every pore from wounds inflicted
by Democratic hands, amidst the jeers of European despots, the
shouts of foreigners in our midst, and the taunts and sneers of
Catholics and Jesuits all around us!

"Let not Protestant ministers be intimidated by the impudent
assaults of a venal press, or the fierce denunciations of
infuriated politicians, from doing their whole duty in the
pulpit and at the polls. No Presbyterian has ever denied to a
Methodist the right to question his religious faith, and no
Methodist will dispute the right of other denominations to
impugn his creed. Methodists have assailed the Presbyterian
doctrine of election. Presbyterians, in turn, have assailed
their ideas of perfection and falling from grace. Both have
controverted the Baptists' views of immersion, and all have
denied the Episcopalians' doctrine of _apostolic succession_.
These and many other points of difference have, from the
foundation of our government, often been the subjects of
earnest, protracted, and excited discussion; but when did any
American Protestant ever deny to another American Protestant
the constitutional right to differ with him in opinion, and to
express that difference through the press, in the pulpit, or
any other constitutional mode? Yet, it has been reserved for
Democratic presses to attempt, for electioneering purposes, to
curb the free spirit of Protestant ministers: to denounce them
as "REVEREND HYPOCRITES;" and, when beholding at home and
abroad, on the land and on the sea, among Christians and
Pagans, in the halls of legislation, in churches and schools,
in free speech, and in a free press, and in ten thousand other
forms, the magnificent and glorious results of the Reformation,
to ask, with impudent assurance, 'WHAT HAS PROTESTANTISM DONE
FOR THE WORLD?' Not satisfied with the storm of execration
which such an infamous interrogatory produced, the Nashville
Union and American, the leading Democratic paper in Tennessee,
in a very abusive article entitled '_What has it
accomplished?_' under date of April 26, 1856, thus speaks,
among other things, of what he styles 'the Know Nothing
Organization:'

"'_It has done more than this: it has gone into the Church and_
CONVERTED THE PULPIT INTO A POLITICAL ROSTRUM--_it has turned
t