Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-06-23

as Mr.. Giddipgs, he entertains, entrances, and
enchains our indigenous Know Nothings (most
of whom profess to be intensely pro-slavery in
their afections) once or twice a week in their
secret lodge meetings and never fails to be
on hand when the brethren of Washington
are to be discoursed in the open air. Else
where-north Of us-a speech from the Hon.
Lewis D. Campbell is a standing dish at ultra
Abolition Republican party meetings, wherein
party leader by blessing lover the left) the
South, southern men, the obligations of the
Constitution, and that instrument itself as
made by our fathers, quite as Justify as he
d-ns the Pope and abuses the Dutch and
Irish here by way of maintaining his position
as a Know Nothing party leader. His ex-
ploits in the Old Line Washington Wing
meeting on Saturday night last, prove that
he is as great an adept at extraordinary feats
Of political horsem anship as our truthful tai
ented, and ingenious neighbor himself, who
has VIGOROUSLY essayed to ride more political
nags in his lifetime and at on,e, than any
other extraordinary knight of the political
ring We wot of.
Mr. Campbell's praises of the Old Line
Wings, of the eternal justice, proprety, and
country and on those who have in their time
subscribed to the latter, remind US forcibly of
the faith and hope Of an old fellow in North
Carolina, who, having in early life been a
member Of the Baptist church, maintained
and really believed that his short connection
with that scot was complete insurance against
his future punishment for his many subsc-
quent si2s Of debauchery, profanity, &c, &c.
When approached by friends who pointed out
to him the evils Of the terrible life he was
leading, and their certain consequences, un-
less he reformed, he always threw himself
upon the doctrine that, having once been of
the elect" he could not fall out of the
saving influence Of grace, however his course
of life might outrage the laws of God and man
The real Wings present on Saturday night,
by their countenances (after Mr.. Campbelrs
| oratory was forced upon them by tho large
number of Know Nothings interpreted
throughout the room who beloved for him)
very evidently judged Mr.. C.'s whiggery to
be about on a par with the old North Caro-
linians religion; while Mr.. himself as evil
IDENTIFY held that it should stand between a
just verdict from public opinion on his politi-
cal course, as the old North Carolinian, that
having once been in the Baptist church, he
might with impunity ever afterwards drink
hard, gamble, out swear every ether man in
the State, &C., without fear of consequences.
Interesting Autograph.-We had the
pleasure to-day of inspec ting an original letter
in the hand writing of the great English pa
triot, John Hampden. 1t is dated twelve
days before the battle in which he lost his
life, and is written in neat, beautiful and very
distinct characters, though the photography
and the forms of the letters are somewhat an.
tique. The name, it will be observed, is
signed Hampden, and not HamJden, as given
enormously in Hume. The following is a
literal copy:
For my noble friends COLONEL Bulsfrod
Captaine Greenfield, Captaine Tyrrell, Cap
tame West, or any of them
"GENTLEMEE The army is now at North
Hampton, moving every day nearer to you
Ii you dlsband not wee may be a mutual sue
cour each to other; but if you dispense you
make yourselves and ye country pray.
You shall hear daily from
yor servant,
&C North Haunt Cato 4 IIRa, -,