Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-03-28
"sAM"-WHO AND WHAT HE is.

Sam is in no respect what he Processes and appears
10 be. He cares not is more for other people, or
for hi. country than Tor Catholics and fnrrgners-
They are the "raw head and bloody bones with
which he expects to frishten grown-up cIIiren.-
Sam is engaged i'll plot to make money " the
elnuunerts Of office, aud tnkrs Is cue from Titus
Oates tho Meal Tub and RYE House plots
Their success was entirely owing TO the silly creduy
and ill-foundcd aud prjudices OF part o the
people. They were ephemeral. and 80 will Sam be-.
Public opinion will soon lash hnun from end Of
the Union To the other just Titus Oates was ashcd
through the streets of London. Oates got the hard
est whipping ever given in England but We can pro-
msa Sam that, rs his is II grander plot, his stripes
shall be in proportion.
If Sam really believed what he charges Oh Catho
lies and foreigners he would in sume State where he
weids power, be cnnctins laws to check or prevent
immigration. But his sole object is to iiich and APP
prcprinte their proportion Of the emolnmenia Of Office
and he can only fi!ch from those who have been de-
coycl to our country by the promise of equal rights
To lecthen the term OF naturalization for future n
migrants, though an impnlitic and harsh measnre
would be an honest one. IL Sam were not as false
hypocritc as his illu>tous predecessor, Titus Oaes
he would propose and carry some such mcasnre in
every State where hc is in the ascendant. Bnt
Sum can't rob those who have nothing. lie is
solely bent on the fasrlntly dishonest purpose
of getting into his own hands all the offices
now held by foreigner and Catholics, and oi
approprating to himself, hereafter. all the offices
which might be justly the share OF three or four n'l-
lions of his fellow ctzens; Of mon better than hun
SELF because they tainted with no such foul plot
or conspiracy. a few unprncipled wire workers
carried on the English plots, set all Eng land in COM
motion, and made millions of pure honcs!, but de-
ludcd men pariicpators in their crimes. Sahis wlck'
ed wire.worker- are very few, his deud"d followers
number hundreds of thousands. He would dignity
his plot with the name of party but it has not one
feature of political party. Men neither bind them
selves by oaths nor by written contract to political
parties They do not part with their free agency like
Sans subjects, but vote and net OH ull subjects as
they please. We admire political consistency, when
it results from conviction of right; but we detest
that consistency which is enforced by the oath or the
contract Of the conspirator II Sam had not dirty
and foul work for his subjects TO do, no would not
bind them by oath by signature beforehand.-
That his cause ia unrghteoua is admitted by his mode
of enlistment Catane's consprators added to the
oath the computation Of a cup Of blood We know
not the secrets of the culvert and the midnight meet
ings, but we do not think that Sam il bloody minded.
lie would do by fraud what Catalne proposed to ef.
feet by force He would seize upon the government
by clandes,no not by open means. His is not con-
spiracy but plot. He stole the idea from English
history-probaby from his illusrious predecessor,
Titus Oates.