Kansas weekly herald., 1854-10-06


The animal principle of Gayazzi has
materialized your understanding Your
senses are fascinated by the gesticulations
of the Italian, and your reason does not pay
homage to the genius of the American
Your reason. does not pay homage to the
innumerable agencies of enlightenment
which the pulpit, the schoolhouse, the press
the forum, the whole atmosphere of Amer
ican life provide for defeating the most tor
| tuous Vaccinations of the Jesuit, as well
as the most god-defying rawlings of the in.
f1del. Like all that is divine, those influ-
ences are silent, and you do not see how
they work. But like all that is ungodly,
resentment and intolerance are boisterous
and noisy, and thus have for champions all
blind, and who do not hear, unless they hear
a noise
The talk about the oath of allegiance to
the Pope is sheer nonsense. If the old
man himself had the slightest notion of the
validity of that oath, the first thing he would
have done when he fled in 1S49, would
have been to call to his assistance all his
subjects, or if they had cared straw about
him, they would have rushed e,, masse to
Rome to his rescue. @
You libel your American intellectually
| by repeating the trash of Italian quack elo-.
quence.
Whole armies of Gavazzis and billions
of Know-No Nothings may shake heaven and
earth with their fulminations against Popery
may deluge the land with the blood of your
native and adopted citizens, and the church
of Rome will only come out stronger from
the ordeal. If persecution had not kept up
vitality, Rome would have died long ago.
1t lives only by the strength impaired by
the protests of Protestantism, and it will
live so long as Professionalism remains what
its name implies, instead of becoming the
bold, fearless champion of more positive,
more thorough, more genuine, more practi-
cal Christianity. 5f
The talk about Americans having twen-
ty-one years to wait before they have a
right to vote, is simply absurd, since babies
and boys cannot be expected to have any
such light. A foreigner of twenty-one
szfsof age who comes here, has to wait
Izf1vesyears, the native American of twenty
one years has not to wait, and may vote at
once. - 81
America for Americans" is one Of the
| favorite cries of your order, and sounds
|
| tives are the Indian, and where all the rest
are compound Of the different European
nationalities. The traces of Dutch grand
papas and Irish or Scotch grandmothers are
not so easily obliterated as your philoso-
piers make you believe, and experience
shows that German placidity, Irish YER
satihty, French levity and English selfish
ness, are as well represented IN the Ameri-
can character as in the character of the ma
tives Of Germany, Ireland, France and
England proper.
Have not Dutch, English Irish, French
and Scotch equally fought, toiled and la
bored to achieve the independence, and to
cultivate the soil, and to consolidate the CIV
ilization of this continent2 And In this CO.
operation and clashing of different nation
alities are we not bound to recognize the
blessed hand of Providence, who thus en-
deavors to chasten the overbearing, reckless
| Anglo-Saxon spirit, by an infusion. of Ger
man prescience and moderation; to neutral
/ ize Dutch phlegmatism by the help Of
French vivacity, and to soften the stern ma
ture of the man of the North, by bringing
him in contact with the impulsiye, buster
ing Irish, the imaginative Italian, and the
passionate Spaniard? One race giving thus
what the other race has not, the fable of the
blind and the lame will be illustrated upon
a worldwide scale, and the foundation laid
for the universally of the brotherhood of
mankind, for which Christ paved the way,
and which is virtually recognized by your
| constitution.
The wisefounders of the Republic were
| well aware that political inequality and re-
lligious intolerance are the inseparable COM
panions of despotism, and they took good
care, therefore, to make political equality
and religious liberty the test principles of
republicanisnl.s But you raise again the
old cry of intolerance; you claim privileges
for the families who happened to come here
] first, and thus you engender upon this free
soil the old world s spirit Of caste and intol-
erance, which is so dangerous In its action
that it destroys all faith in Heaven, and all
good will amongst men. 30 r1.ssd gn5fslt -
If, owing to this cruel system, the Euro
pean's religion has been shorn of all its
holiness and vitality, and the intellect Of the
| Dutch and Irish laborer and mechanic crush
ed before it could, be developed, is it not
'tyour sacred duty, as Americans, not to per-
petuate upon American soil a system so re-
pufsive to humanity; and is it notyour du-
ty, as Christians, to show mercy and for
bearance tosits innocent victims? f1i t's51-, ;
If the treachery of the Jesuit, the stupid
| ity of the Irish, and the wrong-headedness
of the Dutch fills you.with indignation, turn
your rage against those IN Europe who, be-
fore God, are responsible f6f these In
EQUITIES, but do not outrage y6lf sense of
Ijustice by venting your rage upon those
who, being your interiors and being weak.
! Eer, are entitled to your forberance and to
E rode protection.