New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-09
RELIGIOUS TESTS.

The fact that New-Hampsnlre' TIE o'a''
where the sham Democracy boasts OF &C.
listing in the greatest purity and power. 50
deeply outrsges the principles OF real De-
mocracy as TO maintain religious rest
in her Constitution; the fact that those
parts of the State where that party
has msiority. have voted against remoE-
ing this test, while those where the
Whigs are In power have voted 10 sOoI-
ish il 4: and the further fact that Mr.. Pierce
the Pre- -idential candidate Of that party
has failed TO use his influence with en-
erge'ic sincerity TO procure the removal
of this odious and revolving blot upon the
State.-all these facts have induced many
citizens Of both native and foreign birth
who have hitherto been deluded into sup
porting the party, but who prize tolerance
and liberty above mere partisan attach
meuts. to break loose from them and to
determine that at the ensuing election their
votes shall be given for Scott aud Ora
ham.
While the humber of voters Of native
birth whose eyes have been opened By
these simple facts is considerable, the
great revulsion is among those born In
other lands. The abandonment Oh the
Pierce party by these Is wide spread and
startling to the tricky politicians who have
been used to regard the foreign and e'pe-
cially the Irish vote, as no less their own
personal property, than if the voters were
their slaves. They see that this class OF
citizens can no longer be led by the nose.
They are alarmed at their detection, and
in desperation seek for some means OF
again getting them under their control
Az adherence to the truth offers no way
Of accomplishing that end, they resort to
invention and falsehood. A specimen of
their efforts In this line is revealed In the
following communication
FtsHKtrL LANDING Tuesday, Sept. :, 1859.
| To Ire Edikr of The ~ " Tribune go
Mr. John J. Morrell of Newburgh, made public
.tatenelt day or two hace that North Carolina had
| INCORPORATED In her Constitution religious test iden'
ucsly the ssms "a the one known the Catholic Test
/ 10 New Hampshire. Now, rs this was public state
rneut made At the railroad Depot take thi' public
mode Of iLqui'ins Ii II y Ss corrs'' Lew.
Now, Mr.. Morrell must be sufficiently
well Informed to know that his statement
is untrue. There Is no such test in the
Constitution of North Carolina, aud has
not been for seventeen years, and never
was there one go precise and exclusive as
that now existing in the Democratic"
State of New Hampshire. In It's re-
moval, Judge CASTOR, the earl and
intimate friend, the preceptor aud
father, almost, Of the Wing candi-
date for Vice President, Gov. Graham,
took the most prominent part, while Mr..
Graham also contributed his full share to
its extinction. II cannot be said of him,
as it can of Gen. Pierce, that hc has
proved less Jealous in the cause OF human
rights and of religious federation, than he
has been in securing his own personal adj
vancement.
A great deal has been said, mainly, il
not altogether, by Democratic orators
and journals to the effect that this question
Of religious tests ought never to have been
introduced in the Presidential canvass.
These oracles evidently wish to have it
forgotten that its Introduction is due to no
less Democratic - authority than
Vice.Presid DALLAS, and that the
Wing have done no more than disproye
imputaiiOns he saw fit publicly to cast upon
them, but has never had the grace to re-
tract. If any body is to be blamed for be-
ginning the controversy let the condemns
ton Of his friends inll upon him, but not
on US, even though in defending ourselves
we have carried the war into Africa, and
stripped OF another of the Illusions which
veil that repulsiye fossil, the sham De-
mocraey.