The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-21
NATIVE AMERiCANISM AND IT'S.
EFFECTUAL OPPOSITION.


In another column we give an article from the
.Imeriran Ctit, published at New York under
d,e Of the Bird, relating 10 various ryaniz Ations
whose aim, the editor asserts TO be Ibc drstrnc-
ton of the rights Of Catholics in this country
The organizations represent the spirit Of Native
Anier.cansm, aud so far as the remarks of the
Ccit tend to putting down spirit which is alike
foreign 10 our present and future prosperity, we
are ready Ia pay every Difference TO them. The
remedy which that paper proposes h wevcr,
seems to us very little calculate t, efr>ct the
end desired
Native Americanism, like every ether faction
whether II has had for its central point Anti.
Masonry, Abolilenism, Free Soil, or Temper
ance, has been put in motion TO be used agninst
The Democratic party. Each one of these in
turn, or all combined have been used by the
destroy the great party of the People. Thus
far, the effor. has been in vain. The triumph
ant Democracy, victors in hundred fights, have
taught their ever-chansing foe that they +" knew
all their shapes, and scorncd them ALL And 50
IT will continue to b., unless, misled by what
we have elsewhere termed outside issues they
weaken their forces by diYisi4n.
The party calling themselves Native Amer
leans, though in reality existing since the days
OF the trcason,ble Hartford Convention, never
took station among the recognized party ele-
nien's OF the cofntry, until the days of the
shameful Philadelphia riots, the Kensngton
ehTch burnings, and murders. The party then
touched the highest p1nt Of all its glory
Ihcn' wiae The Dem ocracy stood aloof from the
unhaiowed hend, then Gen Scott wrote his
famous letters, SIRED with Indignation then
wings pressed wltffardor into its ranks, and
Leyin and Peter Sken Ssith were high and hot
IN the prescription Of Irisl, c:.thoIics. But tho
no'd subsidized Levin has gone>into obscuritv
scott was eages to rec1nt his indiSaa,ion. and
Peter Skcn Smith is at this moment rav,,a bo
cause President Pierce would not endorse his
treasenable doctrines with the gift of an office
And now, II seems by the article of the Celt
the measures pursued by this abonnabc party.
4
night Thus has passed away another ianatica
faction. To whom is all this owing ?, To the
Democratic party, which stood firm, while floods
ot stuperation and abuse were poured upon it.
Unpovcd by the passions or the preudices Of
the present, il pursued the large minded princi
pies which have given il the proud name oil The
Popular Party, wherever the American flag is
known
II we understand the object IF the CeL, it
means to Intimate that the correct line of policy
Tor natnraized emgranis to pursue is 10 sever
from party, and vote for what each one NAV
consider !" the best men" With Difference let
us say that it could not point ont policy more
decidedly suicidal than this onew which will divide.
and weaken the very body which it wishes to
aid. The policy Of She best men has been
tried, and patty organization and party princi-
pies have been iaund too s'rong for even the
pledges of these best men, Every one re
members the b.lrning OF the Ursuline Convent
near Charlestown by an nfuri,ted anti Catholic
mob. Never was a greater outrage committed
never were more causeless acts of blind bru-
tality consunmated by mob Of furious fanatics
1T Is now near twenty years ago, since amid the
roar and the crackle OF the flames, aud the crash
Of flie falling walls, the Sisters of Mercy were
driven forth amid Tie bowling curses OF mob,
to shiyer in the rg,,rs y lern mid night
Since that time, compensation has been unre-
sought from the State of Massachu
setts for The daIn1ge caused by this most dis
graceful outrage. :. The best men" were pick
ed out, and under-pl,.dges TO make restitution,
were voted for and elected. And what was the
result? The result was that when the time for
action came, the associations Of party. and the
s,corn principles Of their FICTION were 100 strong
for their rerbat pledges, and 10 this day those
charred and blackencd walls stand mute but
most convn ing evidence of the folly Of The
Gets policy ot.' the best III n
As have had occasion to remark before,
no party hased on one idea, canexist Ii is but
pyramid sci upside diw,, and it can not pos
-ibly stand. The notion that naturazed emf
grants should form themselves into separate
party, having for lis cohesive principle the
best men, is an idea SO d, iicient in worldly |
wisdom that we are asfot,ished that one Of
Thomas Darcy Magee's penetration should
have thought of it I even moment. The
whole past demonstrates that every such party
contains in it'elf the elements of certain and
quick coming decay. Can not the Celt sslearn
rom its enemies 2" For the very history of its
Native Americanism, proves
his SO clearly, that no room is left for doubt.
There Two parties IN this country, and
pny two There can be but Two parties in any
country. What $ 'nc'i ncs appear separate or
gan ions are but fragments Of one of these
parties which quickly merge IN their original
Those two great par les the Democratic and
Lle Federal or Wing party. Native American
ism, Free Soilism and the other fapaticaI fac
ions, are but paris, and offshoos Of the Federal
organization The great battle of the Western
Hemisphere is between The Democratic party,
he advocates of freedom alike of sentiment
md trade, OF progress i'll belief AMI action, and
he Wing party and its fragments, the support
srs OF siagnaDt conservatism a bind adher- |
enco. to the prrjud,ces and the degmas Of The
past, and the advocates Of Il prescription Of ali /
who have a d Fl rent birth pl,cc or dissimlar
-ehgieus bsL,f To effect any thing, men
must join one Of these parties, and we can not
D. III d.nbt as the Of the na,uralized cit-
,ens ot eur co,unipn country. As in time past,
50 in time future, will they adhere 10 that party
which has ss',nd by them when haireds shafts
lew thick and iast, which has opened iraterpall
rms to feselvc Them without asking whether
hey knelt before the same altar or net That
party IL the party ol the Democracy, which
caves private bei-ef 10 private reckoning, and
holds that beiwet God and man S heart politics
-honld sever cast It's shadow In view of all
hese things, well indeed does Thomas Darcy /
Nagee say that no need be told that in
national affairs, the great Democratic party has
hitherto bcea the most fair, just, and Amer
,an
ts5 In II ilrpn House al Chicago was des. |
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