Speech of Hon. Samuel A. Purviance, of Pennsylvania
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Samuel A. Purviance, of Pennsylvania: On the Slavery and Presidential Questions The House being in the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union.- Mr. Purviance said: The merits of the great trial which is now going on before the grand inquest of the nation are now prominently forced upon the consideration of this House. It is, perhaps, right to have the principles of the great parties of the country properly presented and fully canvassed in a discussion, even in the chamber of American legislation, radiating, as it does, over the length and breadth of the land, and bringing back a pure, strong, and wholesome reflection of the entire popular will. The friends of Mr. Buchanan in this House, calling themselves the Democratic party, have arraigned the American and Republican parties, and severely criticised the principles of both in speeches of great length, which have been sent to every post office in the Union, with direction, doubtless, to give them general distribution. The American and Republican parties were produced by, and are, the legitimate offspring of the old Democratic party. In other words, the course pursued by the latter in endeavoring to secure the two great political powers of the Government, the papal and the slave, has very naturally created antagonisms amongst the people, resulting in the formation of strong political parties. It is a fact which cannot be controverted, that for twenty years the so-called Democratic party has bowed with obsequious devotion to secure the support of the Catholies of the country, and that, with a few honorable exceptions, they have been successful. In 1852, Mr. Pierce, the nominee for the Presidency, hailing from the only State whose constitution proscribes a Catholic from holding office, it was thought and believed, that body of people, if actuated by a proper spirit of resistance to religious intolerance, would have cast their votes against the grandson of him who helped to frame the obnoxious constitution. For a time, and within a short period before the election, many of them showed a determination to avenge themselves of what they then complained was a most grievous wrong. The election came, and with but a few honorable exceptions the Catholics throughout the United States licked the rod that smote them, by throwing almost their entire suffrage to Pierce. This most singular vote produced a shock upon public sentiment which has not yet ceased its vibrations. It was boldly charged that the result had been obtained by an arrangement between Bishop Hughes and the friends of Mr. Pierce, by which the former was to secure a participation in the management and control of the incoming Administration. The distribution of official patronage riveted upon the public mind the conviction which previous circumstances had strongly tended to inspire. From this result the American people turned with indignant horror, refusing to recognize, so far as the ballot-box was concerned, a body of men as equals, who suffered themselves to be politically controlled by the head of the Church of which they were members. Separation of Church and State being the true American doctrine, the complete identification of Catholicism with Democracy naturally inspired the public mind with suspicion and alarm. The Democratic party having wooed to their embrace the Catholic power of the country, they must be content with the chastisement they are now receiving as a punishment for this improper alliance of Church and State. Ours is a Government in which like voice of the people is the controlling element, and every man should speak and act for himself as becomes the character of a sovereign, and not suffer himself to be controlled in political affairs by any power on earth but his own convictions of duty. The enlig
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