Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-10


ought TO have been sufficient TO have saved the
country from the peril which now demands the
power OF all three 70 avert IT.
Because it Is an element at all, they over whom
long delayed retibuton 10 impending scream at
the bare mention of it, as the denoniacs did when
they saw Christ approach them. II Is a persecu-
ton for conscience sake, in their view, that we
hesitate to surrender our country, our liberty and
our religion to the guidance of corrupt men banded
with foreigners; and what makes 1t a persecution
is, that these foreigners happen TO be Papists and
infdels. If they had happened TO be Chinese, or
Mahomedans, the nation would have reyolted much
sooner And yet without reason for we and our
fathers have au unsettled account with Popeiy,
many centuries old. At first it was the Emperor
and the Pope who trod US into the dust linen A.
was kings and bishops who burned some az ,ac
stake, and drove the rest out o. ~ lanas n.9 LUIS
WILDERNESS. Now it is priests and moos ana dema,
Qoeues. who have followed us into our place OF
refuge-nay, our last place of reiuge-to renew
here the combat of centuries, in a form ut once
more degrading and detestable, aud more likely 70
be fatal to US than in either of ts preceding forms
Shall we be driven into the Pacifcy Shall We sue
eumbY Or shall we turn upon our relentless pur-
suersY They have followed the lion 10 his last den,
and brought him to bay Did they expect him to
die like stag in his lair sls8tQ u1
The revolt Of the country was wholly unexpected
by those who supposed they had already secured its
final subugation; and like every other great retr
button Il takes those it falls on by surprise Its
not, therefore, to be wondered at that they exc
crate with peculiar horror tho special means OF
success against them which their own perhdy and
ferocty had rendered absolutely indispensable.
The country organizes itself for the great conflict
which, to those who frat embarked IN IT. seemed
well nigh desperate, in silence and without obser-
vation That Ia the way in which all grand moye-
ments occur; even the Kingdom of Heaven does
not come with obsei walton. Butthe demagogues, the
priests, the mobs the foreign papsts arc
shocked beyond endurance, because the handful OF
devoted men who first combined to save the coun-
try. IL that were any longer possible did not call
the whole Of them into council! For what! In
order TO be murdered; or, if not murdered, ira
duced, and tho very end for which they were
willing to be traduced and, if necessary, murder
ei-utterly defeated Were they called into coun-
ell when their enemies bought and sold thems
Were they notified, when corrupt bargains were
struck, in which the liberties OF the people We're
put up at an infamous pricef Were they consulted
when the atrocious schemes to break up the Union
Of these States were concocted @ III
Were they advertised when the overthrow OF
our nationality of our institutions and OF our re-
lgon together, was deliberately undertaken byt he
Popish despots and prelates OF Europe Was
counsel asked Of them by foreign Papsts and int
dels, when, throughout the whole land, they con-
spired with the full assent Of demagognes to over
throw the Protestant civilization of the country?
Were the secrets OF the confessional made known
TO themg Were the secret oaths binding every
Papal ecclcsiastic with unlimited allegiance to a
foreign temporal prince submitted TO their scrutiny
The safety Of the State is the supreme law And
surely is the first necessity of State that is en-
dangered, and they who would save it must con-
suit, must combine. If the perfdy and ferocity
Of their enemies compel them to observe unusual
z. fuao nj hair dap
ger. In point Of morality, it stands precisely or
the same footing as vote by ballot. The object Of
IL determines its lawlulness and it is its success
not its nature, which makes it 30 hateful
If the nationality Of America is to be sustained,
II her Protestant civilization Is to be perpetuated
IL the federal Union is to represented, there is but
one possible method Of dealing with the subject.
The organized power OF society must De taken out
of the hands OF those who have betrayed these
vast interests, and must be put into the hands o.
those who viii cherish them. Public opinion Is
the only instrument by which this great chan Sc
can be effected. That enlightened, the hrst step
of the revolution is political the second is legal
The FIRST step involves the organization, and Tho
triumph OF q party commensurate with the
country, the American party and that involves
the overthrow of every party that resists its uti
mate objects or resists the necessary means OF OBJ
tanning those objects. Indeed, If this step wer
fully achieved, it would be Of less consequence :
--t"ls nnuuy put out or power all men and parties
hostile 70 our nationality, to our Protestant civil
zation, and to our federal Union out of power
with an overthrow incapable Of being repaired.
And this is the reason why this great movement
excites suchencrucialDg bitterness of hate, in it
political aspect OIL the part of all against whom !
Is directed. It's success ia seen to be fnaty an,
fatality to them. For nations do not immediate
ly incur the same peril twice, nor do profount
national movements speedily exhaust their force
The Democratic party has survived the storms Of
hundred years. The American party, stron:
enough TO swallow up not only Democracy itself
bnt every other feebler excitement, will live forey
or. The legal revolution, therefore, which vii
oonsummatc the political win be only but necessa
riy the outbirth Of its spirit Assaults upon th,
Union OF these States, whether from the North OF
the South, must cease. Conspirscies against the
Protestant civilization OF the country, between
demagoguos on one side and pspal aud infide
Foreigners on the other, must terminate. Attack.
upon our nationality, by treaties made between
foreign despots and prelates, under the sanction o.
the court of Rome, and executed by millions o.
foreign papists and in6dels cast into our bosom
must be brought to an end. Foreigners must be
content TO enjoy here the blessings Of freedom
denied TO them everywhere else; the benefits Of O
civilization more exalted than any they can enjoy
elsewhere |; the same civil and religious rights
which we ourselves enjoy Theymust cease 10 rude
"a. AmsrieGas must rule Aperica.
I cannot be insensble that many yirtuous, en-
fghtened, and patriotic men view this subject in a
Light widely different from that in which il strikes
me. / have no allusion to them in anything
have uttered. / do not forget the blinding infa-
enoe Of party spirit and party ties. admit also
that not few of those who are personally dear TO
me are found arrayed against what believe 70 be
the very highest interests OF the country. That
may make my duty painful, but not uncertain. Nor
could help being fully aware Of the atrocity with
which the public press sometimes assail those from
whom, 1t issupposed no personal peril Is 10 be mp.
pretended. But / have felt long ago the whole
force of Papal and Inhdel bitterness and have sur
rived all that their colsborers could personally
attempt. For anything more Il would be strange
indeed, if / should look with indifference upon
struggle, at the moment OF its impending triumph
after having watched It's progress longer and more
eagerly, and indicated the most detested princi-
ples on which Il proceeds more tenaciously than
one In ten thousand Of my countrymen. All ask
Il, that when that triumph comes, Il may be
used as wisely and as generously as il was heroi-
csly won.