Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-07-06
From he New YoTl; Herald June Roth
A LITTLE COMMON SENSE FOR TIE KNOW
NO'TIIIEsS

We sec in several organs of the Know Nothing
party ,ugbHut the coGntry, constant illusions t.
the Pope aud symptoms o great alarm with regard
Ia the spread OF 80 au Catholicism. From one
journal We lc:rn tina. the day on which the news al
Mr.. Wis='- victory reached the Vatican will have
| been kept with unusual ceremony: from another
gather that tie high priests oi Ant-chrl,t have Dc"u
III ccsaclcs ever sInt" the action ui the Mas ac!I
setts delegates 10 the Philadelphia Convcm:nm Ct
generally W. may say, the newspapers Of rh!- >lr.
talk ~ il we livin, III tho days Of the great
Spanish Armada, and cdIce' to trust Ia uuv n"ni-
swords Ia defeat the ia nn. hull y" which the bel,
of America was given "a -" King -! Spain hv tho
Pope. There is not sin lrspccG'or ot the polite.
oi ihir country, slyS unr, "who takes deeper IL.
tcrcs i'll thci than the Pope .! Rome and instead
of feeling Hntt"r"d ty this Information. '"k,h viii be
new IN most oi us, this augracon- Know No;h!ng adds
cuergctcallv that ought "to make Rome howl
FOR iithcrr be cloud IN our nations lDli2 "a. II Is
the Papacy"
1t is high time that this staff should he s;rppcd.-
We have made asses OF ourselves pretty '"crlv-we
Chr,tinnssnce the days q: Luther. a5ou: our iLcp-
logical quarrel ard carried matters .c' an .Acu:
that sensible Chinese, who has any respect for
himself, will, nj the prcscn; day. have anything do
with Church so obviously divided against Ilrc!i -
But If ancestors, who shot, stabbed, burned, tor.
tuccd md hanged Zach other points OF Theology,
were unicnlable asses, wlat are we who have not
tithc of their grounds for controversial r.ncor F"r
| it must be remembered, to the Englishmcn Of III
seventeenth century, Catholicism nplic shuis. s.iun
to the Pope and submssionto To the Pope involved tie
surrender u! America 10 the Spannrl- small wonduI
iorsooh that they fierce PrUtrs,unia and thgi
while they trusted in Providence, they irws" kept
their powder dry. Bat we what cause have we ~
fear the Pope! What harm has lie done u. ! What
can he do!
Why, really, good people who are qunkius in your
shoes about the inronds o ID" EapGCy, and mUttcu.
dreadful things about the scarls: woman of Babylon
you much more likely 10 damage the Pope than
lie to injurc you. II ia hard work enough ior hn--
poor old sou-to keep HE place wit! board and lndg
ing and fire, at the Nac:an woIld he be- thcro
STILL in fact il Napoleon ILL., had not c0ndesccnrd
use Christianity Just rs he used the DclviLnr bullet
10 consolidate his empire. Since the frs. NHph-
Icon showed that r Pope might be- kicked about ~
well any other man, there hasn't been sovereign,
in Europe THAI would iuregn the pleasure Of Iy
| the new sport. All the ministers Of Spnin from the
republican untus 10 Esplrtcro have had their q
it. France has trentld in Ike dog. Me,;ernica
let him know pilinly thrt h: must consider himself
mere pcnsOncr D Austria Oh his good behavior; aud
now, in these latter days even ltalvs self turns roi
upon him. and will have M more dealings with linn.
Rom. drives him into exile. Sardinia dcposcs him
from his au;horit'.
y nl is TINS the potcntatc OF whom we are aGrni!.
This poor, hunted, deserted bucd creature. NJ
by this tina. tyrGnt for his purposes, aut
Knocked down the next day, like ninc-pn, in NOR"
sport; Ewing on mere sutTrrancc-a s0r, uf Small.
weed, shaken up now ard then b. some nc.hbor 10
scare the unwary with his shr voice; the ,,itinble
relic OF eficc order OF civilization 80 wholly Uut
of place in the middle OF this nineteenth century,
that, told by the most reliable traveller, the
ceremonies and fashions essential In his stare are l:o'
baby the most comical sight in Europr. Is ihi 'hn
| man-this the power, of which the order oi Native
Americans confess To the world they niraii' God
help their backbone, If 80 il be