es a new sovereign."

We might multiply authorities of this kind on this point, to an almost
indefinite extent, from the debate between Bishop Hughes and Mr.
Breckenridge, and the controversy between Hughes and Erastus Brooks, but
it is wholly unnecessary.

As early as 1844, the Catholics took their stand as a body in the arena
of political strife; and the illustrious CLAY and the virtuous
FRELINGHUYSEN were the victims of their particular hostility. Mr.
Frelinghuysen was the President of the Board of Foreign Missions, and
this was made the _excuse_ for the bitter animosity of the Catholic
press, and of the clergy and membership of the Catholic sect, against
Mr. Clay. Brownson, in his July number for 1844, in the very heat of the
contest, thus assailed Mr. Clay:

"He is ambitious, but short-sighted. He is abashed by no
inconsistency, disturbed by no contradiction, and can defend,
with a firm countenance, without the least misgiving, what
everybody but himself sees to be a political fallacy or logical
absurdity.... He is no more disturbed by being convinced of
moral insensibility, than intellectual absurdity.... A man of
rare abilities, but apparently void of both moral and
intellectual conscience.... He is, therefore, a man whom no
power under that of the Almighty can restrain; he must needs be
the most dangerous man to be placed at the head of affairs it
is possible to conceive."

The Boston Pilot, another Catholic organ, published under the eye of the
Bishop, discloses _the same plot_, in its issue for the 31st of October,
1844, only six days before the election! Here is what this organ said:

"We say to all men in the United States, entitled to be
naturalized, become citizens while you can--let nothing delay
you for an hour--let no hindrance, short of mortal disease,
banish you from the ballot-box. To those who are citizens, we
say, vote your principles, whatever they may be--never desert
them--do not be wheedled or terrified--but vote quietly, and
unobtrusively. Leave to others the noisy warfare of words. Let
your opinions be proved by your deliberate and determined
action. We recommend you to no party; we condemn no candidate
but one, and he is Theodore Frelinghuysen. We have nothing to
say to him as a Whig--we have nothing to say to Mr. Clay or any
other Whig, as such--but to the President of th