Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-08-13

Ths American Party.
We pas'ish the failowia, article by re-
quest. The American party does net re-
list nor prescribe the Catholic church as
the chosen forn OF worship Of some Of our
citiz ems, hut it resisss that church when /,
laras from its Legitimate path, the salvation
Of soale, to enter the political field and de-
clare that its head, the Pope, 10 the spiritu-
81 and temporal prince, and that the Papacy
10 suprema over whatever Is founded only
in human right, and that ell Institutions and
governments should be made to harmonic
with il. The American Party only pro.
scribcs from Office Catholics, who admit
that they owe civil allegiance to the Church
Of Rome. the Pope or any foreign power.
but it does no, prescribe the Catholic reii-
gion:-
Mr. ]. CRAwFoRp, editor Of the Protest
ant American, published At Aberdeen, Miss,
is an I-ishman BY birth, an accomplished
scholar, and a fearless and eloquent writer
He took strong ground a few weeks ago in
favor of the American party, and, having
been violently denounced fer this BY the
editor i;he Florence, Ala, Gazette, be has
made . powerful and overwhelming re-
spouse, from which we take these para
graphs. Macy foreign born citizens might
read them wiki profit and ediication:
"fou charge against us that We conduct
Know Nothing journal, Did it ever strike
you. sir, rs possible, that the principles we
advocate in this paper. and which you fear
will arouse the Indignation Of your readers.
are the principles we held many years be-
fore Know Nothings had an existence, that
we have not gone to them, but that they
have come 10 ust-that from the circsm-
stance of our foreign birth we knew the
force and necessity of one great vital doc
trine OF the American party long before cir
cumstances forced it upon their attention so
strongly that they cannot avoid iti-they
must meet 1t and crush it or be crushed by
il.
at would be OF considerable advantage
To you, sir, il, relnquishing your present
Qnixosic battle against the American party,
you would 60 and see fer Yourself what Po-
perry is where she has the power You are
now running muck" with all the fury Of
an exasPeraied Thug against Know Moth
ing newspapers-supPose you wipe your
dripping brow and let your parting system
cool and get little information on the sub
leci OF Popery with power in her hands
II will teach you charity for the opinions Of
those yen oppose. twill give you time to
practice your native politeness; and you may
cease TO call us serf, slave, sycophant. be-
cause Wa choose TO set our face alike q
flint" against system which enslaves not
the bodies, but worse, infinitely worse, the
souls and minds. the hopes, the fears of its
votaries.
But let Us look at the charge. What is
the crimei !, an Irish Protestant, and found
acting with party whose leading object is
10 abolish the temporal power Of Popery, am
therefore crusading against my own coun-
trymen. Shade OF common sense, what aiis
the man, Did you expect me, sir, 10 aid,
either with my pen or voice, system which
has hunted my fathers to the dungeon and
the gibbet: which gave them the rack for
argument; which placed on their legs the
iron boot, and drove in wedge after wedge
iitthe marrow overran this Popish argu-
ment q; which, budding women and chill
dren into house, applied the torch, and
caught them, as they ran maely out, on the
ANees VI tHcl HOb pShte. WIN Wl6t par
~, pray, should be, Just where am, sir,
with the American party, because il has
raised its mighty arm and sworn BY Him that
Hyeth forever and ever that such scenes
shall never be enacted on American soil
4What is my crimei That at time
when half 4 million Roman Catholics--the
blind tools Of designing foreign pries,s-are
pouring annually upon our shores, ], an
Irish Protestant, when the press is placed at
my disposal, should cry, There is danger
for Gods sake protect yourselves while you
can. KNEW them, where they burned BIZ
bles, they murdered heretics, they set the
law Of the land at defiance, and would obey
no law but the law of the church" This is
my crime. This my only crime. And for
this am called slave, sycophsnt and alb
jecf. And by whoml An American Prot
esiant. A man whose ancestors perled ell
for .lreedom to worship God" How long
will that freedom last, when Popery be-
comes, numerically, supreme! No, an hour
How often would you. in Florence, visit the
Methodist Chapel, fihe Pope could prevent
And heis only waiting numerical irength
All, sir, there would be no chapel there
'ihe thunders OF the Vatican would raze ii
from ferret to foundation stone" Just as DON
as it bad subjects enough to carry out its
own behests."