The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-05-25
From the Cincinnati Chronicle.I
The FalsehOOd or Mr.. Brooks.

A correspondent. whose commune
cation appears elsewhere In these
columns, has put US in possession of
a printed copy of the Know Nothing
speech delivered by Hon. James
Brooks in this city, On the Both of
May, 1856. This is substantially, if
not exactly, the same as that to which
we referred yesterday as having been
| delivered In Columbus. Let it be re-
membered that we do not accuse Mr..
Brooks of falsehood in saying he was
never inside of a Know-Nothing
lodge" That may or may not have
been mere bubble. Here is the is
sue raised, as we gave it yesterday:
| Mr.. Dawes. referring to Mr.. Brooks, said
he knew he denied having been in q
| KnoW-Noth1nR lodge, but that did not
| alter the fact of his hdUf1lg been an advocate
/ Of Rn0aO-Notht1l0 doctrines.
/ Mr.. Brooks--IT IS NOT SO. 1T IS NOT TRUE.
| [ExcItement.l
Now this was a deliberate false
hood, as the speech before Us abuu-
dainty proves, and we trust Mr..
Dawes will not permit himself to be
faced down in this way, but publicly
convict Mr.. Brooks of the grave
ofense he has committed.
We have now room only for the fol-
lowing extracts Of Mr.. Brooks Know
Nothing speech here in 1856, but they
will serve to indicate the spirit and
tenor of the whole:
AMERICANS SHALL. GOVERN AMERICA"
You live here twenty-one years before
| you can vote-you, who are educated and
trained in the spirit of our laws, which
1 washington, and Madison, ana Franklin
inspired-you studied them in the English
Language, in youF childhood, in your own
schooI-bOoks, and are thus better qualified
TO eDeIefse the right Of stggrG0s Gs taOetUe
thirty or forty. [Cheers.f But we, who will
not let our wives and daughters vote, no
matter what their ages, are told we are
zoe a0fsb to keep The foreigner here the full
length Of time zoe haze to stay, or at least
present. before ne can UOte, and thus become
| q partner IN our Government. OUR PRINCE
PILES are laid dotO1t IN the aOeLL-knot0s motto,
NoTHINGIsM OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CANS SHALL GOVERN AMERICA
loud and prolonged cheers.I
We give the big capitals as we find
them. And now let US make room
| for few words from that long por-
ton ofthe same speech of Mr.. Brooks
in which he pays his respects to the
Roman Catholic Church and the
Pope-in decidedly different strain
from that INDUCED in on Thursday.
Again we quote from Hon. James
Brooks, May 80, 1856:
let tho Roman Catholic, If he pleases,
entertai1; MS 9gn Ideas Of tranSubstant t,
priest Il he pleases, indulge In celibacy,
and escheW all married Life. IT Is O matter
pity sy'' him " with my ~ whole heart, II IN" he
practices GOh0E ne breaches. Laughter.
Let all VINO are disposed, map Nv, women or
| or believe in the immaculate conception.
1t matters but little to me as public
| man. 1t may be thing OF taste, or train
| is an Unborn instinct of the human heart.
All may worship virgins, not Virgin
| MARYS alone, but Virgins ELIAS, ANNAs
| or HENRIETTAs too. ILaughteE.l When I
see Virgin from the pencil of q RAJ
scarcely help failing down and worship
| ping IL myself-as work of art ICont1n-
these things do we make war, not even
on the secrets OF the confessional. If
there be father or husband who permits
his family or the loves of their own ten
der hearts into the ears OF the sympathiz-
ing and unmarried priest, I might only
| wish / was the confessor. ReneWed
| laughter.1
other Catholics than the Roman Catho-
lies have emancipated themselves from
| all connection with the Romish ChuI ch
and Roman Hierarchy. The leading
| principle of the Revolution of 1776 was in
| dependence-Jre and absolute Independence
from GH EasToPeaa' thraIdozs IN ereTg shape
and form. But the
| Roman Catholics, Notwithstanding these
bright examples thus set by other relig-
ious denominations, have deemed and
| declared it O part of their religion, or rather
of their politics, to Keep up q connection aOith
q 1caOer t19ld authority spiritual and tempo
raj over four thousand miles from this citV OF
| Cincinnati, q potCeT and authority on the
banks Of If5eT-GD1td the ruins OF iJlp eTi0L
Rome; where their God IS NOT THE AL
| MIGHTY GOD OF HEAVEN-Or their heaven,
that blue, arched canopy, studded with
stars above, but q he0Ue9g Of theis. oaDn
amid the pictures and Statuary Of
| the Vatican, G0lleTe some man. mere man.
| The SELF-STYLED and SELF CONSTITUTED
Vice0erent Of The God Of Heaven, as II the
successor Of The PAGAE JUPITER, rolls out
thunder from his Olympus, 091l1I hoarever IN
| pdpeT-lBlGlLS and hIc0ngnatC9licQtioas. 1Iyoud
applause ] The head of the Roman Church
is thus not here, in the United States of
America, but afar off on the banks of the
T1ber. Its power. Its authority, its dignf-
| ty, its Representatives of God on earth, TO USE
ITS OWN uLPIops ASSERTION, Is not here,
but In that distant imperial Rome.
We think these extracts will be
quite sufficient to satisfy even the
doubling and denying Voorhees,.
They leave Mr.. Brooks no refuge or
loop-hole of escape.