Daily American telegraph., 1852-10-04
The Voice OF the New Hampshire Cath.
olics and Irishmen.

The Voice OF the New HampIhire Cath.
olics and Irishmen.
from the Manchester IN. H. American and Messenger
The following communications, with the names
appended, have been forwarded to us by the
Catholics and Irishmen Of this city, Dover, New
Market, and Nashua, with request that they be
published The documents must speak for them
selves:
MANCHESTER, N. H., Sept. q, 1852.
Mr.. EDITOR: We have seen q letter to John
White, esq, Of Milwaukee, signed by number
Of Catholics 5f Concord in which great praise
Is bestowed on Gen. Franklin Pierce for his ef-
forts in the convention and elsewhere, TO have
the Religious Test removed from the constitution
Of this State. 1t is but natural TO suppose that
something will now be locked for from the
Catholics in this State, who hold the opposite
opinions in politics, especially as the letter re-
ferred to seems to speak not only for the Catho-
lies Of this State, but for those Of New England.
Before going into the subject any further, we
assure the Catholics Of the Union that there are
plenty Of our religion in New England who
have about as much regard for Gen. Pierce and
the politics he advocates as they have for the old
Blue Laws Of Connecticut But we are willing
to give to Mr.. Pierce whatever credit he is enti-
tied to for the part he took in trying to have the
Test removed. The Daily Patriot Of Concord
gave full report of the proceedings after the
convention, and upon il we chiefly depend for
information, and where in the report is the proof
to be found that he made anything like "a pow
erful effort to have the odious Test expunged
from the constitution, we are unable to say-in
fact, we can see nothing whatever that Mr..
Pierce did, while the Test was under considela-
tion to have it removed.
After Judge Woodbury. had spoken upon the
subject, the property qualifications came up and
then Gen. Pierce spoke, and in his remarks men,
toned the Religious Test as blot or stigma upon
the State, and that it had for long time been a
dead letter, and other things which are really
laughable. Early in the convention Judge Wood
bury had made known his intention to offer
amendment, at proper time, by striking out
the word Protestant from the sixth article Of
the Bill of Rights. When the time arrived Mr.
Pierce reminded him Of it, and he did so, and it
was stricken out, and this is the sum and sub
stance Of what he did in the convention to have
the odious Test removed, and how far this may
be considered powerful effort we leave others
to Judge. Many of us were under the impression
that he had done more until we examined the
report for ourselves What he had done Mt town
meetings in Concord, or elsewhere, we know not;
sure it is that his speeches, if he made any, have
not been reported even by his own party, and as
to what is reported in the Democratic papers
throughout the country concerning the liberality
of the Democracy" of this State, we would have
Catholics mighty cautions, for as we can assure
them by partial experience, and as the votes in
the late elections on the revision Of the constitu-
ton have shown, more determined enemies of the
rights Of Catholics, there are not in the country,
than the Democrats of New Hampshire That the
papers Of that party throughout the State advo.
cate the removal Of the Religious Test is moth