Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-18

testimony would be if appearing on the wit
ness stand, to which the writer il the Union
has arrived.
Knowing well that hue aud cry will be
raised against us for thus discussing this af.
fair, We have to say to the public that our
sense Of duty to the cause of law and justice
in our midst, and that only, has been our guide
throughout it.
The Mockery Some days since We took
occasion to expose the Know Nothing charac-
ter of the late bogus Old Line Wing State Con.
vention held at Baltimore, Md, whereupon
some Know Nothing correspondent Of our tai
ented, truthful and ingenious neighbor abused
US and epithetized as roundly, for misrepre.
senting that precious gathering. Feeling very
sure that come bona fde Old Line Wing of
Maryland would sooner or later lift the fimsy
veil of false pretences with which the Know
Nothings were endeavoring to cover up their
tracks in the management of that affair, we
preferred not to notice our gentle and amiable
neighbours correspondent at that time The
Hon. Senator Samuel Ii Berry of Upper Mari.
George to that Convention, appeared on the
day before yesterday in the Planters Adpo-
cate over his own name, and thoroughly ex-
poses the mendacity, impudence and hum
buggery of the effort to create the impression
that it proved to be aught but Know Moth
ing expedient to deceive the bona .fie Wings
Of the State into the support of Fillmore and
the principles Of Know NothiDgism. We there
fore proceed to quote him as a sufficient reply
to the Know Nothing who assailed us through
the columns of cur immaculate and eyen.tem-
pered neighhor. Thus; describing the success
full efforts of the Know Nothings to pack the
county meetings selecting delegates, he says:
In many, indeed in most of these. it appear
ed that there were present persons VIGOROUSLY
identified with this new party, in such num-
bers as In many instances to control the ac-
ton OF the meeting, as a consequence of which
many delegations were sent, either instructed
to endorse particular candidate, or else
composed of persons previously pledged to his
support. The irregularity of which proceed
Ing must have been apparent to all real
hlgs, upon two considerations; for, firstly,
members or adhersnts Of other parties had no
right to control these meetings, and, second
~, the sending for men already pledged or
instructed for particular ticket, and resolved
at all hazard to have that ticket endorsed,
defeated the primary and original object Of
the whole movement, which, as have stated,
was for the purpose of free aud unbiased con-
sultatlon as to the course proper for Wings to
pursue.
upon arriving in Baltimore it was evident
that these irregular proceedings had been
carried to such an extent, as totally to set ut
defiance the very object of the Convention, it
being clear that the adherents of the Amer
lean" party and the supporters of its nominal
tlon had secured the entire control. Believing,
therefore that the meeting would not be prop
erly Wing meeting, believing that it would
depart from the principles already laid down
by the first meeting, april 10Th, } and that its
action would consequently, be an entire de
sertion and betrayal Of the Old Line Wings of
the State, declined to attend its sittings
And 1t Is because these fears have been con-
hTmed by its action, that 1 refuse to endorse
in any particular, what it has seen fit to do.
Many of the counties were not represented at
all Many had but one delegate present, and
not few even Of the delegations that were
present were composed of persons who cared
not fig for Wing principles in comparison
with the aforesaid American" dOgmas they
had seen fit to adopt.
II oppose its action, therefore, in the first
PioUO, pocdueoi IL was properly CONSTITUTED, out
was controlled by the members or adherents
of another party to secure their own ends. l
oppose it, in the second place, because of the
resolutions it adopted, and its endorsement of
Mr. Fillmore. The resolutions, by their in
piled coincidence with Mr. Fillmore present
position, ny directly in the face of the position
taken by the preceding meeting of the 18th Of
April, and by their studied evasion of the ex-
citing question of the day: their denunciatiOn
OF the Democratic party as sectional, because
of It's efforts on behalf of southern rights. and
their failure to endorse the Kansas bill, for
which the South now contends, they utterly
fan to meet the views Of southern Wings upon
these questions I"