, 1855-06-22
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON TERRITORY FRIDAY, JUNE %, 1855

long and so nnwaveringly pursued by'yor
good old Uncle.
p MEASURES.
Americans ought TO rule America,
says the old coon to you, and you 50
"Yes." Well, now, who says No? Wer
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe. Jackson an
Polk, while living and ruling America
Americans ? Are Pierce, Cass, Douglass
and Lane, now living and endeavoring t.
carry out the same measures of equalit
and liberty (which marked the policy O
their Democratic predecessors-are no
they Americans? Think moment, Sam
If those great minds who have establishe,
so many principles Of liberty-who hav
labored all their lives for America-whos
mighty minds SCARED towards the sun o
Liberty on eagle pinions-if they were no
Americans, what are you Y-ycs, in God
name, what are you ?-who never havt
done anything for your country but skull
and mouse about barns and out-houses by
moonlight in your pin-feathers ?
Extend the Naturalization to twenty
one years" Do this and will insure
Wing administration over this country il
perpetuity. assert it, and the analytica
historian will demonstrate the fact, thai
but for the influx Of foreigners to our lane
but for the inaowing and TRANSMISSION o.
the Democratic element from the SAINT
lands that our liberty.loving forefatheri
came from-yes, but for the very coming
and VOTING Of these now prescribed for
eigners, fresh with their recollections oI
lives halfspent in toll and degradation to
support legalized horde of robbers under
the badges of titled aristocracy and a
pensioned Priesthood assert it, this
blessed land Of liberty would now be cover.
ed all over, from centre to circumference,
with an indestructible array Of legalized
monopolies, aristocracies, )and privileged
orders.
Why does the old coon prescribe these
foreignersl Simply because coming as they
do from land Of tyranny, and having
sense enough to repudate those policies
that have ruined their own country, they
iututively, yes feelingly, vote the Demo.
cratic ticket, and sometimes Gil Demo
cratic office to the exclusion Of an old coon,
or, it may be, q pin-feathered Democrat
whose coon-skin tendencies Uncle Sam dis.
covers and will not trust. The foreigners
do not give tone to this Government-they
only swell the tone given to it by the Den.-
ocracy. The moon is not the sun because
it reflects its light.
MUST We PUT DOWN THE CATHOLICS
Well, now, let US analyze this Catholic
question. Who are they. and why pro.
scribe and persecute them2 I look back
upon the page Of our country's history and
find plenty Of them in the days Of the Rev
olution--some Of whom were signers Of the
Declaration Of Independence l find that
Catholic CARROLL, Of Catholic Maryland,
stood up side by side and, with the same
pen, signed his name and pledged an equal
ly princely fortune, with Protestant HAN
COCK, Of Protestant Massachusetts,, to the
same perilous birth-sheet Of Liberty. Could
the querulous Know-nothing Of to-day have
discovered any difference then in the value
or truth of their religions to their countryi
Nay, more. Could the difference in relig-
ion between Protestant and Catholic be
traced in the blood which, following that
declaration, marked the foot prints Of the
unhoused, unfed, halfnaked soldiery Of
Valley Forge could WASHINGTON himself
the great and good, as he looked with q
fathers love upon his suffering command
tell any difference in the prayers that as
cended to the God.of Armies from thoss
poor faithful hearts in that hour Of theil
eountry's Observation-Disclosures they wert
told on beads, or spoken in wordsi Ant
when heaven had thus prepared them By
hardships to endure what their enemies
could not-a winters battle-and they
crossed, in q cold December night. the fro
zen ice and rolling waters Of the Delaware
to the victories Of Trenton and Princeton
doubt me much IL any ranting, swagger
ing Know-nothing Of to-day, would havt
interfered for the Office of any poor Cath
olic-C Corporalor Sergeant, or perhaps Colo
mel, Of that true american testing band
Now who has better claim to enjoy lib
erty, peace, and happiness, in this countr!
than the Catholics Their rights are a
sacred as the rights of Potestants the,
are blood-bought and Constitution-bound
and our fathers, who had knowledge o
the horrors of religious persecution, forbi'
it in the Constitution. They declared tina
Congress should make no laws respecting
an establishment of religion, or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof" Under this pro
vision no religious test can be made qual
iiication for Office, and upon this platform
the Democratic party stands. 1t leave
betwixt man aud his God the regulation
of conscience and worship-an immutabl
personal right-a right SO sacred that man
kind in I'll ages Of the world have freel..
died for it. And if Catholics, in othe
ages of the world, rather than yield thei
conscience to the dictates of men, hav
suffered themselves to be burnt in bundle
elevated upon stakes to serve as torches u
light up the arenas Of gladiators and th
shows Of wild beasts, will they now tamel
submit TO be deprived of their equalityl-
to be prescribed from their right to office
to take an inferior position as citizens i
th;a connfrV2-of THAR ioink inharifouc