The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-09-21

nnnE.z...s......sz......
New York Under sacred guarantee Of the constitution
American citizens assembled together to discuss public
questions when with ghuul noises and expressions too
vulgar and obscene for publication mob
broke up the meeting Thus Rochester dgrsced and
her Oldest citizens deprived of the liberty OF speech by
band of midnight conspirators like outrage was per-
p.r The Gallant XIII hsd Dictated ibis phanonsans
and the power of Sam broken His friends paid him
the compliment of serenade and while returning thanks
he was booted Kissed, andd-d by kaow-nothng mob
Nor was the end yet, TO complete their perhdy-to add
the eap-sone their niamy-to completely nulny the
constitutional privilege OF Tree peecht was necessary TO
otra pe that sacred Instrument in the city that
birth The time was not wanting did the opportunity
escape meeting called in the lith ward OF this city
TO discuss questions that affected the public veal when in
small triangular pieces OF white paper were
nailed boxes and doors and trees cang the secret trail
tors their haunts The word was passed IRON lodge to
lodge bat the meeting must be broken UP at all hazards
and 10 this end all members should go prepared Tie
eenq scas broken up and in order that 1t should be done
without any serious disturbance from forty TO sixty police
officers detailed 10 superinend the outrage These
officers protect the rights Of citizens thus booted
and spurred together with ruian crowd that boosted
themselves American rode roughhod over the freedom Of
speech Is there nothing unconstitutional in thsf lCe
/ OF There is, there is
The constitution declares that the cedom OF the press
shall not be abridged yet in the city of Louisville in
urated mob of the members of this order attacked two
newspaper offices, burned their signs, and would have
sacked the buildings and given them to fames-and for
what2 because they dared to exercise the rights guaran
tied liz the constitution in denounciug reasonable
spiracy [Applause Day after day the Louisville Jour
nal the know-nohing organ was crainned with OLA. Of
abuse Nothing sacred for its polluting touch.
Adopted citizens OF ali clmes and all religions wec fol
lowed with hound-like erocity, until incendarism muir
der riot became the presiding deitcs Of city 80 often
consecra,ed by the p,esenee of the immortal Clay In
applause oh my fcllow-ctirens, has IT come 10
this Is the constitution unineaning thingY Is
liberty but shadow? Is the press to be sthed BY the
shouts and groans and daggers and incendary torches of
ruthless mobs? Can this be done and the constitution DO
Look TO it that the press the great light of the
i'm ha dark at
/ cism. TGreat applau.e
The constitution declares here shall be religious test
IN a qualification for Office Yet this "know-nothng"
party direct conflict with this express provision estab
lsh religious test that if carried out would soon make
funeral pyre for the republic Our fathers, in their wis
DOM separated the government entirely from any estab
lshment of religion They Ind read 10 advantage the
history of the past and knew that freedom Of conscience
in all its fulness could not eaisf where there was unono OF
Church and State Consequently, they drew the line Of
denarkation broad and deepas broad and deep as an
OF water is State separated from Church. and when
either begins to infringe upon the other from that moment
our liberties decline [Cries Of aRght, right
Again the maintenance of any one religious establish
only succeed by the prescription OF all Others
and is there American citizen here Tonight who loves
his God and the constitution, who would be
willing any religious establishment rise upon
the ruins of all No. my friends freedom OF
our dearest right TO worship God according to the die
taes of conscience is duty and no power on earth
shall wrest it from Prolonged cheering care not
what garb they assume They may come as the silver
yelled prophet of Khorassa and their bgotry be hidden
by its flashing spendor; but will tear of the veil and
expose its hideous yisage They may come with the Mes
robe of prescriptions and seek TO cohe in its poisoned
folds the young giant of America; but will put to
shame the Borgias of the republic They may cruped
in the sombre garments of religious intolerance and seek
mpae the rights of conscience upon the pixies Of po-
ltcoeligous soldiery but, in spite Of al the soul will
aspire to its Maker in its own FORMS and they cannot and
SHALL prevent it. Loud and lopgconnued applanse
Again the crushing out Of sect would be the pre-
ude to the crushing ofanother that won be
securen his religious rights In addition war of religion
or sects would produce its natural ruRAsK FyiDsLrr
MIA
should find root i'll American soil? Take warning from
the past forget not the time when the grareyardso Of
Paris bore upon their portals Death - an eternal sleep
Forget not the promscuous prostitute elevated to god
dess Of reason What friahul scenes took place France
got drunk with blood to vom crime The throne was
overturned, nobility banshed, priesthood overwhelmed,
virtue prescribed" all the bonds of civil society burst
asunder and France became vast theatre OF carnage
and bloodsed The scafold was the stage, the scsns
sler death, the instrument for finishing the tragedy
the guiloine, and Frenchmen the victims Convul-
sion followed conyulsion the kingdom was shaken TO s
centre and the demon of Inidelig, hand in hand with
strife all CORY from that bed of carnage and saked
through the streets OF the metropolis God Of our fathers
and our fathers sons protect America from such alarm
/ ing catastrophe Enthusiastic applause
i This know-nothing organization land am dealing with
their principles not their mem also tramples upon the
right of suffrage In the State council that assembled in
this city last October the following resolution WAS offered
adopted That the members go armed and seize upon
/ balot-boxes.7 sseas
They must go armed to the ballot-boxes, with that
] "weapon that il surcr set
! weapon that comes down as still
j As snow flakes fall upon the sod,
II And executes frceman's will .t@f@
i AS lightning does the will of God :"
not with the baot-the sceptre of American freemcn
Immense applause but with the knife and the pistol
nore gross outrage upon the ballobox con-
/ tcmplated.
i In Cincinnati their last municipal election the ballot
boxes of the Eleventh aud Twelfth Wards taken pos
session of by know-nohing mob broken to pieces, and
their contents given to the torchand this too by Ane
cans toho desire shoV AoW w they uoud rule Anerica
What sight for free people But their to the
constitution and utter disregard Of the sanctty Of the bal
ot-box fully eyinced in the late horrible riots
MED to all men whose eyes frat opened on foreign soil
They cared not whether be Protestant Catholic,
Irish Germanwhcther they their fathers had fought
and bed for their adopted country 1t sufficient to
know that their birthplace not here they gno-
miniously trampled and ruthlessy assailedmen,
women and children murdered and their dwellings given
to the flames Such holocaust Of bleeding hearts burnt
bones and blazing dwellings, constitute fit monument for
an organization conceived in tyranny and nurtured in
blood. [Long-contnued applause
Thus we see that this organization strikes at the most
vital parts of the constitution They 'abridge the free
dom Of speech and the pessestabish religious tests
qualifications for public position and trampe upon the
right of suffrage party in direct anagonisn TO the
constitution exist without cndangcring constitu-
i tional liberty. Applause
They profess great for the memory Of Wash
ington, but in their bitter and ndscrimnate prescription
of Amercans by choice they heed his last COUNSEL to
"frown indignantly upon every attempt to ALLEVIATE any
portion OF county from the eufcebe the
= cred ties which bind together the various parts
Cheers They assume to be the cole guardian of ncs