Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1854-12-01
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oi rTemonL trust you VIII ibFof tnlS
article with place in your paper, as the
article in question imperatively demands
some attention and consideration.
The outrage which was committed against
the worthy Pastor has been me. with just
terms Of depreciation from all our citizens,
and il is much TO be regretted that our town
should hold characters who make night hid
eous with their prowlngs. But if the rev.
erned gentleman has so much anxiety regar-
ding the spiritual welfare Of "bis people"
and i' not in favor of rousing the jealous
feelings existing between na;ive-born cii-
zens and those who are foreign by birth. be
should seek other channels than the public
press wherein to promulgate such ideas as
characterize his lame sophistry, in which he
endeavors to fasten the late outrage upon
the order of so called Know Notbings. The
Rev. Walsh should at all times exercise
little more discretion, or that knowledge
which the citizens Of Fremont possess in re-
gard to his taking no part in politics, might
be found reversed.
am not a Know Nothing, and l ques-
ton much whether there are any among
us. If there are, il would be no disgrace
to free and enlightened country. in which
civil and religious tolerance are chief and
fundamental principles of government If
drunken rabble choose to surround q
mans house and threaten death to him and
all such as entertain belief correspond
ingly, it is weakness in such man to betray
his ignorance of law and justice, since few
Incorporate men, or boys, are not likely to
massacre a community, Tor at least parl)
in any haste that demands so much fear.
The quotation which the writer gives
from "Sparks' Washington" to show in
what esteem catholics were held by the
Father of our Country, is but one in their
mead, while so many acts and aoords of the
immortal Washington, in the same Sparks
History are recorded against the foreign
population, who are mostly Catholics
Washington knew that catholicism and des-
potism were, and ever had been. inscp-
cradle. The one never thrives without The
other AS proof, let the candid and un-
prejudiced reader examine history.
In Sparks Washington, Vol. VI. p. IS,
we find these pointed and memorable words
III do most de.
voutedly wish that zoe had not single FOR
EIeNzR among us, except the Marquis de
Lafayette. who acts upon very different
principles from those which govern the
rest"
And again. in Sparks. Vol. XI. p. s93
(f mistake not,) during the time he was
President Of the United States. he wrote
the following letter to Vice President Johr
Adams:
"You know, my good sir, that it is moi
the policy Of this country to employ foreign
ers. when it can well be avoided, either il
the civil or military walks Of life. There il
species Of self-importance in all foreign
officers that cannot be gratiied withou. do
ing injustice to meritorious characters among
our own countrymen. who concsiue, and just
ly, that they are entitled to the occupanc,
Of all the Offices in the gift of their govern
ment."
Such is the language Of our great Wash
ington. If the people of this country ar
still willing to take the words of Washing
ton as coming from great and good man
it is not out Of place to bring them to thei
attention at such time, nor would it seen
but just they should be fell and acted upoI
The people Of this country have been eve
wont to listen TO the counsels Of Washing
ton as coming from father. That time ha
not. trust gone by, If Washington con
mended any foreigners especially. as givin
aid. it was that portion of the Irish naliol
who volunteered. with Stark at their heat
and who were all Protestant Irish; or prot
| ably the companions Of Emmett, who arri,
ed later-but they were not one Of Train
cargoes from the jails and aims houses
PROSTATE ireland. Washington new
dreamed, much less, ever had thought
this onnection-that aid could be expec
, ed from Catholics in struggle for civil ar
religious freedom Washington always we
coined the foreigner to participation
, all our rights and privileges. but be new
imagined what we now see. But, it will
observed that he only invites the oppresse
10 participation. not the psrvsrsio
change or destruction OF our institutions
We have never seen Native American
ultra, but what he would have responded 4
amen to this. In regard to the WELDON
, extended to foreigners by DR. Franklin. it
hard to say what nation he had 10 his ey
if any. But We can hardly conceive Of al
: thing that would have CALLED this gre
Apostle of liberty SO much az to see Of
country overun by thriftless. filthy ar
debased creatures. whose deplorable a
vent will. ere long. make itself so heavi