New-York daily tribune., 1844-01-18

| came very distant if not impossible. Prejudice
aroused prejudice; the Catholics soon came to
demand as right what they would at first have
| accepted as generous Difference and the Tam
many party, having denounced Gov. Stewards
proposition as atroclous, could not accede to IT.
and yet was obliged to do something or be destroy
ed. In a most ungracious spirit and manner, at
the eleventh hour, a Loco Foco Legislature passed
bill which we never did, never could approve,
because we loresaw the feuds, the mlschlels o.
which it would be the occasion or the pretezt
We warned the Catholics, both IN Albany and
here that if this bill passed 1t could never answer
any good purpose and would inevitably SUBJECT
them to the irnputation of striving to turn the
Bible out of the Public Schools They answered,
in substance, that the matter was not IN their
hands and must take It's course. ana now, DE-
We expected, we see them accused every day Ct
fighting against the Bible and wishing to eS'ao-
lish Catholic ascendancy through the uoHc
Schools. when we do know, il we know any thlng
whatever, that the original proposition OF GOV
Seward did not propose any interference Whatever
with the Public Schools previously existing
and the Catholics (at least those who acted Tor
them at Albany greatly preferred this to what
was granted They said We do not wish to
interfere with the education Of other mems
children-we ask only to be allowed to use
such books and employ such teachers for our
o,on children as we think proper, and to share
equally with others in proportion to our num-
bers of that School Fund to which all alike
contribute In other words, they simply
asked since there was an honest disagreement,
no, obviously reconcilable, with regard to books
and forms in Schools, that the same principles
should be applied 20 the School Fund that have
governed the distribution Of tho Literature Fund
ever since there was any such Fund. We be
lieve this claim was Just, and that Its concession
would have been best for all. But Party c|amo7
first prevented then Religious feeling lnterposed.
and now we are where we are. Our present
condition Is one OF strife, unchaTltableness and
religious ieud, most unfayorable 70 tilc efficiency
of our Schools. We depIorc this-we nave
done nothing to produce, but what We could to
prevent it. Our part of the abuse we take easy
but It does seem strange that the Native party
should exhaust all their venom on the Catholics,
who did not produce this state of things, and
virtually play into the hands of the Tammany
Politicians, who did produce 1t. AS we have
been abused and vilifed by those who cannot
imagine that any act is ever done from another
chan nercenary and selfish motive, SO We OK
pect to be maligned by such as the Editors OF
the Citizen and Herald. We bide our time.
To the rbaldry of the Editor Of the Herald
himself Foreigner, and often pretending to be a
Cotholic we make no rcply-and as room is
,ery scarce with us, we will let the Citizen of
nearly as easily. Ithas great deal to say about
our advocacy of Repeal attrbuting it to motives
which sufficiently betray its own We do not
expect, and have never expected, to win the votes
of the Irish for our party-they generally vote the
other way, and we presume they will continue to
do so. We know that we lose, for the time being,
many subscribers and gain few by advocating
their rights, either here or in their native Coun-
try. But, having deep conviction that there
can be no better than to do right, and leave
the consequences to the Future, we shall continue
TO advocate the cause Of all we deem oppressed,
of whatever cline or color. We have said more
for the degraded, plundered Aborigincs of this
Country than for any other people whatever, yet
we never thought Of getting Indian votes or sub
scrbers. As we have done, so shall VIC do here
after.