Dakota City herald. [volume] (Dakota City, Neb.) 1857-1860, 1859-09-17
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IN tho city Of Dakota, avery Suspicious look
Ing set q men. They had a suspicious Gp.
p5srsnoo not on account Of having violated
the Territorial Code, or committed a crime
t3at was forbidden by the Common law not
because they done anything that was ma!a IN
81 or mala Proh5ihIm but because they enter
tanned what they knew to be dishonest and
dangerous opinions, and took a very uncTe3-
table way 10 promulgsts them. Many ofthem
were oonciously ashamed, either Of themselves
being found in suob o motley crowd, or Of the
doings Of that convention that mookingly
started On mai, hans bills, with the cry Of
"hopssty" and competency, " and felt
mortified 10 such az extent, that they percept-
iyly betrayed their nervousness. We srs not
at al surprised that well meaning men, who
have been simple enough TO be dupsd thus far,
by The few political trieksters that managed
the concern, should have their eyes opened to
the baseDess Of these who we're most prominent
in collecting together the few who we're there.
Let us take a view Of the men who chiefly
composed Il, and the different shades Of opln-
ion their represented.
The Aboiitioaist was there in sl bis glory,
with bis sectional doctrine and his unnatural
amalgamatOu theory, go extensively praetioed
by them in Massachusetts, Ohio and Oausds,
and with the false doctrine that the white
and black races are eqnsI Like Carbon
and Wendell Philips, they we're willing to De.
ounce ia gnmessured terms, the Patriots Of
the Revolution IS perRdious soounarels md
base villains. aud pronounce the Constitution
q league With He'll They we're there with the
came Jloc1thirsty and ~treasonnble doctrines,
that vos maintained Ia Massachusetts when
Baohelder vas mnrdered 10 cold blood, in the
streets Of Boston, because he assisted the
United States officers to execute the Law, and
the same that Is now maintained by their
brethren in Chjo, where IL is declared 10 be
the duty Of each one belonging to that fanati.
csl party to shoot down, to murder the officers
Of the lsw il they should attempt 10 carry oat
the mandates of the Courts. Sloh ars the
sentiments entertained by "a considerable part
Of those, who attended this traitorous assenb.
'age on Saturday last. No doubt they viii
deny It, but a denial Wont do. We propose
to judge them by their acts, by what they did.
When Mr.. Daily, who is well known e. be a
rsbbid member Of that party, spoke altar the
convention adjourned and lsupohed Out iato &
penegyr;o on 'AboiitlOnism, " they eo1id not
themselves, but gaze vent to their
and partially disguised sentiments b
lpplsudiug the speaker With loud STAN plug Of
The feet. Any one who was there knows what
the purport Of his hsif expressed words
On "AbOlitioniem," while entertaining the
with some very Inappropriate re
or that diseustinE topic. Bat ks k~eW
there we're m~sny-perhaps nearly oil his
supporters horo-strongly tinotured with that
istcstable and most dangerous Of political
Had not the remembrance that !
.hev wero a small minority Ia this territory, |
laea frequently forced on there memory 6y
he winnings Of thsspeaker, We docbt whether
.heir sense Of propriety would have been sut
cent TO control them, and prevent them stthe
inc to have set up one continuous, dismal
,owl of "Abolitionism , " that would have
,tsrtlsd their more numerous brethren in
)berlin.
Another olsss that prominently displayed
tse,f in the Convention, was those who form
,rly belonged to that d%efunot, political order,
Iuown as Know Nothirgs. II is not SO very
org q time since, but what their memory can
,ssily reach 10 1t. We do not expect hat they
sill become angry at Us, il We remind 'a5s
hat thew we're In the ha5i. Of nesting ia &C.
,ret eonolave. at a very questionable hour Of
.ho night. ard plsdEDg themselves before
High Heaven under The sacred obligation o.
IN oath, TO support no mBu for office, who
was a foreigner by blrth or s Catholic by be-
tsf they Of course, deny Bny Connection
stta the order nov, because Il became un-
popular and died out. That may b. true In
to tho order as a political oonosn,
but can as much be sold OF the 6igoted pen
Imeuts Of those Who became its msmbecaf
Ts think not! They ere not che whit less
opposed 10 Catholics sni Foreigners nov,
hau thoy we're 10 1928, when they sDoked "a
ia Charleston, ia the enlightened
tate OF Massachusetts too, ana wheo the
aus had to dy from the fury o. a bigoted
iob on q cold December night, With only
1eb covering 40 they could snatch up in their
igdt, while their paths were Illuminated by
he red flames or tbelr peaceful DWELLING
.cr are they one whit less bigoted aud less
,~natical than when they trad the Catholic
hurehes o. Philsdelphia in 1874, and lsfs
ls noble bell that dyst to!lod American Inds-
audenos, smoulderiug iu the su0kiug ruir5
ST Augustine or when In 1854, thvy tar-
"a and feathsrel a Catholic priest for daring
perform the saored fanodon Of his calling,
I'd murdered 10 cold blood at Baltimor.,
Orleans and Louisville, such f~srsigu.bon
dEsns % dared 70 vote. They may say