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’ COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. ~
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 25,
FOB GOVERNOR.
lIERSCIIGL V. JOHNSON.
FOR CONGRESS
-Ist District—James JL. Seward, of Thomas.
2d, “ M. J. Crawford, of Muscogee.
3d. James M. Smith, of Upson.
4th *• Hiram Warner, of Meriwether.
sth “ Jno. 11. Lumpkin, of JFloydT
6th “ Howell Cobb, of Clarke.
Circulate the Documents—Know Nothingism
Revealed.
Wo have on bond several Tracts for the Times
which we will sell low for cash.
1. Tract of 20 pages containing A. 11. Stephens’
spoeches at Augusta and Sparta, Wm. Moseley’s loiter,
the vote npon the Nebraska-Ivansas Bill, the Democrat
ic Platform, &o.: $8 per hundred.
Traot of eight pages containing the Constitution
and By Laws, oaths, grips, pass words, et cetera, of the
(Jrdor of Know Nothingism ; $5 a hundred.
KNOW NOTHINGISM UNV&JLED.
The Powers Conferred upon the Grand Coun
cil—Who are Members of the Grand Council ?
We oomply with our promise and publish to day*
the “Constitution of the National Council of the United
States of North America the ‘‘Constitution for the
government of Subordinate Councils and the obliga
tions, grips, pass-words and other paraphernalia of that
most mischievous and dangerous oligarchy, commonly
called Know Nothingism.
The exposure first appeared in the Richmond En
quirer, of the 10th July inst M accompanied by the as
surance that it was taken from official Know Nothing
documents. They contain the work of the order, as
amended and improved by the Grand Council which
met at Cincinnatti in November last, and of whioh two
of our townsmen were members. The additions made
at the Philadelphia Grand Council, understood to relate
principally to pass-words and such like minutse, have
not come to hand.
We feel no reluctance in giving currency to this ex
posure, as the order profosses to have abolished secrecy !
The first point of interest is the power of the Grand
Council. “Its jurisdiction and power extend to all
the States, Districts, and Territories of the United
Statos of North America.” (Art. 1.) “It has power
to deoide all matters appertaining to National politics?’
(Article 3. seo. 5.) “It has power to adopt any and
every measure it may deem necessary to secure the
success of the organization, not inconsistent with the
Constitution (of the order.) (Art. 3. see. 5.) It has
power to “levy a tax upon the State, District, or Ter
ritorial Councils for the support of the National Coun
cil, to be paid in such manner and at such times
as the National Council shall determine.’* (Art. 7.
seo. 2.) The Constitutions and By-Laws of State,
Distriot and Territorial Counoils have to be submitted
to the Grand Council for examination ; must conform
to the Constitution of the Grand Council; and those of
Districts and Territories have to bo approved by the
Grand Council before they are valid. (Rules and
Regulations. Rule 1.) and (Voto G. Special Voting.) j
It has power to nominate candidates for President and i
Vico President of the Uuited States, and in a Council
for this purpose each State is entitled to oast iho same
number of votes as they shall have members in both
Houses of Congress. (The abolition branoh of the
concern would have decidedly the advantage.) Art. 3, j
see. 4.) It furthermore has power to determine upon ;
a mode of punishment in case of direliotion of dutj on !
the port of its members and officers. (Art. 3. see. 5.)
Here then is a body organized, outside of the con
stitution, tvith power to levy taxes, nominate candidates
for the highest offioes, decides all measures appertain
ing to National polities, punish delinquent members,
and adopt any and every measure it may deem neces- ;
sary to ensdre success, with affiliated bodies in every
oounty in every Distriot, Territory and State in the
Union, with a membership embracing several millions
of people all of whom are sworn by the most solemn
oaths to give a blind obedience to its decrees and for i
ever to oonoeal from the people the actings and doings
of the body Is it not a fearful organization to take i
power out of the hands of the people and concentrate
it in hands of a few ? Ought such a club to be tole
rated by a free people? Can a member who is under
its control and subjeot to its dictation be a freeman ?
Lot the people answer.
But who are members of this Grand Council ? We
answer first ; “none but native born Protestant citi
zens (Art. 2. :) second ; none but members of the j
Third or Union degree. See artice 6, see. 3, by which j
it provided that “all officers and delegates of this
Council, and of all State, District, Territorial and Sub
ordinate Counoils, must he invested with all the de
grees of this order This settles the question.
It is a very common opiuisn among members of the
lower degrees of the order that there are very few
persons in Georgia who are members of the Union de
gree, and they take some credit to themselves for hav
ing refused to take the degree. Well, admit for the
sake of the argument that tills is true. What then ?
Your rulers, the officers aud delegates of the Grand
Council, are all Union degree men. Are you not
then bound to follow their lead as long as you remain
members of the order ? How then do you claim auv i
credit for having refused the Union degree ? You are
the tail of the conoern—the Union degree meu are the
head of it, and give the law to you.
But is it certain that there are not many Third de- j
gree members even in Georgia ? Let us see. Look at i
artiole G, sec. 3. It is there provided that all delegates
to a State Council, and all officers of a Subordinate
Council must be invested with all the degrees of the
order. If the State and Subordinate Councils of Geor !
gia have violated this fundamental law of the organiza
tion, they have laid themselves liable to “the mode of
punishment” ths Grand Council may 6ee proper to in
flict “for a dereliotion of duty.” Se also, article 1, seo.
1, of the “Constitution for the Government of Subordi
nate Councils,” by whioh it is provided that “each Sub
ordinate Counoil shall b* composed of nut less than 13
members, all of whom shall have received all the de
grees of the order,’’ and tell us, are there no Third or
Union degree members of the order * If we are cor
rectly informed, there are two Subordinate Councils of
the order, and there ought to be at least 26 members
of the Union degree in the county of Muscogee, and
we verily believe there are a great many more. Yet
the American party talks about the 4th Resolution of
the Georgia Platform ! Why the whole machine was
constructed with set purpose to defeat the objects oi
* The ritual of the three degrees tyill appear in cur
next •, they are crowded out of tbfe issue
that Platform Bnd to kill off all politicians who, in any
event, looked to a dissolution of the Union, as we will
show when we come to criticise tbe obligations imposed
in the Third degree. This, however, we will do in
another article.
The question most important to consider now, is this:
Are irresponsible and unknown men,* fit persons to
be intrusted with the immense power conferred by tbe
Constitution of the Grand Council upon the officers and
delegates to that body ? Who they are is known to
but a few. It was the object of the order to keep their
names eternally secret from all but tbe initiated ; but
some leaky vessel let the secret out, and at the last
Grand Council they made a merit out of necessity and
allowed the names of tbe delegates to be published.—
Well who wore they ? We know but a few. The
Grand President was Jno. W. Barker, of New York,
whoeo boast it was that he was as much of a Freosoiler
a3 William H, Seward. Governor Gardner and Sena
tor Wilson, of Mass., were also leading members, both
of whom are avowed abolitionists. Ex-Governor John
ston, of Pa., the deadly opponent of the Nebraska-
Kansas act, was another. Thomas H. Ford, of Ohio,
is anoth er, and he is now a .candidate for high office on
the abolition ticket. But say the Southern Know
Nothings, these men were driven out of the Grand
Council. We do not 60 understand it. They voluntari
ly left the Philadelphia Convention, but are they there
by excluded from the order ? That is the question.—
Who can answer it ? Ex-Governor Johnston and
Jno. W. Barker, however, did not secede. They are
still “woithy brethren,” and will, in all probability,
come back to the uext Grand Council. But passing by
this point—it is a sore one we know—and coming down
South, who do we see there high in the confidence of
the order ? Kenneth Rayner, of N. C., and Geo. N.
Stewart, of Ala., and Albert Pike, of Ark. The two
first denounced the J'febraska-Kansas act as an outrage
upon the North and the last proposed to ignore the
question of slavery in order to preserve fellowship be
tween the slave holder and the abolitionists. Are they
fit to be trusted with the immense power conferred
upon the Grand Council ?
The Message of Gov. Reeder.
Wo were agreeably surprised on the perusal of Governor
Reeder's Message. He meets the slavery issue in Kansas
in a much better spirit than wo ancticipated.—
110 recognizes the fright jof the Legislature of Kan
sas, decidediyl Southern be it remembered, ‘‘to pro
hibit, tolerate or regulate slavery in the Territory,” but
thinks the proper occasion “for the decision of that pecu
liar question,” is when tiio Convention assembles to adopt
the Constitution. Hear what he says:
KXTTRACT FROM GOVERNOR REEDER’S MESSAGE.
Thero are many specific subjects of legislation, somo ol
! which are expressly referred to you by the bill organizing our
Territory, and others springing! from the necessities of our
community. Prominent among them is the question whe
ther we shall build our government upon the basis of free
| or slave labor. Claiming as we do the same capacity for
i eels government as our fellow’ citizens of the States, with
! a far greater, if not an exclusive interest in the institutions
! and laws which are to exist among us—compelled alone
to bear their burdens, and entitled alone to claim their ben
efits—wisdom, justice and fairness would dictate, thatthoso
laws and institutions inside of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States should be moulded by ourselves, stimulated by
jhe absorbing interest we must feel in them, rather than by
the representatives or citizens of other States, who are no
more competent to the task than we—who have no stake
with us in their results, and who would most indignantly
repel any oiler of reciprocity from us in assisting to man
age their affairs. The provision of our Territorial organ
ic act secures us this right, and is founded in the true doc
trines ot republicanism. It maybe exercised in various
degrees and in various ways, and whenover it is called in
to action it cannot legitimately be attended with that ex
citement which is incident to the agitation of the slavery
question in the direction of an attack upon Constitutional
rights. An agitation of that kind, such as we have seen
industriously prosecuted in the past history of our country
by the destructive spirit of abolitionism, can never be pro
ductive ol aught but evil, and is calculated in an emiment
degree to obscure the glories of the past, to evoke the foul
est spirit of discord among the citizens of our common
country, and also to mar our brilliant future, if not to en
danger the existence of our cherished Union. A want of
fidelity to the solemn compacts of the Constitution, and an
attack upon the rights of the. States, which are guaranteed
by it, can have no justification or excuse. This view of
the case, however, is not to be conlounded with the dis
cussion and settlement of the slavery question in our terri
tory, in its bearings upon the formation of our institutions.
That has been referred to us as an open question by the
legitimate action of the nation, and here it is not only the
privilege but the duty of every man to speak his opinions
freely, and enforce them peaceably -and fairly. Advocate
and opponent stand on the same side,and must naturally
concede to each other the identical measure of right which
they claim for themselves. Freedom of opinion and free
dom of discussion without licentousness are of the very
essence of republicanism, and at all times are peculiarly
to be respected here. The permanent character and high
authority of a State Constitution, and the fact of its sub
mission to a direct voto of the people of the Territory, in
dicate that event as a signal occasion for the decision of j
that peculiar question. In tho meantime, however, a Ter- ;
ritoriul Legislature may undoubtedly act upon the question
to a limited and partial extent, and may temporarily pro- j
hibit, tolerate or regulate slavery in the Territory, and in !
an absolute or modified form with all the force and effect
of any other legislative act binding until repealed by the \
same power that enacted it.
The Daily Sun.
This is the title of a newspaper just started in Cos
lambus, Ga., by Thomas DeWolf, Editor and Propri
etor ; devoted to news, miscellany and general reading.
It will take no part in polities. Terms, $5 per annum.
Grand Anti-Know Nothing Rally in Harris.
There is, published in handbill form, a call for a
Grand Anti Know Nothing Rally at Hamilton, Har
ris county, Ga., on Saturday 28th inst., signed by over
fifty whigs and any quantity of Democrats.
Democratic Nominations.
Gordon County. —At a Convention of the Demo
cratic Party, held at Calhouu on the 16th inst., Col.
Wm. 11. Dabney, was nominated as the candidate of the
party for the Senate : and Messrs. David B. Barrett and
Heury McConnell, for the House.
Bibb County. —For Seuator, Leroy Napier ; for
Representatives, Janies Dean, Nathan Bass.
Presentation Sword. —As a testimonial of esteem,
the young friends and -associates of Ist Lieutenant AN
fred Iverson, of the new Regiment of Cavalry, pre
sented to him a fine cavalry sword. The polished
weapon can be seen at the office of the Perry
House.
The Wild Hunt after Office. —The Spirit of the
South relates the followiog in illustration of the foregoing
eaption :
“It has been left for tho county of Barbour, to furnish
tbe most signal and striking illustration of Know
Nothing consistency, in the person of its editorial ex
pounder. The last number of the‘True Whig,’ an
nounced 11. H. Goode, Esq., its editor, as an Amerioan
candidate for the legislature : declaring at the same time
his inability to canvass the county, he doubtless expected
like Mr. Jacob Broom to sit in bis office and be elec
ted. After a brilliant run of about five days, it was
discovered, that Mr. Goode bad not been a citizen ot the
county long enough to be eligible, and that this patri
otic effort of our neighbor to save the State was alto
gather premature. ‘Lo ! and behold,’ in his anxiety to
put down even naturalized foreigners who are constitu
tionally eligible, he became a candidate of tho Ameri
can party before being ‘naturalized’ himself.”
Knotv Nothings Leaving.
Crawford Countt, Ga. —On the 21st July, inst.,
nine gentlemen withdrew from Council No. 120, loca
ted in Crawford County, Ga. Their names and card
are published in the Georgia Telegraph of the 24th.
“Duty, principle and patriotism,” they say, “dictate
this course.’’ They have seen Sam.
Lundfrdale County, Ala. —Eighty persons have
recently withdrawn from the Know Nothing Couneil, in
the town of Centre Star, Lunderdale County, Ala. —
The names are published in the North Alabamian and
among them are some of the most respectable oitizens
in North Alabama.
Fine Watermelons. —We are indebted to John
B. Bethiue, Esq., of this vicinity for the largest, and
sweetest water-melons we have tasted this seasos.
Bituminous Coal. —We were shown by Mr. John
W. Howard, who is agent for the sale of the article, a
fine specimen of coal, obtained near Selma, Ala. It is
said to be a good article and can be furnished at sl2 50
per ton.
A Fiendish Outrage.
A train thrown off the track of the New York Central
Railroad— SeveralePersons Injured.
Syracuse, July 20,1855.
The night express train going west, on tho Central
Railroad , ran off the track at 12 o’clock last night about
three miles west of this place, owing to some villians hav
ing misplaced a rail. Mr. Deyo, of Springfield, Mass.,
had a shoulder broken ; Henry Stearns, the conductor,
was badly out and bruised about the head aud face ; Mr.
Harrison, the engineer, had an arm broken ; and a num
ber of others were more or less bruised, and none se
riously.
The President of tho New York Central Railroad offers
a reward of $5,000 for the apprehension and conviction
of tho perpetrators of this outrage. The cars were not
much broken, and the track was sufficiently in order this
morning to admit of the trains running as usual.
Explosion of a Locomotive and Loss of Life.
White River Junction, Vt., July 20,1855.
On the Vermont Central Railroad last night, when near
Milton, the engine of a passenger train exploded and was
completely demolished. Among the ruins the dead bodies
of the engiueer and fireman and Mr. Brush, the conduc
tor, were discovered. It is not known it any more lives
| were lost.
From Washington.
Washington, July'2o, 1855,
Judge Gilchrist, of the Court cf Claims, is prostrated
by severe diarrho®. There has, consequently, been no
session of the Court of Claims to-day.
General Eehenique, ex-President of Peru, has arrived
here.
Destructive Storm in Oheraw.
Cher aw, S. C., July 21,^1855.
A severo t storm occurred here last night, and the
lightning struck a house, which was burnt down with
several others. Messrs. McNair, Lynch and Morgan are
the principal sufferers. Several,houses were also blown
down.
Resumption of Payment.
New Orleans, July 21.
Me3srs. Fellowcs <fc Cos., of this city, have resumed pay
ment, and will continue their business.
The Yellow Fever.
New Orleans, July 21.
The fever is increasing in this city, but it is as yet of a
mild typo. There were bo deaths in the Hospital from it
this week.
Destruction of the Verandah Hotel.
New Orleans, July 19.
The Verandah Hotel was totally destroyed by nre last
night. The loss is estimated at $150,000, on which there is
*n insurance for $95,000.
Great Decline in Flour*
Baltimore, July 19.
At Baltimore there is a panic among the dealers in bread
stuffs. Flour has declined $1 per barrel. Wheat ha3 de
clined from 25 to 30 cents per bushel. Com remains un
changed.
Liverpool Cotton Market, July 19.
New York, July 19.
The Liverpool cotton market closed dulion the 7th inst., !
but holders were not pressing their stocks on tho market. 1
Middling 6 5-16d. Stock in port 576,000 bales.
From Kansas Territory.
Gov. Reeder's Message—His defeat in the Legislature.
j Kansas, July 16, 1855.
j Gov. Reeder’s Mossage to the Legislature of Kansas ia
published. He contends lor the right of the people to set
i tie their own allairs, unintluenced by other ‘"States. He
j says the Territorial Legislature may act on the question of
j slavery, to a limited aud partial extent, and temporarily
i regulate it in the territory; shows what laws are now in
i force; directs attention to a damnation of the bounderies of
counties and distrirts, and the qualification of voters- ie
| commends a stringent liquor law, on account of the In
dians; thinks that alight tax only is required; contends that
j pre-emptions may be taxed; recommends the immediate
j establishment of a seat of government”, and announces that
| the population of the Territory was 3.283 females, and
■ 5,133 males.
The Legislature fixed on Shawnee Mission as t the tetn
t porary seat of Government, l'he Governor vetoed the
. same, when the Legislature passed it over the veto, and
! adjourned to meet at Shawnee Mission.
Total loss of the Bchooner Emma —Movement* of Col-!
Kinney, &c.
Boston, July 18, 1855. |
The schooner Active, Capt. Moorehouse, has arrived !
from Turks Islands, and reports the loss of the schooner I
I Emma. Capt Norria, which sailed from New York June
G, with Col. Kinney and his party of twenty men. The
Emma had a successful passage until the night of the 19th
i uJt., when stie struck upon tho Caicos reefs, and proved a
total loss, with the stores andeffecta of the paaseengere.—
i No lives were lost. The passengers proceeded to Turk !
Islands, which they reached in five days time, where Col.
Kinney was negotiating for the charteif-of another vessel
to convey them to Nicaragua. The party were in excccl
: lent spirits, notwithstanding their disaster.
It is rumored about that an officer of the expedition re
turned in the schooner Active, who registered his name at
the Revere House ae John Smith; also, that Mr. Smith, ac
companied by Fletcher Webster, Esq , immediately start
ed for New York.
(From the Richmond Enquirer.
CONSTITUTION*
OF THE
NATIONAL COUNCIL
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA.
Article First.
This Organization shall be known by the name and title
of the National council of the united
STATES OF NORTH AMERICA, and its jurisdiction
and power shall extend to all the States, Districts and Ter
ritories of the United States of North America.
Article Second.
The object of this Organization shall be to protect every
American citizen in the legal and proper exercise of all his
civil and religious rights and privileges; to resist the insidi
ous policy of the Church of Rome, and all other loreign
influence against our republican institutions, in all lawful
ways; to place in all offices of honor, trust or profit in the
gift of the people, or by appointment, none but native born
Protestant citizens; and to protect, preserve and uphold the
union of these States and the Constitution of the same.
Article Third.
Sec. I.—A person to become a member of any Subor
dinate Council must be twenty-one years of age, he must
believe in the existence of a Supreme Beaingas the Creator
and Preserver of the Universe, he must be a native born
citizen ; a Protestant; either born of Protestant parents or
reared under Protestant influence; and not united in mar
riage with a Roman Catholic; provided, nevertheless, that
in this last respect, the State, District, or Territorial Coun
cils shall be authorised to so construct their respective Con
stitutions, as shall best promote the interests of the Ameri
can cause in their several jurisdictions ; and provided,
moreover, that no member who may have a Roman Catho
lic wife shall be eligible to office in this Cider; and provid
ed, further, should apy State, District, or Territorial Coun
cil prefer the words “Roman Catholi” as a disqualification
to membership, in place of “Protestant,” as a qualification,
they may so consider this Constitution, and govern their
action accordingly.
Sec. 2. —There shall be an interval of three weeks be
tween the conferring of the First and Second Degrees; and
of three months between the conferring of the Second and
Third Degrees—provided, that this restriction shall not ap
ply to those who may received the Second Degree previous
to the first day of December next; and provided, further
that the Presidents of State, District, and Territorial Coun
cils may grant dispensations for initiating in all the De
grees, officers of new Councils.
Sec. 3—The National Counil shall hold its Annual
meetings on the first Tuesday in the month of Juue,atsuch
place as may be designated by the National Council at the
previous Annual meeting, and it may adjourn from timo to
time. Special meetings may be called by the Presidout on
the written request of five delegations representing five State
Councils; provided, that sixty days’ notice shall be given
to the State Concils previous to said meeting.
Sec 4. —The National Council shall bo composed of
seven delegates from each Stato, to be chosen by the State
Councils; and each District or Territory where a Dis
trict or Territorial Council shall exist, shall be entitled to
send two delegates, to be chosen from said Council—pro
vided, that in the nomination of candidates for President
and Vice President of the United States, each State shall
be entitled to cast the same number of votes as they shall
have members in both Houses of Congress. In all sessions
of the National Council, thirty-two delegates, representing
thirteen Slates, Territories, or Districts, shall constitute a
quorum for iho transaction of business.
Sec. s.—The National Council shall bo vested with the
following powers and privileges :
It shall be the head of the Organization for the United
States of North America, and shall fix and establish all
signs, grips, passwords, and such other secret work, as may
seem to it necessary.
It shall have the power to decide all matters appertaining
to National Politics.
It shall have the power to exact from the State Councils,
quarterly or annual statements as to the number of mem
bers under their jurisdictions, and in relation to all other
matters necessary for its information.
It shall have the power to form State, Territorial or Dis
trict Councils, and to grant dispensations for the formation
of such bodies, when five Subordinate Councils shall have
been put in operation in any State, Territory or District,
and application made.
It shall have the power to determine upon a mode of pun
ishment in case of any dereliction of duty on the part of its
members or officers.
It shall have power to adopt cabalistic characters for the
purpose of writing or telegraphing. Said characters to be
communicated to the Presidents of the State Councils, and
by them to the Presidents of the Subordinate Councils.
It shall have the power to adopt any and ever}’ measure
it may deem necessary to secure the success of the organi
zation ; provided, that nothing shall be done by the”said
National Council in violation of the Constitution ; and pro
vided, further, that in all political matters, its'members
may he instructed by the State Councils, and if so instruct
ed, shall carry out such instructions of the State Councils
which they represent, until overruled by a majority of the
I National Council.
Article Fourth.
The President shall always preside over the National
Council when present, and in his absence the Vice Presi
dent shall preside, and in the absence of both, the National
Council shall appoint a President pro tempore; and the
j presiding officers may at all times call a member to the
j chair, but such appointment shall not extend beyond one
• silting of the National Council.
Article Fifth.
j Sec. I.— The officers of the National Council shall be a
President, Vice President, Chaplain, Corresponding Secre
tary, Recording Secretary, Treasurer, and two Sentinels ;
with such other officers as the National Council may see
fit to appoint from time to time; and the Secretaries and
Sentinels may receive such compensation as the National
Council shall determine.
f Sec. 2.—The duties of the several officers created by
this Constitution shall be such as the work of this Organi
zation prescribes.
Article Sixth.
Sec. I.—Ail officers provided lor bv this Constitution,
except the Sentinels, shall be elected annually by bailot.’
The President may appoint Sentinels from time to” time.
Sec. 2.—A majority of all the votes cast shall be requisite
to an election for an office.
Sec. 3.—A1l officers and delegates of this Council, and
of afl State, District, Territorial and Subordinate Couueils,
must be invested with all the Degrees of this Order.
Sec. 4.—Ail vacancies in the elective offices shall be fill
ed by a vote of the National Council, and only for the un- !
expired term of the said vacancy.
Article Seventh.
Sec. ,1. —The National Council shall entertain and de- j
cide all cases of appeal, and it shall establish a lorm of!
appeal.
Sec. 2.—The National Council shall levy a tax upon |
the State, District, or Territorial Councils, for the support j
of the National Council, to be paid in such manner and at I
snch times as the National Council shali determine.
Article Eighth.
This National Council may alter and amend this Corn, j
stitution at its regular annual meeting in June next, by a i
vote of the majority of the whole number of the members I
present. (Cincinnati, Nov. 24, 135 4.)
RULES AND REGUEATIONS.
Rule One.— Each State, District or Territory in which
there may exist five or more Subordinate Councils, Hoik
ing under dispensations from the National Councils of the
United States of North America, or under regular dispen
sations from some State, Distiict or Territory, are duly em
powered to establish themselves into a State, District, or
Territorial Council, and r when so established to form hr
themselves Constitutions and By-Laws for their government
in pursuance of, and in consonence with the Constitution of
the National Council of the United States; provided, how- :
ever,that all District or Territorial Constitutions shall be 1
subject to the approval ol the National Council of the Uni* I
ted States. (June, 1854.)j
Rule Two. —Allstate, District or Territorial Councils,
when established,shall have full power and authority to es
tablish all Subordinate Councils within their respective lim
its; and tho Constitutions and By-Laws of all such Subor
i dinate Councils, must be approved by their respective State,
’ District ot State Councils. (June, 1854.) *
Rule Three. —Ail State, District or Territorial Coun
cils, when established and until the formation of Constitu
tions, shall work under tho Constitution of the National
Conneil of the United States. (June, 1854.)
Rule Four.— ln ail capes where, tor the convenience of
the Organization, two State or Territorial Councils may be
established, the twoCouueils together shall be entitled to
but thirteen*delegates in the NationalSCouncil of tho United
States—the proportioned number of delegates to depend
en the number of members in the Organization: provided
that no State shall bo allowed to have more than one State
Council, without the consent ot the National Council of the
United States. (June, 1854.)
, Rule Five.— Jn auy State, District or Territory, where
there may be more than one Organization working on the
same basis, (to wit, the ‘Lodges’ and ‘Councils’) the same
shall be required to combine; lhe officers of each* organi
zation shall resign, and new officers be elected: and there
alter these bodies shall be known as State Connells, and
Subordinate Councils, and new Charters- shall lio’crant’od to
them by the National Council. (Jane, 1854.)
Rule Sis.— lt shall be considered a penal offence for any
*NorK.—See Cenrtitulien, Art. 3, See. *. n. 5,
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brother not an officer of a subordinate council, to make
use of the sign or summons adopted for public notification
except by direction of the President; or for officers of a
Council, to pcfst at any other time than from mid
night to one* hour before daybreak, and this rule shall be in
corporated into the Bye-Laws of the State, District and
Territorial Councils. (June; 1854.)
Rule Seven. —The determination of the necessity and
mode of issuing posters for public notification shall be en
trusted to the State, District or Territorial Councils. (June,
1854.)
Rule Eight. —The respective State, District, or Territo
rial Councils shall bo required to make statements of the
number of members within their respective limits, at the
next meeting of this National Council, and annually there
after, at the regular annual meeting. (June, 1854.)
Rule Ntne. —The delegates to the National Council of
the United States of North America, shall he entitled to
three dollars per day for their attendance upon the Nation
al Council, and foreach day that may be necessary in going
and returning from the same; and live cents per mile lor ev
ery mile they may necessarily travel in going to and return
ing from, the place of meeting of the National Council;
to be computed by the nearest mail route: which shall bo
I paid out ot the Treasury of tho National Council. (Nov.
1854.
Kule Ten —Each State, District or Territorial Council,
shall be taxed four cents per annum, lor each member in
good standing belonging to each Subordinate Council un
der its jurisdiction on the first day of April, which shall be
reported to the National Council, and paid into the Nation
al Treasury, on or before the first day of the annual sess
ion, to be held in lune;andon the same day in each suc
ceeding year. And the first fiscal year shall be considered
as commencing on the first day of December, 1854, and
ending on the fifteenth day of May 1855. (November,
1854.)
Rule Eleven. —The following shall be the Key to de
termine and ascertain the purport of any communication
that may be addressed to the President of a State, District
or Territorial Council by the President of the National
Council, who is hereby instructed to communicate a know
ledge of the same to said officers:
ABCDEFG H I J Iv L M
1 7 13 19 25 2 8 14 20 26 3 9 15
NOPQRST U V W X Y Z
21 4 10 16 22 5 11 17 23 6 12 18 24
Rule Twelve. —The clause of the article of the Con
stitution relative to belief in the Supreme Being is obliga
tory upon every State and Subordinate Council, as well as
upon each individual member. (June, 1854.)
Rule Thirteenth. —The following shall be the com
pensation of the officers of this Council:
Ist. The Corresponding Secretary shall be paid Two
Thousand Dollars per annum, from the 17th day of June,
1854.
2d. The Treasurer shall be paid ‘Five hundred Dollars
per annum, from the 17th day of June 1854.
3d. The Sentinels shall be paid Five Dollars for every
day they may Lein attendance on the sittings of the Na
tional Council.
4tli. The Chaplain shall bo paid One Hundred Dollars
per annum, from the 17th day of June, 1854.
sth. Tho Recording Secretary shall be paid Fve Hund
red Dollars per annum, from the 17th day of June, 1854.
6th. The Assistant Secretary shall be paid Five Dollars
per day, for every day he may be in attendance on the sit
ting of the National Convention. Allot which is to be
paid out of the National Treasury, on the draft of the Pre
sident. (Nov. 1851.)
SPECIAL VOTING.
Vote First. —This National Council hereby grants to
the State of Virginia, two State Councils, tho one to be lo
cated in Eastern and the other in Western Virginia, the
Blue Ridge Mountains being the geographical line between
the two jurisdictions. (June, 1854.)
„ Vote Second. —Tho President shall have power till the
next session of the Council, to grant dispensa
tions for the formation ot State,* District, or Territorial
Councils, in form most agreeable to his own discretion, up
on proper application being made. (June, 1854.)
Vote Third —The seats of all the delegates to and
members of the present National Council shall be vacated
on the first Tuesday in June, 1855, at the hour of 6 o'clock
in the forenoon; and the National Council convening in
annual session on that day, shall be composed exclusively
of delegates elected under and in accordance with the pro
visions .’ the Constitution, as amended at the present ses**
sion of this National Council; provided, that this resolu
tion shall not apply to the officers of the National Council.
(November, 1854.)
Vote fourth. —The Corresponding Secretary of this
Council is authorized to have printed the names of tho
delegates to this National Council; also, those of the
Presidents of the several State, District, and Territorial
Councils, together with their address, and to forward a copy
of the same to each person named ; and further, the Cor
responding Secretaries of each State, District and Terr it*
ry, are requested to forward a copy of their several Consti
tution to each other. (November, 1854)
Vote fifth. —In the publication of the Constitution and
the Ritual, under t lie direction of the Committee—brothers
Deshler, Danirell and Stephens—the name, signs, grips and
passwords ot the Order,shall be indicated by i * *,] and
a copy of the same shall he furnished to each State, District
and Territorial Council, and to each member of that body.
I (November, 1854.)
j Vote sixth. —A copy of the Constitution of each State,
‘ District and Territorial Council, shall be Submitted to this
■ Council lor examination. (November, 1854.)
| Vote seventh —lt shall be the duty of the Treasurer at
i each annual ineeting of this body, to make a report of all
x P en ded m the internal. (November,
! Vote eighth.— Messrs. Gifford of Pa.; Barker, of N. Y.;
: Deshler, ot N. .J.; W iliiamson, of V:t : and Stephens, of
i Md., are appointed a committee to confer with similar com
mittees thru have been appointed for ihe purpose of consol
idating the various American Orders, witli power to make
the necessary arrangements for such consolidation—subject
to the approval of this National Council, at its next session
(November, 1854.)
Vote ninth. —On the receipt of the new Ritual by the
members of this National Council who have received the
Third Degree, they or any of them may, and they are here
by empowered to confer the Third Degree upon members
ot this body in their respective States, Districts and Terri
tories, and upon the Presidents and other officers of their
Slate, District and Territorial Councils. And further, tho
I residents of the State, District and Territorial* Councils
shall in the first instance confer the Third Degree upon as
many of the Presidents and officers of fneir Subordinate
Councils, as can be assembled together in their respective
localities, and afterwards the same may be conferred upon
officers of other Subordinate Councils, by any presiding
officer of a Council, who shall have previously received
it under the provisions of the Constitution. (November
1854.)
| Vote tenth.— To entitle any delegate to a seat in this
A at ion a 1 Council, at its annual session in June next, he must
present a properly authenticated certificate that he was
duly elected as a delegate to the same ; or appointed a sub
stitute in accordance with the requirements of the Constitu
tions ot State, Territorial or District Council?. And no
delegate shall be received trom any State, District, or Ter
ritorial Council, which has not adopted the Constitution and
luteal of tilts National Council. (November, 1855 )
. °/ rE eleventh —I he Committee on printing the Con*
solution and iutual is authorized to have a sufficient num
ber ot the same printed for the use of the Ordei. And no
State, District, or Territorial Council, shall be allowed to
print the same. (November, 1854 )
v ote twelfth.— The right to establish all Subordinate
Councils in any pi the States, Districts and Territories re
presented m this National Council, shall be confined to the
btate, District and l erritorial Councils, which they repre*
present. (Nevember, 1854.) 1 v
CONSTITUTION FOR TIIE GOVERNMENT OF
SUBORDINATE COUNCILS,
j Article I.
i Sec I.—Each Subordinate Council shall be composed
i ot not less than thirteen members, all of whom shall have
’ received all the degrees of the Order, and shall be known
; aud recognized as Council, No. 0 f the
i- of the eonnly of , and State of
Sec. 2. No person shall be a member of any Subor*
ornate Council in this State, unless he possesses ail the
qualifications, and Come up to all the requirements laid
down m the Constitution of the National Council, aud
whos.e wne, (if be has one,) is not a Roman Catholic.
. j* application for membership shall here,
ceived aud acted on from a perst n residing out of the State
or who resides m a county where there is a Council iu
existence, unless upon special cause to be stated to the
Council, to be judged of by the same ; and such person,
if the reasons be considered sufficient, may be initiated
toe same nignt he is proposed, provided he resides five
miles or more from the place where the Council is located.
Lut no person can vote m any Council, except the one of
Hliich he ip a member.
Sec. 4—Every person applying for membership, shall
be voted :.jr by ballot, in open Council, if a ballot is re
quested oy a single member. If one-thijd of the votes
cast be against the applicant, he shall be rejected. If any
applicant be rejected, he shall not be again proposed with*
iu six months thereafter. Nothing herein contained shall
be construed to prevent the iriiliaiiou of applicants private
ly, by those empowered to do go, in localities where there
are no Councils within a convenient distsuoe.
member of one Subordinate Council
V l u change his membeisfiip to another Council,
?jaL apply to the Council to which he belongs, either in