The true Democrat., 1855-12-11

view. It is no foreign party and has no for eign insticts. The tyrants of the old world fear and hate it; Louis Napoleon, the French despot, has expressed the hope that the Know Nothing movement will hold the democracy r check!
 In regard to bestowing office, we do not con. slider either birth place or religion,- political souldness and personal merit and qualification Is the only test we make Ours is too great and magnanlmous party to take part in reli- glous persecution, or to prescribe the frendless exile because of his nativity, which no act o his could effect. We will neither give him office nor refuse 1t to him. because he is a foreigner When he applies, our sole enquiry will be,-"Is he honcst,-ls he capable,-is he faithful to the constitution p
 There is one charge against immigrants not yet referred to. It Is that they are aboitionists There may be some foreign born abolitionists there are certalnly native aboIitionists Between the two classes no distinction should be made for every aboltionist is traitor The Know Nothings, however, have made a wide distinction. ln their council in Philadelphia in June last, their delegates gave the hand of fellowship to native aboltionists, but refused it to foreigners, whether abolitionists or not The delegates from Arkansas sat down, side by slde with such pestlent fanatics as Wilson Gardner and Ford without a shudder. They had the onnlabihty to remain silent while Ford denounced the people of Arkansas as "Mjeves'' and "vaNains." They endured without rcbuke the crnging confession of Kenneth Raynor - the southern trator,-when he gave the aboli- tonsts aid and comfort in their assaults upon the south. All this they had the neyue to lln- dergo,-but if single foreign born man had knocked for admission, they would have gone into convulsions. Their doors were open tc nti-slavery fanatics and their southern sympa- thlzers, but would have been closed on SHIEL Ds the gallant Irshman and friend of the south So much for their consistency.
 But are immigrants, as a class, hostile to slavery? Tine state of parties in the north points to a different conclusion. The bit terest of all abolitionsts are the northern Know Nothings, and their hostility to imma grafton Is as notorious 1t is relentless. IT every State they clamor that Americans-blucA and eotate-:hall rule America, and demand that the term of naturalization be extended.- Ii the majority Of lmmi grants,-or even re- Spectable number of them were abolitionists,- would the northern Know NothEgs thus make war on them :?
 To conclude the subject of naturalization, these two propositions may be stated If the Sh''i 0NS piOiNt'No oy 1AhoW -NbGltlI3S d9tIliS naturallzed citizens are untrue, Know Nothing ism should be pat down by the people. those charges are True, Know Nottingham offers no adequate remedy, and ought still t be put down. Extension of the voting term will not protect Us against the wileS of traitors as foreigners are said to be. They will still bt among Us, with ability and opportunity to plot against freedom. N,r will exclusion from of- flee protect us from the blows of aboltionists as immigrants are also sail to De. Population not voting strength, IS the basis of representa- ton, and, under the Know Nothing creed, the supposed abolition sentiments of foreigners vii De equally as injurious to the south as they now are. Know Nottingham, ill either even Is unit to live. f Joreigiers are traitors anc a5ohti0sts, lst tte States se0eruAy keep t4em oat cf tteir J0rtlers. Ii they are not traitors anC abolltonstS, let us adopta liberal and just poli cy towards them thus retaining their friendship instead of forcing them to be our enemies
 The Catholic test is the most objectionable O. all the wrong anl wicked features of Know Nothingism. The southern delegates in the Philadelphia convention were sensible of thi: when they voted against it. Yet they suffered 1t forced upon them, and saw native Amercar Catholics (irom LouSiana) kept out of the con ventlon 5y abolition v0tes rather than dsturl the harmony oi the "Oller." The abolition elegates-hayin, fashioned the foreign plank to their lillng-had too much of the pride Q Lucitcr to submit even to the miserable "pre trcmltting" resolution as to slavery. Tn, southern delegates, with less spirit than their abolition contrere8 tamely yielded to what their hearts rebeled at, for the sake of unity and the spells of office. But some of the State councils have shown more nerve than these tl,.,f- Virginia, Maryland and Louisiana have repu diated the mean and infamous Catholic test and in Louisiana, a Roman Catholic Is the Know Nothing nominee for Governor How long will Arkansas Know Nothings cling tC this relic of barbarism? How long will they be less tolerant than the ancient Cat20l.cs Q, Maylafl, by whom perfect rel5 5ous freedom was first legally established in America? How long will they be less magnanimous than the Hon. w. D. Rice, who has practically 'gnored' the Catholic test by choosing for his wife al estimablo lady of the Roman Cut50Hc faith?
 The outcry against Catholics rests on the fimscst foundation. We are told that thel have, In former days, been prosecutors. & taUe PyOtestants- We are tclI that the Pope! nave united church and state. So haue Pro test1nts. We arc told that there priests clam power to absolve the laitv from the obligation of an oath. The K'eos0 Notting council at PhaI adelpbtQ exercised the san1e pol0er, a11 a5s07Ue. knov Nothlngs from teir 0aths of secrecy.- Does the Know Nothing order clamor agains Protestant persecution? Does 1t condemn it own council of Popes who granted absolution a Philadelphia? Nothing of the sort is done O. heard of. Its whole tide of fury is directed against Catholics. And why? Because Pro testantism is more powerful than Catholicism in the Uinon. Because there are more Protes tant than Catholic votes This is the secret o their pious fears.
 That this anti Catholic movement is unmx ed demagogueism, the history of the past con clusively proves. In 1852 Franklin Pierce was nominated by the democracy for President In assigning reasons why he should not b, elected, the whg party--in one body--alleged as cf atseJ su6iciem cause for Ms defeat, that ht was a citizen of New Hampshire aohose consti tuition excludes Roman Cattozics from office. was shown that Mr. Pierce himself had alway opposed this test-- yet the whigs insisted that he ought not to be President, because his State although against his will,-denied office tc Catholics. The following is an extract from the Louisville Journal, then leading whis paper,-now prominent Know Nothing or gan:
 We are not alone in Minking that Nea. Hampshire disgraced by her religious test, shouA not haue the honor cf the presidency"
 Every whig paper,-north and south,-tht Helena Shield included and every individua whig in the land, from the greatest orator tt the smallest street politician united in denounc ing the "reAigious test" of New Hampshire They characterised it as "infamous Mgohy,' and proclaimed it disgrace to the age auc country. They had then no fear of the Pope expended no stationery in describing papa tyranny wasted no time in warning tn, people against " the aggressive policy and corrupt ing tendencies cfthc Roman Cathohc czsurch in ou country"
 On the contrary, they spoke of the Pope a. wise and humane prince, and of Roman Ca tholics at large,-native and naturalized,-a worthy christian brothers and reliable patrot entitled as fully as Protestants to hold office This was the voice of the whigs of the Uniol