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TAKE ME HONE TO ME
This Mud Is tory bright, Mother,
The lowers ere eery lair,
There's rnagle In the orange ;rote, -
And begrime h the air;
But take me to my dear old hetne; •
• Where the brook goes babbling by; ,
Let us go book again, Mother,
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Oh take me home to die. -•••
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Imp my father's banal but rest, Mothet,
fn bleesings to my bead;
'L. , Let my brothers and my: sister, dear, •
But throng mound my bid;
Oh let me feel that loved entreolur,
Receive n pettier breath.
When 1. Lid you all good'ulght, Mother,
A,..41 sleep the sleep of death..
Those Bowers their arreoteit Sweats aglbrd,
I soeut their fragra‘ut breath,'
Mut. ate they bloom might, Mother.
I shall be oold In death; , • -
Theu take me to my early home,
As those that bloom upon the MOM
To your old room so agar.
They will - beilemieliak seoe,Allhitheire
Then mime; Oh! . ist me go,
, me onoe more les rates,
Before you lay me low;
You'll lay them on my grave, Mother:
Bay, Mother, will you not?
You'll lay me by the mosey bank,
I've told you of tie spot
'Tie aloes beside 11la ekurrib, llether,
And trboatt you kneel to poky,
I'll listen tu your word., Metier,
Though I ant far away.
You tuttecnot weep form./ liddier,
For I 'ball happy be;
And though I cumin stay with you,
Yet you shall emit le rue. -•
Dear Idothar, I am v 1100014 ,4
I oaanot Moths tams,
Thay'r awelliog at the thottaght of thclita,
And of aoy,aarly yam;
But I am rattail faint, BMW;
Oh! lak• ia• to yuar brdest, •
And WI as toot your 1118, Mother,
Bs as my forehead ptaamd.
Thers's dhows, ow sLy atslt42iatbter,
I ommos get NI breath,
Is it your sobs 1 hosejliathsr,
01*' IsU too, is this doubt?
Yoal 1 tell my (whoa-. bow I 'squad,
Ono. morn to so. kin swar ; .
You'll hits. mybrothers- sash foe me,
They will forget I Our.
You'll tell my brother', slater depr l. •
I have gone up on bhgb,
And if they ere goad chlldreu here,
They'll see me when they die,
feel I'm pia; now, Mother,
••;:` One hisa eft It. is riven;
Penwell my owls dear Mother, • ;
Until we meet In neaten.
Prom the N ttoto,al D riftarrestee Rex taw
THE 'KAU 14' NOTHING PART
°Onion an Omnipotence, whom, it
Af.ntlee thoourth with na se,rtaa, right
lii I 1,1, Ate V . 00114,1144 Mob grow pato
1.0.0 t the.- troffile-44tobotit sitouLl become Leo tirtett,..
,C. 41 :L•ir for. thou,(too be crimes. and loortio
too tr. uolo 1144! '
The to bole earth iv being mltakim, ns never
'.,_.. t re by the spirit of change. The degen
ra, e ra . ci A it "Amin li . oro eroilied them:, tveo
r,r a w',11,, sod tit I , II tire ai ion : passive
'' Ols.dit n , s• lilt(' MIMI IP LI f a' t• iii,vi their own
uv, nin rm anti tin , oath of r, to Boni to ligh ,
l e
i d up by the col, agration of Mosque and
Minaret. In Euro .„tistiklyspots are again
dealing thtir itnix al game of war and peace
tent gain , in which the privilege and props r
ty of the many aro ruldeitmly saeriflutl to
tie smbi ion of the few. Thu story of. the
R ,, man chtil is repeat& ,I when gold will
not so vtaiii the " Isillance of power," the
sword must be thrown into the scale. While
the meev, tom ar, afar ott, -While the tidings
of them comes io um like the eithoeifof (indent
Ulundi re,—mie may well say, with folded
hands, looking calmly on , for we have faith
in the great cause of human right, and hu
man progreme But. even in our own land,
dissention lute Itirown too IMO' for safety.—
Bcareely 111111 otir young Republic gained a
firm foot Iwilii . t4vn the dizzy pinnacle, to
which it. 1.148 elevated by the wisdom, valor
and perneverince of our rerolutionsrpfath ,
tins, ere creeping ab OK* begill to twine them
selves around us, and fetter our healthy en
ergies ; scarcely have we recovered from the
fatigue of our hot struggles for life, ero we
are celled upon to arm once twlrc, in defense
of all that makes life deer to the individual,
or glorious to the nation. This *go i* the
mother of political odic/wry. No sooner is
a disease, or a symptom of a disease, sup
posed to exist in our government, than a
thousand party•physimans rushforward,each
with his own little patent medicine. which
he will be moat happy to administer, for a
consideration. From I t multitude of such
doctrines, good Lord! deliver us. Their
proscriptions are warranted to 'cure or kill:'
we know that they have not cared us t'shall
we, then, without resistance, await the oth
er elect 1 -
The single and ackriewiellged !inter in the
prestrfenttaltest , of 1852. the Ib'rn?eract
ity down to sleep uptm thegrare it had won,
The rooks of the opposition were broken:
and the ses*red MAelilefl of thU foe were fly
ing in camfluarciit. The old party flushed with
f .
triumph, was merciful to t oo O
; eon
/m t
s of its stmngth, it rested i 'et se
curity. , Then it was that the mo lent
among our advemaries, finding their strata
);. RIF bellied, and their hackneyed, arts'"ez
posed, began to look around theni Ibr some
fresh engine of &pelt. When open three
i had failed, they reiletesl to secret machine-
Lions. l'heyvvelfifetated the dead and rot
ten carom, d. laeive.Americanism :" cc,-
cooling its bide t/me:l beneath windy robes
and ita real 4uaaater boneeolt an enticing
t\- ' ,
BELLEFONTE, PA., WEDNESpAY, APRIL 15, . 1857.
I time. they trihriened it In inidnig44 . llark
I):hd , tif wcorshlitt -sad -itt
asm uch as the ghostly Vampire must be
More horrible than the living man, in en
much was thn. new organaccion more peril
Milt than ita prototype. ,trety eta and dis•
1:i - fly:dant tittnent wit; stirred tp. The vilest
factionist4,—tliclAirls• of poletics,—Whn,
fors quarter of a century, had been shuf
fling *Lout from party to party. and , sitling
indiscrimina•ely the interests of the country,
.the leperos of sotioty, op Whom every door
I nt respeetability had been shut,—these haw
ded together in a league of refuge. The Em
ulations. Mo.—the men whose symbol was
the bannet rouge, and whose login, the knife
—they exulted In the prospect of rain.
Si
lently and cunningly their operations were
carried on and they found abundance of
yielding material. The administration like
all other administrations, gave unavoidable , .
'arms's. to ttitus of its. partinsuST
lions are seeking office, by fur the greater
number must, of course. he di +appointed :
itad.winler the heart °Caw rejected a pplic,tnt
was hitter with resentment, the agents of
the secret order were constantly at his side,
deluding him with dreams of retaliation and
personal -aggrand.semet. Those who hid
been injured, Or supposed they had been in
jured. under government - influence,—thane
•
whi were too indolent to essay the honors
' Ms and bestow wind to power, and. yet too
needy to relinquikh their hopes,-those who
had rendered thernseltes suspected by their
°twit, or d.teatiblit by their crimes, all
caught eagerly at tht last change of repair
leg their desperate fortunes : and thus were
laid the foundations of the " Know-Nothing,
Party.", The public good was not taken in
to consideration t the primary object could
only have been the uplifting of a certain ir
responsible divot to high and responsible
positions.
• it is not strange that this scheme shoran
have bten attempted. It is not strange
that the bankrupt gamesters pf poletics
should have employed the moat outrageous
methods. fur the appropriation of the dar
ling "spoils." When Inc have of' country
has been Me glowed up in tit ift-iness of the
Individual, men goon become capable: of the
meanest trickery, anti the most daring aro.
oitios. Trutt is One and Indivitdhle; it
wean now the same fico that it has ale aye
worn. Error is mill dorm it ch.tiges its
mask at ph asurc ; a , d, a here it cannot con
wince the under:tam - hog. it not unfrtquently
. 4 1 , 1 w : ii..ra the litsegt lin it , rt
It kir; been charged againstate Arne ridan
people, that they are easily led astray
This very fact is an evidence of their si neer
ity. They know the value of their 'motto
tiona; and that icnowledze mikes them 'cal
ous, even to a fault R lying on their own
senee of rectitude, they are ind app to pee .
serve a strict watch against imposture; bur
w h en the semblance of imposture has been
pointed out to them, they are hasty in Fe
moving it, Ifent•e it is that, they ofte:l do
too mach, ova its r..dressing a fancied grit, !,
vailee, and too little, tout aids awarding
et ad serves, 'fluty arn..at.: list on. 4 terstetpg
the ir favor cons ett%an I they r art ly Ir not
d Fond of t z 9tt to lit, they smile
limy jtUu;t at tm teltistoitlf.nrall sir 11111 , 1,01111-
ing rapidity. devoted to novelty, they are
only too willing to accept on trial the
.most
unreasonable speculations. Hat they are an
intelligent. people : give them • singlc clue,
and they will unravel the most tangled web
of i.ophi.try. The solid substratum of hon
esty norterbes , their lighter (sults and frivoli
ties • and that substratum must eventually
scatter.with the tipheartiig of ate earthquake
the instructions of the service, ft may no
well for the civic rabbets; of the present day
to reuitindier, that the inept ins/terabit: judg
es ore, popular generosity overtaxed, and'
pope larecontlite nee a but,ed.
The means of propmeatiug the •• Know-
Nothing" humbug were such as might have ,
been expected from its originators, The i
literary efforts of that party will be retitned
among the curiosities of' future ages. Pres- •
Res vvere i eitfßeusly suborned, and suddenly
estaldfsht.d. A chain of falsehood. imper.
feet in ovary link, was forged around the
land. The leaders of the movement had
fully re:hemmed their partlifitsl;a4 adop
' tad every moisture to hide heir weakness ;
they bid studied carefully every point of
stage erect. 'they were worthy dise:eles Of t
•• the (lend that lies like truth," Accusing
by implic ition, attacking by hint and inuen
do, they stoat from the first, beyond the
pale of arguafent. entirely destitute of
honor, they wore better enabled to play
upon the honor o( others. They felt the
portance of basing their endeavors upon
some broad and general ground— acuotr pre
text in which the moat diverse opinions
might be reconciled.
"Sower waren-word for the fi,git
Mist vindicate the wrong, and wrap 6. right "
They appealed to no doubtful feeling: they
perverted to their caned the most povrerfid
rofirepttref-our continent niturordlut- _in-..
a. hut of self-preservation. Their battalions
were arrayed, and their sentinels potted :
ihnultane,:ously they raised 'their rallying
cry: " The Republio is in Itanger !" The
Republic was to danger but as usual, the
Shunt str* given by the very inciondiariet
who had *plied the match.
Wherever dissatisfaction was rife, or pre
judice manifest, there the innovators en
grafted their dogma. • They,vr,ere all things
to all men. At the North, they mounted
the rostrata of Abolitionism and fulminated
against the iniquities of slavery : at the
South, they prattled about the vested tights
of the Seyeral States, and declared that Oahe'
Combs llAnnul
rightx must: he snpitorttd,,'
ton or , no
Littitop ;1 _ivottinghe mode tither
sectron. thoy preseit,:d the roc n c t; -
prnmime. and deplored the growth 6#'
schtuntoits, Looking upon tin
elothl. they saw that the many
agreeing tit no Oilier partibular, ,
.bilied in their' hostility to Claim
antiriug,. peraoiteranco, ibex rekil
AIM.% of ancient hatred : they si
that the Catholics were patting t
['apal encroachments in thii coatis
they halo intoleronce gird on Het
Smola. Among the netivem of the
lauded the American pride of blot
sign influence," they said, "is scouting
every where paramount: let us gwfirei egainst
the influx of onlignition." • Toltfie
and unthinicing classes they ofkered fame
and emolument; to the war•evoli veterans
of -party, they 'held out the hiilttank pros
Dttet of rig, the government. What
wonder is it, that trirrfitTUTTPriri+iit BL iduTii
have spread so wide!, I The same fillfanW,,
of aecriipy that,
_protected jherr from the I
gaze of outsiders, gave - their every facility
fur dereiviiig one another ; the Snore distant
branches of the order operated in a, profound
ig. °ranee of the doings of their
,conferees .
implicit confidence was demanded by the
chiefs of lodges, and o.?.rorded by the tut:in
here ; and coon dub t l ryor •sq..' honor
among Were! ,moor fu b
vague and indescribable 'llorronnded
the eecret meetings ; the hunoblest voter
Settled to be w fielding a mightier forces limn
ever before: and the barsroompoliticians
rose to the dignity of statesmen. The core
. monies of initiati n were Seell.eteslculated to
inipr Ns the novice with S. sense of awe: one
by one, he hul.scribed to the articles of the
new ores el prufesall his cumin:inn, that
finovr•Nothingisnt" Wks identioal nit])
patriotedn, and pledged lietntelf, I y the most
solvent oaths, to its service. From that Imo
inent,his moral pen-, rof resistance o it , . lot I
Lle surrendered Lis personal jied,...tueut„ as
the price of admission ; and; in tas .t. pro-
portion to his hoorsty of purpose he is as
bound don it by the obligation of
l lt ass , asy enough for him to C14,11111e lbr
apps armlet of wisdom, aril. lathe, toiplees I
silt inquiry, by a significant shake of the I
. head, sod the stereotyped response, -1 dont
know. I ' There is all Eastern nnvoloto that
may he pertinent here; A. &ern's:le nier..hant I
had a son, who was little better thou, an hid
of cud. le-itig about to 4erillitni torili
on Ms !pot,
to enter into eon versatithi wlfb Ittritgers.—
So long," said the father, "as vin pre
serve bllellee, 1101104 y will iliqCOnt (Mit yJii
are a fool " Tho 'awn and - like
many modern VMS, Olpeyea the paternal
command fee the first few daya..
he was seated our evening in R caravansen,
among a noisy- rrowd, with liquors forbid
den by Mohnen utal flowing freely amine,
one of the grileBl6 asked the r•ters - of fns ru
lent gravity. My father," he replied,
“told wJ that, so lung as i held trey tongue,
metleedy would dismt.er me to be a fool "--;
..X.a.weiso.e did he break the inkier:then. than I
lie betrayed tits
the .- , -Know Noshing" e,prostles. While their
pomtonot Ti ere undefined. they were 'La uup
assailable ; it needed however, but a alpdfe
false move on their part, to exposit their ut
ter folly.
The masses halve an innate love for soya
' terr: where they cannot comprehend, they
bow : they are only too apt to subject reason
to faith. The gospel of Pagan mythetogy,
and. through - that mythology. the delipotisen
of antiquity, owed their existence to dark
and unmeaning rites. The oracles, that
were dumb- to the people, could be accent
m.xlating enough, when trains bade them
epiak. Oligarchy and Superstition have al
ways gone baud in hand ; the latter hes con
et antly repaired and fortified the ramparts of
the former. While the oppress.d are en
wrapped in gloorii, they bond their shoulders
patiently and tre.nhingly to the yoke ; hot
let, *nail once appreciate the numeretl,
physicatandt mental inferiority of their task
masters, and the iron rod is sliettered for
ever. While a veil is stretched before the
inner shrine, the votary in eager, to adore :
buk his adoration peasea,,when the ten is
rent away, and hut idol takes the shape of a
chattering monkey, 'fr a lowing heifer.
The cardinal fault of secret political so
cieties is, they destroy the privileges of the
individuals composing there. Each tneiLhi.r
is expected to submit his own will, to the
rill of the whole and the diajonty is sup
posed to represent the whole. To secure
unanimity of action.the, minority must yield.
?thasuras are deteinuned on. in the privacy
(If the lodge the great number is in favor of
them and the entire body goes forth to car
ry them intiv exocutioa. Those race.sures ,
may be or,ly partially just, they may be es
sentially and glaringly iptproper ; hot-every
man is bound, if riot' by direct. promise, at
ltttpL by severe implication, to a strict and'
rigid- aeqitio• • n - co--,_.:trunt_..l.hf_ midnight
meeting,•voters are sent.n - ith settled tickets
to the polls. tt is nut dial mit to trace the
grades, by which such organisations must
inevitably becodia the tools of aludation.—
No matter how pare may be the motives of
their founders,—no matte/ how disinteres
tee the seal of their atilierents.--designing
and unscrupulous persons will creep in, and
aspire •to The dictatorship.
,Secireey plates
absolutism in the hand of its ditectors
the possession of usionestiord power is a
temptation to altuiu it: [front the decision
of the chiefs, there is no appeal ; the sulior
dinate who refutes to obey. bears the ivainp
trescher,v. !kis only the Jesuit
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of liberty that can ever hallow Koch villain
(Ms moons In the old World, where goy
birnTrioni Itself isirkindof commirecy against
the people, the natural law of reprisal may:
snuietitdie jostify tho • people in conspiring
mown the goyernment. Even there, how
ever, the history of revolutionary plotting%
declares that they• carry their own bane
nithin th,Juselves, and that, iii their proud
cat successes, they are often of doubtful
value to the nations. The ma. man in the
(aide, fell a victim to eye demon he had in•
vOked : and the projectors of rebellion are
tumidly borne down' by the tempest of dis;
cord which they hove. loosened. and fled
that they have_abolidied one tyranny, only
to formsli material for another, more arbi
trary and coaCtingg. In the United States;
it is imix,ssible to surmise a cave, in which
conspiracy would. he tollrable. Linder our
Mild and e quitoble form of governmein. the
height of the laws is searc.ely felt; the MIN-
Stir trituthtrttrjettrit otorel—nyttverthlen—wi.
compulsory one. Thought and speech are
ispilelly fine; the loess is under.no super
vision, and the orator acknowledges no rot
atrium. 'flan people wish to he instructed : '
their teachers enjoy every opportunity
of communication. Honesty is never cora
-1 Pilled to skulk behind the feeble,bkrrier or
I ,r, tense. When m
oea'aiceessary
it should he openly proclaimed, and openly
"veoenpltishllti-t In — tltt.rtuse of sirulfat.qppo
eition, its unfailing protector is puhlicity.—
fteptildiceci•im is the child of light: and it
iunst not abnegate its mother. Our legiala
tors, if they would Le trusted, must court
' the gaze of men ; they must walk their
course with the eye , : of the world upon them
their prudence is indorsed by the viiilence
of liit:lilitfoll There cannot be too much
elticidatlon The workings. of our ityina.rn
are already t.oinplex ainuogli : it IS thb al
' Woad t.iek of the future to simplify them
While the voter may not * altogether alienate
Ins perogittives of sovereignty, he tonst still
be car, ful of the media, through which that
sov,reiglity is. cornmeal. The implements,
with which tyranny was budded up, cannot',
1,, employed to construct the temple of lib-1
erty ; chi y are rusty with blend, end rank
pith tub mould of centuries., Wherever I
boldnes, of espression inlets with universal I
encouragement. accr.cy logy be regarded :Li
PrZ'gt111110.1‘1: CVidtzllee guilt. Know:
not tyro to be bold ; fur
misinness is invariably associated with cow •
ardice
I of viol ot
religioog
I ' tit; t%ith
i led the
way for
and
lotranalve
toil they
" (de-
The late declaration that the order had
*handl/91u 5ecrecy.—art5. .., , vv...,.... , .
er mt. rtble rune. in perr-ct keeping with
this whole methodical plait of misreprisen
ration Z Arc not the big s null rn
Is not the public still exidnil ri Anil are
1 , not proselytes still enticed from the petit of
duty, and Sworn. With all the gibberish of
technical remelt. itoo a forgytfulliess of
their coon's) 'a dearest institutions ? From
ilea dtty-n whielt.K,l4K_Notillitglin'' first_
begun to ho fermidaide, its adrucatem have
bcen invited, again and. awn'', to fair contro
versial diseds.non. Those iiAttatioi d they
have shunned. • Their weapon has been the
must—tintitet,itia .r.alumay, It__s t erned ns
thoughlbey ht's compiled a lexicon of the it
own, sad transcribed on its pages every pos. l i
Bible epithet of opprobium. The strategy
of Indian warefare was theirs, they poured
forth volleys, from under sheltei. upon their
foes• • Waiting for en implant d imminent,
and stabbing in the back, they have earned
the name of assassins, and deserve to rank
with the propagandists of the dagger and
the poisoneritchalice. It is a poor philotto
phy,—that in -which hire assertion stands
for proof, and simple denial is substituted
for refutation.
An abundance of pecuniary aid was pro
cured from unknown quarters. The expen-
Rea of the new humbug were enormous ;
and yet no very heavy coattibutionil were
levied from the members. It hits been hint
ed, that. during the earlier stages of the or
ganization, the disbursements of the British
"secret service were extraordinarily
large, suck that the directors of that food
sustained a constant correspondence with
parties in the United States P but, in the alt
itenoe of direct testimony, wo should be sor
ry to imitate the Know-Nothings, by lay.
Ing this accusation at their doors. ft a , a
cumuli; circurustatico, however, that English
men winking it tour amongst us. are mostly
inclined to lean tow arcs Rtiow Nothingtsm
tool it is certain that Itritiah gold has al
ways been ready to help the Larim of de
m walization and disiiiiion here . Where the
shot and steel have failed, England dins
tipped her spertrawlth milver ;' and, though
the phalanx of patriots cannot be bioken
'lie adventurers of politics may he bought.
When the sages of our civil code warned
119 to beware of " foreign hill nonce," it was
such an influence as this that that they' des
ignated —an influence of hostile natl.-ma. ap.
preaching us through the avenues of venal
ity and corruption St home. They did not
specify, they could not hnic meant. the In•
tine nee nT - ofer bWit foreipm-printlatien.---
Backed by„every adjunct of terror of spe
ciousness, and of areal h,- Kuow-Nothingistn,
ran its thad career. When the innivators
had once appealed to dm - mussel; they has
*draocid too far to retreat : it became ne
etstriary for than to tinge their proceedings
with it color of justice. They not only made
the case agaiika' their adveriiaries aub•
orned witnesses. and iiredispotied s that grea,,t
jury, the publ.e mind, to receive them. They
enlisted thn • ;Rithans and bullies, vi'ho infest
our cities,„,oll4 instructed them provoke
and trample upon the citizens of foreign'
birth. These tlerieradoes mingled with the
EMI
inhering elastics of the Irish and ()crimp':
they ululated them with alcohol and loaded
them with insult. Every kind of petty opt
Cession wee practised every pretense of
quarrel was eagerlysaught up. Forrsigner44
were beaten on the streets ; they were teen
ted in their plsoett of antusentent ; they
were disturbed at the altars of their wor
ship ; their wives and daughters wire not
protected PiCII by the sanctity of sex, from
nn testily assaults. Wherever,linding them
selves thus nnwticome in the circle of ne
tireism, they formed ♦p excluilve social in•
tercomrse of their own, they were stigma.
tilted as plotters of tresson. It was fitting
that such an impeiChment should come from
such a source. Ou elimtimiglays. the pea-a•
gento the polls,were blocked up by armed
gangs : time appearance of a twelgner was
.ie • aignal for challenge and bravado: and
the presiding officers 'of the ballot too °No
saw, witl►calqu indifference• the pluralized
deionesiks:vmmip.iscaseddza,o7meiss of 1,, 5.
franchise. Where Know.Nothingismn n Illq
paramount In a municipality, the injured
compiainentaould hope for no redress. un
der the laws. ilia application was repelled
with a crushing contempt : and his tnrnuen•
tors were lauded before his face. But the
resignation,manifeited on the one side, wee
commensurate with the brutality et the
other.
' The sektntere bed counted matt upon Ott
Tabreen'el slieaitimcnt r esQ U (Ms
man's keen Perception of wrong ; they he I
tipected to excite the itreign 'element int
rebellion ; but e'en this isiV'evmsfirt we,
denied them. They were baffled, in al,no.t.
.every instance, by an unanaie'.nng patienre.
—a patience, so remarkable, that it seemed
born of inspiration. The very finger of (Lid
nifty indeed he watd, in times rf tioulde, to
(race the words'of wisdom upon tho Hearts
of tti.'llii th -4boappreasonvitowever; were th :
tetinined to carry that' point; dew 'clan
had rend( red them Sluilloeitss. In some few
wh(n torlilarance had cemd to
be a virtue. the 'foreign population dared 'to
mnrwer and instantly the torch of fanati•
eisto a• Lghteti. The priest. whsle mm
trrand of nuvrcy among the aid( aid
needy, ass subjected la the most cruel to a -
mend ; citizens a tare ruthlt.ady LIDISSIArt.e,I
by score., churches were pillaged, dmllings
were reduced to ashes. Faction exulted
over the corpses of the slain ; and the knife
and pistol were approved, th `llCerorth, as
tim indivelpatle ailjiivapts or ••Rnnw-N,, h
i"g" sua.iion So long se mob rule in O.
I ho dreaded. Po loon veil' flu; riot. of
f.e.uieviW and New tirleeris bereited a* *W.
11111 phi. We need not go bryoud the limits
; of our awn country. to reek the '''dart, and
bloody ground."-- the ger;und tm w hick the
god, ;rml( reaso II ould unly us‘t
--the ground that tooludr,,s the pretence of
no Mistily anl no Guillotine, to blight it wi'b
losting infamy. it is' worse than veil% fir
VIOW•NOMIllgi4f131" to plead, me CEL'IIUII.
'lran, frit ThCI - IC rieesses Were not -mm.4'll
- by any ant boriri d wing of the p sty.
Secrecy is of little averl h re. Did not off--
rinl authority wink at wholesale noir ler ?--
i
Did riot party I ad , re inflame. f'l , th. it her
atiguefi, The pieetone of the , trrattitade?
not actliorited journals commend the crime,
and defend the crictunst ? And we§ tt rot
by appointtnent of a legislaturo r .-a body
sitting in council over the destinies of a
ate,—that a committee invaded' the repose
cony nt life, terrifying, with ingeisitcral
rudvitss, and in lecent profani;i s, the row d
I and umffending "sister.' of ch rrdy f" The
farts are before us, nod from thtm there can ;
be but ono deduction.
Such was 'KROW-NOttllngifitelß its rise,
and such were the eikets of Its pr.grers It
bore within itself the germ of the , dull ro ;
and the days of its dine aro at hand
Like a summer's c is meting array
from the horisen • I o hate
blasted only the impt 14 L1 , 2..111111 t Ott that
would hate wieldo.l them. The same r vi,
fedings, that could crest° suet on order,
were sufficient to destrtry it. Among its
chieftains, every man wished to be iirst• and
when one vra* *dvanced itt the egihnse f
another, a morbid envy raged in the boom
of all. - Unity of purpose died stilt] the hope
of gain : personal enmities sprang up : and
at the present time, the organization is in a
auto of division and mutiny. 14 it not a
proverb, that "they who sow the wind shall
reap the whirlwihd
It irobld be, indeed, • tedious task, to de.
fine, In all their beiringa, the thousand mi
nor clauses of a creed, which, like the cham
eleon, has varied its hue, with every aria
tine of the a morph re of opinion- But 01
these clauses may be traced to two so called
great prt , mmles :
let. An exclusion of Catholics from the
exercise of the elect tve franchise, or, among
the More tiberal beano/10°f tlYb Order, from
the right to hold ofllte under our govern
ment.
2iul. An er. , :luftion of foreign rit from the
right to hold office, nn extension of the na
termination to appoint for offf:tr only the
trulnhere of the Order.
These "panciples" certainly display the
skill et their originatorp. Th y are the prop
or hasii on whfch to construct P. system yt
theiy,have Bern preserted frim
the first, and. more redently, halm been
freely ptor,saed. pr cent ens., of the
oaths, exacted from the candidates for ad
mist : lion into a lodge :
"You prointsu and deolkii, that you will
support matp:rs,kr all puli t
iett.l *Caeca; the" t ceond dicipriA stiltiohcr4 pf
laiii
ME
NOi 18s
dila Order. provided it be.neocutarr for the
kneilean intereeti; that, uit may be dont;
legally, you will, when elected to anyntllic t.
remora all fureignern, atiene , or..ltomosin
Catholics from office; and that yon will not
appoint any such to sod
, office. All this o
promise and decline oil your honor a t A in.v•
Leann, to sustain and abide by, without. ant
hesitation or mental reservation wiwiercr,
so help you God, and keep yob SLeadfaSt.,- -
You furthermore prondie and declare, that
you will not vote nor give your influon;:ie fur
soy ..man fur any office in the gift of tyo pea.
ple,:unlosn he be an Americnn•Lorn ciligcl4
71 jaror of lionrican.b.iel
Amertra ; nor if he be a rtomln Catholic
--
Thu you will not, under any circinutlanees,
expoix the t enine of any merohr of Uhl or
der, nor rceenl.the taivtence of Buchan Or.
gnnitation.
These declarationi,ta., tittulyst wor with
the spirit of out invtitutiotta. If an omit
land be be pitnisb tide as high tresion, Low
elan we deal %rub thetr• wretch g, Wh",
without oven the merit or courage, harocor
ertly endesvored to undermine that
)ptor
clgnty9 The,diflerences between tha otd
eiteties were merelyd &neves of sentiment:
they age. is.l in recognizing the low, though
they di.ngTett.l in their interpretations of it.
Th-y cought to corince th^ir adveraariel, not
to snnilniale Onto. I hey i recruited thtii
ranks from every quarter, In Which cX7gfed'
r/ coincidence of, ideas. The "Know.Yoth
in hays" ;goon.d the ancient issues ; they
have discovered new canoes of disc/nada:lca
thin —the accident of birth and the
endc of religion —cauge9 Orrr which the chi
qualithd ptrson can hare no control. Toy
m Ind no CertillelltlS of rapacity or integ•
nty ; they aids, concerning the public man,
• Ii he a native of the soil ? if a native, ii
he inint.c d to Caiholicito 4 to he, in ithuttag
m Tuber of nor order, anon] by our oaths, to
the • accomplishment of our designs 7" Af
fecting an almost boundless reverlineifr
every thing Anteriree. r"
t arro-' uontito corner atone of the 7t ises.
Bran constitution,—civil and religious Tx/.
ty.
, - It his hen iir.rci. that Catlioli,ts' clay
where, are enndleleig . „ . iiiiiiroctiil to the au
tiler ty of the Pope, and, i h •refora, that
Catla he citizens her: cannot he bun anatay•
al to tho republic. "Ware the alle.gilinCeP
ways a • dineva-Nothing" writer, "that Oath.
°lies owe thi. PO7s. evar t i cloiict with the
tilegial,. , e the they owe the Ft public, the
' la ter would ill .:71061yytobi to the superier
force of the fornaJr." . Vie-youngest tria4n
eccliii.isticad history knows that it it icopo4-
I ethic, Cita ,ucia a coothet s'ioul I lwar take
fplace. Our• p'easont opponeots have not
I only erected a it.:.e: dopes : tti if hive thril
-1 Ded it irtfin ii et-in.-mil of lotic rtiva sittli
ods of Aristotle and of Iltcon are too feeble
to convey the tremendius thooghte of there
mol,rn philosophers. They,manifeat,i I. -
d.cr Jul aptitiell for limpttiz at cortehilltror,
: and, iu the present initariee, as elsewherts.
I they have' male a palate princepta. The
, Popu duce. tricked, posies , ' a power or- r
Catholicity : lig thp head of the Choreal', be
1 directs the church in Its f unctions t"hirridi -
pOWer is altogether spiritu d. In all spiritu
al alien, he la paramount; he confirms the
oulinatiori of. high elergroe in : he ex?lains
..he articles of faith. But he does not. twat
in spic i eusl matters, frame a law for the
church ; he is clothing mire thaa ate admin•
istrator of rules already fi AM id ; of tales to
the observance of which it , ..it as touch Mend
tie the meanest Tasman. His cast is exact
ly parallel to thst of the ezeeutitt power, in
our own gove-nment. Ile is the elrponeht
of diseipline ; and. iii do:Aries' ditliniltieo
his derision is generally- regor lid ti I final.
R u t, beyond Ole narrow limits of the Papal
States, he has no tempval flOic VI i. nod, even
in that rogion, late ovoibi have shit.[ heat
it s swoy 4i fir front abteliite. Fur many
centuries, ho has neither rsortini , l, nor
claimed, any other tera;wll jarixitotion.—
I n th e barbarous agio ,the periods of dead
potie misrule,hwfore the invigorating rays of
literature had been diffused ainorq the us..
Lions— -
hen lee wee hat the retleo ecoldier'd
kliA4t ' governed ell, the iteptre w.MII Lb' 111,014" , -
in those ages, an indirect temporal power—
was visted in the Sovereign
Christianity was then the on , ly tie that held . ,
the tdbos of Europe together ; it WWI the ,
only holiest - Li:lag induence, amidst the out
venial Jar ; anti, ai the ropro , ottitative of
Christianity, the Popo was the father Of the
people. Thu nitwits I:LC.4cm tay, groanini
unrieeirriperiel yoke. appositel Ratan :
they a- toed their emperors of crins is and
misictneanors ; the Pope, SA the app Ante.'
ju ige, pronounced sunk , or
not guilty. ff the Emperor proved rofraO•
tory, tic was put tinder the ban of ee'o tY
rnunioation : and it was decreed. in the co,e
ftitutional law of the empire that, 11 ho re.
maititsl excommunicated for more than 4 ild
year, he was sploprso,ald not by mamma
f the Rope, depOit.d. k The dep.:l4lin.; perog.
ntiyttnistditary - etreok uptrowouterolr
teal ingiSlenee, and arbitrary' exaction.; it
.w-ad uitelea.4. unlace 'satiated by tbi raptly
the halt of exoommuntuation could be but
dead lotted, while the ruler wail guarded by
the ay ropathi ‘.4 his aubjeote. That pro.
rogatitid• froia tba
-consent of all phruitendorn r 3t WAS Atwayi
nt garive. rather than positive, in itsaotion
and tt oettsed to bo aseirted, when ao:iety
it:Tante hotter Uri:anise& and tu tier cuitttble
of reit* pmtectitin. Tetwoorttl 'tttettre4 o , ,to4
'in the truest emit, n y
mit, ttori4-4,..it was graut:
el for psrtictilstr Otitstelorati
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