Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1855-06-16

Was.,iag.sn's Practical KnoW-yo;hingism.
At the present time when blind fanaticism
or political roguery, is garbling and tortur-
ing the writings of the Father Of his country
to prove that he was favorable to the princi-
pies now advocated by the proscriptiTe order
Of Know Nothings, it may not be wholly i'm
proper to show how Washington practised the
doctrines of Know -No;hingism. The asser-
ton that lie was favorable to the prescription
and uarrow-mindel bgosry of the secret
plunaering political order of the present day.
Is not worthy of serious contradiction but
commission issued b. him to foreigner, re-
flutes i'll the most emphatic manner, all that
can be tortured frcm his writings favorable to
the protessed principles Of the secret and con
temptible order. Capt. Barry was the father
of tie American Navy. although he was an
Irishman and Catholic few months pri-
or to the declaration Of Independence, Con
gress appointed him to the command of the
Lexington. the first continental vessel that
ever sailed from Philadelphia. short time
before Washington retired to private life, he
issued the.following commission:
COMMISSION or COMMODORE sARRv
The President OF the United States Of America
To John Barr II, George Washington President Of
the United States eposig special trust and coudJeuce
IN your pauio-in- vaor. fidelity md abilities have
nominated and by and III the advice consent Of
the Senate. appointed you Captain in the Navy the
United States, and commander of the Frigate called
United States to take rama from the fourth das OF
June one thousand seven hundred and y,four.
ioI arc therefore carefully and diligently 10 discharge
the duty of captain and commander, by doing and
performing ali manner of things that thereunto belong
Ana strictly charge all Officers marines and seanlen
nnder your cnmnand To BE 0bedient your orders as
captail Hnd commander. And You are to observe and
follow SUCH orders and directions, from time 10 tine as
sou shall receive from the President L STATES
Or any superior oaicer set YOU ACCORDING tue
rules and discipline Of war and the usage of the sen
This commission to continue in force during the peas-
uTe OF the President Of the niled States Given under
my hand n Phiade phia this 32nd day of February in
the year OF our Lord thousand hundred and
ninety tbs, Sovereignty and Independence
Of he United states. the 2ist
Signed GEORGE WAsHlxGrox.
By the President.
sigued, james " Henry. Secretary eff War
After rendering good service to his country
which is matter of history, Commodore Barry
died, in 1903, and was buried in Philadelphia.
The inscription on his tomb in St. Mary's, is
az follows:
Let the patriot the soldier and The christian who
vist heSe mansions of the dead view this nonumen,
WIN respect; beneath deposited the reinins OF
John Barry He was boru in the county Of WexluI, in
lreiand but Amrrca WIS the object OF his patriotism
AMI The theatre OF MS usefulness and honor In The
revolutionary which established the independence
oI the United States he bore the commission of Cap
tam III their infant navy. and afterwards became
Comrnander-C hief. lie fought often and once olel
in the cause Of freedom; but his habits o. did not
lessen in him The peaceful virtues which adorn private
ie He WIS gentle kind, ju't and charitable and not
less beloved by his family and his friends than by his
grateful country"
/ The Y. Y. Citizen, from which we have ia
ken the above extracts, and condensed the
foregoing remarks thus continues;
ia the churchyad of st Pauls in the city of n y,
sleePthe remains Of Richard Montgomery, which were
removed from Qleb,c, in ISIS To his memory near
lie spot, Congress erected monument, which the
indoo may seeas he passes through Broadway, SOW
ing his triangular pieces of blank paper.
LET this monument he Ieyclled with Tie dusi--et
the tombstone OF Barry be broken Let The ashes OF
both these usrious dead be scattered winds
Of Heaven. Let ell tie Irish blood hat was drank by
American soil, and all that dyed the at washes
The eastern shore OF the American continent be sought
out and extracted and sea- and let be re-
Let the names of Sullivan, Clinton, Stark, Wayne, Ir.
vine, Aoyian Proctor, Stewart Croghnn. marlborough
Ramsey and Brian, he erased from the Army and Navy
Isis OF the Revolution. Let The names Of Thornton
Read, Smith, Carroll, Rniledge Mexican Lynch Taylor
and Thompson be struck out of the list of the sicners
Of The Declaration of Independence. Let that insru
ment itself be burned and with it the Coni by
the hands Of Know-Nohing hangElen Lei The histories
OF the deeds Of the American Army and Navy be pur-
ed Let sparks Life of Washington, aud all Ike rec
ords Of the Revolution aud of Congress share the came
fate
And when all this is DONE let the cultivated fields
conquered from The wilderness again become desert
and let the or ily ieed by The irish axe resume
their ancient dominion. Let our railroads be torn up
and canals dried and filled with earth again because
these are the works Of Irish hands. Let the cities Of
America built by Irish labor be given to the flames Or
demolished BY Know Nothing mobs. and let the plough
share where the foundations had been as I'D the
Roman plough in the city Of Jerusalem. Above all Ie'
New Orleans be bioi:e from inc map OF America: and
lei the spot where General jackson planted his Gotten
batteries ard where the English enemy was over
thrown for the last time this soil leaving the field
strewed with with his deaet this spot on the bank
o. The Mississippi lie hard to find in future as travel
leTs Sl US II IS 10 nbd now The battle-ground Of the
Greeks and Trojans he site of Troy ITSELF between
the banks Of The simois and scamauder. Like Hum
let ils very BE- doubted. And ITO take boad
Of fate an. make insurance douhly slre let the SELF
poised "a est, ian Of the Victor Of New Orleans
VII ch nov so ii soienily in font of the White
House, be only removed from public view but
to tie mint. and coined into cents for the payment Of
the army OF Know-Nothiug tic.qls in prospect anx-
lousy Whiting possession of Executive Mansion.
and for he inauguration of their Chief the ith o.
s srch. 1857.
Thu n their jaundiced eyes can rest on 10 monument
or object hat VIII nd, and their dreams may be
longer haunted by recolecoHs and associations OF fer
eigners " hich now entwne themselves with every f.
b-e Off The Republic and which cannot be got rid of
till chaos comes again.
The first sentence OF the following para
graph, must be anything bet fattering to the
Hindoo order 1t is an extract from Wash
ingtons reply to an address OF the Catholics
Of the United States. America, ms teas of be-
coming more liberal, is fast becoming the re-
verse, and should Hndoo party prevail, we
may expect to see prescription and bigotry
turned loose, to destroy the fame of liberty
and arrest the progress and prosperity Of our
country. Washington may have felt dis
trust OF foreigners, but never of such as sought
our shores for the purpose Of becoming citi-
zens. Here is the extract: