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WIDE-AWAKE!
ROMA N I S M:
ITS AIMS AND TENDENCIES.
THE
~ENTIMENTS OF A "KNOW.NOTHIING."
BY L. WV. GRANGER.
DETROIT:
RUBLISHED BY THE PROPRIETOR.
1854.
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Entered according to Act of Congress. in the Clerk's office at I)etroit for the District of Michi,,-an,
by L. W. GRANOER, August!, 1851.
E. A. WALS' Steam Power Presses, Advertiser Buildings, Detroit. 
PREFACE.
IN the pages following, I have honestly and faithfully endeavored to
present to the reader, in as brief a manner as possible, some of the
more plausible characteristics of Romanism, in its various stages and
progress, as it presents itself to my own mind. I have abstained from
the introduction of obsolete words, or quaint and antique fonns of
expression, by simply confining myself to matters of fact. Whether
it mill appear to you a true condition of the affairs upon which it treats
or a tale of fancy or fiction, you, of course, must be the judges. Our
whole object has simply been to present this all-important subject in its
true light; to point out the many equivocalities under which Romanism is
now laboring in this country, for the purpose of undermining the foundations of a government, over which it has not and never can have control
-That the people of our own government may protect their Common
Schools from the interference of a Roman Catholic Priesthood, and their
usurping the power invested in that system, by converting it into a channel
to be made subservient to their own predilections,-To guard well that
sacred institution, the Ballot Box, from all foreign control and invasion,
by being made'a tool for political purposes, by designing hands,-In short,
to discountenance every measure or system calculated to impair
institutions of our country. Every thing has been told in a plain and
comprehensive form. Trusting that it may be an instrument not only of
waking up the consciencees of many who now look with indiffere,pce upon
the scene around them, but at the same time be effectual in eradicating an
evil from among us, which sooner or later, unless checked, will prove
disastrous to the American people, is the ardent desire of
DETROIT, August, 1854.                             THE AUTHOR~
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TO THE
HON. JACOB M. HOWARD,
FOR HIS MANY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VIRTUES, AND HIS UNSWERVING
SUPPORT OF LAW AND ORDER, THIS BOOR IS RES              PECTFULLY IN'SCRIBED BY THE
AUTHOR. 
AN APP?AL
To the People of the United States of America.
FELLOW CITIZENs, -  A  great and important crisis is at hand!  T1h
nation is convulsed to its very centre!' yet we look upon the calamity as
one of ordinary interest;  We remain unaroused from our slumbers, while
the enemy u stalketh abroad at noon-day" laying his d4ep-seated founda.
tions for plunder and conspiracy.  For the past twenty years, it has been
advancing with a rapidity unequalled and unparalleled in the history of
nations.  It has encroacled upon the rights, not only of individuals
but of all that Americans hold sacred and dear.  It has established a
power almong us, fearfutil in its operations, and we may say almost uncon;
trollable, and all in the name of DEMOCRACY I  Wonderful name for a
inisgnided people! But let us pause for a mtoment while we enter into'
tlhe reflection of what seems to us to be a sutbject worthy of our attentive'
'onsideration0
WVhen we, as American citizens, contemplate the workings of our great
"Democratic" system of Goternment, we seem to lose sight of that portio-i which relates to popular sovereignty!  To have too little regard for
the popular will of the people, so long as any particular object can be
obtained, even at the sacrifice of right and principle! Instead of clinging
to the Constitution, that sheet anchor of our liberties,'the guiding star
of our ambition for right, we look more eatnestly to a system, which if
persevered in, must inevitably be the downfall aid ruin of a people
whose lil'es, fortunes, and sacred honors, have been dedicated to and baptized in the blood of freedom! 
Loudly do politicians haqr) upon,- (politicians that are as corrupt as
the government itself)-fiercely do the halls of debate ring with the elo
qutence of our modemrn statesmen in vindication of our Institutions and
their Republican simplicity; while their Voices are but the death-knell
echoes of the ruin of a great and mighty empire.   The pulse of the
people has been tapped, while enormous evils and outrages have been
perpetrated upon them by the enemies of freedom, and all in the name
of libety.  A fearful and momentous crisis, like a threatening cloud,
darkens and hovers over our national escutcheon!  The slow, but sure
and effectual giant tread of Pagan-Romanism, is fast inundating
the foundations of our Government. They are making new inroads upon
her legislative action, and fresh advances upon  all her healthy  and
peaceable systems, with an itiaudence unparalleled in the history of any
country or nation in the world. Startle not, gentle reader, as we trace
the fruits of this direful pestilence through its various stages, as they now
present themselves to the Amnerican people.  As "Nero fiddled while
Rome was burning," so may we expect to find many a miserable and
worn-out politician and party hack, aiding then in the wider extension
and diffusion of their corrupt and nefarious designs, upon somue selfish
and miserable promise of bribery and corruption!
What does Romanism dema'nd?  We answer, in the first place, ill
that portion clothed with "priestly authority," by a " DivisION OF ALL
MONEYS APPROPRIATED FOR THlE SUPPORT OF COMMON SCHOOLS!"  For
what object do they demand it? For the wider diffuision of Romanism
throughout our land! They have knocked at the doors of our Common
Schools for this object, and when refused admittance, a spirit of insubordination to our laws has been manifested on their part, and modes of
violence resorted to in order to seek revenge! But, to the shame of our
Government be it said, they have sought and received "comfort and
strength from the enemy." Arnoldalike, there are those who would sell
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and baiter array the glorious heritage bequeathed to then by their ani
oestors, for a " mess of pottage," just so long as they were to receive the
benefit to acertie therefromn. Their money and influence can be easily
obtained, even for such a system, on the day of election, if they canl only
obtain their votes in return.
What can we, as Americans, gain by such a policy? Nothing, coinmparatively nothing, but the ruin it produces I  Politicians ask us in return,
backed up by a Jesuitical Priesthood, —" What, are you not going to
tolerate religious freedom in your countrv?"   We answer in reply, yes I
but we are determined not to thrust the Protestant Bible out of our
Churches and Common Schools, in order to please a bigoted and besotted Pagan  superstitions    We  are by  no means  yet prepared to
appropriate to your use money dedicated for the education of our children, and those to come after them, to support the incendiary torch of
Romanism!  To our shores you are fireely welcomed, but to the laws of
our government you must submit as soon as your feet tread upon our
soil!  If you cannot submit to our Common School system, you are at
liberty to place your offspring under the contdol of  one freely guarteed to you by our government, in teaching them in schools where  the
Bible is excluded, and where the public money is not expended.   But
further than this you cannot go! The mandate lhas gone forth -'tis
the people's fiat -beyond  it you cannot pass!   Whlerever you have
caused this question to be agitated and carried into the political arena,
you have failed in accomplishing your designs.   The policy ofthe govern
ment is fixed, and the decree cannot be altered.  To its requirements you
must acquiese.
None but a close and careful observer of governmental affairs, can know
or dream of the dangers to result from stlch ah alarmnlug evil. It would
be fatal to our Common School system, wherever the wound was inflicted,
If immigration is to increase in proportion to what it has for the past 
fetw yea, we should lose all power and control over them  in a very few
years.  But we are told that there is no danger-that it is the work of
fazaticism!  All this may be true, but thefacts stare us too conclusively
in the face to admit of such an argument,  That several attempts  have
recently been made in Massachusetts, as well as in other parts of the
country, to exclude the Bible from our public schools by Roman Catholic
Priests, admits of no contradiction here, In the town of Holliston, in the
above natnmed State, an attempt was recently made for that purpose, and
before the tempest could  be calned, a public meeting of the citizens
was called for the purpose of deciding the question, which of course,
tesulted in the negative. No sooner do we see this question settled there)
than we are again called upon to witness the spirit of Romanism and
insubordination manifesting itself in its bitterest and rmost vindictive form,
WNe give it below as We find it in one of the ablest journals of Boston,
the Bee.
"PRIESTLY INTERFEtSR,cE.-The Boston Bee states that in one of the Schools
"in Salem, Mass., a day or two since. a scholar refused to study one of the
regular philosophy Works because the Priest told him not to I  The teachers
"having no fear for an impertinent and interfering priest, insisted on the study
being puren8ed; whereupon the Priest ordered the removal of the boy from
school.  Comment Ls unnecessary.'&
Yes, comments are unnecessary I and language is too futile to express
the indignation which every American should feel at such attempts to
subvert the high authority in all systems which have their origin in the
govelmment itself.
But now let us in tutrn, look upon the other side of the question and
compare the figures. It will not be found necessary for us t, wade
through a long train of suppositions to substantiate the position that we
shall take; but let us at the outset come close to the mark. The plea
that Romanism sets up in vindication of their alledged right for a di.
vision of the  school money" is, n account of theit loyalty to the Con
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stitution and their obedience to the laws and support to the institutions
of the country. Because A few brave and noble Irishmen left their
homes and firesides to engage in the Revolutionary struggle for fireedom,
in securing our independence, must we in return, forsake the governnment which we labored to defend by turning traitors, and transmitting
it, with its sacred institutions, into the hands of a people who, as the emisaries of bloody and bigoted Rome, are its bitterest enemies, thereby
converting it into a Roman Catholic hierarchy! NEVER! NEVER!!
Why should not Americans be as justifiable in their impositions upon
the Romish Government uponi the ground of loyalty, or some other
modern invention, by introducing into their schools the Protestant Bible,
'demanding the expulsion of not only their Bible, but all books which
was opposed to their belief and religion?  Who  can predict the end?
Where would the Irish rebellion and insurrection cease? Would Romiish Bishops and Priests of that Green Isle, tolerate such an outrage
on the part of Americans? Would not the scenes of the reformnation, when
Paganism put to death every believer in the Protestant Religion, again
be re-enacted?  Would they not howl over the defamation of their reli-'
gion and sanctuary? Would not the victims of their wrath be scourged
and imprisoned, nailed to the rack, burned at the stake, or roasted alive,
M a punishment for their crime? Oh, yes, say we; buitt they can cross
the Atlantic and come over among us to and commit as many depredations upon our government as they choose, because we have laws
that do not forbid it. They can burn our churches and school houses;
murder and massacre American citizens in our streets in open day; cause
al manner of outrages and deeds of violence to be committed upon our
persons and institutions, in consequence of their loyalty to the Constitution. Such is the language of their principal organ in this country, the
Boston Pilotf, a journal that Americans should never allow to be tolera ted in a country  which manifests such strong hostilit to foreign influ                                                   *- *.~    
ence.  Its doctrines are full of bigotry and incendiarism; they are un enlightened, dark and damning, and detrimental not only to our insti tutions, but to the best interests of our common country.
In order to show the vindictive spirit which that Cathiolic journal
manifests towards our Government, we give but one amnong a thousand
extracts that we might quote; and we ask for it a careful perusal. These
Roman Catholic papers are under the entire control of "Bishop and
Priest," and are of course, the embodiment of their malice and malignity
towards Protestantism:
"EMIGRATION.-According to the Boston Pilot, the emigration from
"Ireland to the United States is fast decreasing.  We  are glad to hear
"it.  The cruel and ungrateful manner in which Irishmen and their re "ligion have been treated in the States, for some time past, should deter
"the sons of the Green Isle from going to what we are sorry to say is now
"a land of mob-law, in which whatever became of the "stars," the "stripes"
"seem to be reserved for the hapless children of the persecuted land.  Far
"better for them to go to Canada, or to any other part of British North
"America except those plague spots in New Brunswick which are cursed
' by the fell spirit of Orangeism."
Notwithstanding they style us a "mob-law'land," and that too by a
Roman Catholic paper printed in the city of Boston, they are at the same
time allowed to apply the incendiary torch to one of the most sacred of
our Institutions; to kindle a fire in our midst that unless quenched, and
quenched forever, before the fire be too far kindled, will throw up the
crest of its desolating lava into a bloody and terrific revolution. We feel
almost constrained to use the language of Franklin, at the beginning of
our Revolution, when this spirit of wild fanaticism is bursting upon us"The sn of liberty is set; Americans must light their lamps."  The
national pendulum is already beating the alarum! A Roman Catholic
Clergy stand in the gap, like fiends from the nethermost hell, urging onward their ignorant and deluded followers to usurp the powers of the
Government under which they live, as a reward for their loyalty to the
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Constitution since the days of the great American Revolution! (Query!)
How are they taught that the right to worship God according to the
dictates of conscience, is a privilege guaranteed to them by the Constitution of the United States? Do they learn it of themselves, or through
some other agency?  What authority do they establish for their interferenee in the rights of others, as well as that of the government itself;
in our common school systems, and all others held sacred by the
American people and Government?  The' fact is established beyond
controversy that it is through the teachings of a Popish Priesthood,
whose orders are derived from polluted and blood-stained Rome!
Can it be presumed, that a class of people who are continually kept in
ignorance through the influence of a Church system, strictly enforced,
can know but little of the operations of a government founded upon an
entirelv different structure from that of their own?  The fact being well
established that Romanism teaches its subjects obedience to the governieent of the  Ckurch, and to be subjected to the authority of the
Priest under whom they serve and worship, rather than a government
of law and order, how can they, we repeats be Wortlhy the patronage
and support of the government?  Could the supposition be more preposterous to American citizens, than that a claess of human beings, escaping from the most corrupt and oppressive government in the world;
a class of people so indolent in themselves, that they are unable to obtain an honest livelihood in their own country, axe fit subjects to control
a model government like that under which we are now living?  The
idea can not be entertained for a moment They are a people, whom
we are sorry to say, are constantly kept in subjection to an infamous,
and base Priesthood-a system worse in itself than was ever dreamed of
by the most bigoted and barbarous nation of the world. But we wish
not to be misunderstood as at all o)jecting to their religion; but in their
attempts to misuse and subvert the government of their adoption. It is, 
on account of their interference with the government and its institutionl
that our objections are raised.  The structure of this government is built
upon broad and enlightened foundations; its machinery is vast and complicated,-its operations progressive and Republican.  How  can such a
government be carried forward in its simplicity by a people under the
complete control of Papacy and Paganism-the tendencies of which are
in diametrical opposition to the genius and spirit of our institutions?  It
never can with any degree of safelty to ourselves, or security to the couttry.
Pellow citizens of America! WVhat a feld for contemplation! Are
you not competent to inanage the affairs of a government of which yot
are the main pillars and embodiment?  We are not yetwilLfg to believe
that you have fallen so low, or degenerated so fasts as yet to give up to
the demands made upon yot by Romanism. Before your very eyes ir
the light of day, is this spirit of instbordinatioir and anarchy ripening into
maturity.  The storm-cloud is brooding.; your enemies are marshalled on
every hand; Let every American be on his guard against the relentless
foe, by securing well the battlements of his cotv'try's honor and integrity.
This now brings us to another point of consideration.  And in the
first place, let us ask, why are these demands of Romish subserviency
made upon the American people? We answer most reluctantly, in,
consequence of our negligence and inaetivity, Who would have whis    pered the idea twenty years ago, that Roman Catholics in America, wo-ldd
have sought for an appropriation of the public school fund, for the edu    cation of their children in accordance with the teachings of their Church
discipline? Who would have supposed that they would have made an
attempt to usurp the powers of the General Government, and interfere
with the public and private right of the-people? And still further, who    would have boasted of the supposition, tkt in the attempt of Americans    to enforce theI ]ws of the Land, that such;)inguage as the followilgwould.
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have appeared in any public print in the country? But such gasconade
fellow-eitizens, appears in the Pope's organ, the Boston Pilot.  Read it
and then pause for a reply.
" We every day read of a congregation of the American Order assem "bling for the purpose of insulting females, and even committing outrages
"upon theme This is a proof of the braggadocio bravery of Americans;
"they have no manliness; no love of fair play; it is of no use reasoning
"with them; there are but two courses left, the most plausible of which
"is, and we believe that it is the determination of many of our Irish
"brethren, to knock them down, or otherwise chastise them corporeally,
"for should our Irishmen appeal to law for a redress, the odds are against
"him, for religious prejudices run so high in Court with a Protestant
"Judge and Protestant Jury, the poor oppressed Irishman would be deprived of all just means of redress"
Such is the language of these Catholic journals from one end of the
country to the other; and we ask Americans, if it is not high time to
awake out of sleep?  When our attention is drawn to such incendiary
schemes, where is the American citizen to be found whose blood does not
boil within his veins, to seek redress from the right quarter?
But now let us inquire, through whose influence do these schemes
emanate? Not by the poor ignorant Irishman who has no knowledge of
our laws, with the exception that if he violates them, he stands convicted
under the law; neither do we believe that they come forward in their
own strength asking for an appropriation of the school money.  No! such
an invention would never have originated with an ignorant Catholic.
Behind the curtain is concealed the secret.  It is PAPAL  INFLUENCE! A Roman Catholic Bishop, or Priesthood! Through the
influence of this infernal machinery, is the rights of the poor Irishman
trodden under foot and ground to powder. What the Bishop tells them
to do, they do through fear and dread of being cast into purgatory!
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They are driven into the support of such systems in order to satisfy the
demands that Popery is making upon the institutions of the United
States.
-;ESCENDANTS OF THE PILGRIMS! Does not such an outrage upon
your country enkindle anew in your veins the fires of the Revolution? or
are you slumbering at your posts in the assurance that "all is well?"
The danger is all around you. It has not come upon you unawares; but
the storm has been brooding for a quarter of a century. The West-the
mighty West-is a swift witness against you.  From the shores of the
Atlantic to the Pacific; along the banks of the Ohio to the populous
cities upon our Lake shores, is one vast bee-hive of foreign population.
With this tide of immigration, rolls on in rapid succession, battalions of
Romish Priests, to first plant upon our soil, its accursed institution. In
the larger cities of the Union, they fill our jails, poor-houses and prisons,
and sow among us the seeds of death in its vilest forms. They are told,
(through their Clergy,) that they must not be content with the security
the laws guarantee to them in America, but that they must wage a
ceaseless warfare with their institutions if they refuse to give them a due
proportion of all public moneys calculated to advance their interest and
religion.
Such are the fruits of Romanism, faintly pictured. Let the American
people, but for a single day, give this God-accursed, God-forsaken and
damnable priesthood, full power and control over this government,
the torch of the incendiary would be applied to every house of public
worship in the land that has not been consecrated to their'use by the
socalled holy water, and other emblems of plasphemy, corruption, and
rascality. Your school houses would be destroyed, and the Bible rifled of
its holy teachings and contents, and every Bishop and Priest howl with
joy over the smouldering and blackened embers. Every day and every
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But as we pursue the subject still further and give it a fair investigation, we see the fire rage with more teTrror; we hear the crackling embers
as they totter beneath the rubbish and ruin that it produces, but we
remain unalarmed at the spectacle. In Cincinnati, the battle has commenced. The Roman Catholics have fortified their Churches by planting within them cannon and muskets. And for what. To shoot down
American citizens, who are determined, if there be any law and justice
in the land, or in the Constitution under which they live, to maintain the
respect of their government at all hazards! Can it be possible, in this
enlightened age, that American citizens will submit such an outrage to be
imposed upon their country, as to allow cannon and muskets to be stationed within the wall of a Romish Cathedral, to serve as the implements
of death to American citizens!  If it has come to, this, the sooner the
fires of the Revolution are again kindled upon Bunker's heights and
Saratoga  the better.  If the war is to be "carried into Denmark," and
civil and religious liberty to be set at defiance through Papal influence,
God grant that the war may soon come. Planting cannon in Churches,
by a banditti of Romiish rebels, in an-,American country!  Heaven save
the goddess of liberty!  Scarcely a day passes that some person is not
knocked down as a "Know-Nothing!"   The Times office has several
times been set on fire, in consequence of the opposition shown the
Catholics, and their course TOWARDS THE COMMON SCHOOLS!
You, too, fellow citizens, should be armed, ready for the conflict! You
too should cause cannon and muskets to be stationed around you, as fit
emblems for your protection; and in order to protect your lives in the
street and public highways of the land, carry your revolver and shoot
down the first Irish rebel, that dare insult your person as an American
citizen! This is the advice of the Bostoni Pilot to its Romish adherents!
When the time has come within the history of our own government, that
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a Roman Catholic to justiee and punishment have we not something to
fear and dread?
The system of Common Education, as established by our patriotic
fathers, is deemed the most sacred under the Constitution. Experience
has shown that in the most enlightened condition of human society, any
system of public education must have an adequate fiscal foundation.
Such has been the fact in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut,
which States have devoted large treasures to the support of Common
Schools. Shall these treasures be withdrawn from their original channel,
and given away to the support of a system worse than Paganism itself?
No! thank God! like faithful sentinels of your government, you have
established that decree in your recent elections, beyond a controversy!
If, as native born American citizens, that decree was settled through the
influence of the "Know-Nothing" organization, or by an ardent attachment to the Constitution of your country, it matters not, for both are one
in sentiment, and flow through the same pure and crystal channel-both
having their origin in the government. To no system in the world
should Americans feel such an ardent attachment, as that of Common
Schools! Who can wonder, when such encroachments are made upon
that system by a class of citizens composed of the more miserable and
ignorant serfs of Europe, that the blood of Americans should boil over
with indignation!  And if it becomes necessary to vindicate and protect
that system, even at the point of the bayonet, thev will find that the
American people have not degenerated so low, and lost to all manner of
respect for their institutions, as to be found'wanting to t sense of duty. It
costs us but little to guard our liberties when endangered; and to what
higher ambition can an American citizen aspire, than to be a faithful
sentinel of his country in the hour of danger? If, as American citizens,
we are ever called upon to engage in a Roman Catholic rebellion, it will,
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and dreaming of security!  Fellow citizens, there is No SECURITY in the
hour of danger.  Our danger is not so much to be dreaded from outward
foes as those from within. An outward foe can be met upon his own
battlements in a fair and open fight; but an enemy at home, is one
much to be dreaded. This it is, that should nerve the American people
to be more active and zealous in defence of their country and its institutions.
What a day of desolation would that be to our country when the
Bible was driven from our public schools, and the children of American
parents taught to worship a Romish Priesthood?  When the public moneys, bequeathed to the children of American parents, by millions of
now slumbering and sleeping patriots, should be given for the education
of such a hellish and abominable system!  Can it be that it has come
to this? We cannot believe it.
We can do no better in closing our remarks upon this subject, than in
devoting a short space to the following extract of a speech delivered by
the Hon. Joseph W. Savage, of New York city, ins the New York Legislature, on the 7th of April last.  The  Common  Schools in that State
still require protection by their firiends in the Legislature against the constant assaults of the Priesthood of Rome.   First, on the plea of tender
conscience and sectarianism, the Bible was excluded firom the schools;
then they were called Godless, and petition was made for a part of the
school fund, that sectarian Romish schools might be established and
maintained.   On the 7th of April, a bill was introduced into the Legislature of that State, providing  "that no School connected with  any
of the public or private asylums or societies, of a sectarian or denomninat ional character, in the State, and no school under charge of any religious
sect or denomination wherein any particular creed or doctrines are taught
Ipeculiar to anv sect or church, shall receive any portion of the school
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money." The remarks of Mr. Savage should be pi inted thlioughlout the
land in letters of gold.
"Sir, our Common Schools are places wherein the (children of all our people
meet.  They study together, thev play together, they associate together upon a
common level.  They comne to understand and kntow each other, assitrjilate i morals. in tastes, and in habits. A sort of brotherhood is established, fraternity of
feeling promnoted, and a foundation for a life of liberality and kindness ltowar(]s
each other is laid.  The importance of this consideration is not, I fear, sufficiently
appreciated.  Its influence is measureless. in givi,g practical effect to th)at spirit
of universal toleration, which breathes through all our institutions and speaks in
all our laws.  [ know well that our Common Schools have been denounced as
Godless" and "infidel" by a denomination that arrogates to its.elf all the wisdom, all the truth, and all the piety of the world.  I know they have be(n thus
denounced because they do not teach a blind and unque tioning obedience to the
priesthood, because they do not inculcate the doctrines of Rome as a primary ele.
ment of education.
"Sir, the children educated by these funds are to be the future sovereigns of
the country; they are to wield the destiny, for good or for evil, of thle State.
What kind of education should they have to fit them for the exercise of this power
and these duties?  No one, I presumne, will deny the proposition that it should be
historical and moral-upon these three l)ropositions all will unite.  The history
Laught should be authentic;, it should be the truth; it shotltl(  not be fa.-hioiicd
or shaped to meet the views of any sect, nor to promote or screen any particular
denomination-nor should it be arranged with a view to prejudice or wipe out
any stain friom  the character of any man, or combiniation of men, or firom aily
institution that belongs Qr has passed into history.
"It is sai(I that there is a Christian sect in this State, large in numbers, whose
conscience will not consent to the Bible being read in the schools.  I am fully
aware of this, and it is firom this sect that the commotion which ended in the
exclusion of the Bible from our Common Schools originated.  Sir, I claim that t
am not a bigot; that I am not intolerant; that I woou.d render equal and( exact
justice to all sects and creeds.  But when the Roman  Chlurch, in its pride  aJid
exclusiveness, claims that its conscience alone shall be respected, and that its prejudicesand tastes shall alone lie consulted, I answer that this isa Protestant conitry.
That there are in this Urnion over twenty millions of Protestants to'two millions
of Catholics. That there are ten Protestant parents in this State to one Catholic
patent. These ten parents' desire the Bible should be read in the schools. Their
consciences are offended because of its exclusion.  Whose consciences shall be
consulted?
"Shall these ten Protestant parents, men to the manor born, be overruled to
satisfy the one whose conscience, framed upon the platform of a sect, is too tender
to permit the simple Word of God to be read in the hearing of his children? Is 
there eqalaity orjustice in this?  S'r, in a- re)ul)lican governnment majn,ritiesmust
rile.  They must rule in the schlool hlouse as well as atthe polls and in these halls.',
Having now traced the effect of Roinanism through its various stages,
as affecting our Public SchoI(ols, we are led to enquire, "what is our duty
as American citizens? to the real lovers of the country-those who bow
with a single heart to the shrine of true liberty?  Can we discern?  We
will glance and see.  This is one-'" To wrest the nation and its destiny
firom the iron hand of party, which does not seek its highest good and
best development. It is shackled, bent over, almost stifled, by party.
Good men see this, and seeing are combining to bring about a better state
of things.  Demagogues, always a rotten, false, diangerous faction-never
patriotic, never with the pe(ople, never on the side of right, of God, of
country-leave iuled the land till it has been ruled almost out of house
and home, reason, reality.  A lesson of the day-a deep, solemn, stern
lesson, is the ovetlhrow of corrupt parties and corrupt politicians.
Another:   To overthrow that Church  that seeks to gain secular
power-a Clhuch that was born in Rome, that was built on lies, is perpetuaated by su[~rstition, is sustained by tyranny, and the enemy of all
thl.t is republican andl democratic The Chliurch is among us. It is
growing.  It grows because there aie loose men among  us, who come
over in emigrant shilt  who wear the cross- who go to the Priest, who
beget crime, who commit offenses  against tlie law, who do all that is
damning, and all sanctioned by this same Church. It is this Church
insolent and infamous, that makes the heart and brain ache to think of;
that has crushed liberty where it has had thie power; that makes nations
p1)oor and miserable; that takes out their life-blood; their manhood; that be-machines humanityv; that drives out God, with  God
blasphemously on its lips. It is to rout this, root and branch, that is a
lesson ofthe day, and an earnest lesson.
Still another:  To stem the tide of emigration-of emigration that is
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stockingjour fair land with crime and criminals; with paupers and p1)oor
houses; with all that leeches out our substance, and burden and weigh
down our prosperity.  We need to warn the stern fact that this emigration, while it adds to the rnumerical force of the country, also adds to the
strength of its enemies.
To reach the great evil, public sentiment must compel the leaders  to
stay all riotous proceedings, which it is stiffieently well known they can
always and easily do, by simply raising a finger or issuing a command.
With such official orders, there will be no interference with the right of
speaking or preaching-a righlxt which evev American must and will
maintain-peaceably if they can, forcibly if they must.  It is a liberty
the Pope "execrates," and his followers "curse," and therefore should be
upheld, for if this concession should be made, it would only be followed
up by the racks and tortures of the "holy inqtuiition."
The American movement for American safety, is equally a measure of
safety to all foreigners.  All are equally interested in the welfare of this
republic, especially the emigrant who seeks here a refuge firom oppress
ion-an asvlumr for his children.  They must come forth to protect the
institutions that protect them, and aid in sustaining our liberties-our
laws and the free schools-the great source of light, virtue and intelligence.
Let us now in the second place en(juire-" WHAT FURTHER DOES RoMANISMI DE,MAND.l"  The  answer is plain, and easily furnished.  It
demands of our public autholrities the erection of Convents and Nunne ries; for underground walks to these dens of hell and infaimy!  Temples
dedicated to Romish  infidelity  and corruption!   Fit emblems  of
purgatory!  Why the demand for these underground walks for Priest
and Nun to travel? Why will our civil authorities sanction such anl
outrage to be perpetrated in these enligltened days?  Here vou have 
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the answer. Because you permit foreigners to hold responsible offices of
trust in the place  of native-born Americans! andt such will be  the
case just so long as such outrages are tolerated. 
In a Protestant country like this, Convents  and Monasteries are not
only to be deprecated as a source of great evil, but also of immorality.
Around  them is thrown a barrier of high walls to conceal their inmates
fiom mortal vision, and to exclude them firom all othler influences save
that of Papal authority and subjection.  So in their CONFESSIONAL
dIiscipline! Upon this point, it is useless to say but little. We need
scarcely allude to. the fact of the downfall of many victims to this miserable Papal farce!  Of its miseries and damning influences-the stings of
a distracted conscience-the stain of character left upon the soul of the
unwilling victinm, is a deed of darkness which cries out against us from
the ground. Not a few recent developments which have transpired in
different parts of the country, fully substantiate our position. The Coitfessional has been made, by many a Priest, a scene of moral outrage.  It
is but occasionally that its victims break through the barriers of the law,
or are enabled, through the fear of their Priests, to expose the iniquity
which has been the source of their ruin.   We speak these facts from the
book; from facts which are upon record, and will "cry out against them,"
so long as their Church discipline permits such an outrage to be tolerated
upon its members by a bigoted Priesthood.
The following is but one among the inanv renunciations of a similar
character that we notice almost daily. The writer having for a long time
been a Romanist and seen the evil influences of which he speaks, furnishes abundant evidence of our remarks:
"The Rev. H. L. Oxley, of Leeds, England, who renounced Romanism,
in defending himself against the assaults of his former friends, avers as a
matter of painful and personal experiene, that the leading doctrines of
the Church of Rome are not only opposed to the written word of God,
but are fataly destructive to the peace, happiness and morality, even of 
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housands of her deluded votaries-that the celibacy of the  Clerkg  is
the frightful caise of monstrous crimes-that the C'ofessional is not
unfrequently the scene of GREAT ENORMITIES —that  Monasteries  and
Convents are institutions inimical to religious liberty- that monastic
vows have been and are to many who take them, the cause of keen
regret, fruitless tears, and unavailing sorrow."
Such confessions as these speak for themselves, and are worthy of our
consideration, because they bring in their tread a crime not only punishable under our laws, but a source of immorality on the part of these Romish seducers! If the Church sanctions such an outrage upon its
members, who can at all wonder tlhat it is as corrupt as Hell, anid its
MINISTERS fit subjects for the Penitentiary and gallows?
As every day discloses some  new developments in reference to the
awful crimes perpetrated by the Roman  Catholic Clerk, we give the
account of another horrible tragedy, the facts of which appear to be
too well established to admit of controversy.
LICENTIOUSNESS OF THE ROMAN C,AIOLIC PRIESTHOOD.- The subjoined document is a matter of record on the docket of the Mayor of
Allegheny City, and is a matter, that in spite of its hideous details,
should be made public, evincing as it does, the unfitness of Papist
Priests to occupy positions in this country, in which their licentious acts
prove so detrimental to the virtue and happiness of the people. The
subjoined case will be brought up shortly for investigation in Allegheny
City, at which  imne it is known that disclosures of the most startling
character, in relation to the practices of the ROMA.N CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD, will be made public. In the meantime, we refer our reader to
the following confession, made in the most solemn manner, before William Adams, Esq., Mayor of Allegheny City:. Y. Paper.
The Voluntary Confession of Ellenor Lawivrence, formerly of Elk Couwn  ty, State of Pennsylvania, now of.llegheny City, takes &efo,,,e  Wil  liam Adams, Mayor of said City, July 7th,.a. D., 1q854.
The said Ellenor Lawrence doth, of her own ie will and accord,
confess and declare, that she is fourteen years of age; that her mother
died when she was sixteen years of age; that her father William Lawrenee, kept a house-keeper until he died, which occurred in July, 1851.
At mny father's death, he left me heir to five thousard dollars in money, 
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and one hundred and fifty-six acres of land in Elk County. My father
appointed Thomas McConnell, of said County, my guardian; which said
McConnell sent me to Bishop O'Conner; the Bishop sent me to the
Sisters in Birmingham, where I remained two years, until last March, at
which time the Bishop sent for me to come and live in his Palace-sinco
which time I remained in his Palace, except such times as he sent me
over to the Sisters in Birmingham, where I would stay sometimes a week
or more and then come back to the Palace, just as the Bishop required.
About one or two o'clock, on a certain day, I cannot now remember
the exact day, but it was in the month of August last, the Bishop rang
his bell, which the servant girl answered. He said it was not her he
wanted-it was Ellenor Lawrence. I then went, because the commands
of the BIsiior WERE IMPERATIVE (!)
When I went up, 1 found him in his bed-room. When I came in, he
caught me in his arms and threw me on the bed, and commenced an
improper intimacy, by " PULLING UP MY CLOTHES." I commenced to cry
and halloo with all my might, when he put his hand on my mouth and
breast, and told me I MUST NOT RESIST A BISHOP OR PRIEST!
because if I did not, I would get a good reward in the other world, and
escape the torments of Purgatory. But I still resisted, and when he
could not accomplish his purpose, he then took my hand and rubbed it
over his pdrson.  At another time, he called me up to his room to show
me some pictures, and when there he made some improper advances.
I picked ul) a pair of tongs and threw at him, andstarted to run down
stairs thinking I eoul!I outrun him, but he caught me and pulled me on
his knees, and told me if I ever did the like again that Sister Margaret
would have to kill me! On a day of the retreat of the Catholic Priests,
some of whom were in Allegheny, with the Bishop, I took the opportunity to escape from the Palace, (for tl e girls in the Palace never get out
only int,, the back yard,) in the following manner:
I rang the Bishop's bell, the servant came up and asked if the Bishop
had got home. I said yes, and then pulled the wire that leads firom
the front room to the Bishop's room, and ran down to the front door as
if to answer the call; when I opened the door and ran into the street.
I met a lady and told her I had just run away firom thlie Palace, and
wanted her to find me a place.
One day during the time I was at the Palace, the servant girl and
myself were going through the subterranean passage leading from the
the Palace to the Church, where there is a trap door, which we both got
at anfl lifted a little-it was so heavy we could not lift it entirely up. 
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When we lifted it, the smell of stench that came out was terrible. I
asked the servant girl whose name was B. R.-what made such a smell?
She told me it was old meat-but I told her I did not believe it, and insisted upon knowing what it was. She then said, "it was the SISTERS'
DEAD BABIES" that were thrown in there, and the "PRIESTS WERE THE
FAIHERS OF THEM!" When I would cry to this girl, and say I was
afraid of the Bishop on that account, she said that was nothing, as SHE
SLEPT WITH FATHER MCMAHAN ALL THE TIME AT NIGHTS," and that BISHOP O'CONNOR HAD) TO DO WITH HER IN THE LIBRARY!  For this reason
I ran away.                                          her
ELLENOR  i LAWRENCE.
mark.
Allegheny City, July 7th, 1854.
Taken and subscribed before me, this 7th day of July, 1854.
WILLIAM ADAMS, Mayor.
Are not these startling disclosures? Wha' first attracts our notice on
opening the trap door?  The "SISTERS' DEAD  BABIES," thrown
into that loathsome grave! Who was there to claim identity to those
decaying victims thus cruelly sacrificed and BUTCHERED?  Where were
the parents of them all?  Ah!-sad to tell,-they were not there! No!
but the deposition informins us, that the "PRIESTS were the FATHERS
OF THEM!" When the girl would cry and ay that she was afraid of
the Bishop on that account,-the reply from the servant girl was, " that
was nothing, as "SHE SLEPT WITH FATHER McMAHAN ALL
THE TIME AT NIGHTS!"-AND THAT "FATHER O'CONNOR
HAD TO DO WITH HER IN THE LIBRARY!"
To whom  has all the above reference? We  answer-to  ROMAN
CATHOLIC BISHOP AND PRIESTS!-setting themselves up as ambassadors
of Christ, in a Protestant, Christian land!
Reader,-what think you of Convents and the Minister's Palace?
Are they not the "gates of hell leading down  to the chambers of
death?"  Are they not the "plague-spots" of the earth, where inno
cence and virtue are sacrificed upon the altar of unholy and unrestrained
passion? Are they not the "dens that lead to death," and do not their 
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steps take hold on hell?"  Have they not cast dowa many woundeld;
till a dart strike through their liver-as a bird hls'teth to thie snare and
knoweth not that it is for their lives?
What a catalogue of DARK DEEDS AND CRIMES will the day of examnination in that citv unfold to the Christian world? Heart-rending and
sickening indeed, it will be to every citizen, who loves virtue and mnorality in the people. Thanks be to God, the eyes of the American people are becoming opened.  Frightful visions begin to dance before their
aifrighted imaginations as they witness these ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTS
-as a legion of the damned from the torments of hell!-blasting forever the characters of virtuous females; leading them through narrow
cells'mid bolts and bars;-forcing them to Confession in order that
they may become finished prostitutes to inifest our cities, scattering disease, crime and immorality among us in its vilest forms. Reader, we
need not tell you that " they have cast down many wounded!"
What  then  will Romanism not do?  Behold the Church, "the
myother of harlots!"  the pulpit converted into the chamber  of death!
The blood of innocence cries out against her friom the ground! Her
Clergy are stained with the BLOOD OF THE SEDUCED!  God forbid that
she shall much longer stand in our midst-the pestilence of the nineteenth century!
Knowing of no subject which will prove more interesting, and at the
same tine startling to the reader, than the many facts which are daily
brought to light in relation to the cruel tortures exhibited in Convents, we extract the following, by an American traveller, of an Inquisition
in Mexico:
' We entered the church, and my interpreter, who by the way, was a
gentleman and a scholar, interested me with the names of the different
images of the Saints. At last we came to the gold image. This was
God.  A  little way fiom this he showed me another image that he
called God's mother.   We had now arrived at the door, where I had 
before been constrained to stop.  A priest, with his hair cut short, stood
by it, and on seeing my cane, which I took care to hold in such a position
that he could not help seeing it, he bowel very low, which compliment
we returned.  The cane was a shepherd's crook, with a cross mounted in
front.  Two inches above the turn in the centre of the cross was a stone,
two-thirds red, set in a brass belt. None but priests carried a cane with
a cross upon it.  My companion now introduced me  as an American
padre (priest) from Providence, R. I. He then represented me as a
friend. This priest imm3diately c'alled another, who invited 11us into a
room, and bid us be seated. He then commenced conversation through
my interpreter.  He was very anxious to know how the Catholic cause
was prospering ill the United States. To these and other inquiries my
interpreter gave such answers as best suited himself.  The  priest then
produced a letter firom Providence, R. I., which my interpreter read and
translated to me. The priest of Providence spoke of their increase. in
numbers, progress of their schools, and of their underhand manner and
success in edlucating the Protestant children, and also their power in
politics, all of which told but too plainly that Rome was in America, and
her hirelings were sapping that liberty which our fathers won so  dearly
and left to their children.
"We left this room and passed through a dressing room, an(] descended a long, flight of stairs that led to an underground room.  This room
was dimly lighted with candles as we passed through it; and from thence
we passed through an allev-way that led to a tomb.   In this tomb is
deposited the bodies of distinguished persons, and the stench was so
strong that I turned away. This tomb also was dimly lighted with candles.  We passed through this room and down aiother flight of steps, at
the bottom of which I distinctly heard groans. The priest gave a signal
rap, a door opened, and we entered. My blood chilled in my veins as I
looked around. I will not attempt to describe my feelings, nor the
thoughts that ran through my brain. I had read and thought much of
an Inquisition room, but the fact that I was actually standing in one and
looking at the hellish instruments of torture, and beholding those poor
victims stripped and bruised, while their piteous moans and deep suppressed sighs rang through my ears-it was enough almost to drive me
mad-I longed for the strength of Sampson to set them firee.  There
stood two hideous black Mexicans, one holding a scourge in his hand,
awhile the warm blood stood in drops on the ends of the strands.  A few
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paces from me was a young woman, sixteen or eighteen years old, strippedl
naked, her ankles fastened to some rings in the floor, her breast resting
upon a pile of timber, her hands fastened by cords on the opposite side,
and in this stooping position she had been beaten by the monster that
held the scourg(re until the purple gore had puddled at her feet, and her
body was scarred in a horrid manner.   I inquired the nature of her crime,
and learned that she had accused one of the priests of a crime that in
this count'ry would have sent him to the State Prison; but for daring to
speak the truth she would probably never come out of this room alive.
I saw one with a cor(l tied to her fingers, and suspended from the top of
the room, which was arched over; others in chailns in different positions;
some with iron balls fastened to different parts of their bodies, being
murdered by inches in the most cruel manner, while quite a number of
indescribable torturing machines were unoccupied.  The  victims in this
room were all women.   As the priests rule this country, they can punish
the menl in some other way.
"As I passed the plaza and saw the large cross erected, I said to mnvself,'let Cortez live in story, but let his name  be remembered only to
be mentioned with abhorrence; the vagabond cut-throat who knew no
law but that of the strongest, who acknowledred no right, who respected
no tie, who possessed no virtue or kindly feeling-the invader, the robber,
the murderer by wholesale, the hypocrite, the monster, that changed this
beautiful part of God's creation into a den of blight, blood and desolation;
a hell upon earth, and for what? To gratify the lust, avarice, bigotry
and ferocity of a set of vagabonds, miscreants and bloodhounds.'  The
author and propagator of Roman Catholicism in this part of creation may
well serve as a beacon of everlasting infamy to future ages. All his talents, fortitude and valor are insufficient to wipe out this act.  The heathen
MIontezuma, or his nephew  Guatimozin, were Christians compared to
Cortez or his successors, the Catholics."
AMERICAN  CITIZENS! Can we longrer remain in silence?  Will
Americans, true Americans, forever slumber?  Will they not penetrate
to the interior of this edifice and behold the corruption which is being,
spread over the land?   Will  they not rescue our glorious country
from their thraldom? Will they not uphold and protect the institutions
of our native land? these institutions, bequeathed to us by our fathers 
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purchased by their honesty and integrity, and sealed with their blood,
handed down to us without one stain, gained by wading through fire
and water, that under them we might increase in goodness, live happy,
and die contented.  Shall we remain silent and tamely submit to the
insults which these minions of the Pope heap upon us? calling our
schools Godless, our Bible a falsehood; telling us to our faces that our
parents are living in adultery, and that we are the children of sin; building
convents where our officers cannot enter-convents to immure within
their walls our sisters and daughters (if they can prevail,) who are the
joy of our hearts, the star of our existence.  Is it necessary for their good
to shut women firom the world made for their enjoyment?  Is it neces
sary to sacrifice youth and beauty upon the altar of lust? Common sense
cries in thunder tones-No!  We may slumber for a time, but we shall
awake, shake ourselves from the lethargy into which we have fallen, and
strike a blow that will be felt. They will quail beneath our ire, and the
throne at Rome will shake, if not fall. The groans of those sacrificed on
its shrine, the moans of the wounded, the blood of innocent victims, arise
and bid us avenge their wrongs, and to learn from' the past how to guard
ourselves for the future.
It is natural for us to enquire in the next place, "when will these things
have an end?"  We answer-neverso long as the Pope of Rome is the
instrument by  which this extermination is to be effected;-that his
Bishops in this country are solemnly sworn to carry out the plan of extermination, and that the Roman Catholic population have no choice in
the matter, being one and all bound, at the peril of their souls, the horror
of excommunication, and torments of purgatory, to obey the behests of
their masters. A few extracts upon this point, will furnish an illustration
upon this subject:
"Daniel O'Connel, at the Corn Exchange, Dublin, October 11, 1843,
said: "You should do all in your power to carry outt the pious intentions 
of his Holiness the Pope.  Where you have thie electoral franchise,
give your votes to none but those who will assist you in so holy a strugy
gle."  These are the solemn words of Daniel O'Connel.  Mark! it is the
struggle for carrying out, in the ULnited States, the pious intentions of his
Holiness the Pope."
"In May, 1844, a lawful political meeting of Amnericans, unarmed and
unwarnmadl, was fired into. Without one particle of provocation, eight
young Americans were deliberately killed; shot down by arms in the
hands of Irish paupers, some of whom declared they "could not help
hlaving the guns-they were sent to them,"  Aye, reader, you may  be
shocked at the charge, and profess to doubt; but your doubts shall be
removed. The Courts of Justice in the City of Phliladelphia, furnishl
thle sworn, absolute proofs!
" At that time the Bishop of New York wrote to Mayor Harper, that
he "had prevented in New York such a riot as had been committed in a
neighboring city," (Philadell)hia.)  The Bishop of Philadelphia could
also have prevented the apl)palling riots in his diocese just as certainily,just
as easily as they were prevented by the Bishlopin New York. He did not
choose to do so.  Why?  The Philadelphia riot was permitted,  nay
concocted, because a test blowi was then to be struck at the "liberty of
speech."  Other riots before and since, have bechn ordered as demonstrations against the "liberty of speech," or some other liberty which "his
Holiness," the King of Rome "execrates" and "curses."  We  make  no
questionable charge, no accusation which fair reason and the facts do not
clearly warrant.  If one doubt exists, name but that doubt, and it shall
be overwhelmed with unanswerable proofs.
"The liberty of the press" hl  been already brotglit under as complete
a censorship in the United States, as exists in Italv or Austria; no paper.
with but here and there an exception, daring to ftter one manly thought
on the subject of Romanismn, the penalty being the cowardly fear of
losing patronage or votes.  This base truckling is open as the day; so
palpable, so deplorable that arguments or proof would be thrown away.
"The "liberty of speech" received its most appalling shock in 1844.
The shock was repeated at Pittsburg, when Barker was assailed by the
Bishop's rioters, and thrown into prison, because he dared to expose
"Denn's Theology," a class book in the Irish Colleges, of such obscene
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and (lisgusting filthiness that the Bishop excused it by declaring it "w as
not intended for the people, but only for the priests!"  Used by the lusty
wifeless Priests at confessions, to pour its corrupting pollution into the
ears and hearts of the poor weak wives and sisters, whose  sins these
demi-gods profess to give."
These, fellow  countrymen! AMEaIcAN  CITIZENs! are some of the
many reasons that are beginning to a.rouse all American sentiment; ct
sentiment of profound contempt and indignatioin at the vast hordes of
Popish convicts and paupers who, escaping from grinding oppression alnd
starvation at home, land upon our shores, and ait once go to work to
pollute our ballot box, to take possession of our offices, to crowd our poor
houses, fill our rum sliops and prisons, extenrminate or break our laws,
destroy our schools, trample on our Bib)les, blaclken our sources of iiitelligence, fill our cities with conflagrations, mnobs, assassinations and riots,
and to crown all, compel vote-liunting demagogues, on bended knees, to
kiss the dust upon their feet, and humlbly protest " tley are our )better
citizens!"  We heartily regret the necessity of saying one word against
any who seek our shores, nor do we breathe or feel Caught but syinlpathy
for the poor immigrant, wlho loves the home that shelters and protects
him; nor would we disturb a living soul in the fieest, fullest exercise of
any religion he may choose to profess.  It is a gross slander to say that
Americans desire to interfere with any man'als religion.  Our sole object
is self-protection, preservation.  We wishl to arouse the feelings of every
true American to this aill important subject; to point them to the appalling consequence that must and willfollow the perseverance of the enemies
of this country in carrying out their avowed designs.  The American
creed is-" No Kings-no Popes-butit an enlightened people!" devoted
to the maintenance of American principles, without sectarianism in politics or religion!
If the evils that we have above alluded to, are such, (as you cannot hon 
estly deny,) why conceal the fact?  Why give countenance and supl)ort
to a cause which will, if persevered in, spread its desolating lava tlhroughout the length and breadth of the land?   VWhy will you remain silent
while these successive wrongs are being perpetrated in the midst of your
homes and firesides?  You can never take fire in your bosoms and not
be burned!   Fellowt counitrynme7! arm yourselves in the panoply of a
most righteous cause. Let not the fireedom of your blood-bought institutions gasp for breath for the want of your protection, in a war with
Papal dissention and influence; but teach these enemies of your liberties
that they SHALL BE PROTECTED! even if it be amid the clashing
of burnished stee(l!
We are often led to wonder at the cause of so much crime and miiserv
among us, and the source fiom which it all emanates.   But the mystery
is easily solved.  Ireland has sent more pauperism to the United States
than all  other foreign countries.   The immigration from that country is
constant and alarming to those who are best acquainted with the facts.
To the proof!  During the month of June, fifty-nine emigrant ships took
their departure from Liverpool, having on board, 21,7 67 passengers.   Of
these, 32 ships were bound for the United States, 1hatving on board 13,866
passengers, composed of 2,124 Englishl. 318 Scotchl, and NINE THOUSAND FORTY-TWO(!i) and the remainder 2,382  natives of other
countries.  That a greater amount of crimic is committed from the subjects of Catholic countries, is a fact beyond controversy; and that they
not only fill our poor-houses and prisons; but enter our ports armed with
filth, disease and death, is too plausible for us to question here.  The
cause to which all this evil is attributed, is in the fact that it is the legitimate offspring of their Church government, as will be seen by the following:
The amount of crime in Protestant and Roman Catholic countries
stands in contrast thus:
3 1 
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Englanld, Protestant, for each nmillion ilnhabitaits pier annutm,        4
Ireland, Catholic,  "                      "          i                  9
Belgium,   "                                                            1 S
France,     "                                                           31
Austria,                    "                                           36
Bavaria,    "39
Papal States,            "        "        "          "                100
The number of the above facts are all drawn from the civil and crimi
nal record of the respective countries named.   Now, taking the lwhole
of these countries together, we have seventy-five cases of murder for eve
ry million of people.  In Protestant countries-England, for example,
we have but four for every million.  Aside firom other demoralizing in
fluences of Popery, the fact now to be named, beyond doubt, operates with
great power in cheapening human life in Catholic countries.  The Protestant criminal believes he is sending his victim, if not a Christian, at
once to a miserable eternity, and this awful consideration gives a terrible
aspect to the crime of murder.  But the Papist only sends his victim to
Purgatory, whence he can be rescued by the masses the Priest can be
hired to say for his soul-or his own bloody hand and heart will not
hinder him from doing that office himself.  We  think the above facts
In regard to vice and crime in the two great departments of Christendom
8worthy the most serious pondering of every friend of human life, of morality and virtue.
The number of ILLEGITIMARE BIRTHS per annum, in different cities, are
as follows:
London, Protestant,                                           4 per cent.
Paris, Catholic,                                             82   "
Brussels,    "                                               35    "
MuniclI,    "                                                25    "
Vienna,    "                                                 51    "
ROME,                                         3,500 IN THE POPn's OWN.
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sin destroys both body and soul; while Romanism teaches that sin does
not destroy, provided the perpetrator of any crime will purchase a pardon
from the priest, which is done by a sum of mnney so small, as to render
it plain to every one, Catholic or Protestant, that for the benefit of the
priest, the more sin the better!   Comment is unnecessary!  The secret
is out and the mystery is solved Just so long as the tide of immigration
continues with its present rapidity, just so long will we be exposed to the
same results.
That American citizens will soon see the necessity for urgent action
on their part, in this respect, we have but little fear;  and that in the
present excited condition of the country, when the masses of the people are
becoming alarmed and jealous of their institutions, we consider the subject paramount to all other interests possible.
Having now alluded to a few of the many demands made upon us by
Romanism, we will next turn our attention to another demand made
upon our government by the same power, of more importance to us as
people and the institutions of our country, than any to which we have
alluded and equally worthy of serious consideration.
WHAT  FURTHER  DOES  ROMANISM DEMAND?  It demands  an interference in the afairs of Government!  In the following remarks upon
this part of our suject, our language will be found plain and pointed.
We have nothing to gain or lose in a political point of view, by our loud
denunciations against this crying evil.  All that we have in view is
our country-ur whole country, and nothing but our country!  When
we say our country, we mean her glorious institutions-her sacred forms
of liberty for which our fathers so long panted! And when we refer to
our country and the hallowed associations that cluster around the American Revolution, we are not unmindful of those faithful and honest patriots
who aided and sustained us in that eventful struggle, Lafayette, Steuben,
Montgomery, Pulaski, and other noble foreigners  No!  While these
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noble patriots will ever receive a hearty response from the heart of evely
true American, we are not willing to desecrate our war of Independence,
with the pauper rabble of the present day, that now curse our country.
There is probably no theme which Americans love to dwell upon, like
that of their country; and when they see their glorious institutions, which
were wrough,t out of a hard and well fought struggle, yielding to foreign
subserviency, it is then they feel that revenge is sweet! It is then
that the American people will present a firm and unbroken front, to every encroachment made upon their rights as freemen-and freemen, too,
of a country sanctified to fireedom by the blood of a pure and patriotic
ancestry. We acknowledge no power here, save that invested in the
Constitution and laws of the country. The stars and stripl)es they will
defend, even though it should prove in the end their winding sheet.
But we have said that Romanism demanded an interference in the affairs of government. By this, we wish to be understood as confining our
remarks to an unlimited point of view.  In the first place "1How does
Romanism make this demand, and secondly, TI!ROUGH whom does this
interference emanate." Our answer is ready.
We  need not trace our researches farther back than since the tide of
immigration began to flow in upon us with such fearful rapidity, which
dates its origin at about the time of the Jackson dynasty. We do not,
however, attribute to that administration, this great influx of foreign immigration; we are merely alluding to facts.  But we cannot avoid the
incontrovertible facta fact that admits of no contradiction-that the
party of which Gen. Jackson was the embodiment, has been the instrument through which Irish Catholics have made this demand and interference in the affairs of our government. From that time down to the
present crisis, in order to gain and secure votes for that party, the naturalization laws, which fix the probationary time of naturalization of all
foreigners, have been set at defiance, and rendered null and void. No 
sooner do we see them thrown upon our shores in swarms, like so much
rubbish and freight, than they are dragged to the ballot-box, with a vote
in one hand and a glass of iruin in the other, to disgrace the very instruinent through which American citizens can alone redress their grievances!  Why is all this?  The answer is plain and easy of solution.  They
are taught to reverence that party because it was the Jacksoni party, that
possessed all the elements of "Democracy," and in their hands has this
sacred-the most sacred institution of which this country can boastbecome converted into party machinery!  Deny it, fellow-citizens, if you
can, whether you be Whig, Democrat, or whatever other name you
choose to be called. National disgrace has followed this outrageous and
daring assumption of power, in the hand of not a few miserable, political
hacks and wire-pullers. What protection have we to the sacreclness
of the ballot-box, so long as such violations of that institution are permitted to go on, sanctioned by people in whose hands the laws of this country are confided, and they themselves the chief fountain of power? No
sooner do the Roman Catholic Priests make the demand, than they find
the door open for entrance. Who controls the Catholic vote of the State
of New York?  Through whose influence is Romanisin indebted for its
rapid progress in this country?  Through whose fear of losing Catholic
votes, and being subjected to the political guillotine is it that the miserable tool now occupying the gubernatorial chair of the State of New York
acts in obedience? Let the following answer:
"The removal of Mr. Blunt fromn the office of Commissioner of, Emi"gration at New York, by Gov. Seymour, was at the instigation of Bishop
"Hughes.  The Mirror says: "it cannot be said that he has been removed
"for the public good, for a better man has not taken his place, and from
"well known facts in connection with Mr. Blunt and Catholicism, the in"ference is irresistible that a religious question alone has deposed him."
In reference to the above appointment, we add the following from the
Rochester Americn:
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"A short time ago Gov. Seymour expelled a civil officer firom a posi tion which he justly merited by his patriotism, and the abilities which
eminently fitted him for the post, and appointed in his stead a ROMAN
CATHOLIC. Now what can be the motive for this? There was nothing
in the man or in his political conduct, which could possibly have been  a
sufficient reason for his expulsion from a well deserved office. Gov. Sey mour had no objection to him as a private citizen, or as a public man;
but he had objections to him merely as a Protestant, and solely on that
ground expelled him from office.  This unjust act shows him to be favorable to the Roman Catholic cause, or it shows him to be dishonest in
his political course, and anxious for the favor of Roman Catholics.  We
suppose he considers the Irish Catholics or the Catholics of whatsoever
race they may be, to be the predominant party in the State, and wishes
to gain their favor by treason to his religion, and by silencing the voice of
justice and conscience. The act is void of the least show of justice. The
officer was competent to discharge the duties of his position. Gov. Seymour never pretended that he was not. His political course was consistent with the principles of that party to which he adhered, his moral life
was unimpeachable.  Then what was the offence for which he was expelled? Oh, he was a Protestant! Black crime, this, most certainly.
Is Gov. Seymour a Roman Catholic?  We will not pretend to decide
whether he is or not;  but most assuredly this act seems to bespeak his
inclinations to Cathliolicy. But we are sure of this-if he is going to build
his hope of political distinction and endowment upon Catholic votes and
Catholic influence in this country, he will build his hopes upon an unsafe
and perilous basis. We have no sympathy, no respect for a man, tho' he
may be Governor of the Empire State, who can condescend to sacrifice
his principles of justice and right, to the attainment of political distinction by upholding a kind of men who triumph and rejoice over the unjust disgrace of an American citizen."
AMERICAN CITIZENs, language fails us to express our indignation at
such an outrage, committed by the civil Magistrate of any State in our
Union!  Low in the depths of political infamy must that man be sunk.
who will commit such an insult to the American people, to gain the vote
of a ROMAN CATHOLIC! If this is the policy to be pursued hereafter, as,
it has heretofore been, how much longer will we, as American-&orn citi 
zeas, submit to its decrees? Will not the PEOPLE drive these base
hirelings from the places of trust they now occupy, and transmit them
into the hands of those in whom the people recognize no demagogue and
political blood-hound.   Yes, we say, the time will come-and that quickly too-when this political traffic will be done away with, even if it be at
the sacrifice of much that Americans hold sacred and dear.
Such being the case, is not the deposition too great an outrage for
Protestantism, or the Americans of this country to bear?. Yet, notwithstanding these transactions are of daily occurrence, we remain tranquil
and supine. That the politics of New York State have been controlled
for the last twenty-five years, by the Roman Catholic vote, and a portion
of that time through the influence of Bishop Hughes, is a fact too obvious
to admit of contradiction. Scarcely an appointment is made in that city
(New York,) without the consultation of this "Prince of Rome," this
great D)emnocratic "fountain of power." Upon this same principle are
their charter elections conducted, and many of their best offices filled with
his subjects.  A  residence of six days in that city, has beem deemed a
sufficient length of time to subserve their interests at the ballot-box.
These Irish Catholics are, generally speaking, an ignorant, degraded and
superstitious class of beings.   They are spewed out upon our shores, like
Jonah from the belly of the whale; they are utterly unable and incompetent to take care of themselves. They apply to the Priest for assistance
but they are spurned from his presence. They are thrown upon the hospitality of Protestants, and if they are kindly treated and taken care of,
their patrons and benefactors receive in return for kindness, th. insults
not only of themselves, but from all the Popish organs of this country.
But oh, say our countrymen in return, it is poor down-trodden Ireland! Yes, fellow-citizens, it is poor down-trodden Ireland; and that
same Green Isle will soon say to you, as she already has said, " I AM
HOLIER THAN THOU!" make wayfor liberty! This will be the syren
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song of the enemies of your liberties, when their children shall clip the
wings of our noble bird, and tear in pieces your national insignia. Ro manism has demanded it; unless you are aroused to a sense of duty, she
will obtain it. It is poor Ireland! but why should she mourn over her
condition?  She has been stung,  maddened, driven to desperation; she
is polluted and festered with sores, until she stinks with corruption; rob bed and bled by a God-accuised and eternally damned Priesthood, until
there is no virtue or intelligence in her people. Th)ey keep their subjects
in complete subjection; and there is  so little intelligence in  theml
that if they should serve out the full time required by the Corn stituttion, before they could become legal voters, they would even then
be ignorant of our civil forms of government. Take an example, for
instance.  Ask the most intelligent of them upon the day of election for
what principles are they contending; if they understand what measures
are the best calculated to promote the prosperity of a government so
diametrically opposed to their own, and the only answer you will receive
in return i" Gen. Jackson and democracy r'  To this assertion many
of you will bear me witness.  Demagogues, DENY  IT f you will!
Who can wonder then, that our elections are conducted with so much
FRAUDand CORRUPTION?  Through this intolerable Romish influence which has been brought to bear against us, you are all witnesses
to the fact, that it has resulted not only in the election of bad and corrupt
men to office, but in the defeat of some of the greatest statesmen in the
country.  Into what a sad state of things must a country like our own
have degenerated, when unable to control the affairs of their own government?  When the minions of Popery are sufficiently  strong toerect a
barrier in our progress, and to say to us effectually: " Thus far can you
come, but no farther!" As lamentable as such a condition of affairs
may seem to you, upon that crisis we are now standing; and nothing will
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a different result?  When will Roman Catholics act for themselves, or
when will they become so effectually naturalized as to become in the
true sense of the word, good and intelligent American citizens? It cannot be, until they break away from that "Priestly authority" to which
they are now so strongly attached; until they disinherit their belief
in convents and monasteries; until they renounce forever their belief
in the Confessional doctrine of their Church, concocted and established
by their Clergy, for the sole purpose of committing a daring and outrageous crime upon the persons of those innocent lambs under their charge!
Until they are sufficiently enlightened to believe and know that the Holy
Bible is the sacred Word of God, and bv its teachings they are to meet
him in judgment array, and that through HIM is their only hope of salvation.  In short, until they can point out satisfactorily the difference
between the operations of a government, guided by wisdom and simplicity, and one that is positively suicidal to the best interests of the country
of their adoption. When all this is done, then indeed will the influence
of Romanism have  but a feeble foundation to stand upon in this nineteenth century!v
While it is an adlinssible fact that the political effects of Romanism
are palpably seen and experienced in the city and State of New
York, the cities of Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Chicago, and St. Louis,
are uLIner the sname influences.  The best offices of these cities are filled
with foreijgiers; and the subordinate ones partially so.  In Cincinnati the City Government is composed  of so many of this class of
community, that it is impossible to obtain judgment against a Roman
Catholic.  How are we in Detroit?  The same influenee is at'orkhere
under the SANCTION of the CHURCH OF ROME and its Clergy; and
the Catholic vote is considered an important consideration upon the day
of election. They trespass, even here, upon your rights as citizens and
freemen; and are endeavoring to wield from your grasp the very power 
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which you now hold. In many cities where Romanism has made strong
holds, and erected powerful fortifications for defence, it has assumed a
dangerous form. Peaceable citizens, whose views and opinionsperchance,
are not in unison with their own, are knocked down in the streets,
and brutally murdered; they (the Irish) go armed with Bowie knives
and pistols, ready and eager to shoot down those who formn associations for
the preservation of American rights and interests. They receive insults
and epithets the most foul and malicious, as well as deeds of personal
violence to their bodies.  Let them go on, fellow citizens!   Let  them
longer tantalize with Americans in the way they have pursued for the
last ten yealrs, and "YoUNG AMERICA"' will kindle a fire in this country
that will lay in ashes the spire of every Cathedral that now glitters in the
sunbeam; and the blackened walls will howl their mournful requiem
over the desolated rubbish! That day is not far distant. The thunder
which the American government will peal forth amid the clash of arms
and the din of battle, will shake Popery in this country from its very
centre, and a war of extermination will completely annihilate their Priest ridden influence from our cities!  Mark the prediction!
In the affairs of this government, Americans have all a common inter est; and how to protect that government it is their duty to study.   The
Father of his country warned the people to beware of all FOREIGN
INFLUENCE, no matter in what shape it might present itself; and
when we read of such daring outrages beingi perpetrated upon American
citizens abroad, as the following, we say that it becomes the duty of this
government to adopt a similar policy if needs be:
"It is well known that England stands by this doctrine,' once a sub"ject, always a subject;' consequently, no matter how much one, born
"under her flag, forswears his allegiance, and claims citizenship, England
"never acknowledges the right to do so. She can at any moment claim
"every naturalized citizen born within British possessions as hers, and if
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"tension is being resuscitated from its dormant state.  Now that war has
"been declared against Russia, the English Consul in Philadelpl)hia an"nounces that any British subject contributing to a loan raised on behalf
"of a sovereign at war with Great Britain, will be guilty of Treason.
"What will the American people say to this foreign interference with
"the rights and privileges of American citizens?"
It must rejoice the heart of every true American to witness the many
demonstrations now being made in different portions of the country, to
maintain their rights at all hazards.  A slow but effectual cure is being
perfected, which, if persevered in and carried out in good faith and fidel
ity, will prove a most powerful auxiliary in routing from office thousands
of Roman Catholics. The work we say has commenced; and as much
as we deprecate the necessity of such a course on the part of "native born
Americans," still the times warrant the movement, and we have no doubt
it will be manfully sustained.  In the language of the Prairie (Ill.)
Telegraph:
"The Ktnow-Nothings  we believe  are but a re-organization of the
Native Amnericans, imbued with the same spirit, actuated by the same
motives, and combined on the same principles, and for the same effebct.
Is it not a matter of regret, that after nearly three-fourths of a century's
experience in the science of government, and unparalleled success and
progress under it, in arts, arms, laws, liberty, national prosperity, and all
that pertain to our well tried peculiar institutions, and the science of good
government, Americans on their own soil should have cause to see a
necessity thus to associate themselves, in defence of these institutions
against the threatening aspect of the Hydra-headed monster of disorganization and anarchy, so obviously depicted in the formidable firont of
foreign influence, that marshals its thousands and tens of thousands  of
those who have sought refuge on our shores from home oppressions, but
who, knowing nothing of true liberty, substitute licentiousness in its grosseast characteristics in its place, and while affecting patriotism for the land
of their adoption, clearly show their predilections for the lands of their
nativities, by their associations in clannish squads, celebrating with up
roarous -fervor, peculiar institutions of lands apparently abjured, but in 
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which all their sympathies are centerd.  If these un-Americanized foreigners can associate in honor of their respective abdicated countries, as
Faderland, or ould Ireland, on American soil, Americans claim no more
than the same right on their own soil, of similar associations, and on far
more justifiable and rational grounds, to defend their most cherished
institutions against the a(,ressions of these foreigners, who  arrogate
dictatorial attitudes, and assume to teach what true Americanism is, or
should be, while they are endeavoriing to tranmple its most sacred peculiarities under their unhallowed feet; demagogues who encourage these
aggressors, and foreign clans for the sake of their easily purchased votes,
will doubtless exert themselves to unpopularize American associations,
and sink them if they can, into the lowest contempt."
This movement on the part of this association, as you will perceive,
has created quite a sensation in Cincinnati on the part of the Roman
Catholics, their Priests being at the head of the business, as is generally
the case.
The  Cincinnati Times gives some interesting notes on the state of
things in that city. Since the attempt made there some time ago to
gag American citizens and keep them from the polls, there have been
keen eyes searching through the city to discover where the evil was
rooted. It is now reported that the fountain of all Cincinnati mischief
and misrule has been discovered, and that stringent measures will be
adopted to put an end to the corrupt influences which have been at
work.  Of course, as yet, nobody Kitows VNothing  how it is to be accomplished, but the faith is fully entertained by all well posted in the city
affairs.  The Times, in speaking of the rumors circulated about pungent
articles, such as Bowie knives, pistols, &c. says:
"Two or three weeks ago the public was frightened from As propriety
by a statement that at Canton, in this State, a cask had arrived at the
station marked with tle single word "Canton" for a direction.  The
strange address led to an examination of the contents, which were found
to be fire-arms and Bowie knives.  It was called for and taken away by
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dicted.  Mr. Keplinger, the ticket and fireight agent at the depot, denied
that any such cask had been received or claimed bv a Catholic Priest.
The Ravenna Democrat of Wednesday, intimates that the whole denial
is a quibble; it was not a cask but a box, that contained the weapons.
A correspondent whose name the editor says he is ready to give, writes:
*          *           *           *          *
"The box was claimed and carried away in broad daylight by a
Catholic Priest; and since that timne a small iron cannon has been re ceived at the station, with the same suspicious mark, and was claimed
and carried away by the Catholic Priest. The box was received, and it
is folly for any one to attempt to deny it. What the object is, I am as
ignorant as your readers. Such implements are not usually used in the
worship of God.  What a minister of Jesus Christ could want with such
articles, is a question that I cannot solve."
The Times adds:
"Does Archbishop of Purcell, or any of his friends, followers, or acquaintances, in the city or elsewhere-or anybody else-know anything
of the casting of, say six, small octagon shaped cannon, or small cannon
of any shape, the present year, at a foundry at or near the head of Broadway, in Cincinnati-say in the vicinity of Gardiner's Iron Foundry, or at
any other place?  Such has been the talk for some time, but  we have
refrained from giving publicity to the allegations that they were ordered,
were made, and are to be used for the protection of'our most holy
religion,' here and elsewhere. Will the Catholic Telegraph, or anybody
else, give us their affidavit for or against the truth of this rumor? Also,
whether similar doings have taken place on Race street, between Fourth
and Fifth streets, or in that neighborhood, in this city; and still further,
whether a cask or casks, box or boxes, of revolvers and other quick and
conclusive arguments, have been received the present year at or near the
Catholic Cathedral, which, having been accidentally exposed, were sent
to a neighboring armory; and further, whether as is alleged by a young
mechanic recently at work on the St. Xavier premises, there are a good
many muskets stored there, and what for?"
And for what? the Times may well add.   To shoot down American
citizens who profess to belong to an American association of freemen 
The box claimed and removed by a ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST (!)
FIRE-ARMS and BOWIE KNIVES! to be used by a ROMAN CATHOLIC 
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PRIEST! and subjects, to murder and massacre American citizens! not
only in the silent hours of the night, but in open daylight! And for
what? Not for attacking or misusing them; not for encroaching upon
their rights as adopted citizens; not by making unnecessary demands
upon them, in any shape or form, but simply for being attached to an
association of AMERICAN FREEMEN!  What think you of this?  It is
not confined to Cincinnati, Washington, and Philadelphia, alone, but
wherever such an organization is in progress.
Scarcely has the indignation of the people subsided before the notes of
discord again come pealing in our ears in thunder tones, that St. Louis
IS IN ARMS!  What cause has wrought this change among her quiet and
law-abiding citizens?  What cause has instigated her people to seek revenge,-to fire up their patriotism with indignation, feeling no security
to themselves or their families, save under the protection of martial law and
military discipline?  Why those glittering bayonets and waving plumes
-the rolling drum  and deep, shrill fife?  Why is it that the moment
the fatal stab is given in the breast of an American citizen, that business
becomes suspended, and all rush to the scene of combat? Ah! my
countrymen, I need not tell you. Insult not Boston by asking her if
she will ever forget that fatal night to her city, the fifth of March, 1770!
The horrors of that dreadful night are but too deeply impressed in the
hearts of her people. As language is too feeble to paint the emotion of
their souls, when their streets were stained with the blood of their
brethren,-when their ears were wounded with the groans of the dying,
-when their houses were wrapped in flamnes,-their beauteous virgins
exposed to all the insolence of unbridled passion, and their virtuous wives
falling sacrifice to worse than brutal violence,-so have the inhabitants
of St. Louis sufficient cause for revenge.
Let us, then, in order that we may not be accused of presenting to the
reader a one-sided issue of this deeply and much to be regretted drama,
which has so recently transpired in that city, give the details as we
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It appears that the new American organization of "K now-Nothings,"
assembled on the evening previous to their late election to adopt a ticket
for a member of Congress. It will also be observed, that in making
other selections, they excluded every Catholic, as well as every one
with foreign blood in his veins, from receiving a nomination.   The day
of election having arrived, and the Roman Catholics, stung with revenge
at the course pursued by this American order, commenced  their assaults
upon the people by PLUNGING A KNIFE into the bowels of an AMERICAS
CITIZEN!  The following is but a skeleton sketch of the whole transac
tion:
The difficulty commenced in the Fifth Ward, and was occasioned by
an Irishman stabbing an American. This was the signal for a general
attack, which was commenced upon the Irish doggeries on Mayor and
Green streets, and Washington Avenue, and on the whole firont of the
Levee, from Cherry street to below Locust, were more or less injured.
The crowd supplied themselves with axes and other implements of the
sort, firom the steamboats at the wharf, and with them beat in the shut
ters and smashed the counters and everything that would yield to blows.
On the Levee, between Cherry and Locust, there are only one or two
houses, at most, that do not bear disastrous marks of the conflict.
We could not learn with certainty of one death. It is rumored that
there are four or five killed. From the reports rife on the spot, and
from the facts that hundreds of discharges were heard during the row,
which raged a good two hours in all its fury, and has continued at intervals thus far during the night, it is fair to presume that the number
wounded is large.
The greatest excitement prevails at the time of writing. The office
of the.nzeiger has already been once attacked with stones, and as we
write, crowds are rushing down Third street in that direction, shouting
"Be3rnstein! Boernstein!" The military are under arms, and on the
alert.  The editor of the Democrat says.,
" It is utterly impossible to estimate the number of persons wounded
in the whole affair, or even to say how many have been killed. We saw
at least twenty men lying bleeding and wounded so severely that they
were insensible-their faces cut most horribly and skulls mashed; and
some appearing perfectly dead; and we have learned of three men cer
tainly dead, and of five or six more who are thought to be dead at this
time from wounds received.
At a late hour when it was deemed safe for persons to pass along the 
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riotous district, we turned out for the purpose of procuring a list of the
houses and their location, but found such a multitude on all streets
named, that we were compelled to give it up for a more seasonable
hour. At a rough estimate, there are not less than sixty houses destroyed. All this, besides the murder and maiming, was the work of but
a few hours."
Fellow-countrymen-when these outrages will have an end, God only
knows.  How can we look upon the desolating scene around us without
being fully impressed with the thought that it must lead, eventually, to
a fearful re-action? We certainly cannot, with such examples before our
eyes, suffer our liberties to be ravished firom us by lawless force, or cajoled away by flattery or fraud.  None  but those who set a just value
upon the blessings of liberty, are worthy to enjoy her;-your illustrious
fathers were her zealous votaries;-whet  the blasting frowns of tyranny
drove her from public view, they clasped her in their armis-they cherished her in their generous bosoms;-tlithey broug(rht her safe over the
rough ocean, and fixed her seat in this then dreary wilderness. In'.,er
DEFENCE they boldly encountered the most alarming dangers;-neither
the ravenous beasts that ranged the woods for'prey, nor the more furious
savages of the wilderness, could daTnp thei;  ardor.  While with one
hand, they broke the stubborn glebte, with the other they grasped their
weapons, ever ready to protect her firom danger.
Now is the time to grasp YOUR weapons, Aimerican freemen! BLOOD
HAS BEEN SHED IN YOUR  MIDST!   Vengeance is the watchword!  JusTicE-stern and unalterable JUsTICE-has been demanded,
but ignominiously DENIED you! In the language of Warren —" The
voice of your father's blood cries to you from the. ground-my sons
SCORN TO BE SLAVES!  In vain we met the frowns of tyrantsin vain we crossed the boisterous ocean, found a new world, and prepared it for the happy residence of liberty-in vain we toiled-in vain
we fought-we bled in vain, if You, OUR OFFSPRING, WANTSVALOR
TO REPEL THE ASSAULTS OF HER INVADERS I"
How it causes the blood to boil in our veins, as we witness from day to 
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day, the lamp of liberty flickering in its socket, and expiring upon altars
once dedicated to freedom. Oh, American fireemen, let it be so no
longer.  If the war  is iievitable-LET  IT COME!   AMERICANS
MUST CONQUER-or  Rome's deluded followers!  Extenuate the
matter no longer. American institutions must and will survive the
shock-or Convents, AMonasteries and Cathedrals, must lay low in unhallowed ashes!-while the ROTTEN and POLLUTED CARCAkSS of evelry ROMAT CATHOLIC  Bis!op and Priest within our' borders, will learn
the salutary lesson-taught by American freemen, too-that Rome, the
city of the vile, and "mother of abominations," can never establish her
decrees upon one inch of soil dedicated to the American Government.
Let her persevere in her further depredations upon our Institutions-let
her spill a few more drops of American blood for our soil to duink-let
her plant a few more cannon in our midst, by these SANCTIIONIOUS
RASCALS, the Priests; —let these TUNPUNISHED BUTCIIERS-these ARROGANT KNAVES-arm their subjects with bowie knives and fire-arms to
MURDER American citizens-tramnple under foot the Protestant Bible, and
fire our School Houses; and the American people will whet their swords
-but not in vain-bidding their burnished steel to drink deep of the
blood of their COUTRY' S IXNVADERS!  Bitter will that day be for Rome
and its vile Priesthood, in that evil hour!
The Boston Pilot manifests a vindictive spirit towards this new organization, and predicts the fearful calamity which must befall Romanism.
It says: 
"'An eminent American statesman, one of the pillars of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY, when he heard that this new party was formed,
observed that it was the most dangerous organization ever established in
America. It is certain that the party is founded on a basis which, however
apparently American it may be, is diametrically opposed to the fundamental principles which underlie American institutions. It is the most
unconstitutional party yet formed in the country, and hence, if it
triumphs in the approaching elections, its triumph will be brief. In this 
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respect it goes beyond the freesoil party, which also rests upon an uncon
stitutional basis.  Both parties will owe their temporary success to the
stronger and less honorable passions of men.  In other words, communities of men are periodically seized with fits of madness, as animals are,
and during the mad fit, they say and do things of which they are after
wards heartily ashamed.  The good sense of the nation will at no distant
day reject these unconstitutional parties, and what with freesoil and knownothing riots, our enemies are laboring in our cause, fot their lawless
actions will open the eyes of the nation sooner than they would otherwise
be opened.
As we said, the know-nothing organization is now the most aristocratic
and the most formidable of the Natyve sects. There are several others,
the most promising of which is the order of the United Americans.  The
know-nothings, as we have said, exclude men who are not of pure American blood. Yet Protestant and infidel foreigners, and above all, the Germall infidel aid Irish Orangemnen, who are more numerous than people
suppose, makle most excellent naytyves. Their hatred of Catholicity exceeds even that of the know-nlothings, and so they are allies whose services
cannot be spared.
Why should not Romanism feel thile "sting of the adder," and raise its
"hydra headed monster," as it sees itself reeling before the voice of the
people? - The following will show the strengtli and position which this
new organization now holds in the United States:
The New York Herald, speculating on the influence of the "Know-Nothings," at the Presidential election, says: The following are the principal
8tates having populous cities, where Native American organizations may
be expected to take place, and thus influence electoral votes at the next
election:
CHIEF CITIES.
Boston, Lowell, &c.
Portland, Bangor, &c.
Providence, &c.
Hartford, New Haven
New York, Brooklyn,
Newark, Camden,
Philadelphia, &c.
Wilmington, &c.
Baltimore, &c.
New Orleans, &c.
Cincinnati, &c.
VOTES,
13
8
4
,&c.'                     6
35
7
27
3
8
6
25
*  142
STATES.
Massachusetts,
Maine,
Rhode Island,
Connecticut,
New York,
New Jersey,
Pennsylvania,
Delaware,
Maryland,
Louisiana,
Ohio,
Total, 
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The -whole number of the electoral votes of the t'hirty-one States, is 296
making 146 necessary to a choice.  It will therefore require but little
additional force to the balance of the power votes which the Know-Nothings may hold at the next Presidential election to enable them to carry
their points.
The Boston Bee, in remarking upon the prospects of this new organi
zationr, says:
"The unexpected success of the Know-Nothings, and the prospect of
their preserving the country from the clutches of the Pope, have seriously
alarmed the Romish Propaganda, who, finding they miscalculated their
strength, and made too early a movement, are now attempting, with
Jesuitical skill, to throw dust into the people's eyes.
It is well known that the present American movement was called into
being through the threatenings, gloryings, and boastings of accredited
Catholic organs; and that it is against Catholicism as the unswerving foe
of Republicanism, that it is mainly directed. The Irish Protestants, together with the English, Italians, and Germans, who have taken up their
abode among us, understand this, and with great good sense acquiese,
knowing well that under our Constitution no line can be drawn to meet
the case, but nativity. The Germans. who form a large foreign element
in the country, are particularly content. They declare, through their
.oarnals, that the Know-Nothings are very good natured, well meaning
fellows; and they had rather by far be under the fule of a Native than a
Jesuit.
The point at issue then, being, not so much  Nativism and foreignism,
as Catholicism, the Romanists very naturally desire to avert the gaze the
public have fixed upon them, and accordingly have suppressed the Shepherd of the Valley, together with one or two more journals which have
made themselves most obnoxious. They have likewise deputed the American renegade, Orestes A. Brownson, to get up a sham fight with his foreign brethren; hoping, under cover of the smoke, dust and noise thus
created, to be able to withdraw the regular Papal forces from the public
ken, and so for the present confine them, as heretofore, to. under-mining
operations.
But let not the lookers-n be deceived by this, or the vigor with which
the engagement is carried on. The pent-up jealously and hate which the
American and foreign Romish priesthood and scribblers in this country
have entertained for eaah other, will no doubt exhibit itself in bitter fury.
But though many hearty thwacks be given with right good will, no love
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of America or American institutions, will nerve an arm on either side, and
a word from the Vatican will at any moment still the tumult, and
unite the two forces against their common enemy.
Another mighty reason for this movement is evident. A short time
ince the Boston Pilot announced that the stock of Irish Catholics at
home was getting low, and that the German immigration, most of which
was anti-Catholic, would soon predominate, and for this reason it might
be politic shortly to alter or abolish the naturalization laws, every good
son of the church should hurry up and get his naturalization papers. It
is not strange then that Brownson should assist to hoist the banner of
Nativism, or the Boston Pilot approve the act. But the lover of liberty,
whether born on this land or any other, remember that the Catholic is
bound to serve his church before his country; and that the Romish Church
favors no progress except that which tends to stregthen and consolidate
its own power."
Having thus shown the reasons why this American association was
formed, and the results to accrue therefrom, we a-e left to the conclusion
that it will be the result of much good in the end. The great and alarming evil of foreign influence, must be eradicated; something  must  be
done on the part of our government, to stem this current of influence, so
foreign to our free institutions.  It matters but little in what shape or
form it commences operations.  To those who take bold of the matter in
earnest, we say, God speed the work! The blessings which we now enjoy are the fruits of American industry, perseverance an., toil. They
form a component part of the government itself.
Can we wonder, then that Americans demand so INTERFBRUNCE in
the affairs of their government? They have long enough submitted to
the encroachments of foreign power; to constant aggressions upon the
elective franchise; to all manner of usurpations upon the gdVern, mentr
communities and individuals. They have borne it "until forbearance
has ceased to be a virtue;" and for these innumerable grievances they
are now determined to be the executioners of their own laws. They have
delegated their representatives in Congress with all the power necessary 
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to accomplish the obijects by amnending the naturalization laws, in order to
protect the ballot box from gross firaud and injustice, but they have disregarded their mandate. The people have petitioned, and petitioned in
vain, but there is a party in this country, viz: the self-styled Democratic
party, that has swarmed around them, opposing every measure calculated
to effect a changce in these laws, in order to SECURE  THEIR VOTES!
Grave Senators, having assumed the proud prerogative of despots, taking
all power from the people and investing it in their own hands, has become a great obstacle in the way of final success  Now then let us look
at the signs of the Times. At the late election in the city of New Orleans, the question was whether Americans or foreigners are to rule thi,
country; to make and execute our laws!  I!t debating the fact as to th(
nativity of thie police foire of New Orleans, it is stated on the authorit~
of the official record, that in the first district there ale two Englishlmen
ninety-eight Irishmen, twenty-five Germans, and twenty-five American,
Police of the second district, twenty Frenchmen, twenty-seven Germant
forty-four Irishmen, and fifty Americans.  Police of the third district
two Frenchmen, four Spaniards, twelve Irishmen, thirteen Germans, an
twenty-ix American&   Police of the fourth district, though not stated i
detail, is estimated to be about one-ft)uith Americans.   This is the newl
appointed Police, stauling 470 FO RE[GNERS! to 116  AMERICANs
What a beautiful state of affairs does this represent our country to lbe in
But a short time since in the city of Boston, that the vindication of ti
freedomn of speech; of discussions of any questions affecting, or suppose
to affect the political condition of the country, has been the occasion of
riot and fight. The audacity with which the Irish Catholics especially,
contend for political power, to be laid at the feet of the priests, is exciting
attention everywhere, and must give rise to feelings and acts indicated by
the memorable words of WASHINGTON during the gloomiest period of our
revolutionary contest-" PUT NONE BUT AMERICANS ON GUARD AT NIGHT. 
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NATURALIZE! NATURALIZE! is the never ceasing cry of such papers
as the "Shepherd of the Valley" in the West, and the "Boston Pilot" in
the East. Standing in our midst. participating in all the blessings of this
glorious country, whose foundations were laid by those who cemented
them with their blood and teais-the cry is still like the horse-leeclh'
more! more!  They would govern, not only themselves, but those who
have hospitably given them shelter, and that too with an iron hand, and
by a sanguinary code. There is a world of significance in the call, just
now.  The fact is, the Pilot and its adherents-all who are tied down in
slavery to the Romish Church and its various machinery-are in need
of all the forces they can muster.  Hence the cry of NATURALIZE! NATU RALIZE!! NATURALIZE!!!  No sooner do they arrive on our shores than
their intentions are declared, their naturalization papers ingeniously drawn
up, and they dragged before the judge, where their oaths amounts to
little else than perjury, and in a few days become legal voters! Is there
no CORRUPTION in all this?  No! says the demagogtue-" every thing is
fair in politics," and thus upon the same ground is this GROSS OUTRAGE
upon the elective franchise accounted for. Not only in every municipal,
but in all State and Presidential elections, FRAUD is stamped upon the
ballot box!  It is converted into a degraded and dangerous instrument 
Are these Roman Catholic Priests-these loathsome vagabonds, "hypo-e
critical and seductive dare-devils." who not only POLLUTE their already
corrupt and accursed Church, but also the most sacred institution within
the gift of a free people, stationed at the ballot box to urge these foul and
malicious conspirators to deposit their ballot?  No.  They tell them in
the pulpit, read over to them the list of candidates, and tell them upa
the peril of being castby them into purgatory, to go THE WHOLE TICKET!
On the day of eleion they swarm around the ballot box, and in igno  rance of what they are doing, cast their suffrages for men of whom they
know nothing, and care less.  They are made, is the hands of political
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knaves and demagogues, TOOLS for PARTY PURPOSES!  In the heat of a
political battle, what care the demagogue for the government or its sacred
institutions? To them, the perpetuity of this government is no object,
if they can only fill the offices, and "fatten upon the spoils." What interest do they take in the national honor and pride of their country. Their
gaze  is eagerly cast into the future-into the "public crib,"-there to
remain in doubtful expectation of gaining the goal of their  ambition.
For the good of their government they never entertain an honest principle for a moment. In their aspirations for success, like drowning men,
they "catch at every straw" that perchance may come in their way.   To
secure their election, they employ dishonorable means as agents to success, thereby rendering politics of little moment to men of honor and
integ,rity. Our rulers are men of this same stamp; in fact, they are the
mnore corrupt, when we consider the position they occupy. Every political movement is done by "caucus," or by some Pilot in the "SECRET
CHAMBER!" It is here that the policy of courting the ROMAN CATHOLIC
VOTE is called in question,-whether it will prove politic to this or that
political organization. We believe, and always have, that such political
mnovements on the part of a few men, are dangerous to the institutions of
a free and Republican Government   It brings into the field of warfare,
elements of strife and discord; it undervalues the worth of our integrity
as an American people-a people whom all nations honor with reverence
as the "Star in the East," to guide them in the paths of wisdom, intelligence and virtue!
How lamentable then, that we, as one people-oinprising one great
bodv politic-should be subjected to so many influences, the tendency of
which is to impair the noble structure of our government. We all feel
them; all admit them to be stern and incontrovertible facts. If the mass
of the people move forward to redress wrongs perpetrated, or call loudly
for reform in reference to any particular system, calculated as a measure 
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of reform, they are as often repulsed in their efforts, by those who term
themselves "party leaders!"
Is it to be supposed that any government should tolerate and protect
what is essentially fatal to its own existence?  When it guarantees the
freedom of speech, does it mean to protect the traitor in preaching treason?  Does it mean to protect the insurrectionist in exciting to rebellion?
Does it mean to guaranty every man so disposed the right to advise and
plot its own overthrow? Does it contemplate snicide? And of religious
freedom: Does it intend to afford protection to that religion which aims
to subvert it and bring about a union of clhurch and state?  Does it intend to protect that religion which is the open and implicable enemy of
all other creeds, sacred and profane, and only wants the power to crush
all other human institutions, and prohibit the freedom of speech and action, and even thought? Does it intend to be so free and tolerant as t(>
permit the extermination of all freedom and toleration?
No government like ours could, for a moment, rationally be suppose(1
to protect any religious or political creed, or its followers and promulga tols, if the aim and action be inconsistent with republicanism.  On the
contrary, inasmuch as it is founded in rational liberty, it is its duty to,
discountenance and suppress any creed, sect or paity, whose principles
are at war with itself, the natural right or duty, of self-preservation being
just as applicable to nations or governments, as to individuals.  Hence,
although our government may allow a residence here to individnals whose
political or religious views are antagonistic to itself, it should never admit
them to citizenship; it should never give them a voice' in the adminis tration of public affairs, nor allow them any privileges that are not allow ed to citizens, or that would be likely to exert an influence inimical to
the strength and permanency of our institutions. If they want anything
inconsistent with the peace and welfare of the country, they should be
compelled to go elsewhere for it. They would have no right to complain, 
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as they have no right to demand that others shall make sacrifices or run
risks for their benefit.
And further, should any citizen become opposed to the principles  of
our government, either through a political or religious conviction, he at
the same time becomes dangerous to our peace, prosperity and permaneincy as a nation, to the extent of his influence and power; and it is his
duty as an honest man, and it is the right of any or all true citizens to
demand that he shall withdraw firom the great confederacy-that he shall
relinquish his citizenship, and yield up his political rights, to become a
mere resident in the country, or to join another in consonance with his
political and religiousbelief. The government is established for the benefit ofthe whole, and can be dissolved only by the consent of the whole,
or because it fails to fulfil the objects for which it was designed; and for
an individual or a faction to claim the right to mnake war upon it is to
acknowledge the right of all to make war upon him or it, even to extermination, should they deem it for their safety.
No man can claim exemption firom political and moral responsibility
on accoiunt of his religious belief.   He cannot  be allowed  to do in the
name of religion tlhat which he would not be allowed to do by virtue of
his political rights. Nor must he consider his religious duties paramount
to his political duties, and therefore be willing to sacrifice his country for
his religion. Hle has no business to be a member of a government, the
duties of which shall not be deemed more important than his religious
duties, inasmuch as the former concern the whole, and the latter only the
individual. 
But what shall we think of Professors in Catholic Colleges who assert
their allegiance to this country in one breath, and in the next one boldly
declare that should the Pope of Rome, as the Vicar of God, command
them to "fast a year," or anything else, they would do it, although it
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You will undoubtedly bear me witness, that party discipline has already proved disastrous to the country and its institutions. It has defeated
the greatest of statesmen, and done honor to the least worthy of saplings.
In consequence of such base ingratitude manifested on our part,  we
should naturally suppose that there was but little virtue and intelligence
remaining in the people! Government is a civil institution, an institution
which has its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end
the strength and securitv of all; and so long as the means of effecting
this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to,
goverment is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be
held in the highest veneration.
It was this noble attachment to a free Constitution which raises ancient Rome, from the smallest beginnings, to that bright summit of happiness and glory, to which she arrived; and it was the loss of this which
plunged her from that summit into the black gulf of infamy and slavery,
It was this attachment which inspired her Senators with wisdom; it was
this which glowed in the breasts of her heroes; it was this which guarded her liberties and extended her dominions, gave peace at home, and
commanded respect abroad. And when this decayed, her magistrates
lost their reverence forjustice and the laws, and degenerated into tyrants
and oppressors; her Senators, forgetful of their dignity, and seduced by
base corruption, betrayed their country; her soldiers, regardless of their
relation to the community, and urged only by the hopes of plunder and
rapine, unfeelingly committed the most flagrant enormities; and, hired to
the trade of death, with relentless fury, they perpetrated the most cruel
murders, whereby the streets of imperial Rome were drenched with her
noblest and best blood. Thus this empress of the world lost her dominions abroad; and she stands to this day, the scorn and derision of nations,
and a monument of this eternal truth, that public happiness depends on a
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MIy count'rymen-your Constitution, too, is founded upon free and benevolent principles;-the keen discerning eye-the silvered locks of
wisdom-the anxious brow and furrowed cheek, as they gazed enraptured upon its wisdom and power, bespoke their hearty and cordial approbation. But alas, not unlike Rome, have we fallen from our original
purity. Not that our country is infested with the same evils and outrages that caused the destruction of that once noble and imperial city. No..
But we have other reasons for mourning over our bleeding country!   We
need not ask if any wretch has dared deface the image of his God!.
Has haughty France, or cruel Spain, sent forth her myrmidons? Has.
the grimn savage rushed again from the far distant wilderness; or does
some fiend, fierce from the depths of hell, with all the rancorous malice
which the apostate damned can feel, twang her destructive bow, and hurt
her deadly arrows at our breast?  No-none of these.  It is the bloodhounds of Rome which inflicts the wound;-who has encroached upon
the rights and interests of our Government, until she will soon hear the
sound of the trump the American arch-angel will peal forth in her ears"WE sPARE-UPON CONDITION YOU DEPART!!"
An old familiar voice speaks to us from the tomb of WASHINGTON,the faltering tongue of hoary age, calls on us to set our faces against the
influences of Rome's decrees, as manifested in the United States. He
urges us on to maintain our rights, or nobly perish in the generous struggle. The lisping infant raises its suppliant hands, imploring defence,
against the threatening storm. Your fathers look from their celestial
seats with smiling approbation on their sons, who boldly stand forth in
the cause of their country; but sternly frown upon the inhuman miscreant, who, to secure the "loaves and fishes" to himself, would breed a
serpent to destroy his children.
Says Patrick Henry —" I have but one lamp by which my feet can be
guided-and that is the lamp of experience."  We  know of no manner
of judging of the future, but by the past.  In the Farewell Address of 
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the Father of his Country, we find the following language-words that
should forever bum within the bosom of every American citizen whose
pulse beats high in the holy cause of patriotism:
"Against the insidious wiles of FOREIGN INFLUENCE, I conjure
you to believe me, fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to
be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that FOREIGN
INFLUENCE is one of the most baneful foes of a Republican Gevernment.  The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to FOREIGN  NATIONS, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them  as
little connexion as possible.
"Why quit our own to stand upon FOREIGN ground?  Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our
peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest. humor, or caprice?"
"TO WARN AGAINST THE MISCHIEFS OF FOREIGN INTRIGUES,-TO GUARD AGAINST THE IMPOSTURES OF PRETENDED PATRIOTISM!"
If such were the breathings of WASIIINGTON in the infant days of this
Republic, when, through his wisdom and intelligence, he saw the danger
approaching, like unto a newly discovered star in the constellation, what
should be our position now, when the danger apprehended, has become
a bona fide reality?  If it was TREASON then on the part of Americans
to give aid and comfort to all opposers of a free Governmllent, should it
be considered any the less crimninal now? If, when our venerable an cestors in their struggle for Independence, deemed all F'OREIGN
IJ~FL UE.CE conspiracy against the United Statesthen the more
enlightened and intelligent oondition of the people at the present day,
should cause every ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP AND PRIEs  in this coun try who come among us to usurp the powers of the General Govern ment, and scatter the seeds of dissension thlro-ughout our Institutions,
should haag between heaven and eartli-a warning to their cohorts yet
to come!
You,  fellow-countrymen, who think that Romanists are capable of 
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managing the affairs of this Government, pause for a moment and consider the condition into which Ireland has been brought through the in.fltence of her Priesthood, and how  she is still "biting the dust" for
her ignorance and superstition.  Witness her, who for five centuries has
bled-who, to the present hour continues to bleed, under the yoke of
her galling supremacy;-whose miserable victims seemn at length to have
laid down, subdued and despairing, under the multiplied inflictions of
Priestly cruelty and rigor.  In vain do her own best statesmen and patriots remonstrate against this great injustice!-in vain put forth the annual efforts of their l)enevolence, their zeal, their eloquence;-in vain touch
every spring that interest, that humanity, that the maxims of everlasting
justice can move to stay its force and mitigate the fate of Irishmen.
They are their own persecuted adherents of the cRoss-she leaves No
HOPE!  Witness her subject millions in the East, where, in the language
of the greatest of her surviving orators-" sacrilege, massacre and perftidy, pile up the sombre pyramids of her renown."
Such are the people, my countrymen, with whom you have to contend.            Ireland could and would seek for redress were she not continually
oppressed b y a hireling Priesthood or were her people sufficiently enlightened in the forms of a good Government.  If her citizens do  not
possess th    e  r equisite qualifications toward the attainment of that object
a    t             homre, h ow much less should we allow thfm to infringe upon the interests  of th e American people.  Dear to us is this country-far dearer
than    we c  an express.  Who shall touch such a country, and not fire the
patriotism  and  unsheatli the sword of us all?  No! Americans! -while
you           reserve  your independent privilege of rendering, at all times, your
suffrages as you please.
Let our PROUD FOE BE UNDECEIVED!
With the miseries of Ireland, we as a Government, have nothing to
do;-as a people, we have fed and clothed her subjects when hungry 
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and naked; freighted vessels with food and sent them forth as the swiftwinged messengers of our love and charity, to stem the current of famine
which a few years since was hurrying many of her victims into eternity:
while her PRIESTLY BUTCHERS silently gazed in solemn mockery
not only upon the cross and its symbols, " laughing at their calamity;"
but applying the donations to their OWN USE! They have hurled it
back into our teeth amid iresults and gross outrages upon our Institutions.  But for all this, we have allowed them every privilege in this
country guaranteed to American citizens under the Constitution;-but
having usurped that power and privilege, our sympathies must now cease!
The American people "HAVE LIGHTED THEIR LAMPS!"-THE LAST RoM.kN CATHOLIC HAS BEEN PUT  ON  GUARD!  DETROIT, like all of
her sister cities, will show to the world, that she will treat all foreigners
who make this city their home, with all the respect consistent with her
laws and the Constitution-protect their homes and firesides in the hour
of conflagration and danger; but as to their holdi,ng office, SHE NEVER
WILL CONSENT! Their PRIESTS may demancizd it-they may urge
on poor and ignorant Irishmen to insult our Government, burn our
Churches, and destroy our School-houses; they can command them to
knock down every American citizen they may meet, and rob and murder
them; but when Uncle Sam becomes aroused and begins to show his
teeth, this "hairy-scalped Priesthood" will wish they had never been
born!  They  may  continue to erect to the service of infidelity, their
noble cathedrals, seminaries and school-houses; our Civil authorities may
still continue to grant them Convent privileges and under ground railways; to inflict their wilful depredations upon the people, and subvert
the high authority invested in the Government-and all under the sanction of religion;-but as sure as there is a God in Heaven, not all the
powers of Rome's decrees, will find no sacrifice, not even our own blood,
esteemed too rich a libation for the pulling down of her altars! 
CONCLUSIO  N.
FELLOW-CouNTRYMES,-we  have now conducted you  throughl  tile
foregoing pages to the end of our volume.  Throughout the discussion
of the various topics upon which it treats, it has been our constant aim
and endeavor to present to you a careful and accurate condition of public affairs agitating the country at the present time;-neither have
they been more highly colored than stubborn FACTS can be called positive TRUTHS!  As it is impossible to mistake public sentiment when
communities are convulsed with excitement, so we have not shrunk firom
any responsibility resting upon us wherein the TRUTH has been called in
question.  At times the truth may be evaded-but it never can be dethroned.
"TRUTH crushed to earth, will rise again,
The eternal years of God are her's,
But ERROR wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies amid its worshippers."
Or in other words
"He is a FREEMAN whom the TRUTH makes free,
And all are SLAVES beside!"
If, in our discussion of this subject we should be thought to have
been guilty of any crime, it has only been in the suppression of many
of those dark and horrible tragedies, committed through the influence of
Romanism, too appalling to be placed on record. The only defense
which we have set up in the contest, has been the "sword of truth,"
without the slightest regard to the depth of the wound it may have inflicted.  But in our efforts to strike a deadly blow against Romanism,
how will we be met, not only by its enemies, but friends? If the Roman press in this country-aided and "backed up" by the Pope and his
lying Priests, writhe beneath the "sting of the lash," it will fall upon the
ear as the wailings of the damned from the depths of perdition. And 
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why?-because  they have aroused a sentiment in this country which
already predicts their total annihilatiorn;-a sentiment that can never be
lulled into sleep so long as Ronianism has an existence among us.  Already they see the " hm-writing on the wall I!" the precursor of their
final doom!  Their wilful depredations upon this Government for the
past twenty years, have been too enormous longer to  bear endurance.
They have been allowed to erect convents and monasteries in our midst,
to carry on their black and blood-stained crimes, until the people, in
their might, have fully resolved to tread upon the head of the serpent,
breaking asunder bolts and bars, and hlollingt up their vile and polluted
Clergy to the execration of the world!
We have in the present work, borne but a slight portion of the labor
now before the people; but we feel the more encouraged to perse+;ere
unto the end, as we witness the grand demonstration around us.  We
have no aspirations for office or public honor.  Our ambition is far above
the "shackles of office."  It is to lift my bleeding country from the
dust-to see her stand upon  HER  OWL    ground in times like these! I
We care not what the secular press may say against us-their vindictive
malice will fall harmless at our feet.  Far better will it be for those who
conduct the public political journals of the present day, to go and wash
themselves of their political filth, rather than "to court" FOREIGN VOTES
to subserve the interest of their pait,.  But there is, thank God, in this,
our day, a political press which cannot be  BOUGHT or SOLD,  by bribery
or corrtuption!-a press that will stand by the TRUTH, even be it at the
cost of bitter sacrifice. That is the press which will vindicate the rights
of the American Government when assailed by a hireling Priesthoodbacked up by all the machinations which even Rome herself can bring
against it.  Such a press will never swerve from the truth, let the consequences be what they may. The press is already doing much to expose
the Church of Rome, by knocking away its rotten foundations, and ex 
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posing the daring outrages of its JAcoBIN DRsCRnATERS OF THa  SAD
BATH;-and we have every reason to believe that their efforts have been
and will be sanctioned by every true American citizen.
We cannot bring our subject to a close without devoting s little space
to the "KNOW-NOTHIN G" organization. We desire all of our readers to fully understand its object-that it is to advocate thle immediate
formatioa of a NATIONAL AMVERICAV PARTY!  They
stand on a broadplatform.   Their PRINCIPLES are strong, deep, firmly
rooted.  They come from the American head and the American heart.
Th(y go  to strengthen, enlarge, and perpetuate American sentiments,
institutions, laws and society. They are great, glorious, manly, patriotic.
Let us then, in our hope, strength, courage, form into a National organii zation, and inscribe upon our banner, in letters of light and life —" Got
AND OULR COUNTRY.-AMERIcA  AND REPUBnLICANISM!"  The following
is our PLATFORM:-" We aim to Anmericanize Amnerica.  None but Na tive Americans to Office.  A  pure American Common School System.
War to the hilt, on R)maniisln.  The advocacy of a sound, healthly, and
safe Nationality.  Hostility to all Papal Influences, in whatever formn
and under whatever name.  American Institutions and American Sen timeneits.  More stringent and effective Enmigration Laws.   The amplest
Protection to Protestant Interests.  The Doctrines of the revcered WAsI INGTON and his compatriots.  Eternal enmity to all attempts to carry
out the principles of a Foreign Church or State. Our Country-our
whole Country-and nothing but our Country.  The breaking up of
Party intrigues, and with it that vast system of political knavery which
has become so great a curse and bane to the country. American Laws
and American Legislation, and Death to all Foreign Influences, whether
in high places or low.  In short-the elevation, education, rights, hap piness of the people."
Are not these glorious principles? Are they not far better than   ee
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of all other parties!  It has in its ranks the cream of the country.  It
is the party of equality of fraternity, of patriotism; and its heart throbs
American, and only American pulsations. Now is the time to act.
Into your hands, AMERICAN CITIZENS, is committed, not only the wel.
fare of your country, but its sacred Institutions.  They were bequeathed
to you by the glorious memories of the American Revolution.  It becomes your duty, then, to cherish them as sacred ashes gathered in the
tirn;-to guard them well fiom evely invasion,-at homne or abroadwhen calculated to impair their noble structure.  In taking nmy leave of
you, my countrymen, let me entreat you, by every tie that binds and cements together our happy Union, to resist every encroachment made
tipon the Institutions of yotdr covntry, by every kind of FOREIGN
INFLUENCE, from whatever source it may emanate!
LET AMERICAN CITIZENS RULE IN AMERICA!-KEEP
IT AMERICAN!  Follow the advice of the Father of his Country" IN TIME OF-,PEACE PREPARE POR WAR!"
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