The Arkansas banner., 1844-07-17


 ngs, and retired to the market-house only on account of a shower of rain. How, then, was it possible that an attack upon them at that time and place, could have been "planned deliberately?" ,"
 Equally unfair and imperfect is the account which the Journal gives of the second meet ing. It was not Ca few days after," but the rery neat day. The meeting collected first in the State House Yard, and in spite of the remonstrances of their own discreet men, marched to the scene of the preceding days encounter, bearing flag, with an inscription intended toSxasperate the people agalnst the Catholics: +THis IS the flag achicb acaS trod- den upon 6y He HiSh Papists." What did they exhibit the flag for, but to excite the peo- pie? What did they go to the battle-ground for, but to have another fight? There IS much more reason for charging Protestants than Catholics with having deliberately planned" the second attack. If the Cath olics had, in the mean time, collected arms, and loopholed their houses, 1t only shows that they did not mistake the intention q their adUersaries. If l make loophole in my house and load my gun for the pur- pose of shooting ruilian who, have good reason to believe, intends to burn 1t, and drive my wife and children out of doors, do not deliberately plan an attack upon him. My house cannot go to seek him; and if he keeps away, he is in no danger. But if he approach es ill a menaeing manner with firebfand in his hand, and shoot him, my whole con duct, the loophole, loaded gun and all, are but acts or means of self-defence. If the natives had remained in the State House Yard, or gone elsewhere, the loopholed houses of the Catholics would not have followed to
 hunt them up. It is palpable that the natives
 were there for a fight; that their movement
 was " deliberately planned;" and that they are more responsible than the Catholics for the murders which ensued.
 We have scarcely patience to read the fol- lowing extract from the Journals article, viz :: l" How utterly unconscious, then, of their
 own personal interests, must those foreign
 born citizens have been, who fired in Phia-
 delphia upon a deliberative assembly; how
 unfit to participate in the affairs free govern ment; and how dangerous the leaders among
 them, whose views and designs are so at war
 with our free institutions, that they would
 excite to such violence beforehand, and jus
 tify 1t afterwards.
 "How incomparably better, or rather less
 bad, was the conduct of the men and boys who composed the lawless mob.' Lawless to great extent they were; and yet evidently under the control of laws of which foreigners know nothing. Life acas sacred even with t them. Their vengeance was all wrecked upon property. Here is the immeasurable
 I I,4.,, .I, Nl,o. , deliberately murdered American citizens for assembling to deliberate the other retaliated by burning churches If the Romanists had triumphed in a resistless mob, there is every reason to believe that the streets of Philadel- phia would have been red with gore. With the mob as 1t was, human life was saered.-
 Such is the influence of Protestantism and the Bible upon those who ill the smallest degree feel their influence. Such the effect of Ro- manism upon those who are most thoroughly
 enslaved with its spirit How full of bles-
 sing must the one system be-, and how full
 of wretchedness the other, when both have
 free scope.o
 ''Fred on deliberative assemblym Why 1t IS notorious that the 1" "deliberative assem- ply" commenced the violence, and probably the firing 'sLife was sacred even with themn Sacred! when they assaied the Irish with every species of missile-beat, fired upon dragged them from their houses, and in some
 instances put them to death Deliberately l murdered American citizensp' Why, there ) was nothing deliberate on either side in the 2 first affray, and tie second arose from the
 deliberate purpose of the natives and thei l allies, to have another fight Does not the Journal islander Protestantism and the Bible , when 1t assumes that their influence only
 permits them to destroy property, and burr ' houses and churches {? A questionable com.
 pliment to its own religion it is, to admi l that its influence permits men only to rob l plunder, burn, and destroy! "Full of bles s sings" must such system, indeed, be
 But the Journal justifes the natives in al theirmurders, beatings, plunderings, and burn r ings! It says:
 ; 'From these scenes we turn with grea 5 satisfaction to contemplate the conduct O ) the American Republicans. By them tho principles of American liberty were fully un- derstood, and honorably illustrated. They 5 went to the groundsin the first place con- 3 scious of their fJghts, and unconscious O ? the murderous spirit which lowered around l the place. When by violence they had beer driven from the ground, and the American 5 stars and stripes trodden under foot, it was necessary that they should lift that ensign , from the trampling of alien feet, and main tain the great American right of free discus sion against alien hearts and hands. They } could not do less than return 10 the spot, ant at aH hazards, assert and maintain the funda- ] mental principles of American liberty. Tc hazard all consequences, was only prudence l in such case. If Romanism, had triumphed r against liberty there, who should have res ], tored the breach Much as we regret and condemn the roitous scenes which followed , we approve most heartily of the American ) Republicans The loss, after all, is not equal to the gain. Houses can be rebuilt princi-
 ples not so easily. The American Republi- , cans did right, when, after the fury had sub- .t-.l