Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1852-09-16
Hypocrisy.

motives More generally hypocrisy Is slmuatoa the
assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion;
deceitfu show Of good character, in morals or re-
gon; a counterfeiting of religion.
Beware We of the eaven of Phsees which hypOes
Luke xii.
2 Stimulation; deceful appearance; false pretense.
Hypocrisy the necessary burden Of vainy.-Ranabler
Nothing be appropriate in its application
than the above significant definition Of the word hypoc-
risy the leaders of the Wing party in their sudden
zeal and holy reverence for the Catholic church The
odlous New Hampshire adopted as part OF the
constitution of that State 1892 At there
were no Catholics in the State. There but few
When, through the influence of Franklin Pierce
and Levi Woodbury. this odous provision was stricken
from the constitution it attracted particular atten-
tion and when the liberal and tolerant amendment to
the constitution rejected by the people in their
town meetings, the scarcely called forth pass
ing remark from the Wing press. No Robinson or
Greeley then found to thunder forth the niquity Of
the deed No pamphlets Published. The remains
Of old Gen. Ben Pierce slept in the quiet church yard
Hillsborough and disturbed them. There
were hired orators denounce the old hero of the
Revolution ga bigoted old tory" Then why all this
sudden Indignation Of the leaders of the Wing parya
Why this sympathy for the oppressed Catholics of New
Hampsbrei Honest and intelligent Catholics Protest
sheer hypocrisy This sudden revival in favor of Caho-
cis without the aid of priests missionaries-these
numerous converts from Professionalism doctrines
of the Pope and the mother church. are all to obtain
votes for Gen Scott.
"Their friendship is a lurking snare,
Their honor but an idle breath,
Their smile the smile leu that att traitors wear,
After the election, these mushroom converts that
have grown up night WILL like the gourd OF Jonah,
wither and die. Their hypocrisy will neither make
character for themselves nor votes for Gen. Scott.
Their attempts identify Gen. Pierce with opposition
to religious freedom in the State of his nativity has
proved signal failure. 1t is admitted that he voted in
convention strike the odious provision of 1892
from the constitution-that he left the chair the pre-
siding officer of the convention to make speech in
favor of the amendment-that election day he ad-
dressed the people Of Concord, the town Of his resi-
dence in favor of the provision for full religious tolera
ton in the State, advocating the necessity and justice
OF striking the odious and Liberal distinctions between
Catholics and Protesants from the organic law. All
these things he did. But the Wing leaders contend
that he might have done These jealous converts
who have volunteered in the of the Catholic
church until after the election forget that there
thirteen Catholic newspapers in the United States,
all independent and influential and Of them denti-
fed with party politics These papers have all prompt
ly rebuked the authors of these vile ISLANDERS and done
Justice to Gen. Pierce The same miserable clap.trap
game would not have been attempted any other
ligous denomination in the country, but their Wing
leaders think that the great Of the Irish Catholics
are ignorant and besotted, and be made to believe
ANYTHING. They will in the end find themselves wofuly
mistaken Irish Catholics will spurn those who smile
but to deceive them They will look the organs Of
their church and their native country for the TRUTH and
not to the partizan press either Wing Democratic
few instances will suffice show the sudden CONVEX
sions of the Wing leaders Catholicism Gen. Scott
within the last few years. has been an pen and avowed
Native American The creed OF that party indiscrim
nate war on Catholics as the burning of the Ursuine
Convent and the Philadelphia Churches will abundanty
prove
In the Constitutional Convention of Indiana, General
Kilgore the Wing Presidential Eector for the Fifth
District openly declared that negroe cere better quail
fed to vots than foreigners"
A few years since Mr.. Parker, now the Wing candi.
for Congress in the Fifth District as editor of the
Connersve Waterman said:
"The country is literally alive and swarming with
IGNORANT FOREIGNERS who were born and
have lived all their days under the iron and gnominous
sway Of Kings and Prests-men who have even one
just conception of the duties and privileges of Free
born Republican, and Apostolic Christan-men who,
from their King and Priest-rdden ignorance il
not from their ABSOLUTE WlCKEDNESS can be as
little trusted with the immunties of American clti-
zen as an infant child can be trusted with blazing fire.
brand in a magazine of powder. Foreign Kings, for
their safety home and the contamination of Republi-
canism-and the Pope of Rome, for the pushing of
the Who're of Babylon, throwing thousands upon
thousands of these BESOTTED and RECKLESS
WRETCHES upon our shores every week"
After these declarations they round and attempt
to wheedle these citizens Of foreign birth to vote the
Wing ticket and to help place in power and office their
most deadly enemies Will they do iti This question
have right to But the noble of Erins
Isle will give such will teach Whiggery a
lesson that it will not forget.