Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-06


not sell the bones of indicators as the relics Of
apostles and early martyrs. Whilst they believe
in spiritual manifestations they tell us nothing OF
winking and weeping pictures, and OF Houses OF
Loretto flying through the air. Disgusting rs is
their polygamy yet they put 1t under the sanction
Of the law, without cloaking their beastly licen-
tiousness under the garb OF pretended celibacy.
In their degradation of the female character, they
are open and avowed. Instead Of sneaking TO the
confessional In the mask of hypocrisy, and there
instilng into the hearts of the young and the un-
the venom of their prurient appetites,
by propounding questions eDjoined by their great
authorities Dens and Ligour, which are too hor-
rid and disgusting to soil the paper onwhch write
Whilst the Mormons claim freedom from perse-
cution themselves, they do not claim, in their
creed, the right to persecute others. Ii the Roman
Catholics were content, as the Mormons are, TO let
other people alone, they might practice their Jug
gleries and tomfooleries MS much as they choose
sell masses for money as much as they choose
brighten away devils with bells as much as they
choose parade the streets in harlequin process
sons as much us they choose--and the only notice
they would receive would be the laughter of men
and the whoops Of idle boys But IL is because they
claim to rule the country to prosecute others for
opinions sake, to inveigle the wives and daugh-
tiers of the land into their tolls to control the cleo
TONS to put up and pull down parties, to dictate
terms to cabinets, to inculcate the "higher-law
doctrine Of obedience to the Pope Of Rome as par
amount to the allegiance to the constitution--this
it is that has enrolled million Of freemen In the
ranks of resistance to priestcraft and tyranny
This it is that has awaked the slumbering spirit
in the sons of that Protestant love OF liberty that
fired the hearts and nerved the arms our revou-
tonary fathers.
Mr. Wise speaks of Romanism as being /" the
mother church of Professionalism" Strange Ian
g,iage this from one calling himself Protestant!
/, as Protestant, meet this position with flat de-
NAL. If Mr.. Wise be Protestant in feeling, as he
says he is, he can mean nothing more by this claim
OF maternity, than priority in date Of existence.
This also deny. Names are nothing-they grow
out Of the developments of time, the progress Of
thought, and the growth Of language. In thought
and language, as in Christian theology, sit is the
letter that klleth whilst it is thesprit that maketh
aliven Professionalism is aiming at the purity and
simplicity of Christianity during the first three CEN
turtles Of our era, before mposture, hypocrisy, and
corruption had poisoned the faith of the church.
So that the esprit" of Professionalism has priority
of date over Romanism.
As well might Mr. Wise say, that Paganism was
the mother ofChristianity; or that the Talmud was
the mother of the four gospels. As well might he
say that the despotism of the Planagenets was the
mother of the constitutional liberty of England, or
the British monarchy the mother Of American
/ here conclude my review of this remarkable
manifesto of Mr.. Wise, against q set of men who
never injured him, and who have done nothing to
Justify his harsh and violent attack. Mr.. Wise is a
man Of power, admit but he will find that he has
at length walked up a sleeping lion. His assault
will be us harmless to the object of his fierce en-
counter and as fatal to himself as was that of the
Indian chief who, in his proud boast Of skill in
archery, shot his arrow at the sun. The bright
luminary went on its destined course, undimmed-
whilst the in its reco cleft the brain Of the
archer himself
The clouds of dependency which have SO long
hung over the hopes of the native-born and Pro-
testant sons of America are beginning to dispense
before the dawn ola brighter day. Let harmony
and forbearance continue to prevail in, and selfish
ness and ambition be discarded from, the councils
of those who are enrolled in this great movement !;
and the year 1856 viii be one long to be remem-
bered In our annals.
There is a certain parsonage abroad In the land
at the sound of whose voice the shackles of party
drop from the hands of our people, like those of
Paul and Silas at the approach Of the angel. AL
though the echo Of his footsteps is not heard, yet
to the demagogue and party hack, he is terrible
as an q army with banners" He is no magician,
and yet the touch Of his wand like that of the spear
OF Ithuriel causes the mask TO drop from the face
Of hypocrisy, and exposes selfshness and partisan
bigotry in all their deformity. He comes with his
"fan in his hand, and he purges his floor rs he
goes They call him SAM" But it is not Uncle
Sam
Uncle Sam is venerable in years, with sound
head and an honest heart. But he is growing old
bent in form, bowed down with the heavy burdens
which the lazy, the ayaricious, the cunning and
selfish, have heaped upon his shoulders, and com
PEELED him to bear. This parsonage TO whom al
lude, is his first-born and dutiful son. He has
come TO his fathers relief With all the wisdom
and honesty of his SIRE he possesses the buoyancy
the vigor, and the strength Of youth. His muscles
are elastic, and his sinews are tough. His mission
is TO visit every city, town. and hamlet in the land
He is equally at home in the mansion OF the great,
and the cottage Of the lowly He takes his seat
at the councilboard of the wise, and ministers at
the couch Of the afflicted. He whispers the word
Of hope, which nerves the arm Of the mechanic In
his Workshop, and walks beside the farmer as he
turns up the burrows of his field.
His march Is ever onward He passes rivers at
a bound, scales mountains at a leap, and through
swamp aud forest he never loses bis way. He
never stops, except to drop tear upon the grave
Of some revolutionary hero for his heart Is as ten
der as his nerves are strong. He watches around
our dwellings when we are asleep, and slumber
never weighs heavy on his eyeds He carries in his
manu- the nag vi MS country, WHICH mas 80 Oftcn
withstood the battle and tho breeze. The halo Of
freedom beams upon his countenance, and the enc
mics Of the Union fly at his coming, like kites and
crows at the eagles swoop. He never strikes with
out warning, but when he does, the edge Of his
claymore sewers joints and marrow, and hecatomb
falls at every blow The creed Of his faith, is the
constitution Of his country, and Luther and Wash
ington his two great exemplars Of religious lib
erty and civil freedom. Bars and bolts cannot
screen the chicanery Of midnight caucuses from
his ken, and convent walls cannot be built too
high for him TO scale
Chattering damagogues grow dumb at his ap.
proach, and bishops inter and Jesuts' robe fall
from the head Of pampered insolence and skulking
knavery at its touch. He cheers the hearts Of the
honest, the patriotic, and the good, with the smile
of hope at their country's deverance- TO the
wicked the hypocritca the sclash, he speaks their
day Of doom. After having gone his destined round,
he win finish his labors by lasbng with the thongs
Of popular indignation, from the temple Of legisa-
ton at Washington, those who have been desecra-
ting freedoms affairs by offering victims to political
idols After such Herculean labor he win need
at least four years repOse, which he win spend in
the "White House"
When he retircs again to private life, he viii