The true Democrat., 1855-02-14
<.rftt1.s r For the True Democrat.
Know Nottingham.
The Catholics.

The raw head and bloody bones that in 1886 40, used to raise the peoples hair on-end, aoas we thought, grim looking object enough- Thousands in that exciting era rallied, terror striken to the patriot standard, to do battle fol liberty--to pluck this free republic as fire brand from the burning. But that terrifying spectacle, compared with the ghastly looking object of to-day, becomes simply an ugly thing unpleasant to look upon. It was only na- tive raw head-native blood and bones. Thi. horrible compound that is now looming up over the American h orzon, with blood pon- derous jaws--cavernous eye-rockets dartine forth their forked ightnings-s .terocius to reigner from Sinope! from Sebastopol! from the Romish inquisition! from the bogs of Ireland from St. Giles :! and from all the bloody pur. lleus of Europe, come over to this land of the free and the home of the brave to seU us, tc make slaves of us, to smash us up, to make this fair Columbia one bowling despotism! Is il any a0onder, with such an awful future in pros. pect, that the native sons of freedom should be aroused from one end of the land to the other to annihilate this seconM "monster''-to fqh the revolution over again, under the lead o champions-Hae bavest cf tue brave! who, after the battles are over will meet with those qozle1 rewards which a grateful people that has beer delivered from such an awful catastrophe know how to bestow. Let us watch as we'll as pray
 To be serious-it strikes us, that the prescrib- ing movement, against Catholics and naturalized citizens, which is sweeping over the land is a singular noveHy-rather strange phenomena, n the progress of human affairs in these United States. The avowed object is, we believe tc cure certain great evils that arise from the in- fuence of Romanism and foreign emigration Grant there are evils but is prescription any re- medy? Is it any thing but the old English tory quackery-exploded and thrown aside there rebottled and new labelled for American sto- machs? It is nothing else. In order to prove this, we will make some extracts at random from arguments used by the whigs against the tories in England during the struggle between the two parties there upon the Catholic ques. ton that question was whether Catholic: should be allowed equal privileges with the res of the citizens:
 "There is no spirit which you must alenate no heart you must avert, eUery man must feel h. tos C cou,atry and that there is an urgent anC pressing cause why he should expose himsel to death.'
 "The effects of penal laws, in matters of re glon, are neuer c0nttaed to those limits ln wzac1 tue Legislature intended they shouM Je placed; i is not only that 1 am excluded from certain offices and dignities because I am a Catholic but the exclusion carries with it a certain stig ma, which degrades me in the eyes of the mo nopolizing sect, and the very name of my reli zion becomes odious." * *
 "Th!s is no charicature, but an accurate pie ture of national feelings, as they degrade ant endanyer uS at every moment" "What mistaken zeal to attempt to connect on, religion with liberty and another with slavery. ; You have eitherdon to, much for the Catholics or too little; if you ha, intended to refuse them political power, yol should have refused them civil rights, after vo, had enabled them to acquire property, etc, tho rest IS wholly out of your power, you may choos whether you will give the rest in an honorable or disgracetul mode, but it is utterly out O your power to withhold it. Hov sincerely and fervently have often wished tha the Emperor of the French had thought as Mr Spencer Percival does upon the subject of go vernment; that he had entertained doubts an( scrupes upon the propriety of admitting Pro testants to an equality of rights with the Catho lies, and that he had left n the nldale cf hs ena pire these various seeds of hatred and dsaffec | +in 1,++l blockhead. One of the very first measure we saw him recurring to was the complete es tablishment of religious liberty. I was wei this country upon the subject of toleraton etc "The physical strength of the Catholics will no be greater because you give them share of DO litical power; you may by these means turn re bels into friends; but do not see how yo make rebels more formidable. If they tast the honey of lawful power they aoiH love the hiv from whence they procure 1t. A distinction perceive is made by one of the most feeble no blemen in Great Britain between persecution and the deprivation of political power; whereas there is no more distinction between these tw, things than there is between him who makes tn distinction and booby. If strip off the re Recovered jacket of Catholic, and give hin twenty stripes-I persecute; if say, every bo dy in the town where you live shall be a can didate for lucrative and honorable offices bu you who are Catholic-I do not persecute What barbarous nonsense is this! as if degra dation was not as great an evil as bodily pain as if 1 could not be great tyrant by say ing, you shall not enoy-as by saying you shal suffer- We should really say, that Englan, has fully as much to fear from Irish fraterni zation with America as with France. The Ian guage is the same; the Americans have pre- ceded them in the struggle, the number of emi grants and rebel Irish is very great in America and aH parties are sure cf petect tozeration unde tue protection of America, we are astonished a the madness and folly of Englishmen, who d not perceive that both France and America ar only waiting for a convenient opportunity to g, to war with this country, etc'' Syd. SmatH' a0orks.
 This will do for the present. This specimen of English whig warfare upon English torie will satisfy the uniniated, who will look int, a Know Nothing paper, that Know Nothingsn is English toryism. The above extracts ar, the sentiments of leading English democrat who hate the Roman Catholic relgon--but whc