Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-12-12
EBENsBURG, DECEMBER II, 1855.

dear to England, since they have confscated
church property, expelled bishops closed con-
vents, and initiate your own Henry and Som
erset. But these legions and these contin-
gents, besides losing at present three millions
sterling by them, demonstrate that England
has no army of her own to defend your en-
pire and, again. they prove. that having no
military capital at home or abroad as a first
rate power, she is henceforward doomed to
be the tool of France. the slave Of a predomi-
nant nation. an old diseased skeleton, having
nothing left of her former vigor, except the
inherent and inseparable marrow of Protes
tant bigotry and prosecuting intolerance.
Pray. tell me. my lord. whether Mr..
Champion intends coming to Ireland to recruit
for the Crimea? 1 can refer him to certain
districts in Ireland where men of has kidney
may be likely to find recruits for the honor
and safety of England. Perhaps you would
Soupers have purchased some Catholic souls
at ten shillngs apiece. The contingent, with
a corrupt Bible in one hand. sword in the
other. and perjury in their mouths. would
charge the enemy with more courage than
the Cennaught Rangers? He might try
Kells, in the country Meath examine the
soup kitchens in Connemara, look in on the
Island of Achill, and learn as he passes along
how much the Queens name has been exalted
in Ireland by her clergy publishing tracts of
blasphemy, formenting rebellion, and collec-
ting tens of thousands of pounds from the
gullabie English to turn the Gospel into re-
venge and to worship God by lie.
All my lord. the bigotry. the insolence.
the infdelity, and the hypocrisy of England,
are detected at last: and your servant. Mr.
Champion, under your command, is merely a
local tool in your hands, endeavoring to rem
edy the results of system IN this country
which shall soon, very soon. end IN the just
and final degradation of England. Oh. Lord !
how long? Yes, there is truly an indecency
In this enlistment in America /: it is reckless
defiance of all the honorable feelings of socie-
ty. What would be thought of the man who.
having murdered parent, would then en-
ploy his orphan child to polish the sword with
which his father was assassinated? Yes.
repeat again and again, it is most indecent of
you to originate this unfeeling outrage on the
broken heart of Ireland and how this cruel
freak has been received in America will best
appear from the following extract from the
Nesc York Herald, high Republican jour
nal 80 Mr. Champion owes it to himself and
to the character he mas borne during his long
residence at Washington to explain this mat
ter, if he can. In such manner that will sat
isfy the public. Some such explanation is
not less due to the country he represents.
Nothing would be more likely to embitter the
feeling on this side of the water than an i'm
preston that the Queens government is so
contemptuously reckless of our laws as to au-
thorize their systematic Infringement by the
highest British functionaries in America.
4
ries of letters on your past and present career
NOT that / consider you an able statesman
you are an artful debater rather than con-
summate poltician-but | address myself to
you because 1 look on your lordship the
exponent of policy which, sooner or later,
will bring ruin on your country, Louis Phil
ippe once said of you, that 'such was your
obstinacy of temper, that you would reckless
ly expend the last shilling in the British treas
ury, and FIRE the last shot in her locker, SOON
er than yield ecen to reason But. if he had
added that you were Christian without any
defined creed, and politician without a fixed
principle, he would have most justly defined
your lordship's public character. | have
taken it into my head that know you better
than any living man and dare say l should
surprise yourself were l to produce the docu-
ments coald sustain the definition already
given of your lordseip's inherent and essen
tial official characteristics. / look upon you
to be the most disastrous minister that Eng
land has ever selected in her policy, and con-
cons der you, beyond all comparison, to be the
greatest and the most perfdious enemy the
Catholic Church has ever had either in ancient
or modern times You sometimes throw a
bone adroitly, to be picked by hungry aspi-
rant of Catholic fame--you occasionally fling
sprat on the political current, by which you
succeed in catching some silly fools, who are
| ignorant of your crafty skill; but with this
occasional semblance of petty concessions,
you are of all living men, if you dared. the
most willing accomplice to forge the chains
and ritet the fetters on the Catholics Of the
schole ,corld. Who can forget the speeches
which were uttered by you and Lord John
Russell at the close of the last session of par
Lament? The mean and cowardly attack on
the Pope pronounced by you both can never
be forgotteni and the motive which prompted
these combined orations is as transparent az
your known hatred of Catholicity. OF Lore
John Russell it may be said, that il is pity
be has survived the year 80. Like an ole
actor, once the Jupiter of the stage, but fal
ling by degrees till at length be fills the offc:
of snufing the candles at the theatre, he ha
sunk below himself and below notice, anC
now stands, by the public decision. for th'
Zero of political consistency and nationa
honor.
In your speech at the close of parliamen
in last August, you attack g the weakness
and the tyranny Gas you called itl of the Papa
government, and of the King of Naples. ~
Aye, you saw that the King of Sardinia ha'
confscated church property, and imprisone'