The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-09-08


Hampshire knows them better. This must
happen soon. ,.-. ....,..t .,s..-i. 81. .,-.ri.
These considerations show that this has
been dead letter in New Hamp shire
Catholics could not hold certain offices, but
then, there no Catholics in the State, none,
any rate, who could aspire to be Governor,
or Senator. Had the issue been tried--had
a Catholic been elected Governor by the
people, at any time, we are persuaded that
he would not be unseated by, the Legislature,
in consequence of these constitutional pro-
visions. Little or nothing, probably, would
have been said about it. Any attempt in
the way o.. enforcing the law, would probably
have resulted in its repeal. Thisis the opor-
alton Of most obnoxious laws which have be-
come q dead letter. In Maryland, for exam
pie, there is at this moment, we believe, a
law forbid4ing Catholics to pass within a GER
tain distance Of the Court House. Wedoubt
mot thai similar laws, may be found in the
Statute books in other States. They cannot
be enforced ofcourse. Woodbury. and Pierce
in thcir, speeches, strongly insisted upon the
fat fact that The New Hamshire law is, a dead
letter. s,Eha IN .t,sIt.,L, t,r.,,.ff .,.,
Wings care As PlScb for Catholicity as
Democrats do; neither more nor less, We
would not trust its interests TO either party.
| 1t is wrong however, in our whis friends 10
charge this New Hampshire law. upon the
Democratic, party in that State, The Dem
ocrads might as well say il atrtlfe door Of
the wings the injustice of massachusetts in
refusing to pay tor the ursuline Convent
Nay, with greater reason. For MasSachu-
setts has been. two or three sessions except
I ed, in the hands Of, the whigs;-a two thirds
vote is not required to make the proposed
indemnity, and the wings might therefore,
had they wished it, have done justice to the
owners Of the Convent, Yetit was not Mas.
sachuSetts Whiggery, but Massachusetts big
1otry, that did this., The same thing hold!
more than good in News Hampshire. ,gr, Fo
1.-TWO years we believe, New Hampshire wa
lin the hands of the wings, Why did the,
mot then ,evlnce that tenner interest IN tht
welfare Of the New Hampshire Catholic,
which they exhibit now? -r.a...,.r IN, ,.c
! The truth is, the Democrats never, within
odr recollection, held New Hampshire by !
1majoriiy oftwo thirds, They have canlet
ithe iState, in most years, but by a, simpl,
majority, Now, to amend the Constitution
fa two thirds vote is required, they could not
therefore without help from the wings, rcpea
this law, and if they could not, they are no
3to be blamed. The truth is, in every stat
5big6lryis 10 belfound in men OF both parties
IIulaas no necessary relation with Americaf
politics. y szn-eeal .]i-t f@."' ,""a. 60
t The question, then, has not been hitherto
flof much practical Importance, and tho diff
1culty is one Of those which time will surel
lresolve, as it has in most Of the other States
! Catholics are Beginning to be known in Ney
Hampshire, hence the subject has been agi
ttated OF lateyears, aud the agitation willno
end until the constitution shall have beei
amended in this respect. The nomination o
Gen. Pierce has brought it under the notcC
ofthe whole country. and that circumstanct
may eause the people of New Hampshire
both Wings and Democrats, to expunge thu
otfensl 9 clause by a unanimous vote, Gen
Pierce h IS done all that one man can do tC
THAT end, and what he did was done wher
lho)one talked Of him as u candidate for tht
Presidency. 4 ssh ..ug <'Haa3.t 1ai ..r.
Il fDhe@good feeling of Gen. Pierce, in thi.
matter. may be appreciated from what WI
}haYe said thus far, But a circumstances oc
Icurred which adds greatly to his. credit, =
When the towns came to vote upon the a
tmendment granting equal rights to the Cath
Lolics, they rejcctedit, yaslwe have seen -
| THillsborougli, the home of Gcn. Pieee, gave
q very large majority in favor of the amend.
lment.t Concord, the town in which he trans
acts business and temporarily resides, gave
IL small majority, about TO, we believe, a.
gainst it. Thas majority would have been
much larger, were IL not for the exertions oI
Gen, Pierce, and thereby hangs a tale, -
New HamShire, rs we have said, is now
mainly populated by Protestants who do not
know what Catholicity is and who, unlike
the aProtestaDtsin most other Smtesy have
not had adlopportuniiies Of knowing what it is.
The biSots were opposed to this amendment,
Of course, and their influences was exerted to
procure lis defeat. II was in Concord; the
bigots were busy, and the vote was going
largely against the amendmentaul General
Pierce, who was atIwork in his office, after
having deposited his votes heard of this in
the course of the afternoon. He, with Wood
bury, and other gentlemen, who had labor
cd id convention and elsewhere for the Cath.
olic amendment, supposed that the people
would sustain il, as the convention did, as a
matter of course. On receipt of this unex-
pected and unwclcome news, he hurried tc
lllle town halL,S where the pedpl6werEs oting
obtained leave. to q speak, and delivered an
,earnest appeal in favor O, the amendment ~
The bigols Mere silenced, and the 'baIots
thereafter were cast for the amehdment.-
had he or any Of the promihent friends oI
the, measure SUPPOSED that ttherewoarldshar
4 been considerable opposition it would have
been an easy matter, to, stump the State, rs
the phrase is, butno one expected sucha re,
;.s suit This plants from the fact that ttt
convention WAS unanimous. When Judge
Woodbury. had finished his speech, one, d
= the members observed that it was a good ar
gltment, bat it was thrown away becaus,
there was no opposition. He thought tina
the people would accept the amendments tsbj
AN OVERWHELMING vote. Iiia s9iiguoa 1pjs NJ
MI heonyert isa ,goodthing, but recent con
9verts, especially when theyare converted a
electioneering lines, are open tosuspiciop,-7-
Gen. Scott assuredly did once espouse th,
pNatives scause.A AbUuts 848, ha ardtFactedth IN,
error A second retraclion comes now, ID
dl8s2y Eliesa are Itwoi oiPresidahtia years. =
sAll this lis well. hut it wonld hn hattar To IN