The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-02-01

Kansas, conquered by Slavery; Central Amer
lea about to be opened to its ravages Slavery
plottings in Dominica and California the Slave
Interest quietly laying its plans for the mex
Presidency, and the North, standing aghast be
fore few poor Irishmen and the old gentle
man who happens to rule dilapidated city
somewhere near the Mediterranean
But, there is no use in complaining. Let u.
begin the work again--roll the stone up tn,
hill, even at the risk of having it rolled back b,
chance pebble in its way. Let us try AGAR
to undeceive the People, and open their eyes t.
the fact that, if ever this Union be destroyed
or turned into curse to mankind, it viii be
not by Pope or Foreigner, not by Projections
or Free Trader, but by crushing Despotism
which, holding in absolute personal bondage
three millions of human beings, and in absolute
political subsection one half of the States o.
this Confederacy, has secured complete ascend
ency in the Federal Government, and would
prostitute its powers to the enslavement of the
whole country, and the establishment of such
Slave Empire as has never yet cursed Earth
or insulted Heaven.
For the sake of allaying the groundless
alarms of honest lovers of liberty, and of con
tributing our part towards removing serious
misrepresentation, calculated to engender profit
less and pernicious warfare between Catholics
and Protestants, and, towards extinguishing
an excitement which threatens to divert the
public mind from the real Question of The
Country, we publish the speech of Mr.. Chan
dler, of Pennsylvania, delivered in the House,
on the Temporal Power Of the Pope. Mr.
Chandler, during the struggle against the pas
sage of the Nebraska bill, was always at his
post, by night and by day, true to his constitu-
ents and to the country.
He utters his generous convictions frankly
and courageously, and we confess his argument
appears to US quite unanswerable. 1t has been
well suggested by distinguished friend Of our
cause, that he might have made stronger case
out of the Catholic Emancipation movement in
Great Britain than he has done. That move
ment has always been considered in this coun.
try as the triumph of justice and liberal princi-
pies over oppression and bigotry. During the
long series of years it was in progress, it
underwent thorough investigation. No one
will suspect that the Established Church OF
England, luxuriating in its supremacy, would
for moment have tolerated dangerous rival
or that the vigilant incorporating Dissenters
would have given countenance to a new Power
subversive of their rights; or that the naughty,
conservative Aristocracy of Great Britain, jeal-
al
political rights, body, owing allegiance to a
foreign Prince. John Bull, to say the least, is
just as intolerant of foreign domination, as the
most jealous Yankee Know Nothing; and GER
tainly, the Protestant scholars, and divines and
statesmen of England were just as capable Of
investigating the Question of the Popes Tenn
poral Power, and as deeply concerned in such
an investigation, as Ned Buntline, Governor
Gardner, Daniel Ullmann, Willard Fillmore
and the partisan editors among us, who have
all at once sprung up into Uniformed polemics
armed with fragmentary quotations taken from
authorities they have never seen; and yet
King, Lords, and Commons, the Established
Church, and the Dissenters, came to the con.
CiuSioH Ihae thC L OPOo 1CihPoioi O"Ci "de
fiction, carried through the Emancipation
Movement, and the world hailed the fact as a
glorious evidence of Progress and enlightened
Christianity in Great Britain. And shall we,
Americans, Boosting our pre-eminent civilira-
ton, take up humbug, which Protestant
England has exploded, and adopt policy
which Peel and Wellington, pillars of the Arts
tocracy of the Establishment, repudiated, as
something too barbarous and antiquated, even
for the most severe, time-worn Conservatism to
sanction?
We print half the speech in this number, and
shall close it in the next. We hope all our
readers will examine it, and, having done
so, leave Catholicism and Foreignism to the
natural action of our institutions and the ineyi-
table progress of ideas, and join with us in
directing public attention to the paramount
Question of the Country-Slavery and its Ag-
gressions.