Butte record., 1855-11-24
Senatorial. Candidates.

nlent, or, il he md rst'nds the object Il
government, and is prepared TO become a
maker, he will find it no easy task
to become such and sill adhere to the
principles Of his pa ty.
The K. y 5 have avowed some areu-
uentS, or rather phras. cl inning to be
arguments, by which they endeavor to
vindicate tn If absurd and unjust system
These arguments or phrases are ingen
iou-ly contrived to shift the burden Of
the ? oof f.on those to whom it properly
belongs. They argue that because men
wee born under monarchical govern
mcut, they must think it right to subvert
and Put down al republican govern
fncpts, and that because they think it
right theywill attemp' to do it, and then
:0and upon this conclusion means FIR
puni hing them as if they had dono it
! Is not bis foolish and wicked persecu-
ton and intolerance Are men who
avow such absurd doctrines fl to become
law makers for free and intelligent
people They have not yet attempted
20 subvert the government, and the pre-
sumption i, in favor Of til ration L is
for the prosecutor to make out his case
The X. rs. argue Of the Catholics as
En9l,nl has npon a former occasion
The Catholics ought to have no political
power. The >un Of America Is set for
eyer, the Catholics exercise political
power. cave the ca holics everything
else, bu, keep polii al power away from
them. These wise men DO not see that
when everything else his been given, po-
itical power has been given. If it i,
our duty to deprive them of political
power, it must be our duty to murder
hem, to Danish them and to rob them.
For in that way alone can we really de-
pr.vc them Of political power. If we
do not adopt this co lrse, we may take
away the sh4d but must leave them
the subst'nce We may do enongh to
pain and irri.ate them; but we shall not
do enough to secure ourselves from d,n-
ger ifitrcally exists. Depriving them Of
Office will not lessen their faith in the
head Of their church
/ Government exists for the purpose of
keeping the peace, for the purpose Of
compelling us to settle our disputes by
arbitration instead of settling them BY
blows, for the purpose Of compelling US
to supply our wants by industry instead
Of supplying them by rapine. THIS is
the only operation for which the ma
chincry Of government is peculiarly
adopted, he only op ration which wise
governments propose to themsev,s as
their chief object We should be pleased
to see any Of the K. n. oandi atcs for
Senatorial h'nors harmonic the princi-
pl1s ef his rarty with the objects Of
government.
But is i3ls to multiply arguments.
Nothing is 50 offensive to man who
knows any thing Of HISTORY or of human
nature as to hear those who exercise the
powers Of government accuse any sect
Of foreign attachments. Ii there be
any proposition unve'selly true in poli-
ties it is this, that foreign attachments
1ro the fruit Of dom site misrule. 1t
has always been the trick of biyots to
make thcIr subjects miserable at home,
and the to compa that they look for
rel ef abroad to divide society, and to
wonder that it IS uot united to govern
s if a section Of the state were thu
whole, and to ceusure other sections for
their want Of patriotic spirit. There Is
10 feeling which more certainly devel-
ops itselfin the minds Of men living
under tolerably good government than
tde feeling Of patriotism. Since the be
glnn ng OF the world, there never ". :
any nation, or any large portion Of any
nation, not cruelty oppressed, which was
wholly destitute of that feeling. To
make it therefore ground of accusation
against a cliss Of men, that they are
not patriotic, is the most vulgar gerds-
main Of soPhislry. Il is the logic which
the wolf employs against the lamb. 1t
IS to accuse tn mouth Of the stream Of
/ poisoning the source. Til W. have car
rcd the exeerim nj farther, We are not
entitled to conclude thlt Ca:hol cs and
persons of foreign birth cannot be made
Americans. The statesman who treats
them as aliens, and then abuses them
Tor not ente.t lang all the feelings Of
natives, is as unreasonable as the tyrant
who punish the children Of Israel for
not m king bricks after he had deprived
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