Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-11-04
SPIRIT u THE MORNING PRESS

The Onton, commenting on the recent trial
at Lowell, Mass, wherein Know Nothing
was compe lied to answer questions concerning
the lodge to which he belonged, says:
when genuine American sees that the
grosssst crimes are to be palIi ated-that the
most abandoned profigates are to be protected
that his fellow beings are to be persecuted
because they do not worship at the same shr inc
with hlmself-and that nothing, neither irwin.
chile courage and inestimable services on the
battlefield, neither deeds of charity neither
generosity nor spotless reputation, nor the
most distinguished abilities can protect an
adopted citizen from the furious prescriptions
of these imitators of the worst tyrants of by
gone ages-when he sees these things he will
Tecoli from the impulsive oaths he has taken
and boldly stand forth the vindicator of that
equality and equity which are so peculiarly
the characteristics of our institutions Curiosity
cannot be grahfed in seeing men guilty of in
famous crimes rescued from justice; curiosity
cannot be gratifed by the spectacle of an
honest man taking the name of God in vain to
prosecute his brother and friend simply for a
religious difference; curiosity cannot be graft
ned by that self prostitution which compels
an American citizen to defy the laws upon
which cur liberties repose, and to prescribe
man because he was born in the land of Lafay-
cite, or of Montgomery, or Kosciusko, or Gal
latin. And here let us appeal to the young
mon of our country, who are enticed into these
oens OF lmpiety and intolerance by the seduc.
tive glare of false patriotism 1t is not
patriotism to prescribe; it is not patriotism to
ie 1t Is not patriotism to assist to degrade those
whom we meet every day, and who, before
God and the law, are our equal and whom we
EHoc to be good men,"
The Inte(ligencfr is devoted principally to
the work of showing that the northern Demo-
Gratis are quite az ultra against southern
rights as northern Wings, and by way of re
polling the efforts of the southern Demecr ats
to incorporate-swallow up, as it were-the
southern Wings, the editor says:
1.-The subjoined article from the New Orleans
Bee very aptly points out the reasons which
have rendered the Democrats of the South 80
atectlonate towards the Wings of the South.
All they want just now is that the Nation al
Wings should quietly and meekly tall into the
complish all this they are full of ssH1iles and
ahability." The names of CLAY and WEB
srER are most reverently mentioned, and all
the glorious recollections of the past are invo.
ked and dwelt upon with a touching degree of
sentimentality. But the N 4tional Wings will
respectfully decline the overture, with all its
Establishments. They will stand firm in their
sntrenchments, having faith in their own prin-
cipies, and an abiding confidence that there is
enough of wisdom and conservatism left in
the country to save it from mischief and agi
tation, North and South. In the language Of
. modern writer, they feel that thew have
time Ito cipher out their destiny through
years, ae the Chaldean men were wont to do
In ages past
The Seminal gives the Wings fts'' again
to-day.