M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-07-27

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a families. For the sole reason that "
had acted as we were bound to 40 ul
oer.the constitution of the State, an
thai we hodestly complied with our sa
! = cred obligations as electors, we wer
ejeeIed from the Order, anathe matize
ss 1nworthy of respect, undeserving o
I any confidence or lrust in any busines
trahsa1tion, aud as deserving only tn
v scosn and reproSch of all good men. w,
: were subjected to the most fearful de
: dubeidtions because we would not sur
4 TreHder up to this most accursed of al
; despolisms our freedom of citizenship
aud degrade ourselves down 10 the H.
nominious serVitule of wearing u mas
tits collar.
Ia view of such things. what honest
ihaa would contend that any obliga.
Lious which might be imposed by The
Order are ia the least binding or enti.
tlet to a momsnts respecll Who
would not go rather one step further
and say that man is guilty of perjury
Ia the highest degree who would act
with the Order against his own honest
conyictions2
We believe If the parsnt for such a
cause Gisowns the offspring, the obliga
tion to keep the secret of such pare Mt
is forever absolved, and the light Of da y
should be permitted to penetrate into
the dark recesses Of this institution, SO
worthless, and at the sa ne time SO dan.
ge'ous and destructive to the genius o (
American institutions. It is sarrsyed in
warfare against the whole machinery Of
republican government.
Ii has entlced the people from their
homes in the still hours OF darkness, and
and its. numetous places of meeting
bonnd them to its foul aud fearful pur.
poses by administering the most horrid
oaths, with Que hand resting on the Bi.
Bile, and the other raised toward Heaven
TO yield themselves unreservedly to the
control OF the secret power, aud even to
deny to their families aud to the world
that they hold connection with the Or
der. No person is permitted to hold an
opinion which has not the sanction Of
Ibe self instituted mouth-pieces of the
party. Within this temple of supersti-
uon Sir Oracle reigns supreme. The
devotee who worShlps at its shriLe is
completely y unnamed. He no longer
feels nor acts his former self. In secret
he steals away like a conspirator to the
place where the most inveterate hated
is engendered against the descendants
end cOuntrymen Of those brave men
whose heroic valor assisted in achieving
the liberties which we now enjoy. In
the same maunetj Hud-eften st-ths hour
OF midnight, he gropes his way back to
his family again, to repeat the hundred
times told lie of no connection with the
Order. So much lalsehood in he fami-
ly circle, where the utmost confidence,
rruthfulness and harmony should exist,
has direct tendency to produce suspic-
ion and mistrust on the part of wives
and mothers toward their husbands and
sons; hence we find in every town
where a council exisls the female por
ton of the community are speaking out
boldly their moral indignation against
an Order whose influence is SO manifest
ly baneful upon all who are connected
with it, whe ther nearly or remotely.
He who does not here behold the sure
workings of decentralization and ruin
must indeed be poor moralist.
But all these are evils OF small mag
nitude and consideration when compar-
ed with some other gigantic wrongs
with which it labors TO curse our land.
The scattering of few pieces Of red
paper of peculiar shape obligeS every
brother" 10 arm himself with bowie
knife and revolver, or other deadly wea
pons, and follow the heck of their lead
er even to the shedding of blood. The
CINCINNATI. Louisville, ST. Louis, and
other fearful and bloody Know Moth
ing riots, are but the Legitimate work
ings of the order, and but the beginning
of such scenes as were enacted on The
soil Of France under red republican
rule.
Those who control and manage the
affairs of this corrupt concern are in it
tor the spoiIs of Office and no means,
however desperate, are left untried to
compass this end.
The order is engaged in a crusade
against religion, it revives the old spit
it oi prosecutions for opinions sake, and
of course rallies around its standard
thousands who are always found more
willing 10 fight against Catholici Sun
than TO practice their own profession.
0dious religious tests which have been
successfully reasoned down and remov-
ed from the statute of our State are
speedily dragged from their loathsome
tomb and quickened into Lille. No Cath
olic is 10 be tolerated. no matter how
sincerely he may revere his Maker; he
is to hold no Office in the gift Of the
people, have no part in the government
nor interest in any Of its concerns,
while the atheist, deist, debauchee, in.
fdel. Norman, or buddhist. is recogniz.
ed as a good and worthy brother.
They have fearful apprehensions that
the Catholic church will soon overruu
aud possess the country to the ruin alike
of republica nism and religiun-and all
this. too, when that church is in the
most rapid decline In the old country,
and while it is only continuing in its
fold moiety of those who reach our
shores strong i'll their attachment to Its
cause. Thess upprehensions. then, are
entirely unfouuded in fact and opposed
To common sense. II is only trick Of
crnftn nnIificnL 1Innnpkra to bring to