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CHAPTER XV.
"Guesa I do always did ; and what's more
always will," said he, at the same time, im
pressing a kiss on her check.
''And you'll never be offended at me, nor
angrj- with nie V
"Unless yon turn Christian," s.dd Valdlnus,
as they seated themselves in the arbor.
"Well, dear brother, I must tc-il you the
truth, I am a Christian," said Vertitia, at the
same time throwing her arms around hisneclr.
Valdinui, tore himself from her arms, and
sprung to his feet, and looking angrily in her
face, said;
"Fou a Christiau! you a Christian, too!"
Yes, brother, ly the grace of God, I am"
said Vertitia, miluiy, and looking up with grat
itude, beaming in hereyes.
"You a Christian !" he again exclaimed, as
if amazed beyond measure.
.'Yes; and I hope to see my j.oor dear broth
er on too!' said Vertitia, the tears streaming
from her eyes.
"Guess you'll hope a while for that, not
such a fool as yon think; curse them all;"
sa;t he in a rage, and turning round, hastily
walked (If, leaving Vertitia alone in the arbor.
Poi.r Vertitia! she sat fur some time, and
wept sore. After a while, however, she dried
Tip her te:rs, and hastened to her little cham
ber, and throwing herself npon hei knees at
the side of her couch, poured forth her over
flowing heart in earnest, importunate pra-er
for her brother for the one fcke loved above
t.W others on earth. -
That night, without a farewell, or intimating
i j ?.ny cue his intention, Yaldinr.s left left
father and mctlier, and poor, dear sister
f . r the toils and privations of the camp, and
the hard, perilous life of a common soldier.
The family was now reduced to three mem
ber. excepting little Yare. Fiducia had gone
tj heaven, to walk in white, and sing angel's
s: : cj; Valdiiins, to some distant land, they
kn not where; and Yalens. with his wife and
d - i'.' liter, were left to sorrow and stiller alone.
Hut in the midst of all their trials they were
happy happy tisany human beings could pos
ti:!y be in their circumstances. The father
and mother were overjoyed at the conversion
of their daughter. Though one star had sunk
away from their view, yet another, even more
bastrous it possible, had been sent to bhine in
its itCiid. and throw around them its brilliant
light. And as for their only son, they had ex
perienced already enough of the etlicacy of
the prayer f faith, to encourage and strength
en their hearts. And as to Vertitia, her hours
glided away happily, in administering to the
comfort of her parents and in contemplation
of the coming glor)-.
It must be confessed, however, that Yalens
himself did not feel entirely at ease. How
could he ? Ho had good reason for bcleiving
himself and family were suspected, if not, in
fact, belrayed. For this reason, they uow sel
dom ventured abroad the doors were kept
continually closed, and, to all appearances, the
house looked as if deserted. Even the faith
ful old dog, which had stood guard for years
at the main door or entrance, was unchained,
und provided for elsewhere.
Another thing which added totheir distress,
and began to stare them frightfully in the face,
was icant. Their little stock of provisions
was getting low, and in fact could hardly be
replenished at any price, or from any source.
They economized, however, what little they
had, and cast themselves on that providence
which feedeth the young ravens.
"Ccme, my daughter,"' said Yalens, one
evening, just as the. stars were , hurriedly ta
king their night-watch station, "ecmoJ, IS
take a stroll in the'grounds, jfg so delight
ful, cut-doors,'
Yalens said this, just as they had finished a
hymn in the hall, and while Valencia, in her
bed-ehanii-.r ba4 Leen si ( mtie yarc t
ie"- . .
In a few moments, they were out in the
grounds, arm in arm, pacing along the flowery
-walks, end engaged in alow, earnest conver
sation. It was dark enough to conceal their forms
-irora any eyes ou the adjacent streets, and then
the rank vines that grew in clusters all around
the rude stone-walls seemed to afford a suffi
cient shelter, and thej felt and talked quite at
sase.
"And do you really think, father; the soul
so soon passes into glory, at death;" said Ver
titia, in reply to a remark which her father
had jnst made.
"I do, pehaps Jn the twinkling of an eye,
it is there." .
'How. strange! with what speed It must
y! I can't think of it," wid Vertitia, sudden
1- stopping, and casting her eves a moment up
toward the clear starry skies.
"No, my (laughter; it's a thought onr finite
minds canuot grasp. The movements of mat-
ter are tardy, lor several reasons; but who can
tell with what nowcr of motion a snirit mav
he endowed, and how the soul, released from
iiio body, may overcome, just with a single
leap or bound, any distance, however gre.it."
"Then poor, dear sister was there just at
ouce, even while her boJv was yet in the
flames, her soul was in glory! wasn't it fath
er."
"Yes;" said Yalens, thoughtfully, "I've lit-
tie doubt of ii. The martvr Stephen, of whom
the beloved Paul told us, while his murderers
were in the act of stoning him to death, look
ed up, and saw heaven opened, and Jesus sit
ting at the right hand of God."
'How strange that was, father. It seems he
could see there, and hence the distance can't
be very great, after all. Perhaps, father,
heaven comes down, and catches up, as it were,
the soul."
"Possibly; but more than likely it was a
vision.
"O! father. I dont like every thing to be
visions; I like to think these things, to bc-
leive them, they delight me so."
"Well, well, my daughter, the time may not
be distant when the heavens shall open for us;
at least, let us have ourselves ia readiness."
'It'll be a glorious sight! O! wont it; to
see Jesus, too, seated at God's right hand,"
said Vertitia, in an extacy, and drawing her
father more closely to her side.
"Yes: and no longer the poor, despised man
of sorrows, but the crowned conquering Prince,
with adoring throngs at his feet," said Yalens,
with emotions of joy spread over his features.
They walked on in the shady darkness,
while the bright, star-lit skies, spread cut over
them in unsurpassed loveliness, revealed faint
ly many a modest, blushing flower as they pas
sed along. The w?.1k they were now on, led
toward the north corner of the grounds, where
the wall had partly crumbled down, and where
several clusters of vines grew in the richest
luxuriance. These, at a- distance, looked like
great, black piles or masses, with queer, fan
tastic outlines; and, an imagination, less ac
tive than Vertitia's, might have very easily
converted them into any sort of hideous mon
sters. And as they approached them, once or
twice she had suddenly clasped her father's
arm more tightly, and shrunk in close, to his
side. 'But they walked oil slowly, still con
versing freely as before.
"What a change! so sudden, too; in a
moment in the twinkling of an eye ! I was
Must thinking about it father."
" What, my daughter ?"
"Why, the sudden change; one moment,
on eart'.i the next, in heaven!"
"Yes; it is very great; very glorious, too,"
"Yes that's it; that'3 what I was trying to
think about trying to realize, father."
"It's a blessed thought, my daughter; one
moment on earth, and perhaps in the greatest
bodily anguish and suffering, the next, in
heaven, in unspeakable happiness! How ama-
zing! what a change!" said Yalens, as if half
choaked with the unutterable thought.
"O, father! father! I don't see how I could
eudure it; I think I should frighten at it: still
I'd like to see it."
Scarcely had these words fallen from the
lir s of Vertitia. when two mr,nsffr-bn-ino-
men, sprung from behind a thick, black clus
ter of vines, at their side, and seized them.
Poor Vertitia! she uttered a shriek, and
threw herself full into her father's arms, but
from which, at the sajue instant, she was rude
ly torn.
Yalens gave a sudden, convulsive shudder,
and, throwing up his hands, said in a faint
whisper;
"O ! my poor, dear wife ! my dearest Va
lencia!" But the hands, of strong, cruel, unfeeling
men were upon them, and they were hurried
over the low, crumbling wall, outside of which
two others were standing, and who instantly
joined their companions.
They wove dragged along the dark, tortu-
ous streets at a rapid rate. Yalens himself
was rotishlv, and even insolontlv trp.ited
. CTiI i ia, however, ?een:cd to receive some
little sympathy. Two of the men, one on each
side, with their arms around her slender waist,
supported or rather carried her along. ' Her
feet scarcely touched the earth at all, from
me moment they started. Uer eyes were wild
ly set in her head, while the long wavy folds
of her hair hang in confusion down over her
palj face and shoulders.
In half an hour, they were thrown together
into a low, damp cell or prision about six feet
square, with a sort of lighted lamp in it. The
door being secured, the men immediately
left. -
Valens, after the fiirst shock was over, had
soon became composed; and, as they passed
along the street, had been able to realize ful
ly their situation. He knew that a speedy
death awaited them that there was no possi
bility of escape. Vertitia, however, all the
time, had. been in a state of unconsciousness,
and knew not what had taken place; and, in
this. 8tato, she was laid, or rattier thrown intn
a corner of the cfll by v
tors.
rrne, brotaJ
ai Cap-
j .-.3IHlICA: .Ui-LTIMt.
A large ana enthusiastic meeting oi me
fneu.ls o! "America and Americanism,-' was
ucK in the Lourt House at Llearlield on inurs-
I day evening, the 22d of February, in com-
memoration of the birth of Washington.
riTILIP ANTES was called to the chair, and
Geo. W. Mcri'ht, G. D. Goopfellow, Alf.x.
Adams, ?I. A. Frank, J. II. Jones, and Wm.
A. Bloom, Esqrs., wore elected Yicc Presi
dents. E. S. Dundey and G. W.'Eheem,
Secretaries.
II. B. Swoope, Esq., having been requested
to deliver a lecture, was then called upon, and
addressed the meeting. He was followed by
M. A. Frank, Esq., in a brief and pertinent
address. On motion it was unanimously re
solved that the Lecture of II. B. Swoon:, Esq.,
he published in the papers of the County. On
motion adjourned.
PHILIP ANTES, Pres.
E. S. DcxDY, Esq., ( s .
G. W. Rheem, Jr. S
LECTURE.
Fellow Citizens: In conformity with the
venerable usage of every age, and in discharge
of our grateful duty as a people, we have as
sembled on this, the evening of the anniversa
ry of that day that gave to our Country a de
fender and a Father, to commemorate his glo
rious achievments, and pay our humble tribute
to his unrivalled fame. The leader of the ar
my that achieved our Independence, the mo
ving spirit ol the councils that laid the found
ations of our government our historvisbut
his biography, and our liberty the -unfading pic
ture of his services and virtue. So many are
t!ie great and good actions of his life so nu
merous the sound and impressive maxims of
policy delivered to posterity, that their simple
recital would fiil a folio volume. For these the
student cf history will Turn the archives of our
Country, while it shall be our duty to discuss
the nature of (he institutions of that Country,
of which he has been justly termed th? Father,
and lo consider the political diseases,if any there
be, that are preying upon its national vitality.
The settlement of New England, and the in
stitutions of this countr-, are results of the
Reformation. The act of supremacy in the
reign of Henry YJII. which separated tho En
glish nation from the Roman See, was a simple
vindication of the sovereign franchise of that
monarch against foreign influence, but contain
ed no principle favorable to religious liberty.
All the Roman Catholic doctrines were still as
serted, and the Pope could praise the king for
his orthodoxy, while he excommunicated him
for his disobedience. The Catholic who deni
ed the King's supremacy, and the Protestant
who doubted his creed, were alike consigned
to the fctake. But the accession of Edward VI.
prepared the way for Protestantism. A new
sjiirit of inquiry became active, and not a rite
of the established worship, not a point in
church government passed by without strict
examination. Puritanism, zealous for inde
pendence, admitted no voucher but the Bible,
I t. i i n . i i , , - -
",cu 11 ",JUla lultm euner a ope, aving, nor
Parliament to interpret. They soon trampled
"Pon church and aristocracy, and hurried into
-'x5!c to escape the vindictive grasp of bigotry
arrl intolerance. A handful of these wander-
inS- -missed protestants, imbued with tho
Srcat principles of religious freedom, left the
green shores of their own fair land and sought
out a homo 5" thesB western wilds, thoughout
whose whole extent Art had then reared no
monument, and from whose impenetrable for-
rcsts, civilization shrank back affrighted and
apalled. In the midst ot winter, with no cov-
crinS to shelter them from the bleak winds,
they landed upon our rock-bound coast, having
forsaken all that man holds most dear on earth,
-home, country, kindred, and friends, for
freedom to worship God! With the gigantic
forest, inhabited only by the merciless savage
and the beast of prey, upon the one side, and
the trackless waste of waters, over which they
had been borne from tyranny and oppression,
on tae otner, tue riignm X atiiers lounded
uPon Plymouth Rock the institutions of Aiaer-
ican libcrt' aml conseclated themselves and
tbeir posterity forever to freedom !
As time rolled on these hardy pioneers grew
strong in uumbers as they grew strong in noble
leeds,uutil the American Colonies had swollen
to three millions oi frjeuK-n, conscious that
they owed no allegicnce save to the soil which
they had consecrated to liberty, and to the God
who made them. Their growing prosperity at
length rendered them equally an object of am
bition and of avarice to the countties that had
driven them forth, and they resolved to force
them back into the galling servitude of their
ancestors. The mighty roar of England'slion,
which had disturbed the tranquility of all the
states and dynasties of Europe, re-echoed
across the broad Atlantic, and like tho tur
ing of the giant Enceladus beneath the heav
ing ..'Etna, was felt to the utmust limits of the
world. But the sons of the hardy pioneers,
with "God asd Libebty," for their battle cry
knew that they were invincible, and astonished
Europe beheld a feeble people, without an or
ganized government, destitute of arms, of
ammunition and almost of clothing for her few
rude soldiers, stand forth and defy the mighty
giant to the combat! Deluded despotism soon
relinnniBW -lfi fruities3 task of sUbin?ation.
an
d American independence was
institutions, thus founded I
upon Plymouth Rock by the protestant refu
gees from tyranny and oppression, and defen
ded with the blood of their sons upon the bat
tle fields of the Revolution, with tho open Bi
ble as their chief corner-stoue, have grown up
and spread abroad, from where the Atlantic
leaves our Eastern shore, to where the peace
ful billows of the great Pacific, dash, and break,
and die away. And the sun of heaven never
shone upon a happier land. Here every man
can seat himself beneath"his own vine and his
own fig-tree' and looking around him may
proudly exclaim, "all this is mine. Not a sov
ereign or ruler on the face of God's earth can
molest me in tho possession of a single article
of property here." And when his little infant
climbs upon his knee, and he feels its breath
sweeter than the odor of roses upon his cheek,
how proud must hi the reflection, that it, too,
will grow up with unshackled limbs, aud that
a day may come when that infant prattler will
sway the destinies of one of the mightiest na
tions on the face of the globe! Who can look
down the long vista of coming years and pre
dict the power, the greatness, and the grandeur
which this country will attain, and the happi
ness future generations will enjoy, if we re
main a free and a united people.
But as disease may be preying upon the vi
tals cf the strong brawncy man in the midst of
ail the enjoyments of life,so too the grandeur,
the power, and tho vigor of our nation cannot
protect it from those political maladies that,
quietly, but surely, destroy the germ from
whence it draws the very essence of its being.
These present themselves in two forms the one
of ignorance and indiCl-ronce the other of
direct and open hostility to the fundamental
principles of the government.
The cause of the first is to be found in the
ceaseless tide of emigration pouring upon our
shores-, and the almost immediate incorjora
tion of these strangers and aliens into the pol
itic. Thev come among us not only ignorant
of our history, and unacquainted with our in
stitutions, but imbued with the principles of
monarchical and-lespoticgoverri:iients,imbibed
in their early youth, and olten-times having no
God, no Bible, and no Sabbath. Unable, then,
tq comprehend the grc.nt principles that lie at
tlie foundation of all our institutions, and ut
terly iguorant of the causes that called them
into being, they are wholly uprcpared and un
fit to becomo American citizens. I Would not
be understood as desiring to prevent the op
pressed of other lands from finding an asylum
and a home beneath the broad folds of the Ameri
can flag. God forbid! But while I would freely
open my doors and weleome the poverty strick
en stranger to seat himself at my fireside and
partake of the food provided for my children,
so, also, would I desire to prevent his interfe
rence in the domestic affairs of my household.
Let them come. Let them enjoy all tho unal
ienable blessings of life, liberty, and pursuit of
happiness, but let Americans govern thcirown
country! We hold the doctrine that, other
circumstances being equal, the native born ci
tizen is fairly entitled to the preference, in
the distribution of offices and honors in the
land which gave him birth. In the language
of the illustrious Washington, the anniversary
of whose birth we are now commemorating,
(in a letter to John Quiney Adams, then
American Minister at Berlin,) "it is not the
policy of this government to employ foreigners,
when it can well be avoided, either in the civ
il or military walks of life". There is a spe
cies of self-importance in all foreign officers
that cannot be gratified without doing injustice
to meritorious characters among our own coun
trymen, who conceive, and justly, where there
is no great preponderance of experience and
merit, that Jhey are eutitled to all the offices
in the gift of their government."
Our naturalization laws are most undoubted
ly defective, and are fast making our country
a mart for the discharge of European criminals
aud paupers of every description. The felon
convict, recking from a murder in the Old
World, soon finds here the right of citizenship,
and consequently the annals of crime have in
creased in proportion as the prisons of Europe
have discharged their promiscuous contents
upon our shores. They come among us, and
forgetting they are gnesfcs, demand that onr
country shall yield up its nationality to them
that the stream of its national lif j shall be di
verted from its proper channel merely to grat
ify their peculiar tastes, manners, customs, or
habits. They even go so far as to assume the
airs of natural born citizens, and take upon
themselves the exclusive management of our
affairs! We hold, then, that it is onr duty, in
obedience to the injunctions, of Washington,
to protect our republican institutions, by
guarding against this vast influx of foreigners,
which is utterly imcompatible with the main
tenance of our American nationality.
But another and more dangerous evilisfobe
found in the fact,fhat We have among us a class
of persons openly hostile to the fundamental
principles of our government, who owe alle
giance xCZ foreign power, and who are seek
ing to destroy the gre corner-stone of our na
tional structure, the bible, or tC ?ock UP in
obedience to the decrees infallible of councils,
the commands of a foreign potentae.
I would be tho last to cherish hostlity to any
or sect, on account of their reI$ion and
that men, of every faith apd inspiration are
here at liberty to erect their attars.aitf to pour
Sparke' Washington Paper
out their hearts before the in as the spirit with
in dictates, is the pride, the glory, and the boast
of every American freeman. But when a church
or sect steps beyond its legitimate spher.
wheu it relinquishes the altar for the arena of
politics: when it rudely and lawlessly grasps
the sceptre ol state-then, and not till t'itn.1 pro
test aud wage war against it. The religion of the
individual concerns only himself and his God,
but the policy of a church, or any other organ
ization, acknowledging allegiance to a foreign
power, concerns every true lover of his country.
The history of the Romish church for centu
ries has been but a continued scries of plots,
intrigues.conspiraciesagainstgovernnients.and
aggressions upon the peace of the world. The
Jesuits were deeply implicated in the assassi
nation of Henry III. of France, they attempt
ed the life of Elizabeth of England, concocted
the gun-powder plot, planned the Spanish Ar
mada: instigated the murder of Henry IV. of
France, effected the revocation of the edict
of Nantz, and the consequent persecution of
the Protestants which followed it, one of the
darkest, bloodiest, and most damnable pages
in the world's history, aud were deeply en
gaged in all the miseries and attrocities tLat
lor two centuries desolated Europe. So long
has Jesuitism thus convulsed the Old World,
and of so much war aud bloodshed has it been
the cause, that means have been taken in eve
ry kingdom and principality to prcv.nt its fa
tal influence. America is therefore the only
country in which Rome can now work without
impediment the great stage of papal action,
where Irish Priests, German Monks, Italian
Friars, and Roman Jesuits meet and mingle.to
advance the interests of their 'holy father' the
Pope, and to destroy our religious and civil
libertj- to which, the policy of their church
is, aud ever has been, irimical! This is their
promised land where no con nexion of
church and state exists to stay them
in their onward j'rogress. Here under the
tsanction of religious toleration, they hope to
have full sway: and of all other enemies to a
republic, a political institution, dressed in the
garb of Christianity ,is the mos.t to be feared.
They have already made rapid strides towards
the ascendency, and in fanci-jd strength have
boldly declared that, if dominant, they would
revolutionize our governmer.t,an.l destroy re
ligious freedom. They have oponiy sought to
shut out the Bible the Ms.crna-Ciiarla of
American Liberty, from our youth, and only
await the p-oper time to arise and crush out
that very liberty, uuder which they have been
permitted to prosper.
It is no idle charge that the policy of the
Romish church is inimical to liberty of con
science. In all the productions of her school
men, in all the decrees of her infallible coun
cils in all the bulls of her popes, in all that
her doctors, cardinals, bishops and priests
have said or written, she cl aiuisto be the uni
versal dictator to the consciences of men,
and denounces religious toleration, and free
dom of the press. In the encyclical letter,
or inaugural address, of Pope Gregory XVI,
liberty of conscience is stigmatised as a "pes
tilential error," and freedom of the press spo
ken of, as "never sufliciently to be execrated
and detested!" Now when we reflect that
every wave that breaks upon our Atlantic
coast bears upon its bosom, some of those who
arc sworn to obey the mandates of the infalli
ble head of that church who are trained from
their earliest youth in the schools of persecu
tion, and who are taught that "the union of
Church and State is dreaded only by tho pro
fane lovers of . liberty" and. that religious
toleration is "a pestilential error," when we
reflect that these hordes from the Fapal States
of Europe are "seeking to engross the educa
tion of the country," is there not some ground
to apprehend danger to our republican insti
tutions ? Is there nothing to fear from a band
of cunning, sneaking, intriguciug and immor
al Jcsuitcs, serving under the banner of a for
eign potentate, and not under tho Stars and
Stripes of the Union ? A band whose history
is but a bloody catalogue of court intrigues,
and bloody revolution?; of unholy schemes
and midnight assassinations ! Nothing to fear
when we behold th-a' bible, tha chief corner
stone of our national structur?, shut out by
the hand of authority from our youth, because
it is not to be read without the interpretation
when our Common Schools are publicly de
nounced as "brothels," "pits of destruction,'?,
"pest houses," and "felon manufacturics," by
church dignitaries under an oath of allegiance
to a foreign power ? And whence comes this
opposition to our system of pupular educa
tion ? Go mark the attempts of Jesuitism in
Europe to "grasp the portfolio of popular in
struction, so as to have all the educational es
tablishments under papal control," and then
tell me, if they could accomplish this design
in our land, how long they would be in sub
verting our institutions, by training up our
youth to become opposers of the laws, ene
mies ta religious freedom, and rebels 4o the
State 7 It is with this object in view that they
seek a division of the school fund. By it
they would obtain sectarian legislation and
open tip away for Roman Catholic recognition
on our statute books they would extend their
facilities for drawing ia Protestant chileren to
obtain a Roman Catholic education, -their
schools would be sustained by protestant tax
ation, and fostered by government patronage ;
they would increase among us their papal
forces, and they would accomplish indirectly
what they have so long sought in vaiu,thc ex
clusion of the Bible from the school roomy
and thus prevent a larger portion of our youth
from obtaining that education essetti.il to a
full understanding of our American institu
tions. - Is there an American in this broad
land would accede to such propositions ? If 1
thought so, I could never more hold up my
head in pride of my native soil, but on my
bended knees I would go down before the ge
nius of Freedom, and pray him to strike the
foul libel from our otherwise fair escutcheon,
and swear by Him who called this bright land
info being, that no traitor hand should ever
write it there aain ! Did the sons of tho
Pilgrim Fathers dare to grant such requests,
old "Plymouth rock would speak, and the bat
tle fields of the Revolution give back their
blood!" ' .' ;
During tho reign of Henry III, England was
infested with Catholic prelates, alein by Lirth,
alein by language, and alein by feeling, who
sought to undermine the fundamental princi
ples of her Constitution. . They wished to
substitute the Cannon for tho Common law, and
never hesitated to express their abhorrence of
the laws of England, when thvy were quoted
in opposition to their oppressions, saying
"what did the laws of England signify to them,
they minded them not."?. Their insidcous and
frequent attempts to accomplish their design,
at length drew from the Parliament atMerton
that memorible response, which has come
down to us through a period of nearly six cen
turies .V::tsa leges .Inglia viuiare' s
WILL NT CHANGE THE LAWS OF ENGLAND.
The time ha3 come lr the Legislators of
America not to say "'we will not change tho
laws," but to ''change" them, m such a man
ner as to prevent the meddlesome-interference
of these strangers and alcins in the affairs of
our government, and to protect our republican
institutions. And the time has come for
American freeman to resolve that their liber
ties shall not be jeopardized, and their institu
tions endangered by those acknowledging al
legiance to a foreign power, and obeying tho
commands of a foreign pontiff.
The open and undisguised attacks that have
been made upon our republican system, aud
the facility with which the Roman Catholic
vote has always been wheeled into line by that
old political party which paid the highest
price, or bv.'st subserved its anti-republican de
signs, have already called iuto existence a
powerful organization, for the To'ectioi of
our American institutions, and- the preserva
tion of our religious freedom. .We have no
sympathy for secret political action,. believing
it under ordinary circumstances, Lighly inju
dicious and dangerous in its tendencies; but
when we reflect that all the open opposition
of which Protestantism has beon cspable for
centuries, has failed to stay the onward march
of Jesuitism, that it works in secret, thus
easily learning the desigDs of its adversaries,
and a3 easily counteracting them, we- are ir
resistably led to the conclusion that, to battle
successfully, we must r.se its own weapons.
. Embodying great principles, pregnant with
the future destiny of our country this Amer
ican Organization has grown up and spread
aoroa 1 with almost fabulous rapidity, having
already administered a severe- rebuke to the
alien enemies of our Country, and. is still
marching on from victory to victory. Nor is
it simply a meteor, destined to flash for a
moment in the political sky, and then to sink
beneath the horizon, in eternal darkness, leav
ing no trace of its visit. It . is more than a
mere thought more than a simple abstraction.
It is the living, breathing, energized action of
those, who are lookiug alone to the pcrmenan
cy, the grandeur, and the welfare of America,
disconnected with factions at home, or
phantoms abroad. Those who desire to
carry "their own hod, their own mortar, ,
aud their own marble for the grand temple
they are rearing," while they invite the
suffering and the oppressed f every clime,
kindred and tongue, to pass beneath, its wide
arches, and repose in its shade.
Under their influence the prospect already
brightens, aud wc have reason to believe that
the God of our fathers, who guided the frail
May Flower to this distant shore, and who
said unto the winds 'cease,' and to the waves
'be still' yet looks dowu upon our land with
an eye that uever slumbers, and protects it
with an arm that is uever weary.
And now, my friends, in conclusion, it be
comes us to remember that, though our eagle's
eyrie is high, there are darts which can reach
it, aye, and hands too that will not fail to 6end
them : that opposition to priestly inteleranca
and oppression was the ruling passion of our
Pilgrim sires, who framed this government,
and transmitted to us the fair inheritence, not
simply for present enjoyment, but as a sacred
hcir-lcom, to be handed down unimpared to
succeeding generations, "'til the hast sylable
of recorded time." Let us then to night, over .
the common sepulchre ol Washington, the
true American's model, renew onr vows of al
legiance to the Union and the Constitution
let us heed his oft repeated injunction to "Be
it ab.e of fokeing inflcence," and, "placing
none but Americans on guard,'.' we will ever
hear, from the sentinel on the watch-tower of
freedom, the cheering response bt aiz'
well!" ' ' . " ';
Hume Vol 11, Ch . XTt J "
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