Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-06-28

was shed to make it land Of religious
freedom? Will you impose taxes and
burthens on them, for the support
and maintenance Of those Offices, and
yet say to them they shall not partic-
il ate in them? The proposition is
monstrous. 1t changes the old order
of things. The time was, when the
only test of qualification for Office was,
SIS he hoaest-is he capa6le2' Old
things are passing away, This is no
longer the test. The test now is, not
whether he is honest and capable, but
is he Catholic or not? Daes he or
does he not belong to Sam? If Ca
tholicism be wrong as a religious faith,
and firmly believe it is, leave it to
be combatted by reason, argument and
truth. Invoke not the strong arm of
political prescription to arrest it; such
a policy will only multiply and in
crease their numbers.
have thus, my dear sir, given you
frankly and as briefly as | could, the
opinions | entertain of the leading
tenets of the new party. l do not
expect, nor do desire, that they shall
Influence the opinions or actions of
one human being. 1t is sufficient for
me that they are honestly entertained
and candidly avowed, and furnish
satisfactory rule for the government
of my own conduct.
[ confess look on the conflicts 90
ing on in this and other Southern
States of the Union, with but little
Interestingly produce scarcely any
other feeling than that of wonder and
establishment.
Scarcely Southern State in the
Union in which a war of extermiation
is not waged with Wings, Democrats,
and Know-Nothings, And whilst this
war of sef-immolation is being waged,
the enemies of our rights and our in
stitutions are banded together
Strengthened by our dissensions, arro-
giant and selfpossessed, they send out
their notes of defiance, proclaiming
a war of determination to our insti-
tations of the South. A few years
since, the preparations now being made
for general attack on slavery, as it
exists in the South, would have alarm
ed the fears and invoked the action
of every Southern patriot. But in
the din Of battle, the clangor of arms
between the Wings, Democrats and
Know Nothings, these belligerent
preparations are wholly UNDECIDED.
With majority of the next Congress
in the House of Representatives, known
to be hostile to our rights ndinterests,
no question of preparation to meet
this emergency is made; no question
Of fitness Of applicants for public place !
suited to the occasion is made; the |
great question is whether you are for
Or against Sam.
Well, Sammay be, and doubtlessis, a
very clever fellow; but if you look to
your Northern Sans, Wings or Dem
,crdts, q speak Of them as a party) +
30 save you from this storm, you are
rusting to a shelter that will not
shield you from the tempest when it
comes. If you are saved, you must
ave yourselves. To trust to
Wings, Democrats or Know Moth +,
ngs, as party, is the widest I,
ancy, and in the end will prove the |;
most fatal delusion. There are, as l s
IN happy to know, and am glad to
acknowledge, many sound national,
conservative, constitutional men at the E
Worth who belong to each and all t
f these parties, but they are not
nited, have no concentration of action, &
nd never can have as long as we are a
divided. 1t was but the i
Their day that the notes of defiance /
ere sounded in our ears, with the {
oldest arrogance. A Senator CIR. S
Vilson} from Massachusetts,, address E
lg an audience in New York, makes r
reclamation to all Wings, Democrats Ii
nd Know Nothings. What says the t
United States Senator, once Wing, In
ow Know Nothing? He says to il
1em: resolve to write it on your door v
osts, proclaim it at the rising Of the .
IN and at the going down of the same i,
land in the broad light of noon-that I
he day when any party, be that 0
arty Wing, Democrat OF American, n
its its finger to crush the anti-Slavery- Il
lovement, repress the anti-Slavery d
eminent, OF prescribe anti-Slavery
surely shall begin to die. o.
In the same speech q admire his II
,ldness and frankness) he notifies W
e South that they-the Abolitionists u
the North-have the power and c.
aon 70 avarc;ca II Fret tbo1y -, ~,