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Minister,) and elected by all G7, or a majority of them, I will sustain here, there, or elsewhere. When the 33 (K. G. C.) cross the 5, (Rio Grande,) 1 will do all 1 can to Fend in S6, (recruits for th.e army,) and, if 1 should ever cease to be an active worker for the 57,1 will keep secret what I know of the real character of the organization, and I promise never to confer this degree in any other way than in the way 1 have here received it, and 1 will forward to 06, (George Bickley,) or to the Governor General of this State, the name and fees of even- candidate whcm I shall initiate as Governor. In witness, 1 do voluntarily, here in these presence, sign my name and P. 0. Address.   {Governor asks, " will you sign! ")

Secret.*et. Perhaps you had better hear the whole degree and then sign, for, unless we have your entire approbation, wc do not wish to commit you to anything; I am well aware that this whole scheme is a told and daring one, that can but surprise you at first, as it did me, and for this reason I beg to state a few facts for your consideration. In the rise nnd progress of Democracy in America, we have seen its highest attainment. In the very outset, it was based" on high religious principles, and adopted as a refuge from despotism. Id the North. Puritanism melted it, and west so far as to lenve out the natural conservative element of all Democracies, 57, (domestic slavery.) As a result, we have presented dow, social, religious and political anarchy. From Millerism and spiritualism, every Utopian idea has numerous advocates, The manufacturer is an aristocrat, while the working man is a serf. The latter class, constantly goaded by poverty, seek a change, they care not what itmay be. Democracy, unrestrained by 97, (domestic slavery,) multiplies the manufacturing classes indefinitely, but it debases the mechanic. Who ever knew a practical shoemaker, or a maker of pinbeads, to have a man's ambition? Ihey own neither land or property, and have no tie to the institutions of the country. The Irishman emigrates, and the Frenchman remains at home. Ihe one hates his country, the other adores bis. The Frenchman is a slaveholder and a man. The Irishman is a serf and an outcast. The South is naturally agricultural, and the farmer fceingmosx of the time in the midst of his growing crops, seeing ihe open operation of nature, bis mind expands, be grows proud and ambitious of all around, and feels himself a man. He wants no change, either in civil, political or religious afTairs. He cultivates the soil, and it yields him the means to purchase labor. He becomes attached to home and its associations, and remains forever a restrained Democrat, restrained by moral and civil law from uny and all overt acts. He needs and makes a centralized government, because his property is at stake when anarchy prevails.

Governor. Now, in the case of 2 (Mexico;) suppose we were to elevate to citiien-ship 87, (Negro, mulatto, Indian or mixed bloo