The North-Carolina standard., 1845-04-23


party and used by them to carry the election {, oi
their candidate. This he denounced as q c1Ie
sLauder. hoping not the ShGdoW 0f f0~"d@tson ;
and lie called on The gentleman for has PToct ~
the gentleman could not produce The authority Jo1
ths assertion he made 1T 11ouLd be acknowledged
that 1t apos a SlG1eder. In another part Of the
gentleman's remarks, he noticed conversation
he had with porter. Why, it was sett!n9 very
common to notice on that floor conversations that
took place in 9roe-shops, barber's-shops, and with
porters and hackmen The gentleman said
GAS evidence Of the sort of feeling which has
been inculcated into the minds of the most Ignor-
ant of them. I may be paFdoned tor menilonng
little incident that occurred IN the room OF
friend 10 whom / chanced to be making VISIT:
While making his fire, the Irish porter inquired
when Mr.. Polk would come on 10 the city. i am
told he added, that he is great friend 10 Us poor
foreigners; we elected him. and we can DO most
anything when we ak try Sir, had the JoTe'g''
er secis and classes generally 90ere,. Mr.. Clay
would have carried by large majority the STATE
Of New York, as also the States of Pennsylvania,
Louisiana, and probably some others IN the north
west"
A little further on the gentleman said
"The course Of the abolition party has stripped
them of much of their influence, by bringing them
into general contempt, even at the North. Besides
their late movements will array strong lnhuence
against them in other quarters, more than enough
to counterbalance their strength. And II the lor-
eisn Catholics, or foreigners generally, continue
banded together, with a view of controlling the
elections of the country, there Will be aroused an
IaQonst feelings id The hearts of all true Amerl-
cans, which will sweep away the party to when
they have attached themselves"
He did not appear here, MIR J. said, to defend
the Catholic religion: there were but few Catho-
lies in his region, and there were prrjudices there
existing against them. But he protested against
the doctrine here advanced by the gentleman
The Catholics Of this country had the rlght Sc
cured to them by the constitution OF worshlPlng
the God of their fathers in the manner dictated
by their own consciences. They sat down under
their own vine and fig tree, and no man could H.
terfere with them. This country was not Prepar-
ed to establish an inquisition TO try and Punsn
men for their religious belief; and those who as
sailed any religious sect in this country would
find a majority of the people arrayed against
them He said he desired to know-ay, ne de-
manded to know of the gentleman from North
Carolina, what he meant by the employment OF
the language he had just read from his speech
Does the gentleman mean that there is to be
spirit of persecution aroused, which is to sweep
away" any one Of the numerous religious de-
nominations that now prevail in this countryI Is
the guiotine to be erected in this republican form
of government, and all who dare differ IN opinion
with the whig party, to be brought to the block
church to satiate disappointed party vengeance?
Are the prosecutions of olden times to be revived
Are the ten thousand temples that have been erect
ed. based upon the sufferings and atonement Of
cruci6ed Saviour, with their gtering spires vast
ing themselves in the very heavens: all to topple
and fall, crushed and buried beneath the rawlings
of party excitement2 Is man to be set upon man,
and in the name of God lift his hand against the
throat of his felIow2 Is the land that gave
l1r4b, bo al ,iih hroth thor'S
Are the bIoodhounds of persecution and proscrip-
tion to be let loose upon all foreigners and Catho-
lies, because some of them have acted with the
democratic party in the recent contest Are the
fires of heaven, that have been lighted up by the
cross. and now burn upon so many affairs conse-
Grated to the true and living God, to be quenched
in the blood Of their innocent and defenceless
worShipers and the cutters of our streets made to
flow with human gorea This is but o faint re-
alhy of what is shadowed forth in the gentleman's
speech; but for the purpose of showing the coun-
try how ignorant the gentleman was of the fact,
and how reckless he was in bold statements, he
would read from pamphlet he held in his hand
which was written by whig in the city of Nash
vile, Tennessee, and dedicated to the Hon. John
Bell. late member of Gen. Harrison's cabinet
which shows conclusively, that the whig party
had the benefit of the Catholic influence in the
late presidential contest. The charge had been,
i'll his SecIlOn OF the country, Inat the CatnoIcS
were all democrats; and he now avaied HIMSELF
las The door had been opened) of the opportunity
Of setting this matter right upon good whig atl-
thorty. He then read from the pamphlet as fol-
lows:
VI am a whig-a Protestant whig-both in my
feelings and my sentiments; and while live
expect to be. Butt should regret to see any por-
ton Of the great whig party denouncng and per-
scouting any religious sect for its political tenents
or ITS pTeJudlces. If persecution commences a. !
galnst the Catholics, do you think it will end here
do you not think, if the political party prosecuting
be the dominant party, it kinded its fires against
the Catholics because they were opposed to it 10
sumed this sect, will they not extend to all other
religious sects for the same reason? Some of our
newspapers speak of the toleration of the Catholic
religion. The constitution says that that sec: as
well as every other, shall exercise and enjoy their
religious opinions. The right is guaranteed to
them BY the constitution, and cannot be destroy ed
I'LL the constitution itself is destroyed Therefore
the Catholics, and the members of every other re-
hglous denomination, free to eHjoY and ex.t
eTeIse their religious political sentiments as any
political party its peculiar tenets. Why array OUT
selves against this denomination? Is it not COM
posed, also Of native American citizens? Out of
lormIng It's population, upwards Of 800 900
are natives of America. Will we not have all !
these our political enemies? Have not the Catho- |
lies iatermarred with all the political and religious
parties of the Union? Have we NOT something to
lose here also? Did not Catholic MARYLAND vote
for Mr.. Clay2 In Pennsylvania and New York |
where there are more than $50, 900 Catholics in |
each State, did they not there vote thousands of
them, the whig ticket2 Did they not give the
strongest whlg vote in their parishes in Louisiana