WEIGHT OF SIN UPON IT, CAN STILL BE KEPT ALIVE?
|TO answer this question, we would first direct your attention to the
United States census returns for the years 1850,'60,'70, and 80. We only
go back four decades, for from these we can draw correct conclusions
just as well as if we commenced at an earlier date. These returns show
that for the ten years preceding 1850 there arrived in this country from
Europe 1,713,251 persons; for the ten preceding 1860, 2,598,214; for
the ten preceding 1870, 2,491,209; and for the ten preceding 1880,
2,742,137. Of those that came from Catholic countries, 95 out of every
100 went into the Democratic party. Of those that came from Germany
and other Protestant countries, probably about one-half went into the
Democratic party; for even though they came from nominally Protestant
countries, fully one-half of the emigrants from those countries are
Catholics. Of those who are Protestants in Europe, but few join the
Democratic party after reaching this country. Estimating that one out of
every five of these emigrants becomes a voter, and that 85 out of every
100 of these voters joined the Democratic party, we should have as added
to that party from naturalization alone, for the ten years preceding
1850, 290,753 votes; for the ten preceding 1860, 431,696 votes; for
the ten preceding 1870, 424,505 votes; and for the ten preceding 1880,
466,164 votes. Meanwhile, while these immense additions are being made
from year to year to the Democratic party from naturalization, it loses
large numbers every year from increased civilization. The Whig party
was, and the Republican party is, the party of enlightenment; and as
foreigners, and especially their children, become more enlightened as
to the advantages of a republican or representative form of
government--more and more enlightened as to the advantages of a free
press--they leave that party and go into the Republican; or, what is
more frequent, their children, having been educated in our free schools,
learn to love freedom of thought as well as of action, and, on becoming
of age, join the Republican party, and some of them join Protestant
churches. But for this retroactive process, which is constantly going
on, this country long ago would have been completely under foreign
influence, and we never should have been permitted to have celebrated
the one hundredth anniversary of American independence.
Now let us take a retrospective view and see what has been the practical
outcome of these two antagonistic principles. In 1852 the number of
Democratic votes cast for President was 1,601,474; number of Whig votes,
1,542,403; total, 3,143,877; population of the United States in 1850,
23,191,876. In 1860, number of Republican votes, 1,866,352; Democratic
and all others, 2,810,501; total, 4,676,853; population that year,
31,443,321. In 1872, number of Republican votes, 3,597,070; Democratic,
2,834,078; total, 6,431,148; population for 1870, 38,558,371. In 1880,
number of Republican votes, 4,450,921; Democratic, 4,447,888; total,
8,898,809; population for 1880, 50,155,783.
The immigration for the last few years has been exceedingly large,
reaching the enormous figures of 457,257 for 1880, and 669,431 for 1881.
Among these were 2,600 Jews from Russia, of whom it is announced there
are 10,000 more to come soon, and for whom contract has already been
made with the Hamburg line of steamers. Of these it is safe to calculate
that 95 out of every 100 voters will go into the Democratic party.
As showing the effect of the retroactive process heretofore spoken of,
whereby enlightenment turns Catholics into Protestants and Democrats
into Republicans, it may be stated (as census returns show) that while
in 1801 there were in the two Protestant countries of Great Britain and
the United States about 6,000,000 Roman Catholics to about 15,000,000
Protestants, or about one to two and a-half, in 1880 there were about
12,000,000 Catholics to about 74,000,000 Protestants, or about one
to six. In using the word enlightenment in connection with the words
Republican and Protestant, we would by no means have it inferred that
all Democrats and all Catholics are ignorant. In both are to be found
men of the highest intelligence and of the most exalted character; but
these form the exception rather than the rule--the leading few, who have
their own purposes to subserve, rather than the following many, with
whom party is madness only for the benefit of the few.
Now, my friend (the reader), you can begin to see, can you not, why it
is that the Democratic party, notwithstanding all its sins, has still
been kept alive? But yet there is one more item to be added to account
for its continued existence: namely, that it is not only supplied with
recruits from Europe, but with money as well. We have heretofore shown
from official sources how many hundreds of thousands of dollars have
been, and are constantly being sent from Europe to this country to
"propagate" the Catholic faith--which is, indeed, but another name and
another way of propagating the Democratic party--and but for the extreme
secrecy of their movements, we might show just as plainly that other
hundreds of thousands are sent here at every Presidential election by
European capitalists, European manufacturers, and European sovereigns,
with a view to influence our elections. Bribery at elections being made
a misdemeanor in nearly all the States, movements of this character have
to be conducted with extreme secrecy; but that the thing has been done
for the past forty years (ever since the inauguration of the protective
system by Henry Clay), and is still being done, there is not a shadow of
doubt; nor is there a doubt that this is another one of the reasons why
the Democratic party is kept alive. A single Hartford convention killed
the Federal party; a single set of pro-slavery resolutions, adopted by
a National convention, killed the Whig party; and the part which the
Democratic party took in the late rebellion would have killed it so
effectually that no resurrection could have ever reached it, but for
the support it has had, and still has, from European powers, through
emigration and through the Catholic Church, and with the once avowed,
and now no less steadily held, object of overthrowing our representative
form of government, and of destroying the liberty of our press. Thus, my
friend (the reader), your second query is answered beyond, as we think,
all possibility of successful contradiction.
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