Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-05-08
rlE REACTION GOING on.

The following admirable letter is from IalIan: and
enlightened Democratic member e!cc 0t Congress
from Philadelphia whose able md powerful letter Ia
NJ. Orr, full OF devotion tn the constitutional right,
Of Tie South assaulted rs they by Know Nothing
ism, appeared in tho Enquirer time since. The
writer is certainly correct Iii. ancipaiions OF ti:e
success of the conservative Democracy ofPennsylya
nia in October next. It's admitted by the .inf'.'GH
Standard, Know Nothing organ published ut
uniontown, Pennsylvania, that the doom of Know
Nothingsm IS sealed. From long article on the
subject OF electng United States Senator, we eX-
trGct the following significant paragraph
but i, is not too late 10 remedy the evil and fore
cnd the fate which awaits US l. this question %; tsc
United States Sera;nrshp shall bc thrust into the
next general election II tie American party docs
not elect il Senator before The % Tuesday of Oc,o-
her, it will not do it afterwards. II III: Lestsi0tnC
do nD. eLct an hmer,cdn, the MHrt one rW elect q
DemJcya:.'
Hers is virtual acknowledgment that if the
Know Noihings, who have the enusylvana
Legislature fail to the opportunity, their day
pas; ard The chance lost forever The people undor'
| stand Know Nothiugism now all will defeat then
tactics at the next election. il is the warning voice
OF one OF their organs and bctokens conscious.
among the KnowNo,hincs Of the speedy dissolu-
tion ot their most dsgracclu party:
To Me Editors oj the E"qprsr:
PHIIAUELPHIA, MAY 3, 1865.
Dear Sirs:-Thc New York Herald. few DAYS
ago admitted that Northern Know. Nnthin:ism would
soon be extinct, unless Mr. Wise should be dctcnte
III your State bya majority o from tive Thousand tt
fifteen thousand votes.
Since this adnli.Sum of the Herald WAS published
the Municipal elections the first instant, NJ Phila
drphia and Lancaster, in this STATE, ir'Iicarr TIM
kuuw-N Notngisn Is tending towards III c1'Inct":
with more rGpid!ty than the Herald progDos;icar.-
4 ycnr uro, the Know Mornings elected School III
rrctors, in the City OF Lancaster, 10y minority L"
| more than rix hundred. They have since cuctrd
Mayor III tiIn; City. At the election on the lst IN
| slant the hnti-Kuow- NOhu" ticket was carried b,
| n minority oi about one hundred and thirty.
| Ii IhIl.jr:phia wear ago, the know-No'lIn-'
| carried the Municipality by TN average minority I"
between S,O'I and 9,nh) At the election Inst autumn
! this majority waa reduced 10 about 3,UuG y: III,
election the frs: instant i; WINS, for practical pur
| poses, reduced 10 nothing.
For the ONLY two offices rnu on general ticket io
the whole Municipality, two persons the one IN or
tiIodox Democrat, ;he o:her Wing unain;cd viii
| KNOWN NOthingisni, were vued for a. Anti. Know No
| thing can!datcs. Tho Democrat is defeated hy
majority of less than 900 tho Wing by II majorty o
about iDD. The sntire Wing Know Nothing organi
zu;ion completely combined against them, witt
corrupt niis Of Official power and influence exercise
| in the most indecent manner.
| The members OF of the two branchcs os tn
Municipality Legislature of Philadelphia hold thci
| seats for two years, ouc-hulf OF the whole uumbc
being elected annually. Two-thIr,.s oI tho member
elected 10 this body on the st instant declare
| opponents Of Know Nottingham All the nOmbtrs
the other branch ~ til" ncn Legislature are chose
annually In fI.is body had, last year, fewer tha
| thrcc .cnths of the whole number. For this bod
we have now surccedrd in clectug, NJ il believed,
majority Oi from 10 thrr" ui Ant:-hnuw Nothing
| members. The KnowNothings, however, cialm
majority of one or two in this body. The result IL
practically, say noout Il tie.
| In the meantime, the faction here is dgprlted al
,!isorgauizcd. For some ti:no past the rent Of Il!
rooms, in which the Lodges hold their meetings, h1
remained unpaid. The subscriptions ot the member
urc every where III a!rcar. There IL scarcely my a
tendance nt their Convrnticlcs. AZ what was iicnl
"d 10 be 4 State Convention, where more than 4"
hundred should have been present, on late hrci
sion there WAS ei attendance ~ fewer than eight!
whose bills at the public houses are snd 10 have r,
maiacf 20 m unprecedented extent unpaid.
In tho meantime, the Democrats, with n purihc
organization, netting with good henri amd c!cvnc
hopes. meeting WIS held on SaiUrGay last, !
Schuylkiil county, the proceedings oi which, unput
shcd, well those published in the trne an
orthodox spirit IF tho cid Democracy. In Octobe
neat party will carry the State By decisive n!H
.i:-i,-. ."U--;-e ''- '~-"tor OF tho |
States. -. =. a.
We look confidently to the result IN rgh'a LOT III
REINSURANCE OF our weaker brethren.
| rcfnnin dear sir, yours, truly D,,u
jnIIS IADWALADER