Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1855-04-13
THE AMERICAN MOVEMENT.

This is becoming the topic Of conver.
satlon. Society at large are reused IL
consider the institution nf Catholicism
and its tendency, by its secret emissaries
to sap the vitality of our republican in.
stltutious. AS nation we have thought
and felt, that no power could destroy us.
While we have been extending our
domInIons west and south, and inviting
the poor and outcast OF ever nation to
seek the blessings Of our free instutons,
We have forgot the history of fallen re.
publcs, and the leading cause of the
same, riz:-foreign influence ia their
md>t
We are all proud Of our noble Wash
lngton, and love to sing his worthy deeds
on our national days. bu, in our republic
can zeal we have forgotten his most i'm
portant counsel to his beloved country
men, Beware of fortign mGurncr.'
Down to the remotest time, our his.
torians will place the name of La Faye,te
on the same page with our Washington,
the Adamses. Jefferson and Henry, I'VE
are pleased to see it thus associated, yet
we have forgotten to profit by his wisest
caution relative to our republican govern.
ment. Hear the venerable patriot, after
he had fought for our liberties-lab abored
Tor his own country many long years.
and for checking the mad zeal OF such
Jacobln republicans, as Dauton, Mura,
and Robesperre, was drl ven from France,
and imprisoned by Austrian despolism,
nineteen long years. in the gloomy dun
geons Of Olmutz.
Hear him, | say, as he comes from
those filthy cells, with his venerable head
siivered for the grave bu. still possessing
heart full Of love for freedom, and free
institutions, IF ever the institutions of
this country are destroyed, it will be by
the influence Cf Roman Catholic Priests.
All these wise admontions, dictated
by iar-reaching and unselhsh minds, we
had forgotten,and nothing but the Ameri.
can movement was competent to rouse
us as nation, to our natioral interests.
The secret workings OF Catholicism
are better understood since the light that
has been cast Tor them b, the advocate Of
tne Atnerican cause.
AS Il nation, we possess so much Of the
>plrr of cur fathers and grandialhels that
we have but 10 see the tendency OF any
sect or society TO despotlsm, or to the
cur'alllng OF our republican rights to rise
en- masSe against them. This sa,islact.
only accounts for the sudden rise and
power OF the American party.
Demagognes and mere party men may
labor to sllgmatize and annihlla,e il bu,
their efforts will only prove the fut,Iny OF
all attempts to crush a republican move.
ment, when 1t possesses the heart Of the
nation.
Ere long these same demagogues will
lind themselves occupying a bleak poin,
IN some Isolate corner, and merely motto
ed by the American patriot as he passes,
as we would all notice the statue OF Arm.
old or Burr.
But our noble cause-shall we triumph!
Much depends upon our own course
Let US not become mere phr,iza:s anC
persecute individuals of the Catholic faith
but seek to enIighten ara teach them tn.
true spirit OF rep.nlicanism yet a, the
same time, G,aintain with an Ethan Aller
flrmnass, all our redublican rights.
Actuated by this spirit, we Shall soor
be able to say with Perry. We have
met the enemy and they are ours.'-S,ar
Of Vermont.