Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-01-24

many additional solid links in the chain OF evidence
which prove the lawful and peaceful conduct Of
our citizens the coolblooded atrocity OF their Tor
eign assassns, and the depravity OF processing ITO
testants who, like the Judas lscai1ots ana Dene-
diet Arnolds of old, have united IN defence OF tue
foreign foe, and in spreading malignant aspersions
against the innocent -.
evidence nor, II we haa, 10 " necessary no
honest man can examine the proofs we have fur
nisbed without admitting their abundant sulficien-
cv. No honest man, with knowledge of the facts,
can fail to appreciate the deep depravity OF the
hired slanderers, Yho have made it their business
for year past 70 distort the truth, to coin false
hood, spread misrepresentation, and waste their
sympathies on cold .blooded murderers, while the
victims of this worse than savage warfare are de-
nounced as rioters, and stgmatzeda as church
burners" Church burners indeed when the sol
emn truth is thoroughly established that the Pope's
churches were saved by Native American Protest
ants, that but for their prompt and determined
defence. not one stone would have been left upon
another of all the armed churches in the city and
county Yes, even Papist foreigners themselves
owe not only their safety, but their existence to
the forbearance Of the native-born, whom they 50
foully outraged and whom they and their friends
have since united to SANDER.
Never since God made this world was there a
more brutal outrage perpctrated upon its fair sur
facet Never was there an act OF violence COM
mitted for which there can be found so little ex-
cuse And we may add never was an outrage 30
grossly distorted and misrepresented by partisan
demagogues never were victims to a brutal mas
sacre SO oully yilifed, slandered, and abused. We
close with an extract from the eloquent Anniver.
srry Address delivered on the 10th OF May, l845,
by Reynel Coates, M. d.
IA was naturally tn he exDected the history
ofthat eventful time has been promulgated from
one end to the other of this vast continent-per.
vertcd, mis-stated and loaded with error or false
hood, according to the prejudices or the fractional
views of each reporter.
1t is by no means incumbent upon us to de-
fend the regulations of adj the victims in the strug
giles Of the sixth and seventh of May, 1874, and
in subsequent riots, whose names may have been
included without authority in the catalogue of Ma
tive Americans, by public addresses hostile to our
movement--but 10 is owr duty to ourselves, our
country, and the memory of the dead who fell UNI
armed and in the exercise of constitutional right
before the premeditated assaults of an organized
banditti-it IS solemn duty to unmask the Gun
ming and expose the false'issues by which it has
been attempted to fasten upon the victims of sucf
outrage, the crimes of their oppressors Nor could
there be more appropriate occasion than the pres
emit for the exercise OF such duty.
So successful have been these msrepresenta
tons that even this assembage has been denounced
in my hearing by honorable but sadly mistaken
men, as a celebration avowedly in honor of the
memory of rioters, fanatics, and church-burners
We are taxed with being enemies to the lega
rights of citizens of foreign brth-advocates o
The Acknowledgement of those who by the sacred
laws of our country, have been invited to oul
shores, and made our equals in every political pri
ylege We have been taxed with the endeavo
to establish an odious distinction between dieren
classes of the community in open opposition Il
the first principles of repubcanism. We ar
charged with fanatical spirit urging us to Pc
litical crusade against particular sect OF Chris
tiaus--the followers of particular fath-in direc
defiance of the constitutions of our country AM
our State Ladies and gentlemen, were there
shadow of truth in the least of these high charges
should not stand here the advocate of the doc
trines thus, misrepresented. Reason would revol
Mt the folly patriotism would scken at the thought
the religious precepts of my childhood would ris
with Penn from the ssetaa 1 psfettos Ct Ea
rope, to plant the peaceful standard of universe
federation in the western wilderness, would frowr
upon me from their place of rest, and spirit
would whisper in my ear, Thou hast desecratec
the memory of thy fathers No man is my polt
ical orother--no party is my party that raises
voice or hand against the supremacy of the law O
the land the priceless blessing of equal politca
rights, or the sacred privilege of worshipping Goo
each after the dictates of his own proper consci
ence
Let US meet these charges Let us examine the
causes the action, and the results OF the meeting
of the 9Th of May. Let us endcavor to ascertain
from well known facts and records-now part
the history of our countrywide were the objects
and intention of those who gathered, unarmed and
peaoeably, under the shadow of the broad flag Of
their country, on the open ground at Kensington
what were the principles which led the gallant boy
whose image graces that banner, to the fatal spo
where he offered himself an unarmed and defence
less sacrifice to patriotism in the attempt to save
from the rude tread of foreign mob, the stand
ard of the stars and stripes!"