The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-09-29
From the New York Truth Teller.
The Presidency.

EHor.s of peculiarly mean, insdous and
INSCRIPTIONS character are being made by agents
of the Wing party to catch Irish votes for the
| Wing candidate for the Presidency. The deep
| and well ground antpathy Of lrshmen to the
| English Government is made use of, and they
are asked to vote f,r Scott, because. is allrg-
| ed, he carries tBritish lead" abou, some portion
Of his body. The sacred name of rrli sion is
also used, and lrish.nen are asked to vote for
| Sc IT. because daughther of his has had the
| race To become Catholic. We allude TO th-s.
| drspicable Efforts, and the silly arguments by
which they are sustained, because, we conceive,
that the parties who use them insult the under
| standings Of lrshmen and Ca holics the
United States. We d, not deny, no one can,
to G-n Scot the merit of bling good soldit r,
bu, It may be worth while to inquire what
occa sion lie received this dose CT "Brtish lead"
about which SO much is said 1t was at one Of
the battles Of the war Of 1912, a war declared
and carried on by Democratic Administration,
and opposed in its inception and progress by that
Wing party of which Gen. Scott is now tie
standard bearer. Had that Wing party been
in power in 1912, no war would have been de.
clared against England, Scott would have won
| 10 laurcls, and the United States would have
| b, en- Inundated and disgraced. During the
war, Scott, then junior officer, obeyed the or
ders whc, he received from his superors, and
ibUgut ydlduuy, Uul W Tic par WHICH oTlII.
| nat d the war is due the thanks of all true
Am ricans, and of every enemy of English in
science. No mater what SCOTS personal mrr
5 may be, he is now, and would be, if by acct
dent he should be elected, tool in the hands
| OF that party which, on every occasion since thu
| foundation Of the Government, has lent itself
to the designs Of the British Governmen,-that
pa ty with whom originated the alien and sedi,
ton laws Of John Adams, and whose IN st prom
inent l.aders, even of the present day, are
t,in'ed with the spirit of Native Americanism-
rat party who opposed every proposition for the
extension, by purchase or negotiation, Of the
limits of the Republic, by which, from year t"
year, new fields have been opened in the West
and South Tor the labor of our oppressed coun
| trymen-that party who have commissioned
Abbott Lawrence to the Court Of St. James, to
beslaver with his praise the tyrant arstocracy of
England, and VINO, within tn. last two years,
have sgnalized their rule by the betrayal OF the
Republics Central America, and the most
slavish submission 10 English aggression. Out
with the cant Of "Brl,ish lead" We oppose
Gen Scott because he is the tool Of party
whose sympathrs are British, and whose policy
has invariably tended to invite British agrees.
ion.
With reference to the religious cry, we would
simply ask, by whom has it been rais'd' BY
the anOinted guardians OF the Catholic religion
in the United States No! BY JEALOUS ad-
herents, or even open professors of that faith
No such thing-but by men who belong to other
religious persuasons, and VINO, if they lie sin
c.r,, can hive no sympathy with the Catholic
religion II is not, then, love for the Cath"-
lie religion which actuates these parties, but a
desire to make political capital out of the reli-
gious f cines of lrishmen. The attempt is 70,
more reprehensible in the parties who make it
than it would be disgraceful in any Irshman to
allow himself for moment to be influenced
by such unworthy appeals. What mat'ers il to
any Catholic in America what religion Scott $
d.uyhter processes? What matters it,, even,
what religion Scott himself may profess Here,
in this free land, there is no State Church, but
all creeds are by the terms Of the Constitution
placed on an equal footing before the State. To
introduce, therefore the question of religion into ,
the arena Of party p 'li'ics is uncall.d for, is
wicked The man who dues 81 is not the friend
Of religion, nor Of the peace and happiness Of
the United State. In Ireland the case would [
be different, for there the Government is the ,
enemy of the peoples relig,on--lere it is not
so-never can be 50, unless such parties as thos
to whom we have referred should be- allowed 10
make Of the religion of numerous section of
our citizens the scape. goat of their own little
political designs Such result, however, is !
impossible, 80 long as Irish nen are INTEL e. ut,
and are true to the institutions Of their adopted
country.
Were we 50 disposed, W, might enter into n ,
comparison of tie relative merits of Scott ard
Pierce ,and show how purely on Icrsonal grounds
Pierce is entitled to the suff ages Of every man