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BT ORLANDO.
rvK seen thee?-and would see again
Thv charms divinely fair :
To see once more thy loveliness
Would drive away my care.
I've felt the pressure of thy hand
80 gently in my own j
Again I'd feel it* soft embrace,
And listen to each tone.
ft
I've heard thee sing tho songs we love ;
i Once moro I'd hear the lays
Which brought sweet feelings to my heart
A thousand littlo ways.
I've heard thec spcgh_pf friends?the first
In Ufa's bright mcftkyou knew ;
And I, though last, torall a friend
Should be a first and true.
When shall I see thee, love, oneo more,
- Whon shall I once more stand
Within the beauties of thy home
'^ftftAnd grasp thy gentle hand t
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7*'. When shall 1 hear again thy voices
To hear yon sweetly sing,
Aud inaltc again my soul rejoice,
And pleasaftt feelings bring f '
Oh I let it be when I shall come,
Onoe tuore to set beside
Thee in thy Nippy, hnppy home,
To claim thee as my bride.
Then will I chase my gloom away.
My lonely hours give o'er;
And but with thee in love to stay,
" And t-oamagiyu no more.
Greenville, A C, July 28, 1854,
Jliisi'lrlancmiB lUaiiing. I
Xbe&irflbe ip lt)e iJU ilOehicg?.
BT COMLY JK88UP.
What a field of romance there is in the
AVest! Like its own beautiful prairies, it
spreads before the traveller, myiting him to
pluck the many colored flower* that bloom
around him. The story of the red man of
the forest and plain, his wrongs, bis resent- j
ments, and his inevitably approaching fate,'
are calculated to call up at once the tear of
pity and the blush of shame. Though from
the nature of things it seems ordained that
he shonld pass away, yet such is the hard
fate. His very nature, wild, romantic, and
Adverse to restraint, renders it impossible
that he should ever assimilate himself to the
manners and laws of civilized life; and as
mankind are still toiling up from the night
f barbarism and snperstituion to the bread
noon-light of enlightenment, the poor Indian
(San but fade *-.vay before the coming day.
The vrlor of King Phillip of Pokanoke,
the eloquence of Red Jacket, the indomitable
resistance of Tecumseh, the heart-burning
wrongs of Osceola, the manlv grief of
Logan, the calm patience of the Vox Patriarch;
and the virtues of Pocahontas, have
been themes of story and song; but how
many thousand more, whose hearts clung
' so fondly to their hearth-stones and fathers'
graves, bnve gone down into the shades of
obfiriosi; with no pen to perpetrate the memPry
of their struggles or iheir fate. It is upon
this class of abotiginal inhabitants that
the execration of a cruel world have been
heaped; to these have the epethets, merciK'wu
rpvonoi>fiii uDil lil<irul.tli 1 fkpon an.
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plied by their civliliaed foes eoarce lens tigerlike
than they. When they have seen
their home* pairing by fraud or violence into
the hands of tbeir pale-faced neighbors, when
they saw the whites becoming a powerful
^people, themselves fading away twfore his
"approach-?becoming yearlyweaker and
weaker?destined to total extinction, hope
sometimes yielded to desperation, and, in the
p wild frenay of their excitable nature, they
committed excesses WWcli were deepened in
spirit aad effect by the vengence and resentment
by the whites.
To speak of conquest between our pioneer
ffc'ierr and the sons of the forest is but
to relate an old story.P To point to the rude
mounds now levelled by the wheels of
Time, where some victim of strife was hasti
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ly laid by his comrades, is but to repeat
every day scenes in tl?e early history of the
West.
Long years ago, when every foot of the
Western frontier was disputed ground, Capt
Ward left his home of peace and security in
the East, to endure the hardships and share
the dangers of frontier life, taking with liitn
his wife and several small children. He was
accompanied by a widowed sister and hoi
son, a noble youth of nineteen. The convenience
of a luxuriously furnished room in
a majestic steamer, plowing her way through
the rippling wavelets laving her sides, was
then uuknown. Our pioneers embarked
iu a square built boat, some eight or ten
feet broad by fifty iu length. Tuev had on
board about a dozen horses, besides other
stock, and with the man engaged to work
uie ooat mere were nearly a dozen persona
Slowly and wearily they drifted down the
broad and beautiful Ohio, keeping in the
middle of the stream, as well to enjoy the
current, as to avoid danger from the parties
of Indians which might oe prowling along
the shore. Day after day dawned and
closed on tltttn, and they had passed the
great border battle-ground, where wild, undisciplined
valor was struggling to resist
the approach of usurj>ation and civilization.
They no longer feared the deadly missiles
from the shores, nor started at every sonnd
that came to their ears, as at the footsteps oi
an unseen foe. A sense of security naturally
brings with it a relaxation of vigilance and
a diminution of caution.
Just at the dose of a beautiful day, the
rowers wearv of labor, had ceased and the
boat was drifting down the current, when
Ward called to his pilot:
"Rogers, suppose we put in this side of
that point yonder, fasten our boat to one of
those trees, and put up for the night.',
"It looks like a good place," replied Rogers,
"and I am m favor of stopping; besides,
I hear some wild turkeys, and would like
to have one for breakfast,"
The boat turned toward the point in
oulstion, the children were all animation at
tlie idea of stretching their cramped and
wearied limbs on the shore; the women
were already getting out their provisions and
making preparations for supper. They were
within fifty yards of the shore, when their
attention pras arrested by the cracking of a
stick. The Gaptnin remarked that instead ol
Turkey they might have supper on venison.
''No," shouted Rogers, who was steering tlte
boat, "It's Indians! Row for your lives
or we are all dead!" With all haste tlte
boat was put about, but before it was headed
towards the middle of the stream, the
crash of a hundred rides broke upon the
stillness of those mighty solitudes, and a
shower of balls swept around the little boat
The nephew of the Captain sprang up, seized
his ride and fired at the foremost Indian,
who from his dress appeared to be the leader
of the band. The Iudinn fell, and the
young man at the same moment. The cool
and intrepid exertions of the ora>men soon
placed them beyong the reach of danger;
as they knew it to be only a hunting party,
they were aware that they were destitute ol
canoes and did not fear pursuit; still their
condition was a denlorable one. Mnnv
their horses were hilled, others were wounded
and plunged fearfully ; one child, severely
wounded lay in the boat, his head supported
by his mother, while the crimson
current of life flowed rapidly from his bosom.
He whispered a few words of encouragement
and consolation to his mother, breathed
a prayer commending his spirit to heaven,
and expired.
Night thickened around them. 8i!ent!y
they sought the shore,. and in silence partool'
of their humble repast, and in sorrow
prepared the last resting-place of the dead.
No white-robed priest stood beside the lonely
grave to utter a prayer over the departed,
but the heart-broken mother knelt beside
the remains of her only child; and placing
her hand above that heart, now stifled forever,
breathed such a prayer as only a soul
crushed by sorrow still relying on Heaven
can utter. Manly cheeks were wet within
thAt little group, and, from ayes unused to
weep, the tear of pitty flowed, in the mom
ing. Rogers assisted the mother in plaoing
a rough stone at the head of the grave, and
the little band of adventurers, saddened by
the events of the past, yet hopeful of the future,
started ngsiii on tuoii journey tow
the setting sun.
Long and chequered years have passed,
and the whole face of the mighty West has
changed. The red man, driven back before
the rolling tide of civilization, no longer luik?
tinon the hanks of the Oueen of Rivers. The
unsightly lafts that drifted upon its quiet
water* have given place to floating palaces,
furnished with all tne conveniences and comforts
that taate or comfort can suggest Long
after the event which we have related had
transpired, Rogers, then an old hunter, stood
beside that feimple atone, the mound they
bad piled above the puleelea^day had sunk
to a level with the Rurroundjfef earth ?and
hi* eye moistened as hajjefated the incident
to a comrade, and his lip auivernd m
he would stop hia story with, "Ah! ptwwchen
may talk of sublimity, but I never sJ& an;
religion so sublime as that of that mothei
by the side of the grave of her son in th<
wilderness,"
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; Employed Employed.
John he's too hMuest"
1 "Ah, how ho I"
; Why he has lost many a bargain because
1 he will insist on telling every thing he knows
1 about what he's selling."
, "That's .unlucky."
1 "Yee-^-now when you are pntting off your
hay, you don't feel yourself bound to tell
' just how it was cut aud got in, whether or
1 not you had a little sprinkle of rain upon it,
I, or whether the lot will run as well as the
1 sample."
Certainly not"
1 "If you did you would'nt get your price
1 for it"
Returning to the city in one of our Eastern
trains of cars a few mornings since, we over
heard tw argentic men cm the seat behind us
1 delivering with great energy the diahxnm
1 commenced above. We &It under no obh'
gation to put our Angers in onr ears, and so
' we were favored with more^of the same sort.
"I now." continued the first speaker, "I
tell John, when a customer is looking at a
' case of my boots, he isn't obliged to dig up
every pair in the box and display to him every
flaw in the leather, and every slip of the
' knife, and the quality of the thread, and
1 all that. If he wants to make a trade he
' must put the beet face on the article he can,
and may be sure the purchaser will make
.allowance enough for defects."
"Precisely."
"But I can't make that boy understand the
1 matter. It's just so with all of that family.
'' It runs in the blood. His father before him
had the same failing, or he might have been
a rich man. John won't tell anything but
what is exactly true about the boots, and he
will tell all that is true."
"What do you keep him for t"
"Well, I've thought a good many times I
should get rid of him, but you see I can trust
John myself?I don't have to watch him in
any thing between him and me. I always
know what to depend upon where John is
concerned. He'd cut otf his right hand, I
do verily believe, before he'd cheat me out of
a mill. But I have to take care how I leave
1. customers in bie hsnds. When I uui there
s I attend to them myself?but when I am
away they find out a little more of ,|he art
i of bootmaking than I care to have them
: know."
"That's all nonsense. There's no use in
i setting up for such special honesty. If everybody
traded on such principles it would do.
1 But if one man undertakes it alone he'll soon
go to the wall. The fact is, if we tell the
worst about our goods we actually misreprei
sent?for the purchaser will suppose all the
while we are saying the best we can, and
that the actual worst is far beyond what we
have admitted, Oh, it won't do at aJL" *
Honest John! brave John! heroic John. Our
heart warmed towards the uuknown incor>
ruptible one that kept his integrity through
such ft fiery ordeal. Ood bless him and
shield him, and deliver him out of the hands
; of Philli.itinea.
And this is the way, we thought, that many
f an employer sets about corrupting the un
protected youth committed to his care and
C training. This is the sort of nature under
which many a youthful aspirant for a busi'
ness career is indoctrinated in the mercantile
virtues. These are the models aud exemplars
after which are exhorted to take pattern in
their practice, if they would win golden for
tunes.
Would that we could blow a trumpet of
warning for parents and guardians in the
country who seek so earnestly places for
their sons and wards in our mercantile house#
in the city. Beware what snare you spread
for their unwary feet. Find out the character
of the men to whom you ent rust the
keeping of such precious interests. Be sure
that they prize truth and honesty, not only
i when these traits subserve directly their own
: self interest, but when they some-times interfere
with a "good bargain." Fortify, spccif
ally, the hearts of those you send forth on
such a perilous venture, with an iuflexibte and
steady attachment to uprightness and virtue
?and then uphold and shield them on these
slippery heights of temptation by intercession
. with Heaven.?AfirUrnhnrivt. Tiiink.
? Thought engenders thought,
place one idea upon paper another will follow
it, and still auotlier until you have written
a page. You cauuoi fathom your mind.
There is a wall of thought there which has
no bottom. The more you draw from it,
the more clear and fruitful it will be. If
yoq neghgt to think yourself, and use other
1 people's thoughts giving the utterance only,
1 you will never know what you are capable
' of. At first your idea* come out in lumps
?homely and shapeless?bv^to matter,
time and perseverance will arrange and pol|
isb tbem. Learn to think and you will
| soon learn to write; and the more you think,
the better will you express your ideas.
It is a strange thing, but true neverthe1
less, that a lover is roost easily influenced by
' the woman who does not care for him: she
1 is disturbed by no Jean or doubts; -fretted
> by no jealousies, she is ready to flatter, and
r collected enough to observe when and where
r the flattery will telL Having no feelings of
5 her own pa control, she is heifer able in note
his, and take bar course accordingly.
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Drmnrrntir Crlrhrntimt.
Remarks of Hon. fAXES L. OKB,
At the Democratic Celebration held in Independence
Square, Philadelphia, on the
Fourth Day erf July, 1804.
Hon. James L. Orr, member of Congress
from South Carolina, (who was received with
great applause,) said :
Mr. 1 kU8idkkt and Fellow-Citizens of
rnuaaeipma:?The day we celebrate is consecrated
in the affections of the American
people, and this morning's dawn was ushered
in by the booming of a thousand cannons.
Who can tell but the melting rays of to-day's
sun are typical of the fervent patriotism
which glows, in the American heart? To
the remotest borders of this great confederacy,
one unbroken stream of grateful grntulation
pours out from the saine American
heart to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe,
who heard the prayers of our fathers, and
who has preserved to their posterity the
rich legacy left by the revolution. If the
day bnng so much of gladness to our countrymen
everywhere, need it excite surprise
that its return is enthusiastically hailed by
the vast concourse of Philadelphians who
throng this square. If there bo any one
portion above another of our countrymen
who should hallow, revere, and celebrate
the natal day of our liberty, it is the people
of Philadelphia. [Cheers.] We are standing
now within the shadow of Indepencence
Hall. The same walls without that now
echo my voice, seventy-eight years ago
eehoed within the patriotic words of Jefferson,
aud Franklin, and Hancock, and their
noble associates. Your finlinN ?* 1
? - - -? vviaviu M1VU oivuu
where you are now standing,when they mutually
pledged to each other their lives, their
fortunes, and their sacred honors to supf>ort
the Declaration which has been read in
your hearing. Welcome, then, one and all,
to this political Mecca. [Cheers,]
Time forbids that I should recount the
causes, or dwell upon the history, of the revloution.
It would bo the repetition of "an
oft-told tale suffice it here to say, that the
tout swells with admiration when contemplating
the daring, the lofty courage of those
brave and gallant men, who hazarded all
that is dear in this life, save lienor, in subscribing
in yonder hall thifrdDeclaration
which irrevocably made them traitors to
George the Third, or free, independent
American citizens. It was here they passed
the Kubicon to encounter the most powerful
nation on earth in the field of battle; powerful
in her wealth, powerful in her credit,
powerful in her numbers and available resources,
and, above ull, powerful in a two
hundred years' prestige of invincibility
i*gwhui> ?v?ry foe, in every land, and upon
every sea." They were bound to old England
bv ties numerous and strong, of nftV.<*finn
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and interest. It was the birth-place and ,
home of their fathers, many of the glittering
stars their ancestors wore were won doing
battle under old England's flag. Here
was every consideration to influence their
fear and their affections; but, "with a firm
reliance in Divine Providevce," confident in
the justice of their cause, aud the oppressions
of the exactions of the mother country pressing
heavily upon their proud spirits, they
resolved to make the land the cemetery of
freemen," rather than continue it the "home
of slaves." [Loud applause.] They redeemed
their every pledge to the cause of freedom,
and we are now the recipieut* of the
priceless boon. Let Pennsylvania --be ever
vigilant and watchftil in preserving that
whose purchase cost so inucn of tribulation
and danger, so much of blood and treasure.
You are the custodians nnw r\( thnt maul
citadel of liberty, (pointing to Independence
Ilall.) All its triumphs, its memories, its
portraits, its history, gratitude for the past,
thanks for the present, and hopes for the
future,- exhort you to preserve and perpetuate
that vestal flaine which ww kindled in
1776. * Let it not go out here, if you would
escape the execrations of posterity for infidelity
in guarding vonr sacred trust.
The great end of the revolution was to
secure civil and religious liberty. Nor did
our ancestors misjudge its value in develop
ing the resources, physical, moral, and intellectual,
of inan.
Look to its civil results. Under republi
can government we have grown and prospered
ami expander! far beyond the most sanguine
imagination of the most hopeful devotee
of liberty. Our shores are now washer!
by the two great oceans cast and west?
Nearly one-half of the North American
continent bears upon its generous bosom
teeming millions of American citizens, who
make their own laws and worship at their
chosen shrines. From 3,000,000 we have
swelled to 20,000,000. From poverty and
ignorance and weakness we have grown rich,
intelligent, and strong. Our sails whiten
every sea, and our enterprise and energy
penetrate into every land. No longer does
the Britisdi lion strike terrorinto the hearts of
our women and children. We are now
here equal in all the elements of national
greatneM^ and here superior in every characteristic
of personal liberty and political independence.
Great Britiaa undertook to
manage our local aflhirs by assuming the
[ right to legislate fcr n? while we were colo'?MC,
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nies. The .Parliament assumed that they
were better judges of our wants nnd necessities
than our own colonial legislatures.
Thej undertook to regulate the domestic
policy of their distant dependencies. They
imposed duties upoif tea, without consulting
us, and in every manner asserted their right
to govern us. Our fathers, who had encountered
the perils of the ocean, and the
greater perils of a savage wilderness, who
had fled from Eurooe to escape political and
religious intolerance, could not long brook
such an unjust assumption. They petitioned,
iinportuued, remonstrated the Dritish
government without avail; they took their
rights in their own keeping, and, after a
long and doubtful struggle, established a
new fundamental article iu the science of
government?the great American doctrine
of the right of the people to govern themselveee*
[Great cheering.} No tenet in
political science has more thoroughly vindicated
its wisdom than this, and when
brought into issue its orthodoxy lias not
been questioned for seventh-eight years until
a few months past. It is said by some,
who have forgot ton or renounced the teachings
nnd principles of their fathers, now
that the neonle of Kan*** onrt I
incapable of governing themselves, and that
the Congrers must assume the same guardianship
over tliese distant Territories as the
l'arliamcut claimed over the colonies.?
Where is the American feeling in the bosom
of any man, who, from fanatical zoal for the
African slaves, whose condition lie cannot
improve, is willing to renounce this great
doctrine of our fathers ? [Cheers.] Abolisionism
and fanaticism mistake the heart
of this country, in supposing that when they
cry out against slavery, it will cause the
people to repudiate the principles ujk>u
which the government is based. [Cheers.]
The country owes my distinguished friend,
who will follow me, the "Little Giant of the
Great West,'* Senator Douglas, [immense
applause,] a debt of gratitude for his powerful
and successful advocacy of this principle I
have been discussing, and for its triumphant
vindication in the Kansas-Nebraska bill.
witu an tno misrepresentations which
lias been poure?l out upon that measure, the
]>eople are now bogining to understand truly
its provisions; And its greatest principle
?the one so fiercely assailed by wings and
abolitionists?is the very principle for which
our fathers fought the revolution. Will
you now take the side your futhers did, or
will you take the side of the British Parliament
1
The people of Kansas and Nebraska li:\va| i
had conferred upon them by Congress the
right to regulate their own domestic concerns
according to their own wishes and inclinations.
Is it right ? Who will say it is wrong?
Who knows best what are the wants of our
fellow-citirens m the valley of the Kansas, or
the Upper Missouri?the representatives they
elect to their own territorial legislature, or
the Congress of the United States, when not
a single member, perhaps, has made a footprint
in Kansas or Nebraska ? and which
would likely legislate wisely for tlrein?the
territorial legislature or Congress ? The statement
of the question carries the answer with
it If a Pennsylvanian now has the right to
make his own laws is there in the atmos
phere of Kansas when he moves there rendering
him less competent to do the same
thiug there ? This right conferred by Congress
on the Territories, is subject to but one
limitation, which all concede is just; and that
is that their legislation shall not contravene
the constitution of the United States?a limitation
that exists as to the Slates, and should
in the Territories.
As this is a democratic celebration, it will
not be improper that I should say that 1 felt
the highest pride in seeing nearly all of your
democratic representatives in Congress sustaining
the bill and maintaining that great
?rinciple first asserted on this hallowed spot
8 years aga l>y H?tijxmin Franklin, the
philosopher and patriot of Pennsylvania, and
his compeers. It was becoming in the representatives
of the democracy of Pennsylvania
to vindicate the principles which you nave so
long professed, by coming boldly forward |
and sustaining the bill with enlightenod wisdom
and manly independence. [Cheers.]
But the revolution not only secured civil
liberty by deposing the authority of the King
.inc making the people political sovereigns,
but it established another great American
principle which has exercised a potent influence
on the moral nature of our race ; it
established religious liberty; it separated
church and State i it denied the rirrh* i,t (1.4
former any political power as an organization.
It said to tne Puritans, the Cavaliers, and
the Hugenots, who had tied religious intolerance
and proscription, here you may worship
aoconling to the dictates of your conscience,
and none shall make you afraid.
The timid feared that it would lead to infidelity,
religion, and anarchy, but time has
proven its wisdom. The support of the
ministry, the erection of church buildings,
and all outlays for spiritual objects, is left to
the volition of the citizen. lie can give or
withhold. The law recognises no sect or denomination?all
are equal and equally protected.
How has it worked f We have as
moial a nation as any upon the gtafcit- We
have aa many professors of religion for our
population. Our churches are raonu^amer
ous, and as well furnished as in nny other
country; and piety and religion nowhere lifts
more reverence tujd respect than in the United
States.
, Mr. Jefferson, whoso name is in-epui
united, and must so continue through time,
with freo govornmcnt?he who penned that
great Declaration?was President. 0f the
U nited States?the father of the democratic
pmty?and the great apostle of republicanism?he
who Rpent a lone ..and eventful life
in the arduau^ service oCjiiis country, when fm>
the weight of years nressdd aoroly upon his ^
tottering frame, in tne ^uiet solitude "of his
own Monticcllo, calmly reviewing his own
history?he selected three great achievements
In norrt* 1i!? ??? -??4- -?J J'
.v <*?< J u uniua i" mm UIrected
this inscription upon the granite obelisk
that should mark the spot where he liee,
"Thomas Jefferson, the .minor of tho Declaration
of Independence, the author of the statute
of Virginia establishing religious freedom^
nd the father of the University of Virginia.'
[Cheers.] lie considered the establishment
of religious freedom an achievement worthy
to be classed by the side of the Declaration
of Independence. lie knew the enormities
growing out of a union of Church uud State,
lie knew that snoh a junction was at war
with personal liberty as well as with truo
religion, and time has shown that tho State
prospers bc=t independent of religion, and religion
prospers best independent of the Stale.
We must keep them separate, confine each
to its sphere, if our future is to coutinue
bright and prosperous as our past.
There has recently been some commotion
on the political boards, growing out of, it is
said, a new secret politico-religious associaT
a;?? -r !?
vivu* x Mujut vi iiis} mixu or its
hopes. [Cheering and laughter among tho
democrats.]
It is supposed that its purpose is to supplant
the Catholic religion and to ostracise
every person who was not born upou American
soil, and every one whose father was not
born here. Now, this is a ' dilferent policy
from the one our fathers pursued ; they invited
here every foreigner to our shores, and
Patrick Henry wus indignant when it was
proposed to exclude such as turned tories
even and Hed tho country during the revolution.
It is assumed by this association that
the priests of tho Catholic church exercise
political influence over their members. This
may or may not be so. I do not profess to.
know. I have no uflinitites with the Catholic
church. I was reared under the teachings
of the shorter catechism and the Westminster
confession of faith. There nre'ftot fifty
Catholics or one hundred naturalized or un- ?.
naturalized foreigners iu my congressional
district, and h<nee my perfect exemption
from any pcisonal or political considerations
in forming a judgement with reference to
this new association. Suppose it true that
the priests meddle in politics, we all unite^n
condemning it, for we thiuk Church and
State should be kept separate ; but this ifew
organization proceeds to a politico .eligioua
association, secret, holding its meetings clandestinely,
to counteract the priests. The end,
then, is to justify the means ; but two wrongs
will not make one right. The 4-know-notliings"
do the very thing which they ooniplain
of the priests for doing. I do no perceivo
and difference between Catholic Jesuitism
and Prostestant Jesuitism?both areiutoleraut.
Hut in this country I protest in the
name of the constitution, in the name of liberty
itself, against a secret political organization
which fears to avow its principles, which
shrinks from their discussion,and whhh mnko
its members,by secret pledge,species in every
household. There is no excuse in this country
for secret political societies. Every mea
sure in the federal and State legislature undergoes
public scrutiny and debate. No citizen
is or ought to be afraid to avow his poltieal
sentiments, and the secrecy which marks
the proceedings of this order shows that they
door say something which they are afraid
or ashamed for the world to know. It is
tunc that the eyes of the country shoulil ho
turned towards them, and their schemes discountenanced
until they cast off the veil. It
is violative of the genius and spirit of our governnient,
and will hear bitter fruits for our
country if it is not supplanted.
It is said that their forces in election?
political elections?where all go together,
regardless of principle And consistencypractise
a guerrilla war, fighting on the side
promising the best pay. If this l>e true, what
is their ctandard of morality I call the attention
of my democratic friends, however,
to the fact, that in all the municipal elections
that I have observed where the "know-noth1
ings" have triuinped, it lias always been a
whip electee!, where the office was ono of
any importance or real value.
Let not democrats, then, l>e deluded iiraP^.
the organization, or they will find themselves
embraced in the arms of whiggery, nativeAmericaniain,
and all the other isms that infest
the Innd [Cheers.]
There can be but two great parties in the
country. These temporary organizations may
for a brief while attain tpe positional kalance-of-poreer
parties, but they soon Tose it;
and parties to be permanent must, be divided
on principle. The division here is between
the strict and ti}e latitudinous constructionists,
between eoOnomy, and extravagance,
between State rights an<l federati atf, and it
is now too late in her history for me to pp