n 1850, were
more numerous, as the census compendium shows, than any one
denomination of Methodists, are now no doubt stronger than all
the Methodists put together, and stronger than any other
denomination of Protestants.

"While these publications have been before the American people
for more than twenty years, Democratic leaders have received,
with open arms, the swarms of foreigners who have settled upon
our shores. What care _they_ for the slavery question, when
they have seen this foreign immigration, according to the plan
concerted in England, settling in the non-slaveholding States,
and every year increasing the Abolition power? What care they
for the Protestant religion, if the Catholics can only give
them the numerical strength at the ballot-box? What regard have
_they_ for the preservation of our liberties, when European
despots are seeking to undermine them, if those despots only
send such myrmidons as will shout hosannas to Democracy and
drive from the polls peaceful American citizens who oppose
them? Is the preservation of the Union a matter of any
consequence to them? Do they not in vision behold its scattered
fragments and contemplate new confederacies, with hosts of new
offices and millions of spoil?

"Can any one doubt that the Democratic party is in league with
all the dangerous elements that have disturbed and are
continuing to disturb our once peaceful and happy country, and
that they stickle at nothing when votes are at stake?

"Look to their conduct in running Mr. Polk as a tariff man in
the North, and an anti-tariff man in the South! Look to the two
lives of Cass. Look to their equivocal position as to slavery
and the Union. Look to their appeals to foreigners and
Catholics by name in the elections of 1844 and 1852, and
probably in 1848. Look to their alliance with Free Germans and
Fourierites, Free Soilers and Secessionists. And, above all,
look to the miserable cant with which they raise the hue and
cry of persecution in favor of the Catholics, and, indirectly,
deny to Protestant ministers the right to make war upon a huge
corporation, calling itself a church, dealing in human souls,
reeking with the blood of martyrs, and begrimed with more than
ten centuries of oppression.

"No wonder that they ha