The Sierra citizen., 1854-09-16

watched for our return through B broken
window or rickety door.
Correspondence.
THE following letter written by a.youhg
gentleman in Maryland, to friend in this
place, on the subject Of Known 6thihgisfn,
was evidently penned under d high state
Of excitement. 1t was brought out BY a
playful intimation that his. CAliforiiia
friend *as about to become o Know.
Nothing. Though in some instances
laboring under false impressions and fight,
ing man of straw, the writer is evidently
man of marked ability, and would be a
Formidable defehaer of any cause he might
espouse;
ANNAPOLIS, Nd, /
August lst, 1854.
Know Nothingism seems to
be the absorbing topic Nowadays. Its
ravages l fear more than Cholera, and all
the pestilences known to science Its ef-
fects l look upon with "fear aht1 treh-
Bling" hot that physical fear that makes
a map Quake and the blood ledse his lips,
but that moral dread which holds him in
awe and fearful expectancy when he be-
holds Uis-a-vis an element In the poll ital
world; which threatens the well being and
perpetulty of our once happy country, and
bids fair to rend asunder the ties which
bind us one to another in our individual
social relations. That one of the funda-
mental principles of their unholy and
contemplate alliance is sworn animosity-
aye, more-total prescription of Catho-
lies cannot be doubted, nor is it denied:
That it is a prescription of those men,
foreigners forsooth; related to us by the
ties of blood and still more by the ties of
gratitude is equally true. The members
who constitute this order are for the most
part whigs-there are some democrats be-
longing to them who have been deluHed
by their unhols and lieihg assertions;
whose minds have been poisoned by the
foul, base and wicked Misrepresentation
of bigdted fanatics, filthy mouthed preach
ers and broken down political hacks
Their grand idea is to break up the demo-
cratic party-that party whose principles
have so nobly withstood the storm of ages
and the test of time-which have by their
business and equality, developed the re-
sources of our country and made Us gov
ernment to which the nations of the Old
World must regard with awe and admira-
tion. The success of those principles is
attributed to the fact that their corner
stone is equality, as also civil and religious
liberty. And when this corner stone is
removed, this beautiful structure which
has dazzled the eyes of Europe, and cast
terror into the hearts of tyrants and
despots, must and will fall. When you
array father against son-brUther against
brother; when you call into existence all
the elements which attend religious strife;
when you excite sectarian passion, God
only knows the result. We will become
another familiar illustration of the iallacy
Of Republican Government. Heaven fore
fend that this may ever happen! Heaven
grant that there is yet too much of patri-
otism of honor, of integrity and virtue
among the people for such an event to
occur. Gratitude where art thou? Has
thou left the habitations of man and fed
to british beasts? Is it possible that so
soon the works achieved by those glorious
patriots who came and assisted in the
struggle for American Independence-who
left behind them iii their far distant homes
the partners Of their bosom, the sharers of
their joys, voluntarily beteaving them
selves of the comforts of life, exchanging
peace, happiness and tranquility, for the
dangers to be encountered in crossing the
ocean, in foreign cline, in fighting the
battles of freedom. IN raising up monu-
ment of universal liberty, which should
challenge the admiration of the world, and
should he an asylum for the oppressed,
the home of the ffee and the land of the
brave. / say, is it possible that their
noble efforts should so soon be forgotten +?
Can these men ~ who are ready to tear
down that flag which we SO dearly love,
so soon forget the chivalrous Lafayette,
(a French Catholic,) the foreign blood
which flowed at Brandywine, the triumph
at Yorktown So soon forget that the
first Congress conferred upon John Barry,