The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-03-20

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line of holding the Courts ot Common
leas in the County of Cuyahogs. Read
he first time.
The Senate then resolved itself into a
Committee of the Whole, Mr.. GrswOld in
The Chair. After considering one bill the
Committee rose and reported it when i'll
was laid upon the table.
Mr.. Taylor, Of Mahoning, from the FL
nance Committee then reported bill to
provide for the payment of the Public Debt,
due January 1857. Read the first time, and
the Constitutional rule was suspended and il |
was read the second time and referred to the
Finance Committee. Recess.
O'CLOCK, P. NJ.
The Senate resolved itself into Commit
tee of the Whole and considered the bill to
prevent the vesting Of titles to eccleciasti-
cal estates in individuals. The bill to pre-
vent the Bishops the Catholic faith from
holding the trust title Of their churches.
Mr.. Griswold argued in favor of the bill.
Dir. Mathews would not let this occasion
pass without entering his solemn protest a.
gainst this bill of abominations. He had
not expected thesession 10 pass without "A
against the Pope. The minds
of certain honest but bigoted and very ignor-
ant individuals had become possessed with
the notion, that the Pope had mysterious
power BY which he could work his will in
this country. These notions " ere charac-
teristic OF the Anglo Saxon race. In Eng
land wretched fanatic, Lord George Cor
don, had been able to excite mobs TO de-
stroy the property and abuse the perf ons uf
their fellow citizens. The public mind of
ENGLAND, however, soon became ashamed OF
this janatical crusade; and the memory Of
the outrages perpctrated in the name OF lib
crtv of conscience under the cry Of "no
pOperv," had beeG a potent instrument in
succeeding times to deNoli-h the persecrut.
ing laws which had before imposed disao'l-
ties upon the Catholics of the United hlng-
dom. The gentleman said that the Hlshon
held the fee Of the property--and Thereby
exerted certain control. Admit it. How
did he get the title to the property! BY the
bequest OF pious people who had left their
property for religious uses, and for the ben
eft Of that church through which they beIiev-
ed they would enter the gates of salvation.
The Bishops possessed no power other than
that conferred upon them voluntarily by
their flocks. He knew that the doctrines
of this bill were fashionable and profitable
Upon the two steeds, anti.Slavery and leaT
of the Pope, any csper can be cut, and any
sort of ridiculous antics may be performed
in the Legislative arena.
He had no language sufficient to express
his adherence o; the principles OF the bill
The effect OF it was to coniscate the pro
per,y Of these people, who had come here
and invested their means under the solemn
guarantees Of the constitution and the laws
He hid no particular respect for the Cath
olc Church, and no belief in :ts prculis
doctrines; but he knew that it had, through
many dirk and disastrous ages, preserved
in the writings of the Christian Apostles
the words of the Savior, when they "ther
wise would have been lost to mankind an
down to all other den ominations the foun
dations of the faith which all of them pro
fessed. IF the peculiar doctrines Of tn
Catholic Church were false, oppose them b.
the truth. Persecu ing measures such q
these would knit the Catholics together a
by ryets of steel Ii would make them be
lieve that the Protestants were enemies
and they were the enemies of Protestants
1t would inculate the idea which had delug
ged every country in Europe with blood, an
through every century Of its history had bee
made the means Of RIGHTEOUSNESS and de
vastation--the ldea that people holding h
two crecds could not dwell together in um
ty and peace. But how ever popular thes
opinions be for time, the Old Saxon ele
ment Of common sense, which underlies tn
whole public mind Of this coniederacy, wi
soon rebel agninst the preposterous notion
Mr.. Mathews continued at length, and d'
t nounced in powerful and eloquent maine
: the secret, prosecuting, Jesutical and ant
republican tenets and practices Of the Kno
Nothings.
Mr. Marsh argued in favor Of the bill h
had version Of history--even England, tn
, country whence we had derived nc
only the arts and sciences, but our origiI
> had been held for centuries in submissio
to the Papal Church. Parliament year a
ter year had exerted all its power and il
genuity to prevent the priests from holdin
all the real estate Of the country. If tf
, Parliaments had not thus resisted the q,
vances of the Ecclesiastical order they wou
hnye acquired all the land in the Kingdom
d Mr.. Marsh continued describing the cond
o ton of the Catholic Powers. Austria, Spai
Mexico, &C., and also narruting a little
bout Santa Anna. He then charged M
Matthews with not understanding or mIsr
}. presenting the principles of Amcricanism.
il Mr.. Matthews. Do you not belong to
o society called Know Nothings! F
- tl, A
ty.
g. Mr.. Matthews. Did you not, in joining
t, take an oath to vote against any man n
!. born in this country, for any effect
Mr.. Marsh. 1t was to sustain America
as understood it, and don't care who
may be against. have met with the so
e ETY. for long tine. lie then continued,
er caring against the foreigners because tn
supported the democracy, which he thoug
ought to be called the slavocracy. III
p party which the foreigners supported aim
lie to man, had at its head Pierce, Doug
Il, and Atchinson.
Mr.. Matthews begged TO correct the &c
tleman. A,chinson belonged TO the sal
society Of which the Senator himself was
member. s q
a! Mr.. Marsh. Well it's true; and that's j
sample of the miserable administrati
8! which reviles the Know Nothings in 0
way and pets them in another.
be He then proceeded with ayiolent diatr
,rt against those who clustered around the
es OF democracy in the cities, and said if
10. Pope was-really among US, as the gent
nd man from Cuyahoga [bir. Griswold] said,
ed thought the place to establish the inqu
tion would be in the underground cells
as meath the State House.