Fort Wayne Times, The (Newspaper) - May 17, 1855, Fort Wayne, Indiana BY JOHN W FEARLESSLY TO ADVOCATE AND DEPEND TRUTH AND REPREHEND ERROR VOLUME 15 FOET TIMES tors aro not allowed to enter there at any time hon l Hie presence of tho FORT WAYNE INDIANA THURSDAY MORNING MAY 17 1855 PER YEAR the priests in regard to their br staging Souls Not judge a man from Who shill know him by his Paupers may be princes Princes fit for something less Crumpled shirt and dirty jacket May beclothe the golden ore Of the deepest thoughts and Satin Tests do no more I here are springs of crystal nectar out of stone rhere are purple beds and golden Hidden crushed and overgrown who counts hy not dresses Loves and prospers you and me While he values thrones the highest But iu the sea Man upraised above his fellows Oft forgets Ais fellows then I hat your meanest are Men by labor men by feeling Men by though and men by fame Claiming equal rights to sunshine In a man's ennobling name There are foam embroidered oceans are litlle rills There are litlle inch-high saplings ate cedars on the hills But God who counts by souls not sations and prospers you ond me for to Him all vain distinctions Are as pebbles in the sea Toiling hands alone are builders Of a nation's wealth and fame i Hied laziness is pensioned red and fattened on the same By sweat of others foreheads tp While the poor man's freedom Vainly up his voice But truth and justice are eternal Born with loveliness and wrongs shall never prosper Where is a sunny right Anu jod whose voice is Boundless love to you anil me Will sink oppression with ils As the pebbles of the sea Miss the Escapee Nun Wo have elated thot Wise iho lady who effected her from iho Convent at had sued certain publishers In INew lork who had according lo hor allocation obtained M S of her forthcoming Thu action ia fur an injunction re- defendants Messrs Ik Dav from work and its trial i sot down for to-day in the United York oily The iha iho from Mis agent and lhat he alone is re- sponsible lo her The is aid by the N Y Herald to bo an extract from Iho book ia entitled My Book or Iho Veil At our female readers aro to seo what Miss will say in My wo give the not vouching for its truth or Honing t voracity Ii i our course lo publish whatever i of whether il i from by will of ni GavsKi Hughe Senator Book or Mii Bunkley and our readers must mako i their own Wo shall take pleasure in pu any reply may bo mode siu an il al our of vow o Jealousy I taid at tho conclusion of tho last chapter that condemn and religious of tr nature are favorable to neither moral no bodily As regard their In Uuenoe on tho physical frame there can ho m doubl a I have satisfactorily shown ond it ii nol denied even by Kioto in up bo ding them The Mother r of St Jos ii in her remarkable letter did not 0110111111 to controvert thia the thai it iho ul ihc pious and to the had in and iu the left Bin iho fact is that most of in community arise from the ted and laborious servile and nature by aro lormod exorcises the fatiguing forms and altitudes in which nro more lo torture than to and worship If and a results of been tho only against which I had to contend I mighi havo boon an in- male of St unwilling one Iy aa I was convinced of lliu t had still they would not have proved sufficiently in ing me lo venture ol an 10 from II wall 1 call il a a failure to accomplish my object would have been attended with consequences even now I lo contemplate ond nn trifling could have prompted an detection of would havo exposed me to fearful punishments Bul oilier iho -nd I endured forced mo lo make iho irii of escape from a tho of whie loomed with danger and Tail part of my subject I approach doub and diffidence and wilh fooling can fully Yet o Ibe of motives anil convinced that ih public havo a right to know ihu nnd causes influenced my th samo lime conscious ihal ii is duo lo myself on friends lo declare shall endeavor to dis this wilh truth and oan dor or sent with a Bul enough passes without to sorrow and disgust It will bo recollected that I mentioned thro vows required to bo observed by tho Charily m common wilh nuns attached to a Chastity and Ob dionee Tho of tho first of then is plain the to the religious establishments with tho it they should possess any of iho members ol th community as it ia more likely they would do nata it lo to they aro at than dispose of it any other prevented by their vow from them solve even if it was nol as is iho case a tho disposal of the Father Superior when tin the habit Of in until they become pitiable or willing vie lims to black and bo Of tho other two obligations some necessary nnd the peculiar ideas ted b each and anoe will prove novel and startling t the denizens of the world with out to whom Jesuitical casuistry and are unknown studios A religous is bound by her rule no to touch the hand of a man not even of or brother confessor or any marl tho should one of the last class especially a priest of St Lozare take her hand with whatever intention she must no withdraw it Her vow of obedience has macy over all a sister is required by her vow of tity not to look a man in the face not to raise hor eyes when to or by tho Father superior hor Confessor or any other priest nor to permit hor thoughts to dwell upon an individual of the other sex If she break this for thought will sometimes especially with regard to a priest is commanded by tho rules to acquaint him and tho superior with faull and a change of place mark tho distinction again her tho Superior or any order hor to think of thorn favorably is commendable in so doing for she proves herself obedient r 1 would here solicit iho earnest attention of tho candid and honest to the diabolical craft and hero displayed If a girl is thought betrayed into au infraction of the rules just mentioned and discloses hor error as required the priest BO informed can cither take advantage of her confession or not as ho may feel of ul ho sister may imos policy may tt horror of the for tho auk a of his own especially if ho entertains an sion for the penitent or rany deem her u table subject for his schemes On iho other linnd should their own ovil them lo plan tno of a sislor how advantage by great an they possess for its accomplishment y this doctrine of passive and meritorious To be plain tho matter amounts to sisters aro that their vow of is the expressed will of My recollections of my noviciate at St eph's will always bo associated with contempt nnd nf those men who uso ad- vantages and position for the basest poses and with thankfulness for my escape from their insidious snares It was a contemplation of tho peril to which I was exposed that first suggested the idea of escape at oil hazards from the institution I could have born toil privation and bodily ill-treatment as the consequences of my own rashness and impetuosity of feeling but tho future woro too dark and an for me to resign myself with quietness to risk its It was not more suspicion vague ture or a falso interpretation ol signs incidents or language that induced my determination though the conversations and actions of ual members of the community tho secret teries of tho confessional and other ces which I have not related because I cannot spook with sufficient knowledge of woro ample evidence to my own judgment of ho alarming position I yet as it by interested in the ruth that my mental vision was distorted and nv prejudices too strong to admit of a calm dis- passionate rational deduction from what I saw md hoard I feel most compelled foreseeing objections to state an incident oncoming which there can bo no ion r A priest who had boon engaged in exorcising is pastoral functions at St Joseph's was about o leave iho institution and as is customary the niters were required lo enter the room where ho as stationed and ask a blessing at bis hands to his departure When my turn wont in with downcast eyes and clasped hands s is enjoined and knolt to receive tho expected But instead of tho pressure of his and upon my hoad I fell the impression of o.ltiss pon my forehead and confused by a lutation so unexpected nnd inappropriate I to my foot and ejaculated almost un- NUMBER 37 opposed to So far as it is in tho power yon is incompatible with Protestant American ism In conclusion wo would again th po principles upon which we stand W behove and wo American par in favor of having American and tant sentiment prevail in this it i ind Infidelity government to ar rango these matters by law to accomplish those ends it is pledged to do wo go with them aro for restricting the laws of so as to mako it that a man shall be hero years before ho shall vote and become a citizen which are to be applied to all who como hero after passage that when a man is made a voter and a citizen ho shall bo eligible to any office that is not interdicted by ho Constitution like that of President or Vice resident of tho United States In a word ho hall bo a citizen as and very proper shall bo taken to intelligence possible to boar pen iho Those are in brief our pen iho Iho words Oh Bul bo- iro I could recover my composure my rist with his left hand and encircling my waist nh Ins right arm ho drew mo towards UNI and o kiss on my face before I was to rake from his embrace Yel I was from prudent fear of Iho consequence bo silent respecting this insulting treatment Vhal could I ond prol the Superior God and exercising over thorn no i can bo imputed to them because Ihoy aro right hy preserving inviolate lliu vow of obedience As the result of those pernicious and a lamented of 1 grieve lo my existed among a portion of Iho community It wa some lime so little suspicion of iho truth was entertained before I understood of iho Whon iho light dawned I upon or appreciated iho Ing around mo my mind il accompanied of which paralyzed rau for the almost doubled the of my wiln iho reaction was formed Iho lullon lo escape al all hazards only hastened lo its execution by subsequent events And hero lot ino add again for I would not bo stood thot 1 do nol moon include iho sisterhood in sweeping of immorality fur from ill Many aro pure in and sincere lu their to servo nnd ill founded they mav bu ly would ho glad to he free from bonds and ike a liberated bird sing carols ot release lul us I aid before ore wilh their lot and no inducement would bo suf lor departure il moral duly and from righl are ihu of ihu and tho errors of tho are justly lo tho and who such As might bo expected on extensive of prevails within ihc walls of it nol only n regards iho superior who dispenses Indulgences ond iw among on whom she oan rely or whom ho lo to but with o iho and of the com- Jealousy also exercises a nco among iho sisterhood It is raro sight o witness tho of a beautiful Kirl con- mid distorted with passion uhen sho es a rival who for o iu iho triumph but deluded victim lo whom should I for If I had complained lo o Mistress of Novices or lo iho Mother or of tho insolent outrage to which I hod been I should have been denounced as a aso calumniator of iho Holy and hcd for the offence and but will mention Ibis suspicion if suspicion ii wore e of which Ihon filled my mind with forebodings and now causes mo lo udder al ils remembrance lie und Personal American Tho in Ibis oily says iho oppose Iho American parly in- stead of the thai them Ko 11 n and which only nnd nothing which tokos ofa principle The Commercial which it tho most venomous nnd deadly il lends lo bo especially independent of porty has much to say in regard to iho of the men win are connected wilh iho papers of hit city which American or iho in Unit paper bo Irue or folso vo do uol lo decide wo however they aro false Tho of iho Times says he was born iu The ol Iho Columbian wo know lo have boon born in this country Tho was horn in Scotland but ho has lived hero all his life wilh iho liua of less Ihon a havo denied and lo Iho of our Wo ore proud of it sprang from a though it numbers fewer ihon Iho of Now York has ils full of men ihu world wilh and havo sealed wilh devotion to iho principles of civil oad b from lie Londun Times G The of Know Nothings The history of the formation the ment and the decline of political parties gests one of ihu most curious and obscure problems iu the annals of free States Who shall say to what cause we are to attribute that wave of opinion which like the tides circling round the globe rises swells and at last breaks upon the for an idea somtimes for a leader often by accident more rarely by un- der the influence of religious there for the cause of political independence one time for the overthrow at another for the maintenance of existing are inseparable from conditions of life they are perpetuated by tion they are guarded by honor and they arc roofed in human Yet it to say where that power originates which exercises so constant a control over the ions and actions of mankind ties are themselves for the most part scious of the source of the impulse they obey and they are more habitually occupied by the excitement of contest than by the im- portance of its result If these remarks apply lo tho parties of our own country where all such distinctions aro of and retain a traditional character they are much more applicable lo the condition of the United States where the growth and fluctuation of parties are more sudden spontaneous and led The institution of that country put up lo election evry fourth year not only tho edent of United Slates but the whole patronage of the of the party is therefore a constant occupation of the American citizen because lie knows success in party management places at his control the of one of not stop here They observe that a very portion of the annual immigration be- longs to the church of body re- with distrust by the greater number of the people professing at least i moral to a foreign and absolute I ower anu organized in a peculiar manner or the promotion of Roman Catholic objects at the expense of those very liberties which persons exercise and enjoy American party therefore proclaims that it akes Us stand against the political action of Catholic Church in S not jom intolerance of the doctrines of that aith but from a conviction that the tendency f that church is to embody its adherents in party the objects of which are at variance vith the institutions and national of the American people declarations are to a great extent m the history of the U S Hitherto facilities and encouragement havo icon held out to immigration and the al in the community have professed absolute to the religious faith of members Experience seems to have convinced at least one considerable section of the American community that these privileges cannot always be as liberally con- ceded as they have hitherto been and it is obvious that the principles of this new party are mainly directed against the ry increase of the Irish element the American population both as aliens and as On other topics the manifesto pre- serves n discreet and significant silence because although the Know are cordilly united on some points that union quiet and reserved st takon if she is nol gifted with does not extend fo all Thus the vital tion of Slavery is left unnoticed because in Massachusetts for instance the Know ings have declared for emancipation while in other Status the support of the Fugitive Slave Law Again the annexation of Cuba and territories is not alluded to be- cause every extension of territory inhabited by men of Spanish race and the Roman Catholic faith to weaken the al American character of the Union If are the established principles o the Know Nothing party we cannot but re them with considerable sympathy W have ever watched with sincere progress of the U S as long a directed to those legitimate objects it I entered tho institution of St Joseph's undo the complacent impression and implicit belie that among iho Sisters of 1 should find entire an unselfish pure nbn to service of iho Almighty I had heard and rood so much of pious life lo iho tend sick anc console iho dying I entertained tha mosi idea of Christian perfection Tho time loo I remained at iho as a with tho assurances of Iho Superior the favorable oiled on my mind and I a mamber of iho under the mosi propitious to view Mn in tho friendly I was ily The rose color lint In which th sisterhood had appeared to my eager glance Cave place to tho sombre whon I was en- to see things aright My anticipations were unrealized my feelings shocked and inv enthusiasm from fever heal down to zero Although many woro perfectly sincere ond con- in tho of devotions and discharge of yol among so prevailed as lo oite contempt and pity I allude especially to respect paid to and image which the church nays they aro only direct iho mind to a of the originals were here in a S Of In f sometimes great estimation No DBA it without a jowly Boon and hoard it addressed aa a living Many of would approach ji With in of prayer a profound salutation exclaim in bo- for me or aro more leniency and lead a more easy 10 novices Many of those ad- their own rooms where by Iho younger Inmates ond aro it compelled to attend strictly lo all tho services In the community 10 anger and ul her for of priestly desire nnd favor Mio power conferred upon tho reverend era by iho Popish of confession affords to accomplish purposes Tho history of Scotland is a glorious record of on who know their rights who fought to tain them and who never were It is the great of Iho Old groat not from ils numbers bul in the of principles civil and religious There Is ly a square rod of land in all of ho nol boon drenched ion miro with iho bom blood ol Us who fell in defense of civil and freedom There Ihoy havo freo parochial Ihoy hove religious liberty nnd there they will bo maintained In ihc wild Ions ond the fields by hill tide and on the moors Iho persecuted children of iho ant the poor the lowly and tho squire of high gave iho of life's blood lur the was in We hove no cause lo deny iho country of our birth We love it for ils great achievement wo love it for tho great light in overy ond first nations in the world Hence the rapid of which under various uncouth names as candidates for the favor of people of he at the present moment Know Nothings We confess our inability to trace these tions to their origin but even the derivation of the immortal names of Whig and Tory is fanciful and obscure and we arc content to know something of tho principles they arc intended to represent We have read wilh great interest a Stale paper which appears lo bu drawn up with ability and moderation on behalf of the Know Nothings or as they profess lo call themselves the American party in the Uni- ted States This party has already obtained are lo be found tbc tc lories of the Union A less favorable ion of policy and condition has been formed and expressed in whe public opinion in the United Stales was misiei by factious agitators or misdirected o ob incompatible wilh the right of others The strength Union and peace o tho wo Id protected and secured a policy which professes to concentrate the strength of the American people on can objects The language of the new party appears to us lo be patriotic and wise and far more nearly akin lo Ihc of the founders of Commonwealth than the scandalous attempts of the modern to court popularity at the expense of honesty and honor The Know Nothings owe their existence to a reaction against the follies and excesses of meetings of Irish of the Romish priests and of Mr and is it not improbable that il will nol in constituting Government of the United Stales as they have already returned a majority to the new Congress n decisive ascendancy in ihc Northern Stairs of the Union and il is extremely probable that it will successor of But the principle on which the ty is formed is of far greater than any personal consequences it may produce for this principle may lead to permanent re- sults in tho policy of Union The American party places in to the rival claims of the old leaders and it boasts that its organization has been completed entirely without The object of its founders lias been to pre- serve their design from the of oilier until they could rely on own served as an expiation for some of I of and to which i1 hos given and lo Waterloo from India lo Iho Crimea children havo proved ihoy were a bravo and race The of has a renown uol loss than us hut name its Seo and Burns its Brougham ond Macaulay ils an and Heed its Ferguson ond Tannihill i und Wilson Us Chalmers ond ils Bloi to show Seolland is nol ia ony t departments of philosophy and elements of Scottish charade are u protestantism ond nationality and wo be thai characteristics ore carried lo an importance is given lo a and ual at Iho confessional which may bo truly called Iho of iho solf aut only ol God in whose sload ho on oanh to tho suppliant slavos him no deals from Iho anathema of church lo iho and dispenses his absolution lo ami sub- missive and iho penance lo bo strength and for they state ol HARTFORD Thursday Mcy 3 of Stale this lod Win T Minor American for Governor for the year Tho vote was as follows Minor 177 Ingham Dem 70 Tho Officers woro also elected Tho Governor de- u Just Aliss Nightingale in appearance is you would iu well-bred who may have neon more thirty yours of life her manner ond counten anoo aro Ibis without the session of beauty il is a face not ly forgotten in in smile wilh an eye greal self-possession and when she wishes a look of firm get erol demeanor is till I am much very sense of the ridiculous In conversation n matters of business a grave one would not hor appearance Shu hoe evidently a mind disciplined lo restrain un- der the principles of iho of ery feeling which would interfere with it Sho has lo command and tho value of lowards and over herself 1 can conceive hor lo bo a strict disciplinarian sho throws into o work as ils the knows well how much success must depend upon ence lo order She seems lo understand business though me sho had lie common lo many too great love of management in iho imall details had betler perhaps been left to Her nerve is wonderful I havo been with hor at very severe operations sho was more than equal lo iho Irial Slw has an uller disregard of con- ingion I have known hor lo spend hours men dying with cholera or fever Tho tul lo sense any particular case especially if u was ihal ol a dying man her slight form would bo soon bending him administering to his case in every way in her power and dom quitting his side lill released him I havo hoard ond road wilh indignation tho remarks hazarded upon her religious character I myself lo bo in word and lion a Chrislian I thought It would havo been iu my opinion iho most el impertinence to scrutinize her words and lo discover lo which of iho many bodies of Irue Christians sho belonged I hove conversed with wilh her several limos on iho deaths of those whom I had iho hospitals with whom she bad boon when died 1 nov cr heard one word from hor lips ihal would nol have been what I should have expected from Iho lips of whom I havo known lo bo Iho of cur cammon Hor work lo answer for her bul In time II houses of I of money by him st hod intended to burn Ibe II ua Do.-id that ho and Margaret Anderson his to rob his father Jesse upon whose evidence an indictment was found al ihu lusl Circuit Court against Iwo The tng was administered confession when le refused to disclose the names of bis ates Tho of lynch law produced ho effect is an lo evidently id if ho a who can stand and lashes without dying can't e killed by anything less a forty shol or u will in all be with a The defense of the Regulator wa by lion i G Dunn A B Carlton and S Cincinnati Gazettes Slmll America The quoted is now the of much com- ment I do not propose to deal wilh words of the quotation but wilh which in my humble judgment shadow forth to any calm reflecting mind sentiment is national in its character and docs not address to the partizan of al least none should daro lo call that question in to such work on grounds BO weak and as I have urged Thai she has been equally kind and attentive to men of every creed thai she would lliu and give water lo a dying luro who might own no creed 1 no all lo her Hint she doea fuel ihal hers ia ihu mil iho Pharisee's work If hero it a blumo in fur a Catholic to attend a dying Romanist lot ino share il wilh hor I did il again and livers his his Seated in iho ho is empowered in posilou lo prononnco queries which from the lips of would bo deemed in- sults Kneeling there tho young maiden on- swera lo every eoling of and lays boro before Iho of her director secret thought overy every impulse of her y How easy then for an con- stealthily to infuse inio iho innocent ond rusting hourt whoso opens lo his coll iho erms of new thoughts whos growth cherished by his daily core will soon with an impure Mid diseased vegetation of feelings and f any mistrust show itself ony reluctance ho lo answer those artfully disposed in- uines iho objector is soon quieted by tho noo thai It is iho duty of hor confessor for her s he ia the medium of her ond he couples Iho place of iho Almighty in reference wherever tho exiles from thai havo as iho Commercial would nd in favor of iho on as promulgated b solf declared organs Wo ar o her spiritual and requirements and musl e so regarded if she wishes lo avoid i 7 limn 10 ily fins boon and directed by intentions in his assumed power ond If Iho confessional can bo tho source of oils ond demoralizing influence on the youthful mind and a 10 wicked iho world will cosily bo conceived that in a religious community whoso aro secluded from observation and entrusted bodily and lo iho of priests its sway musi be moro controlling its power greater Shut up and or communication wilh parents ro- and friends and requiring by tho law of sinuate wo havo gnu lire Know creed of its self declared strongly and uncompromisingly in favor of hav ing a American in this All our in Iho and all our hope in tho future look to ibis end Wo know no oil or country but this wo owo to or iho blood which flows in our veins ha been shed on the soil of Saratoga defence o American liberty in war of the revolution Our eyes first know Uial here was on anc ond sky as lar as our recollection goes book from having soon thorn on this continent Wo hav said one word in justification of o narrow or platform on which ony par Iy should or ought 10 eland Wo havo advocated and wo now advocate tho nationalism of ca It is a great and glorious land ours lo and beautify ours to defend from outward aggression ours to love whon inward strife weakens iho bonds which make us a notion Wo would have America os national and as or Franco Wo do nol ihu u is the hand wo it is men to take part in our elections un- til iho havo been horo sufficiently long to under- stand fully our theory of government public men nnd in truth wedded and knitted to Iho toil Tho American parly havu Ibis grand at iho huso of their organization and upon that wo stand nnd over havo stood Wo go therefore for a change in our naturalization Jaws shall make moro the boon of and loss Iho ad of- A Republican Government to bo permanent musl havo as ils shady intelligence tue and Protestantism It exist if il rondor iho guidance of ils voters lo a foreign or sovereign Tho oath which wo tho other doy as taken hy tho newly enough that organization is more or less secret in and almost gether secret in the source from which it derives its counsel and Yet in spite of this mystery which would seem so little adapted to Ihc political habits of ihc United Slates the party has unquestionably gained ground with singular rapidity It must therefore represent an opinion shared by of the American people Its main object is declared lo be to reassert the original purpose of the Union to revive the national the country to crush those I 1 1 1 f party wanar into a mere struggle for the power of dispen sing patronage and all to resist tin increase of foreign influence in the States This last motive is more especially the pc immediate object of the Know No thing party They state that not much less than half a milion strangers are driven an- by poverty or misrule to swell the population United States and that though this acquisition of labor is in some useful to the community yet that of the Governor won this Ho Ihal iho proposed amendment lo the the right of lo colored persons and ing persons to bp able lo rood ond before being admitted as allowed to gu lo Iho people recommends on appropriation in aid of Iho Agricultural Society Ihu income of iho School Fund the posi has been making n dividend of f I for pool scholar ond it is Iho duly of the lo education it every Those walked Ihal field of had loo many profiling calls on every energy which he enlisted lu liio stop question the of the It was not Iho least frightful if many of that awful scone thai for active ical heln did Hidly with Iho aid would have been given in higher tors Wo all did what we could in both Uu this was n hospital Miss Nightingale nnd stun wore nurses cooks purveyors they wen nut they could nol be bul in a very minor de rue Although to the lust 1 my fulf gladly nt praying vith or reading lo any dying man I was soon lo give up devilling myself lo work or I fell ihal this bu done by others there vua a daily increasing demand upon mo in some important which few my oil Iron could havo I do mil think it is possible lu the al of work ins dune nnd id by the more f field nnd tin horrible Every day new ul ID bu unravelled by Iho ruling in lower Kuch day hud ils peculiar Irial lo one who had taken Mich a load of in an field and wilh her own fox nil new to il Hers requiring the courage of a was a ill lad and of a iho of a Howard tho cheerful philanthropy ul u Mrs Fry or a Aliss Miss Nightingale yet fills that post and in my opinion is tho rau individual who in whole unhappy war has shown more than any whal real guided by good tense can do lu moel if ils tills by ihc lion anJ Un L G The Sort ago wo published nn nf iho of the In Monroe and and expulsion from iho of family in which were these immigrants are ignorant of the tions the laws and even the language of the country and animated by a spirit very ent from that of American I hese persons arc however very speedily invested with the franchise and the right of political This immigration furnishes what may without much exaggeration of phrase be called the distinct estate in our tide is visible in every com- munity It is banded into combinations nore or less apart from our long known and masses of native citizens by tics of by unforgotten and nationalities and by sympathies lien to the spirit alone sustains our temperate and complicated em of freedom Worse than this it has aught the notice stimulated the craft of elfish aspirants and demagogues have too easily found it a plaint resource or party use and who have cajoled d and seduced it into the ranks of partisan rife and thus imparted to it a consequence nd an influence most powerful to aid a erso ambition but utterly powerless to any honest end for which Ibe st prerogatives ol citizenship weic ly designed To ibis we may add that it an undue and almost exclusive in- fluence over the American press that it is United as to recommend it lo general favor and b il crime has lessened poverty and misery alleviated and Iho ur restored Tho in the Treasury ul close of Iho your is at for the Dumb slid for Iho School aro recommended Ho favors such a of tin loin us will facilitate Iho of Ho says that iho banking of the Suite are in a sound and Ihal military will compare favorably with Ho in iho thai Iho people con- of iho ucl organizing iho ol Nebraska and Kansas IIo largely in- to the consideration of pernicious arising from tho and of iho After alluding to large and increasing number now annually coming among us the Governor This large mas of of wilh soda infidelity of continental Europe very many of them blind followers of on ecclesiastical isui a largo of wilhout correct of the duties appertaining to citizens of n republican Government and by prejudices toully unDt lo loam in language national ond feelings and scattered over tenacity holding on to they havo human instinct sympathy and direction th ted Catholic of is oil the QI and observing customs and from among os appears from iho of erimo and in tho in Union a majority of iho inmates of prisons and whon those tilings aro considered and in addition tho fact Ihal our taxas ore increased for Iho support of our foreign lhat in instances iho of iho Old World have been emptied thrown open anc tho inmates trans- by iho our wise fur onr safely as a nation requires legislation with to foreign im- After considering iho and of foreigners Iho Governor But as of policy with tho privilege of citizenship to ba conferred tho we havo the right to inquire how for tho duo from iho of iho Romish Church is compatible with tho allegiance duo lo their od if wo find that combinations for political aution composed of members of Church throwing entire vote one way or tho other as tho wishes and fooling and in- of those controlling may and ther if wo find thai aro but in the hand of demagogues eithe native-born or thrown upon our shores by th revolutionary of Europe then by the c found why a longer should be before the alien can be naturalized Iho Message with a of the power Of the over v rl ta of n as wo seo by Iho letter by way one of iho bosl in iho Slalo if it is an old bul thirty of them were upon trial lur riot fur in und acquitted There were several ol tho one which inul u Iho was bused was the Kully Quick in which house uf was lorn down and uno Wiley Duvar very considerably whaled is made a wilness and his is north After as lo Iho identify of with on ihal ho whal was done himself Horo u Journal of iho men had coals wrong lido somo had facos blacked 1 wilh hod faces moro ed tho others They lied ma will a hemp rope to tree and whipped me piece of iho rope now which ihoy left there In ihu place lied mo ed my brooches down o my fuut ihen somo of thon said lako his which was done then they lucked my shirt up under my collar then commenced whipping me lied mo lo a big sugar 1 how lung ihoy whipped mo They counted il selves anil bundled ond would do very well hundred and whoi culled sir effect did Ihal havo upon you? sir il nearly killed me tho was by tho neys for the Klato to draw liis nnd He did so saying ho wasn't for anybody lo see his back if they were hiuo men inoti you can look al il us much as you und what ii uicc net of Horo suid ho seo anything to laugh ai he euro od They whipped mo till I was rendered ble I was nut sensible of a portion of I hi lust stripes I got there Something near half of remained with mo when tho wenttotnar house down This not far from of October last in this county This was sovero hundred und would kill a man of ordinary Wiloy scores lo hove part of it although not at Iho hands of a mob The Netes Letter explains iho cause of this Par political creed This sentiment springs legitimately from great idea which at the basis of American tions What is the great idea which forms ho basis of the American It is founded im a The best jurists of our tty admit that our institutions are based Christianity But what kind of It must be some kind of Christianity impossible for a nation lo be a Chrislian tion kind of Christianity are three kinds of Christianity in the the Roman the Greek and the They aro all antagonistic with each other and irreconcilable with each in mental principles and cannot in the same institutions Is ours the Greek No Is ours the Because our Christianity is based upon the right of private individual judgment Thin principle is denied by the Roman Christianity and the great principle of ils faith is the de- nial of it Is ours a Protestant Let us see of our were Protestant The right of vate individual judgment is the fundamental principle of and is the basis upon which is reared whole superstructure of a Christianity But till of our civil tions are based upon the same principle of right of private judgment Our tions Stale nnd National the of rights the trial by jury in short our republicanism itself is based on the right of private judgment und the principle is tie of our national enterprise knows and acknowledged throughout the world and consequently the basis of our national wealth prosperity aud happiness We hare abundant our bond in the world at large to fortify this truth Free tions law and order national comfort and national enterprise and y are throughout he world Look at the Roman Italy in chains poverty Spain in dation Ireland starving Russia steeped in and slavery France atheistic and u gilded fetters Brazil in ignorance Mexico and Peru in anarchy and Canada inert Look here at a Protestant Christianity Scotland free and happy England rich and prosperous and free Protestant of Germany Switzerland nnd tha Protestant counties ol Ireland inteligent and prosperous and Holland wealthy intelligent Look ut Mexico and Ihc South American Republics seems lo be synonymous wilh anarchy and misrule to adhere to Iho World ns monarchy docs lo the old But same law prevails here ns in And you are compelled to look to the United Stales Tor a Republic founded on a froteit- nnt in order lo find ism allied wilh law order nnd national enterprise ind happiness you must look for a monarchy founded on a Protestant is tho exception to this general law but she is not under nf a Christianity ihc is infidel in belief A Christianity is therefore tho basis of American And Ihu timent that Americans shall rule is essential for the protection of these ples lhat no principles antagonistic or foreign to this American basis shall be on American institutions that the balh inaugurated in this land by an can Chris innity nol be in- by foreign Atheism that the Public Schools shall not be divorced from the Bible and that the efforts of American laws for the welfare race shall not be thwarted by u foreign force and foreign frages As a general rule all the efforts to destroy this basis of our institutions come Irom source and Irom of for- eign birth Those who are born reared under and laws wilh whoso memories nrc associated the history of our institutions will best them from ganger There is 710 lock if mei m to 1 can therefore see no more injustice in thf adoption of sentiment by people than is to be found in the adoption e any good rule of action The best law ihal was ever framed snd put upon thu Statute Book has worked injustice in somo cases yet these exceptions do nH warran its repeal or abandonment There was IT to the suffrages fo the people an office for which a of birth could not be found fully qualified to fil it Docs it not look like injustice to pass bj the native-born nnd select a When a foreigner is selected in such case it must be because he ts a foreigner nnd American is proscribed on ihc American The man who arraigns for injustice nt the head of this article must likewise arraign the Constitution of U S which proscribes the foreigner for office of President and the Fathers of tie lic who framed it A great domestic question is how before the American people and exacts the most exalted wisdom the largest experience and the truest patriotism which the American mind can command to settle it well and peacefully Already is the foreigner ed lo by the fanatic and his untrained iand invoked to the ark of Americans of i in tho State j I B lest tho baud of I Journal Wo do not propose to justify but only 10 ex- plain the sot Somo persons think thai 343 L Union ba by were loo much It but Is no a ha I should into tbn cred trust last of the Re- drenched with blood and ons Union ba by hind ion ia tho drapery gf
