The Portland daily press., 1880-12-09
THE ARYAN ORDER.
LETTER FROM MR.. FORSYTH.
Something About the Sacred Order OF
the Empire
December Sth. 1880.

the Empire.
December Sth. 1880.
Mr.. EDrToR:-The report you pub
lished in your last edition from the
New York Times is totally false and
needs contradiction. The Aryan Order of
America, as it has been breezed about by those
who know nothing about 1t, has no existance
in the manner they describe, nor do believe
that the Hon j. III. b. Latrobe passed judgment
upon me in the manner described since l did
not see that gentleman but once and then upon
business of an entirely different character.
Then again, the society is not founded upon
genealogy and heraldry, which are merely
accessories but upon the endeavor to promote
social virtues and to repudiate fashionable
vices and follies
The reply to the stuff falsely said of the Or
der and myself will appear in the Baltimore
American and let me add here that the men
who first intimated it are q set of hyenas who
least upon the carrion OF their own infamous
creation made after the pattern of their degen-
crate minds from the material OF better men.
Like ray of light in rancid pool whatever
enters their mental grasp is at once polluted
and turned into a miserable caricature to what
1t was in its original and pure state. Ii the
criticism applied to me was applied to all who
interest themselves from centre OF action the
world would find that wisdom was only to be
found among such hyenas tA
sword is more eflicacious upon the heads OF
fools than the sweep of logic.
FREDERIC GREGORY FORSYTH.
l.. s. For the honor of the members of our
order let it be said that only two of those men
toned denied connection with it, and the let
ter OF acceptance of one of these, among many
Others, is in possession of Mr. Forsyth qi
There is an honor in standing by a cause that
is great in proportion to the fewness of its
keepers But, as this report is mere newspaper
Jalk there be truth in il and If the
person ality of Mr.. Forsyth had not been as
sailed, he would not have noticed it. I'll"
I -s 5fni3l so - ;isuI tl-1-llr f--
I The despatch to the New York Times quoted
by us was brought out by the publication in
the Philadelphia Press of Baltimore letter,
giving what purports to be an account Of the
formation of the "Society of Aryan America"
of which Mr.. Frederick Gregory Forsyth is to
be Grand Emir. The Philadelphia paper is
inclined to take Mr.. Forsyth and mis- lAryans
seriously, and foresees danger to the Republic
from them. In this city, where Mr. Forsyth
is well known, it is needless to say that no ap-
prehensons of him or his purposes are enter
tanned.
Over year ago we published for the amuse-,
ment of our readers an account of Provost and
Chancellor Forsyth's fantastic scheme The
correspondent OF the Philadelphia Press gives
further details. 1t appears from the letter that
the Apostle to the Aryans is man not un-
known in the literary world He is the au-
thor of number of works treating
on ethics and philosophical research, has
written History of Europe as drawn from
the Ages of Change and Problems of Amer
ican History" in which the ground is taken
that the Malthusian theory must be appliad
to the lower classes only-the rabble, wiile
those, of illustrious descent, like Mr.. For
syth, shall continue to people the world with
superior class of beings To further this OBJ
iect he has founded the Aryan Order, which
will use in its imposing ritual the most ancient
language known. The Order, in fact pro-
poses to go far back into antiquity and use
the primeval language of man, which accord
ing to Mr.. Forsyth and other philologists, is
the ancient Gaelic. The science OF comparative
philology shows by the most convincing
proofs that the Irish Gaelic tongue was the
language of Eden and Mr.. Forsyth is particu-
larly pleased to know that the philologists have
also decided that the family of Forsyth (and,
by the way, he generously acknowledges the
same for other families) is descended directly
from Baath, who is said to be the one who took
no part in the building of the Tower of Babel,
and the Almighty permitted him and his to
retain their original language. Members of
the Order are required to be lineal descend
ants of Baath and his tribe for the reason that
he was of gentle blood, which is explained by
his geneoalogy traced from Adam. The
Order will be exacting in it's demands upon ap-
,,1ip &. he ~
proven, running through line of ancestors to
some established noble or gentle house in EuIf
rope, whose origin is unmistakably aristocratic
and not linked with trade. The line of ances
try must needs be without blemish and of
brave and honorable repute. The greater
number of the marriages running through the
line OF descent must have been made among
those OF a like station Of life. "A morganatic
marriage renders the candidate ineligible,
whether he be the dhect issue or four genera
tsons removed. The aspirant must be moral
and intellectual. His religion is not called in
question at ALL physically he must be with
out defornity or disease, nor can he become
member of the illustrious Order if his an ces-
tors We're tainted with scrofula or amy heredi-
tary disease of like nature. When, he mar
ries he must take to wife noAe lady, possess
ing the same qualifications as himself. and the
issues of the marriage will be denominated the
First Children of the Society of the Aryan
Americans.
Irish historians have preserved the record of
Baths people and their wanderings from
Scythia into Egypt, and from Egypt back to
Asia Miner, and from thence into Spain,
where they remained for two generations and
then invaded Ireland, their last abiding place,
hence the Sacred Order, of which the llustri-
GUS scion of Baath elected himself President
pro tenn, is as a whole, in direct descent from
the aristocrat of antiquity, and will endeavor
to people the world according to the text of the
Constitutions with a race opposed to tower
building or anything that calls for manual la
oor. At this early day the income of the Or
der is set down at S30O,000 per annum, which
will increase from year to year. Every per-
son whose name is given is wealthy. or.
If not wealthy, far above the man of ordinary
means. The first fruit was plucked1 in the
City of Baltimore in October, Mr.. Forsyth
naturally selecting the largest apple in the
shape of a Chancellorship. H
The keynote of the Society of Aryan Ameri-
cans is to be power-absolute and unlimited.
The consummation of this purpose the projec-
tors believe will necessarily be slow, but. they
hope, certain. Labor saving machinery is to
be the chief reliance. To effect this pur-
pose is the chief object of Mr.. Forsyth's COL
+ OSSdl scheme OF tn6 sacred Oruer OF the
Empire" into which he expects the
! Order of Aryan Americans to eventuate. To
quote Mr. Forsyth himself: ,.The State should
be governed by intellect The common people
should have no voice in the affairs of State.
God has wisely ordained that there should be
rulers among the beasts of the field and the
fowls OF the air. To man, whom He has en-
dowed with reason, would he delegate less
power? The noble, the great, the brave, the I
descendants OF the tribe of Baath, are rulers
throughout the world, as the Almighty has de-
creed they should be. The masses have ever
opposed intellect. Intellect IS hated by the
people. Intellect is condemned and antago-
nized by the people. The noble race of Aryan
are intended by God to be rulers" =
The object of the Sacred Order of the EN-
pire is to regain control of what is theirs bya a
Divine deeree-the ruling power. To do this
we must fight ignorance with intelligence. The
first definite plan of action will be to stop edu-
eating the laborer, for that is a fruitful source
of evil. Next, universal suffrage will be abol-
ished, for as it is now, the ignorant laborer
stands on the same footing at the polls as the