Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-09-18

slider what benefit Ireland NAV, or Greece. or
Scheswlg Holstien, but what will best serve
the noble country from which he derives new
existence. Sill less should religious partiali-
ties determine the complexion of his vote.
/ Liberal in mind as the Constitution through
which he derives his citizenship, no preference,
following and whispering him from the coven-
tlcle or church door, should seduce him into
eonspiracies against the principle of religious
/ Liberty, which the founders Of the Republic
held to be paramount and supreme.
In presence of the Constitution there should
be no sect, no race, no selfshness whatever.
All sects and races should be one in citizen
ship and patriotism Neither in the name of
religion, nor uuder the remnants of a foreign
flag should the emigrants from Ireland, or any
other country outside, isolate themselves with
IN the Union. Beneath the Stars and Stripes,
among the millions that claim it as their in
violable ensign, there should be but one heart.
one mind, one arm. In politics, Irishmen
should thoroughly Americanize themselves.
So should Germans and Sclavonians-Asatics
and Europeans-all who come here
In no factious mood, therefore, We allude TO
the Catholic and Irish press. Not as Catholics
not as lrishmen do we include the opinions Of
that press among the guarantees Of success
which cluster around the Cincinnati nomina-
tion. Were the sources of this opinion Calvin
istlc or Circassian, instead of being what they
are, our reference to them would be equally as
prompt. Those opinions are facts which nei-
ther We, nor any other spectators of the Presi-
dental campaign, can overlook, and to which
neither the friends nor the foes of Mr. Buchan-
an, however intense their Americanism, can
afford to be indifferent. Nor should the lessons
clearly educible from those facts be longer
withheld.
For the last two years, Catholics have been
scandalously maligned and outraged in Amer.
lea. The foulest garbage of the No. .Popery
days has been violently flung upon them. Ca
yazzi, the renegade rhetorician, was the male
Alecto, whose trumpet reused this fratrcidal
war From his rank counsels. Know Nothing.
ism was born. Mr. Fillmore owes his nomina-
tion to an arrogant faction which, if in power
would ostraclse the Catholic citizens of the
Republic. He is. virtually, the nominee of
the Italian slanderer, who, with the cross upon
his black breast, would pile the blazing faggots
about the Ancient Church.
With this faction Colonel Fremont is impli-
Gated. Behind his dusky banner he hides, and
Tor a convenient season bushes, the Massachu-
sets fragment of the dark conspiracy. Gov.
Gardiner who disbanded the Boston compa-
nies for the crime Of having the blood Of the
0'Neills and O'Donnells in their veins, stoutly
backs the gallant Colonel Governor Ford, of
Ohio, also backs him. Judge Trumbull of
stupid strength of the Knew Nothing move.
ment, shakes the pillars of the Tabernacle
with his bolsterous praises of Fremont These
are some of the purest aud noblest men in the
Republican ranks. Robert Emmet and Horace
Greeley could not fail to contribute heart and
lustre to any cause. But trusted and honored
as they are-gratefully thought of and warmly
acknowledged as the truest of friends by many
shipwrecked soldier of liberty cast in here
from European shores-they cannot reconcile
to programme which is declaration of war
against the South, even those who stand in
debted to them most. Genial and exhaustless
as it is, therliberaliy cannot effdce the blot or
neutraiZe the poison which the affiliation with
their party of some Of the most rancorous
Know Nothings indellibly inhcts and radically
infuses.
In the election of James Buchanan, the
American Catholic bebolds the defeat of the
rude bgotry which threatens him with disabil-
tiles, reign of prescription, insolence, and
terror. He sees more. He beholds the triumph
of those illustrious principles which gave the
Word of God the freest field in which under
the sun il has yet been sown, and for the op-
pressed and poor of all nations constituted this
Republic an impregnable fortress and the state
liest asylum. In these views the European
emigrant of every religious denomination
shares, and since the integrity and full worth
Of citizenship to which he aspires depends upon
the executive supremacy of the Democratic
party, to that party and the experienced states
man who in the maturity of his intellect repre-
sents it, he devotes his heartest sympathies,
his influence, and vote.
The Foreign Vote, as it is coutemptuously
designated, will preserve the Union.