The true Democrat., 1856-01-15

thlnk hazard nothlngln saying that, when l wrote my last letter, at least seven-tenths of the members of our church had joined this party. For what? To accomplish its avowed aims of course. And what were they? Why to "enlist" every Protestant "church organi- zation" in the land in "crusade against' one Of the weakest churches, numerically, in the whole country Here was the first object of the Know Nothing party; and the second was to oppose foreigners. Will yoQ say this is combination against c church, and not of church against party? Which is the worst? Which savers most of turpitude? But. unfor- tunately for the distinction, the combination is against political party, too, as its acts demon- strably show, whatever may be its p,otessions. In honest truth, this was the main, if not the exclusive object oft. The first intimaton that the world had of its existence was its onslaught upon democrats in general and Nebraska men in particular. And please remember as we pass along, who suffered first from it, when it had neither name nor platform; for, when asked while fighting under an anti-Catholic flag, they killed nobody but democrats, they said 1t was because the democrats fought against them.
 Now, l suppose that an actual, existing, operative, sworn combination of the kind is ten thousand times more reprehensible than the simple endeavors of single individual to en- list church against a political party alone
 But startling and fratricidal as is your doc Urine in its application it is infinitely worse. in the abstract. Turpitude to enlist Cor rather try to enlist) church organization against any party, DO matter achat that party may be!!'-- Why Doctor, such teaching coming from you should raise shout of triumph from all the pirates, bandits and assassns in the land. They have only to combine, to concert their schemes in secret and publish to the world political platform, and it forthwith becomes criminal to array church against them, or even to try to do it! A political party may make hostility to Methodsm an article of their creed, and it would be criminal in me to advise my church to oppose it! The Know Nothngs allow the Catholics to oppose them, and, where their vote counts heavily, even embrace them; but you would not allow even Catholic to counsel his people against this party! Your doctrine is monstrous, brother, and coming from one of the best heads of our church, 1t proves de- monstrably that Know Nottingham, as it was when took the pen against it, is indefensible. Whether 1t be right or wrong to array church against political party, depends entirely upon the character of that party. If it intermeddle with churches-if if it. form coalitions with churches against churchill its profassed ob- ject be to rob church of its civil privileges if 1t be immoral in its constitution, and revo- lutionary in its tendences-then it is the duty ofevery christian individually ,and every church collectively, to oppose it. And if it displays all these uncomely features in the only mani- festations which it is pleased to make of itself while it conceals from the public view its coun- sells, its plans, its machinery and it's member ship, the duty becomes imperative, and the more imperative the stronger the party Such 1 regarded the Know Nothngs. It was reserv- ed for this party to work in the dark--to unite religion and politics-to gather recruits by whis- pers--to nose for them about schools and col leges-to cement political bonds by oaths-to devise plan whereby ministers of the gospel might become politicians without reproof and persecute without discovery-to put the con- sciences of some men in the keeping of others ito bind its members not only to vote, but to | fight under dctation. Such is the inner working of the order What the outward? Kissing, bleating and coughing down such men as Wise and Douglass destroying ballot boxes, and but chering, in and around their blazing dwellings, men, women and children.*
 | It spreads its taint through all the depart ments of government. Witness the scenes now enactlng in Washington; the legislation of Massachusetts; the criminal trials in New York. Can native expect justice from judge or jury of foreigners, or foreigner from these native officials? A Protestant from Catholics, or a Catholic from Protestants? At a trial in Mas sachusetts Know Nothings excused themselves from testifying to facts important to justice on the ground that their testimony would subject them to (Know Nothing) pains and penalties. And the judge decided that these volunteer, self-assumed responsibilities placed the wtnes- ses within the rule that no man is bound to testify to facts that will crminate himself .,- They testified however, very freely against the Catholic who was on his trial! What confidence will those who remain in the lod- ges have in those who left them? What con- fdence those who left them in those who remain in them?
 Before the magnates of the order, gathered at Philadelphia, were pleased to release the members, Themselves included, of course) from so mnch of their oaths as required them to conceal their membership and the member ship of their fellows the Know Nothngs must have mustered at least 5OO,OOO strong. It is safe to assume that each one of them was oues- tioned as to his membership, or the member ship of others, atleast ten times on an average How did they meet these questions? How were they obliged to meet them under their oaths? Why by -. What shall call them, broth CT, to speak truth without giving offense? I will call them untruths, knowing no softer name for them. Here were 5OOOOO untruths. scat tered broadcast over the whole surface of the Union, as the first fruits of Know Nottingham. Many, very many, of them dropped from the lips of christians How were the most of these O,OOO got into the order? By members pre- tending ignorance of 1t; for they were under oath not to acknowledge their membership or to disclose the secrets of the brotherhood. They must, therefore, have been guilty of wilful de- ceptlon with every proselyte they gained. Say that BOG, GOO were gained over in this wav and we have 3OO,OOO more untruths distributed through the country, as the price of so many converts to Know Nottingham. Thousands and hundreds of thousands have left the order and they almost unanimously testify that they found it not to be what it was represented to be- For a time, all who withdrew and spoke against it were denounced as perjured knaves and traitors. This was true or false, according as they found the thing to agree or disagree with the repre- sentatons of it made to them;-a caradid repre- sentaton of it, as we have seen, could not have been made to them, by the law of the or der. If true. what flood of iniquity poured out of the order when they left it! If false, what language Is too severe to characterize the calumny heaped upon them by their recent brethren!
 Mr. Simon Wolf, of Pennsylvania, who writes like man of wisdom and truth, after detailing the fattering but delusive representations by which he was induced to join the Know Noth- ings, thus concludes: " noac declare, that in c lte of sirty gears, Ihave never .tound in private or in p,tbHc in politics or out of tt, in chrch tn lState, as much deceit, ytalselood and corruption as / tound in tue se!fstyled American pa'ty.'"
 To this let me add the testimony Of man, a little older than MT. Wolf, who never did join the American party"
 | was born and raised Gf MT. Hillyer please; see Worcester, Mir. H. in the State of Georgia, where there are now over 43, 900 Know Noth- ings, not one of whom, will venture to say, will assert that he knows blemish on my mo- --1 La..o lod much and dis.