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oR, TRUE AMERICANS’ MANUAL. 39
remembers that his. pathway to freedom
was strewn with the dead bodies of German
mercenaries? © What exultation can the
Briton fecl in the fame of Jackson when
he remembers that it was won by trampling
the’ lion banner in the dust? It is not in
human nature that they should feel as we
do, and we are false to ourselves when we
put them in power or give them the direction
of the law.
THE AMERICAN VOTE IN
KENTUCKY.
Tis Won. Cuarres § Monrensan, the
‘Gubernatorial Candidate of the American
Party in Kentucky, was elected by 4 very
handsome majority. The Aimerican party
in Kentucky not only elected their Governor
and their whole ‘State ticket, but they
polled a far greater vote than ever was
given before by any party, even in the most
ardent and fiercest of the political contests
that have heretofore occurred in the State.
Their opponents, the anti-American—or,
properly, the foreign party, because they
oppose their countrymen and American
Protestant principles—have also polled a
vote far beyond any ever given by any
defeated party in Kentucky. Although
they fall more than 4000 behind in this
election, their vote very nearly equals that
of General Taylor when he had over 17,000
majority, and is.7,000 greater than the vote
of General Harrison when he swept the
State with more than 25,000 majority. Of
this immense vote, cast by the American
Party, not to be accounted for by the
increase of population the Frankfort Com-
monwealth says:
“It swells far beyond any thing which’
that increase can account for. The cause
of it is only to be found in the exciting and
absorbing interests of the great questions
involved in the contest; und it proves,
beyond controversy, that the American
party, which has just polled the unprece-
dented number of nearly 70,000 votes, has
a deeper and stronger hold upon the feeling
and judgment of the people than any parly
in Kentucky ever had before.”
CURSING, ALWAYS CURSING.
The Pope has cursed the Free Masons,
Odd Fellows, Sons of Temperance, Sons of
America, United Americans, United Ameri-
can Mechanics, the Know Nothings, the
Daughters of America, the Ancient Order
of Druids, the American Protestant Assocl-
ation, the Daughters of Temperance, Sons
of Liberty, Sons of Hermann, the I. I.
Snow Unions, the ancient Order of Good
Samaritans, the 8t. Tammany or Columbian
Order, and all other sccret societies except.
ing the Order of Jesuits; and he would
curse the Jesuits also, but for his depend-
ence upon them, and his fear’ of their
power.
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POOR tJOUN AT NEWPORT.
+Bisnor Joun Ivars, the “friend” of
Wa. I. Swann, said, in one of his Ictters
of the Controversy, that he only owned the
bed he slept upon; but since he made that
assertion he has been rusticating at a very
dear. rate at Newport, one of the most
extravagant placcs of fashionable resort in
the United States. 80 palpable a no-such-
thing is a direct insult to the American
people; but it is not the first insult which
tJohn has thrown into the teeth of the
“cullible Protestants,” a3-ho elegantly
designates us,
A Goon Scaaxstion About NoNNEnivs.—
Rev. Rufus W. Clark, in his closing dis-
course on Romanism last Sabbath, made the
following suggestion, which we should be
giad to see carried into effect. Among the
means to be used for our protection, we
would insist upon having the public estab-
lishinents of the Roman Catholics open to
the inspection of the community, just as
Protestant institutions are. Wewould have
a law passed, requiring the foreman of the
grand jury, or some other officer, to visit at
stated periods the nunneries, convents, and
all institutions of similar character. Our
own safety and the safety of our children
demand such a measure. Were are young
adies of Protestant parentage enticed,
under the plea of superior religious advan-
tages, to enter these nunneries, from which
they can never afterwards make their
escape. They take the veil, which is lites
rally a veil that is to hide from the public
gaze every insult or act of villainy to
which they are subject, and every suffering
that they are called to endure. That these
institutions are kept sceret, and barred
with iran against the public inspection, for
any good purpose, the past history of
Romanism will not allow us to admit for a
single moment. If they are depositories of
such eminent piety as the priests contend,
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