Daily American organ., 1856-04-09
Mr.. FILLMORE in Rome.


Mr.. Fillmore In Rome.
The New York Express thus enumerates the
/" sights" which Mr. Fillmore will see in Rome:
Mr.. Fillmore has gone TO Rome and we are glad
Of it. We wish there were more OF our public
men to follow his example. We are especially in
favor of Presidential candidates going to the Vati
can, in order to see, and hear, and understand,
from the largest and most thorough personal expe-
rience, the influence, tendencies and general work
ings Of that most peculiar Of all peculiar institu-
tions--the Church Of Rome. It will materially
facilitate the formation Of just conception OF the
length and breadth, the depth and height of that
colossal and cunning system OF corruption, which,
centering in the city Of the Caesars, stretches, or
seeks to stretch, its network around the world
deadening every liberal aspiration in the human
breast; benumbing every faculty, every impulse,
every thought, feeling and sentiment that beck
ons mankind upward or onward in the glorious
career Of civil, religious, and political progress.
We consider it peculiarly fortunate that the Amer
lean candidate for the Chief Magstracy should be-
hold, with his own eyes, the bayonets OF France
and Austria-the latter still dripping with the
blood of heroic Hungary-the former fresh from
the betrayal Of Italian freedom, sworn foes both
Of anything and everything in the shape of Re-
publcanis,n- cleaning in the sunlight around the
Papal throne.
1t will probably quicken his sense of the perils
which secretly menace his native land, should the
ascendency of that Papal power ever be confirmed
on the American side of the Atlantic 1t will en-
able him to study out the practical workings of
the Concordat the Pope has recently made with
one of the most arbitrary sovereigns OF all Eu-
rope-Francis Joseph, of this same Austria-and
wonderfully aid an intelligent appreciation of the
peculiar friendship which is thus created between
the boy Neros" and the " Woman whippers" of
Vienna, on the one hand, and the Slayers of the
Roman Republic, and the atrocious Butchers of
Bologna on the other. In his travels, he will see
how completely this Concordat makes the HER
archy everything the People nothing. he will
see the Bishops and Priests, under its authority,
entering the secular schools, to destroy every book
that ares hint at the corruptions of Rome the pos
sibility of political progress the success OF kepub
licanism in Americas, or the possibility of Demo
cracy In Europe. He will see, under the sanction
of this same instrument, provision made for con-
dtion of things specially calculated to crush out
Professionalism, and annihilate the faintest aspira
ton of the exercise of religious liberty-or liberty
Of any other description. .Fe..s
In this way, careful and reflective student like
the American candidate for the Presidency will
acquire store of useful information, which he
never could obtain from newspapers or books at
information of kind which cannot but add
to the qualifications of sound, patriotic, and ex-
prehend, when even another Bedini comes from
Rome to Washington, what the Pope is after, and
impress upon him the conviction that political in
tercourse with that Power, or official intercourse
of any kind must lead eventually to concordats--
concordats leading in turn, to the demolition OF
the foundations upon which the fathers of this Re-
public reared the temple of American liberty
Guarded by the sleepless vigilance OF the people,
that temple, the handwork of master workmen,
. y 4 II, haoso h.,k IN,
dolently given up to foreign influence, or abandon
ed to the dominion of daring, despotic and
heartless Theocracy, having its main springs in a
foreign soil, in the common course of events it
must topple to its fall 1t may take years and years
to precipitatc its ruin thus but nothing can save
it in the end. If Romanism lives Republicanism
must 60 down.
There is something else which Millard Fillmore
will behold in Rome, (and his knowledge in this
particular may be most useful to him, and his coun-
trymen, when he returns to the United States)
He will see city, almost every other edifice in
which ia church or college, calling upon the peo-
pie of the United States to send 800 900, to build
one college more, in order that new brood of Je-
suit priests may be educated, right under the eye
of the Pope, to act as his agents in America. He
win be likely to learn that the Jesuits which the
Holy Father proposes to educate in this contem-
plated college, are intended to be the sdppers and
miners of American institutions. And, If he will
but prosecute his Investigations in the proper di-
rection, he will discover conclusive evidence, that
the man who has been chosen the commander in
chief Of this army of sappers and miners, is the ar
rogant and naughty prslate, who, in the name, and
by the special authority, Of the Roman Ponti, sets
himself up to govern the province of New York.
Let Mr.. Fillmore push his inquiries, and If his
information be as good as ours, he viii discover
the evil character of the bargain and sale, which
were consummatcd when John (Archbishop)
Hughes was last on visit to the Vatican
namely that Sl0O, 900 into the Pope's Golfers for
an American College In Rome, Is to be rewarded
with Oardinal's hat, and the Cardinals hat, in
the course Of time and events, 1t is understood,
may lead to his election ~ Pope. 9f
The Archbishops organ in this city has al
ready held out this ulfinaatnm a. an inducement
to the Roman Catholics In the United States to
contribute-and if Millard Fillmores visit to Rome
serves to shed any new light upon this dark, Jes-
uitical scheme-a scheme peculiarly becoming the
ambition and genius Of man like John Hughes
the American candidate for the Presidency will
have established new claim upon the gratitude of
his countrymen.
Rome-Rome-isj just now the very place for an
American President and an American statesman,
occupying the position Of Millard Fillmore. The
lessons to be learned there, win be productve.of
good impressions, which, If Providence and the
people so win it, are destined to rebound to the
safety and peace of our beloved country. Mr..
Fillmore will come back from these Old World
haunm of spirit al and temporal dsspotsm, think
ing more Of bis native land than ever, and we ven
ture TO add, more than ever persuaded that il its
happiness its welfare, and progress are to be Sc
cured, Americans, not Popes in Italy, nor Arch
bishops in New York, playing for Cardinals bats
nor Roman Catholics, we say, but Americana
AMERICANS MUST RULE AMERICA.
A slave, q carpenter by trade, was lately sold in
Adams county, Miss, for three thousand seven
hundred dollars,