Washington telegraph., 1856-05-21
Remarks of Hon. Thomas Hubbard

At the American Meeting holden I'm
Washington, on the 1871 nit. =
After explaining the object of tbs meet
ing the speaker referred to the American
organization, its principles and Its plat
form.
He recognized as worthy of unqualified
adoption by the party, the motto, aAmeri-
cans should rule America" The sentiment
was just and patriotic one 1t behooy-
ed the American people, as they valued
their liberties, to place none but Ameri-
cans as sentinels on the watch-tower of
their liberties.
The speaker referred to the condition
of public affairs. A crisis was upon the
country-the institutions of the land were
In danger of subversion, by reason of the
operation of the motley and discordant
elements which threaten to have full swav
In the land. Patriots and statesmen have
declared this truth 10 the people. They
should heed the warning. Organizations
openly avOwing their determination to
subvert and overthrow our Constitutions,
State and Federal, were in open revolt
against the existing condition of affairs.
There is, the speaker said, virus lurking
In the veins of our Republic, corroding
and poisoning the very vitals of the body
polite. 1t is the poison of foreignism.-
The patriotic of all parties should unite
to remedy this evil-to check this abuse
Our ancestors framed our institutions and
handed them down to US for our protec-
ton and support. All men have been
protected in their civil and religious
rights, and all who value these glorious
privileges, should come forward and con-
tribute their aid to maintain and hand
down to others the noble heritage of their
own free institutions.
The source OF all power is with the
people, and the strength and permanency
of our institutions depends upon the in
telligence of the masses. To this end the
blessings of a free and liberal education
should be extended to the youth of the
land. The Bible is an efficient instru-
ment in the dissemination of knowledge
The Jesuits- s-the emissaries of the Pope
are among US. They constantly en-
deavor to suppress our primary schools
and divert the funds appropriated to their
support, in Legitimate channels, and to
the furtherance of unlawful objects
They strive to exclude the Bible from our
common schools, and declare freedom of
opinion, as expressed in belief in the
Protestant Religion, a dangerous heresy,
which should be effectually crushed out
They hold and teach. as fundamental
principle of their religion, the dogma
that the Pope is the ultimate arbiter of
all legal questions, and will determine the
validity and binding force of laws in all
countries, as touching or operating on
those of his church; that he can absolve
them from all obligations, of all oaths to
any save himself; that truth and faith,
kept with Protestants, is sin not easily
atoned for.
Europe is disgorging her criminal pris-
ons and sending their inmates to our
shores, with her paupers and the refuse of
her INDECENT population.
In 1854, the number of emigrants which
came from the Old World to cur shores,
amounted to 100000 number exceed
ing the population of any one of the Is
less populous States in the Union. The
influence which this immense mass of
ignorance and prejudice must exert, can
not fail to be bad, and it is the aim of the
American Party to attempt to render that
influence harmless
Our brother Democrat may say he is a
good native American so say
the Democratic leaders. Do they agree
in theory and practice?
The present administration has not sus-
tanned itself During its tenn of office COM
petent and worthy hyoccupants of posts of hon
or and profit, have been removed because of
their fidelity to the interests of the Union,
to make room for less competent and less
meritorious representatives of the factions
of section.
The speaker then appealed to all those
who had been protected and nurtured un-
der the benign influence of our free insti-
tutions, by whatever party name they
might be designated, to come forward and
arrest this malign foreign influence, and
assist in the preservation of our civil and
religious liberties.
Judge Hubbard added at the close of
his remarks:
I have, from force of habit, said Gen
tlemen of the jury" Though language
characteristic of a profession, it was net
wholly inappropriate here
Fellow-citizens You have an issue to
try, and verdict to render, not surpass-
ed in importance by any issue since the
Rerolmtion. IT'S neither more or less
than, shall we maintain and preserve our
civil and religious liberties.
| have heard and considered the testi-
mony of our neighbors, the Democrats,
and that of the Black Republicans of the
North. / regard them as incompetent
and interested witnesses, deposing under
the promise and hope of a participation
in the loaves and fishes and the spoils of
victory. Beware how you receive their
testimony.
Mr.. Secretary Dobbin says Panama the
outrages shall be promptly rebuked-
The matter was subject OF considera-
finn at of xbo hoIA fo