Weekly Calaveras chronicle. (Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, Cal.) 18??-1874, 1868-01-18
THOMAS BOYCE. is our only au-
thorized Agent in San Francisco.
"OB,ERvER." We publish in this issue a

CONSERVATIVE publish in this issue a
communication which, among other things,
animadverts severely upon the Order of E
Clampsus Vitus. Our reason for giving
publicity to an article which contains an
outrageous and wanton attack upon an in
stitution of the merits and dement's of which
the writer is entirely ignorant, is simply that
while we control the columns of this paper,
they are open to the temperate discussion of
all questions, moral, political and social.
Than this we have no further reason to give,
or apology to offer, for its publication. Pass
ing over that part of the communication
which refers to smildewed churches" and
"empty school houses" without comment,
we will briefly review that portion of lob
servers" article which has reference to the
Order. 1t is, We presume, unnecessary for
US to state that "Observer" is writing upon
a subject of which he knows nothing what
ever; that he uses pen gangrened with an
unsatisfed, impertinent curiosity and preju-
dice; that he has either been duped in regard
" bbS Shoi oSeCA "a IAlC OLuCI, VI ID dCludLeu
solely by malevolence and spleen. 1t is also
needless for US to add that "Observer's"
ideas of the secret workings of the Order of
+. Clampsus Vitus, are in every particular,
unjust and untrue. Some people are only
happy while defaming others. Imagining
themselves to be the "chosen of the Lord"
morally and socially, they judge others by
the standard of the position to which their
conceit has exalted them. A person of ordi-
nary intelligence would not launch phil
ippic against the man in the moon, neither
would he indulge in TRADE of invectives
against an institution of which he knows
even less. Ignorance sometimes palliates
attack upon benefcent Order. "Observer'
says "Look at the CHRONICLE of January
18th, and read the names of the newly elect
ed officers with the initials of their respective
titles annexed" and tells the "women to
ask their husbands and lovers what the let
tiers signify ," keeping SHARP. lookout mean
while to see if they "blush.' There is no
secret about their Specification, or nothing
connected with their meaning that would
cause saint to blush. Here are the terrible
letters and the horrible words which they
denote; any member of the Order will vouch
for our truthfulness in the matter: IN. G.
H."-Noble Grand Harbinger; '.R. G. S."
Royal Grand Surgeon; "R. G. F.
Royal Grand Farmer; &C. T."-Clamp
Tetrarch; &c. V."-Clamp Vitrarch. Is
there anything intensely horrifying about
thats heLodge has also other officers. ap-
pointed by the N. 6. II. "R. G. M
Royal Grand Musician; Il. S." and 80.
S."-Inside and Outside Guardians. We
do not desire to appear in the light of
champion of E Clampsus Vitus; it requires
none. "By their fruits We shall know them"
The history of the benevolent actions of the
Order, in this county alone. is sufficient to
refute the falsehoods of its vilifers. "Observ-
er's" indicate illusions to the ball to be
given on the 2lst, will not have the desired
effect. The ladies of Mokelumne Hill have
confidence enough in their Husbands and
lovers to believe that they will not ask
them to accompany them to an unsuitable
place. In conclusion, we would remind
"Observer" that denunciation is not argu-
ment, and very seldom, the truth and that
splenetic bigotry is not sanctity.