Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-11-29

fraud and force what was denied under
law. BY making naturalization rather to
follow Immediately upon the oath Of al.
leglance and that to depend on, the will
. and the good character OF the applicant,
fraud and perjury would rather be strip.
ped OF their pretexts. The foreigners
would be at once exalted in their self-re-
spect and dignityfo of department, right
would enable them TO exercise the cleo
tive franchise in peace, and the country
would escape the decentralization resulting
from Eyiolation of the laws and from the
means employed 10 set at nought their
fDrce and effect.
I'D. Foreigners have abused the pro-
;tsceon of the United States abroad.
If they have it was violation, of law.
They cannot weld it, without the want
of care and vigilance in our consular and
diplomatic lunctiouaries abroad. Citi.
zens at home abuse our protection, and
they are not always punished for their
crimes.
9TH. Catholics. it is urged, have been
eombiLed and obeyed the signs Of their
Bislnps and Priests in elections, and have
been Influenced in their votes to a great
: extent by religious and exclusive consid-
crations, If they have, that is noe of the
best reasons why Professionals, should not
follow their example. 1t is evil, and the
less there is Of it the better for all. Let
bigotry and prescription belong to any
sect rather than to ProtesLants. When
they follow alleged Catholic examples,
which they Rrraign, as dangerous and
mlscheTious, then they themselves be-
come as Catholics, according to their own
opinions, dangerous and mischevpus. cd
.5.h. Catholics and Catholic Govern
ments, it is urged, have always excluded
Professionals from religious and social pri
vileges in their countries.
And how much have we gained upon
them by following the opposite policy .
BY tolerance we have grown SO great as
now to make them feel the necessity to
respect our title to comfy and right to q
separate enjoyment of the privileges Of
ProLcstants. Our governments iutrrpO
sing in that behalf, and fear il will not
be assisted any in its negotiations by the
attempt here to prescribe Catholics and
strangers by birth.
6.h. 1t is complained that in some in
stances. in New York particularly, the
Catholics have been arrogant exclusive
and antirepubiican in their attempts to
control the public schools, and to exclude
from them the free ami open study of the
word of God.
How can this bigotry be subdued BY
bigotry, which rctires itself in secrecy and
prescribe all who don't prescribe Catho-
lies There is no homeopathy in moral
disease. Prescription and -bigotry and
secrecy must not be prescribed for the
maladies of prescription. bgotry. and hi
ding of the, word The diseases would
be ePidemics among Protestants, CALho
lies, and all. The open and lawful anL
liberal means for either prevention u
correction Of this evil are simple and eff
eacious if righteously applied.
9Th. 1t is urged that Catholics recog
nize the supremacy of the Pope aud sub
mission to Priest craft, which might. un
der circumstances, be destructive Of on
Free Government.
go Suppose that TO be so. there ere worse
scots among us, whom Know NoLh'n5'
pretend to assail. There are the Mormon
poIygamists ; there are the encrOman
GERS of Spiritual Rappinys and there i:
Q a sect which aspres not only TO destroy
Free Government, hut the great globe ant
all that it inhabit--Ihe mi!lenial Nliilerite!
will set the world on fire in one day, a
that POpery will ever be able to break W
or bow down this Republic. The Pro
phesies must all fail, and Chris'tS domiu
ion upon earth must cease, and printing
presses and telegraphs and steam mus
be lost to the arts, and Revolutions mus
go backward, and the sky must fall ant
catch the Know Nothings. before th'
times of Revelations are out, and tht
Pope catches Uncle Sam
No, no. no-there is not a reason in al
these complaints, which is not satisfied
by our laws as they exist, and not an er
ror, which may not be corrected by thu
proper application of the lawful authority
at our command, without restoring TO the
extraordinary, extra judicial, Revolutionary
and sntiAmercan plan of secret soce
ty of intolerance and prescription.
belong to a secret society, but for nc
political purpose. l am native Virg
MAN intus ct in cute, Virginian my an
cestors on both sides for 200 years were
citizens of this country and this State
half English, half Scotch. l am a Pro
tcstant by birth, by baptism. BY ntelec
tua( belief and by education and by adop
ton. Gm an American, in every fibre
and in every feeling an American ) yet il
every character, in every relation, in ev-
cry sense, with all my head, and in al
my heart, and in all my might, prOteS
against this secret organization Of Native
Americans, and OF ProtestantS 10 prescribe
Roman Catholics and nuturaliz"d citizens
Now, will they prescribe me Tha
question weighs not q feather with
Vour CbaHiant vurvant
HENRY a. WISE.
AFFECTING RoMAHCE.-The Whitehall
IN. W Chronicle records the death OF
young man named Dennis Bryan, from