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The crisis: or The enemies of America u
THE
ceisis:
OR, THE
ENEMIES OF AMERICA
UNMASKED.
BY J. WAYNE LAURENS.
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PHILADELPHIA :
G. D. MILLER.—PUBLISHER:
1855.
fyi^ojfo
Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
G. D. MILLER.
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court pf the United States in
PREFACE. V
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8 CONTENTS.
Chapter Page.
XI. What Foreign Imposture in Commerce, has
Remedy, 228.
CHAPTER I.
JESUIT INFLUENCE.
greatly ; and gave the American due credit for his wit,
" This," said the Jesuit, with a quiet smile, " you
suppose to be the system of your own country V
"I do not suppose it," said the American, "I
know it."
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14 THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA UNMASKED.
American movement ?
JESUIT INFLUENCE. 15
Rome?
The movers of this foreign political machinery in
in Europe.
America.
It is in vain that we oppose to the machinations of
cally.
the other day, and told him they must discontinue this
prosperity. ,
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monarchy.
These things, oh, Majesty ! are well known, and
absolutists.
JESUIT INFLUENCE. 27
mouth.
The present page is signed by me, by my " Fathers
England?"
"I never eard of hany hother," said Scroggs.
" Well, in what other country of Europe are Ame-
on one side."
" I thought," said Scroggs, " that it was a game of
give and take."
" Precisely so," we replied, " only the giving is all
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38 THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA UNMASKED.
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her industry.
" Then and not till then, will she cease to be a Eu-
pean colony ; then will she be the America of our fa-
marks, '
Does any one believe that more than one-
third of the police force of New York would have been
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FOREIGN INFLUENCE IN MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. 45
trol that city had not relied upon the foreign vote to
sustain them in their, corrupt practices ? It is cus-
not be permitted to. exist, for many and great are the
chy, and civil war will ensue, and some popular indi-
for action. ,
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CHAPTER IV.
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FOREIGN INFLUENCE IN MILITARY AFFAIRS. 51
enrolled, '
for the security of a free State,' they should
content them
" If our readers are desirous to know what political
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;
three, four, and five per cent, a month for the use of
money ?
" Because you let your wives and- daughters wear
silk gowns," says Scroggs.
Not so, Scroggs, it is because we suffer England to
of our money, and this you are doing every day. You
wish London to be always, as it is unfortunately for
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FOREIGN IMPOSTURE IN COMMERCE. 69
a nation has iron ore, and a climate and soil fit for the
time.
" In point of natural advantages. Portugal is equal
ment.
" Mechanics found there no place for the exercise of
1842, the only period for which returns are before me,
there was a steady decline in the amount of agricul-
which they can look for food, clothing, and other ne-
cessaries of life, their distress must increase during the
winter, and the future is contemplated with painful
anxiety and apprehension. Under such appalling
prospects, the zealous and excellent civil governor,
wretched country.
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:
CHAPTER VII.
(continued.)
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FOREIGN IMPOSTURE IN COMMERCE. 79
of manufacture.
" Ambelakia, by its activity, appears rather a bo-
not only had that place been deserted, but others in its
neighborhood were reduced to complete desolation.
Native -manufactories for the production of cotton
*Urquhart, p. 150.
;
PIASTRES, PARAS.
Five okes of uncleaned cotton, at seventeen paras, 2 5
" Here a woman's labor makes but two pence per day
pence, p 147.
" The labor of a woman is estimated at less than four
Ulema :
Slack's Travels in Turkey, Vol ii. p. 143.
" The silk that is made is badly prepared, because
of the earth.'
it -is even now denied that she has any right to adopt
a system of trade different from that under which she
has become thus weakened.* Perfect freedom of com-
merce is declared to be 'one of those immunities
which we can resign on no account or pretext whatever,
it is a golden privilege which we can never abandon. 'f
"Internal trado scarcely exists, and, as a natural
looks wholly to tho exports of the raw produoe of the earth, and
f Urquhart, p. '2o~.
92 THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA UNMASKED.
* Urquhart, p. 202.
;
" The facts thus far given, have been taken, as the
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102 THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA UNMASKED.
duty.
consumed in Bengal.
" Tour Lordships must be aware of the immense
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110 THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA UNMASKED.
color, or country.
pray."
(Signed by one hundred and seventeen natives of
great respectability.)
they have to sell, and what they shall pay for all they
require to purchase. Centralization and slavery go
* Ibid, p. 393.
—
badly paid :
" 'But those who cry out in England against the mo<-
India, whereas, were the salt duty and all the govern-
* Campbell, p. 384.
FOREIGN IMPOSTURE IN COMMERCE. 121
* Campbell, p. 377.
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for her armies in the " sister island ;" but has recourse
to German mercenaries.
be discouraged, prohibited.
" Great Britain with its dependencies is doubtless
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FOREIGN IMPOSTURE IN COMMERCE. 125
them."
" Our colonies are much in the same state as Ire-
dollars.
garded as '
a blight.' If the artisans of the country
could not live without protection let them die, and die
and yet they were then almost entirely free from the
1820-21
FOREIGN IMPOSTURE IN COMMERCE. 131
(continued.)
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FOREIGN IMPOSTURE IN COMMERCE. 133
amount of principal.
" Such were the results of the very imperfect mea-
sure of 1824, and by them its friends were encouraged
to the far more perfect act of 1828, the first really and
thoroughly protective tariff ever given to the country.
gold and silver, the imports of the five years that fol-
1821,
foreign Imposture in commerce. 135
(continued.)
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: —
works.
In order to bring down its history to the present
one that gave us, in less than five years, an excess im-
port of nearly forty millions, by help of which credit
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trade.
" For a time, as had been the case in the years that
would have been quadrupled but for the fact that, in-
in, and gold and silver flowed out, and the consequences
were seen in the stoppage of mills, mines, furnaces,
debt.
of public debt.
British free trade died in 1842, bequeathing to pro-
(continued.)
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FOREIGN IMPOSTURE IN COMMERCE. 155
not so?
"Further: —from 1842 to 1847 we had no revul-
our own food and clothing, instead of, as now, the iron
(continued.)
putable facts
but are yet higher than at this time last year ; the
PRESENT EFFECTS OF FOREIGN IMPOSTURE. 165
to be dead.
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170 THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA UNMASKED.
zardous experiment.
From the same paper, we copy the following aecount
of the depression of industrial interests in other parts
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: ;
off in the demand for men, for the simple reason that
" The pressure for money has placed a bar for the
They are few in number, very " few and far between,"
compared with what might easily be accumulated by
carefully examining a file of papers from all parts of
other stocks ; but during the last half of the year these
having become unsaleable abroad, the deficiency has
been made up in gold and silyer exported to Europe.
California gold staved off the ruin till the eighth year.
vote here a few days after- they are landed. The effect
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THE FOREIGNERS' REMEDY FOR HARD TIMES. 181
ADDRESSES RESOLUTIONS.
&c, &p., &c.
discrimination. Therefore, be it
land.
eight and ten deep, and when the head of the column
Grand Street."
mined to do.
kept for the poor in our midst and for those who may
land upon our shore's. Gentlemen, the course you
They should not forget the poor —they receive not only
" Who would tie free —themselves must strike the blow."
The people —the people it is, that must rectify ex-
isting evils and restore the good old times, when labor
received its just reward, and the country was not taxed
and drained of its money down to the starving point,
speculators.
the foulest and most corrupt intrigues for the very pur-
point of death.
Let any man look around and see with his own eyes
what presents itself in every city, town, and village.
Broadcloth coats on the backs of all who wear coats,
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218 THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA UNMASKED.
policy, save the people and the public good, has taken
right hold of the public mind, and is already flowered
idea,' and well she may be. Let us have this American
patronage of Europe's looms, and forges, and artisan
shops cut off, and our own resources developed by our
own skill and industry, and the factories of New En-
gland 'will clap their busy hands and make glad music
through the length and breadth of the land. There
will be no forced idlers then. The ranks of the great
'operative' army (craftsmen of all sorts) will broaden
and deepen, making broader the market for the earth
his duty and destiny, and he will not rest until every
domestic stumbling block is removed and every foreign
shackle cast off.
first hoist the banner and run out the sign —'Protec-
tion to American Industry —American fabrics made
and sold here.' Who is shrewd enough to thrust out
the first sickle for the coming harvest ? What misses
capitalists.
CHAPTER XVI.
THE REMEDY.
rich.
trade.
times ;'
and almost every body feels them, and knows
is now felt.
Our importations for the last two years show our ex-
travagrance and folly, in the gross, just as plainly as
and 1845, and compare them with the years 1853, and
1854, and see what the Secretary of the Treasury
says about them ; we mean, what he says about mer-
chandise and goods of every sort imported and con-
" Now, ladies ! would you help your country out of its
trouble? Then resolve each one, and form leagues
with others of your sex, to purchase no article of dress,
ornament, or furniture, which is not made by your
own countrymen or countrywomen ! And let the
CHAPTER XVII.
REMEDY.
nation will become not only the freest, but the richest,
are all identical. They will see and feel that all their
is follows
" The Herald is an advocate of free trade, but once
md a while, unlike its compeers of The Evening Post
their assistance.
their proceedings all over the world is, and always has
been, "Divide and conquer." This gave them their
empire in India. The first conquests of Olive were
founded upon this maxim. So were the successes of
Hastings, and the more recent British commanders in
course with us. They set the north against the south
ing Mrs. Stowe ; and they set the south against the
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FOREIGN INFLUENCE IN EDUCATION. 241
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242 THE ENEMIES OE AMERICA UNMASKED.
annihilated.
This took- place for the first time, on the 10th of No-
vember, 1850. • The scientific men of France, who
sent several deputations to ascertain the existence of
known
1
Christendom.
'•
Hose Tamisier was now at the very height of her
remained.
" In short, the miracle was imitated successfully by
practised."
home,
" Left unstain'd what" here " they found
Freedom to worship God."
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they can never forget that they are not in Rome —the
home of the most galling spiritual and political despo-
in other lands.
account
This morning, early, haying occasion to pass the
church, I saw that some one had nailed up the doors,
ing —" Let no man take this down till the Bishop
gives a reason for removing Mr. Brady from his be-
feelings.
priests.
ance with our own, and spread it through all our bor-
are, and must be, by the vow of their society, was com-
pelled to dissolve them.
tions ? Can they not, and do they not, fan the slight-
mitted to writing.
Is there no danger to the Democracy of the country
from such formidable foes arrayed against it? Is
in their character ?
the ground.
CHAPTER XXI.
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272 THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA UNMASKED.
had departed from him, and the church held him cap-
tive by her wily arts and her terrible frowns. The
philosophy of the schools was an attempt to harmonize
ione Naturae."
lor will they suffer any to speak with me, fearing lest
would probably have suffered the same fate but for his
to lift the veil with which priestly power had hid truth
opinions.
ters of philosophy ;
yet some even in our own day will
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In Harper's Magazine.
A PATTERN CARDINAL. 285
man so well that she took him for one," but soon cor-
priests to be
bed he swore at his doctors, ordered the
turned out of the room, and died raving
and cursing
end. While the bank lasted, the scenes that were wit-
nessed resembled the ancient Saturnalia. When it
its rulers.
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CHAPTER XXIII.
RICAN POLITICS.
thing for the world at large, too, that the head of the
a stranger to you.
of God."
The layman has not only dispoved the charge of
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CHAPTER XXIV.
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.
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GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 299
tirely unchecked.
American-
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