e no ties to the institutions of the country. The Irishman
emigrates, and the Frenchman stays at home. The one hates his
country, the other adores his. The Frenchman, is a slaveholder and
a _man_--the Irishman is a serf and an outcast. The South is
naturally agricultural; and the farmer being most of the time in
the midst of his growing crops, seeing the open operation of
nature, his mind expands, he grows proud and ambitious of all
around, and feels himself a man. He wants no change, either in
civil, religious, or political affairs. He cultivates the soil,
and it yields him means to purchase labor. He becomes attached to
home and its associations, and remains forever a restrained
Democrat, restrained by moral and civil laws from any and all
overt acts. He needs and makes a centralized government, because
his property is at stake when anarchy prevails.'

The reader is doubtless by this time well weary of this vulgar trash of
the K.G.C., which is only not absolutely ridiculous, because so nearly
connected with most sanguinary aims. Be it borne in mind that the
Southern character has always been eminently receptive of the puerile
and nonsensical, while the vast proportion of semi-savage,
semi-sophomorical minds in Dixie, half-educated and altogether idle and
debauched, has made their land a fertile field for quack Bickleys,
brutal and arrogant Pikes, and other petty tools of greater and more
powerful knaves. The Order becomes, however, a matter for more serious
consideration, when we reflect on the number of Northern men who, to
testify their Southern principles, have become 'Knights,' 'There is
ample and positive proof that the order of K.G.C. is thoroughly
organized in every Northern State as auxiliary to the Southern
rebellion.' It has acted here, as is well known, directly or indirectly,
under different names, such as the Peace Society, the Union Party, the
Constitutional Party, the Democratic Society, Club, or Association, the
Mutual Protection and Self Protection. For much information relative to
these traitors among us, who, whether sworn to the K.G.C. or not, are
working continually to further its aims, we refer our readers to the
pamphlet itself. There can be little doubt that those self-styled
democrats who continually inveigh against Emancipation in every form,
even to the condemning of the moderate and judicious Message of
President Lincoln, are all either th