Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-08-29
our Table.

The Westminster Review for Julyfis on
our table. We have read only one OF its
articles" The Foreign Policy of the
United States" From that article we
take the following extract, which will en-.
able our readers to see what an educated
Protestant Englishman. who dislikes the
Democratic party, thinks of Know-Noth-
ingism and its tendencies
'' The secrecy, however, may be got
rid Of; not so, we fear, the religious in
tolerance, which seems to be inseparable
from the principles of the movement. In
the manifesto above alluded to, this intol>
Leranceg is indeed denied nevertheless,
there is abundant proof of its actual, not
to say yirulent activity. By the secOud
article of the constitution of the order,
each member must be a Protestant born
of Protestant parents, reared under Pro-
testant influence" and if united to Ro-
man Catholic wife, abe is not eligible to
any off1ce.'' The third article defines
" the object of this organization" to be.
&c to resist the insidious policy of the
Church of Rome, and other foreign intlu-
ence, against the institutions of our coun-
ry, by placing in all Offices in the gift of
he people, or by appointment, none but
native and Protestant citizens" The
oaths are most solemn every "Know-
Nothing" binds himself, therefore, to ex-
clude large number of his fellow-cit
zens from all share in the Administration ::
the exclusion from all share in the gov
eminent, that is, the deprivation Of the
franchise, will be natural consequence.
1t would be we'll, however if political dis
abilities we're all that were aimed at. We
have by US many numbers of the "Know-
Nothing, or American crusader" a Bos-
ton paper, which processes to be the most
influential organ of the order, and which
boasts of its 400, 900 readers. We defy
Ireland to produce such paper it is the
most rabid Orangeism served up with
American slang and even "Ihe Tablet
is not more intolerant, while it is far less
vulgar 1t is full of exhortatiou to ex
clude all Catholics from companionshp
and all Irish from employment and This
.furrango of Janaticism and seLfShneSS is
made attractive by tales describing the
denominations of celibacy with pueriency
which can only be equalled in England
by Reynolds " Mysteries of the Court -
The effect Of this teaching is evident
enough in the style and temper of the cor
respondence which is inserted both in
prose and verse. 1t is most sad to see
America thus entering upon that course
of polemical conflict which has been the
| CURSE of Ireland and England ALSO
Our experience, instead of being A
WARNING, appears to excite them to
emuIation-and the result will be the
same the cause of RomdniSm qOW be aid
ed, not injured. Believing, as we dc
most firmly, that from the influence Of the
Romish Church there follows. and always
must follow, social degradation and ma
tional subservience, we mourn over this
spirit Of persecution, not only because it
is in imitation, but because it will be an
aggravation OF Romanism.
The fear of priestIy power in the
States, though perhaps not unnatural, is
unreasonable. The Roman Catholics IRE
indeed absolutely increasing, because Of
the foreign immigrations ; but they are
relatively diminishing by the conversion
of many of the immigrants. Tho Irish
as they improve in circumstances, noto,
rIously cease, either themselves or then
children, to be Catholics. Archbishop
MacHa breaches in Connaught against
the exodus, because of what he calls itf
irrelgious effect and, according 10 the
satisfies of Mr.. Mullen, an American
priest, the number of Roman Catholics il
the States is hardly two millions, instead
Of being, as by natural increase it shoulc
have been, about four millions. The
faith which Protestant ascendency'
and territorial tyranny had wound rount
the Celtic heart becomes loosened by thu
possession Of republican equality let til
Professionals Of america enact the penal la7O
of Ireland, or erliJh its Oran9eiSm, anc
they aOiU quickly restore to the priests thei
influence. Persecution is game By aOhicI
Romanism is SURE TO GAIN"
| The emphasizing is ours.
Such is Know othingism as it appear
in the light of reason and philosophy
namely. an engine for battering down tn
strongholds it was intended to defend, ant
an instrument for building up the churcl
it was intended to destroy. We say ''in
tended" for convenience for we hav,
no idea that the originators of Know No
thingism, or its chief advocates, had o
have, any very praiseworthy objects il
view.-FA1RMoNr V1RGIN1AN.
ABOLITION BLAsPnEMT.-It makes tn
blood curdIe in the veins to read the hor
rible blasphemies of some Of the abolition
loo5ors of