Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1855-08-18
[ From The Boston Daily .adrertiser.]
Washington not q Know-Xething.

Since the new American party" has
sprung into existence, an attempt which
was originated in the days Of the last
Naive American excitement has been
renew d to add the saneti n of the great
name of Washington to the hatred of
men of foreign birth. A pretendtd d or
der of his has been running the rounds
of the newsp pers and used for The pur-
pose of jns,'fying the ignoble war upon
foreigners, into which "a portion of the
Anne. ic n people have unwlsely llowed
III, tnselves 10 be drawn "Place none
but Am ricans on Guard )" this pithy
exp, e>sion Of exclusive Amerieanism, so
accordant with the narrow policy of the
plr'y Of secrecy, in, lerance, and real
host Ii y % he broad prnci 'le of Amer
lean li'.erty, has becn un>crupnl usly
palmed upoL the illu>triods founder OF
The Repablsc. Faocy G Washington
at the head Of AN army in which many
Of the most faithful soldiers We're men of
foreign birth with such officers a. the
Marquis de Ia Fayette, Baron Steuben,
Lord Stirling, Gen Lee, and above all,
his trusted l.icnd, confidential adviser
and abl st coadjulor in military affairs,
Alex nder Hamilton-not natives of the
coun ry-Mith an lied army of FreHch
troops co maoded by the high spirited
and chival Gus gentl men of FIR nee, bv
whose AID be b. cugh the war Of the
Revoluti a to a triumphant close-fancy
hin, 80 surrounded ami support q, issu-
iag an order to ''p lace none but Amcri-
cas- on guard The very statement is
,u ,"gh 10 show its absurdity.
The IN kim, place non but Ameri-
cans on -uard, &c a al, never wa us d
by Gen. Washington. An at empthow-
ever, has been made to make II appear
that he used words IF similar import,
as Will be observed by the following para
graph from the Boston Journal of yes
ierday morning:
"PLAcE NONE BUT AMERICANS on
GUARD-Prolessor Sparks has recent,
stated that in all the writings and manu-
scripts of Wa -hington, he has never met
with the above quotation, a famous one
with our X. n friends The original
older, obtaining the quotation, which
was in the possession of the late Gen.
Dearborn Of Roxbury, has been publish
ed and reads as follows:
CAMBRIDGE HEAoQ's July, II, 1878.
GENERAL ORDER.-The General has
great reason to be displeased with the
negligence and inattention OF the guard
wl have been placed as scntinels on the
outposts-men whose cha acters he is
not acquainted with. He, therefore,
orders that for the future none but Ma
tives Of this County be plac- d on guard
as sentines on the outposts. This order
to be considered Sta ndn. one, an the
officers to pay obedience 10 it OH their
part. (Signed)
FOX, Adj. Of the day.
Coun'ersigned, Exeter, Pay Roll,
Dorchester.
If President Sp rks, as is here afi M
ed, has been una Bile to meet with the pre-
tended quot ton, 'Pl ce none but Amer.
leans on guard, in he writing oil Wash
ingion, il is fof the good and sufficient
reason that it does not xist there. The
pretended ord is Justification Of the
words OF Washington, which has all the
u.or ! guilt of f'rgery. We snbjo n, as
a c0ntra-t to the mu,ilated document
he exact wo- IDS, Which are found IN
Wasaingtan's general orders of July 7
-(noi IL The substitution of pay
roll'' for parele, IS an amusing iIlus'ra-
ton of the turn Of mind in the Know
Nothing forger. Mt content with this
specimen of X low Nothingsru he evil
IDENTIFY did not Understand the meaning
of the common military term, countersign,
which he changes into countcrstgard, as
if h suppo-' d the passw I'd o. the day
(kxetet) wa the name of some officer,
VII Sc duty it was to counter-ign he
gcaeral orlefs of the Co ,imand rim.
Chief Th P ssage j question IS found
in the Gen'ral Oid@rs, dated Cam
bldg, Head Qusrt'rs, July 7, l775,
Parol, Dorchester; Countersign, Exc
ter" and printe in Fore s Am rican
A CHI yes, Vol IL. p. l,634: =
The Gen RI II great reason and is
highly displ ased with ii . eligence and
inaiientlen of those cfi 'er- Who have
placed as sentries at &s ou.posls, men