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The Daily Nashville True Whig
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
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The Georgia Democratic Convention resolved to support pro-slavery efforts in Kansas against Northern abolitionists, described as 'jesuitical hordes.' The text questions the use of 'jesuitical,' implying a link to Catholic Jesuits and their perceived cunning.
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democratic convention, we find the following:
Resolved, That we sympathise with the
friends of the slavery cause in Kansas, in their man-
ly efforts to maintain their rights and the rights and
interests of the Southern people, and that we re-
joice at their recent victories over the paid adven-
turers and jesuitical hordes of Northern abolition-
ism.
Now, will some one of the anti-American organs
explain how it was that the word "jesuitical" found
a place in the above resolution? Jesuitical is an
adjective, from the noun Jesuit, which signifies a
member of the Society of Jesus, a religious order
peculiar to the Catholic Church. Did the Georgia
anti-proscriptive, democratic Convention mean to
insinuate that there is any portion of the Catholic
Church so noted for cunning and treachery that
their name is proverbial and may be used to illus-
trate the villianous character of "northern aboli-
tionism."
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The Georgia Democratic Convention passed a resolution sympathizing with pro-slavery supporters in Kansas for their efforts to maintain Southern rights and rejoicing over victories against Northern abolitionists termed 'paid adventurers and jesuitical hordes.' The text questions the implication of 'jesuitical' in relation to the Catholic Church's Jesuits and their association with cunning and treachery.