Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-06-26

The Boston Pilot, which was bribed by the
Wings last fall to exert its influence for the
defeat of the amended Constitution, by an
appeal to the worst passions and prejudices of
the Irish population of the State, has become
quite elated with the consideration which it
received at that time, from the hands of pro-
slavery hunkerism. 1t evidently considers it.
self to be 'power ON earth,' and assumes
the position of dictator, as to how laws shall
be passed, and institutions 1zedelled, in the
United States oil America. Not satisfied with
the enjoyment of that liberty of speech and
of conscience, that all white men may enjoy,
under the Constitution of the Union, it APP
pears to be, at the present time, especially
alarmed at the progress of the spirit Of reform,
manifest among the Protestant emigrants from
other lands, and suggests that the conservative
influence of Catholicism, can alone save the
republic, and indicates the manner in which,
by a Legislative coup d Fiat, all Catholics may
be admitted to the right of suffrage, at the
earliest possible moment, and then, by an al
teratton Of the Naturalization 1a,cs. all protes-
tant foreigners may be shut out for a longer
season. That our readers may see that we do
not exaggerate, we make single extract from
the Pilot, of Saturday.
ave say that something must be done. and
that speedily. 1t seems probable that Ireland
will be blessed with better times, and that her
children will remain at home The Irish Cath
Ole emigration is certainly decreasing. Now
every good emigrant must be NATURALIzED.
The duty to America is too positive to be neg
lected. in all these freesoil, abolitionist con-
stitution changing, and other anti-American
movements, the CATHOLIC adopted citizens
have been found to be Gktcays and unanimously
on the side Of the Union, and Constitution,
and the Law. Radicals, whether German or
Irish, have turned out to be anarchists, and
therefore dangerous people to live, and have a
vote In the management of American affairs.
We have therefore to propose this question to
our 200, 900 readers, most of whom are citi-
zens, and We would like to have their opinion
on the matter. Would it not be well to nat
uralize all respectable Catholic enigra,,ts as
soon as the la,os soaU permit, and Aoa, in order
to checkmate the German, French, Italian
and Irish imported radicals and anarchists, to
agree to an alteration Of the naturalization
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1t is in vain for the Boston Pilot to fret and
chafe over the radical tendencies of the age,
and of the Protestant emigrants from other
lands. The soil of America is not favorable
to the growth of bigotry, intolerance, and sec
tartan exclusiveness.
In the face of the free schools and free
churches, the free presses and the free men. of
New England, the servile spirit of the Pilot
can make no more Roadway than an un-
manned boat against the tides of ocean, and
it would be the part of wisdom, in those who
who have the temporal and spiritual welfare
of so large number of their brethren under
their charge and direction, to refrain from the
utterance of doctrines SO obnoxious to all the
sentiments of justice and right which the
people have inherited from their fathers, and
which they cherish in their hearts as above all
price.
If they do not see fit to refrain from the
course they now pursue, they will have none
to blame but themselves, if the rising torrent
of indignation, that is increasing with every
passing hour, shall one day sweep away that
land mark of the Constitution, under which
they now enjoy equal rights and privilegeswith
all, and SO learn, that however much foreign
insolence and foreign interference may be toll
Grated for time, those who attempt to sub
vert the institutions of Freedom, and bend
them to the unholy purposes, of engines of
despotism, and of sectarian bigotry and in
tolerance, must perish in the whirlwind which
they themselves have raised.