The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-09-02

tioual partes-have guaranteed, and indee
secured the RELIGIOUS LIBERTY Or TIL
CITIZEN
And now We have come to the claims of III,
! NEW PARTY. Whatever the mad ess, ntoler-
ace, Jolly blindness of certain poitica
parti :, may have led them to do in deprivine
the citizens Of their civil liberty and their po-
tiCa ughs and privileges, they never have
interfe ed with Their religious liberty Ev-
ERY MAN, WOMAN and CHILD, from the earliest
days o. the Republic to the present time HAS
BEEN FREE TO WORSHIP GOD ACCORD
ING TO HIS, HER OR ITS OWN CON
SCIENCE. This being an rrefut able fact,
what grounds, or what right has any BODY OF
men 70 organize party on the basis of CIVIL
AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. Let any man who
10 4b.s that the greatest amount of religions
Iteration exists herein fact that it is uhlim
I ed aud uurestucte let him look at the
/ thousand and one sects with their pecuI; ar
modes of worship and strange and mystifed
doe rines rom the Roman Catholic through
the whole catalogue of creeds, even to the doc
trines Of Coutucius, and ne convinced.
| But it is not that more federation in re-
lisious matters is wanted, nor that the civil
ami religious liberty Of the citizen is endan-
gered by existing parties. Every effect can
o. traced to its cause. But il not unfreuuentlv
. e.
and the cause.-the real cause-is kept out Of
sight, and the pretext set forth IN order 10 de-
celve and entrap the unwary.
May not this new patty movement be an at
temp t. reOrganize the American or Know
Nothing party? We have shown that there
can be no necessity for a " civil and religious"
patty il this Republic 1t would, indeed, be
work of SupererOgation.
All who have observed the workings of
political parties for the last ten or fifteen wears
must remember whar a miserable failure was
tHe Known JtEing party, when az the very
moment i was thought the political power Of
the Republic was in their grasp, possessing the
cover memorial chars of three iorths Of the
States, and almost the Presidential chair
they Tell TO a mere minority in every State in
the Union. Ii - well-known fact that the
le Iuer~ OF the parry attributed their defeat to
excluding the Protestant foreign citizen from
their organization. Bat the elec ion Of Buch-
snan, over all The isus Of the dAy, and the sub
-equsrt litical events made the coalition Of
all the elements Of the opp )sition a virtual
necessity. Hence tn great American party
"is suffered 10 90 into allegiance. However,
IN feeling was st.ll alive, and the desire to
orgaHiza, When / favorable opportunity would
presea SEA. manifest, The imminent dis O.
IltIoa Of the Republican party presents thtt
lzm OF July were merely a pretext for an al
ready preconcerted plan Of reorganization of
{ X kuow-Nothing' party. If such was not
the case, whv Inc call flr the council Of
{ 'e Known oth.ng party issued, before the gore
OF the corpses was cold on tue pavement OF
New York city or why was the simultaneous
rislngs throughout the country, if il had not
already been precoucertei plaug The thing
i plain - any reasonable mind to need
further argument The movement here is
failure its move was too apparent. The old
leaders OF the know-Nothing party kept behind
the curtain, and put forward, they supposed,
q u men, who would not be known 70 the com
munIty; but tie plan proved abOrtive They
may perhaps run ticket this TAN, but it, is
doubtful
The friends Of tue labor movement should
oestir themselves everywhere The signs of
the times are that reorgsnz alton of parties /
must Inevitably take place. Let OuI leaders 4
dlguifed position, yielding nothing
70 trucking nor ambitious politicians; holding
1rm 70 the constitution ami tue rights OF the I
States AMI the people under the constitution; /
ienUuncig all military and other usurpa ions, 4
and All innovations, from Whatever quarter they 4
come, upon the constitution, ana the Labor 1
party, ere another decade passes round ~ill be .
a power II the land.
The leLdl : parties are aecesssrs to the .
proper administration OF any governments; but 4
0f these We will speak IN our next.
la trade matters there l. nothing o. special \
interest To notice, and other affairs are about .
a. usuu-Yours, &C., VkRIrAs y