Now, so far as relates to the charge of the Catholics contemplating a change in religious as well as in civil matters, we admit that the General gives a very fair representation of the unfounded assertions of the prejudiced accusers, but although we have attentively perused the tirades that for years have been printed and circulated upon this subject, we must avow that we have no recollection of any charge made upon either the Catholics of Europe or those of the United States, that they expended money in sending or bringing hither a Catholic population; for it is a notorious fact that the Catholic immigrants paid their own expenses. They themselves, and not agents of others, bargained at the foreign ports and paid the passage money, and we defy any one. to prove any agency but that of the individuals themselves. We shall for the present hold the opinion that this is a gratuitous assertion of General Green, to subserve purposes of a party, until he shall have shown evidence that this was previously and openly charged. He especially states that this money was spent in bringing hither Catholic pauper population. The General has been guilty of wantonly inflicting the grossest insult upon the great body of Catholics in the United States, unless he can show the truth of two propositions, neither of which is true. 1. That Catholic paupers were sent hither. 2. That it was commonly and generally charged that they were sent hither by the Catholies of Europe. We may add-3. That they were sent by them for the purpose of revolutionizing our institutions. We dislike retorts, but we must here give the General what he richly deserves. The only imported paupers that we ever have known sent to these United States, were Protestant paupers, sent by the Protestant overseers of the Protestant workhouses of Protestant England, in order to save their own good Protestant country the expense of supporting its own Protestant paupers. Our Protestant brethren will perceive that this is no assault upon them: it is but a gentle admonition to a liberal patron of Catholic schools, who is justly desirous to procure for his children the best education, to be cautious how he insults Catholic immigrants. We well remember the commotion created in some of our northern States at discovering the ragged, the wretched, the maimed, the lame, the decrepid and the sickly hordes of this unwelcome accession from "the bulwark of Protestantism."-We fully concur in the propriety, as we have witnessed the efficacy, of the American remedy. The poor creatures were reshipped, and sent to the doors of their heartless exporters. We desire that when a cargo of Catholic paupers may be landed on our shores, they who sent them may have them in like manner returned upon their hands. But who are they whom the General styles, paupers?—They are the bone and sinew, the nerve and muscle of the country; they are the men who give unceasing labour in return for common wages, but upon whom the generosity of General Green's associates bestows more than they bargained to receive. Yes, for they bestow obloquy, they bestow insult to themselves, reproach to the country of their birth, vituperation to the religion of their choice, and their best efforts to keep them helots during life; to allow them the enviable privilege of seeing themselves surrounded by men enjoying political and civil rights without being permitted a hope of ever becoming citizens themselves. This is more than their contract required. We know also, that not unfrequently they have been swindled and cheated of the money they contracted to receive, and when worn down with toil, and maddened by disappointment, destitute of friends, bereft of the aid of religion, and provoked by the sarcasms and false charges upon themselves, their religion, and the land of their nativity, they violated the peace, but were appeased by the remonstrances of a priest, the very associates of General Green in his present partisanship, were the first to complain of this undue influence, as destructive to our liberties by substituting the priest for the constable, and teaching foreigners rather to bow before the shrine of a "false church," than before the tribunal of justice, thus introducing the spirit of clerical despotism on one side, and of abject slavery on the other. We recollect the story of an unfortunate man who was subjected to the lash of a drummer: when he was cut under the shoulder-blade, it was too high, the touch on the loins was too low, and the unfortunate executioner finding him equally out of humour with all sorts of whipping, resolved to follow his own judgment-so with the haters of our Catholic paupers. If the imported voter is turbulent, he is a riotous foreigner, if he listens to the voice of religion, he is a popish slave. If the labourer be disposed to hear us, we will say to him,-"Do as the drummer did :-Follow the dictates of your own judgment. These men do not love you, and will not love you!-Have Christian charity for them, and care as little for them, as we do; that is, just nothing. Hold to your religion and to the republic, and be independent of those who in truth fear you, though they affect to despise you." We leave to the recollection of General Green himself, the contemplation of what he said and wrote on a former occasion to excite anything but sympathy for those hard working Catholic paupers. The men whom General Green has dared to call paupers, and whom his associates habitually stigmatize, are they who have built our cities, dug our canals, levelled our railroads, laboured in our mines, felled our forests, and cultivated our soil. These are the men who create the wealth of a nation, and who can if necessary, maintain the rights of the country in the face of her foes: but they are paupers? Catholic paupers, and they must be driven from the ballot-box, lest these imported Catholic voters should at the beck of the monarchs of Europe, destroy our free institutions! Again we adduce General Green as a witness. In his article of Sept. 7, he says— "The Catholics of Ireland, and in the United States, are lovers of liberty for the sake of liberty. They are the weaker and the persecuted sect: and although under other circumstances they would be monarchists, in the United States they are advocates of freedom and of republican institutions.'' Yes, these are paupers, the imported Catholic paupers, who are to be the instruments in the hands of the monarchs of Europe, to destroy our free institutions! And who therefore are not to be admitted to the polls. And who are to enjoy also the enviable prerogative, that if, at the present election, Mr. Van Buren obtains a majority in any place where the Catholics are numerous, the Protestants are to be invoked by the agent of the party opposed to the said Martin Van Buren to oppose Romanism! This is a proud distinction. The Catholics, the pauper Catholics, the imported Catholics, should manifest their gratitude for this insult by voting against the said Martin Van Buren.-But there is a stronger reason than all others why they should vote against Martin Van Buren. It is because when every one else called the head of their church "a beast"-"a great beast," "a monster with a cloven foot," "the enemy of God," "Anti-Christ," and a "foul thing, an unclean thing," Martin Van Buren had the consummate impudence to write, as Secretary of State, to the American Consul at Rome, an official letter in which he used in relation to the Pope the language of courtesy and respect that is usual in all diplomatic intercourse between the officers of civilized governments. Can any comment of our letters show the insolent spirit with which Catholics are treated?-We shall resume the subject. SECTION IV Catholic Voters :-Before leaving the charge made upon the Catho lics, of filling the land with their paupers, we shall draw General Green's attention to a few additional facts. The corporations of our seaports are very careful in requiring bonds and good security from the masters of all vessels that bring foreign passengers to their wharves, to insure payment of any expenses to which alms-houses, poor-houses, or hospitals may be put by such passengers for a considerable period after their arrival. In most places the captains, finding this not a very pleasant nor a very safe mode of dealing, procured that, in lieu of the bond, a composition should be struck, generally from two to ten dollars per head. Inquiries have been made in Boston, New York, and other places, and upon investigation it has been demonstrated that a yearly profit of several thousand dollars was made by the city, by means of the composition thus levied upon those foreign Catholic paupers, as they have been insolently called. We have made inquiry in this city, and been informed by respectable commissioners of the poor-house, that it seldom happens, except in case of sickness, that one of those "Catholic imported voters," is found upon their list. In this state, being on the roll of the poor-house would operate as a disfranchisement. So far, then, from being a burden upon the country, the country taxes them upon their arrival, taxes them upon declaring their intention to become citizens, and taxes them a third time in being admitted to citizenship. And yet they are "imported paupers!" We have inserted on our columns this day an article from the Lutheran Observer, the editor of which appears to us to claim the authorship of the offensive paragraphs to which General Green gave currency by copying them, affecting only to give the sentiments of others, without adopting them himself. We wish the happy pair joy in their union. General Green charges Bishop England with having sought to influence the Catholics as a body to vote for Mr. Van Buren. "We have forborne to notice these letters, because, until the result of the Illinois elections, and the letter of Bishop England, we had seen nothing in the progress of the canvass to justify a belief that any attempt to bring the Catholics, as a body, to vote for Mr. Van Buren would receive the countenance of the Catholic clergy, or of any distinguished member of that body."-Pilot of September 3. "It is only when we find those who exercise a spiritual control like that of Bishop England, putting aside his priestly robes, and entering the field of politics as he has done in this instance, that we feel called upon to examine how far that spiritual control is calculated to exercise an undue influence over the minds of men, and to call upon all good Catholics, as well as Protestants, to resist it.'’—Ibid. Let us now examine what havoc the Bishop has made in the field of politics, and how he has called upon the Catholics, as a body, to vote for Mr. Van Buren. General Green gives those proofs in his paper of the 7th of September. We shall give them in order. First. A son of the Secretary of State, who publishes a paper in Mobile, prints the Bishop's letter, and marks part of it in italics, to prove that the Bishop is for the administration. Therefore, the Bishop has entered the field of politics, having put off his priestly robes; and thus divested of the symbol of his spiritual character, he wields his spiritual influence to induce the Catholics, as a body, to vote for Martin Van Buren. Who will deny that General Green is an admirable logician? How clearly is his conclusion contained in his premises? Proof the second.-The Baltimore Sun enlightened the monumental city with the letter similarly italicised. Therefore The Council of Baltimore told the Catholics that each voter was bound in conscience to prefer the public good to his private interest in voting for public officers; and that each voter was to act an independent honest part, according to the dictates of his own conscience. The council moreover told them that the bishops themselves had different views, and had no right nor wish to influence the vote of any man. Bishop England was one of thirteen who subscribed to this declaration. The opponents of Mr. Van Buren proclaimed that all the mischief which afflicts the land, and all that is imagined to be in existence has been produced by Mr. Van Buren; Bishop England being asked if such be his opinion, says that he thinks Mr. Van Buren did not produce it, but that many very great men say that he did, but yet the Bishop's opinion is not changed. Therefore, though the Bishop never alluded to religion, nor to voting, he is guilty of endeavouring to get the Catholics, as a body, to vote for Mr. Van Buren. Such is the logic of General Green! Now, Bishop England is the champion of Catholicism, and all the Catholics will follow him. This is another of the General's proofs. Yet in the very same article he informs us, that he is sustained in his assault upon Bishop England by "the intelligent Catholics of Baltimore, and especially by the eminent Catholic clergymen" of that city, who do not consider an attack upon Bishop England to be an attack upon the Catholic religion. We never said it was; but we do say that [talking about] foreign Catholic paupers, was; that insinuating that they were sent hither by the monarchs of Europe to destroy our liberties, was; that |