The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-09-29

ton viz :-"Eses lived that we usQuAL'Y,EBL
REPuDIArE, "H religious AMI property tests I"
connected spish quail ifestioss fur pahtic .eee.
Thus We perceive thai, fI,m the very 'n"'"rn
'lh1, We I sight Of Gen. Pierce in th- field
here the comes, Of te.t or n, tes WAS being
y wag.d. We fnd him ,he s:de Of ~ test, NJ
qaal ..thrr tnan ,h"se,-io use his "wT
. langnage-of .'paIiotisan, sbii'ty and mora
= w.r.h"
With the strong and con:inu Us & rts of the
dem cratic party, I" get up a convention t. r..
wise and nd III. e'ns'tui n, hey wer+
n-vrr,h l,ss q d and f,lled in their exer,i ms
no ill the year 1850, when canv nt.nn war
convened, in the month nf November, will,
G-n PIERCE ss the President thereof BY the
very decided and Aat-ripg vote Of 257, ,n6. II
was during tn. sting Of this convent. on thu,
Judge Woodbury. made mis- crirbra'rd speech
against the od"ns tests, . few extracts from
which WE shall here insert.
JUDGE WOODBURY.,
"M- Chairman Being opposed to the test.
that some IF our principal "Eces shall not be
filed, except by pers ms Of the Pr"trstan' R.li
gion ask leave to offer f.w reasons FIR it.
| Ona tie examination i, W n be found ,ha.
ih,s test cr-pt iu:n thu constitution originally
under temporary inrulse,t and without hlvin !.
anv Influence on the aff'irs' "f h. Sta. prnc i.
cally ~ they hen stood. This Is The vindica.
ton Of our fa hers.
! Tradition says--and probably h,d it in parlv
/ lft from the venerable parent OF IN. ...rmhrr
l tP,,sn EnniOn Ar plu,nur1-.,st
Nestor Of the p"lit.cians %: tha, generation, and
sole survivor "f the convention nt l7.l-ha,
the provision was inserted in 1884 to rep-l 'ann'
which had been dung out by som. after the
French alliance, Tint there was 10 be an alliance
ais" vi h th.. Fiench religion, and h. rstabllsh-
'"-n nj If II here. ha provi-in fell then sill
h"rn-s" E W Catholics rxi.t d in the Stata-
| Bu' !" 1921, the i'npr pr,ety If refining it on
principle b came so manifest. that aft,r one or
W. in- Il C ual e rts, the cn-~.rt,~n
-rsse il, and maj ,ri'y "f tn. people crncnrr d
vi ii III, IN; ", NJ, being lite w" thirds, the
pr v.~'on r''m, n d, though against the viii OF a
h-c,d+d majo ity
| Inv dues the question stand under republican
prncipl nf government. Bv ,h..m =. .ns ti-
| ',1ns ard laws mad. n,nr,. IL pr ,tect rights
fhan confer them They are made FIR pro-
tee ing liberty. 20 i,!i'v. c"nscsncr. property.
aud !te, ra'h'r tina { glvr n'st # tn s., "r
| t establish any pir'cutr st of r-l'gi u. pm.
IONS. This IS not tl,a, religion is min,r
cern. nnj :, in snmr view III. gr.a', st ii,r
tnnm al heinz, bu, rather TIN, rel g"n is
concern briwe. n God ard man. and ld m %
be- in erterd with by governments Such in
! nlrrant int. rpr has caused oceans "t bi," d
TO w, aud milf ms per sh at h. stalk, and
was one at the great cans. winch expelled tnr
frhers 10 a wild, rness aud h.. mercy n savage
'"s The republican governm mt aftrwaras
| establish d here should, II true tn republican
principles. shield all in their religious teneis
while conducting peacefully. and protect all IN
| h. ir pursuits and w"r,h,p, h"w,v.r did. rent,
| whi' actin. good cit 3nn', il hrcn:rs
! 81 c dal, aud like dcsp 'ism. pers. cuts differ
nc of pinion and intr duces the .rn.sest
| 'rr"gn'aril"s
| Why no, az well exrlctlv sav-,nd Mt do il
| coverily y-,hai n NJ but Proies arts fit i..r
| republic? Why not say that Calh lie NJ 'ryand
| is unhl! Catholic Hungary, t-.Ih.ls ;rr-
land? Ca'holc France? why hal a, half.
way measures? Why net sayr is mrrc CT I'd
in relig, US 'ai'h, and not The minh, h-att, NOR.
! ais, which r. nd.rs men nj abe Tor self
| ments or h,l we establish government { r the
f .ruer alone, aud nnl to secure liberty, cnarac.
ter. property, and l'rl
Wha. cct d dnrv, cr Locke, or J # Arson,
or Al ,dison think e. to hr trusted iih lrg,sla-
t.ve p war? How this, too, in ne z boz.
ing puhlc~' D., hey ;hus "strarizr a part
. hp C ntrary, hey had the experience ri the
" uti IL aid them by h" Ga holc Cartois
and L,'ay-,irS--he'ng m raj and brave as 'h-
most PurIianc ,l--and uary others If hat creed
have fought side by side w,,h snc- at Chip
pewa and Bridgewater and under he wall. If
NJ xic,, and shown t:iat t.rir creed Is no de-
serving proscrip pti"n. In short. with nj yong
furth INTO the question now, it 81, nls I"
m'ni not only uni ,st !" other serts, bnt not r
pa able I" MS a people, ar to the age in which
VIZ 1--we, TO retain tins test longer.
The ahnv. are q few extracts from the speech
I" which Cen. Pierce arose and said as follows
81 concur heartily in all tina. tn. gentleman from
Portsmouth has uttered. Ths religious rest IN
the constitution is. and has uudsWat'y 5sxn a
Stigma upon tie stn.s at homs AID abyoad II
has been repeatedly NAMED to M, and onee az
teas, IN q foreign iand, as an,oortky of tbs IN
teifigent and ihsrai spirit of our eountrynscn
Bn', say our whig nrighhors, why all Ibis
tak Is not New Hampshire a dem cratic
State. And is not Gen. Pierce their great lead
err All very true Why then ma. Gen Pierce
his dem 'cratic braihern, NIT sir,cken "n',
We ,s.ver for The very simple reason. that
they have never had it in their power so TO do.
At the convention Of wh cil have jus, sp ken,
,h- test clause was ck"n ou, by vote al 256
10 7, but this was mt all that was to he done.
The constitution, as amended by the convention
had e. be submitted to the penple, and ratified
nv two. third vnte before it conld become law
Il was M s,oner submitted than it was ratified
BY large m.Jority. but n"t sufficient to make
a majority Of t,soikirds. and consequently it was
lost, and the old constitution remained.
Il will now perhaps be enqnred. II the dem
ocra'a with Pierce at their head were so anx
i,us f'r the amendment, why did they not mus.
te. up two third. naj"rity' To this the
answer is easy. For the ,pl'in reason ih,t
it was I in tn r power. for neosr, in III, aohats
history of tho sM'e, hnre Ms demoe,ais bean
nbs 70 obtain a majority Of tl0o thirds Of all the
rotes of The S.a.s.
/ More anon.