The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-11-28

The elrction being over, the Democracy triumph
aat, and the couatry saved tie people now have time
fos serious and cool reflection; and hence con-
sder il an appropriate time take glance at the
alarming scenes through which we have passed.
4 little more than ttyo years since the Whg par
ty gave MP the ehost-and, lis grave, sprung up
an organization known By the name Of g Know Nofh-
ings," which rallied 10 its standard in moment, as
il were, nearly every Whis paper and Wing Politi-
elan il the lard. For some months the rgBLlc we're
kept in entire ignorance Of IT'S movements, and the
result was intense excitement al the country.
The impression obtained very generally that It was
combination tsat e9a2a seger b 5rohc1, aud hence
Office seezers were 50 10 get into il that they
we're willing TO be initiated in gafret, cellar, stable
or anywhere else, fearing that they might lose their
chances Of elevation il they failed thus 10 6 A@cri-
csst-s themselves al the earliest moment possible.
In order hecofne menbers each individual vas re-
quired 70 take an oath in which be bound himself 70
oppose and hate, through life, every man Of foreign
birth or protesting the Catholic Relgon--and by
no less penalty than that Of being branded through
oat the United States as q traitor to God and his
country--to have his grave tFanpled on by ioresu-
ers-and his memory cursed by his children and his
cmldreus children Lest it might be supposed that
have not quoted correctly, publish on the first
page OF the t;azette' Of to-day, the three obliga-
tious imposed by the order, whIch we are prepared
10 prove were the oabs administered TO every men-
ber Of he conspiracy, unless indeed, they become
alarmed after taking the first and second degrees
and refused TO 20 any further. This was the case
with thousands Of honest men, who backed out
as they realized the gross wickeduess pfacsed
behind the curtar-and 10 their honor be it spoken
Now, after reading these mpjous oaths, and the
kind Of political rickery they proposed TO establish,
it seems to be matter Of universal aston:shmemt
that any sane mind could have sanctioned scheme SO
utterly degrading TO every principle which ought to
govern the conduct Of free white man-bnt, when
to consider that this disgracefu business had
the countenance and support of large number of
the Ministers of the Gospel Official dign;taries in
the Church, and other protesting Christians, are
lost in amazement in eontpmpat ting the fact, that
sGch species Of corruption should find advocates
in such quarters Yet such was the fact, humila-
ting a. is the confession And it was to the inhu-
Of that class of men that Know Moth
ingism obtained all the importance II ever ac-
CURED Had not ren been urged on by such inau-
euces, but few would have veEtured 10 take upon
themselves obligations SO blasphemous in their char
acter. No sooner had this monsrozity got into ope-
ration, however, than we find the Christian A.2ro-
andthe Lutheran 05ssrrer, (papers having an i'm
mense circulation among church members,) taking
the field openly in its defence, thus aiofding in
fdels proaae swearefs sabbath breakers, and others
Of the kidney, a-spendjd pretexr FOR inviting
Christian into their abominable dens. The
Adv0cste in its issue Of September T. 1854 contains
long article on the subject, from which we make