Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1856-09-12
THE TRUTH ADMITTED.

The following extract from the July num-
Der of Brownson's Review, fully confirms
all that the Americans have charged upon
the Irish Papists. Every riot on canal or
rail road, ,-eyery assault upon an A mcrican
Procession,- every knock-down between a
Corkonian and Fardooner-deve.ope
their .bitter passions, . and makes our coun-
try the arena for fighting cut their old
hereditary fsads Hear what the Review
says
'sIn The pefts Of the country where the
Prejudices against Catholicity are strongest,
it has seemed to be Celtic rather thau Ca
tholie: and Americans have felt that to be-
come Catholics, they must become Celts,
and make eommcn cause with every class of
Irish agitators, who treat Catholic America
as if it were province Of ireland. A con-
siderable portion of our Catholic population
have bro't with them their old prejadices of
race, national animosities, and bitter pas
sions, and made our country the area for
fighting out their hereditary feuds. Our So
called Catholic journals are little else than
Irish newspapers, and appeal rather to
Irish than to Catholic interests and sympa-
thies Some TEEN with abuse Of Ameri-
cans and arc filed diatribes against the race
from which the majority Of nom Catholic
Americans claim to have sprung. Their
tone and temper are FoREIGN,-an their
whole tendency is to make an American feel
that, practically, the Church in this coun-
try is the Church Of a foreign colony, and
by no means Catholic. All this may be
very natural, and very easily explained to
the Catholic who is willing TO pardon almost
nything to a people that has stood firm BY
the faith during three centuries of martyr
dom, but every one must see that il is far
better fitted to repel Americans from the
Church, than to attract them to it; especi
ally when they find the forcignism which
offends them defended by portion of the
clergy, aud apparently opposed by none;
aud carried even even into politics, and
ma de or attempted to be made, the turning
point in our elections"
Here is an honest confession en- the part
of prominent organ of Roman Catholic
ism, that the Irish Papists come here gith
"their old prejudices Of race national ami
mosities, and bitter passions, and, conse-
quently, it is impossible ever to American
ize them, or make goo citizens Of them.
Their 'sforeignisn,," the Review admits, is
acarricd even into politics, and made or at
tempted to be made, the turning point in our
elections" And this course is not only
approved, but defended by the Roman
Catholic Clergy. Instead Of rehuking this
ruf6anism and insolent and violent inter-
ference in our elections, the corrupt Priests
encourage it, and are too often found incit-
ing their illiterate and bigoted followers to
acts of riot and bloodshed. II it be the
object Of the American party 10 crush out
this spirit of foreign rufianism, to guard
the purity Of the American ballot box, -
and to preserve our country from the rule
Of the foreign rabbIe whose s'nationas ami
mosities and bitter passionsS lead them in
10 all kiuds Of social. political and religious
cxcesses,---for one we cannot hesitate 10 bid
that party God speed. believing with the
peneraied jackson that, in this respect, o.
least, sit is time for America to become a
little more Americani2cd. !"