Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-11-22

Why not think it, speak it, write it. act i
? out, openly and aloud2 Or. is. it evil
: which loFeth darkness rather than light
) When there is no necessity to justify Sc.
cret association for political ends, what elst
can justify it A caucus may sit in Sc
cret to consult on the general policy of {
great public party. That may be neces
sary; but that even is reprehensible, if car
ried too far. But here is proposed great
primary, national organization, In its in
tception-What? Nobody knoeUs. To do
what? Nobody kno,ns. How organized
Nobody knoWs. Governed by whom p
No5ody knolrs. How bound? By what
rites By what test oaths2 With what
limitations and restraints Nobody, no.
body knows!! All we know is. that per-
sons of. foreign birth and of Catholic Iaith
are prescribed, and so are all Others who
don't prescribe them at the polls. This
is certainly against the spirit of Magma
Charta.
Such is our condition of freedom at
home, showing no necessity for such Sc
cret organization and its antagoniSm to
the very basis of American rights. And
our comparative native and Protestant
strength at home repels the plea of such
necessity still more. The statistics Of i'm
migration show that from 1920 to Janua-
ry Ist, 1858, inclusive, for 80 years and
more, 3,204S48 foreigners arrived in the
| United States, at the average rate of 100.
l5l per annum; that the number OF per
SONS of foreign birth now in the U. States
is 2,2lO, ,839; that the number of natives
whites, is l7,737, ,578, aud Of persons
whose nativity is ''ftnkHoo0n," is 80. l54.
(tluere, by the way What will .Hnog.
NOttiRgS do with the "atnkRo3yn2" 2") The
nUmber OF natives to persons OF foreign
olrth in the United States, is as to l.
ana the most Of the latter, of Course are
notuEUIized. In Virginia the whole mum.
Der OF white natives is 813, ,891. of persons
born out of the State and in the United
States, 57,502, making a total of natives
of 87l 1893; and the number of persons
born in foreign countries, is 22,953. So
that in Virginia the number of natives is
to the number OF persons born in foreign
countries. nearly-as SO to /.
Again-the churches of the .. States
provide accommodations for l4,234 325
voiaricS; the Roman Catholics for but 667,-
823; the number of votaries in the Protes-
tant to the number in the Roman Catholic
lAA NAAS OhILI'A AOIdISSi 4o < w /. LII IL
giDia the whole number is $50, ,436, the
Roman Catholics 1880 or 1903 10 l..
The number of churches in the United
States is 38.O6l, of Catholic churches e
2l more than 81 to are Protestant
In Virginia the number Of churches is g.
1888, OF Catholic churches is II; more than
$40 TO /.
The whole value of church property in
y N.
tholic church properryi is $9,256, 1853, or
8 to l. In Virginia the whole value OF
church property is 50, ,866.o76; of Cath.
olic church property, 1926, 100, OF 22 To /.
In The United States there are four Pro
testant sects, either of which is larger Than
! he Catholics
The Bnptsts provide accom-
mod,ttious tor 3,2l7,O29
The MetLodists for 4,343, ,579
The |PreSbyterians for 2,O79. go
The Congre. .;atlonalists for 8Ol.835
Aggregate of'four Pro-
testant sects. 1o,472,O73
| The Cathiics for 667, ,623
Majority of only four Pro-
testa6t sects, 1904 $50
Add the Ep.scopaAans for 643. .598
Majority of only Eve Pro-
tant sects, 10,447, ,948
In Virginia there are fve Protestant
sccIs. either of which is larger than the
number of Catholics in the State.
Baptists, q 247, $50
Episcopal, 1854
Lutheran, 18,75U
Methodists, 1928, ,7U8
Presbyterian, lO3,625
773. .356
Catholics, 1880
Majority Of free Protestant sects
in Virginia. VI 7e5. 42o
Or nearly 98to /.
Thus natives are to persons of foreign
birth in the United States, as To /.
In Virginia. as38 to /.
The Protestant church accommodations
Iare TO the Catholic in The United States !,
as 81 to l..
In Virginia, as 1903 to 1.
The number of Protestant churches is
TO the number of Catholic in the United
States. as 81 to l.
In Virginia, as l40 to l.
The value of Protestant church proper
ty in the United States. is to the value oi
Catholic chursh property as to l.
In Virginia, AS 22 To i.
) There are iour Protestant Eects, each of
which is larger than the Catholic, in the
U. States, ANA the aggregate OF which e1-
. ceeds the Catholic BY majority of g.,
f 8O4, $50 votaries, and. adding one sect
smaller, by majority of lo.447, ,848.
; In Virginia. there are i've Protestant
; sects. eacn larger than the number of Ca
5 thollcs in the STATE, aud the aggregate o