Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-17
NUMBER 234.
From the Danville Register.
sympathy for ROmanism.

ulous sympathy for Romanism Such Ia the seric.
comic nature Of many of their lugnbYious efforis
| that the nnsophistcated wonld most naturally ir.
fer that they had just completed their deyofons at
the ieet OF the Virgin or had been actually favored
with delicious smack Mt the great toe Of his VI,
ness the Pope. But to the more shrewd and know.
ing, their masks of hypocrisy are of such himsy
texture, these shallow articles stand out in all The
naked deformty Of polite al duplicity. The Pro,
testant Democrat, who is not lost to all love of
country, and dead to every emotion Of patriotism,
has really no more love for, or sympathy with,
RomanisrH than any member Of the American pal
ty. If he is an intelligent and well-informed Pre-.
testant, the politicoregious creed of the Jesuit
and Catholic is as distastefu TO him az to any OF
his political opponents While, on the other hand,
no man knows better than he does that the creed
Of the Catholic Church ever has been, and ever
must be, the most deadly foe with which civil and
religious liberty has ever contended, or will eve,
have to contend in future. e#
Why, then, IL may be asked, have the Demo.
cratic organs of the country coalesced with the or
gans of that church in it's crusade against the
American party. The reason il obvious The
Romanists have votes, and modern Democracy
wants to hold the political ascendency In the M
ton. Strike from that class Of our population the
right OF suffrage, and the press Of modern Democ-
racy would be as silent in their defence as mutes
We should then hear more of religious proscrir,.
pathetic lncubrations of pseudo sympathy thar
cucumber the columns of the Democratic preas.
The "lesh-pots" of government alone are the high
incentives which doubtless prompt the organs
and leaders of that party to court political Gle
ment the prcdominancy of which would be Tho
signal for the overthrow of the institutions of the
country.
Some of the organs Of this foreign party. sy
way Of throwing dust In the eyes of their readers
and binding them to the true nature OF the issues
before the country, professedy oppose the plat
form of the American party upon the score Of It's
religious intolerance They say that it mitatea
against the right Of " worshiping God according
to the dictates of conscience !" Lame and iru,
potent conclusion -fimsy sophistry and ground
less accusation. Unless the right to worship God
as conscience dictates depends upon elevation Ia
Office under government, there IA not even the
shadow Of plausibty in the charge. The Amer
lean platform simply prefers natiye-born citizaps
over those oforeign birth, for all Offices OF tlus,
and profit In the country. Its members simply
reserve to themselves the right Of voting for Pro.
testant in preference to a Catholic, when the two
come in competition for the same Office. Is there
anything criminal and intolerant in this If We
believe that nntive-born Protestant is safer re-.
pository of the interests ofthe country than for
egnborn citizen, who owes at least spiritual al.
legiance to foreign despotisrn have we not 4
right to cast osrr-Miffage for him And in doing
this, do we in truth Gender ourselves obnoxious 10
the charge of intolerance and religious proscrip
ton : Most assuredly not.
Has not the Democratic party INDUCED IN a
system of political prescription, for long seres
Of years, more disgusting and revolving t;iau has
ever characterized the policy of any party known
to the history of any faction save that OF Roman.
ism itsefp Most assuredly it has But when the
American party proposes to withhold their suffra-
ges from the followers Of a peculiar luth whose
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tcrous union Of the Church and State and pro
fessedy nimical to republicanism, as well as civil
and religious liberty, they are denounced a. mid
night conspirators, religious proscriptonists, and
bHots of the most odions character-a ID that too
by the press and leaders of a party the most un-
generous, sordid, selfish and ilberal in the dis,
tribntion of the government patronage, known To
the two hemispheres
But has not tho American party valid and sub.
stantal reasons for the precautionary measures
which they have taken? No man Of general in
formation who calmly and dspassionately weighs
all the peculiar facts and duly appreciates the high
incentives that first prompted the organization OF
that party, can for moment doubt that they have
Disguise and distort the facts the opponents Of
that party may, they cannot fasify the lamentablc
truth that Romanism, in its most odions tyne, Il
making rapid and fearful strides in the lani. The
obscqnious minions and hireling emissares of a
foreign political and religious despotism arc nov
scattered broadcast throughout the country di-.
seminating their pernicous doctrines and poison,
ing the public mind These artfu and insinuatine
characters hold a creed that denounces Protest
ism as heterodox, republican form Of govern
ment IA pestlentia and civil and religions !ibcIty
as 81 heresy that must be put down. Tney to-
geLher with those who embrace the anti-repnbcan
tenets Of their faith hold that the Roman Pontifi
has right to control both the secular and reii.
gions affairs Of NIL governments under heaven, and
that the direct allegiance which they owe 10 him
rises superior to all constitutional restraints and
obligations tn support and uphold the secular lsw-
Of government. 'n
Then, holding, all true Romanists undeniably
do, such poiitco-reigious tcnets az these, does il
not behoove every true patriot and lover OF thr
institutions Of his country to discriminate against
this class of our population In the selection of
ddates for NIL Offices Of trust and profit under gov.
ernmcDtg 1t Is not only right, but Ia it not
duty which every American patriot owes to the
memory Of the sires Of liberty on our shores, a.
well a. TO posterity, TO rescue the institutions Of
American freedom from the despoing hands of
these Jesuitical hordes of foreign emissaries? No
true-hcarted American, we take It, will gainsay
such n coursc, unless his mind is 40 warped and
biased by party prejudice 10 preclude fair and
impartial investigation Of facts ss they are The
political trickster, whose every energy Of mind and
body Ia strained to the utmost tension In eager
pursuit after political preferment, may dcnounce
and stigmatize the members Of the American par
ty for such policy but the disinterested patriot
never.
PAH.UTAH CoUSTRY.-The Grass Valley Tele.
graph has the following interesting news from
Carson Valley:
The entire present population, with the excep
ton Of some three or four families, we're anxious
that. tho Valley, If such is not already the case,
should come under California Jurisdiction BRIGHAM
Young, however, is determined that such shall not
be the case, and has already despatched about one
hundred families, who arc now en- route for the
Valley, and says II It is necessary, he win send
five hundred more in the fall, rather than 10 allow
anne Sation TO take place, The Legislature was