The true Democrat., 1856-01-29
The Harmonious Americans.

Know Nothing from Louisiana where there is no Catholic test in the order, and we desire all Know Nothings to read his defense of the Catholic church and his excoration of the Pro- testant clergy for mingling in politics. We commend them especially to the Gazette as a sample of the manner in which Know Moth ing talks-how he denounces the great Anae,a- can pa'ty for its religious prescription.
 This speech of Mr. Eustis is another spec- men of the nationality and harmony of the Know Nothing order. The order is split asunder not only onthe slavery question, but even upon Its Catholic test. Here is an extract from the speech:
 "Mr. EUSTIS. would accept ofthe gen tleman's suggestion, but I beg to inform him that have but little more to say The gen. 'tlemen whom 1 am now addressing belong to the national American party, and want them to understand distinctly where I stand. I am no Catholic, and have been but seldom within the walls of Catholic church-and that how ever, is nothing in my favor. Laughter F. 1 say desire that they should understand ex- actly where stand; and 1 tell them that by that eighth article of the Philadelphia platform according to the view take of it, they either exclude or intend to prescribe American Catho- lies, or they mean nothing, because gentlemen have stated upon this floor that they did not intend to prescribe American Catholics Then gentlemen, if you mean nothing by that article of the platform, in the name of God strike it out, for it is blot upon the history of oul country. Every one knows, who has given any thoughts othe prospects this American party that, that article has driven thousands from our ranks who coincided with us in other re- spects. The American people are generous and you have excited that generosity. They will not agree with you in this crusade against Catholicism; and 1 would rather that this right arm should wither than be connected with any party whose purpose it is to prosecute the Ca thollcs of thls great country.
 Gentlemen talk about the papal power. The honorable gentleman from North Carolina Mr. READE the other day asked the honorable gentleman from Georgia, Mir. STEPHENS, whether he would vote for Catholic whose religious opinions he suspected of being hostile to the general interests of this country. What right has that gentleman to challenge the na tionality of his peer, his equal, and require hin to purge his conscience, before he can hOlC communion with him on the footing of an Anne rican citizen? What right have you to de- nounce him as traitor to his country, and com pei him to stand before your bar as crmina as an individual hostile to the institutions o your country?
 Here the hammer fell, the ten minutes hay ing expired. Cries of "Go onn'1
 No objection being made,
 Mr. EUSTIS resumed I tell yOu gentle men, you have just as much right to put you hands Tn another mans pocket, to see if the money he has belongs to him. as to take tha position towards the American Catholics-as t dare to presume to ask him whether he enter tains opinions hostile to the institutions of thi country.
 Gentlemen ought to recolect that here il this Congress, there is not single Catholi priest. And, for my part, am opposed to al religious interference with our political affairs l am in favor of maintaining and keeping u| the divorce between church and state whicl has been established by our great fathers. But sir that very same reason which makes me deadly enemy of Catholic interference with ou institutions, makes me blush for my country men when 1 see the Protestant church soilin. its robes by dragging them ill the mire of poll tics. Cries of " Hear, hear." and "Good." Your Legislatures are filled with gentlemen who wear white cravats and black coats.- [" Hear, hear!" and laughter Your Congress has large proportion ofthese clerical gentlemen And ask you, with all due respect and all dut courtesy to gentlemen of the cloth, to show me Catholic priest or an accredited agent of tn, church of Rome in this Hall. Laughter, ant cries of hear, hear' Gentlemen who tall about the Pope of Rome ought to recollec that, that poor old man, who is all object of SC much terror fo them is now in the custody 0 guard of French soldiers.
 But, Mir. Clerk, have consumed more tim, than 1 desired to have done 1 will simply close my remarks by asking the gentleman iron North Carolina MT. READE where he gets thu authority for thus backballng his peers, hi equals, the Catholics?-wherc he gets the au thority for stamping them as the mere tools 0 the Pope of Rome?-where he gets the au thority for considering them as unworthy o participating in the great councils of this coun try? Does the gentleman find his authority or will he find it in the constitution of the Unit ed States? Will the gentleman find it il the treaty between France and the Unite, States, by which the territory of Louisiana wa ceded to this country, and by which the reli
 
 to them? Will the gentleman find 1t in tn farewell address of the greatf father of our couu try--in that address which is so often quote, by the orators of the American party? Vii the gentleman find it in that great book, tn Bible, on which so much veneration hss bee wa ted 50 unprofitably in the Philadelphia plat form? l will tell the gentleman where he vii find it. He will find 1t iu the teachings and | .l { f.l, .1, { ... which is the curse of the Anglo-Saxon race The gentleman will find it in that spirit b which Protestants were driven from New Eng land by their fellow Protestants in our coona days. He will find it ill that spirit which mad the Episcopalians of Virginia drive away thei Puritan brethren from that State. And wher did these persecuted Puritans and Protestant in general go? What spot did they choose a an asylum in order to be protected from thei Protestant prosecutors? 1 will tell the gentle man where they went in those colonial times They went to the colony of Mary land--to tha colony whose inhabitants were under the inhu ence of the aggressive policy of the churc ot Rome and lts corrupting tendencies" Yes these Puritans sought refuge in that colon which first in the United States established tn law protecting every man from religious perse cution.
 Mir. Clerk, the American party of Lousian has right to be heard; 1 regret exceeding that the only exponent of its views is myse lresret exceedingly that the pretensions of tha party are not in abler hands. But, sir, vii state this much, that in every native America organization, or in every native American party the American party of Louisiana has right t be heard; for, if am not mistaken, the Lcgis lature of Louisiana was the first Legislatur which passed resolutions demanding chang in the naturalization laws of this country.
 thank the House for the indulgence whic it has extended to me on this occasion. 1 vot for Mir. FULLER.
 After reading this speech, let the Know No things ask themselves in what do they agre all over the Union so as to make them nation al? This speech is from Know Nothing C Louisiana, who votes for MT. Fuller.
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