Washington telegraph., 1855-11-28
From The LouisUiAe JoavnaII
Is there Danger from Foreign I'm.
fsUence!

The opponents of the American party
have rldlculed the idea of danger TO the free
institutions of America from the '-insidons
Wlles of forei IN influence They contend
that 1t Is preposterous to believe that the
foreigners IN this country will attempt to
control the policy of la government i'hey
continue to cajole and fatter and exxlt The
Germans and Irish in America. ard ar. de-
termined to be blind to the powerful r,olit.-
cal organizations of torei gner- us :prei gBers
III this country, and ;o be deaf to- their in
soient arrogance In claiming rot only an
equal, but superior igit to Feguiaie our
government affairs to suit themselves. By
lndIserlmlnafe praises of th purity and pa
triotlsn of the foreign population, and vio-
lent denunclatIOBs and abuse of native born
citizens, these opponents of the American
party are fostering the organization of for
eIgners for political purposes. and encour.i-
glr5 them to MAKE boider agsressiOns and
mUre insolent demands.
Day after day the evils complained Of BY
the American party become more and more
apparent They force themselves upon the
attention of the American people The
dangers which they portenl are beginning
TO assume real shape and substance
When the high priests of the RoulaIl Cath
olic Church boldly walk into the political
arena and contemptuously proclaim that, il
the people of the United States are di,<,iis-
he'd with the political policy advocated by
that church, they can pack up and leave the
country; when the organs of the foreign
Population, prinf ed in a foreign language,
insOiently announce that the natiye-boFn ard
tOreign born population cannot live here On
terms of equality that one must be, even
by means of civil war. reduced ID bondage.
and that in sueh Struggle he foreigners
will and must triumph, ii l. surely time that
the n4tIve-bOrn citizens OF the whole c0Gn-
ny should be arou>ed tu the dan gers wbic..
threaten their Ibertie<-if is surely time
that they should lay ASIDE all local preiuiI-
ees, ali geographical di>tinci IONS. and. a. one
people. unite once more, as did their fathers
IN the olden time. to assert aud main,ain
American independence aud to protect from
this luSolcnt foreign aggression their pitri-
mOny of freedom
The people of the Unio,. should not be
deceived by the efforts of the anti Ameri-
can press to conceal these impending evils
They may be told by the foreign organs
That these dangers do not exist that they are
mere raw head and bloody bones set mp
l" trighten the tiuid but, strange and IN
credible as they may appear they are only
TOO real
few days ago. the R0man Catholics of
Newfoundland held grand festival in hon
VI OF the conservation OF new cathedral
d 81 Johns Many of the most prominent
apostles of that Church were present
among them was John Hughes, the Right
reverend Roman Catholic Archbishop of
New York. 1t was a Roman Catholic geki-
st0Hs festival, but was made the occasion OF
Political speech by Archbishop Hughes. in
which he plainly gave his version of
Ine opinions and policy of the Foreign.
catholic. and anti American perry in this
country: He expressed great admiration
or the Pierce Administrator, ana ,leciaFed
Ills atilllatlon with the Pierce party. He
SPoAe OF the American people as the of
sPrins OF European emigration. and sid
'ney would be sorry. they would net be vii