Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-06-14
elegant writer has said:

afflicted mankind, III every aSe Ill
in every nation, there was some ten
porary refuge, some shelter until tn
storm might pass. During the hea
therism Of antiquity, and the barba
rism of the middle ages, the temp!
of God or the shrine Of saint, al
forded a refuge from despotic fury 0
popular rage. But French Jacobins
whether native or adopted, threate'
with equal scorn the sentiments Q
religion and the feelings of humanity
and that all men had gathered from
his experience upon earth, and tn
revelations he hoped had been made
him from the sky, to bless and adorl
his moral existence, and elevate hi'
soul with immortal aspirations, were
spurned as impesture by these tel
destroyers. They would have de
prived man of bis humanity, al
they attempted to decree God out o
his universe. Not contented with
France as a subject for their ruthless
experiment-Europe itself being toe
narrow for their exploits, they SEND
their propagandists to the new world
with designs about as charitable as
those With which Satan entered Eden
This is but faint picture Of some
of the scenes enacted by that self
same party, which was at first termed
by those who styled themselves
"the friends of the Constitution. =
And where did these "secret Coun'
cils" we now hear Of, come 'front.'
Not from France,it is true but from
that land of isms, where the people
would have gone into anarchy long
ago, if it had not been for the con-
seryative influence Of more stable.
minded men Of the South? And
what scenes have We lately witnessed
in the Massachusetts, Legislature.
where this political organism has
more fully developed itself than any.
where else. What are its fruits there?
Under the name Of the "The Ameri'
caa Party" they have armed them
selvesa against the Constitution Of our
country, which they were sworn to
support-with every member OF the
Legislature, l believe, save eight be-
longing to ''the order" theYhaveby
an Overwhelming majority vote de-
posed Judge Loring, for nothing but
the discharge of his official duty, 10
issuing warrant as United States
Commissioner, to cause the arrest OF
the Fugitive Slave Burns. In re-
viewing this most unheard of out
rage upon the Constitution, the "Na-
tional lntelligencer,' at Washington,
says it "shuddsrs for the Judiciary
And if they go on as they have be-. ;,
gun. we'll may The country "shudder,
not only for the Judiciary, but fol
everything else we hold most sacred
IF these things be done in the green
tree, what may you expect in the
dry?'
But I have been anticipating some,
what, | was on the preliminary qaes-
tion; that is, the secrecy, which lies
at the foundation Of the party-tha'
atmosphere Of darkness in which II
"Iives, and moves, and has its being,
and without which it probably could
not exist. ] do not, however, in
tend to stop with that. Twill g
further, and give, now, my opinions
upon those questions, which are sa't
to be within the range Of its secre'
objects and ans. The principle
as published (or those princl
pies which are attributed to the or
der, though no body as an organized
party avow them) have, as ] under
stand them, two leading ideas, ant
two only. These are a prescription
by an exclusion from office OF al
Catholics, as a class, and a proscrlp
tion of all persons Of foreign birth a
a class; the latter to be accomplished
bt only by exclusion from oiilce o
all foreigners who are now citizens b9
naturalization, but to be more effect
ualIy carried out by an abrogation 0
the naturalization law for the future
OF such an amendment as would be
virtually, tantafnount to it. ihese
as we are told, are the great ostensl
BILE objects forallits machinery--thes'
oaths -.pledges-.secrets Signs
equivocations denials, and what y, mol o.
And what have to say to them' IS
that if these indeed aud in trsth D.
the principles thus attempted to b
carried Out, then | an opposed t