Washington telegraph., 1856-06-18

posed to employ. to remedy an evil, and the
plan which they suggest?
o. A base and infamous lie is we'll ex-
posed in the following article So far as our
observation extends, but one opposition
press in the state of Arkansas has polluted
its columns by publishing the miserable,
cowardly SANDER. We take the lie refer
red to, and the comments accompanying it,
from the Gazette and Democrat, of the
9TH inst
STARTLING DEvELoPMENT-The follow
ing paragraph is taken from the columns of
the National Intelligencer-an old line
whig paper:
''Duringa trial now progressing in the
| United States circuit court in this city the
extraordinary fact came out in evidence, that
when a Know Nothing is admitted to his
second degree, he becomes party to an
oath which binds him to stand by a brother
of the same grade. regardless of consequent
ces, even as witness in any court"
Who can read the above paragraph with
ont an involuntary sbudder of horror? Is it
any wonder that so many honest honorable
men have drawn out of the concern forever?
Is it not enough to repulse every honest
citizen?
The above We clip from recent No. of
the family organ. Now the editor of that
paper IDsinuates base and malicious SLAM
der-which, if he did not know was false.
(and 1t requires great deal of charity to
suppose he did noD he could have easily
learned it was so. HisdaiIy associates-iis
peers In every respect, are members of the
American party He knows that the obliga.
ton of secresy has been removed from the
order, and that he could have obtained cor
rect Information from them on this subject.
/ There are Pizzerinctums, too, from wtorn
he could have ascertained the truth of this
most uncharitable and black charge
against the American party. 1t will be
remembered by our readers, that last
Spring twelve month. a copy of our ritual
was stolen, and afterwards furnished Henry
\. Wise, by Senator Bright, of Indiana.
That ritual was published in the True Dem
ocrat, and if there was any desire on the
part of its editor. to do even-handed justice
and not SANDER and traduce his fellow-cti-
zens. he would not have copied and endors-
ed such q SANDER from IAN old line whig
paper
| 1t seems very strange, that no SANDER is
too base. no lie too black for the enemies of
the American party. When riots and
bloodshed occur in the large cities, those
Sag Nicht organs invariably take sides
against their .cOuntrvmen, and swear the
Irish and Dutch were justified Is not this
lamentable state of things, one well
calculated to make conservative men every
where, pause and consider where party
spirit is carrying them
Since writing the above, we have receiv-
ed the Memphis Eagle and Enquirer, of
9th May, in which we find this SANDER
nailed TO the counter, but the family organ
true to its instincts, did not tell TIE truth,
as viii be seen by reading the appeals
quotation:
From The Memphis Appeal.
CAN'T BE TRUE?- a letter of the
New York correspondent of the National
Intelligencer, dated the 9th inst, we find
the following extract:
During trial now progressing in the
United States Circuit Court in this city, the
extraordinary fact come out in evidence,
that when Know Nothing is admitted to
his second degree. he becomes party to an
oath which binds him to stand by brother
of the same grade regardless of consequent
ces. even as witness in any court, So
says legal reporter
The appeal asks. Can this be true?''
We answer, No, 1t can't be true-it ism t
81 L.
witness must have perjured himself. or the
illegal reporter OF the National Intelli-
gencer wilfuIly and maliciously LIED -
There is no AMERICAN ORDER that we are
not proud of and glory in; and we repeat
that we have never seen in an Ameri can
Council an individual half as mean, or
one-tenth part as mendacious, as those who
traduce and vilify them.
The intelligence then comments as
follows upon the origin of the paragraph:
This item. says the Intelligencer, refers
city of New York. and was embodied in a
letter of our New York correspondent, ida
ted the 9Th of May,) who intimated hi:
want of confidence in the statement by con-
cluding the paragraph with the following
words: $50 says legal reporter bnl
surely 1T is not really So" The copyist
BY omitting these words. has located the
trial in Washington, and made the Intelli
gencer the endorser of statement for which
it is no more responsible than it would be
for any other item conveyed in correspond
a ence or By the telegraph No such occur
e renee as is above represented took place II
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