Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-07-29
The Boston Pilot.

faop of the recent fIibuster and freeSoiI demon
strations ,eh;ch Catholics, the Ne,o York radi-
col oang ercepted, oppose to a man. All this
in the face of the attachment which Catholics
have everywhere shown to the Union and the
Constitution, and Of the treason which echoes
lust now from SO many Protestant pulpits.
We do not think the Pilot will improve its
cause by the use of such language. 1t may
fatter the ignorant vanity of its own blinded
partzans but it can only extend and deepen
the indignation against popery, which is now
SO strong in this country. The Pilot has
perfect right to deny that papists "are arming
for the suppression of American institutions"
if papists are not so arming but it will find
that it outrages, not only the sense of right,
but the almost universal sentiment of New
England, when it classes the anti-Nebraska
men of the North with filibusters, and gra-
tuitously denounees as treason the preaching
of Gods great gospel of " liberty" from the
pulpits of our Protestant churches.
There are certain aspects of impudence, as
well as certain aspects of courage, which ex-
cite admiration, and we must confess that
'Fasher Rodden's' impudence excites ours now.
He whines over what he calls the calumnies
of know Nothings' against the Catholics"
and in the same sentence he associates the
friends of Democratic freedom with pirates,
and stigmatizes as traitors the Protestant min
listers of Christ, who preach against the Ne
braska fraud.
But we do not see, after all, that we have
anything extraordinary to complain of, in con-
nexion with the " Catholic organ That Or
gan has always been the consistent advocate
of universal despotism, popular ignorance
and chattel slavery. 1t has always been the
bitter enemy Of the party of freedom and it
has also always been the whipper up to the
polls of those illiterate, ignorant Irish, who
vote just as the priests bid them.
We warned the Pilot, last fall, to beware
of mingling the bitterness of theological an
tipathies, with the excitements of American
politics, but the Pilot would not heed our
warning. 1t dragged popery into the contest
for the new Constitution, and made the nom
division of the school fund into two parts
one part to be for the Romanists,-the ground
upon which it took issue with the friends of
reform. We do not see how its editor or any
other papist can complain, if other parties
meet him with counterpart, as impalpable
but much more formidable than the Pilots
was There is perfect logic in history. Ev-
cry plot, every issue, every idea or circuln-
stance has its active and re-actiye forces
Those who assume an affirmative position on
any subject, should not be surprised when
they find themselves met by negative forces.
If there had not been Boston Pilots and Fa-
Their Roddans, there would not have been
know-nothings. If the Irish population had
not been deluded by designing priests and
demagogues, into perperetual alliance With
tyrants, there would not have been instituted
secret g Guard of Liberty" We are not
surprised at the true American sentiment be-
ing shocked by the i" Catholicism which
manifests itself in the columns of the papist
press ofthis country; for, the intense bigotry,
priestly insolence, bitter hatred of freedom,
and spite towards popular education, which
characterize popery in France and Italy, never
had a more ardent exponent than the Boston
Pilot.
Peoples CONVENTION IN New YORK
The movement for a Peoples Convention in
New York, seems to find favor with the
masses all over the State. The Tribune of the
2Sth says:
There are now calls out for meetings ia
choose delegates in about two-fourths of the
cou1,ties, including nearly all of the large
ones. New York city will be fully aud
strongly represented.
The Tribune is an earnest advocate of the
movement, and it does not believe that there
is any Wing party now that is worth saving.
YALE CoLLEGE.-The annual Commence
ment at Yale College, took place on the 9th.
The poem before the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
was recited by John G.. SAKE, of Vermont,
and the address was delivered by Hon. VIM.
II. Seward, of New York. The Daily Regis
ter says the exercises were creditable to the
graduates, but that fewer strangers were pres
ent than usual, especially from the South.
READING RAIL RoAD.--A despatch from
Philadelphia was received at Boston, ON the
2Sth, stating that Mr.. Tucker, President of
the Reading R. R. Company, was between
one and two millions behind in his accounts
with that corporation The journal says the
intelligence created much excitement among
capitalists, but subsequent reports state that
Tucker failed in his private capacity, not as