The daily union., 1854-10-18
IN THE STORM OF PRESCRIPTION AND FANATI
CISM THE DEMOCRACY STANDS FIRM.

i
CISM THE DEMOCRACY STANDS FIRM.
The combination against which the democratic party is
now called contend the most formidable that American
politics have ever witnessed For the first time we have
seen religious sentiment formally introduced into pot
cal creed The objection to birthplace heretofore almost
exclusively welded against born in ireland in
cudes the children Of every foreign cline from the hardy
German to the English and French and Scotch Thus,
while we this oppression called intolerance ma
king Professionalism test of citizenship the hand
for such test follows direct from the crusade upon all
Catholicism the other this test is proved TO be wicked
alsehood by the fact that belief in the Protestant faith
cannot save citizen born in Ireland, England Germany,
France or any other cline from the disranchsemen that
falls like upon all who cannot boast of native
American birth snd whose fathers not born upon
American soil.
The progress of the last monhs shows how reent-
essly these proscripve doctrines have been enforced
Men who have lived in the United States from their nan
cy whose foreign birth had almost been forgotten by their
nearest neghbors been stricken down by the
foe without knowing they had opponent at the cleo
ton or an enemy in the world Others prosecuted be-
cause tisr fathers emgrated from abroad at very early
age and Others whose family existed for generations
on American soil, until their has become "house-
following hereditary opinions they have become attached
to the Catholic faith No matter if oregn-born father
fell with his gray hairs drenched in his own blood follow
ing Scott and Jackson c. Brdgewaer and New Orleans,
or fought at the side of Perry and Of Banbrdge his
must 90 down the present crusade to satisfy relent-
less spirit which operates in defiance of the constitution
and looks supreme power by resort to the most rcvo-
utionary measures Nay f his orethers had come over
with Calvert and in imitation of that iustrious example
worshpped freedom and sustained the Catholic creed, bis
doom would be no less inevitable and unsparing. The
few past ceks have made this black and pestenal
page in our history
The canse pledged to such doctrines and cooy con-
tempatng and anticipating all the resulting wrongs has
been seconded by popular impulse which has crowned it
with sudden success in recent elections Added to these
invocations religious prejudices and sentiment mis-
tekeny called patriotism all the other ianscal ideas
of tho dav The temperance and the abolition parties have
abandoned their organizations to swell the ranks of
religious intolerance and political prescription and the
whg party has lost its identity 80 The midst of the wide
but temporary fusion of isms
The oa'y formidable opponent Of this coalition has been The
democratic party The only name that has been rescued
from defeats has been of the democratic party
Even those who triumph fear 90 nyow their principles
deny their title of "knownothng and while str-
king down some Of the best citizens for the worst reasons
essay to conceal the dark purposes which stimulate them
to such sacrifices.
Truly is this attitude of the democratic party sublime