Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-01-31
Political Parties.

ccssity Of forming parties anew. This was
| laid down as the basis OF the Know Nothing
organization-th groundwork upon which
that anti American and intolerant mon
strosity was reared. IL was an evil institu-
/ ton. founded upon false basis, and after
the novelty of its organization had worn OIL
and it was brought to the test Of the judg-
ment Of the people, it was swept from before
/ them, like a house erected upon the sands of
the sea shore, from before the advancing
waves Of the Ocean.
The declared object Of that organization
was the publication Of the old parties, and
| it did, indeed, effect that object during the
brief period of its existence. 1t gathered
from the old parties all the vile and worth
less spirits that was ever attached to them
spirits such as follow in the wake Of an ORR
entail Army, but flee from it in the hour OF
battle, and turn TO assist IN the labor OF an
initiation in the hour Of its defeat. 1t was
n loathsome herd which could be compared
to nothing 50 ftly as to the rabble of Comus,
grotesque monsters, half beastiai, half hu-
man, dropping with political excitement,
the progenitors Of Viglancism and the fa
Tiers Of the Republican organization,
Amidst these was placed the liberty Of Cali
| fornia, like the chaste lady of the Masque,
lofty, spotless and serene, to be chatted at,
and pointed at, and grinned at by the whole
rabble Of Satyrs and Goblins The Democ-
racy, unlike the Needless brothers in Mil
tons poem, in their eagerness to dispcrse the
| train Of political sorcerers, have not neg
! lccted the means Of liberatng the captive.
! The new organization were the self consttu.
ted protectors Of American liberties, and the
conscience keepers of the people. They laid
it down as lfevident proposition that no
man was fit to be free, until he knew how to
use his freedom. They forgot that there
is but one cure for the evils which newly nc.
duired freedom produces-and that is free
dom. They used the freedom which they
enjoyed to render themselves more grotesque
and mercenary than those whom they pro-
scribed They grovelled, and hissed, and
stung, and cried wo unto those who should
attempt to crush them. Their infamous OBJ
legations, their prejudices of party, and
their unboly appca! to the venerable names
| history, threw over them n spell potent AS
that Of Duessa and like the Red Cross
Knight, they thought they were doing bat
tic for an injured beauty, while they de-
Tended IA false and loathsome sorceress-
They extracted pittance from the compass
sion Of the inexperienced by exposing the
wickedness and sores of their minds. They
professed to hold in reverence tho great
names and the great actions Of former times
in order TO find in them some excuse for the
abuses they practiced. If in any part of the
great examples Of our forefathers, there was
anything unsound, these flesh flies detected
it with an uncrrng instinct and seized upon
it with avidity, as n justification of their
own course. But those whom they had de-
ceived, soon began to reason, the scattered
elements Of truth ceased to conflict, and be-
gan 10 COtlcSCc, hul triumph VI 'hV bN"iO
! cratic party educed system Of Justice and
order out of chaos
/ The secret organization abandoned their
platform of proscriptive and intolcrant
principles, and descended into man-wor-
shipping party-if it were possible to de-
scend from Buntlinism to Boswellsm The
opposition to the Democracy were known as
"Fillmorc men," and merged their proscrip-
tive principles into the foolish feeling of
man worship. We are not among those who
would reject as models, the few characters
"which have stood the closest scrutiny and
the severest tests, which have been tried in
the furnace and proved pure, which have
been weighed in the balls and have not
been found wanting, which have oeen de-
cared sterling blythe general consent of man
kind, and which are vsibly stamped with the
image and superscripton Of the Most High"
Such great men, We trust, We know how to
prize. and such were the founders Of the
Republic. The sight of their works and the
sound of their names are powerful, not Only
to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor
do we envy the man who can study either the
lives or the writings of these great States
men and patriots, without striving to per.
petunte the works with which they have en-