Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-26

| American citizen is killed in cold blood by
the rascally foreigners to arms to arms
let us avenge his death American blood
shall not be shed upon American soil with
| impunity, The valiant mob frightened some
dozen or two Irish apple women and Dutch
broom girls. The body of the murdered
man is laid. in state; funeral sermons are
preached over him, in which the motto, duIct
ct decoTum est pro Patria NOR, is frequently
put in; large and long procession of indig-
ant and weeping natives follow the defunct
| victim, over whom is thrown the AnlsrfcdH
flag, that FLAG which has so often been borne
at the head of our victorious armies, and has
so often fOated at the mast head of our VIC
torious ships, borne in a just and righteous
cause; that flag to be laid upon the body Of
the victim of a drunken row upon the
hearse is painted his dying words, " / de a
tfae Ane,Iean :" and BILL POOLE, the New
York killer is placed side by side with
| WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON and WARREN, and
| he is reverenced as a martyr This is Know
Nothingism.
Again: An election is to be held for mu-
nssipeltes6cs ip = q!
the vest. On the appointed day the citizens
| both native and adopted proceed to the bal
lot-box to deposit there their votes. The
americans % as they desire to be called
the Know Nothings-seeing the day going
against them = trusting in the justice and
righteousness of their cause, rush into the
ward, knock down the Dutchman, destroy
| the poll books, and because the Dutchman
don't quietly take all this, but show fight,
the AnlercianS, raise n cry of persecution, arm
themselves for the fight, desecrate the Ameri-
can flag, and make war upon the adopted ci-
tizens, because they wont stand fogging. In
the fight, one misguided man on the Know
| Nothing side is killed. and several foreigners
| Then comes another Bill Poole affair. Cse-
sai's dead body is placed in the Market place,
| and Americans are called to avenge the death
of their dead Brother And this is Know
| Nothingism.
This virtuous order would disfranchise
| Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, because he was
Catholic it would tear the laurels from the
brow of the hero of Chapultepec becuase his
wife is Catholic 1t would disfranchise
Gates, Montgomery, Pulaski, ,Steuben, De Kalb
La Fayette, Withespoon, Gallatin, Shields,
and host of other good and great men of
this country because they happened to be
born beyond the seas. 1t would trample up
on every thing good and great which does not
agree with it, and place Bill Poole side by
side with him, who was "frst in peace, first in
war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen"
Think of it, We who are true Americans
Bill Poole and Washington. Bill Poole the
frequenter of dram shops and brothels, the
hero of street fights and drunkens rows, side
by side with George Washington. This is
tho work of the Know NOthings.
As to the real fear which the Know Moth
ings have of the Catholics subvcrting this
government, that only exists in the diseased
imaginations of few fanatics; no sensible
man dreamed of such thing; no sensible
Catholic would for a moment tolerate such an
assumption of power on the part of the Pope.
Such an idea, we will venture to say, never en-
| tered the brain of the Pope himself, even II
he desired it; he had enough to attend to at
home. The College of Cardinals, the Uni
versities of Douay LOrain, Alcala. Salamanca
and Valadolid have expressly disavowed the
right of the Pope to interfere or control the
temporal affairs of any government except his
own. What better authority can We ask? Men
of every religion of course desire to see their
| own peculiar creed hourishing. Such feeling
is not confined to Catholics. What Protestant
is there, of any sect who does not wish his
| own sect to be the most powerful. Are the
Protestants of this country more patriotic
than the Catholics? Have they had in proper
| ton, more pure patriots, more devoted SER
wants Of the country, than the Catholics And
have the Catholics ever showns as much de-
sire to mix religion in political affairs as the
Protestants We can speak on this point
for we have the honor of being Protestants
Where in this whole country have the Cath.
olcs torn down churches, and burned houses
Of defenceless women? Where will you meet
with such conduct on the part of the Catho-
lies as the late disgraceful affair of the Com
mittee ofinvestigation sent by the Massachu'
sets Legislature to visit the nunnery of the
Sisters of the order of Notre Dame? Where
DOVE see Catholic priests, preaching politics
IN the pulpit? Where do we see any attempt
on the part of the Catholic clergy to bring
themselves forwards as stump speakers and
become candidates for Legislatures, Congress
and Governors of State And have not tho
Protestant clergy done all this Ifone Cath.
lie priest falls; if he commits errors which all
mOrtals are prone to commit, the fact is
blazoned in every newspaper in the land
while the hundred cases of Protestant minis
tiers committing the same acts, are passed over
| in silence.
Il
of the church of Rome, we have no right
to persecute its members; we have a right tc
oppose it in the true way and spirit we have
a right to show its members that the system
is wrong, if we so believe it, but we have nc
| right to withhold office from them, such
course beside being wrong is impolitic in the
/ extreme.
The leading men amongthe Know Moth
ings do not for an instance suppose that th'
Catholic religion is dangerous to this country
they do not believe it will ever be strOns
enough to be dangerous even if it so desired
they do not bclive the Catholics to be les
patriotic than the Protestants, but they mus
have something to harpupon, something to ex
cite the passions of the mob, and they cry 'Dan
ger in tie DARK t' Yellow covered novels o
the worst descriptions, written by men of th'
worst morals, are distributed about, and tn,