Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-14

wafded thence by d friend, ana this must ACCOUNT
for the delay in It's reception. regret very much
that cannot accept your very inviting call 70 At
tend tho meeting which you propose 70 hold, the
26th instant at Broadway Tabernacle, In New
York, to bring properly before our Government
the subject OF securing. "by treaty, for our people
when travelling or residing abroad the unmolested
enjoyment of their rights Of conference.-the right
TO have their own public worship where they de-
sire it, and TO bury their dead Oith such religious
services and rites as they may desire" &c. And,
In addition to this, you say:
at is believed that it would be well 10 use the
occasion 10 suggest the inquiry whether the time
has not come for the government Of the United
States to lend at least the weight of its moral inhu-
ence in behalf Of religious liberty, in all countries
where II does not exist and with which the United
States have diplomatic relations" &C.
This subject is not new to me, and none Of the
public questions, of present moment, are OF more
Importance and of more interest than this, in
my humble opinion. Tho individual instances
watch &C ulI be cited In connection with It, would
appear perhaps, TO be personal and minor matters
q, compared with others Of great public concern;
bat full consideration of this subject opens uni
ysrsal faldof ,Ooridreform, as large, venture 10
say, as any other which could be named Indeed
practical success in this moral aud political enter
prise will at once reach many Of the best results
aimed at by the missionary Of the Cross Of Christ,
BY the men Of science and discoveries Of the earth
and by the arts and aims of life.
At q time like this, too, when the Bibles rays
and the students lamps, and the ships binnscles
are illuminating and pointing the ways Of knowl-
edge. and lightning and steam are propelling pro-
gress everywhere, and In an age when there ID
gosd, gold, gold enough and to spare to pay every
laborer his hire in every good work Of good will
to man." and when "peace on earth" has become
the policy Of every civilized nation; 1t ia not to be
liberated that ignoramce, and bigotry, and super
situation, and barbaritN and brute force, here,
there, and almost everywhere, In some of the very
flirest fields Of human exertion, where much OF
mans highest excellence could be most easily at
tanned, should be allowed, LIKE sERPENTs IN PARA
Disc, TO CORRUPT OUR NATURE, SHUT OUT THE LIGHT,
HINDER THE PROGRESS OF CIVILIZATION, AND ARREST
EVERY STEP OF HUMANITY TOWARDS EIrHER MENTAL.
MORAL, OR PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENT. We may surely
arm ourselves in the arn,or of Righteousness against
SUCH EVIL ONES On EARTH As THESE.
have, gentlemen, hastily written this reply to
your invitation, and it goes to you without being
transcribed or properly corrected. 1t is but brief
the sop sss touched she Iu Yam Ieertiiy
with you il your plan Of American protection, and
Very truly, your felow-citizen,
HENRY A.. WISE.
The Lexington (Va.) Gazette remarks:
Here then we find that Mr.. Wise, as recently
as the l4th of January, 1854, was 80 opposed TO
the intoerant and persecuting spirit Of the Catho
lie Church. that he considered that 1t should not
be toer ted with it's " dark lantern" accompani-
ents of ignorance bigotry superstition, barbarity,
and brute force that il ''should not be allowed,
like serpents in Paradise, to corrupt our nature,
shut out the light hinder the progress OF civiiza-
ton, and arrest every step Of humanity towards
either mental, moral, or physical Improvement"
And now after these sentiments, published to the
world as brief Of his views, and an impulse OF
his feelings In regard to the intolerant spirit OF the
Catholic religion we find this same Henry A. Wise
securing the length and breadth of the State, eu-
logging the Catholic Church, defending it against
the charge Of intolerance, and denouncing those,
who assert in 1855 the views he published in 1854
In reference TO the evils Of Romanism, as traitors
TO their country, as deniers Of Christ as proscrip
tonists, and as conspirators against the laws and
institutions of the country.
Who could follow the lead of this man, who,
proving faithless to every political cause he has
advocated, has shown himself equally faithless to
the religious principles views, sentiments and feel
inps by which he protested to be animated but
fsw short months agol who now appears as the
champion Of Catholicism, and would. uphold the
claims of that serpent in Paradise" by coarse al
lusions to :" Protestant Popes" and contemptibl,,
in poss But Il Ssa SosS n 70 poi
i1cs snd religion, IL rather too much OF the dema
sosue lor single dose. But perhaps the insatiat,
~ powe. pee1iiar 70 Catholicism, has cor
'1p'0u nis nature ana shut out the light"
SrIaRIso NEws.-The e---ons Of the European
mail, which reached this city, last evening" are Of
q much more important character than the fore.
shadowings by telegraph, from Halifax, led us 70
believe. The breaking up of the Peace Conferen.
css at Vienna coupled with the vacillating and
now very suspicious attitude of Austria, and the
barren results 90 far, Of the bombardment ofSebas
topol, had produced feeling Of marked depression
b,th in London and Paris. The public mind Is pre-.
pairing now for war on the most extended scale
that viii at once bring into play all the repources
OF the belligerents. As great step to that end,
We have the poitive assurance that the Emperor
OF the French will set out for the Crmea at an early
day. Another Is, TO compel Austria to draw the
sword citber for or against the Gar. Already a
courier was on his way from Paris for Vienna with
dispatches from the Emperor for N. Drouyn de
rHuys
These dispatches are described as decided In
their tone, and the French Plenipotentiary ID In.
structed TO call upon the Cabinet Of Vienna 10 de.
clare categoncaly whether It means TO fulfil its
pledges, and ito take the part that becomes It as
4 great power against the common enemy now
that Russia has rejected the propositions OF the
powers" The demand Is said to Do made In terms
which admit neither OF evasion nor delay.
The Austrian Government, meanwhile, Is mani.
testify not blind TO the crisis. To use a Yankee
phrase she Is getting ready to face the music,-in
issuing decree for a new levy ofeighty thousand
men.
In view OF these events-present and prospec
tive,--the war, bloody il has been already, -is
nothing 70 what Is coming. The drama is Just
beginning.--Nep York Express.
JoHS CAM, postmaster in Rutland, refuses TO
deliver the Herald 10 any Of our subscribers at the
post Office. Reason for refusal: the Hereld Is a
Know-Nothing paper We have offered to pay
the postage on these few papers, and even more,
but We are assured that twenty dollars win not
hire him."
We offered TO refund the money TO those who
had paid for the Herald TO be delivered at the post
oAlce. Only one has yet appeared for repayment.
Still there Ia room
Subscribers who have heretofore taken their pa
pers at this Office or ut the post Office will please
TO call for them at the bookstore coffee packa-
ges' also, win be found at the bookstore
land ny Herald
The employees OF Pierce's administration are
greatly terrified by Sam. Nothing but actual des-
NJ