REV. W. G. BROWNLOW.

AMERICANISM CONTRASTED

WITH

Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy,

IN THE LIGHT OF

REASON, HISTORY, AND SCRIPTURE;

IN WHICH

CERTAIN DEMAGOGUES IN TENNESSEE, AND ELSEWHERE, ARE SHOWN UP IN THEIRTRUE COLORS.

BY

WILLIAM G. BROWNLOW,

EDITOR OF "BROWNLOW'S KNOXVILLE WHIG."

"——Go to your bloody rites again:
Preach—perpetuate damnation in your den;
Then let your altars, ye blasphemers, peal
With thanks to Heaven, that let you loose again,
To practice deeds with torturing fire and steel,
No eye may search, no tongue may challenge or reveal!"

Thomas Campbell.

Nashville, Tenn.:
PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR.
1856.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by
WILLIAM G. BROWNLOW,
In the Clerk's office of the District Court for the Middle District of
Tennessee.

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Dedication.

TO THE YOUNG MEN OF AMERICA.

Young Gentlemen:—Almighty God has conferred on you the peculiar honorand the eminent responsibility of preserving and perpetuating theliberties of this country, both civil and religious. That the Americanpeople are on the eve of an eventful period, will not be doubted by anysane man, who can discern the "signs of the times." Indeed, it is anevery-day remark, that, as a nation, we are in the midst of a crisis.If, however, a crisis ever did exist in the affairs of this Nation,since its independence was first achieved, which called upon the nativeand legal voters of the country to watch with sleepless vigilance overtheir blood-bought liberties, that crisis must be dated in the year ofour Lord, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX! The greatCommonwealth of Humanity, in behalf of the momentous interests of Truth,Liberty, and Religion, calls upon the present generation of Young Men,who will have the issues of a coming revolution to meet, to qualifythemselves for the task.

There never was a time known, since the dark days of the Revolution,when the civil and religious liberties of this country were so muchendangered as at the present time. This danger we are threatened withfrom Foreign influence, and the rapid strides of Romanism, to whichwe may add Native treachery, connived at, as they are, by certainleading demagogues of the country, and a powerful and influentialpolitical party, falsely called Democrats,[Pg 4] who seek the Foreign andCatholic vote, and are willing to obtain it at the expense of Liberty,and the sacrifice of the Protestant Religion!

The great criminal of the nineteenth century, the Papal Hierarchy, isnow on trial before the bar of public opinion, having been arraigned bythe American Party. You are called on to decide, Young Men, as you wieldthe balance of power, whether this Criminal, arraigned for treasonagainst God, and hostility to the human race,

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