Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1855-08-25

nd destructive to the genius of Ameri
can Institutions 1t $ arrayed in wartarf
against the Who'll machinery of repub.
licAn government.
1t has enliced the people from Their
humes in the still hours of darkness, and
at its numerous places Of meetin. bound
til m to its foul aud Fearful purposes By
administering the most horrid oaths with
one hand resting on the Bible, and the
other raised toward Heaven, to WELD
themselves unreservedly to the con'rul
OF this secret power, and even to ny
to their f miles and III world that they
hold c'nnexion vi il the order. No per-
son is ermitted to hold an opinion which
ha' no, the sanction OF the self-consliru-
ted u 'nth p.tc of the party. Within
til, temple of superstition, Sir Oracle
gns sup en-. The d votee who wor-
SHIPS at It's sh inc is complet ly untan-
II d. He no longer fe Is nor acts hi,
former self In sec ct he Sc Is away
like 4 con pi al"r o the place where the
most inveterote tired is ensendered
a2t nsi t e desc ndauls and country m II
ot those b. ave men waose heroic valnr
as ted IN achie,in ing the lib",tles which
We now enjoy. In I sane manner ,and
oft n at the hour Of midnight, he gropc>
Li' way back TO his family again to epe
the bund d>Ime told lie of 10 connex-
ion vi b this order. S much falsehoc
II tha family circle, where tir utuos
T. filenc trutbfulae>s, and har.no Y
sh uld exist, has il direct ten iency t,
po duce su picion and mistrnst on / e
p 1T at WIS nd mothers towards th, ir
Us an3s sons hence We find in
vefy town whore a council exists the
'eniale portion Of the co nt,nnity are
sp akins ut boldly their moral indigna-
in gainst in order who's, influence is
. msniftSily b neful upon all who are
c injected with it, VIII, ther nearly or
onotely.
He w"o does not here behold the sure
w,l kings uf den oraliz .iion and ru n must
indeed be Il poor moralist.
But all these are evils of small magni-
tude and consiIerati when compared
With some other gigantic wrongs with
winch it l.bors to curse our land. The
scattering Of a f " pi ccs OF red paper
Of a peculiar shap" obli@es every 'bruth,r
to N himself with a bowie knife and
revolver or other deadly Weapons, and
follow the beck Of their leaier even to
The shedding Of blood. The Cincinnati,
Louisville, St. Louis, and other fe ,rful
aud bloody know nothing riots, are but
the legitimate ok.ngs of the der,
~ud but the beginning OF such scenes as
" re enacted on the soil of France uuder
red epublican ule.
Thpse who control and manage the
affairs of this corrupt concern are in it
for the spnils of Office and no means,
however desperate, are left untried to
compass this end.
The order is engaged in crusade
~ inst reli- ion, it r,vises the old spi it
OF persecution for opin : he, and OF
course rallies around it's .;andard thou
s@nis who are always found more wilin :
10 Il ht against Cathol risn than to prac.
tise their own coDfe> sion. Odiou- reli-
cious tests which have been successfully
easoned down and removed fr IN the
siatu Of our State are speedily dragg d
from their loathsome tomb and quickened
into life No Catholic is o be to!eiate'i,
no matter how sincerely he may r'vere
his Maker; he is t, ho ID no Office in The
siit of the people, have No art in the
government nor Interest in any rf its
concerns, wh lie the atheist, d'-ist, de-
bsuchre, ufdel, Mormon, or buddhist, is
ie osnised as god and W rthy bro her
They have fearful apprehensions that
the Catholic church VIII soon overiur
and possess the untry, to the ruin alike
of republic nm and religion and al
this 100 when Il al chui ch is in The mo~t
r..id i cline in the old country. and
wh le II is "nly continuing in its fcld {
moiei, of th Sc who reach our 81 re.
strong II their It achment to its canse
These preien ion-, then, are enii el,
unfounded in f ct and opposed t com
40 Sc Sc. 1t i. IN y trick of Graf J
poIi ical manag rs TO bring TO eir aic
h. reli iouS c, n ut Of b ir cou try
while it IS generating dissentions, sea
tarlan animosiias, and Tie rankest in
tolerance.