Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-02-26

Of Mr.. J. II. Bradley, Of the original propO-
sition of the Board, viz: that the clerk Eek
LOFT should hold the custody Of the books
until tho Circuit Court may determine tho
rights of the claimants, who, by-the.by, have
already elected Ecklof to b their clerk, in
case they triumph.
We have to say, further, that this affair
was arranged out of Washington Indeed, it
was schemed at the Knew Nothing National
Council held some months ago in Cincinnati,
letters from that point, from Carlisle Pa, and
| from New Jersey having for some time been
IN Washington, mentioning tho fact that it
had been so ordered, then and there. The
| most important result of this effort to prosti
/ tute great national patriotic charity or trib.
| ute, to party politics, is the certain defeat Of
the bill now before Congress to appropriate
100000 for the continuance of the work on
| the monument. 1t was certain TO have been
passed by a majority Of five to one in both
Houses. Now, not one in every ten members
OF either House would vote for it. The pres.
ent Board are for the most part those who
| have had the management of the work since
its inception, and have labored strictly to
carry out tho pledge on which they have OBJ.
tanned the money they have expended in
raising the monument to its present height Of
| "a feet-more than half finished. That pledge
is stated in the Associations constitution to
be, that it should be the result of voluntary
contributions from the people Of the United
| States, without distinction or discrimination
AZ to their politics, religion, or the country of
their birth. Under this pledge, so sacredly
given. and up to this time so nobly redeemed
by the gentlemen who compose the Board,
persons Of all parties, creeds, and nativitfes
have given an aggregate Of hundreds Of thou.
sands Of dollars to the enterprise; and an
effort by secret movement to place the work
in the hands of a political party, and to pro-
| scribe citizens Of the United States in connec.
ton with its affairs on account of their reli-
gion or nativity, is a palpable and shameful
fraud upon those whose means have gone to
raise it to its present height
Subjoined. we present in parallel columns
],
| the individuals whom it has pleased the ire
sponsible council in Cincinnati to cause to be
attempted to be substituted for them. W.
need draw no comparison between them, in
order to enforce upon the minds of our fellow
citizens of Warrington and its vicinity, the
danger and inpropriety Of entering into secret
pledges to give up to an irresponsible, un.
known and far distant cabal, their own right
to think and to choose for themselves, as be-
tween men whom they know. The parallel
lists in question will speak notes of warning,
such as types otherwise arranged cannot en-
force. To our readers at distance, we have
to say-If you desire TO understand to what
results the taking Of secret Oaths to be gov
erned by unknown porssns in all your actions
in connection with public afairs-to deprive
those who worship God in a manner different
fom yours, of their ghts of entire co-equality
in all the privileges under the constitution and
laws of your cOuntry-aLd to seek TO decetre
those with whom you hold daily Intercourse
just ask any intelligent citizen of Washington,
who has fairly earned character by life Of
| we'll known probity, to compare these two lists
| for you, taking up the history of those com.
posing them. ssrtatim; and you will then
realize what Know nottingham is likely to
effect for the future Of society, il the sober
second thought Of the people Goes not shortly
come to the rescue. We sincerely believe that
vast majority Of those who 30 Gar have been
caught in the trap, are honest and patriotic
victims Of the as:a Of tho specious and bad
men into whose hands they nave fallen, So
believing, We trust shat they may soon have
before them, for their sober reflection, more
such examples, as the effort 10 substitute fer
the list on the right hand, as the managers of
the Washington Monument Society, the per-
SONS who compose the lists of claimants of the
several positions Of the others. These lists arc
ae follows, viz: =