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

Ano oIo LIne wing Meetlng.-Among the
Know Nothings who were engaged in the char.
acteristic work Of disturbing the meeting of
Old Line Wings of this city on Saturday night
last, were not few citizens who usually pass
for persons of character and standing in this
community. The rebukes administered to
them by the chairman, Col Seaton, and Sena-
tor Jones, of Tennessee, for their unauthorized
and rowdy interference in a matter in which
they assumed to participate unbidden, and in
sach manner, will long be remembered bv
such Of them as have not become lost to a /,
sense OF shame through the influence of their
animation in secret lodges with the rowdies
who behaved so Outrsgeously at the Democ-
cratic meeting at Carusi's Saloon, and, subse-
quently, before Browns Hotel. The result of
their conduct on Saturday night has been to
Increase In the minds of thoughtful and really
respectable persons in their own organization
distrust of their principles, rules, &C., which
thus so manifestly tend to the prostration Of
everything like popular rights under this
government, whenever under cover of the
night and crowd, the vicious among them
see proper to violate them.
The Tone Of the Meeting 1t was very eyi.
dent On Saturday night last, at COpp's Saloon,
that the great mass of the Old Line Wings
present sympathized closely with the eloquent
remarks of Senator Jones, of Tenn the ten
oency OF which went to show that the path of
patriotic duty on the part Of those Wings who
do not affiliate either w.
or Republican partyism, is to give Buchanan
and Breckenridge cordial support; as being the
only candidates before the country who, if
elected, can be relied on to discharge their
respective functions on principles not subver-
siye Of the Constitution and at war with all
that experience and sound discretion teach 70
DC the best interests of society. If the spirit
80 evidently actuating the Wings of the Fed
eral metropolis pervades their brethren of the
Inherent States who are to assemb BILE at Louis
vile in the course of the next month, the cor.
rectness Of our anticipations as regards the
course Of that highly respectable party in the
approaching Presidential canvass, will be am.
ply yindicated, indeed.
The Pow-wow. the Wings found it
necessary to turn of the ga, at Copp's Saloon,
on Saturday night last, to get rid of the Know
Nothing rowdies who had assumed to take the
affairs Of their meeting out If their hands
which was done in the middle of the speech
from Mr.. Lewis D. Campbell that had been
forced upon them-Mr c. was escorted nv q
large crowd Of persons ambitious Of "ruling
America" by force Of boot heels brick bats
cat calls, slung shot, &C., to the City Hall
where ne delivered very violent and virulent
abolition speech, which was Enthusiastically
shouted over by the crowd surrounding him.
lts noteworthy feature was its comments on
MI Brooks, of South Carolina, and its sweep.
ing misrepresentation Of that gentleman
Gaze, on which Mr.. Campbell is 30 soon TO sit
as aJudge. Nothing could have been mora
cut Of place than the act of Mr.. Campbell in
dragging that case before such an audiepca
as that by which he was surrounded, and es.
saying to sit in judgment upon it before the
testimony on which he is to decide upon it, as
representative in Congress, next week, Is
printed.
1t was very evident, from his remarks, that
ne proposes to dispose of the case as before
the House, not upon the testimony elected
under oath and the law thereof, but as a DO
hucal partizan, bent on using the affair for q
parnran end only. His course upon it on
Saturday night last, in the presence of the
rowdy and noisy crowd of Know Nothipa
shoulder hittersin-the-dark,b by whom he wa,
surrounded, has stripped his position upon i
as representative, Of all moral weight, and
has justly forced on the minds of nearly nj
here the conviction that he has gone into tn,
crusade against Mr. Brooks wholly for wha
he can make out of it politically, for the cau,,
OF aboiitionism as involved in the approachin,
presidential election.
lewis D. Campbell, Of Chic, is YER,
fuHry fellow. Though as emphatic an Abo
huonist In all his professions and sympathis