Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-05-09
THE INQUIsIToRIAAIL ,CComMITTEE.


We all owe some respect to our CONS
mon manhood, and feel proper degree
of indignation when the standard is low
cred even by those who move in the sub
ordinate walks of life. How much more
indignant should we become when we hear
of men holding the responsible position of
Senators and Representatives Of State,
disgrasing themselves by acts " hieh would
degrade libertine. The facts brought
out by the testimony taken before Com
mittee Of the, Legislature, appointed to in
vestigate the conduct of the Inquisitorial
Committee, while on their examination of
the Roxbury Catholic School, must call
the blush of shame to the cheek of every
honorable person. One member of the
Senate named Hiss, is proved by the tes-
timony of the Lady Superior, not only to
have behaved towards her in the most in
decent manner, but also to have played
the impostor to hide his impudent and
gross familiarity by taking the name and
personating another member of the Senate,
named Evans. No one but lascivious
scoundrel, who had lost all self-respect,
would have acted as he did towards the
Lady Superior, and no one buta contemp-
tible coward would have assumed another
gentleman's name, in order to hide his
own baseness, and cast odium upon an in
nocent fellow Senator. 1t would seem
| that Know>Nothingisnl, not content with
warning against the constitutional rights
OF our adopted citizens and the native
born of particular religious faith, also
seeks to demoralize society, by overturn
ing all the moral obligations which bind it
together, by assailing and insulting de-
| fenceless women. Whittier do we tend
Are we to be brutalzed that Know Moth
ingism may obtain success? If such is
to be the standard of unadulterated Amer
icanism, we exclam, in the fulness of our
heart, from such condition good Lord
deliver us. But it appears that the ac
tions of some members of the Inquisitori
al Committee did not stop with licen
tous familiarity. The house of prayer
was tumultuously invaded, and indecor-
Gus language INDUCED in within the sane.
| tuary. One lady was alarmed while kneel-
ing at the altar, by the noise, and her ro-
Sary clutched by one of the inquisitors.-I
1t matters not whether the living God is
| worshipped in the Kirk or the cathedral,
in the Oloister or the Class-room-where
ever man is accustomed to bow in adora
ton TO his holiness, that place should be
held in respect, if rot veneraLion. 70 the
right minded, the solemn stiffness of a
place of worship, whatever may be the
creed, excites an awe in the visitor, not
for the brick or stone which compose the
dwelling, but for the Great Spirit to whose
service it has been dedicated. He who
has never experienced this feeling is little
better than an infdel. The testimony Ia
ken does not show what members Of the
Committee entered the Chapel in turbu
lent manner, but whoever they were, we
! incline to-the opinion that they are steep
ed in Eastern infdelity. One brute stoop-
ed over sick lady in bed SO close that
she felt his hot breath upon her face
Recollect. that these men are not the low
brawlers Of the street corners and scgar
stores; but are the selected representatives
of new political party, whose boast it
has been that it will reform society and
Americanise our people. What such a
party is capable of performing, may be
imagined from the conduct of its incipient
state. The morals which it would install
are those which prevail among the legions
Of darkness, of which the Know othings
are perfect type. From such kind Of
reform may We ever be secure.-PtnnSyl
Uanian.