Mountain Democrat., 1857-12-12
ORf,RRrs.

ity In point OF numbers, must ever fling
a shade over the otherwise untarniShed
brightness Of our national character. In.
deed, since the triumph Of the Democracy
In the election of JAMES BUcuANAN to the
Chief Magistracy Of the Union, over the
combined cohorts of fanaticism and polIti-
cal bigotry, we believed the polluted ism,
which has so recently sought to rmascu-
late the constitution, and revel in the
ruins Of citizen rights, was dead and
damned beyond resurrection We meant
to have written It's obituary notice long
since. Tho news Of the vindication of
truth and justice, as opposed to error and
wrong so checringly communicated by
the last steamer, in the beautifully dimin-
iShcd majority of the Black Republicans
in Ohio, and tho ignominious defeat Of
the same despicablc crew in the States Of
New York, New. Jersey and Minnesota;
cOalesccd, MS they were, and embracing
as they did, tho rcncgadcs and relics of
every party, gave us additional ground to
hope that the grave had closed over the
puttefying remains Of Thuggcry forever.
But some accompanying intelligence dis
closes to us the fact that Notwithstanding
the general dcscrtion from the ranks Of
'Sam" to the ranks of ".StmbO," por-
ton Of the IIindoos still rally beneath
their piratical banner. in the States of
Maryland, Kentucky and Louisiana.
The recent Outragcs in Baltimore, per
pctrated on the day Of election, with the
connivancc Of the Know Nothing author
itics; and the midnight orgicsand attrOci-
ties Of gNng of the Wi8tr1mi'es, upon
the persons of unoiIending IrishmCn,
in the city Of New Orleans, (whcrc the
lnlscreants still roam unwhipt Of justicc,)
teach us the revolving fact, that in those
localities "thc snake is scotchcd not
killed." The massacre Of st. BarthOlo-
new, though executed in the sixteenth
century, Is rivalled in its heinous celebri-
ty by the bloody, wholesale assassinations
Of the nineteenth. The difference in
point of necessity or justicc-if possible
to view the question thus-exists in favor
Of the FIRST Good men sometimes dcgene-
rate into rcliOiOWs fanatics; political ia.
naticism is the offspring Of knavcry, al
ways The soul Of man, kindlcd into en-
thustGsm by abstract conceptions may
madden into superhuman or subtcrhuman
fervor;-the reason Of man, calculating
tangible results, never manilests irration.
al zeal, unless It DO simulated to accom-
plish some nefarious purpose. The mur-
ders Of Charles the IXth of France, in a
benighted age, at the instigation ofpriests,
under the conviction that the victims
were the enemies of the only true God,
flll the mind with less Of horror, than the
deliberate and dcmoniacal assassinations
of scores of innocent forcign-6orn citizens
by the Know Nothing murderCrs Of the
cities of Baltimore, Louisville and New
Orleansl The former resulted from
perversion of the noblcst sentiments which
can instigate human action the latter,
spawned from the fcstcrcd womb of COW
etousncss and cruelty, were consummatcd
to crafty hyena appetite for blood, or
to acquire the petty spoils Of political
Office The first, we might extenuate;
the last, should be stamped with the in
famous brand of Cain
We are no advocate for the arraying
man against man, and especially Of citizen
against his fellow-citizcn we even de-
plore the compulsion which forces us to
deadly strife with our neighbors, the
Mormons; but sooner than there shall be
archearsal of the sanguinary scenes of po-
litical butchcrics, which have heretofore
disgraced the Monumental" "Falls,"
and L" Crescent" cities of the Union, we
would have the tocsin sounded, an army
Of patriots enlisted, and carry ona war of
determination against those bloody mon
sters who cause US to blush for our race.
In this connection, we observe ridic.
ulous rumor breathcd by some Of the At
lantic journals, to the effect "that there is
an alien organization in this country
sworn to act in determined hostility to the
citizens Of American birth" Itwas first
given to the winds by Know Nothing
editor, and has been prOpagated solely by
the Know Nothing and Black Republican
press. 1t is the final coup" of ofimpotent
desperation. 1t is futile effort, to arouse
the national spirit and prejudices of our
nAtive-born citizens, against the fugitive
strangers to whom they have extended
their hospitalities. 1t is pressing invi-
tatiOn to join the legiOns of intolerance,
and riot in carnival Of gore. If the be.
lief is honestly entertained by any living
man, that there is a" Molly Mcguire Az
SOcidtiOn," (or such is the boptismal name
of this goblin anywhere in the land, we
say to the ignorant slubberdcgullion, get
rid Of it at once. The assertion is the
manufacture Of designing men, or the
legitimate product Of their evil imagina-