Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-11-11

fool. II would bc found to cut the wrong way,
and most surely slay It's employer. Let him at
tempt It's use, and with his power Of cloquencc
he may Justly be recognised the "Arnold
Know Nothingism. Yes, sir, this order deslg gn
How to accomplish by force, by sophIsm and mis-
representation, what it, as the party which nov
constitutes it, wholly failed to procure in 1852
when they offered General Scott for the presi
dcncy with the view, as avowcd by shem' 0
concilia,ing tho Catholic and Foreign vote o
this country Because that Gen. Scott fayorc
tho Catholic Church, while his wife and daugh
tiers were in actual memb crship, some of whom
had even taken the veil and because that HI
sang so melodiousy, that 'rieh Irish 6rogue an'
swee. German accsnt,' they supposed that there
by they could hypocritically besuio and seduct
tho integrity and,yirtuo ofthesc people, and thu
buy them over to their support. This was the
quia pro quo they then offered Catholics ant
Foreigners for principle and moral integri ty
but they then repulsed tho profiered insult, and
the party with firmncss and patriotism bccom
Ling the character Of American ffecmen. Thci
| It was, after having rendered, them in exchange
for loyalty and patriotism the greatest boon that
hypocrisy, falsehood, fraud and chcanery coult
devise, and meeting with the same success thai
bis Satanic majesty met vixen he tempted the
Saviour; that they swore in the deepest recess
cs of their hearts, ,that-if they could-not cajo'e,
seduce, nor buy the Catholic land Foreign vote
to their support, that they should neither vote
nor hold Office in this government, so help them
God-and this, allow mo SLY, was ihe frs,
Know Nothing oath .evcr tar eenin this country.
That occasion coli 3sd tho monster Know Yo5
thing. If Catholics and ssForeiyners could then
have rcconcled it to their feelings, as freqmdni
to have been bought over to the great Chief"
Know No.hihgism would now be aqShere. But
Americas now complains and gives it as an ex-
cuse for Know Nothingism, that "the American
people saw politicians, not only trucking for
the votes of tho united Jesuit body and prcma-
turely citizenized Foreigners, (whose naturaliza-
ton papers they hesitrtcd not to forge) but they
saw Cabinet appointment, the Post Office Dc.
partmcnt given away to Roman Catholic,to SO.
cure and conciate Jesuit favor and support
that they saw the Custom House and police
trusts given away to Foreigners to tho exclusion
Of natiyc.born Americans, to conciliate Foreign
favor, and secure Foreign yoles.p Never were
greater lalsehoods and pcryersions uttered. by
man. O! tru!d and justice, heayen-born attri-
bu,es, come to thine own rescue ! and suffer no.
these base perversioas and foul misrapresenta-
tons 10 have their desired effect, The Post Of.
fec given away to buy Catholic votes, J.! Hal
What sensible man does not know bet,eri Who
bu. Know Nothing would dare utter such base
calumnies against the character Of as pure a man
as President Picrcei Not one. The american
people will require some evidence at least to
support such declaration, especially when com
ing from Know Nothing, known to be hosti lc
TO his administration, ere they sanction it, for,
sooth, because Gen. Pierce appointed native
born American citizen, Postmaster General, and
who by the wayis US competent and trustworthy
u man as could be selected for that post, and ha.
made an excellent officer, he, campbo Il, is no
only to be prescribed because he happena to bc
a Catholic, but President Pierce is also to be
prescribed because he will not prescribe, and
that too in the face of the Constitution which he
has sworn to support, aud which iorbids rel.
gious test. Yes, sir, tho President il politcl,
called upon to pcrjure himself to crafty Know
No,hings. Gen. picrcc5uy Catholic and Forcigr
votes nobody has ever attempted to buy OIL
trucklc for these votes but tho Scott (now Knew
Nothing) party Of 1852, and they met the rcbuke
their insult mcritcd. But it may be contendcd
,ha, these have now turned States evidence, uu
der the cognomen Of Know Noth;ngs. Well, il
they have, then there remains none for them to
testify against-aonc 10 convict. Then | ave
there is not single syllable Of evidence to sus.
tain either one Of the foregoing declarations, un
less it be from tho b!ackcst recesses Of Know
Nothinsism. But to any and all such evidence
beg leave TO except. ~, 1i8! 'r.
But again he says, "Ths American peool,
saw the manslayer, and pa.Eio: butcher Be
DIM come TO this tree land and organize tn
! secret oath bound society Of Sanjedssti.@-
Here again, is a black illuendo, IN The shon,
IolI charge wilhou, any proaf to sustain !,
Will, the facts are, as every one mus, t,,o,y
nniv s,.b nc .re d,.,srm;npi IN u Kna,,, A.,