Butte record., 1855-02-17
KNOW NOTsIINGISEI,

KNOW NOTlzINGISI,
The following article upon this sub
iect is from The New York Tribune.
This order, probably from its novelty,
has rapidly spread Itself over this State,
and is finding it's way into the different
mining towns. 1t is even limited that a
wiewam is to be located in Bidwell. OF
course we would not counsel a too AMI
mated opposition to whatever steps may
be taken towards the formation Of wig
VAN at this place, as we believe much
of its success has been occasioned by the
violent opposition it has met with, as
noxious weeds sometimes grow rankcr
for being trampled upon. The organic
law of the institution contains the seed
Of it's early dissolution, and the evidence
is increasing that there is not that living
principle in the order which can make
it party, apProxlmating in strength or
numbers to either of the old parties Of
the country, although the novelty of the
Thing may for brief period raise it to
the Importance of Abolitionism, or the
ultra school Of Southern States rights
views They may for brief period be
able to hold the balance of power be-
tween the two parties-a power which
can confer no general good, but will be
found to be the means of creating much
public evil The following article will
show our readers that there is no new
principles embraced in the order worthy
of their attention
Nothing can be more untimely than
the Fictitious excitement against Roman
Catholics which is now rife in the land
Should some serious and veritable Don
Quixote find wide public corporation
in an attempt to revive night errantry
or should the prevalent filiibusierism
assume, all of sudden the form Of a
crusade TO recover the Holy land from
the infdel Turks-an unfinished lob of
our ancestors, which it might be well to
TAX advantage of the present Rnssia en-
broilment to complete would be
IA staler reacting of an old scene in the
drama of history than is the new cry of
mo Popery" which almost threatens to
drown all our legitimate politics. The
plethoric and luxurious world, lately
overfed with prosperity, and fallen into
a noon day nap, is dreaming again the
nightmare that frightened is children
ages ago. Jesuits, hungry for souls,
swarm through the land, even hiding
their shorn skulls under the curling wigs
Of some of our most popular statesmen.
Guy Fawkes is sstoring his combustibles
and explosives under every legislative
hall and in the vaults of all build ngs
where large conventions congregate.
Catholic servant girls, fascinated at the
confessional by the basilisk eyes of their
priests, are maxim run upon the apoth-
ecaries for strychnne, with which to
poison the families whose bread they eat
Men with very free and easy systems
of religion, men of no religion, men even
of no religion, men even of no morality
join with the adherents of bigotry, either
in feigning or in feeling the nightmare
fears Of this superstitious dream
We arc well aware that the new popu-
lar faith, has another article in its creed
besides its anti-Catholic one-that it as
sumes the narrow patriotism of Native
Americanism, ands on general perse-
cution of classes of men, as we'll on the
ground of their nationality as on the
ground of their religion. But it is the
theological element that gives is zest to
the new party, subsidzlng widely spread
end deeply rooted prejudices that pre-
vail among the uneducated. Without
this theological element, Native Ameri-
canism would have but limited inhu-
ence and temporary ascendancy 1t
is mainly because the majority of for
eisners are Catholics, that their infu-
ence influence is in the government is
decried.
Here, then, in country opened as an
asylum to men of all creeds, peopled by
the love of liberty of conscience, the
boast of whose history has been mainly
its tolerance of free thought, we have
the singular spectacle of an attempt to
revive popular persecution of the old
est form of Christian ecelesiasticism, the
faith Of nearly half the civilized world
All the Christian charities of the last
three centuries that have gradually mel
ted away the bigotry and ferocity Of the
illogical hatred, the relaxation of old
statutes against Quakers, Anabaptists
and Papists, free tolerance and Catholic
emancipation, have been but tho cow
ardly J expedients Of tummers and time.
servers, to be heartily repented of and
atoned for BY lighting again the fires Of