. 'My this time the meeting was IN
n complete uproar. The presiding offic'
81 could not control those present, and d
d; clired the meeting adjourn for one hou
y There was then general rush for the pia
10 form where / was standing, Some OF u
le foremost seized my collar but, by the e.
It. ertion Of a few personal friends, was save
c, from further violence by being, with gre
OF haste, escorted down private stairwa
et while others closed the doors and kc
le back the mob. Wien Ivached tile stree
m Mr.. Barker advised me to go to n'y Tot
Ie and not o,shOaO myself aJOm Tie place, .
lgI lsave tie city iaMe first conveyance. ia
W ina no OTHER business TO attend 10, Ioo& 1
~ odVice and left Syracuse an he frSttroif
IS ."I know not what you and the coun
an may think of this, but if YOU ever desire
lt- send dolegate to such Pandemoniul
a. you must select some other person besid
your sincere friend and fellow townsmar
Ild MosEs EAMEs.
OF "To the w. P. Of Council 274."
~ ~ Is it possible that any sane man COZ
ar remain in such an "order" as this? Ha
la men become so crazed--lost to all the |
pie bic feelings of freemcn? Aresecret-bou
'us oaths so monstrous as 10 lead men to co
,fG af NIT such an act in the mid hours Of nj!
ese in their dark councils? And are we !
we told that ministers of the Gospel of pea'
u.s. are active instigators in getting up tn
" lodges, and, in many instances, their cl
managers? A pretty place is this fo
re preacher of Divinity
hat :