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$2 THE KNOW NOTHING ALMANAO ;
“KIRWAN ” AND BISHOP HUGHES.
Wh are truly rejoiced to see-that the
Harpers have republished ‘ Kirwan’s”
(Rev. Dr. Murray’s) celebrated letters to
Archbishop Hughes, revised and enlarged
by their renowried author, In his “ Letter
Intropuctory,” bearing the significant sub-
caption of * RoMANISM NoT THE RELIGION FoR
Amrnioa,” the great controversialist says:
“The efforts made by papal priests to
exclude the Bible from our public schools
have opencd many eyes. The Popish press
has broken out—has denounced liberty of
conscience and the right of private judg-
ment as heresies, and has honestly told us
that Papists were only waiting for the
power to suppress both! The property
question has arisen; Bedini was sent over
us nuncio to settle it; and the ‘controvers
in reference to it has revealed the grasping
avarice of the priests, theirjealousy of their
own people, and how full of wrath are their
vials when their will is resisted.”
“Kirwan” then speaks of that great
Apostle of Gospel truth and bold exposer
of Papal error, GAvazzi, and pays him the
well-deserved compliment conveyed in the
following words:
“Gavazzrt has visited our country, ex-
fled from Italy for his free principles, and
has exposed the principles, the policy, and
the’ designs of the Pope and the Jesuits.
He was a competent witness, from the heart
of the system, and ‘one who could, with
burning eloquence, tell us what he knew, and
saw, and felt.”
After briefly naming other causes which
have conduced to effect a change in the
feelings and opinions of the country on the
subject of Romanism since the first publica-
tion of his letters to Bishop Iughes, Dr.
Murray remarks that:
“These causes, together with the truck-
ling of our politicians to the priests, in order
to secure the votes of their people, have
aroused the American feeling in an un-
wonted degree, and have given rise to an
American Party, which if wisely managed,
will, for all future years place these United
States beyond all fear from the priests and
partizans of Rome; and if there is any
one opinion in which the masses of our
people more cordially unite than another,
it is in this, that Romanism is nol the reli-
gion for the United Stutes, and for this
opinion there are the most substantial reae
sons, a few of whicli we shall here state.”
“Kirwan” then proceeds to give such
cogent reasons, couched in such. caustic
terms as only he could give, and the reader
will find thenf on reference to the late edi-
tion of Kirwan’s Letters to Bishop Ilughes,
published by the Harpers,
_
THE
PIILADELPHIA CONVENTION,
Men may differ in opinion as to the
orthodoxy of the Platform or Declaration
of the Principles of the American Conven-
vention, Which met in Philadelphia last
June; they may doubt the policy of even
alluding to a vexed question, &c.; but the
{mportance, the respectability, the talent,
the nationality, and political strength of
that great American gathering, cannot be
questioned. The States of New York, Mas-
sachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Illinois, Indi-
ana, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, California,
Kentucky, District of Columbia, Missouri,
Minnesota, and Michigan, were fully and
most: respectably represented. Among the
Delegates were the Governor and one of the
United States Senators of Massachusetts ;
Ex-Governors of New Hampshire, Pennsyl-
vania, and Tennessee; a dozen members of
Congress; Mayors of Northern and Western
cities. The States were called alphabeti-
cally, as in Congress, beginning with Ala-
bama and ending. with Wisconsin. To
question the patriotism, respectability, and
strength of a party thus represented, is
only to stultify oneself in the eyes of the
world.
Atmost A ForEIGN City.—The following
statement of the census of the First and
Second Wards, in Hoboken, N. J., shows
how rapidly the foreigners are gaining on
us in our populous towns:
Ist Ward—Americans, 1,804
Fort tGners, 1,275—2,579
2d Ward—Americans, 1,011
Foreigners, 1,262—2,273
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