The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1822-10-15

, forv-so or persons Thus Weiskampt, the head
of the order in Germany, was called SPartacus
-Zwack, another carispifaior, Cato anu SO Oh
the rest.
The plan Of secresy was vet deeper, and more
mysterious: principles, doctrines, systems, were
Sd denonnated, as 10 pass among the uninitia'
ted for their opposites. We will instance lheir
motto Freedom, was in the estimation OF the
consprators. unqualified RIGHTEOUSNESS; an c
Emancipation (as they consider I'D from every res
traint, civil, moral, or religious, upon human ac-
ton. BY Honour, they mean that distinction
which might be acquired, in the estimation OF us
order, by those who wrought great achieve
mcnts in the destruction Of the friends OF rel-
gion and social order and in the address by
which they dipped the rest Of the world, by hoid
ing up pretence of devotion, to morality ana
virtue. No matter what the means were--pol-
son and the dagger were considered proper, II
they could be employed secretly; but il sys-
TEN Of lying and iibelIiDg would serve the pur'
pose as well, these were recommended as Jess
dangerous to the conspirators. Equality, IN
their language, meant that state Of things, which
under all circumstances, would place them 10 G.
quail authority with kings, Judges and all others
exercising any Office either civil or ecclesiasti-
cal--the object being to annihilate all authori
IT, either human or divine. They assumed the
position, that atheism and anarchy were desira-
Bile, and would promote human happiness and
il Is an article of their creed, that the end arqH
sa,lctif,I The means. When the French revoiu-
ton was effected, these conspirators, then de-
nominated the Jacobin club, proclaimed their
principal secret I'VE tremble as VIC write it,
. There is no God in heaven; and there shall
be no king on EARTH" To tie coDspirators in
France, secresy was no longer necessary for
only ,oretched fer of the friends of religion and
social order remained in France, and they dar
ed not avow their principles and opinions, lest
they too should share the fate of millions, who
lad either been murdered, or driven into exile.
That these societies existed in most, il not all,
Che States Of Europe, there cannot be much
doubt. They had different names, as policy die
tated. They gain their ascendancy uniformly,
by pretended devotion to opposite principles
by secretly destroying all who wonld oppose
their pernicious objects; and BY an Underwriting
system Of efforts, 10 place their own fraternity
into the first Offices in society particularly Their
colleges, the sacred desk, and upon the judicial
bench ; SO as to gain security to themselves.
while they arc extending the successes of their
system of moral dcsolation.
They lately existed, and most probably still
exist, in Italy. In September last the Roman
pontif was filed with alarm, and issued formi-
dabie bull of accommodation against them, as
engaged in a project to subyert christianity.
There was commission of inquiry instituted AT
the same time, composed OF Iudges--one half
German, and the other half Italian, 10 collect
information concerning the Carbonari. rit-
usl Of the first degree Of Carbonarisn has been
discovered, and was published some months
since. We preserved il on our files, and now
present il 10 our readers.
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