The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-07-12

CONFUSED the States of Europe for the last nity
years, to seek an asylum in our happy land Not
of that intelligent class of merchants, artzans and
other enterprising men who understood our insti
tutions, and who come to support and enjoy ouI
constitutional government. On the contrary, they
are from the jals and poor houses, and the lowest
orders Of Europeans, compelled by want, or ban
ished for crime, to seek bread and shelter among
u.s. They bring with them nothing but ignorance,
poverty and crime. If this coTupting element, suf
icient to control the popular elections, should be
thrown in to the balotbox, may it not have fatal
effect upon the purity Of representative govern
ment? Can you expect government of higher,
moral religious, or political character than the
source from which it springs. If you do you are
deceived. So sure as the water of the flowing
stream viii rise no higher than the head of tee
fountain, surely will the representative of vice
and ignorance, be ignorant and vicious and rise no
higher in morality than the mass which he repre-
sents. Native-born Americans-adopted citizens
Of my country, conjure you to consider this prop
osition Do you not owe it to God and your coun'
tryto yourselves and your posterity, to vindicate
the great principles of civil and religious liberty
the foundation of the happest government, and the
security OF the most prosperous people on earth?
If you do let join all hands and hearts in their
defense, for the danger before you is alarming The
foreign emgrant is hostile TO one OF the institutions
of your country. He is from want, ignorance and
! v,
humanity and love of liberty, but because he wants
| the bread-the place OF the slave. He is, there
fore an sbolitionsthe settles in the south, and he
adds to the popular vote OF the abolitionst NOW,
nv friends let US consider, without excitement or
prejudice, the alarming tendency OF this state OF
things Here is a foreign vote. when concentrated,
strong enough to carry the election in four or i've
of the largest States in the Union, and to elect
the President and Vice President. Our country
has been long divided between two great political
parties, Wings and Democrats. The foreign vote
of the North is in market, and the party which will
bid the most for that will get it, and will be
successful in the contest So far as this vote is
Catholic it is held by an organized band-coming
up like the old Guards, on doubtful field, it brings
victory with it. and this Catholic force be mar
tailed, concentrated, and directed with as much
certainty, the fire of the best drilled battalion.
Pay must he given, however, but it need not be in
money-the patronage of the government is pay
enough-it is the most current coin in our country
where the Pope of Rome wants power. The Duke
of Richmond, late Governor General of Canada,
has said the Church of Rome has a design on
that country, (the United States,) and it will, in
time, be the established religion and aid in the dis
truction of that Republic, ~ have conversed
with many of the Soveregns and Princes of Europe,
aud they have unanimously expressed these opin-
ions relative to the United States, and their deter
mination to subvert it." The noble Duke is wrong
in one of his conclusions, unless Protestant faith
is a heresy, and the Pope of Rome is just in his
claim by Divine Right, to hold dominion over the
whole world. Nothing but the will OF God bringing
back the waters of the Deluge, can extinguish the
Lighter the rain of fire from heaven can destroy
the alters of the Protestant church in this country
have fears for the safety of our rational prot
estant fath-I have no fears for our liberty though
we may march through seas of blood in their de.
Tense. They are the children of heaven-twn sis
tiers, conceived in the elements, and born in the
convulsion of spiritual and temporal revolution.
When Luther brought down fire from heaven to
burn the blasphemous anathama of the Pope of
Rome which accommodated him from the Cath
ole church, that fire lit up the affairs Of Civil Lib
erty. Civil and Religious Liberty have gone hand
in hand through the world. Often have their light
gone down in blood, but like the spirit of eternal
life, they never died! They rose again, and when
driven by prosecutions from one country they fed
TO another, until they found permanent home and
temple for their worship in the United States of
America Here they will i've here they will wor-
ship, here they are ready to die, fighting side by
side till death, against Catholicism, the worst foe
of liberty, the worst despotism on earth.
Believe me not an idle declaimer, my friends, ut
tering unjust denunciatons against any church of
Christian faith. am no bigot no fanatic; have
cherished the freedom of our Constitution; have
endeavored to cultivate the charities of the Chris
tan Religion, and hope and believe all are right
who believe and worship ''in spirit and in truth
l would that all men should worship God according
to the dictates of their own conscience. / would
have no dominant religion, but above ALL would
not have dominant hat-religion which regards all
others as heresy, aud which is hostile to my liberty
an American Citizen. l do not then denounce
the Catholic faith in Jesus Christ the Catholic re
gion which teaches faith, hope and charity. So
far, reverence the Roman Church as one of the
institutions OF the Savior of mankind. have seen
good fruits from that tree. have been in Catholic
countries, have lived among Catholics. A stran-
ger, in sickness, and in q distant land Catholics
have ministered to my relief and necessities with
all christian sympathy and kindness. / have seen
among them some of the best men, and | have had
among them some of the best friends of my life
am not opposed to them to their christian faith
But in the language of our Platform, in the Ian
guage of the creed of the American party / do
here avow and declare this day, at the altar of nv
country, before my God, and before this assemblage
that will offer resistance to the aggressive poLicv
and corrupt tendencies Of the Roman Catholic Church
in this country" That l will not vote for a man
OF that religion, or any other man who owes an al
egIance to the Pope of Rome, or any other Prince
or earthly power, higher than the allegiance he
owes to the Constitution and Government of the
United States. That will resist the arrogant, pre-
sumptious and audacious claims and pretensions of
the Pope OF Rome to favor in this country, set
forth in the following extract from his organ,
Brownson's Review, published in New York-au-
daciOusly published in our own country, offending
the sovereignty and insulting the people of this
country.
'Cathocity, so long as it continues to be catho-
Gcity cannot be carried to excess. 1t is not one
system among many. 1t is SIMPLY the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth II excludes
all not itself IL acknowledges riUdl IL tcH be all
nothing"
"Russia and the United States are the two great
aggressive powers OF the age, and they threaten
ere long TO meet in China or India to DISPUTE the
empire Of the world and the triumph of either will
be the triumph Of heatbenism, and the oppression
OF the Church of God. The progress of the United
States is therefore the progress of the heather and
If the Church so regards it, It is in duty bound to
oppose that progress. Tell us then, surprising the
Church to have only temporal powers, what ques-
ton car come up between man and man. between
sovereign and sovereign, or subject and sovereign,
or subject and subject that does not come within
the legitimate jurisdiction Of the Church, and on
which she has not by Divine right, the power to
pronounce judicial sentenceg None Then the power
she exercised over sovereigns in the middle ages,
was not usurpaton, was not concession of the
people, but and is hers by divine right and who