The true Democrat., 1855-09-04

English law, the British monarchs hold the veto po,cer over the acts of parliament, but the real practical pO1cer to enable them to execute the law has long since departed from them Does any sensible Englishman, jealous of mon- archical power, care a fig for the "document''- care for the formal sign when he sees the thing slgnlhed In or out of existence, as the case may be?
 would not be fair or sensible in you, MT. Editor, to require your neighbor to find "doc ment" to prove that the kings of England had relinquished their claims upon the sons and grandsons of native Englishmen, though born in foreign countries, before you would take him as United States citizen clear of Bri- tish control remember reading, few weeks since, from report made in the British parlia ment, that there were many thousands of obso- tete laws upon the British statute books--m1re- PeaIed, if you please-but were, nevertheless, and the practices under them, ten thousand times more effectually killed aoithoM G "docu- naent" than drunkenness and selling liquor is in the State of Maine aoiM "documentn' There are no inquistions to torture men and women with; no Auto de Fla exhibitions any more ir Spain and Portugal--yet know nothings will not take the fact as a sign of any abatement of persecution on the part of the Catholic pow CTS unless the repeating documents" are found until such discovery is made as having issued from the vatican under the sign manual of the Pope, and countersigned by his Cardinal Sec retary in due form-the poor Catholics, Judge Fancy, Mir. Postmaster Campbell, and our neighbor Mr. Carroll, included must be deem ed willing to burn up and stretch Protestants upon the rack at the bidding of the Pope
 Suppose some ultra montane bigot does pes5- hsh his peculiar views of what he bezieves the power ot the Pope ShouM Je--must every Cath olc be made esponsible for his notions when one-half of the clergy and ive-sixths of the lalety do not belle ve in them-and the number Who do believe in those dogmas become less and less every day?
 have said above that such documents" as know nothings look for are seldo given until the power they pretend to relinquish is already lost; if they are, they are always violated. But we know of one document'' of the character sought for which was made before such power was lost, and which MT. Clemens and his know nothing accomplices in their researches over- looked. One that could, if any could, bind the parties that made it, and be sufficient security for their conduct forever. For it was '" doc- ument," the consummation of which formed quite an epoch in the worlds history-nay the eyes of mankind gazed eagerly upon the pro- gress of the york; in which Catholic and Pro- testant bound themselves in the most solemn manner before Almighty God and before the whole world never to exercise the power to in ilct any injury or to deprive each other of any right or privilege as free American citizens of the United States, on account of his religious belief. This "document'' is called THE CoN- sTITUTIoN OF THE UNITED STATES. Let the acts of Mir. Clemens and the acts of his know nothing brethren proclaim to the world how faithfully they intend to observe it. Whether they do not intend, like those who have gone before them, to use the power if they can ob- tain 1t, in spite of the document"
 A JEALOUS PROTESTANT