The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1855-08-15
4 PLAIN SPOKEN FRESHMAN.

Mr.. j. Crawford, Editnr &c the Protestant
American, published at Aberdeen, Miss, is
an lrisbman By birth. an accomplished scho-
lar and eloquent writer. lie took strong
ground, few weeks ago. IN favor of the Anne.
rican party, and having been violently de-
nounce' for this by the editor Of the FLORENCE
tAla.1 Gazette, he has made a response, from
which we have taken these paragraphs. Ma.
ny foreign born citizens might read them
with profit and ediiicatinn:
+" You charge against u that we conduct
Know Nothing journal. Did IL ever strike
you, SIR, rs possible. that the principles we
advocate IN this paper. and which ,nu lear
will arouse the Indignation IL your readers. are
the principles We held murg ytars Jgfors dt
Rnor Noihings had an eTisttIlef ?--ihat We
have not gone them, but that they have come
10 u THAT from the circumstance 81 uur "a.
reign birth we knew the iorce and necessity II
one great vital doctrine Of the American par.
IS, lung bsinre circumstances forced il upon
their attention 20 strongly that they cannot
avoid il they must NEE / and erusli IL, or be
chru,lred by il.
:" 1t would be II considerable advantage Ia
Won, sir, II, rclingui,hing y0ur present Qlix
otic battle against the American party, you
would 90 aud see what Popcry Is where size
has the power You ARE now running i
muck with all tie fury 81 an exasperaied
Thug against Know Nothing newspapers
suppose ynu wipe YOUR dripping brow and lei
yonr painting system cuol aud get little III.
formation Oh the subject u popery with pow,
~ IN her hands. u will teach YOU charity
iGr the opinions 81 those YOU oppose. Il viii
give YOU time to practice YOUR native pn.
likeness ; aud you may cease to call u seti
slave, s,eophant, because we chonsc to sci
nur face "likc 4 flint against the sys.
TEN which enslayes not the bDdIrs, but worse
infinitely worse, ,he suuls aud minds, the
hppcs, The fears. ~ is yo'Fr,es.
Bat let u lUok az the charge. What il
/ the CRIME! 1, 40 Irish Protestant, am found
acting with party whose leading object /,
to abolish the temporal power u Popery, and
1 therefore cfusadIng against nv pwn rountrs
I men shade Of common sense--what ali.
the man Did you expect me, sir. TO AID,
either viii, nv pen 10 ,oicr, system which
hunted my fathers 10 the dungeon aud the
/ gibbet; which gave them the rack far argu.
ment which placed on their legs the irOi
boot aud drove IN wedge alter wedge, tilI tile
marrow oyerrsn this popi,h ID; winch. had
ding women aud children intn house, ap.
piled the totch, and caught them, ~ they run
IDatlly out. nn the heals ~ their pik,ss viii,
what party, pray, should bei Inst where
! am, 80. viii, the American party, because
4 has raised is mighty arm and sworn By
Hin that lived, lor ever aud ever, that such
sceues shall never be enacted on American
soil.
What Is nv crime That al time when
half milliun Roman charlottesville blind
tools 81 designing foreign prirsts--are pour.
Ing annually UPON our shares, !, an Irish Poo.
iesiant. when .he press Is at nv disposal,
sliould cry. There isdangcr--for God's SAX,
pro,eS, yuatstlvss While yoa tsa. katw