The true Democrat., 1855-09-25

birth place. "Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his ser wants ye are whom ye obey"
 "But we love the brother though we can not vote for the man." You do! What a stupendous exhibition of moral sublmity!- What beautiful combination of religion and patriotism. It lacks but three things to make it perfect First, religion demands that you not only love your brother, bu. that you do nothing to forfeit his love to you. Secondly, patriotism demands that you always vote for the most trustworthy. And thirdly "cannOt' should refer to conscience, and not to gratui- tous oath.
 proceed to the next head:
 By concession, all who come into the coun. try are not only paupers but Catholics. Sup pose they were Methodsts, would you object? Certainly not. Then you would determine every foreigners pAviege to come to the coun- try by his religion, would you? And do you not perceive that this rule would be impract- cable if you had all the power in your own hands? Why then, do you mislead the peo- pie by crying out against the influx of Catho- lies, as though your party could and would stop it, if they were in authority? And why are you doing this, when, confessedly, you do not in- tend to exclude foreigners of any name, but only to keep them out of office? You dare not say that you mean to exclude foreigners of any name but only to keep them out of office? You dare not say that you mean to exclude fo- reigners altogether, and therefore you play the game in such a way as to catch all who wish them excluded entirely, without offending those who do not. You put " no office" in your platform, and no ingress' in your speeches, and use one or the other, or neither, as best suits your purposes.
 Does all th; comport with christian sinceri- ty? But surely, brethren, one short years fel-
 owship with your new companions has not taught you to hate CatholicS-the men. "Oh, no: we love the men, but hate their religion" Sav Glove the men, but oppose some articles of their creed," and am with you heart and hand. But to hate their religion Is to hate your own religion, which they adorn, just at this time much more than you do. No man that warreth," says Paul, "entangleth himself with the affairs of this life" The Catholic priest obeys this precept strictly. But where are you-some oi you, at least? Candidates tor u is, that and the other otfice-going from bea, to beat, and county to county, stumping it for votes--harangung the multitude amidst thumps, and screams, and yells-firing at op position, and almost coming to blows-telling vulgar anecdotes-suppressing truth-encoura- ging, if not spreading talsehood. These things are not done in a corner; and yet if any bishop, any el'ier, any deacon, any brother or any press four church, has raised warning voice against them, except my poor solitary self, and one old brother more, l have yet to learn who, when, or where. From the holest chamber of my soul l lift prayer to God to have mercy upon us, and save our church from degradation and ruin. Brethren, am not near done with you, but must stop. My powers of calm discussion are suspended. Ny healt and my eyes take up the cause of my peried church, in utter ances which you might appreciate, but which l cannot expose to the rdicu!e of an unfeeins world A. B. LoNGsTREET.