The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-08-07
THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN.

1t is a settled thing that if the Wings can
be lied out of the coming Election they
will be. There are no bounds to the false
hood and personal detraction habltually
INDUCED in by our adversaries. If we
have a candidate vino is not a professor of
religion, he is assailed on that ground if
another who is a professor, he is assaiIed
still more fiercely. Mr.. Frelinghuysen ap-
pears even more obnoxious to Loco-Foco
defamation than MIR. Clay. We have now
before US tie democratic Rally the Loco
Foco campaign paper for Kentucky, ISIS
ued at Frankfort, which devotes nearly
two Columns to abuse of the Puritan set
tiers of New-England with the intent of
exciting prejudice against Mr.. Freling-
huysen. This is followed by an article en-
titled Who is Theodore Frelinghuysen q
in which he is falsely accusted of making
a reportc counter to Richard N. Johnson's
on the Sunday Mail question. The article
proceeds
"Faithful to the same sectarian bias,
Mr. Fr~eiinghuysen has been in the city of
New York tie leading agitator in that in
tolerant crusade against the foreigners,
growing out of religious bigotry, which has
now assumed the form ola political party
under the name of.'THE NATIVE AMRRI-
CAN PARTY" MIR. Frelinghuysen has done
more to foster and foment that spirit
which has produced the dreadful conse-
quences that lately occurred in Philadelphia,
than any other man in the nation. He is,
in a ward, the head of the Native Ameri-
can Party.
As the President of the American Bible
Society, and the leader of The secretarians
in New-York. he has struggled with 4
pertinacity and a bigotry worthy ofthe best
days of the old Scotch C~ovenanters. to force
a sectarian translation of the Holy Scrip
lures, rs a part of The system of education,
upon the Common Schools in that city.
filled. as they are. with the children of
persons holding different opinions in re-
ligion from his sect"
Now we do most solemnly affirm that,
while we have been holly engaged in the
Native controversy from the start. living
in this City, reading. all the publications
on both sides, and mingling freely with all
the parties engaged in the strife, we never
heard Mr.. F~relinghuysen's name connected
with the Native American cause Until since
he has been nominated for Vice President.
We know he has never been an 'agitator'
in any Crusade against foreigners, has not
ever attended a Native meeting, and has
never, while among us, belonging to any
other party than the Wing party. He is
no more the head of the Native party than
Polk or Dallas is.
The attack on the American Bible So
ciety is equally unfounded-equally afro
cious. Mr.. Frelinghuysen, though a mem
Der and an active advocate of the Ameri-
can Bible Society, is not its President
and, if he were what then We have
come to a pretty pass if that is to exclude
a man from office.-Neirher has the Bible
Society had any thing TO do with the School
Question ;nor has Mfr. Frelinghuysen been
in any way leader or CONSPICUOUS at all
in the School controversy. We presume
his sentiments, his sympathies run counter
to ours on that question, but we have new
err known him as an opponent, nor in any
way involved in the controversy. But his
friends have not dragged this local ques-
ton into the Presidential contest and his
adversaries will do well to let it alone
They will make nothing by assailing a
candidate for his suspected attachment to
the Received Version of the Bible when
that topic has nothing to do with the con-
test.-Tribmne.