Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-11-29

It Do the masses, will the masses, lis i IN
It tended that the masses of their number
$ shall know whom Where is. the cen
: trail seat of the Yelled Prophet? In Ne1
: York New England or old England
g Who knows that Know Nothingism is no
i Influenced by cabal abroad by a For
4 eign influence Whence passes the sign
of course from common centre some
S where. Is that centre in Virginia, for th,
t orders here If not, is IL not alarming
that our people in this State are to b.
t sweryed by sign from somewhere, any
where else, to GO. for this or that side of {
cause, for this or that candidate for elec.
ton ? Those orders must have degrees
the degrees are higher and lower, and
the higher must prescribe the rule to gov.
ern. Each degree must have its higher
officers, and all theorders must be sub
Iject to some one.
Now. how many persons constitute the
select few of the highest functionaries. no
body knows. Nobody knows who they
are, or how many Of them there are
They exist somewhere in athe dark
Their blows can't be guarded against, for
they strike, not like freemen bold, brave
ly for rights. but unseen, and TO make
conquest of rights. Their adherents are,
sworn to secrecy and to obey. They
magnify their numbers and influence by
the very mystery of their organization,
and the timid- aud time serving fy to
them for fear of prescription. or for hope Of
reward. They quietly warn friends not
to stand i'll the way of their axe, and
friends begin to apprehend that it is time
to save themselves by Know Nothings.-.
They threaten their enemies, and some,
of their enemies skulk from fear of often.
ding them. They alarm nation, with
its political and church parties, gives
them at once consideration and respect as
u power to be dreaded or courted Thus,
in night, as it were, has an o!iyarchy
grown up in secret to control our liberties,
to dictate to parties, to guide elections,
and TO pass laws. They are establishing
presses too, but We cannot define from
their positions single principle which
we can say Know -Nothings may not dis.
own aud 'disavow. The Prophet OF Kho.
rassan never gave out words more caba-
listic-words to catch by sounds, and
sounding the very opposite of what they
really mean. When they have mems
fears. curiosity. hopes. the people svoices,
the ballot boxes. tho press, a their
command--how long will our minds
be or persons safe, or property Sc.
cure ?---how long will stand the pill
lars of freedom OF speech and OF the
pen, when liberty Of conscience is gone
He is bastard, indeed, who fears to op-.
pose an oligarchy. or secret cabal like this,
und loves, not human rights well enough
to protect them.
It'll, It is opposed 10 our progress as a
nation. No new acquisitions can ever be
made by purchase Or conquest, if for
eigneIs or Catholics are in the boundaries
Of the acquired countries ;~for. surely we
would not seek to take jurisdiction over
| them to make them slaves to raise up
distinct class Of persons to be excluded
from the privileges of Republic. II
not for their own sake, for the sake Of the
Republic VIC would save ourselves from
| this example.
AS early as 1897, we established
great land ordinance The most perfect
system Of imminent domain. Of proprieta.
ry titles, and of territorial settlements,
which the world had ever beheld to bless
the homeless children of men. 1t had
the very houses Farming Of hospitality in it.
1t welded tho logwood axe, and cleared
! a continent of forests. II made an exo-
dus in the Ola World, and dt ed the new
with Iog-cabins, around the RheRrths Of
which tho tears of the aged and oppressed
were wiped away, and cherub children
we're born to liberty, and sang its songs
and have grown up in its strength and
might and majesty. 1t brought together
Foreigners of every country and cline
immigrants from Europe of every Ian
guagc and religion, and its most wonder
fui effect has been to assimilate all races.
Irish and German, EngIish and French,
Scotch and Spaniard, have met on the
Western prairies, in the western woods,
and have peopled villages and towns and
ci,ies-queen cities, riYalling the marts of
! eastern commerce aud the Teutonic and
Celtic and Anglo-Sa races have in a
day mingled into one undistin2uishable
i mass-and that ore is sAmerican?-Ame-
rican in every sense and in every impulse
OF American patriotism. The raw Ger.
mans ambition is 6rst to acquire land
enough upon ~hich To send word back u
the Baron he left behind him, that be
does not envy him his principaltY
The Irshman no longer hurras for 'my
Lo.d' or my Lady but exclaims in hi:
I neart Of hearts that this is a free country.
The children OF all are crossed in blood il
r the first generation, SO that ethnologJ
, can't tell Of what Pareptags they are
i, they all become brother and sister Jona
Lhan5-Jonathau to sew aud plant graif
] -Jouathans to raise aud drive stock
= Jonathans to organize townships and com
ties aud States Of free election Jonathan
J, to establish schools and colleges. and res
e orators, sages and statesmen for the Sen
>, taIe-Jonalhaus TO take true heart ain
# with the rifle at any foe who daves TO in