Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1856-03-28
For the Inquirer and Chronicle.
WHAT DOES THE MAN MEAN !?
HAS HE A SOFT HEAD, OR A
BAD HEART, OR BOTH

.tb. Editor Solomon says, prov. &c:
| 4, 81 "Answer not fool according to his
folly" DC. And again, he says, e.Answer
a fool according to bis folly, lest he be wise
in his own conceit,'
The impndence, falschood, and pandcr-
| ing to Popery put forth in the Bedford Ga
zette of Feb. 22d, by its editor and pro-
prictor, should be noticed and remembered
BY every American freeman All those
who are opposed to the political ascendancy
of the Pope in this country, including
many OF our wisest and best statesman
our ablest editors, most pious and useful
dlvnes, are most shalnefully assaied with
the most opprobrious epithets, such as
evolves IN sleeps clothing" and are ac-
cuscd of taking the lives, Indirectly, OF
poor innocent women and helpless children
/ Who are these 'sdark lantern' centrr.
midnight conspiitors,' o ath heund band
of ''traitor>, :" ''wolyes," robbers aud nlur-
murderers! Well they are admitted to be
native horn American citizens, frcemeu
/ dyed in tho wool. Aud who are the poor
/ innocent victims, the persocs who are PER-
secuted 'to the bitter end!" Well, they
are foreigners who have little or no SYM
1 pathy for American institutions; the most
/ of them are Irish Catholics, and some of
them conviets and plupers from the crowd
ed prisons Of ''auld country" What is
| this Bowman! l. he foreigner, an Amer
lean, or a national hermaphrodite? The
man himself is living example and his pa
per and press monument Of American toll
erance and charity; for if the American
citizens Of Bedford were possessed with one
hundredth part Of the evil spirit which he
attributes to them, they would have dealt
with him as A,s .Hosftr'S tools generally
| deal with Protestants wherever they have
/ the power
! Can it be possible that such man can
/ exert an influence over the American free
men Of Bedford county. Is there Meth
odist, = Luth IRAN or Presbyterian so blind
ed by politics as not to see the cloven foot.
How can they as freemeu aud as Protest.
ants thus hear their brethren abused, Will
/ fed and sunk to thc lowest hell hv this po-
litical babbler, while he extols all foreign
ers and papists in particular 10 the very
heavens, and woull have them enjoy more
privileges here than our own native born
children.
TIlis papa tool lies in the very beginning
of his article, when he asserts that Ameri-
cans arc bound together By an oath to per-
secute Catholics. &c To persecute is to
act ofenSirely: to harass, vex. or iijure
one on account of his religion. Now who
was the offending party, Romanists or A.
merican>! Who publicly burned our BIZ
bcs Oh which our civil and religious insti-
tutiuns are founded! Who endeavored to
destroy our glorious free school systeml-
Who entered into the political arena and
began to grapple for Rome and tue ascen-
dancy1 Who would stand at the polls anil
brow beat and bully native American citi-
2ens out of their votes! Who broke up the
American meetings IL New York and Phil
adclphia' Is it Il wonder that American
citizens would assemble together, aud again
pledge their word and sacred honor, as
their fathers of &c had done, to defend
themselves, their homes and their liberty
regret it, Americans have and are still
acting pn the defenSire How in the name
of common sense then could they be engaged
in prosecuting these poor holy lovely inno-
cent subjects of the Pope of Rome9 No
sir, they were becoming the prosecuted par
ty: when foreign strangers would come in
and cndeavor to destroy their bible, theil
schools, ard their liberty And in resisting
this papal aggression, is it TO be wondered
at. that the Americans did occasionally
burn il church, or do some other act of vio
lcnrc, Of which our citizens as genera
thing do not appovel No: the great WOE
, der IS that they were so patient, SO forbear
ing, so charitable Where is the nation
that would have endured one tenth part 0
The insult from foreigners which this has en-
durcd! IF American citizens in Italy ha
/: attempted one half that Romanists hav
in this country, the inquisition would hav
5 siIcnced and crushed them. The wonde
! is that the freemen of America did not ris
!, up in mass and drive these intruders an
). and their dough-faced allies from the coun
: try.
d This Jesuitical political trucker mex
sets up as preacher, quotes scripture {
. which he seems to know the use, abo ut 0
much as monkey does of a prayer book
: If those preachers and editors are "wolvf
in sleeps clothing, this exhortation Of th
e editor of the Gazette, is like the devil rt
d proving SIN. And his quo ia tions from II