, 1855-07-06
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON TERRITORY FRIDAY JULY g. 1&

power has yet dared to interfere with their
right to have schools Of their own.
| As to the legal influences, in our country
of law, depriving Catholics of their prop
erty, enforced in England, were we not
told by very prominent proscriptioniSt
in the last Congress, that the know-not1IA
ings intended to control not only the juries
but the judges, too and recent proof
shows that they had no scruples about tax
ing care that the witness-stand was secured
We will not, however, continue the par
allel.
The London Times did not give us these
reasons for its argument in favor of the Sc
cret party. Had it done so, it would have
lost a point. Its franknesS, however, in
confessing that it approved that party, in
the hope that it might set off and destroy
the democracy of the United States, is in
happy accordance with the designs Of the
leaders of the know-nOthings in this coun-
try. 1t was more it was consistent with
the motive that influenced England TO pro-
scribe lrelahd-thc motive Of hostility 10
all parties or people who look upon tyran-
ny OF any species us an offence in the sight
Of God aud man.
But did those prosecutions cxtinguish
the Catholic church in ireland? On the
contrary, it grew strong, and gained upon
the Protestant worship. $50 ditrdetirc,"
says Bancroft, rs sincerity phcn ennOJied by
persecution, creH though he hirS did not pre-
sumo a Popist TO cEist there, and did not al
to0 them 10 breathe but By The concurrence af
he gOrsrnmeRt" But this is lesson taught
from the beginning of the earth down TO-
the present hour. Do these miserable
know-nothing demngogucs expect that they
are TO go on in their career Of shame and
outrage without building up those they
would destroy? DO frantic unchurchcd
priests expect that the hunted and the per-
secuted Of this1ay will be any less rcsolutc
in adhering to their creed If they do,
they exhibit as much ignorance of mankind
as Of the holy principles which they weak
en- by their follies and their cxcesses.
But the similarity between the know
nothings Of the present day and their pro.
totypes Of the English government docs
not stop with the failure of their plans of
prescription. A great political good re-
suited from the Affections visited upon Ire
land and the first to reap the fruit were
American people, We quote again from
Bancroft. He says, referring to the period
previous to our revolution, about the year
1903: ireland and America, in so far as
both were opposed by the commercial mo-
nopoly Of England, had common cause;
and aohiLe The penal LaGDs against The CathO-
lies did not affect The Anglo Irish, they suffer
ed equally ioith the natipe Irish from he re,
strictire system" The consequence was O.
vast emigration to the American colonies.
What the result Of the present move
.ment will bc it is easy to predict. 1t is
simply question of time. That our hap
py country will be lowered in the eyes Of
the civilized wo:ld-will be held accounta-
bic in the hearts of the suffering and the
down-trodden, who look hilherward for
hope in their deep misery-it would be
madness to deny even to ourselves. But
the ordeal must be endured-the disgrace
and the dishonoF must go into history The
truly American people will not have long
TO wait for the issue. These inhnman pro-
scrptions, these ignorant prejudices, these
reckless riots, these assaults upon opinion,
these blusphemies Of God by those who op-
press their fellow-beings in the wild belief
that they are serving Him, will only con.
spirc to make truth, federation, and equali-
ty more dear to q free people, because Of
the dangers they have passed and the enc
mics they have survived Wash. Union.
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