The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-09-14

H"N'eH; anu Joiheu the secret order lHeSe
) were errors on my part, they were errors THE
side OF fidelity to my friends and party.
Alter the month Of September, l85Ahe
State Committee never met. Gov Pollodad
MIR. Mott were elected, and those of us wh,slt
we were excluded from the new comma1n.
had scarcely the heart 10 reioice-the nles ef
triumph IN our opinion being so unwor6
and nothing TO console US but the dim he
that things might turn out better than we sr-
j ed. &I
In January, Of this year, the new adminsa-
ton was iDaugurated and the new Legisldre
met. Of the doings OF that Legislature id
! not speak, and especially ofthat scene of irf1-
tent intrigue, the canvass for Emitted Sis
! Senator. Though there was q nominal VIZ
majority, the name of Wing was ignored. 1e
/ caucus was one of ssSecra Americans ffn
which Wing Senators and Representatives ws.
/ excluded; and within and upon that caucus, I
erything being veiled by what was thought
be safe secrecy, the influence OF corruption, pc
Sonal, pecuniary and political, were thoughtb
BE- brought to bear. What better illustration
{ now appeal to your own observation coul
| there be OF The mischievous capabilities of tbi
secret organization than Gen Cameron's success
IN the "American caucus % ] do not unite il
the denunciaton heaped on that gentleman.
think-aside, of course, from all question O
tIght and wrong-that his consummate skill
and capacity of accommodating himself 10 al
emergency, deserved better success than be at
tanned. He fought his enemies with their own
weapons and beat them. If they mined, be
count1rmined. If they plotted and organized
IN secret lodges, he constituted lodges of bis
own. or went into theirs, and beat hem even al
mystery. II they renounced past political f.
deity, Wing or Democratic, he, without any
effort, renounced too. If they swore eternal
enmity to Catholics and naturaIized citizens, he
swore as hard as they. 1t was with them all
'Death to the Romans" Punc antipathy and
Punic faith. | confess do not see how any
'know-Nutbing" can find fault with Mr.. Cam
eron. And this accounts, in my poor iudc-
ment, for the feeble result OF succession which
took place from the Senatorial caucus. The
deserters carried with them; as marks OF shame
IN hnow-Nothing eyes, .he fragments of their
Or ofoken afIie2 9a}asf a ,@ o 5fg M breast ,.a
hide il, or disugise it. And thus it ended I
am sorry to refer to all these matters, filled as
they are with painful memories, but they are
illustrative of the denomination OF this secret
and dangerous party to be passed in silence.
During all this time, the State Committe was
not called together, and lift had been could
have done little good. The melancholy fact
had by this time developed itself, that out of the
thirteen, of which number the Committee con-
sisted, seven il was believed, had joined the Sc
cret order, some cheertully and readily, and
from congeniality of feeling and opinion others
venture to Sav, reluctantly, bluShlngly, and
under what seemed an ovprbparing necessity
Whether, hereafter when the account of these
misdoings comes to be settled, any distinction
will be made between those who readily and
those who unwilling bartered away ancient po-
litcal opinions, is not for me 10 say.
| confess that, during this spring, was anx-
ious that our Committee should meet, if only TO
enable US to speak out, and TO let an organized
BODY in Pennsylvania have the honor OF striking
the first blow at the secret party. The cleo
tions in New York and Virginia, and the local
spring elections in this city occurred first, and
gave the wound from which the life blood If
the organization is flowing away. Nothin,
could be- more creditable to the nation-mor'
fatal to this new party, than the almost con-
temporaneous election Of Senator Seward an
Governor Wise, the one northern Wing, tn
other southern Democrat men OF wildly dI#
ferent opinions, bnt on this great question stano
ing shoulder to shoulder in defence of the Cor
stitution, religious liberty, and equality of pc
liticaI rights. 1t was proved to be beyond Il
power of anv secret concIave or its mssionars
of mischief, efectualy to rally through te
length and breadth of the land the secret rebS
to the Constitution.
On the 22d of July, ten months after we So
arated at PittSburg, the Committee met in Us
city, and then | determined, and you Wi
! know. made no secret of my resolution, to brig
| this matter of Know Nothingism before e
| Committee. ask its action in the way OF s.
tinct and emphatic reputation. feel it "
duty as matter of seIf-respFct. | believed at
my Philadelphia felow-citizens, whom ] y
medately re presented, expected of me, aI
! think, having tried long to deserve their CHI
dence, and having earned it, and being Fy
proud of it, properly estimate public oppn
on this point. Here, in Philadelphia, thlse- |
cret party drew its first breath and gainepts
first victory and here, in Philadelphia ilas
met its first reverse and will breathe its lar
No one can mistake its coming doom. |
What occurred in the Committee yoa ky. /
To the proposition to call a Wing Convent
chperfuly assented, meaning, SO soon asle
call was determined on, to ask the CONNIE, |
by manly declaration Of fPrinciPle, to freeat
convention on its inception from the suspm
which since this secret party has exiSted,aS |
hung round every political body that hasf I
therefore offered and asked the Committo I
adopt the following brief but comprehese
resolutions, every word OF which bad beenPi
considered, and for every word of which m
willing to be responsible
Resolped, BY the Whig Executive COME
of the State of Pennsylvania, that an addbe
- - ~: Coro,o ;,taa call;ny the cony0n