Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-04-11

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| longing to this much and terribly abused party
| for think il is and has been the worst abused
| that ever has arisen in the country, not except
| ing the Abolitionists, who deserve 1t most hear
| tily-I do not understand that any man belong
| ing to this organization desires TO interfere viii
any civil or religious rights of Catholics
any more than with tho civil and religious
| rights of Protestants. Nobody disputes I'M
| right, designs to interfere with the an
! thority Of the members OF that church II
worsbpng God according 10 their own con
| sciences. No body designs to Interior" With
! their right 10 believe that what j. proclaimed by
| the Pope rrligiour faith. l. an lntalhbe truth
No person desires to interfere with the belief that
they must take their conviction OF duty from the
Pope. and not from the Bible. Nobody denies
their right To believe in tran substantintion OF
consuhs .autiaton, or in the immaculate coneep.
tou Of the Virgin Mary. which has been recent,
declared by his holiness the Pope, or any othe
article Of faith. So far Us any person undertake.
to say that he will not vote for Catholic, he OK
ereises his undeniable right. II Is equally com
petrnt for pnrsous outside the order 10 take thu
position, nor do believe they would be guilty
If they choose to take such position, OF any vi
oation of the rights of the rights Of Catholics n
citizens either nni or religious. How far III
charges of temporal allegiance on the part
Catholics to the Popo justified, am no.
ware. Ii is strange that while some Cathohc
deny the temporal authority OF the Pope owe
them. others of their own church, some oi then
in high positions. do maintain that they are ihu
hound. Well know not who is right and VIII
is wrong about that, but tins | do know, that
il is established that we have body Of men her
who are under the Temporal authority OF Tor
eign poteutate or any other religious head, do
nestle or foreign, in the exercise oil their el'l
rights. it would he a nsifable ground upol
which we should abstain from comforting any OF
flee of political power or influence upon any sucl
mani care not whether he be Catholic, Pres
byterian, Episcopalian; Methodist. Baptist or OF
any other religion. Just convince me that, ns
religious congregation or body, they are con
trolled by Pope abroad, or by Bishop here.
and would give none of them my vote, or an,
office of political power or trust; because that
to us n dangerous exercise of the right of citizen
ship, dangerous to them, dangerous TO civil lib
erty. dangerous because it sa practical union
Church and Sate, under which wherever 1t eS
lists, the tree of liberty withers and dies. Wit
such convictions | cannot hesitate to adopt tn
portion of the Know Nothing platform which re
fers to religious liberation. tits this:
That the American doctrine of religious toi
Grafton and entire absence of all prescription to-
opinions sake. should be cherished rs one OF thu
very fundamental principles of our civil freedom,
and that any sect or party which believes ant
political, has right to control the conscience On
direct the conduct Of "A freeman, occupies n po
stion which is totally mt war with the principle
of freedom of opinion, aud which is mischieven'
in its tendency. and which principle, if carrle'
into practice would prove wholly destructive o
our religious and civil liberty"
Well then gentlemen, another great and for,
midabe ground Of assault upon this American
those 10 or 30, or 10000 of the PEG
pie Of Virginia, is, that they are laborng in the
cause Of Aholitionism. Fifty thousand Nirginii
gentlemen of Intelligence, of property, of char
ncter combined to promote the cause OF abolition.
ism! Terrible conspiracy. most dangerous aud
politicians Why, gentlemen. the
very fnct Of the composition of this order is II
standing rcfutation of this most singular impuln
ton. But if you wanted any other evidence
it Just take the testimony of Mr. Greedy or Weed
the peculiar organ of w. II. Seward, or Wade
Ohio or Giddings. all Of whom denouroe lh,
American party rs the deadly enemy of the abo-
lltion party.
received n newspaper this morning believe,
containing the last fulminations--fo r they seen
to have some Popes among the abotionistsl
Mr. Giddings upon the subject will read then
for YOU, together with some remarks from tn
Chicago journal mn Abolition paper speaking o.
the Know Nothugs, he says
There are few foreigners whom | would be
less willing to trust the Office than those who
SO nctiye in their efforts to arouse the popular
Feeling against cur emigrant population, while
they themselves remain perfectly quiet, and see
our native born Americans, from Ohio and other
free States, seized and sold into intcrminablc
slavery; aye, they not only remain quiet under
such insults, but insist that the people shall not
discuss tho improperly of such crime"
II would IA Thousand times rather vote for an
honest lover of liberty, though Catholic, thnn
for one of the many Protestant Doctors of Divin.
ity, who have SO long denied our obligation to
Gods higher law and endeavored to reconcile
us TO the Infamous fugitive slave enactment. The
time has arrived when men should be judged by
their actions, by their moral and political con
duct rather than by prejudices attached to a
name orr sect
The Chicago Journal-an Abolition print
quotes n passage from GOV. Smiths speech in
defence of Know Nothingism, and says:
"Ihcro it is in nut shell. Foreigners VIII,
come to this country, settle in the Free States
with instincts against slavery.
"For these instincts the South is to hunt then
down while freemcn at the North shout forth tn,
tally no - to the chase. Aside from the oath
bound, proscrptivc intolerance of the Order Their,
seems enough in its slavery instincts to cause al
friends of Freedom to view its progress will
alarm
That, continued Mr.. Patton, is the testmon,
upon the one side aud then we have our Virginia
papers denouncing this party and the leaders o
the party without measure, and denouncug it n
an abolition party. There really seems To b.
something very amusing x curious in the idea o
seeing this great American omnibus moving alon,
upon the railroad, which people believe, is goni
to lend to the terminus of triumph and success
and the leaders of tho Virginia Democracy trying
TO pull it off the track because il is loaded wit
runaway slaves, carrying them to theNorth Will
on the other side we have Greedy Giddings, an
all that party pulling at it with all their nigh
because it is catching runaway slaves to brin
them back Well ifthey will keep on pulling i
TINT WHY one milling on one side and the other o.