e American Board
of Foreign Missions, the friend and patron of the Kirks and
Cones, we have much to say. We hate his intolerance--we dislike
his associates--and shudder at the blackness and bitterness of
that school of sectarians to which he belongs, and amongst whom
he is regarded as an authority."

Protestants! do you hear that? Old Line Whigs! do you hear that? If so,
do you think that Americans are warring upon civil and religious
liberty, when they take an oath that they will rebuke such infamous
sentiments? These appeals of Brownson, Hughes, and the Pilot, had the
effect to defeat the Clay ticket in New York, and that State lost him
his election. The Catholics were all at the polls, and voted for Polk
and Dallas. On the 9th of November, 1844, Frelinghuysen wrote to Mr.
Clay as follows:

"More than 3,000, it is confidently said, have been naturalized
in this city (New York) alone since the first of October. It is
an alarming fact that this foreign vote has decided the great
questions of American policy, and contracted a nation's
gratitude."

And after they achieved the victory of 1844, Brownson came out with this
avowal:

"Heretofore we have taken our politics from one or another of
the parties which divide the country, and have suffered the
enemies of our religion to impose their political doctrine upon
us; but it is time for us to begin to teach the country itself
those moral and political doctrines which flow from the
teachings of our own Church. We are at home here, wherever we
may have been born; this is our country, and as it is to become
THOROUGHLY CATHOLIC, we have a deeper interest in public
affairs than any other of our citizens. The sects are only for
a day; the Church for ever."

When Gen. Cass made his speech in the Senate, in 1852, in favor of free
worship and the rights of conscience for Americans abroad, reflecting on
the Catholics by name, Brownson came out in his October number, and
said:

"We are glad to see Gen. Cass laid on the shelf, for we can
never support a man who turns radical in his old age."

In the same number, Brownson continues:

"The sorriest sight to us is a Catholic throwing up his cap and
shouting, 'All hail, Democracy!'"

This too at the very time he was supporting the Democratic party in the
Presidential contest! He would sooner have heard the cry