his
opposition to foreigners much farther than the American party now do?

But, you vile old demagogue, though "son of a now sainted father," I am
determined you shall not escape the indignant powers of those "Bishops,
Elders, and other Ministers," whom you have wickedly sought to deceive.
It is known to you, and to the world, in what veneration all American
Democrats hold the Virginia Resolutions of 1798 and '99, and the fame of
Mr. MADISON, who was the ruling spirit of that session of the
Legislature. That Legislature passed the following Resolution, which you
may find by consulting Henning's Statutes at Large, Vol. 2, New Series,
page 194:

"That the General Assembly, nevertheless, concurring in opinion
with the Legislature of Massachusetts that every Constitutional
barrier should be opposed to the introduction of foreign
influence into our National Councils,--_Resolved_, That the
Constitution ought to be so amended that _no foreigner, who
shall have acquired the right, under our Constitution and laws,
at the time of making the amendment, shall hereafter be
eligible to the office of Senator or Representative_, in
Congress of the United States, nor to _any office in the
Judiciary or Executive_. Agreed to by the Senate, Jan. 16,
1799."

I shall next consider two extracts from your Address, under one general
head, relating to the _temporal_ power of the Pope. You say:

"But the genius of sophistry may fly to the rescue of
Know-Nothingism, by pretending that it is not on account of
_his religion_ that the Catholic is to be excluded from office,
but because he is subjected, not merely to the spiritual but
the _temporal dominion_ or jurisdiction of the Pope. No error
has been wider spread than this."

Again:

"A late distinguished Senator from Georgia, (Mr. Berrien,) in a
recent address to the public, has copied a letter of Mr.
Wesley, which may require a few observations. That letter was
dated in January, 1780. All its conclusions were founded on the
ASSUMED AND POPULAR OPINION of that day, that the Pope _did_
claim a civil jurisdiction beyond his own dominions--that he
_could_ absolve the subjects of other governments from their
oaths of allegiance, and _that there was_ a principle in one of
the tenets of that Church, that Catholics were justified in not
keeping faith with hereti