The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1844-12-13
From The Richmond Whic.

From The Richmond Wig.
We ask every Wing, if il is not better
/ IfiiIs not more honorab'e-to sustain defeat.
lighting fairly and without rcproacb even
from our foes, for the principles We believe
Just, patriotic and righ', than to s,tbl, than
10 fitch victory, by Islander, by misrepre.
sentalion, By fraud, By juggling or trading
principles with foreigners, with Gail olics.
slih Abollliohlsls, with Dorntes, with Nor.
mons aud Repud aionistsl
( Can any man tell US My, politically m
I ly, this should be sol Nby have rhe-h bo-
I htlonisls gone against US My tavc tie
Catholics 81 the Narih ard nd Missis.
sppi Valley, as q 5oJy w hato tn
FoLeI2pfrs % hqaL+7-2- fave The
'p--frr H"~Why have TIC Rrpuliationisisl
Why has Absiraciiouisn uhy has o,c.
y calculating time server, sud esiier up.
On P.oyiItnce, WIN never got ~ lie fence
where lie was iidir. in iyuob'o sl'ety, until
he supposed b could slp down On the clover
g,do olhou, delrmrn,l
Al Ike Aiolif:apiss ID New York end
P,nnsy iyaua base voted Tor Palk Had
they divided % ciG.CaS and not voted 40 sn
organized body Mf. Clay would have car.
l,cd both Suites. Had they voted for n
candidate Of their own, DO would equally
aud is certainly have carried both States.
The whole foreign vote, 9th individual
exceptions, Norh of Us, has been erected
uaelnsi Henry Clay. Why, lol them say.
We caa see 10 good reason tha, they could
have, cyccpl lbat Of oil mgnkiud be has
borne the mos, distinguished part in sus.
talulng tho rights ard Liberties Of the on.
prcsrrd against tie opprcssor, Poland
Greece, and South America, sckroa ledg
his services 10 The cause Of human rights
but our Irish and Catholic brethren, who
have JUS, touched our shores, aud rushed
10 the Polls to control, GsfLey hGre control.
led, the voice OF the American people, ard
eho 10 the Northern cities, have scarcely
allosed Americans 10 vote at all-thfp can
see no merltlu Henry Clay--no,tlng 10 ad.
wlre IN shat brilliant career of public ser.
vice to his own aud all oppressed lands
Goihing IN his genus. They CRY nut With
the Prosecutors Of sir. Clay, aud the base
slaudetcrs who hava logged BIN through
HE, insticatcd By the worst passions ard
moai uuanish'e molycs-our Catholic
brethren in the North just from the shores
Of Europe, cry oul as ono man ~ih the eE-
vicus Cruelty hlm-cucify him !" And
they nrc ioIaed IN that fell cry Of demagoc-
ujsm and hatred Of superiority BY sope who
have from their pee lnr position az insruc.
tors, cause to call on the very mountains 10
hide ihcm and their shane.
Deduct then the foreign vote Of Now
York aud Penusylvania-or one half of 1t
or one tbtd Of it--or erCa ore fourth of
It, aud Henry Clay is elected by the vote
of Pennsylvania and New York Let any
man of probily look a, the facts, and he can
come TO no other result.
But thifd-in Nee Yo'k and P.nnsvl.
varia. the whole Catholic vote as BODY
with fc~ exceptions, snd they petsondl on.
~, has been cast against Mr. Clay In
the two cities Of Philadelphia and New
York, they have voted as an organized re-
ligjous body neains, him, and for Mr. Polk.
individuals here and there, have not sub.
United to be transferred aud have voted ms
II
the less certain that the Catholics as a bo-
dy have voted agains, him; not as citizens,
BUT AS CATHOLICS. They have
been appealed to AS CATHOLICS, and
they have voted AS CATHOLICS. WHY
our Catholic brethren should have taken
this direction, il is none OF our business or
or wish to explain. We state the FACT,
as we believe il to exist, and we demand to
know if II is not so. An appeal TO religious
influences in politics, and to sectarian diff
rerences, We have ever held 10 be most dan.
gerous aud wrong: But If others have
made the appeal 10 tho Catholics openly
aud unblushingy, and if they have been
weak enough to listen 10 and obey it, it is al
leasl jusliiinbe in us to state and record the
FACr1 We mourn from our inmost soul.
to have any euch dIsgraceiul and such
Iiarmins facts to record. Catholicism
could not have done thing more pernic.
ous to religious and political liberty, or Of
more fatal tendency 10 its own advancement
AS il has right 10 advance like all other
denominations, by M appeal 10 legitimate
Efforts. |, is the frs, inns 10 the history of
this country that any party has openly at.
tempted 10 enlist . religious denomination,
as Religious Denomination, 90 partiz
ans We state as we again say, only The
FACE as we believe II to exist. Ii is for
The C,ujry 10 express Tho proper commen.
tary upon it.