The true Democrat., 1854-09-13

there De! as there CathOllc m the country at the period of the Revolution, who was not friend of liberty? Were not Charles Carroll, of Carrollton and Catholic Maryland as true , to the cause of the Revolution, as John Adams and Protestant Massachusetts? Did not Catho- lie and Protestant hearts, throughout the coun- try unite Tn sympathetic aspirations for the es- tabllshment of the Union, and the organization of Republican freedom in the Constitution of
 the United States? Have not the Catholics, ever since the government was founded, paid their taxes, contributed to the general prosperity
 been obedient to the laws, and fought as will llngly and as bravely the battles of the Repub- lie, by sea and land, as our Protestants and people have done; have not Protestants and Catholics done these things everywhere up to this hour like friends and brothers, side by side? don't like either an assertion or fabrication, and respectfully request some proof of any instance in which the Catholic Church has ever attempted to encroach on the principles of the American constitution, or in which majority of Catholic citizens, native and adopted, have not supported those public measures calculated to promote the power and prosperity of our common country. On the contrary, did ever Catholic clergyman petition Congress to repeal the fugitive slave law? Did ever set of Catho- HO Aucu CuIcdCeu IuO Seudto or the United States in the name and authority of Almighty God; and entering boldly the po- ltical arena, attempt to coerce Senators sent there by the States and people, in the discharge of their political duties? Is not the Catholic church, judging from all the evidence before us, devotedly attached to the Union? While other religious bodies have separated and gone North and South upon that question, the Catho- Oh, hoo hoo, I II vative on the subject of slavery. It does not attempt to oonstrue the constitution or to judge of its provisions, but leaves all those matters to the citizens, ln theircivi and political character, each to judge for himself In addition to this, let the Catholic church proselyte as t may, and surely this is not illegal-the Catholic popula- tlon can never equal or nearly equal, the Pro- testant. From all this mean to deduce the conclusion that there is TO reason for apprehen- sion or distrust, much less for the encourage ment of malevolent and purely mischievous temper in the country, and that dangerous ex- ctement sought to be produced, no doubt for political purposes, under this humbug cry of Catholic encroachment. believe the good sense of the people will soon make it stale and unprotitable business for the politicians many of whom have only obtained title to consideration by vocferating this nonsensc.- Catholic encroachment indeed! So far as it has fallen within my observation, Catholic en- croachment consists in the blowing upof Catho- lie churches with gunpowder, of their destruc- tion by fire, without resistance, to say nothing of the constant iteration of the most insulting suspicious without any sufficient reason, reflect
 ing equally on the intelencc and patriotism of the Catholic citizens. As to the second speci- I ha1i hot bol, ;, this country have right, within the limits of the law, to manage their own domestic con- cerns, free from impertiment observation and intension.
 As regards the sapient respondent's second main proposition, in which he charges corrupt coalition between the Catholic church and the democratic party, really feel 1 ought not to make a reply He refers to the case of Judge Campbell as being strictly in point, but never theless fails to present single fact in support of the allegation. If the charge has any mean ing at all, tits, that Campbel's nomination first and subsequent appointments, were the result of political understanding or negotiation be- tween the democratic and the Catholic church. But this is the gbberish of madman or idiot. Who concocted the negotiation and effected the arrangement? By whom, when and where was all this done? It is notorious that Judge Campbell lost his election on account of certain political anlmosities, which seized on his Catho- llcism as a successful point of attack against him. No one could deny that he had always been sound and useful democrat to the best of his ability, and his official qualifications had been backed by the democratic State conven- tion, and by numerous professional endorse ments from individuals of eminence thrOus hout the State, who had a right to speak authorita- lively on the point? And the correspondent knows that immediately after his defeat, by the treacherous defecton of certain democrats, the position was openly taken every where-wth- out any particular interest for Judge Campbell as an individual-that he ought to be appointed Attorney General by Governor Bger, because the party had been betrayal at the election by dishonest men, and because the party, itself the victim of betrayed, required the vindication of its discipline, not only as amatter of neces- sty. but in reference to great principle that had been insulted in his person. have reason to believe that there was no peculiar intimacy at the time between Gov. Bigler and Judge Camp bell, but he yielded to a request preferred, on the grounds have described, by most of the prominent men, and all of the prominent jour- nals of the party throughoutthe State. While 1 need not pursue this subject further, cannot but remark that the ascrption of an improper motive to the President and those who may have advised with him in the selection of Judge Campbell for the office of postmaster general is equally groundless-I will not say equally malicious and false. Gen. Pierce is, believe, Presbyterian in his religious views; and al
 though many may suppose they have reason to find fault with his aets no one has any reason to question his sense of honor. When Gen. Jackson appointed Roger B. Fancy chief justice of the supreme court of the United States-at time too when more Catholics voted the de- mocratic ticket than either before or since-a great man to great office-there was no one wicked or foolish enough to prefer similar charge against him. But the charge might have been presented with just as much truth and force. Here is charge, that concerns the honesty and patriotism of great party-the integrity and dignity of christian church, and the honor and truth, both moral and political, of anumber of our most distinguished citizens? It should not have been preferred, unless capa- be of being sustained by overwhelming proof
 But the author of it disdains the production of a single fact. Itis true majority of the Catho- lie citizens in the State voted for ,Judpe Camp-