The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-02-28
A Terrible Row-Great Excitement in
the New York State Council of
Known things--Importan Disclo-

a Terrible Row-Great Excitement IN
the New York State Council OF
neutrality-suspicious. Disclo-
sures-
We invite attention to the following
letter, written by Moses Eames, a mem
Der of the New York House of Assem-
bly,, who was lately chosen a delegate to
the Know-N Nothing State Council, nO,e
IN cessien at Syvacztse. We takeit from
the New York Tribune. No comments
are needed :
"ALBANr, February IA. 1855.
dear SIR Yours of the 9Th inst,
containing a certificate of my election as
a delegate to the State Grand Council
of the so-called Knew-Nothing order
from my council, No. 274, held in But
land, Jefferson County, was received
In my reply you will see how your dele
gate was received by the Grand Council
of the State, now in session in the city
of Syracuse.
al presented my credentials at the
place of meeting, and was introduced to
a number of the order by the District
Deputy, Mr.; was then escorted
to the desk of the Grand Secretary, paid
the quarterly dues of my council you in
trusted me with, namely, two cents for
each member of our council. After this
ceremony, / was conducted to the main
hall, where all the delegates soon assem-
bled, being about two hundred in num-
Der. The presiding officer, Mr.. Barker,
of New York, said; " Before proceed
ing to business, I would ask if there was
any opportunity of there being any lis
teners ?n Being assured on that point,
the first business was to examine each
person in the hall, for the purpose of as
pertaining whether they had taken the
third degree. Those who had not re-
-eeived it were taken into an ~antc-room,
questioned, and instructed further In the
mysteries of the order, as the business
to be transacted could not, with safety,
be done in the presence of any one who
had not taken the necessary oaths of q
third degree member.
Before proceeding further, they In
quired of each member for whom he vo-
ted at the last State election. All those
who had not voted the UHman ticket,
and there were about eight who had
not done SOL according to the instruo.
tions of the Grand Council last fall,
were required to acknowledge they had
committed an offence against the order,
and ask to be forgiven, and proniSeaan
all things IN future TO obey their supe-
riOrs. Upon SO doing, a cote soas taken,
and the repe1ttant member z0efe reinsta-
led.
SCI, being a member of the Legisla-
ture, was invited upon the platform with
the officers of the meeting, and introdu-
ced by Mr.. Barker, who informed the
Grand Council that Iwould make expla-
nation in relation to my vote cast at the
last election. While I was proceeding
to do 30, one of the members asked me
for whom I voted for United States
Senator? When I replied, William H.
Seward, it created a great excitement
in all parts of the hall. Some twenty
or thirty, moresvehement than the rest,
rushed forward to the platform, kissing,
stamping their feet, gnashing their teeth,
extending their arms with clenched fists,
crying out, with ~countenances flushed
with excitement, I" Traitor PERU
rer,', "Liar,r' +" ViIlian,''1 and other
epithets, accompanied with the exclama.
ton, hustle him out" down stairs
with him. =" throw hun out of the win,
dow" &c. ~
By. this time the meeting was in q
complete uproar. The presiding officer
could not control those present, and de
clarod the meeting adjourned for one
hour. There was then a general rush
for the platform where Twas standing
Some of the foremost seized my collar,
but, by tie exertion of a few personal
friends, / was saved from further vic,
fence by being with great haste, escor.
tied down a private stairway, while 9th.
ers closed the doors aud kept back the
mob. When I reached the street, Mr.
Barker adUiSed me to go to nay hotel, ana
not to sho1c aoyseT about the place, TN
Leave the city IN the first conueyauce.-
Haring no other business to attend to
I took his advice and left Syracuse IN
the first train.
I know not what you and the coun
Gil may think of this, but if you evel
desireto send a delegate to such a Pan.
demonium, you must select some other
person besides your sincere friend and
fellow toHnsman.
MOSES EAMES.
ITO the ". P. of Council 274."
T A writer in the Boston Time.