Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-09-15

Our parson he breaches away,
| Nor handles text but he mars
Since duty for shpslop he lear ned to betray,
so false to the Stripes and the Stars.
Chorus-While heart, &c.
To country the brave give their lives,
| Or proudly for her count III rS
Who stand in her cause, fight cthearts and
| wives,
Then up with the Stripes and Tie Stars.
Chorus-Whe heart, &c.
The Romanism of Fremont.-All ComiD g
Out!
We invite attention, says the New York Elk.
press, to, and scrutiny of the following careful
in some respects Jesutical-but nevertheless very
| significant article from the Freeman's Journal,
the official organ of the Most Rev. Archbishop
| Hughes"
Two points in this article will impress the OBJ
| server
The first, "The audacious attempt on the Gre
dulity of the American people," to make out the
absurd story that Fremont was not Romanist
for years, inasmuch as there are scores of Ro-
manists, who by personal intercourse with Blr.
Fremont in other days, are in condition to give
testimony to the fact.
Second That Father Van Horsegh, "the good
| old Jesuit" who married Fremont, violated not
| "the requirements of his sacred Office" that is,
taking Fremont into a Roman confessional and ad.
mnistering to him the holy sacrament of matri-
| mony, with all the rites and ceremonies Of the
Roman Church.
Truth is oozing out, and anon will pour out
Fremont meVer dare deny an presence Of the pub
Sc, that he has been, and if not unchanged, as, a
Roman Catholic Twenty Roman Catholic priests
would if he dared to do it. start on their feet to
show themselves as administrators to him, or COM
municants with him, of Roman Catholic rites and
ceremonies. aE -s.r..
The Romanism OF Fremont is thus known to the
Roman Catholic clergy, and on election day they
will doubtless act upon it; but the Hierarchy of
Rome, it is evident, do not intend that Messrs.
Greeley and Raymond shall make his Romanism q
disgrace or disqualification for office. When aid
ing in the election of Fremont, election day,
through their Church organization, they intend to
aid him, in behalf of Rome, and the Pope of Rome.
The Black Republicans, with Beecher & Co.. have
been OVERRIDING the denials and hence this remon-
STRANGE from Archbishop Hughes:
RELIGION AS A PoLITIoAL TEsT.-Were it not
disgusting it would amuse us to sec the savaCeness
of the contest that has been waging for months be-.
tween the two Know-Nothing parties on the sub
ect of the religion of the candidate of one of them
1t was certainly of the nature Of farce that an
out-and-out Know-Nothing faction should have Sc
lected for their Presidential candidate not only the
son of foreigner, but one who until recently was
looked upon by his friends and associates as Ca
thohc The party known as Choctaws, North
Americans, or antislavery Known Nothings, offered
Mr.. Fremont their nomination, and he formally ac-
cepted it, having avowed his sympathy with most
Of their principles and his purpose to carry them
out, il he could be elected According to the New
York Times, Fremont paper, this convention,
which thus nominated Mr.. Fremont, was composed
of those "who bolted from the American know
Nothing) National Council and nominating Conven-
tion in Philadelphia by reason of the admission
therein OF delegates representing Roman Catho-
lie constituency, taking the most decided
position as auti-Roman Catholics, and still main.
taining that position" Yet, as If to illustrate how
utterly profigate in principle Know Nothingism is,
and how necessarily self-stultfying, they take as
their candidate man supposed to be Catholic.
Having selected such an one for their candidate,
the next curious step is the attempt to make out,
not that Mr. Fremont had given up being Cath.
olc,-not that he was now Protestant or of no
religion,-a thing possible in itself, plausible
moreover, and which he certainly has the political
right to do without being politically questioned
about it-but that he never had been a Catholic
the most audacious attempt the credulity of the
American people that has ever been tried Had
the appeal been made TO the real American princi-
pie that mans religion is not matter on which
he ought to submit to questioning, ng,-however con-
Trajectory this might be to the inquisitiona dicta
of the Know Nothings,--their inconsistency would
have found some to pardon it. But the attempt to
make the public swallow so absurd story as that
Nr: Fremont did not for years profess himself
Roman Catholic nothing but Roman Cath
oic,-has actually something in it hardly one step
from the sublime.
There is a relieving feature in this unpleasant
business 1t is that while there are scores of men
who, by personal intercourse with Mr.. Fremont in
other days, are in a condition to give the most con-
elusive testimony,-snd many Of these are hostile
to Mr. remontpolitically y,-not one Of them Of any
character has been found to violate the rights cf
private intercourse or the political privilege of
religious liberty, so much as to be induced to pub
lish word on the subject. The unseemly contest
has been left to the two Know Nothing factions to
dispute between themselves The one set averring
what Mr.. Fremont docs not with his own word
ayer,--that he has neverprotessed himself Roman
Catholc,-the other set asserting that he has not
ceased to be a Catholic, but is playing some dark
and mysterious part for the accomplishment Of
Catholic DESIGNS on the country The two eata arc