The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-16

Wuuu ub De8r CrltlClHm. WQe0 tho
secret 10 Known the power 10 extinct, as, In the in.
sect vorid, the birth Of love is the moment Of death.
In poLtics, eaid Colsridge, whatever originates In
rear terminates In folly; and the Know Nothings,
tearing democracy, have made themselves ridicu.
ious BY the co1ardly and mysterious method they
adopted for s~ssailingis |.
Il needed rot Notes and Que ies'' 70 learn that
The new is often old; that the folliss and crimes
OF the past are eernaIly being repeated and
the Know Eothing1 have shown ia that the
Americans are less original, in their arguments
what Is absolute in u e cid country; and We now see
that the principles which the most obstinate tory and
~atso,utist won o, in Eai ope, be ashamed to acknow-
leoee-co1stitute the creed OF the Know Nothings.
Tbens 10 a large and ignorant belief they nave
faith In monopoly, Ia protection to rative ~industry,
limited franchise, intolerance OF strangers, and
anti Popefy. Ia the old world these things were
the growth of time, c~reduiity, and interest; but ia
She new vo'li they are the reproach Of the intslli.
genos of the age. We have escaped from them;
and our brethrfn beyond the Atlantic, in shaking
relieved themselves Of the notions in which Ill gov
eminent existed. In point of fat, the people Of
: America are not under the vicious Influence OF such
notions; and perhaps 1t is as well that right think.
ouch conspirators as the Know Nothings. This
association was permitted to gather strength from
Its vsguensss, and to grow into Importance by its
known we reckon confidently on its speedy decline.
The association, however, has bsen got up with
consid erabie tkli: 1t appeals to many p~rejudices and
variety OF interests, and II y prcdigal Of promised
benefits. The Romsn Catholic religion Is obnoxious
70 hereditary feeling; and foreigners are disliked by
the working population from their alleged inter.
terence, adversely, with the rate Of wages; manu-
unlimited franchise ~interfereI with the wing, or
Tory v0te, because it is on the side of democracy.
pats the lad for work. said . virgin,an 10 MI.
Chambers, when the subject Of labor was mentioned;
Out Fat, poor fellow, from q variety Of causes, Is
pstronised rather than respected in the new, as
veil ~ in the old world. What Mr.. She'll called
the poetry Of his offences ts net esteemed in
New York; and his creed and his brogue fail to re.
commend him to those who viii not understand
his national romance. Though q bad Christian.
g Father OLeary, or somebody else, sail, he Is Q
good Catholic; and. as be encounters the Orange
man on the Hudson, he cannot forget the feeling that
animated him on the Shannon. His theology Is not
very extensive or very accurate; but his belief Is
sincere, and he will fight for IL. A row Is ct any
knocking down airy one who dares insult Iceland, the
priest, or the Pope. The Irish OrAngeman Ia Just as
Irrational al disorderly; and both have disguised
the inhabitants q too many towns IA the States BY
majority sre Pfotestants, the "Pspists" are. of
course, ever In the wrong; and feeling derives
strength from prejudice, encouraged by religious
America as Ia Austria and Florence; and Arch
btshoD Hughes ID AZ ardent 4 divine right man 10
poltdt 9 as Archbishop Cullen. Learned converts t,
Great Britain; and the most distinguished, il not ali
Of these, GEEK to conr ect religion with the most des.
potic political doctrines. Unthinking repubi sans
see in this q kind Of danger TO the integrity of the
star spangled banner; and the Know Nothings
eegeriy, therefore, convert the alarm into capital.
In their address they say
Cur government Is not sectarian. Men may worship
God or the Virgin as their eonscisncss dictate; 1t may
strive to ~enlighten their consciences, but we would not
bind them. Equal rights pertain to us all in these mat.
tiers. But, a. Americans, we havs no right to allow any
to administer our affairs who have sworn allegian nee to
another, and not revoked IL, If the bishops oath binds
htun 4 n h Dana a r.pat H. ht- - - s--
politics H may acknowledge a higher law than our
constitution but it must not be an earthly one. We
IL Rome or a Pope dictate the political action Of our ci.
items, II becomes us to level Rome and humble the Pope.
II . church Is the agent OF a foreign potentate to wound
our liberty 1t Is our duty 10 crush out Of that church iA
political life.
We have all read something like this b,fore: It
was uttered 10 Parliament q thousand times during
many . tory platform; and ever an anon It Is venti.
lated by tina Rev. DR.. M'Neile at the amphithea tre.
The continent, the fear, or the belIef-caI it what
kingdom foi Centuries; but II only took twenty Years
Of fieedom 10 give IL q practical refutatiou.
tthis moment Catholic Francs has an army en-.
gsesd IN combat With desPotism; and the Irish
der in the same field Of fight, performs In noble
communicable deeds Of valor Of which the history
Of chivalry affords no parallel. The Irish Cath bic
bishops 1Ss % ardent advocates Of the war IS the
II may surprise the Know Nothines to BE- told that
the individual politi al opinions OF the Roman Ca
thoiic bishop Of New York are ss oenoxious il Ire-
bic press OF Ireland Ia now engaged In Q contest with
ito own bishops on Q kindred subject. Strange
enough, too, st the very moment when an ~associa-
principles Of the Court Of R,me, two Catholic ma
items nesr to Rome, are acting In direct opposition
70 these principles. Not less strange Is the fact
TeprobAtes certain Catholics in ireland for an al.
legged tendency in the same direction. The Dublin
Telegraph says
There 10 not al anti Catholic paper in the United King.
Of Dublin, but has expressed It's approval Of the project
Of Law proposed BY 1.-THE hber,l' ministry Of Piedmont
alton Of bishops 10 the Sandman kingdom
In Piedmont that attempt has been completely success
full which We nov see struggling for = victory in Ireland.
that ID, laymen obtaining the power to treat bishops aud
priests as they Please. Piedmont, as well as Spain, once
truly great aud purely Catholic countries, are at this
moment q waruiGg to Ireland. Under the pretence of
Of seeking for important political changes, attacks were
directed against the episcopacy and the clergy in both
places-as we now see, In Ireland. men under the pre-
tencs OF seeking for q change in the land laws, abusing
these wo will not follow them In their peculiar path
citing mobs 10 cry .shamei against their own bishops.
abusing priests as corrupt, y and prelatcs a. opoltical
,s,aas sss most :ad . p.sssd', N our m s sssss %,s,sse's tS ISuT P.nsl
legste, a. untrue to his principles, and a foe to the
riehtse Of the priesthood and the people. Such things
were PRINTED to be done in Piedmont and Spain, under
the name OF elderly"
Il n ever thus: in civilized nations the morality is
the came no matter what the Christian creed. and
under the same circumstances the Catholic and Pro
tsstant indulge in the same political principles.
Macanley tells rs that Protestant England was onse
despotic; and we know that Catholic Venice, Flo
renee, Genoa, Pisa, &C., we're once republics. For
q republican to object 70 q mau because OF his reli-
.gion il to give up the argu ment on which republics
necessarily rest for durability.
There is nothing In political e~ffrontery TO com.
pare with the absurd impudeucc Of Americans OBJ
teciing to immigration. It was BY strangers that
the States were made what they are; Il In TO the
immigrants the country must look for what il most
wants--p opulstion. The Irish and German lAborers
have made tier canals, their railways. their high.
ways, ard their piers. These are tho instruments
which push back slavery into the fetid regions OF