Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-08-08

Exow.No7H1NG SpIEs.-The following paragraph
,neared in late number of the Boston Crusader,
aadicroonized organ of the order:
10 not employ at your firesdes foreign Catho-
g., for thev are .vipers. Irish Catholic servants
" TO be seen everywhere at all the first class no.
ls and at the tables of private families. Ihey lls-
M ~ orr familiar talk at the table, over our wine
VA uanuts and this talk is all divulged to the Graf
m ~ nrest at the confessional, and applied when op-
pOrtunlty comes. So, =,
.ho contemtible twaddle and wornout nonsense
ahort Irish Catholic servants, crafty priests, and
tbc confessional for the above is pointedly an
.rnred bv the Louisville Democrat that gladly
",le place for the remarks of our able contempo-
nar, in preference to any which we might offer OF
nrr own The Democrat says:
This listening to, and divulgng Of private, IA
ar talk by Irish Catholic servants, fit be true,
IL rsrv naughty-very disgraceful; and they ought
- ha ashamed of themselves But what shall we
~, f,r American gentlcmen-well bred gentlemen,
s'.ysaotb-of cay the honorable and estimable know
nntbnr brotherhood? How often are they seen
nnoIv at the resdes and hospitabe boards of their
nigbbors and friends social spies, listening to,
and treasuring up for future in their secret mid
r;cht conclaves and elsewhere, the familiar talk
Of those politically opposed to their secret order !?
At the business of evesdroping the l1ish servant
r;rls and boys can't hold candle to welbred
american gentlemen of the dark-lantern ORDER
When YOU have the former aOOuC you, you kuoW
who and what they are, and if necessary, can be on
rorr guard. But the know nothing comes into your
house. seats himself in your paror partakes at your
,rivate board and thus in the disguise of friend
and euest may be- and no doubt often is, acting
Tart of an evesdropper. If the conversation should
rhance to turn on know-nothingsm he affects to be
nerfectly ignorant-knows nothing, asks for infor-
nation cocks his anxious ear notes the familiar fam
iv talk among supposed frends-and straightway
meets his friends of the secret order the street,
or repairs to the midnight council, and divulges all
fr the use and benefit of the crafty, to be applied
when opportunity comes. Is it not an apt illustra-
tion of the old saw, the devil reprovinS SIM for
the advocate of this dark-lantern, eavesdropplng
fraternity to chde and lecture people, Irish servants
or others, for listening to and reporting private IA
miliar talk?'
1T is. no doubt contemplate SANDER to say that
the Catholic pristhood in this country have conver-
ted the confessional into secret chamber of inaui
sition to arrive at knowledge of all the tresde
cbit-ehat going on in private families, with view
the better conduct dark conspiracy against those
not of the Catholic communion. At any rate, there
is much room-nay, far more-to believe that the
know -nothings themselves guilty OF the low and
dirtv work which the Boston Crusadar charges upon
Irish Catholic servants employed in our hotels and
nriyate houses If need be, as before remarked, we
can be on our guard against the latter; but the
know nothing creeps in disguise-not as servants
but as trusted companion and member OF the so.
cal circle-and then goes out, and can enllghteT
the brethren without the least fear OF detection and
exposure. People who live in gass-houses shoulo
not cast stones.