Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-06-13
Benedict Arnold, the First 9 Known othing."
Facts are CHIEFS that loinna ding.
dad dar ma be disputed.

And dar ma be disputed.
The conspirators of the present day, are forSv-
er parading their historical pedigree, and pretty
piece of patchwork it is. But their true parent
age-which. is historical enough-has not yet
been accurately traced. Without fee or reward
we have dug to the root Of their genealogical tree,
and found it deep in New England soil, sprngng
straight up from the black leart of BRIGADIER
GENERAL BENEDICT ARNOLD.
General Arnold had all the qualifications
quircd by his imitators of the present conspiracy.
He could boast two generations of native ances
tors, previous to the year 1740. when he FIRST
saw the light in Connecticut He had served IN
the revolution his wife was no Catholic nor yet
Jesuit; and his sentiments, as we shall show,
were quite worthy of Ullnan, Barker, Flournoy,
and Conrad.
Chief Justice Marshal (Life Of Washington,
Vol, l. p, 49) accounts for the failure of WASH
ington's plan of getting Canada into the conied-
eracy, partly by the Know-Nothing condnct of
Arnold, "After Montgonery's death, says the
Chief Justice, the priests were very injudicious-
ly neglected y g even General Arnold he adds,
(p COZ :. was disposed to consider himself in the
dams.
In Dolsley's Anuual Regists. for 1871 (p p
47-S) is given in Arnold's address to . the nhab-
itants of America after his treason and escape
and another proclamation ,f his to the officers
and soldiers of the Continental Army"
In the Address, he denomces the alliance with
France, and France herself in the strongest terms
g He laments that the great Interests Of the
country were dangerously sacrificed to the parti-
al views of proud, ancient and crafty fec, re
CARDS her as too feeble to establish their indepcn
dence charges her scitt being on eaea,y ef Me
Protestant faith, &C., &c, Be-
In the Proclamation he declares himself in the
very spirit of the present consprators-
8 He wished to lead chosen band Of ANERI-
CANS to the attainment of peace. liberty aud
safety, and with them to share IN the glory of
rescuing their NATIVE country fom the grasp
ing hand of France, well as from the ambitions
and interested views Of desperate pa,fy (that Of
Washington and Coneress) ameng themselves,
who had already brought the colonies to the very
brink of destruction.
g He further asked what America was now but
land Of widows. orphans, and beggms EccR
TIER last stake (eligioa) he represented to be an
such danger as 10 hace other security HtoA ,ehaf
depsaded s},o1, the ererfions Of he Paret country
for 9eliccranee- Ia proof, or Illustration, be as
serted fact upon his knowledge viz:
that he had lately seen their and profligatc
Congress at mass for tie soid Of a Roman Catholic
in pugasosy, and participating IN Tie rites cf a
ct,ch against ,cjsose anti Christian cofYuotio5is
their yioas ancestors uostLd hare acifacSscst rih
Meil' UoOa'' f
Here we have the very ideas, IN almost the
very words. of the present so-caiied " American
party" The same appeals to nativity and to
Puritanism, the instigations to exclusive
associations and anti Constitutional opposition to
the Federal authorities, are as clearly expressed
by Arnold, as they could be by BarkeT-pr Con
rad.
Pass along these proofs. Benedict Arnold was
the forefather of the Know-Nothingsl