The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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to Catholic citizens.--Whilst nothing is more repugnant to my feelings than to appeal to you in this way as Catholics, yet I feel warranted in doing so, when demagogues address us and urge us to repudiate a man who, in the dark days of 1855, stood by us battling for our rights, fighting foremost in the fray, whilst Botts, Gilmer, Johnson and Macfarland were warring against us, coming even to our firesides, to deprive us and our children of the dearest and most inestimable right.

Botts and Gilmer were sworn foes, and Johnson and Macfarland aided them by speaking in advocacy of their odious and intolerant doctrine. And but little more than a month ago, Mr. Macfarland presided at the Bell Electoral Dinner, where the following regular toast was drunk:

"The Higher Law.--It is the law of the Perjurer. of the Robber, of the Jesuit, of the Assassin, and of the Traitors, John Brown and Wm. H. Seward. (Music — Rogue's March.)" Mr. Botts and Mr. Johnson were at this dinner, and figured extensively in the programme.

Mr. Gilmer, a few years ago, in his zeal against Catholics, persecuted a Reverend Father of our Church, and used all his power and skill to have him imprisoned in the common jail because he would not reveal the secrets of the Confessional.

Are we now, without feeling our cheeks tingle with shame, to be so insulted as to be asked to vote for these men? Such barefaced effrontery is disgusting, and will meet with the answer it deserves. These men have not changed their views, and, judging them by their antecedents, we cannot vote for them. [fe 4--1t]A Catholic.