The daily union., 1854-12-27
GEORGE III AND THE KNOW -NOrHINGs.

The men who arraigned George III in the Decla.
ration of American Independence specific in their
charges they open in their avowal of them Their
bill Of indictment contains wenty-eight distinct counts
among the earliest Of which is the following:
He has endeavored prevent the population Of these
States for that purpose obstructng the laws for the nat
urazaion Of foreigners refusing to pass others
their migration hher and raising the conditions Of
appropriations of land
The authors Of the constitution imbued with the
spirit of the Declaration They knew how power tended
abuse and they guarded all their grants OF 1t by eau
tous limitations They knew in what they had Euesea
from tyranny and there certain rights which they
to themselves and their descendants They
understood the value of free religion, free Speech and
free press because they had not always had them and the
privilege of assembling publicly to discuss public abuses
with them all the DEAR in consequence of the
difficulties which in periods Of their history they had
seen attending it, They granted away authority to
government to interfere with any of these rights But
their constituents not satisfied with this They meant
to leave nothing to implication when they felt their dear
est interests involved So the constitution amended
formed; and whoever desires to understand
what our fathers valued most as personal rights should
read the first ten amendments of the constitution The
first article is itself noble summary Of political wisdom
We subjon it for the refreshment Of readers
Congress shall make law respecting establishment
of religion prohibiting the free thereof abridg
ing the freedom of speech of the press the right of the
people peaceab assemble and to petition the
for a redress of grievances
Nearly all the other amendments look this does to the
personal security and rights Of the citizen He is not to
deprived of life liberty property without due process of
law he to have the right of trial by jury; in criminal
he is TO be confronted in open with the witness
against him. and to have benefit of counsel he is be
allowed to keep arms his house is to be sanctuary to
him and not TO be invaded except upon warrant and
this issued upon probable cause supported by oath The
citizen TO have fair play all sides He is protected
against wrong whether it from his neghbor or
from the government And safeguard against wrong
it is ident that prominent idea with the
trainers of the constitution No inquision no star cham
be secret tribunals of any kind did they provide for
but for open churches and public courts and liberal speech
and unfeered press These the rights they cher
ished and for these, well against such abuses
the Declaration describes, they fought Great Britain.
Now wish to call the attention of readers to the
fact that the organized know-notngs of this country
have based themselves platform directly the Of
all this We arraign them teachers of tyranny and
attempting to revive the worst ideas of George ILL., They
would undo if let alone the work which was done by the
patriots of the revolution and the authors Of Union
They afraid of immigration and they seek discour
age it by law. They strike at religious freedom and
would set up religious tests They declare war of
and would exclude naturalzed citizens from office Here
where Providence has taught them great lesson of ber
aly, by comminglng the abors and the blood of many
nations, they yet set up the standard of bigotry and
preach the doctrines of ntoerand8 With their lines of
life for them in the midst of abundance they grudgc
to feed the starving stranger with what they cannot eat
themselves They make abored calculations to prove that
they must not dispose of what they find superhuou
lest of their descendants may to be
in need of il hundreds of years hence They would keep
millions of barren and useless for generation after
generation, in order that their virgin soil may be first
broken in the far future by those whose ancestors came
from Europe in particular year They thus endcavor
to wall out philanthropy by columns of statistics and
Justify prescription by the rules of arithmetic Instead OF
apprecatng free press they seek utterly ignore it
Instead of procamng free speech they put padocks on
their lips and speak in whispers. Instead of public