Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-11-01
mr., WALES

an injurious character, individually, ana we
trust will not. We want the reader to under.
stand from the above that Mr. WALES, in the
following extracts, is met, wayluid, upset ut the
very acma of his argumentative brilliancy, and
robbed of the position which he claims for the
National American Party, with reference to
the Catholic question.
1t is unnecessary for Us to assert over and
over again, as for our orators also, that the
American party proscribes no religion; ana
hypercriticaI as gentlemen may be, no evidence
of Catholic prescription can be found in the
American platform. But 10. and behold! here
at the eleventh hour-upon the very threshold
of the election-we are told by the highest
Democratic authority in the land (%alongside Of
which, in point Of weight and influence, coun"
try newspapers, and even city newspapers, are
novhere,) that "the Romish Church in our very
midst is hostile to the progress of Republican,
ism everywhere! Democracy everywhere! and
the territorial or other extension of American
institutions everywhere !" And these are the
u vi GllC @tsS A~c(%~D -
published in the city of New York, and which,
while ii has been universally acknowledged as
the great reflector of Democratic principles, is
at the same time all powerful with the Demo-
cratic party. II was this periodical which first
brought the name Of STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS be-
fore the American people for The highest office
in their gift, and with signal ability did it adj
yocate his claims.
Now, If we do moi misunderstood the reason
assigned, Mr.. WALES left the American party
because of his belief that, as q national organ.
i~zation, it not only prescribed Catholics, but
it also prescribed Protestants situated as Mr..
WALES is, as we also are situated, and all 9th.
ers similarly placed. In his very able and ar
gumenlative Cand we may say documentatiue
also) speech of Saturday last and the one that
preceded it, Ar. WALES attempted 10 prove
that such was really the case. To those un-
acquainted with the subject, the showing he
made of the Blue Book, and other documents
might have had some influence upon their
minds.
The American patty broadly asserts that,
with the exception Of II small body under the
immediate eye Of Bishop FIUGHEs Of New
York, the Catholics of this country Do NOT
hold any temporal allegiance TO the Pope OF
Rome. It asserts also, and the assertion is
sustained by Catholics hereabouts, that those
Catholics who do hold temporal allegiance to
the Pope, do not deserve TO be ~supported'f for
any office within the gift Of the American Peo-
pie.
As 10 the Blue Book, if it is really a simon
pure production, we have no donbt il was pub
lished in, md intended for the locality of, The
city of New York, in its local capacity, where
it is admitted there are Catholics whs ac-
knowledge temporal allegiance to the Pope,
and is intended for, and applies TO, no other
section Of this Union.
In connection with this subject, there are
Two remarks made by Mr.: WALES, one in his
speech of Saturday last and one in his speech
u few days prior, 10 which we particularly de-
sire TO draw the attention of the reader. On
Saturday the gentleman proved 10 our salts
faction, and to every ether person we presume,
that the American party boil, in its local and
national organization, had done away with all
of its secrets consequently, if it has donejhat,
all papers, pamphlets, books, blue, black or
brown, referring to those secrets, are no longer
of any value, and of course are done away
with also! Now, in his previous speech, Mr..
WALES, in speaking Of the Blue Book, stated
If we are not mistaken, that the one-he pos,
sessed he procured in Washington City, and
that If he had desired to DO so, he could have
'got a bushel of them!" This assertion proves
clearly TO our mind one of two ~things-that
the secrets of the American organization be-
ing done away with, there was no further use
for the Blue Book, and il became scattered hi
Their and thither, everywhere or else the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Democratic party at
Washington chose TO make a campaign docu-
ment out of it. We think that in proving the
abolition of secrecy by the American party,
Mr., WALES has hoisted himself witt his own
petord. But not only did he apply The match
with his own hands 10 the magazine which has
blown up the beautiful ediice his intellect had
created, but, as we said above, he has been
waylaid and robbed of all the capital he made
in P~Iaquemine for the Democracy, and the
worst of it is, it was done by one of The chiefs
of the Democratic party itself. If The reader
does not believe US, let him read the following