Washington telegraph., 1856-10-01
-. From ths Ness York Erprcss-
THE PERILS That BESET Us.

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-17sessp', Ia.fi}sily, md Rel RepaJlis an
isa' .ola Hands ,aith Back Rspu5l:-
CA ism-GHe Christina I5egsG.oa to b.
| Struck Dorm Var Upon TIE Social
System, ond IEar Upon the Union #
ae JStates.
Strange events are passing on the polit-
heal stage. here IN New York,-events of
SO pOrteatOus and startling nature. that
we earnestly invite 10 them the thought
ful attention OF our countrymen at large,
-irresp speotive OF party, section. or sect
We have, scberly speaking, reached u cri-
Sis in tie history OF our country. which
Dids US prepare to see our institutions sub
jected, in our Judgment, to tie severcst
test 10 which they can possibly BE- put
( that Is to ssy, whether our Republic can
De maintained, with a total apnegation OF
these fundamental principles OF Christian
Ity upon which the Fathers of the Revolu-
ton laid, or thought they la:d, broad aud
deep, its foundations. This is the piain
issue now presented to us, and no refine
ment of language, no ingenious perversion
of words, we presume, can persuade to the
contrary the dullest observer of the signs
of the times.
To speak plainly, that most abhorrent of
all the pestilential ''isms'' that have been
imported, wholesale and retail, into the
United States the past few years,-"Red
Repubticanism," has boldly entered the
political arena, and, with characteristic
audacity, openly declares its determina-
tion to impose, or to help impose, upon the
American people, a President Of its own
making. This fatal element in our resi-
dent foreign population, has been growing
and gaining steadily since the European
convulsiOns of 1913. Hitherto content to
confine its manifestations to essays and edi-
torial disquisitiOns addressed to the pub
lie, through the medium of infidel and
atheistical publications, it comes forward
now to challenge and dispute with US at
the ballot box Thus, the Broadway Ia
bernacle, the other evening, presented the
extraordinary spectacle of Grand Coun-
Gil of Foreigners, as Foreigners
organized and officered mainly b, foreign
ers,-addreSsed ina foreign tonguc,-bear-
ing foreign banners, and singing foreign
songs,-to help elect a President for the
American people. If things go on at this
rate, ere long we shall begin to wonder,
whether indeed we are on American soil,
breathing American air. speaking the En-
glish tongue that George Washington,
Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Ham
iltOn spoke,-or have strayed off ON the
banks OF the Seine, the iihone, or the
iihine,-spectators Of, ii not actors III, the
same sort o.! JacUbinicai demonstrations
which prepared the Wy for the revolution
airy tragedies OF 1893 and 1913.
The strange men, who III q strange Ian
guagc, chaunted the = -iiarseiilaise, " iii the
Puritan Tabern.cle, ou Thursday evening
LIST. came oi ;in At.iei<tic,,l, in.del, and
GOd-de;ying stOci, The inure prominent
ui them, we .reeiy admit, are men o! edu
cation, intellect and taient,-but belief in
Christianity coutossediy Constitutes no part
o.' that education, intellect or talent
Their religion,-or what they c7,ll religion,
| is all vi the earth, earthly They are,
al oi them, largely ;.bued with that most
fright 1ul type Of Il modern in.idelity.-the
I i{aJionaIis'.l u the schoais.-repudiating
as sLadowy iictions. the doctrines OF divine
| revelation, and clinging In its place. to
ii miscbievous uaterialisin, which has its
gr0yeliing idols in what are commonly cal
( led '.Heason" and Humanity The at
/ fuitv between German aud French imti-
deity is So intimate that there is no real,
practical difference between them T0 all
intents and purp 'ses they are one and the
same perniciuus thing.-but if there be
any distinction. in fact, 1t NAV be, that
with the Germans Rationalism is science,
With the Frenc, nan it is one OF the fine
arts Both alike are destructive OF popu
! TAR liberty and Tree government Of every
kind. They have killed every '.Repubiic'
thev nave set uD IN Europe, the \
merican RePubiic they Wi! kill too. II
their preaching and practice Is not met IN
season, by the proper correctives- Reai
| Republicanisn-Rep we mean.
that is to endure for something more than
a week, or a month, or year, can no
more exist, as all history shows, indepen-
dent of real, living, active Christianity,
than men and women can exist, or thrive,
! without water to drink, or air to breathe
/ When, therefore, Infidels and Atheists, the
enemies of Christianity, are banding to-
| gether, as separate organization, in our
American elections, it is time, high time,
to meet them, at once,-on the threshold,
for, if they be permitted to cross the
threshold, depend upon it, at some later
day, we or our children, after US, shall have
to face them, at the hearthstone.
The men who plant their red Jacobini-
cal banners in our faces at the Broadway
Tabernacle who ring in our ears the
blood tainted "Marseillaise,' are the in
heritors of the ':Red Republieanism' that
ruled in the French capitol in l793,-a
period still fresh, with all its horrors, In
4 the memories of men, still living. Their
furious speeches on the platform, and then
effusions in print. show that their Ike
publicanism" here is but an Otfshoot OF, and
ne rer relation to, the Jacoblnism OF 1.-THE
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