The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-24

IL is well known that Mr. Patrick McGowsn, mail agent
Raleigh CASTOR railroad nauralzed citizen,
having born in Ireland and Roman Catholics and that
person OF this stamp who holds office under the
general government North Carolina Previous to his APP
pontme Mr. McGowan had been repeatedly elected door
keeper the senate and time the two parties being
nearly balanced in that body he indebted for his success
the votes of hg Messrs Francis and Rus
SELL In both these poststhat Of doorkeeper and mail
agent Mr. Mcowan has performed his duties with marked
fidelity and vglance yet his appointment TO the latter has
been made matter for much remark and cenure by the
know nothngs because he is Catholic and socaed Tor
eigner Mr. Shepard the darkantern candidate for Con-
gress this district been especially pointed in his de-
nunciations of Catholics well in his illusions to the
danger Catholic control in the Post Office Department
and now what will the people think and when we inform
them that Mr. McGoan recommended for this very office
Of mall agent by Mr. jones b. Shepard, and By many Of the
leaders the present nothing povtgs Such is the fact
obtained copies of the official documents from the
department Washington and publish below, for the
information Of the public and for the particular edcaton
nothngs, small and large the following letter
"sRAlEroH, On. C.,) March /, 1859.
".sn: On the line Of the railroad between this and
city of Petersburg there four mail agents appointed
the line between Petersburg and CASTOR claimed by
CASTOR and Raleigh claimed BY North Carolina For
tho latter permit TO recommend to your
Mr. McGowan of this place, who is fully competent to the
discharge Of the duties said station and is wha very
honest and worthy man
& Respectfully. JAMES JANE B. SHEPARD.
''To the POSTMASTER GENERAL Of the United States
s'We also have copy of recommendation of Mr.. Nc
Gowan in the following words
"'The undersigned take pleasure in recommending Mr..
Patrick Mc(ow for the appointment OF mail agent on the
Raleigh and CASTOR railroad. From their knowledge OF Mr.
McGowans habits and qualifications they have hesita-
ton in saying that he would make faithful and useful OH
cer.'
This recommendation is signed among others, by John
A. Gimer, N. w. Woodfn, Isaac Clegg, VIM IL. Washing
ton, Lewis Thompson, and W. D. Haywood-all Of them
wings and of them conspicuous nothing leaders,
Mr.. McGowan appointed in place Of native, Mr.. H. H.
Potterr Shepard recommending the appointment Moth
ing said either in his letter the above recommended
on abouhe proprety justice Of giving natives the pref
erencenohing the danger of and
troll Mr. Shepard recommended him competent honest
and the very highest recommendation he could
have given him and it did not to him en it
that sound policy required that Catholics and foreign
born should be kept out Of such Offices No however, he
affects to be seriously alarmed at such appointments and is
attempting to make capital out of them against the demo-
cratic party"
GAN APT comrA In drawing comparison between
the Salem witchcrat judges and the Philadelphia know
nothing convention the Albany Knickerbocker apty OBJ
sThere is striking similarity in the proceedings Of the
Philadelphia Hindoo convention admitting the Roman
Catholic delegates from Louisiana and the council of
Protestant oretahers at Salem in 1892 who sat in judg-
ment poor harmless charged with wtchcra The
ndoOs would not admit Roman Catholics into the
ton notwithstanding they gave the strongest possible
that they did recognise the authority OF the
Pope Of other spiritual unconary, to interfere in
extent with the performance Of their civil
sfactory, and they ordered to stand aside.
AT the Salem council Martha Cory, on her enanina-
ton in the meeting house before hrong denied the pres
Of witchcra Rebecca Nourse whom Bancroft
sents Of purest e also denied the OF
witchcraft did Sarah Good and half dozen others.
They would not be believed and ranged to death by
the common hangman. The Roman Catholics OF Louisiana
church. but the Hndoos would not believe them The poor
of Salem denied the presence OF wchcra and the
III % S o. oss da S soans not
Barker and the council Of Cotton Maher and Paris is in the
fact that the former suspended the Roman Catholics and the
latter suspended the women by the neck until they
dead, dead dead"
Hon. w. H. Yancey, of Alabama Of the first men in
the South delivered great speech Montgomery against
the secret party which the Advertiser speaks of fol-
lows:
"a crowd of citizens many of them coming from a dis
lance expressly this the oest of Alabama gath
cred at Concert Hall on Tuesday evening
Mr.. Yanceys exordium simple unexcited, charac-
tersc He declared that he appeared the partisan of
man, of any political sect. He stood perfectly indie
pendent Of any influence He claimed therefore,
that his convictions upon the questions agatng the public
and sincere He presented them such
without bitterness and without
object.
Every point elaborated with great of thought
and vivid and prouse beauty Of language Notwithstanding
the great and the heat intense yet the whole
crowd seemed eDchalned WHICH,
doubt has had equal in Montgomery. Its ehec
profound and all who seek truth to Mr. Yancey
debt of gratitude for its delivery"
aCoME HOME HOME r'-The Bedford (Pennsyva
nia Gazette very able Journal speaks to those democrats
who have been misled by the secret party
"That many good and honest democrats thoughtessly
Joined the whg nothing organization last fall fee
quite certain and that they sick and Disguised with
their whole proceedings equally certain. To al
SUCH the spirit Of true friendship say CONE HOME
And to wings who look with horror and alarm upor
the position in which they have been placed, party
without notice. by having been handed to the tender
mercies Of oath-bound organization, likewise
tcnd cordial invitation and go with u.s. and become
members Of great national family where you viii be re
ceiyed in one brotherhood There but tw
parties in Pennsylvania fact admitted by alhe demo
cratic the know nohingand every must take hi
There be lodging and he who processes hos
ty know nohingsm and yet acquicsces in their doing
and nominations odious than the who ha
taken their horrible oaths.''
A LOUD nEpoRT--The Philadelphia North American
whig paper now in communion with the party talk
Of it as follows
"The know nothing party is in curousy sptup condi
ton consequence of the proceedings of the last natona
cnon The Louisiana branch the order has disavow
cd all connection with the national council and repudate
the Catholic plank of its PLATFORM The State councils
Maine Vermont Massachusetts, Rhode Island Pennsylva
MIA Ohio and Illinois have rejected the national platform
and most of them made creed of their own differing
scntiay the general one not only in reference to a
very other questions In New England and the Yves
the seccders have iberazed their principles ncud
many Of naurazed citizens. In cases. Also tn
opposition Catholics has been sosned down opposi
H., Tho,