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merit 10 induce the people TO place them IN
Nomination for Offices Of public trust, whose
goings forth has been in the darkness of
might, plotting treason against tho rights
OF foreign born citzeus, many Of whom are
Roman Catholics ? Sir, in this land of
freedom we fud men, claiming to be true
hearted Americans, so imbued with relig-
ious bigotry and intOlerant feelings against
aliens and foreigners of particular relig-
ious faith, that they have instigated muir
der, equal in atrocity to any that have
been perpetrated by the savages in our
present Indian war men claiming TO be
learned in all the arts and sciences OF the
present age Of progress, carrying ont the
true principles Of Republican freedom, as
set forth by our old Fathers of the Revo-
luton men claiming to bctrue Americans,
sons Of our noble sires, engaged in reinsta-
ting our government upon its old original
basis, as though it had been shaken frOm
its old foundation by usurpers.
But, sir, are they the sous Of our Wash
ingtons, JeAersohs, CAROLS, Patrick Hen
rys, Jacksons, Cays, Websters, &c No,
sir, by their deeds yc shall know them"
We say to them that ye are the children
of them who killed our fathers Fill ye up
then the measure Of your fathers, for If yc
were the children Of our old patriotic heroes,
ye would yet speak the word (Sheabolith)
Alright This crusade against the religious
and political rights Of foreigners in the
States, by those enemies Of freedom who
say they are Americans, acting under the
most shockingly blasphemous oaths, sick
ening in the extreme, coucoct their treason
in the night, which shows them to be the
children Of darkness, engaged in an attempt
todeprive Foreigners Of the rights OF Ameri-
can citizens who have fed to this cO0hiry
as place Of refuge from their own tyrant
rulers. Well, sir, let. US see how these
pizzsrineklHm Americans are trying to rule
/ America. The treatment Of a catholic
priest in Mobile, Alabama, while 10 the
performance Of his religious exeFcisesAbe-
ing cruelty beaten by four X. Ma, and bis
life threatened-shOw these Americans are
to rule America, Again, two highly
peaceable and respectable German minis
tiers, on their way to Burlington, Iowa,
we're beaten so numerically by some K.
! N. rnfians, that 70 save their lives they
left the stage. They couId console them
selves, however, that they we're only going
through the process Of being ruled by these
" Americans ruling America Look at
the K. N. mob 10 Columbus, Ohio, and at
the election riots in Cincinnati, where four
hundred Of these dark K. n. rulers dis
played their patriotism by driving peacea-
bic German catholic citizens from the polls,
killing some and wounding others. But it
was all right for these four hundred long
faced Hindoos-they were only "Ameri-
cans ruling America" called together by
the circulatlOh, in the streets Of the city, o.
little three cOrnered pieces Of red paper, a
signal Of blood for these dark lauterned
gentry to rise in the majesty Of their
Strength charge is to be made by these
Americans ruling America" ".''
And who has not heard Of "bloodJ
Monday" the election riots in. the city Of
Louisville, Kentucky, where peaceable for
eign born catholic citizens were driven
from the polls, deprived Of the sacred right
Of American citizens, that Of voting for the
men Of their choice, some Of whom, to the
number Of twenty-three men, women and
children, being brutally murdered, and some
oven burned in their houses, property des-
troyed through the folly aud madness OF
these jesaitical Americans ruling Ameril
Ica.p 1a1rf 1.l o..iillIci nov ola
The heart would fail TO contemplate aud
lrecite the many scenes of riot and blood
shed in numerous other places in the United
l States, where these sworn enemies Of re-
publican freedom, have committed deeds Of
desperation on the persons Of inofensivc
foreign citizens, who we're invited here by
our laws to the full enjoyment Of equal
ilrights with American citizens. But in
many instances the sequel has proven to
them that they had made a leap out Of the
Ifryingpan, and jumped into the Ere. M
4 Pass this bill, aud you lay the founda-
ton, by authority Of law, in this territory
for jesuitical prosecutions that may drench
the streets Of our towns, like those Of Lou
lisville in blood. ai
j 1t is in principle with some Of the old
English laws, wherein papist could not
be admitted into universities or colleges
without taking various test-oaths. For q
catholic to teach a protestant was q felony,
punishable by imprisonment, exile or death,
&c. &C., principle now attempted to be
carried out in some parts Of the States
against the rights Of catholics in the public
schools. } In England, Irish catholics
could not worship according to their own
creed, except by connivance, and to come
nearer home, in some of our New England
!, colonies the ecclesiastical modes Of govern
ment were introduced, particularly in New
Haven, Connecticut, and Boston, Massa-
chusetts, as well as othors, by which Bhp-
lists, Quakors, Presbyterians, Methodists,
&C., were whipped and imprisoned, a
thing Which his bill proposes to dO) Their
= mistake was in the establishment of what
they called christian commonwealth The
result is well known; that the laws of Con
necticut were BLUE, while athose of MasSa-
chuSetts were red with the blood of non-con-
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