Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-02
From the New York Herald, June 80th.
A Little Common Sense for the Know
Nothfngs.

We see in several orgaps Of the Know-Nothing
party, throughout the country, constant illusions
TO the Pope, and symptoms of great alarm with re-
gard to the spread of Roman Catholicism. From
one journal we learn that the day on which the
news Of Mr.. Wises victory reached the Vatican
will have been kept with unusual ceremony; from
another we gather that the high priests Of Anti
christ have been in ecstacies ever since the action
Of the Massachusetts, delegates to the Philadelphia
Convention and generally we may say, the news
papers Of this stripe talk as IL we wero living in
the days Of the great Spanish Armada, aud re-
duced to trust to our broad-swords to defeat the
famous bull by viii the whole Of America was
given to the King 6Spain by the Pope. "There
Is not single spectator of the politics of this
country says one "who takes deeper interest
in them than the Pope Of Rome;n and instead Of
feeling fattered by this information, which viii be
new TO most Of as this ungracious Known Nothing
adds energetically that we ought |" to make Rome
howl" for "if there be cloud in our nations
horizon, it is the Papacy."
1t Is high time that this stuff should be stopped
We have made asses Of ourselves pretty freely
we Christians--since the days Of Luther, about
our theological quarrel; and carried matters to
such an extent that no sensible Chinese who has
any respect for himself, will, at The present day
have anything to do with Church so obviously
divided against ITSELF But IL our ancestors, who
shot, stabbed, burned, tortured, and hanged each
other on points Of theology, were undeniable asses
what are we who have not a 1.-THE Of their grounds
for controversial rancor9 For, Il must be remem-
bered, to the Englishman Of the seventeenth CEN
fury, Catholicism implied submission to the Pope,
and submission to the Pope involved the surren-
der of America TO the SpaDiards small wonder,
forsooth, that they We're fierce Protestants, and
that while they trusted in Providence, they ike.
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have we to fear the Popey What harm has he
done usp What can he do?
Why, really, good people, who are quaking ia
your shoes about the inroads Of the Papacy, and
muttering dreadful things about the scarlet woman
Of Babylon, you are much more likely TO damage
the Pope, than he to iniure you. IL is hard work
enough for him-poor old soul--to keep his place,
with board and lodging and FIRE, at the Vatican
nor would he be there still, in fact II Napoleon
Ill had not condescended to use Christianity, just
as he used the Delvigne bullet, 10 consolidate his
new empire Since the first Napoleon showed that
a Pope might be kicked about as well as any other
man, there hasn't been a sovereign in Europe that
would forego tho pleasure of trying the new sport
All the ministers Of Spain, from the republican
juntas TO Espartero, have had their turn at It.
France has treated him like dog. Metternich let
him know plainly that he must consider himself .
mere pensioner of Austria on his good behaviour
and now in these latter days, even Itays self turns
round upon him, and will have no more dealings
with him. Rome drives him into exile. Sardinia
deposes him from his authority.
And is this the potentate of whom we are afraid
This poor hunted, deserted, bullied creature, set
up by this or that tyrant for his own purposes and
Knocked down the next day like nine pin In
mere sport living on mere suffersncc, a sort Of
Smallweed, shaken up now and then by some
neghbor to scare the unwary with his shril voice
the pitiable relic of an efete order Of civilization,
80 wholly out Of place in the middle Of this nine.
teenth century, that, MS we are told by the most
reliable travellers, the ceremonies and fashions es
sentisl TO his state are probably the most comica
sight in Europe--is this the man--this the power
of which the order of Native Americans confess &
the world they are affaidY God help their back
bone, IL 80 Il bel