Eastern times., 1855-04-05

is inscribed so Monos Theos,' TO the ont
God : on the other is the inscription, 'As fo
us, we preach Christ crucifed-to the Jew
stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolish
ness The one inscribed 20 Monos Theos,
is the Unitarian church the other inscribed
'We preach Christ cruci6ed,' is the Catholic
church! (Cries of good, good, and cheers.
Is i'll ask of Presbyterian, Episcopalian
Methodist and Baptist-is it, ask, for any
Orthodox Trinitarian Church to Join an asso.
citation that is inscribed, like the Unitarian
church at Baltimore, 30 Monos Theos'-tc
the one God. Is II for them to Join or to coun.
tenance an association that so hays its religion
as to catch men like Theodore Parker and
James Freeman Clarkel put it to all the
religious societies-to the Presbyterians, Eps-
copalians, Methodists and the Baptists-
7 whether they mean to renounce the divinity
of Christ and the operations of the Holy Spir-
it, when they give countenance to this secret
society which is inscribed to the one God +
But, gentlemen, these Know Nothings appeal
not only to the religious element, but TO the
agrarian element. Not only do they appeal
to Protestant bigotry-not only do they ask
Protestants TO out-Herod Herod, to out Cath
olic the Catholics, 10 out-Jesuit the Jesui,s.
by adopting their Machiavellan creed, but
they appeal 10 forlorn party in the State OF
Virginia. minority party, broken down al
home and disorganized, because their associ-
ations have become abolitionzed at the North
they appeal TO them as affording them a
house of refuge. (Cheers and laughter.)
The preachers-your Protestant preachers
1t is utterly impossible that they can make
any inroads against Catholics so long as they
are suspected of political motives-as long as
they are suspected to attempt TO become Prot
estant Popes, and to seize political power.
What was 1t, ask them-what corrupted the
Roman churchl There was once time when
the Bishop of Rome was the kead of pure,
/ primitive church-when he was armed only
with elemosynary, with spiritual and with
ecclesiastical power. But the very moment
he laid his hand upon the imperial purple and
crown of-the Caesars, that very moment the
who're of Babylon put on her scarlet and be-
gan to play her denominations before the ewes
of the people. She played these denominations
till the times of Calvin and Luther, and Me-
lancthon and Roger Williams These great
reformers were men who did not go into Sc
cret places, who used no dark lanterns, who
did not speak in whispers, but who Numbered
in the tones of Whitefeld himself The mo-
ment the Pope laid hold of political power
the moment he became part and head of civ
il state-that very moment the State corrupt
ed the Church, and the Church destroyed the
liberties of the State. So it will be here, il
under the pretext of defying the Pope, of pro-
scrlblng Catholicism, you allow your priests
-Protesiants or others-to lay their hands
upon political power, and put on the imperial
purple and crown of the Cesars-that very
moment the State will corrupt the Church,
and the Church will destroy the liberties OF
the State. As to the prescription of foreign
ers, let me ask the Know Nothings them
selves to return to that passage of the Bible
TO which [ have already referred them. II
they will take the fifteenth chapter of the book
of Samuel, and read not only the whole verse,
but the whole history of Absalom, the traitor,
they willufnd that while A5salom-not only
native born of the land, but native born of the
lions of King David-was turning traitor,
towards the wilderness with his followers, he
turned and saw Ittai, the Gittite, and said to
him, Wherefore goest thon also with us =
Return to thy place. and abide with thy king,
for thou art a stranger and also an exile
Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should ]
this day make thee go up and down with US
Seeing 60 whittier may, return thou, and
take back thy brethren mercy and truth be
with thee And Ittai, the exile and the
stranger, who came but yesterday, answered
the king, and said, 'As thy lord liveth, and
as the lord my King liveth, surely in what
place my lord the King shall be-whether il
death or life-even there, also will thy ser
want be- And remember that the case of Alb
salon and of lttai is but the prototype of al
Arnold and Lafayette. (Applause.) Who
sent you alliance You tell the people tha
Catholics never gave aid to civil liberty-tha
they never yet struck blow for the freedom
of mankind. Who gave you the alliance
against the crown of England. Who but the
Catholic king, Louis XVI! He sent yol
from the Court OF Versailles, the boy of Wash
ington's camp-a foreigner who never wa.
naturalized, but who bed at the redoubt o
Yorktown. (Applause.)
And not only did Lafayette bleed at the re
doubt of Yorktown, when an Arnold-a ma
tive. like AbsaIom. proved traitor but whel
the German DeKalb fell at the field of Cam
den, on Southern soil, with fourteen bayone
wounds transfxing his body, and, dying
praised the Maryland mili,ia-Gates, tht
Yankee native, ran seventy-fv miles wlthou
looking behind him. (Applause and laugh
ter.) And not only that. In that intens
moment, when the Declaration of Indepen
dence was brought into Carpenters Hall b,
Rutledge, and Franklin, and jefferson, lai
upon the table-that holy paper, which no
: onlv pledued life and hono~ Int f,rtpna 10,