Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-07-13
lFrom the New York Herald, June 3Oth.]

A Llttie Common Sense for the hnOW-NOthl"gs'
We see in several organs of the Know-Nothlng
partv throughout the country constant illusions to
the Pope and symptoms OF great alarm with regard
to the spread of Roman Catholicism. From one
journal we learn that the day on which the news of
MIR. Wise's victory reached the Vatican will have
been kept with unusual ceremony; from another we
gather that the high RESTS Of Anti-christ have been
in ecstacies since the action of The Massachu
setts delegates TO the Philade phia Convention and
generally may say, the newspapers of this stripe
talk as if we were living in the days of the great
Spanish Armada, and reduced to trust to broad
swords TO defeat the famous bull by which the whole
of America was given to the King of Spain by the
Pope. There is not single spectator of the poll
tics of this country, says who takes deeper
interest in them than the Pope OF Rome " and instead
of feeling attered by this information. which will be
new to most of US, this ungracious Know Nothing
adds energeticalIy that ought " to make Rome
HOWL for if there be cloud in nations hori
zon, ii is the Papacy'
1t is high time that this stuff should be stopped
We have made asses of ourselves pretty freely-we
Christans-since the days of Luther. about our
theological quarrel and carried matters to such an
extent that no sensible Chinese, who has any respect
tor himself will, at the present day, have anything
to do with IL Church so obviously divided against
itself. But if ancestors, who shot, stabbed,
burned tortured and hanged each other points OF
theology, were undeniabe asses. what are we who
have not 1.-THE of their grounds for controversial
rancor? For, it must be remembered, TO the Eng
llshmen OF Inc seventeenth century, CatnOlcSm I'M
piled submission 10 the Pope and submission to the
Pope involved the surrender of America to the Spin
ards; small wonder, forSOoth, that they fierce
Pedestrians, and that, while they trusted in Prov-
dence they likewise kept their powder dry. But
we, what cause have we to fear the Pope! What
harm has he done US What harm can he do
Why really, good people, who are quaking in
your shoes about the inroads of the Papacy and
muttering dreadful things about the scarlet woman
of Babylon you are much more likely to damage the
Pope than he to nure you. 1t is hard work enough
for him-poor old sou-to keep his place, with
board and lodging and fire, at the Vactian; nor
would he be there STILL in fact if NAPOLEON III. had
not condescended to use Christianity, just he used
the Delvigne bullet, to consolidate his empire.
Since the first Napoleon showed that Pope might
be kicked about we'll any other man, there
hasn't been sovereig On in Europe that would forego
the pleasure OF trying the new sport. All the minis
tiers of Spain, from the republican juntas to Espar
tero have had their turn at it. France has treated
him like dog Metternich let him know plainly
that he must consider himself mere pensoner of
Austria on his good behaviour and now, in these
latter days ltalys self turns round upon him,
and will have more dealings with him. Rome
drives him INTO exile. Sardinia deposes him from
his authority.
And is this the potentate of whom we are afraid {?
This poor hunted, deserted, buled creature, set up
by this that tyrant for his own purposes, and
| knocked down the next day, like nine-pn, in mere
sport; living mere sufferance-a sort Of Small
weed, shaken up now and then by some neighbor TO
scare the unwary with his shrill voice the pitiable
relic OF etfee order OF civilization, SO wholly cut
| of place in the middle of this nineteenth century,
that, told by the most reliable travellers,
the ceremonies and fashions essential to his state are
probably the most comical sight in Europe. Is this
the man-,his the power, Of which the order of Ma
tive Americans confess to the world they are afraid
God help their backbone, if so it be!