New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-24

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III. We DO not base the RICH. Of al men
to Peilicus Freedom on any such frau
fourdatioa as the liberation of Catholics by
Protestants. PIotestants have often Perse-
cuted, and in some countries stR prosecute
for Faiths sake. not only Catholics but each
Other. Our position assumes that all Per-
sccution is rrOng, whether Perpetrated by
Catholics or Protestants and that no IN
stance of it is to be justified by ever SO
many others. If every Protestant country
were intolerant, persecution would be no less
wrong IN Catholics than IL now Is; and II
every Catholic state were prosecuting, we
| should nevertheless insist on the absolute
Right of every Catholic to Religious Free
dom here, and everywhere. We do not
seek 10 east out devils BY Beelzebub. nor to
lepress Persecution by Persecution. We
heartily approve the perfect Religious Free
dom contemplated by our Federal Constltu-
! ton, not because it is more favorable to our
side than any other attainable system-not
primarily because it is the law Of the land
not because ether Nations have or have not
like system but because we hold 1t IN
trinsically, eternally RIGHT, and the only
system censonant with the great principles
/ of Civil and Religious Freedom.
". The poet talks of those who make
a solitude, and call it peace We have all
lately read the Pope's official congratuatioH
of the Holy Congregation on the absolute
prohibition in Span mot Romeo Of any
other worship than the Catholic. Now the
| Introduction of an act or practice implies
knowledge or strong presumption that some
one would commit that act or indulge in
that practice in the absence Of the interdict.
We know how Spain was purged of heresy
and schism by the racks and dungeons of the
Inquisition we do not hear how her new
compact with Rome is to be executed but
surely it cannot weaken the right of any one
Protestant TO worship God as to him seems
| Just that the great mass of his fellow
believers have been compelled to leave the
country. as were the Protestants of France
upon the Revocation Of the Edict Of Nantz,
OF to abiure or die for their Faith. as were
the Heretics of Spain under the workings
/ of the lnquisition. We cannot perceive
that mans right to worship God as to him
shall seem fit is at all dependent on the
number in his own or any other cOuatry
who may happen to share his convictions.
V. We certainly have not intended to cast
suspicion on the Archbishops loyalty as
citizen of the United States. We accept
without question his own assurances on this
head. That he fully believes the Repub-
lcan form of Government best for the United
States, we need no assurance but his own.
Yet he does seem to us not to accept and
plant himself on those principles which lie
at the base of Republican institutions. To
see a Republic based on Universal Suffrage
overthrown by Foreign bayonets and des-
potlsm established in its stead eXcltes no
Indignation nor adherence on his part. OF
course. we cannot see how he could assent
TO the great truths embodied in the immOr
tai Preamble to our Declaration of lnde-
pendence concerning the inalienable rights
of al men. That his Republcanism, like
his devotion to Civil and Religious Liberty,
is preferable 70 ours in the eyes of those
VINO agree with him, we do not dispute
we mean no offense when we say that they
differ from ours, and that ICE could not be
logically a Republican, starting from his
premises.
VI. We are quite willing to leave TO Time
the decision between our view of the char
acter and career of Kossuth and that OF
the Archbishop, and we feel so fortified in
our conviction that we let the Archbishop's
statement of the case pass without remark.
We feel confident that almost any Of us have
more reason to dread being written down a
humbug by History than Louis kossuth.
VII. We do not held the Archbishop ac-
countable for every thing that appears in
The Freeman's Journal We accept his
own explanation on that point. But that
Journal speaks In the name of Catholics and
CathoIicity. and it is bitter and unsParing IN
It's warfare on the adversaries OF Despousm
in Europe and on the supporters of the
Common School system here. In an article
opposing our Free School law last year, the
Editor said of its prospective repeal
at will not DO away with the injurious and prod
gal system Of free schools now BY a sstas!1shsd
this City. But II Will at least give US hope that III
tie people Of the State shall be delivered from This
odous TAX the people Of thss y teH soon foAoW IN
demanding freedom from schO0ls that moral nl