Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-05-16

: of lambs blood, and his stomach, too, wi
be equally strong. He will go forth an
swallow a whole Pope without mustar
or salt and as for Catholic women an
children he will be able to devour Who'll
room fall and not feel at all inconyenieu
ced This is the beauty of one of you
True Americans when he has been pu
through this machine, that he has sto
mach for anything He can gormsndis
the most unheard of bats and never ono
blush ! His grip is awful and his sto
mach more rapacious than the Esquimau1
girl (spoken of by the traveler) who at,
dozen of ofpounds of candles and gallor
of oil for breakfast, or the Chinaman a
Canton who ate a barrel of bulldogs for
supper Who so base wouldn't be q
Roman-who so destitute wouldn't be 6
True American ?''
How strange that these ''True Aneri.
cans" never care for anything but the
good of the country, and yet when we
get behind the curtain we find that the
whole scramble is for Offices and money
The Corresponding Secretary, writing
from Wheeling, tells his brethren such an
organization cannot be kept up without
means ! Aye They tell outsiders that
the American nationality .and American
principles hold them together. But inside
we find it can't be kept up without mo-
ney
They publish their principles to the pub
lie and proclaim religious toleration'-
get behind the curtain and we find them
teaching and practising the emost rigid and
cruel system ofreligious prescription. Not
satifed with hunting down the Pope and
priests, they actually make their candi-
dates for the Legislature pledge themselves
to favor the appointment,'of committees to
examine nunneries and nuns Yes, they
are to hunt down innocent females who
may have chosen 10 retire to privacy, give
up the world and take the veil and the
vow from the highest and purest christian
motives they are to be insulted upon Vir-
glnih soil, by the appointment of a com>
mite to visit their privacy and question
the purity of their lives. Shame shame!
upon the man who would thus encourage
an attempt to outrage female modesty
and violate every instinct of gentility and
humanity by brutally entering the sacred
precincts of woman's seclusion. There is
no excuse for such course; whatever may
be said of other times, and countries, no
persons, male or female, can be confined
against their will in this country the re-
medy is simple and easy-the law pro-
vides it. The habeas corpus is the right
OF all. And has it come to this, that sons
of Virgiuia-the land of honor and Chi
va1ry-will actually wink at and encour-
age such an outrage upon the rights and
the dignity of the weaker, the better and
more virtuous sex. To have the private
room of the daughter of Virginian en-
tered by committee Of bloated and blear-
eyed politicians whose very presence would
taint the breath of chastity with the
right and power to question and examine
her as to her conduct and habits A
Virginian lady, because she may prefer
to attend Catholic school, is to be visi-
ted BY set of blackguard politicians fresh
from their nocturnal Bachannalian revels,
and have disgusting and gross questions
prop ounded to her ! Is this not enough
to curdle the very blood of every gentle
man in the State? They can never suc-
ceed in any such sensuous and debasing
scheme as this in Virginia her sons are
of sterner stuff, and have too much Of
that spirit which prompted the lines
cts mans pride,
His highest, worthicst, noblest boast,
The privilege he prizes most,
To STAND ny nELrLEss woNAN's SIDE"