Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-06-14


ment by the introduction of the low and surplus
population of Europe among us;"-that "discord,
dissenson, anarchy and civil war would ensue, and
some popular Individual would assume the govern
ment and restore Order and the sovereigns Of Eu-
rope, the emigrants, and many of the natives would
sustain him." He also said, in speaking of the Uni
| ted States, that-"the Church of Rome has a de-
sign upon that country, and it viii, in time, be the
established religion, and viii aid in the destruction
of that republic"
These statements of the Duke of Richmond are
abundantly corroborated by other declarations as
well as the most undeniable facts which have oc-
CURED since their PRONUNCIATION.
/ have in my possession, among various others,
two small books Published by "the Amerinan and
Foreign Christian Union" (l56 Chambers street,
New York THE entitled Foreign Conspiracy"
the other Startling Facts" both of which, We
infer from their contents were written in the year
1884, long before the American party had an exis-
tence. The work entitled Foreign Conspiracy is
composed of a series of articles originally published
over the signature of Bruus, in the New York OBJ
server They now appear with the name of the au-
thor, SAMUEL F. B. MORSE. His object, in writing
the work. was to arouse public attention to the eff
forts then being made in Europe to propagate the
Catholic religion in the United States, and to show
its danger to republican institutions. He traces
the origin of the Leopold Foundation in Austria,
under the especial patronage of the Emperor at Vi
enna on the 18th May, 1929 aud shows that one of
its leading objects to promote the greater activ
| ity of Catholic missions in America"
| The letter of Prince MetterRich to Bishop Fem
wich of Cincinnati, under date, Vienna, April 81
1880, is set out at length; and in that letter, the
Prince informs the Bishop among other things, that
the Emperor allows his people to contribute to the
support of the Catholic Church in America" NJ
| merous quotations are made from the letters of
|
at home, and among the rest on page So, is the fol-
lowing statement, made by one of them, in regard
to the people of the United States,-"We entreat
all European Christians to unite in prayer to God
for the conversion Of these unhappy heather and
| obstinate heretics." But, forbearing to multiply
quotations from this little work, admirable in most
of its positions, my main object in citing it was to
make the following extract, from page 10 OF the
preface taken by the author from the lectures OF the
celebrated Frederick Schlegle delivered at Vienna,
in 1918, where the distinguished foreigner says
1.-THE true nursery of all these destructive princ-
pies the Revolutionary school for France, and the
rest of Europe has been North America. Thence
the evil has spread over many other lands, either
| by national contagiOn or by arbitrary communica-
tions" and also the following quotation from page
| lis of Mr.. MOrse's book,-"Austria, one OF the
Holy Alliance of sovereigns leagued against the
liberties of the world, has the superintendent Of
| the operations of Popery iH this country.
In the tract entitled startling Facts for American
! PrOteStants," written in the year 1884, by Rev.
! HERMAN NORTON, Corresponding Secretary Of the
American Protestant Society, from pages q to SO,
an account is given of London pamphlet entitled
| 'New Plan of Emigration" the production OF a
Roman Catholic gentleman, London Banker, IN
which project for occupying the NOrth-We stern
States with the Roman Catholic population of Eu-
rope is unfolded together with a map of the coun.
try and among other things, it is said on page 29,-
'the first settlements should be made in those fer
tile prairie districts situated the southern sides OF
the Canadian lakes, Uhere Sldgery is 1pukpotcn.
On page 2S the objects of this Society, set forth
in this pamphlet fare stated to be-:
50. To provide the meansfOr cOlOnizing the sur
plus Roman Catholic population of Europe, in our
Western States.
''2. To do this in such way to create a large
! demand for articles of British Manufacture.
''3. TO make RomaniSn the predominant religion
| IN this country"
The census tables will show that since these plans
were set on foot in England and in Europe to break
down our government there has been an astonish-
ing increase in the foreign immigration to this coun-
try Great as it was prior the Revolutions in Eu-
rope in 1S4S, it has been amazingly augmented since
that time.-MiiOns of foreign money have been
collected in Europe and expended since the Organi-
cation of the Society for the propagation OF the
faith at Lyons in France, about the year 1922, IN
the United States.
While an AUSTRIAN EMPEROR has had the charge
in good degree, of the propagation OF the Catho-
lie religion in the United States, the public authori-
ties in various parts of Europe have defrayed the
expenses of their criminals and paupers to this
country, as was clearly shown by Congressional in
vestigatons.
What do these facts prove? Why, that the deca-
ration of the Duke of Richmond, that the crowned
heads of Europe intended to subvert our govern
ment was true. What more do they provey Why
that the effort TO establish the Catholic religion in
this country has for more than twenty years, been
conducted with steady perseverance until the
Catholics who in 1850, numerous, as the
census compendium shows, than any one denomina-
ton of MethOdists, now no doubt stronger than
all the MethOdists put together and stronger than
any other denomination of Protestants.
| While these publications have been before the
American people for more than twenty years, Demo-
cratic leaders have received, with open arms, the
swarms of foreigners who have settled upon our
shores. What care they for the slavery question,
when they have seen this foreign immigration, ac-
| cording to the plan concerted in England, settling
| in the nOn-savehOlding States and every year in
| creasing the Abolition power? What care they for
the Protestant religion if the Catholics can only
| give them the numerical strength at the ballot box?
What regard have they for the preservation of our
liberties when, European despots are seeking to
undermine them, if those despots only send such
myrmidons as will shout hosannas to Democracy and
drive from the polls peaceful American citizens who
oppose them? Is the preservation of the Union a
matter of any consequence to them? Do they not
| in vision behold its scattered fragments and con-
! template new cOntederacies, with boasts OF new
offices and millions of spoil?
Can any one doubt that the Democratic party is
in league with all the dangerous elements that have
disturbed and continuing to disturb our once
peaceful and happy country and that they sickle at
/ nothing when votes are at stake!
| Look to their conduct in running Mr.. Polk as a
tariff man in the north and an anttarf man in the
! South? Look 10 the two lives of Cass Look to
| their equivOcal position to slavery and the Union.
Look TO their appeals to foreigners and Catholics by
name in the elections Of S44 and 1852, and pToba-
bly, in 1913. Look TO their alliance with Free Ger
mans and Fourierities Free Sellers and Secessoniss
| Aud, above all, look TO the miserable cant with
/ which they raise the hue and cry of persecution in
| favor of the Catholics and indirectly, deny to
Protestant Ministers the right to make war upon a
huge corporation, calling itself church dealing in
human souls, reeking with the blood of martyrs,
and begrimed with more than ten centuries of OPP
| preston.
No wonder that they have vilifed and denounced
/ the American party with every term of opprObrium
that our vocabulary can furnish. No wonder they
talk Of dark lanterns aud secret oahs and midnight
assemblies. No wonder that they strive TO brighten
their followers with the notion that the American
party is a raw head and bloody bones which should
| be Stunned and avoided. For, if honest men Of
that party will only take the trouble TO shake of
/ the control OF their eaders-to thnk-examine-to
read-refect and act for themselves, there are
thousands Of Democrats in the South who would
scorn like the American party, an alliance with
AboIitiousts, and there are tens Of thousands Of
| Protestant Union loving Democrats every where,
who have only eonfded in, TO be deceived and be-
trayed by their leaders, and il they discover as il
is to be hoped they viii, that they have brought
them TO the crumbing verge Of an awful precipice,
they have patriotism enough and Professionalism
| a,nugb IN hrask away fron them rather than make