The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-10-09
Catholic Emancipation In New Hampshire-Wh,
are 4" Nativists ~

are " Nativists :"
With the name of FIR PIERCE hving
at its masthead for President of the United
States, the Democrat has the audacty to charge
the Wing party with being the "Native Amer-
can party" Now, foreign born as we'll as ma
tive born, just read what is printed below, and
then decide as to his sincerity. Here has the
crime of forgery been invoked to induce citi-
zens of foreign birth to believe that Frank
Pierce was friend of Catholic Emancipation
in New Hampshire! The authority comes to us
in no questionable shape. These documents are
now spreading like wild-Iire all over the Union,
and opening the eyes of thousands to the politi-
cal fraud that is attempted to be put upon
them:
From the New Hampshire Gazette, Extra.
The Irishmen In New Hampshire and Gen F.
Pierce.
CONCORD, n. H., Sept. %, 1852
Soon after our paper went to press yesterday,
We received the following communication, which
we issue this morning in an extra form. We
postpOsed communication or two from our last
paper to next week, giving evidence that the
adopted citizens and our countrymen in this
vicinity were grieved at the course which some
were made to adopt by having their names used
without their knowledge or appreciation. We
have felt confident the letter with SO " names
to it did not correctly represent the feelings
and views of the Catholic citizens of Concord
and vincinity, nor, indeed, those of the State
generally. We ask their attention to what fol-
lows:
TO THE FRIENDS OF THE :: GREEN ISLE"
Whereas an article appeared in the n H. Pat
riot, dated at Concord, Aug. Is, 1852, over the
signatures of thirty-six Catholics of this town.
many of whom we are informed knew nothing
of their names being used until they were in
print. representing that they. and Catholics of
New Hampshire generally, feel deeply indebted
to Gen. Pierce for his support. in and out of the
Constitutional Convention, removing the Anti
Catholic Test therefrOm-and whereas no cred
it is due in this particular, to Gen. Pierce. or
the party in the State, whose candidate he is
for the Presidency. it is deemed proper to put
forth the following paper:
We, Catholic citizens of Concord and vicinity,
feel that we are wrOngfully marked for pro-
scription in matters political. when the spirit of
the age is favorable elsewhere to religious toll
grafton: and we think the party in power in
this State has shown an Indifference to our
rights highly censurable. inasmuch as no honest
efforts have been made by them to remove the
impeachment which bars Catholics from holding,
under the State Government. places of profit.
honor, influence and responsibility and we have
yet to learn that Gen. Pierce, who seems solic-
itous to obtain the votes of the people of our
faith for the high Office he seeks has ever utter
ed word in our favor, save just at the close of
Concord town meeting, in 1852, when the
question had already been decided against us
in the State, and also in Concord itself
In our estimation he has done nothing to mer-
it our support. Indeed, in 1885, his own party
in the State Legislature passed law dcpriving
unnaturalized citizens of what little right of suf
frage was theirs, up to july T. of that ycor