Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-11-22
\ p-uh FAYETTEVILLE THNN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22 1855

lis the difference to the Catholics, Of
, ter they have been induced to cas-
. tin their lots with ours, under az as
1surance of entire equality, whether
they are lied to death By a statute
or buried alive bys conspiracy at the
, ballot-box?
But We are not done with thi;
: branch of our subject Suppose the
know. w.nothings should elect one Of
their order President of the United
States, and that he, as he most prob
1ably would do, in one Of his MESA.
ges, should endorse the doctrine oi
lexcludipg Catholics from office, as a
part of the policy of the county
This would implicate our govern
ment in the breach, at least in spirit,
Iof the treaties which we. have read.
1T will not be denied that the VIOLA
ton Of a treaty is a just cause Of
fwar, according to the law of nations.
t(Vattle, 229) Then We take this
position: Whenever our government,
as government, by its chief e1ecu
tive, encourages violation of the
/ treaties for the. protection Of the re-
lligious rights of Catholics, in letter
OF in spirit, it would be a cause of
war against US by France, Spain, and
Mexico. To say tho least, it would
furnish a splendid pretext for Euro.
pean interference in the affairs OF
this country. The alleged violation
of treaty, in relation to the Greek
religion, was one of the causes which
/ recently made Russia stamp her red
foot of battle on the breast of Ea-
rope.F
But how remarkable ID is that our
people have been so slow in finding
out that equal rights to Catholics
was dangerous to our country! The
trainers of our Federal Constitution
were as we'll sehooled in the history
of the Pope as we are, and yet they
conceded to them equality of rights,
In 1908, we swallowed up Louisiana,
Rocky Mountains, Catholics, and all,
and the nation fattened on the food.
In 1919, we swallowed up East and
West Floridas, with the Spanish
Catholics, and still We have no com,
plant. In1S48, we took dowuCal-
ifornia, Catholics, gold, and all, and, OF
course, the gold made the dose stick.
In 1858, We also took down the
Mesilla Valley and its Catholics; but
this morseg seemed only to whet our
appetite for more. And We are now
waiting, with distended jaws, to take
in Cuba, with all its foreigners and
Catholics.
BY the way: this beautiful Island,
the Queen of the Antilles, can never
be weoed into wedlock With know
nothing government. Spain never
would, and she never should, consent
to cede Cuba to our government with
out requiring the.sa treaty stipu-
Elations which she had embodied in the
| Florida treaty. A know-nothing
government could not consent to
this, because it would violate the
maxims Of the party; and to stipa'
late by treaty for the entire equal
rights Of the citizens of Cuba, when
| the government knew that every one
Of them would be excluded from Of
| fee by the party-it would look too
bad! such bad faith would be shock
ing! But democratic admlnistra-
ton, viewing the subject both from
| a religious and political stand point,
would sigma treaty, with equalrlghts
to Cuba, with as bold a band as
John Hancock when he signed the
Declaration Of Independence. In a
1 religious point of yiew,5 as soon as
Cuba is. acquired, the laws OF tse
| United States will be extended over
lit. and the Protestant religion will go
along under the protection of our
1laws. 1t would be q nation born 10 a
day. In political pointof view, it
would add greatly to our wealth and
/ commerce; besides, if We are not
! irnisinformed, it would be an impor-
tant military point for the defence OF
j our Southern commerce. Ii the
prediction of Baldwin is true-that
the great battle Of Armageddon is
to be fought IN the Mississippi val.
lev. and Russia is to lead the allied
We are indebted to no person for the
views which we have expressed in relation tt
our treaty obligations for the protection Of tbs
Catholic religion, and. of course We hold NJ
J persor responsible for the same. We have re-
heated them on several former occasions. ans
we have seen no reason to question their sound
! ness. 'e-tvt