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: devoted men who first combined to save
the country, if that wero any longer posi-
) bic, did not call the whole of them into
council For what? In order to be mur,
dercd, traduced, and the very end for which
they were willing to he traduced, and il
necessary, murdered utterly defeated q
Were they called into council when their
enemies bought and sold them2 Were they
, notified, when corrupt bargains were struck
5 IN which the liberties of the people were put
at All Infamous price? Were they consult
: ed when the atrocious schemes to break ND
} the Union of the States were concocted
Were they advertised when the overthrow
OF our nationality, of our institutions, and
OF our religion together, was deliberately
undertaken by the Popish dcspots and pre-!
; lates OF Europe? Was counsel asked of
them 10y foreign papsts and infidcls, when,
throughout the whole land, they conspired
with the full assent of dclnagogncs to over
throw the Protestant civilization of the
country? Were the secrets Of the confess
sional made known to them? We're the
secret oaths binding every papist ecclcsias-
tic with unlimited allegiance to foreign
temporal Prince submitted to their scrutiny 2
THE syety Of tie State is the supreme
tar. And surely it is the first necessity of
State that is endangered. and they who
would have it, mast consult, mast combine.
1t the pcrfidty and ferocity of their enc
mics compel them to observe unusual eau.
tion, it only proves the greatness Of their
danger In point of morality, it stands
precisely on the same footing as vote by
ballot. The object of it determines its law
fulness; and it is its success, not its nature,
which makes it so hateful.
! If the Nationality of America is to be
sustained if her Protestant civilization is
to be pcrpetuated if tile Federal Union is
to be preserved !; there is but one possible
method of dealing with the subject. The
organized power of society must be taken
out of the hands of those who have betrayed
these vast interests, and must be put into
! the hands of those who will cherish them.
.Publia nl>iuion 10 ths+ only instx,,l1cnt. hx
| which this great change can be effected.
That enlightened, the first step of the revo-
luton is political, the second is legal. The
first step involves the organization, and the
| triumph of party commensurate with the
country, the Imerican Party: and that
involves the overthrow of every party that
resists It's ultimate objects, or ressis the nee
cssary means Of obtaining those objects.
Indeed, if this step was fully achieved it
would be Of less consequence to take sec.
ond one since the laws, though bad, are
cndurable; and society is safe as soon as
it has finally put ont of power all men and
parties, hostile to our Nationality, to our
Protestant civilization, and to our Federal
Union; out of power, with an overthrow
incapable of being repaired.
And this is the reason why this gsoat
movement cxcites such excruciating bitter
ness Of hate, in its political aspect, on the
part of all against whom it is directed. It's
success is seen to be fatality to them.
For nations do not Immediately incur the
same peril twice, nor do profound ma
tional movements speedily exhaust their
force. The Democratic party has survived
the storms of an hundred years. The Il
merican party, strong enough to swallow
up not only Democracy itself, but every
other feebler excitement, will live forever.
The legal revolution, therefore, which will
consuminate political, will be only but nee
essarily the outbirth of the spirit. Assaults
upon the Union of these States, whether
from the North or the South, must cease
Conspiracies against the Protestant civiIiza-
ton Of the country, between demagogues
on One side and papal and infidel foreigners
on the other, must terminate. Attacks up
on our nationality, by treaties made between
foreign ncspots and Prelatcs, under the
sanction Of the court of Rome, and execu-
ted by millions Of foreign papists and inf
dels cast into our bosom, must be brought
to an end. Foreigners must be content to
enjoy here the blessings Of frecdom--de-
MED to them everywhere else; the benefits
of civilization more exalted than any they
can enjoy elsewhere; the same civil and re-
ligious rights which we ourselves enjoy.
They must cease to rule as. americans
must rule as. ~.
/ 1 cannot be insepsible that many. virtn-
Gus, enlightened and patriotic men view this
subject in light widely different from that
in which it strikes me. have no allusion
to them, in. anything: l have uttered. do
not forget the binding influence Of party
| O. nirit and party ties. admit also that not
afev of those who are personally dear to
me, are found arrayed against what I be-
lieve lobe tie very highest interests Of the
country .-ThaS may make my duty painful,
but not uncertain. Nor could help being
fully aware Of the atrocity with which the
II public press sometimes assail those from
whom, It ia supposed, no personal peril is 70
1 be supplemented. Bntt I haya felt long ago
!. ..tthe whole force Of Papatt and In6del bitter
D iness, and have ssuyiyed all that their CO.
III loharara cntld, ,y,aFs nnatJu aftarnnf ~ For af,u