True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-03-22

New York, emboldOned by his successes,
and quickening his march of usurpatiOn,
formally announced from his Broadway
Vatican, that republicanism was "incOm-
patible" with the interests of the Catholic
Church. He dared to defend the enormi-
ties of Tuscan despotism in its barbarous
cruelty towards the helpless Madiai family
for the crime of reading the Bible, and
denounced Americans and American SEN
ators; who, powerlesS to rescue, would at
least send to them in their italian dun
geon, the God speed of freemen's sympa-
thy. About the same time, one of the
ablest Catholic Journals of the country
Brownson's Review-proclaimed the d.
vine right of the Church to dictate law
and to usurp the seats of temporal power,
Another one-"The Shepherd of the VAL
ley"-published under a Bishop, denoun-
ced our school systems, denied the right
of the people to read the Bible, declared
that the "masses" we're injured by educa-
ton, defended the rack, the faggot, and
the Church-sanctioned slaughters bywhich
Rome has crimsoned the soil and blacken-
ed the history of every land that has ever
owned her sway. Was there no cause
for anxiety in these thingsH Was there
no call for that "eternal vigilance" which
is the alone "price of libertyY" 1t has
long been the conviction of our most fear.
less and far-sighted patriots, that Ameri
can Jesuits and foreign despots were to.
gether, laboring for the overthrow of oul
government That this would rejoice
every titled tyrant of Europe, is plain tc
any one who reflects, that our success is
their peril. Butin this "game of Empire
the PRIEST KING of Rome is the great
stakeholder. Why? Three million of his
subjects live here under form of gov
ernment that his apostolic agent declares
incompatible" with the interests of thu
scarlet sorcerers. This movement then il
not blind, misguided power, but spon
taneous stirring of the profoundest depths
of the social structure, to avert the dan
gers that impend In such crisis tn,
people have decided that the duty of pat
riotism warns them to initiate the seren,
and almost prophetic wisdom of Washing
ton, when he said on the eve of one O
those battles that then delivered us from
foreign foes; "Place none but american
on guard tonight"
But to return to Mr.. Wise. He sale
the ritual of the Know Nothings required
that every member should avow his faitl
in "one God" Now what would any maj
Of only common ingenuity find in that, bu
the adoption of basis of Christianity anc
the rejection of Polytheism? But Mr.
Wise found in it the germ of Unitarianism
and alas Il use his own words,) "the re
lection of the blessed Jesus" Yes. til,
apostate of every faith, political and reli
gious; the slave-master with the price O
souls in his pocket; the duellist with hu
man blood on his hands, stood there viii
ming about the orthodoxy of a suppose,
ceremony. That too while declaring tha
religious creeds had no right to test polit
ical purity, and that Catholics might b.
the best of patriots with false faith
And while thus playing the Pharisee him
self, he denounced as "hypocrites," thos
who opposed the Punishment of the Bibl
from our schools, and referred them t
Christs' lessons on hypocricy. If he he
ped his advice would be beneficial, he Gel
tainly should have breathed after it til
pious wish of the honest Scotchman,
t "And may you better reck the ride,
( Than ever did the adviser"
Another charge against the America
V party was, that it swallowed up Wings an
e Democrats, and left them no distinctly
, political principles. How deplorable, tht
0 Americans should so degrade themselvt
: as to forget the party battles of the hou
= in order that they may subserve the gel
s eral good of their common country! An
stranger still, that Mr.. Wise cannot e,
= cuse men for changing ground, even if
d were from bad to worse. He who h,
e been Wing and Democrat, the admirer an
1t abuser Of. Clay, the reviler and disciple
n Jackson, the denouncer and the minist,
la of Polk, the public accuser and then IL
r supporter of Cass, the friend and the er
TO emy of education, the advocate and opp
,e ser of the distribution of the land fun
in surely might pardon something for Il
lie mutability Of human purpose.
is But again, he denounced the Americ,
W party because, in excluding Catholic al
}" foreigners from Office, it sets up "odio
ne distinctions of persons wholly at war wi