Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1856-03-28

ing our Lord in the wilderness. His crud,
notions seem to be these: that American
citizens are bound to ioUe every traitor con
yict, thief, or murderer that may be land
ed on our shores That we are bound fc
Loue all the paupers of Europe and ever,
emmi sary of Rome as brothers. Because il
is very evident that all these are included
with the respectable foreigners who seek q
home in this country.
Now let us see how far American citizens
have fulfilled the great law Of lave. But
what is that law! Are we to love the off
scourings of the old world, just the same
as We love all the decent and respectable
eniigrants'to this country Are We to love
our deadly enemies, these traitor and mur-
derers, as we love the respectable citizens
of the State? No! we are tc love one
with beaeuoience, the other with eompidcen-
GU. One We arc moi to hate, tae other we
are to IoUe Christ did not love the Scribcs
aud Phariseos, but he did not hafe then.-
He ioUed his disciples.
Whilst in the very nature of the case we
cannoi iop our deadly foes, cannot approve
of their course, we are not to wish them
dead, not to hate them, &c.
Now have not Americans acted the part,
aud are they not now acting the part OF
good Samaritans towards ali foreigners, and
particularly the poor, Ignorant, miserable
paupers Of the old countrya Persecution
Great God how could man OF sense ut
ter such a falsehood, Are not foreigners
permitted to come to our country, trade,
buy and sell and get gain, and get rich as
otbers9 Is not this gooaly land al! spread
out before them, and do they not peaceably
possess many of its broad acresa lave
they not built houses and lived ia peace aud
quietness with their familiesl Are not
Roman Catholics permitted to worship God
according TO the dictates OF their owr
priests and foreign potentateS, no Ameri,
can hindering or wishing TO hinder them ol
disturb them in their worship Are We no
paying heavy taxes to keep up oar peniten
tiaries, jailS and alus houses, the most o
which have in them more foreigners thar
native born citizens Are we not feeding
clothing, and nursing thousands upon thou
sands Of these foreigners in the institutions
of our land! Is this persecution! Is thi
not fulfilling the great law of love! Shame
on the political demagogue that would at
tempt to abuse American citizens as thi
editor has done Shame on the Jesui
clothed in Protestant's garments, that h
may more effectually assail Professionalism
and do the bidding Of his master in New
York and Rome
But the head and front Of the offence is
that Americans do not wish to put thes,
foreigners, strangers and subjects of for
eign dcspot, into Office as soon as they lanC
on our shores, to the exclusion Of native
born citizens; or that they are not wiilin:
that thoy should assist IN corruptlng Tho
government by placing it in the hands .
the sham Democracy and the drunken Of
whiskey party.
Now, all cannot hold office Ii any are
to be left out, who should it be- an Ameri
can citizen or foreigner! Who has tbs
best right, and who knows best how TO al
minister the laws of the country!
Is it not strange that this pretended ad
vocate of the peoples right this Demo
crat tsavc the mark y should become suel
strong advocate of she Pope's sub
jects in this country. Suppose the Amcri
can people should determine to govern til,
country themselves, and grant foreigner
every other privilege III the country excep
that of voting until they had been in th
country twenty-one years! Would no
foreigners of all persuasions be on a level
How would Catholics be prosecuted if tia
be persecution, any more than Luthcrans
German Reformed, Presbyterians, &C.
Again there is large class Of citizens il
this country about whom this Democrat
this advocate of the peoples rights has no
a word to say. The negroes have been Dor
here, grown up without preiudices, many G
them attached to their masters and the lib
critics of our countr.. They have no vote
but about these the gentleman has nothin
to say, as it regards leve, doing TO Others
&c. Oh no Who is the NEST .conpeter
to vote, we'll raised negro, or an ignorar
Irish Papist! Oar sons too must be on til
soil 2l years before they vote. Is thi
prosecutions But enough for the presen
AN AMERICAN.
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