The Bedford Gazette

WARNING.

History is full of instructions as to the machinations of secret parties. Secret combinations should always be viewed with jealousy and distrust. The destruction of Troy is a faithful illustration of treachery and deceit under the mask of friendship and secrecy, and should be an impressive warning to the Democratic party. Of all the wars of the ancients, that one in which Troy was engaged, is the most conspicuous. The city stood out for ten years against the most powerful invasions of which the historic page gives any account, and would undoubtedly have been successful but for the strategy of the enemy. It is said that all at once the Greeks retired from the walls of the city, as if having given up the siege, and disappeared from the sight of the Trojans. Before retiring, however, the Greeks constructed a tremendous wooden horse, filled it with armed men, and placed it before the gates of the magnificent city. The Trojans came out and admired its tremendous proportions, and insisted upon carrying it within the walls of the city. They were warned of the danger, but the "Grecian horse" was admitted, and at night armed men sprung from its capacious recesses, the gates were thrown open, and Troy was laid in ashes and numbered among the things that were.

A distinguished writer has declared that "history is philosophy teaching by example," and the impressive lesson taught by the destruction of Troy, should be heeded by the patriotic and virtuous of the country. The secret cabalistic order that has recently strutted upon the stage of action, presents a parallel only to the vicious actions and principles of the hired assassins of Robespierre and Murat. The Jacobinical club of France started out to exterminate the Catholic church and feudal despotism, and when it had finished its work, it left France a land of infidels, and under the dominion of the basest passions of the human soul. The reader of history cannot fail to see the striking similarity between Jacobinism and Know-Nothingism. Its bigotry and intolerance, Spain and Italy also organizations are exact patterns, and the objects, rise up as living monuments of the blighting influence of secret political tyranny and religious intolerance. The turnpike road of all history is paved with the remnants of departed republics and extinguished nationalities of modern Europe, that have passed away "like the baseless fabric of a vision," before the retributive justice of Him who hath said, "that pride goeth before destruction, and the rod is surely smitten in the hands of the oppressor."

Know-Nothingism, alias Whiggery, is now attempting that by strategy, fraud and deception, which it has failed to do by honorable means. The very fact that a combination of men can be formed in a free government setting in secret conclave and conspiring against the rights and liberties of a free people, is sufficient evidence of its dangerous tendency and alarming consequences, and should convince all that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." An oligarchy as despotic and vicious as ever ruled the most depraved nations of the world, is now established within the United States, and those who join it are mere vassals to infamous tyrants, being bound hands and feet by wicked and sacrilegious oaths. What a spectacle in a free government: Democrats, remember the "Grecian Horse."—Harrisburg Union.