The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1856-07-23
PHILADELPHIA, June 80, 1856.


,r, PHILADELPHIA, Iune 80, 1856.
GEsTLEmEN III have had the honor 10 re-
ceive your letter of the 20lh inst. 1t would,
I assure you, give me great pleasure to have
the opportunity of saying TO my fslIow-citi-
zens of Allegheny county why I support the
nomination of Buchanan, earnestly and ac-
lively. But engas ements here entirely pre-
clude il. I should have peculiar saiisfaoiio n
in being among you now because my last
visit 10 Piusburg was on very different er.
rand. l was there, two years ago, as a
member Of what was Supposed 10 be The
Wing State Committee, with All earnest anx-
iety on my part,o save from insult and de-.
feat your fellow, citizen, George Darsie, a
man Of high character and unques,ioned in
tegrily, and who | thought, (and the event
showed how truiy,) was about 10 be sacri.
feed because his birth place and very early
childhood happened to be abroad. 'f's
With what follows, need not trouble you;
but within The mex, year found myself
obliged by mere sse If.respect publicly to re.
nouEce all active connection with this Com
miltee. My reasons aIe before my fellow.
cinzens-and ieel no little pride ia the rec.
objection tha, did not wait for lis moment
of decay and discontinue to express my an.
lagonism 10 that unconstitutional and anti
Republican party known as the Know
Nothing organization. When said what /
though, about it, il was in it's full power of
mischief. II IS not necessary TO speak of il
now. Its honest odherents, (and there were
not few, y are leaving it. Its managers and
designers and conirlvers ought never 10 be
forgiven for having disfgured the political
history of The country by the tradition, as il
has now become, OF party which proscri.
bed a mans religion and drew distinctions
between those whom the Constitution apd
laws make equal.
1t destroyed The old Wing rarty utterly and
completely; AMI when am now asked 10
vote for Mr.. Fillmore, as still Whig, or for
Mr. Doaelson as Democra', have plain
answer. that. as I understand il, each OF
these gentlemen became an sdhering Kpow-
Nothing or technical "American," passed
The several degrees Of the order, and took lie
foolish and wicked oaths. II this be So
and i, has been openly asserted and never
denied-if Mr.. Fillmore, an ex President Of
the United Slaies, ever look an oath or obl-
CATION 10 exclude or aid in excluding man
from public trust, simply on account Of his
religion or his binh-if in taking that obi
galiou be had to purge himself from all sym.
pathy or connection with catholics or for.
eisners, however innocent and respectable,
then cannot as gentleman or an Ameri.
can citizen vute for Mr.. Fillmore. There
has died in this city within the lasf Two
months, one Of our most venerable citizens,
a resident here for more than half century,
though born abroad and Roman Catholic.
l followed him 10 his grave. His whole
heart was loyal 10 his adopted county, and
true TO the faith of his ancestors. Two of
his sons, my personal and political friends,
protesting the same religious opinions with
their father, for years represented this city in
the Legislature of the State with honor
to themselves and their constituency, and
yet if they and he were alive now, they
would find themselves by this new ritual
prescribed and disqualified. refer TO this
as most striking, and TO my immediate
fellows citizens familiar illustration of the
PRACTICAL and inevitable fruits Of this organi-
zation. Well may we be grateful that a
parry protesting such principles has passed
away ! bes your pardon for troubling you
with This reference 10 it. s'
' Those who were once Wings, are, on the
on the other hand, ASKED TO vote for Fremont
aud Dayton, no, as Wings, but as wha. are
called ''Republicans )" for 4, seems 10 be
assumed, (and perhaps history jnsll6es il,l
that nothing is easier for Whis than TO
change his name. II he does it in a certain
direction, and calls himself Know Nothing,
or a "Republcan," it is all very well; but If
he chooses, in the exercise Of manly discrs-
ton, stimulated by local pride, to act with
the Democratic party, as certainly mean
to do, there is no end to the denunciaiion he
receives. Mr.. Fremont do not know per.
sonalIy, and what have read of him In.
duces me 10 think be is gentleman Of en-.
tire personal responsibility, Of rambling, adj.
ven!urous habits Of fife, and large specula-
tivo wealth. MY gallant .ownsman, Dr..
Kane, has done quite as much in the way Of
adventure, endured as much hardship, gained
as large scientific fame in the cause Of ho.
man charity, and yet am not aware that he
has any immediate aspirations for the Presi.
dency. He is moi rich man, and lives In
Philadelphia" Mr.. Dayton do know, and
have known him long and well, and among
sltths aspenties OF politics, il is very pleas.
ant ITO have the chance Of bearing testimony,
tvaiuelsss though it may be, to his' high So
cisf and intellectual position. He is worthy
Of any honor the nation can bestow on him,
although this time his fsir mbilion cannot
be graliHed. Mr.. Dayton stands on the Re.
publican platform; having within ten years !,
as n Senator, voted against extending the
Missouri Compromise iiae to the Pacific