Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-01-01
Your ob't. serv't.,
r. c. PuRYRAR.

r. c. PURYEAR.
has not the administration of this Gov
eminent come to point of oppression al
most uncomfortable, when one of its officers
is constrained to make the confession which
fell from the servile lips of the Assistant
Postmaster General, that IF HEHAD TO CHOOSE
BETWEEN A NATIVE BORN CITIZEN AND FOR
EIGN CATHOLIC, bath equally competent,
he SHOULD BE COMPELLED TO APPOINT THE
FOREIGN CATHOLIC! Is there ma
tive citizen of this republic, or an upright
and honorable adopted citizen, who will not
regard this confession as disgraceful to the
vile slave who made it, to the corrupt Cabi-
net officer who UNANIMOUSLY decreed it, and
to the unprincipled President who tolerates
itI How is it that the sons of Columbia's
soil have become so unworthy, that in APP
pointments to Office they must stand aside,
in their own country, to make room for the
minions ola foreign spiritual and temporal
DeSpot Have Americans become such
foes to republican institutions, that it is
dangerous to employ them in the Offices
of the Government? Has Protestant
ism ceased to be the bulwark Of civil
and religious liberty, and become, in
this land Of her glory, an object Of dis
trust and reproach Or has Roman
Catholicism struck the red flag of spiritual
and temporal despotism, which she has
from time immemorial insolently Haunted in
the faces of the governments Of the world
has she torn from the bodies Of her bleed
ing VicSims the CORY symbols Of her power
and her wrath; has she lifted the sombre veil
Of ignorance and bigotry in which she has
wrapped the minds and buried the souls of
her enslaved votaries, and become so peace
full, so full of the spirit and meekness of
true christianity, SO devoted to rational lib
erty, so regardful of the rights OF man,
that her followers only are worthy of Office
under our republican Institutions No,
no None Of these things has happened.
The inaexible integrity and honor, and
loyalty to freedom, inherited by Americans
from their heroic ancestry, still flow on
with undiminished volume and unmixed
purity ;-ProteStantism, unchanged and I'M
changeable, still sheds its benign influences
upon our broad land, expanding the hearts
and iltellects Of our people, giving them
lOftier and more godlike views Of virtue
and liberty, and pointing them along the
paths Of peace and prosperity to the rich
rewards Of Eternal Felicity andfRoman
Catholicism still pursues its crafty, serpent
ike course here, crushing in its clammy
coils every human aspiration which recks
not the cowl and the mitre-there, tramp
ling with iron heel upon the necks Of de-
based millions and in another place, smil-
ing, plausible, compliant; but everywhere,
aiming at one grand object, universal dom
nation, the subsection of all mankind to the
despotism which thunders from the Vatican.
The subtle influences of this Papal HER
archy have so blighted the patriotic impul-
ses of once all powerful party, which has
fed upon the fatlings Of Office until its cor
morant appetite has become inappeasible,
it stoops to appliances to further its success,
that in the early days of the Republic
would have been accounted ignoble. 1t
has become the paramour Of the Mother
of Iniquity, and shelters her base born brood
under the folds of its once spotless gar
ments. SO ardent is its newborn love,
aud so jealous its desire to multiply evi-
dences of its devotion, it must needs make
war upon Native Americans and exalt
"foreign Catholics TO the dignity of Office,
regardless of the interests of the govern
ment. Under these circumstances, no one
should be surprised that the Archbishop Of
the Province OF New York, on a foreign
soil, exultingly and with brazen port, pro-
claimed TO Native Americans that they
could pack up and leave" their country If
they did not like the rule of him and his.
FBut the days of this internal combination
against the rights OF American citizens are
numbered. Before another twelve month
has passed away, its power will have been
broken to atoms and scattered by the fiat
of an indignant and jealous people. Amer
leans have but to wait and work and all
will be well.
Its common charge that the Democratic
rsrty don't wish tho officers OF the House al
Washington, and il q perhaps true.