Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-01

"Rsjoies not o mine enemy. for though fall
shall rise again"
WAsHIssroE, d. O., April 80, 1855
TO tho citizens Of tho District Of Ooismbia the
city Of Washiagton IN particular.
MY FxLLow-CrrIzEss: The tie that has for many
years bound me to the government, as an humble
officer Of the Treasury Department, has this day
been severed BY the hand Of power II is neces-
sary, therefore, for me to do something--and that
quickly-for the support Of those who, In the prov
idence OF God, are cast upon my care; and now
solicit most respectfully your kind patronage in
such business as in few days may find II neces-
sary to announce my determination to pursue.
/ have lived here quarter Of century, and
every dollar have received from the government
has been spent among you--not recklessly, for
every one who knows me will testify that never
possessed habit Of dissipation or extravaganza !;
and yet, have not house or foot Of ground TO
show for it, Nevertheless, It Is my desire TO spend
the residue Of my days In Washington.
/ am under great obligations to the Corporation
of Washington, for two appointments recently con-
ferred on me,-one, that Of one Of the trustees Of
the Public Schools the other that Of one of the
revsers Of the code Of laws to be prepared for the
District, in obedience to the act Of the last session
Of Congress. Though not Offices of profit, they
are at least posts Of honor, and the appointments
manifest confidence worthy Of the return Of my
warmest gratitude, and which can only testify by
the most earnest endeavors to perform with fidelity
and to their satisfaction, the incumbent duties.
raA ~ al. nrf
have been made pretext for my removal, because
my trusteeship did not take me more than two
hours in month from my official business, and the
Board Of Revisors Of the Code have not yet had
their first meeting.
But, 81 have not stunned to declare to you all
the counsel of the true Americans But this
have not ceased to do openly and above board,
from the time of Mr.. Van Buren's administration
to the present time; nor have done more during
the present administration than did before @
When the American party was organized here
nearly twenty years ago, was appointed in public
meeting chairman of the committee to prepare the
address to the people of the United States and it
was written by nae. There was no secret in those
proceedings. Yet was not molested for the part
l took in them.
A few years after this ! walked to the Navy
Yard one night Of every week for several weeks in
succession and listened to the vtuperations Of the
Rev. J. p. Donelan against Professionalism and the
liberty Of faith and opinion nreligious matters and
the next night returned and replied to him before
the same audience. To this the Rev. JAS Brown
can testify for, after while, he came to my aid,
and rendered most efficient service i also pub
lshed a work about the same time in defence Of
the Protestant Bible as published by the Bible So
ciety, without note or comment against most
virulent attack by the Rev. Or. Rider, of George
town College; yet the head of the Treasury De-
partment then did not consider these things a
cause for my removal from Office.
Ipublished articles refuting the preposterous
claim set up by the Jesuits to religious federation
in Maryland; and also structures on Archbishop
Hughess Catholic chapter" in the History Of the
United States
Again During the administrations Of Mr.. Tyler
and Mr.. Polk, published, at my own expense,
and edited monthly magazine, for few years,
In opposition to the tyranny Of the Church of
Rome over the mind of man, its increasing inAu-
ence, and designs and conspiracies against the
liberty, civil and religious, Of the United States
yet they who were at the head Of the Treasury
Department at that period, though repeatedly
urged by the tools and minions Of the Jesuits did
not consider this just cause for my removal. None
protesting the Democratic creed had as yet been
found 80 shameless and 30 recreant to the cause
Of Democracy as to attempt to identify the party
with the Church of Rome. The Union Newspaper
of this city had not then become the advocate Of
antiChrist and of that Church whose public circu-
lars decry freedom Of conscience stigmatiring Il as
/" raving,n which advocate the union Of Church
and State, and denounce all who oppose il, and
which curse the liberty of the press, liberty of
opinion Bible Societies, the Masonic Society, Odd
Fellows Society, &c.
Z None of my labors ever interfered with my pub
10 duties. \
I But why should be prescribed now, and by the
present administration; Having passed unscathed
through all administrations from the early part Of
General Jacksons, pursuing the same course'
As limited at above the reason Is this This adj
ministration Is making an attempt, never made be-
FORE in conjunction with the three political organs Of
the Jesuits in this city, the Union, the Nevs and
the little Star, and few papers and old political
tricksters and papistical demagogues elsewhere,
to unite and identify the Democratic party with
that organization of foreign priesthood, sent here
by the Pope Of Rome, and sustained by other Euro
pean despots, for the purpose Of undermining the
liberty Of this country, and subjecting Americans
to the domination Of that tyrant Of tyrants. They
have been met in the field by the American party,
and are waging desperate warfare They know
that ] have never hestated TO denounce their
course as trescherous and suicidal, and hesitate
not to reiterate that no party be sustained in
this country which openly identifies itself with
religious sect, which has always sought the de-
struction Of all Others and which denounces In its
public and official circulars, all who are opposed
to the union Of Church and State, and are advo-
Gates of the liberty Of the press and liberty Of
conscience.
This foreign organization Of conspirstors is under
the direction of the Jesuits, who have gained sufi-
cient influence with the administration 10 use GER
tain of the departments as tools to crafty low
revenge Under the circumstances NV decapita-