The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-02-04

add your proiestation respected without ha-
wing TO 60 10 Wal. Because there is anoth-
er sanction which you may add to your pro-
t~estation-a sanction powerful as a threat Of
war, and yet no war at all. That sanction
will be the declaration Of Congress, that the
intervention ola foreign power in the domes-
nc affairs Of whatever Haion-being a vio-
lahOn Of the laws of nations, BY the fact of
such Intervention yourneutrality laws Of 1918
are suspended in as far as Che interfering.
or interference claiming power is concerned.
In other words, that the citizens Of the Uni
ted States are at liberty to follow their own
inclination in respectto such a foreign power
which violates the Laws of Nations.
This sanction would be sufficient. because
the e~nterprising spirit of your high-minded
people is too well known not to be feared by
all the despots Of the world.
Your laws, which forbid your citizens to
partake in an armed expedition abroad, are
founded upon the sentiment that to a foreign
power with which you are OF terms ofamity,
the regards of friendship are due. But you,
without becoming inconsistent with your
own fundamental principles, cannot consider
yourselfto be in good friendship with a pow
er which violates the Laws of Nations; so
you may well withdraw the regards of
friendship from it without resorting to war.
Between friendship and hostility there is yet
a middle position-that of being neither
friend nor enemy-therefore permitting to
every private individual to act as he plcases.
Thus the conditional recall of your neu-
trality laws would enforce the respect to your
protestation without getting your country in
the moral obligation to maintain your pro-
testation by war. | hope those who share
my principles, but hesitate to pronounce, on
account OF the possibility of a war, will De
pleased to consider this humble suggestion,
and will see that with my principles; war
will be averted from the United States, and
by opposing my principles the United States
will soon be forced into dangerous Difficult
ties, out of which they cannot be extricated
but by a war, which they will have to fight
single handed and alone.
Gentlemen-I have almost abused youl
kind patience, and still l must claim your
indulgence for some further remarks. | am
told that the Roman Catholics in the United
States are opposed to my views. l am glad
TO be able to say that in general it is not so.
| have, warm friends and kind protectors
amongst the Roman Catholics here. The
gallant Gen. Shields, Mr.. Downs, the Sena-
tor from Louisiana, the warm-hearted Gov.
ernor Of Maryland, Judge LIE Grand, Of Bal
imore, and many others of my kindest
friends, are Roman Catholics; and from New
York up to whatever place, masses of Ro-
man Catholics have so universally, so gen
orally shared in the common sympathy be-
slowed on me, as whoever else. How
could it be otherwise? Is my cause not the
cause of Freedom? And is Freedom not a
treasure to whatever religious denomination
Can there be a people of whatever religion
who loves to be oppressed? What country
is more Roman Catholic than Italy, thar
Rome itself? And is Italy-is Rome no
opposed to the despotic Government of the
o Pope in Rome, while it remains strongly at,
tached to the spiritual authorities of the Pope?
D AS for myself am a Protestant not only
j by faith but by conviction and no man can b
more warmly attached torelig1ous convictions
han I am. 1t is no merit Of mine that my
troublesome life has afforded to me oppor
t%unities OF severe trial in that respect, and i
u is no merit of mine, but a simple necessity
that | did not sacrifice my religious convic
l. ions to whatever consideration. But l an
no sectarian, | claim liberty of conscienc,
for myself; and what Iclaim for myself,
am Of course ready to respect, in whomsoeve
= else. l therefore respect every religions con
%yiction. l respect TIE conviction Of Roma
Catholics, and will never forget that it is tn
: religion ofnearly half ofmy countrymennow
who have cordially co-operated in the caus
Of my country's Independence. will neve
forget that it is the religion of Poland, of a.
Italy, Of half Germany, of the greatest part
o. France and Ireland, whose hearts for tn
greatest part are with me,-and the rest I
whom on reflection, must be with me, becaus
l. they mustside with civil and religious liberty
y But if l ere a Catholic, would see wit
y even more pain than, as the simple ~assertio
of civil and religious liberty, l now see
Popery p~rostituted by obedience to the Czal
7" the relentless prosecutor of Catholicism, VIII
forced the United Greek Catholic, in th
:. Polish Provinces, by every imaginable cru
II ely, to abjure their connection with Rome
81 anu CdLIlSo Oub az a IdI GICdbCI GApSHu
ture of human life than Ferdinand and Iss
le bella, or Louis XIVth, the most urendou
y proselytism which violence has yet achieved
Certainly more than 100000 human be
y ings had died Of misery, or under the lasl
III in the manner in whichth unfortunate Minis
u nuns were proven to have died, before h
terrified thsse unhappy millions into a sui
he ,,icoion AGAINST which fhair cnncciauca RI
ly volted. Yet with this man, red with bloot
bit and damned with the million ours IS of the
of co-religionists, have the men of that ordt
1T. which rules Popery, now made an allianc
M or rather a compact of submission, like tn;
nd which evil doors, according to the superst
r. ton Of past ages, made with the evil spiri
he A peculiar character ofthat order, is the an
is bition to rule the world; hence its ALLAN,
"a with the Czar.-Hence is the Pope an OBJ
u, dent satrap of the Gar, the saguinary pc
secutor Of Catholics in the Polish Province
Hence we see High Priests of that churc
III: misusing their Ecclesiastical authority, o
use posing every movement for liberty, and su
at porting the cause Of despotism on earth
nd In this enormity, enlightened Catholics tber
selves see clearly, but that ambitious pow
ro- which it was a Pope who had been foremc
ate to suppress. but which, with a reptile Ii
vitality had writhed from under the heel til
Vi bruised it, and succeeded in wreathing its
ion again and again around the neck Of Cath
licism, for whom the ascendancy ofthat DO
the er, had always been a period of disaster a
lin confusion, =
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