Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-04-12
sFAT44Y1FILLR, TENN THURSDAY, .lPRit IL, 1856.

IN IN n: THUKbDAf,
$ sent you, from. the Court of Yer
Q sailles, the boy Of Washington.
: canlp7-a foreigner. who neyer. was
inaturalized but who bletl at the re.
j doubt Of Yerktown, when an Arnold,
: a native, like Absalom, proved trait.
orr. but when the German, DeKalb
) fell at the field Of Camden, on South
J Eern soiLwith fourteen bayonet wounds
; Ftransfxing his body, and, dying,
$ praised the Maryland miiitia--G Gates,
J the Yankee native, ran seventy five
miles without looking behind him
! (Applause and laughter,f And not
only that: In that intense moment,
when the Declaration of our Inde-
pendence was brought into Carpen-
tiers Hal, by Rutledge,and franklin,
and Jefferson, and laid upon the ta-
ble--that holy paper, which not on
" pledged life and honor, but for
tune, .too--realize that moment Of
intense. Of sprofound.1of deep inter-
est, when the independence of this
land hung upon the acts of men
when, one by one, men rosa from
their seats and went to the table to
pledge lives and fortunes, and sacred
honors, at length. one spare, pale
faced man rose, and went and dipped
| the pen into the ink, and signed
I"Charles Carroll" and when remind.
ed that it might not be known what
Charles Carroll it was, that it might
not be known that it was a Charles
Carroll who was pledging princi-
pality of fortune, be added the words
of Carrollton. Cheers. He was a
Catholic representative from a Cath
olic colony. "a voice in the, crowd:
'.But he was a native born Ameri-
can And, sir, before Washington
was born, before Lafayette welded
the sword, or Charles Carroll the
pen, for his, country, six hundred
years age, on the 9th Of june, ,l2I4,
there was another scene enacted on
the face Of the globe, when the gen.
eral charter Of all charters of free
dom was gained, when one man--a
man called Stephen Langton-- swore
the Barons Of England, for the peo-
pie, against the orders Of the Pope
and against the power Of the King
swore the Barons on the high affairs
Of the Catholic Church at St. Ed
-mundsbury, that they would have
magma cha,ta or die for it The
charter which secures to every
one Of you to-day a trial by jury,
freedom Of the Press, freedom Of the
Pen, the confronting of witnesses
with the accused. and the opening Of
secret duhgeons-the charter was
obtained by Stephen Langton against
the King Of England, and if you
know nothings don t know who Ste
phen Langton was, you know norh-
ing sure enough. Laughter aud
cheers. He was a Catholic Arch
Bishop, Of Canterbury. Renewed
cheers come here not 70 praise
the Catholics, but Icome here to ac-
knowledge historical truths, and ask
Of Protestants what has heretofore
been the pride and boast Of Protest.
ants-tolerance Of opinion in reHg.
ious faith. (Gheers.) All we ask is
tolerance. All we ask is, that if
you hate the Catholics because they
have nunneries and monastcriss, and |
Jesuitical secret orders, don't out
Jesuit the Jesuits by going into
dark. lantern secret chambers TO ap-
ply test oaths. If you hate the
Catholics because you say they en-
courage the Machiavellian expedien-
cy of,telling lies sometimes, don't
swear yourselves not to:tell the truth.
ECheers. Here are the oaths--the
oaths that bind you, under no cir
cumstances, to disclose who you are.
and what you are, and that bind you
not only to political, bus to social
prescription Here is your book
your Bible--which acquires Of you to
stick up your notices, between
midnight and daybIeak. Laugh /
teri | don't object to secresy. II
am member Of a secret order, and
Lam proud to be Mason: loud
cheers,] and ! am at liberty by my /
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