Is the race any better off for having
accepted her faith? THESE REVEREND HYPOCRITES--these scribes
and pharisees, are treading on a terrible volcano. They will
find their treasonable schemes and infernal plotting against
the liberties of man tried and condemned by the pure light of
God's own truth and love, which shines and throbs in every
pulsation of humanity's heart. If Protestantism prove recreant
to her high trust, she will have to pass the ordeal of
enlightened public opinion and be consigned to her merited
obscurity.

"Popery, with all its crimes against God and man, adapts itself
to the times and to the circumstances, and thus saves itself
from being absorbed in the mass of conflicting elements."

THE CATHOLIC QUESTION--No. 4.

A Catholic Priest the Minister from the Rivas-Walker
Government--Nicaragua, Texas, and Gen. Jackson--Bishop Hughes
and Orestes Brownson--Buchanan bidding for the Catholic
vote--A. H. Stephens, of Georgia--Lord Baltimore and Religious
Toleration.

Three months ago, PARKER H. FRENCH arrived in Washington, as the
Representative of the Walker Government of Nicaragua--an American-born
citizen and a Protestant--but the Government declined to recognize him,
upon the ground that Walker's Government was not established even _de
facto_. Since then, our Government has recognized Walker's Government,
and endorsed his war upon Costa Rica, although the former objection of
our Government lies with as much force against such recognition now as
it did three months ago. That the approach of the Cincinnati Convention,
and the importance of conciliating the "Young American" wing, and the
Filibustering division of the Democratic party, had great influence in
producing this recognition, there can be no sort of doubt. But a still
more palpable reason why this Government gave its sanction to the
Rivas-Walker Government is, that PADRE VIJIL, the second Minister sent
here, is a ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST, and a shrewd Spaniard--better
understands the influences that prevail at Washington. When we remember
that a Roman Catholic, and a member of the Order of Jesuits, is a member
of Pierce's Cabinet, the Postmaster-General--and when we remember that
Democracy now, without the Catholic-Foreign vote, is almost a nullity in
the United States, we have a clear solution of this preference given the
Spanish priest, PADRE VIJIL, ove