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Excerpt from Corlears Hook in 1820, the Wagnerian Cult, and Our Manners
Jones, and the American Constitution, and had the history of the Glorious Revolution at their fingers' ends. In their intercourse with others, they were good-natured, kindly, and jocose, returning joke for joke, and always ready to engage in disputations con cerning the topics of the day. In relation to one matter they were bitterly intolerant. They had inherited from their ancestors an intense, ardent, and deep-seated detestation of Popery. They had no use for the Romish Hierarchy or for those who believed in it, and would tolerate no fellowship with them. In all affairs of everyday life they drew the line so as to exclude contact with Papists, and long before the first native American demon stration came to the surface, they had coined the battle cry of America for Americans, and fought for it on many a bloody field. These men were of the period of honesty and manly courage, before the Roman Catholic Irish and the Jesuits had become strong enough to prevent the utterance of an honest thought in relation to their misdeeds. At that time, Americans were willing to fight and stand up for their ideas of a real lifelike Americanism and their rights.
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