The weekly Placer herald., 1855-08-18

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gropes his way back to his family to repeat
the hundred time told lie of no connection
with this order. So much falsehood in the
family circle. where the utmost confidence
truthfulness, and harmony should exist. has
direct tendency to produce suspicion and mis-
trust on the part of wives and mothers TO-
wards their husbands and sons hence we find
in every town where council exists the fe-
male portion Of the community are speaking
out boldly their moral Indignation against an
order whose influence is so manfestly baneful
upon all who are connected with it, whether
nearly or remotely.
He who does not here behold the sure work
ings of decentralization and ruin must indeed
he poor moralist
But all these evils are of small magnitude
and consideration when compared 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' to arm himself with
bowie knife and revolver or other deadly wea-
to the shedding of blood. The Cincinnati.
Louisville, St. Louis, and other fearful and
bloody knownothing riots, are but the legiti-
mate workings of the order. and but the be-
ginning 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 for the spoils
of office! and no means. however desperate
are left untried to compass this end.
The order is engaged in crusade against
religion. it revves the old spirit of persecu-
tion for opinions sake, and of course rallies
around its standard thousands who are always
found more willing to fight against Catholi-
clsm than to practice theh own confession.
OdiOus religious tests which have been sue
cessfully reasoned down and removed from
the statute of our State are speedily dragged
from their loathsome tomb and quickened into
life No Catholic is to be tolerated no mat
ter how sincerely he may revere his Maker;
he is to hold no office in the gift of the peo-
pie, have no part in the government nor in
terest in any Of its concerns. while the atheist,
deist, debauchee. infde. Mormon. or buddhist,
is recognised as good and worthy brother
They have fearful apprehensions that the
Catholic church will soon overrun and pos
sess the country, to the ruin alike of repub
licanism and reigion-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 a moiety of those who reach our
shores strong in their attachment to its cause!
These apprehensions. then. are entirely un-
founded in fact and opposed to common sense.
1t is only trick of crafty political mana
gers to bring to their aid the religious ele-
ment of their country, while it is generating
dissensiOns, sectarian animosities, and the
rankest intolerance
History and experience, alike teach that no
people were ever prosecuted for opinions
sake without coming out in the end vastly in
creased in numerical strength and public fa-
vor. 1t is saying both old and true, in all
ages. 1.-The blood of the martyr is the seed of
the church." No form of religion has been
put down by persecution of its professors.
This order swears its members never to vote
for foreign born citizen to fill any Office in
the gift of the people. Thus, birth place,
rather than virtue and intelligence, is made
qualification for places of trust and RESPONSE
bility! What An absurdity is here! The know
nothing principles and practice would elevate
a Benedict Arnold to the Presidency, and at
the same time prescribe such men as Lafayette,
Hamilton. Montgomery, Gates, Steuben, De-
Kalb. Monltrie, St. Clair, Morris, and host
of noble and gallant men, who freely spent
their treasure and shed their blood in our
glorious struggle for liberty. And are the
people of Connecticut prepared to adopt such
principles as these-principles which are at
war with the machinery of the American gov
ernment? We have too much confidence in
their intelligence and honor to believe they
will long submit to this great wrong. We
feel confident that there are at this time thou
sands in the order who are similarly situated
to ourselves. and who already see that it's in
huence is for evil, and only evil, upon every
interest of our country. We know of many in
other parts Of the State. who feel with us in
this matter, and who are resolved to come out
and wash their hands of this foul and disgrace
iul business.
The fOrrpOin o. is brief statements of facts.