Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-30
Prom the Ohio State Journal.
Speech of Mr.. Tasistro-The Jesuits
in the Field against Fremont.

Asittro, VINO nails, according 10 tne Dllls,
from Washington City. Mr.. Tasis,ro is an
Irishman, and according to his own state
men, Roman Catholic. He made speech
in this city last night, and among other
things he said be knew that Col. Fremont
wss Roman Catholic, that he had seen
him frequently at Church, and that he had
taken the Sacrament with him in Washing
ton in the Catholic Church. Now, we have
no hesitation in pronouncing this statement
Of Louis Fitzgerald Tasis'ro wholesale
ani retail fabrication. He never knew Mr..
Fremont as Catholic ard never saw him
worshipping in the Catholic Church in
Washington or elsewhere, nor is Dir
Tasistro's word 10 be taken for truth. We
know something of him. Some fifteen
years ago he appeared IL New York as a
debutsnte in the Park Theater. After
which he travelled into New England and
gave theatrical readings and recitations.-
Among the places which he visited was the
city of Lowell, where We then resided, and
published the Lowell Courier. We did his
advertising, and printed bis bills, and he left
the city without paying what he owed US,
which amounted to some ten or fifteen dol
Iars--nor has he since paid 1t.
Mr.. Tasistro did not succeed in his elo-
cutionary exhibitions. He afterwards en-
'ered the political field, and at length OBJ
tanned an Office in the State Department in
Washington, as translator of documents,
which Office he held until within few
months, when he was turned out by Mr..
Marcy for having written letter to some
newsps per, in which he detailed what pnr-
ported to be private conversation. at din
ner table at which he was an invited guest,
between some of the foreign Ministers. If
we mistake not, the Minister who was the
most implicated called upon DIR. Marcy, ,and
declared in the most positive manner, that
the statements made by Tasistro in the let
ter, were untrue in every particular. So
well satisfied was Mr.. Marcy Of their uI-
truth, and so abhorent cid the fact of relat-
ing private conversation appear to him. that
he instantly discharged Tasistro from Office.
Since his dismissal we have heard moth
ing of Tasistro until he turned up here a.
way in the West as an orator of tfe Ameri-
can Party-a party which estracises men OF
foreign birth, and especially those of the
Catholic faith. This was a strange position
for an Irishman and Catholic to assume.
Knowing the prejudice which exists among
many.people against Irishmen and Catholics,
he, an Irishman and Catholic, comes out
to the West and enters upon a crusade a.
gainst Col. Fremont, and AYERS, Of his own
knowledge. tha: Col Fremont is Catholic
and that he (Tasistrc) has often been at the
communion with him in Washington, in the
Catholic Church.
Knowing as we do that Col. Fremont is
ard always has been ssProtestant--a men,
Der the Episcopal Church-that heeis not
and never has been a Catholic, We have no
hesitation in declaring the statements made
by Tasstro in this city last night, to be ut
terlv void of truth. We doubt very much
whether Tasistro ever knew Col Fremont
at all; and we Go not believe that Tasistro
has been a very regular communicant Of the
Catholic Church, or any other, of late years.
There have been so many lies told of late
concerning Col. Fremont's life and religion
that no additional vitality is given to them
by what L. F. Tasistro may say. He admits
that he is Catholic, and as the whole Ca
tholic Church and its Jesuitical presses
Throughout the Union are doing their best
to defeat Col. Fremont, it is very likely that
Tasistro has had an indulgence granted him
by the priesthood of his church 20 60 round
the country az an advocate of Fillmore and
to denounce Col. Fremont as a Catholic,
thinking that by SO doing he may aid in
electing Buchanan. who is the man the
Catholic clergy wish to have elected.
The tenets of the Society of Jesuits ad q.
nit cf lying, Hypocrisy or any other i'm
morality, to gain an end. With them the
end justifes the means, and it is this cor
rup. ground work of their faith that has
made the name of Jesuit so detestable
throughout the civilized world, & has caused
the exclusion of the Jesuits on various oc.
casions even from Catholic countries. That
McMa.,ers the Jesuit editor of Bishop
Hughes's organ in New York, the Fremnu' 8
Journal, and Tasistro are now acting in ac-
eordance with the instructions of the Jesuit
order, in declaring Col. Fremonta Catholic,
we have no doubt. If, by doing so, they
can defeat the election of Col. Fremont and
keep in power the same party which now
holds the ems Of Government, with Buch-
anan at its head, the Jesuit and Catholic,
who now holds the Office of Postmaster Gen
eral, and who has a seat in Franklin Pierce's
Cabinet, will be retained in his place, or
one equally acceptable to the Order and
the Church will succeed him; and to accomp-
lish this purpose, the whole secret and cor
rupt machinery of the Jesuit fraternity has
been put in motion, and to gain this end by
the rules Of the Jesuit order. all manner oc
lying and corruption i just,f,bIe.
!: is well known that the Jesuts defeat
ed Mr.. Clay in 1914, because Theodore
Frelinghysen was on the same ticket with
him for Vice President. Mr. Frelinghvsen
vas prominen; member Of the Bible So
ciety, and was at the head of the leading
Protestant College of America. General
Scott was opposed by the Jesuts, because
Of the bargain made with Pierce, that in
case OF the election he would appoint R -
man Catholic a member of his Cabinet and
the same game is now being played towards
Fremont He is to be defeated because the
great b'.dy of the Protestant clergy ind the
great mass of the Protestant voters are for
him. They know if he is elected he will
appoint no Jesuts in his Cabinet. And to
accomplish his defeat they have set in mo.
tion the whole OF tie Jesuit machinery,
which in all Governments, has been an in
>trnment of oppression and corrupter of
public and private morals.
To show The insidlous ssand unscrupulous
character of Jesuti<m, ana that it will
sioop to any means in lis power to carry lis
purpose, We find that in little more than
one year after the formation of the Ameri.
can Party-a party which arose to pu. down
Jesuitism--it has forced upon that party
speakers OF its own selection. 1t has caus-
ed the American party to select as its
pho II,