Washington sentinel., 1855-03-15
THE NEW ORDER.


1t is amusing, sometimes, to look to the move
ments of parties 1t is sometimes instructive
too, to scrutinize the contrivances of party
leaders. The present contest will make vast
additions to the curiosities ofpoltical history
additions which will benefit the people in all
future time, whenever attempts are made to
cheat and mislead them.
The Know-nothing organizations make war
upon our foreign population. Why 90 they
wage this war? From patriotic impulses !?
From fear of foreign influence? No indeed.
They wage the warfare from cupidity, and from
cupidity alone. They wish to enjoy the emolu-
ments Of all the Offices, and they are enraged
because our adopted citizens enjoy the emolu-
ments of some offices. Give the Know-noth-
ings the money, and they will swear that the
Irish brogue is rich and voluminous, and the
German accent sweet and melodious.
The Know-nothings make war upon the
Catholic religion, but the majority Of their
fierce declaimers do not believe in human
morality or Divine Providence. The loudest
of their religious declaimers are men destitute
Of character, broken down in fortune and rep
utation, and have no more reverence for q
church yard than for slaughter pen. Men
who come before the world with mouths filed
with pious EXPLANATIONS, and who seek to
make traffic Of religion, and use it for worldly
advancement, have their place allotted them.
They who are curious to know where that
place is, will find information in the pages Of
the Bible.
Immoral men, infdels, and unbelievers hold
up religious banner and drag reluctant Chris
tianity into the political arena. Have they
adopted this course from any respect for reli-
gion? From any regard for Christianity?
Most assuredly not Their conduct is the re-
suit Of cool calculation, and Of cold premedita-
ton. In hardness of heart they have set
themselves to work and devised means, by
which they could make profit and obtain power
and place, by cunning appeals to those religious
and Christian sentiments which they never
felt, and which many of them are incapable of
feeling.
The two things we have mentioned-the ap-
peal to the native, and the appeal to the Pro-
testant sentiment-are made only to acqui re
Office. They are put forward by the Know
nothing party, in order to cover up and con-
ceal the real nature and true scope Of their
organization. In the beginning of this con-
troversy, we showed that an alteration OF the ma
turalization laws could not influence or in any
manner affect the foreign vote. Our exposition
has been followed up every where, yet we have
never. seen any attempt or any indication that
an attempt would ever be made, to prevent
foreigners from voting. This fact convinces
us that the Know-nothings only wish to create
a feeling Of hostility against foreigners, so that
they may enjoy the Offices, and fill the places
which foreigners now enjoy, and so that some
public pretext may be given for secret or
ganization, destructive of public purity and
private confidence.
Religion is used in the same manner and
for the same purpose. The founders of the
Know nothing creed, and the most active mis-
sionaries of that creed, care no more for Pro
testantism than they do for that uniformed
individual who is supposed to inhabit the
moon. They pirate of Jesuitism, yet they have
no more fear of Jesuit influence than they
have of an invasion from the Island OF NADIA
gascar. They wish to make capital for them
selves by trading on the religious feelings OF
religious men--feelings which they have no
more regard for than for the dust under their
feet. They wish for popular pretexts by which
they can delude the people into sustaining
secret organization which is at war with the
spirit and genius Of our institutions, and which
is destructive Of all those habits and customs
which make free government practicable.
Such is the natural and innate adherence
which our people feel for secrecy and stealth,
that something must be proclaimed even by
secret political organization. The new Order
has felt it most prudent to tell the country that
it was instituted for the purpose of breaking
down foreign Influence and to destroy the
power of the Catholic Church in America. He
who thinks that he sees in these two objects all
the designs Of the Knownothing Order deceives
himself most wofully. These things have but
little consideration amongst the Know-nothing
leaders. The Know-nothing party wishes, as
we have said before, to obtain po~vr. IL 10 vii
ing to ally itself with every sectional and local
interest, and to appeal to every sectional and
local passiop. It has allied itself with aboli-
,;oni,m in the North--it seeks to ally itself
with shareholders in the South. Where the
Protestant sentiment prevails, it denounces the
Pope, but in Louisiana where the Catholic SEN
timent prevails, it has sought to embrace the
Creole Catholics. 1t seeks to invade every
thing where profit can be gained. Itwishes to
make a President Of the United States, and to
elect constable. 1t strives eagerly for every
Office which has salary attached, or in which
fees can be obtained. The control Of Banks,
Railroads, Canals-of everything by which
money can be made with but little labor--are
cardinal objects Of the New Order; and II