The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1855-08-22

TO open crusade for the benefit of the
Northern peope. Let them cure their
own disorders the best way they can,
while they are SO engaged they will have
less time to attend to our affairs. But
even if the Catholics were an evil to the
South, which | do not pretend to say, for
have too much respect for every form Of
religion TO be so uncharitable, yet do
: not think prescription is the remedy
1t will rather aggravate the disease. If
You wish church to flourish, persecute it.
However anxious Imight be to advance
Protestantism, any thing like crusade
against the Catholic jars upon every feel
ing OF my heart. II is in violation of the
great principle Of religious tolerance, the
noblest principle engratted on the Consti-
tuition, by our great ancestors, and will
: never consent TO violate il. The most re-
voting pages of history are those which
illustrate the horrors of religious persecr-
: tion. And shall we who stand upon the
appex of civilization, put back the clock
of time, and recede to the dark ages TO
hight again the fires freligious intolerance?
God forbid! What have l to fear from
the Catholics o. the South2 Are thew not
Southernersa Are they not slavehoidersi
Are not they my brobiers? And shall Join
IN with party, the very scnm of tho
North, men who hate me and my section
worse than hell's pains, and would sink
the whole South into bottomless perditi.n
if their power were commensurate with
their malice, | say, shall l join in with
such party and bind myself 10y triple
oaths, to persecute my neighbor, because
he says lis prayers in different form
from what do? Never, never, never.
From the review which have thus Ia
ken OF the principles of the Know-nothing
party, am compelled in general terms
to dissent from them, nor am better SAL
Isfied with their machinery. Secret polit
ical societies in a republic are a monstrous
anomaly, of most dangerous tendency.
WHEN consider the situation of the
South, am amazed and saddencd at our
party contentious. We are like the Greeks
OF the lower empire, who exhausted them.
selves IN insane discussions, while the Bar
6arians were laundering at their gates.
we are upon the eve Of revolution, and
occupying ourselves with foreigners and
Catholics, as though we had nothing at
stake ourselves. Strange pre-occupation!
1T seems to me that our course is so OBJ
Vlous, that none can avoid seeing but
those who will not see.
Slavery is the absorbing question. Our
trst necessity is existence, as certainly so.
as ii we already saw the banners of the
Northern hordes Haunting in our midst.
Let us drop all minor questions, and unite
the whole South in one great puty for
self preservation, and let us welcome to
that party every freeman ofthe South who
has heart to feel for the wrongs of the
South, and an arm to strike in her do
fence. Nor should enquire of any man
whether he was foreigner or a Catholic,
but welcome all who were true to the
South and her destiny. would inscribe
upon the banner of the South no such
weak device as, "Down with the Pore"
OF those words of miserable delusion,
place none but Americans on guard,n
but those other words which should move
every Southern heart Equality and Jus.
tice, or Revolution" n.-.
Just at this time, too, there is a great
practical and immediate work before us
Kansas n Organise, raise
men and money, and let us secure this
empire for the South. am4ready to GO
into this great enterprise and press it to
success at every cost, at every hazard, for
upon Kansas depends, in my opinion, the
future Of the South.
Yours sincerely,
w. w. BoYcE.
Franklin Gaillard, Esq.