Butte record., 1855-11-03
POLITICAL STRAPS.

to do it, and then to found on this con-
clusion, a law for furnishing him as if he
had done it, is foolish and wicked perse-
cuiion and intolerance. Intolerance is
always bad. But the sanguinary intol-
erence of men who have always wavered
lin their creed, excites loathing to
which it is difficult to give vent without
calling foul names They are equally
false to political and religious obliga-
ions.
When men love their doctrines more
than the lives of their neighbors, and
love their own little fingers more than
their doctrines, a very simple argument,
q fooliori viii enable us to estimate the
amount of their bcncyolence.
The K \. doctrine is that Cathol.
icism is Incompatible with Republican,
ism. In the persecution of religious
sects in England, Presbyerianism was
pronounced incompatible with monarchy.
Democrats who have forsa ken their
party should remember, that an cxclu-
siye attachment to secret political So
ciety, implies no exiraordinary attain
Inent in wisdom OR virtue; that when it
has existed in an intense degree, 1t has
turned states into gangs Of robbers,
whom their mutual fidelity has rendered
more dangerous; has given II character
of peculiar atrocity to war, and genera
ted that worst of all political evils, the
tyranny Of nations over nations.
Enthusiastically attached to the name
of liberty, the Hindoo American party
trouble themselves little about its def
nition. Tormented by ten thousand alb
surd restraints; unable to please them
selves in the choice Of their candidates,
officers or company; compelled to assume
a peculiar manner, and to vote in GER
tain way, they yet glory in their liberty
They confound the sound with the sub
stance, the means with the end. Their
imaginations are infamed by mystery.
They conceive of Liberty as monks con-
ceivc of love.
The K Ms, or Native American
party, lay it down as Il self evident pro-
position, that no eople ought to be free
till they are fit to use their freedom
he maxim is worthy the fool in the old
story, who resolved not to 90 into the
water until he had learned to swim
If men wait for liberty until they become
wise in slavery, they may indeed wait
forever.
Should the people of America, by a
strange inlatua ion, surrender the gov
ernment to the control of the secret re-
Iigious party, and thus destroy the De-
mocracy Of America, we shall re-enact
the disgraceful scenes which character
lied the thirty years succeeding the Pro-
tectorate of England Sect will rave
against sect; party plot against party.
When citizens, without casting one
glance on the past, or requiring one sip-
ulation for the future, throw down their
freedom at the feet of the most frivolous
and heartless politicians, then come days
of seryitude and sensuality, of dwarfsh
talents and gigantic vices, the Paradise
of cold hearts and narrow minds, the
golden age of the coward, the bigot and
the slave.
Principles which the most lowlived
rufian would scarcely hint to his most
trusted accomplice, Or avow, without the
disguise of some palliating sophism, even
to his own mind, are promulgated in the
K n Ritual without the slightest cir
cumlocution, and assumed as the funda-
mental axioms of all political science.
Wise men value political liberty be-
cause it secures the persons and posses
sions of citizens; because it tends to pre-
vent the extravaganza Of rulers and the
corruption of judges; because it gives
birth to useful sciences and elegant arts;
because it excites the industry and in
creases the comfort of all classes of So
ciety. The Kye Eye theorists imagine
that it possesses something etelnally and
intrinsically good, distinct from the
blessings which it generally produces.
They consider not as a means, but as an
end; and end to be attained at any cost.
Their heroes are those who sacr flee for
the mere name of freedom, the prosperi-
ty-the securiiy-the iusiice-from
which freedom derives its value.
We cannot deny foreigners tho right
to become citizens without reducing