The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-21
ANOTHER wing rprsuFr 10 TIE DEMOCRACY.

ANOTHER wHi9 TRIBUTE 40 The DEMOCRACY.
The democracy of Texas beset with know-nothing-
ism, but making most gallant stand against IT,
We have already published the proceedings Of the State
convention and wish could lay before vrs the
resolutions Of the democracy in the several counties
Among the healthy indications Of the times notice the
speech Of Judge Buckner leading whg, delivered at
Bexar the Esd Of June from which take the follow
ing stirring passage:
Judge Buckner then called upon. He said the posi-
ton in which be found himself placed the novel
he had occupied any public occasion in his life And
let give said he, 70 each gentleman here present whg
democrat the that go in for the resolutions
there against know nothngsm and confne myself excu
svey to deDs and that desert principle; for may
this OCCASION that from my earliest youth to this
time have been united with the whig party hold
that those resolutions in regard nothngm involve
principles OF more importance than divided the wing
and democratic parties in all the time during which have
read newspapers listened the discussion Of political
principles in country And hold that those gentlemen
who have been associated in the whg party not If
they have joined the know nothing ranksshoud stop
after the developments which have been made through all
portions Of the countrytha they should stop and If
their secret organization will permit them, withdraw
at and stand upon the ground of the noble
leader of the party the boast of the people,
and applauded by the democratic party OPEN frank
and manly he pursued upon every political question
which was agtated in the country whilst he trod the
stage Let ask those gentemen there be Of them
who belong to this know nothing partydo you believe that
at this day. if the great Henry Clay living now, he
would be found creeping cellars and swearing fidelity
political midnight associations Henry Clay who declared
that he would rather be right than be President2
He continued Look at the principles announced and
generally regarded the established principles Of this know
nothing party: are they not at war, in THEN very nature
with American principles? Do these gentlemen who call
themselves the American partdo they American
principles In the late contest in Virginia, the democratic
party did represent American principles and in Tennessee
where the is between the democratic and
know nothing parties democratic party representing
American principles. What, gentlemen American prin
cpes Is not American principle that no shall be
prescribed of his religious belief whether he be-
eve in God not-whether Atheist Deist whether
Catholic Presby teran, Methodist Baptist,
whatever creed he may profess Does not the constitution
of your country tell that to be prescribed
TO be deprived of the right vote to hold Office aud enjoy
the privileges Of American citizen, account of their
religion Does the know nothing party advocate that prin
cipe That principle nbodied in the immortal const
tuition of your counryn the constitutions which has guided
country from the weakness Of infancy the vgor OF
manhood and spread its fame throughout the civilized
world That is American principle, and this know moth
ing party the anti American, and not the American party
And again DO the genius and spirit of institutions
quire that should throw open doors and offer
um country to the oppressed Of all lands And when
have invited them to shores does accord with the
genius and spirit of American institutions to hold them
aiensl do they require to maintain and sustain them
here until qualified, under the constitution, and then to adj
nit thom citizens equal rights with ourselves?
AS instance of the practical working of the know
nothing doctrine Of prescription Of origin he al
uded the Of Mr. Roseus, of Louisanaa man who
high in the estimation of every intelligent gentleman
the State the abest lawyers in the South standing
the very head of the bar in New Orleans with practice
500 900 year. but yet man Of whose services
chief justice the nothing lawyers had bound them
selves by oath deprive the State account of his for
eign origin