The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-04-11
THE UNIoN-1T MUsrBE PRESERVED.
RAVENNA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL Il, 1856.

or Williams. These great reformers were
men who did not 60 into secret places, who
used no dark lanterns, who did not speak in
whispers, but thundered in the tones oi
Whitefeld himself the moment the Pope
laid hold Of political power-the moment
the Pope became part and head of civil
State--that very moment the State corrupt
ed the Church, and the Church destroyed the
liberties Of the State. As to the proscrip-
ton Of foreigners, let me ask the Know
Nothings themselves to return to that pas
sage of the Bible to which have already
referred them. s-a .#sa b.a5 %"
If they viii take the fifteenth chapter Of
the book of Samuel, and read not only the
whole verse, but the whole history of Absa-
lom, the traitor, they will find that while
Absalom--not only native born OF the land,
but native born of the loins of King David
was turning traitor, while the sweet
Psalmist of Israel was driven towards the
wilderness with his followers, he turned and
saw Ittai, the Gittite, and said to him.
"Wherefore goest thou also with US! Re-
turn to thy place, and abide with thy king
for thou art a stranger and also an exile.-
Whereas thou comest but yesterday, should
this day make thee 60 up and down with
us! Seeing l go whittier may, return
thou and take back thy bretheln; mercy and
truth be with thee" And Ittai, the exile
and stranger, who came but yesterday, an
swered the king, and said, GAS thy lord liv-
eth, and as my lord the King liveth, surely
in what place my lord the King shall be-
whether in death or life-even there, also,
will thy servant be-" And remember that
the case of Absalom and Ittai is but the
prototype of an Arnold and Lafayette
| (Applause.) Who sent you alliance! You
tell the people that Catholics never gave
aid to civil liberty--that they never yet
struck blow for the freedom or mankind
Who gave you the alliance against the crown
of England! Who but the Catholic king,
Louis XVI! He sent you from the Court
Of Versailles, the boy Of Washingtcn's
camp-a foreigner who never was natural
lied, but bed at the re.doubt of Yorktown.
(Applause.) ...... - e.a
And, not only did Lafayette bleed at the
re.doubt of Yorktown, when an Arnold
native, like Absalom proved traitor; but
,,,Lo, tha n Gorpoon DoKolh Call NJ tbo Goll
of Camden, on Southern soil, with fourteen
bayonet wounds transfxing his body, and
dying, praised the Maryland militia--Gat
the Yankee native, ran seventy-fve miles
without looking behind him. applause and
laughter) And not only that: In that in
tense moment, when the Declaration of our
independence was brought into Carpenters
Hall by Rutledge, Franklin and Jefferson,
laid upon the table--that holy paper, which
not only pledged life and honor, but fortune
too-reslize that moment of intense, of deep
and profound interest, when the indepen-
dence Of this land hung upon the acts of
men-when, one by one men rose from their
seats and went to the tables to pledge
length one spare, pale-faced man rose, and
went and dipped the pen into the ink, and
signed "Charles Carroll" and when remind
ed that it might not be known what Charles
Carroll it was, that it might not be known
that it was Charles Carroll who was
pledging principality of fortune, he added
the words "of Carrolton." (Cheers) He
was Catholic representative from Catho-
lie colony. CA voice in the crowd "but he
was native born American.'') s%
And, sir, before George Washington was
born, before Lafayette welded the sword or
Charles Carroll the pen, for his country,
$40 years ago, on the 18th Of June, 1914,
there was another scene enacted on the face
of the globe when the general charter ot
all charters of freedom was gained, when
one mana man called Stephen Langton---
swore the barons of England for the people.
against the orders of the Pope and against
the power of the king--swore the barons on
the high altar of the Catholic church at St
Edmundsbury, that they would have magma
ctarta or die for it. That charter which Sc.
cures to every one of you to-day trial by
jury, freedom of the press, freedom of the
pen, the confronting of witness with the
accused, and the opening Of secret dungeons
the charter was obtained by, Stepher
Langdon against the Pope and against the
King of England, and if you Know Nothing'
don't know who Stephen Langdon was, yo,
areknow nothing sure enough. daughter ant
{ cheers He was Catholic Archbishop 0
Canterbury. [Renewed cheers. come
here not to praise the Catholics, but I con'
here to acknowledge historical truths, and t
ask OF Protestants what has heretofore beer
the pride and boast of Protestants --toler
ance of opinion in religious faith. ZAP
plause1 All I'VE ask is tolerance. All w
+ ask is, that if you hate the Catholics be
cause they have prescribed heretics,q yo'
won't out.proscribe prescriptions If yol
hate the Catholics because they have nun
|, neries and monasteries, and Jesuitical secre
] orders, don't out Jesuit the Jesuits7 by goin
!, into dark lantern chambers to apply tes
oaths. II you hate the Catholics becaus
/ you say they encourage the Machia,yelia'
] expediency Of telling lies sometimes, don