New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-19


principles for which they risked theirs, In the mo-
Inent OF his liber aton turns round, and was abou,
to bespatters their tyrants with his praise How
ever he too had his fling at the Pope ana praise Tor
ton | need not say, that II that gentleman had
been pleased TO make use OF the knowledge which
he possessed, be would have proclaimed that the
municipal rlshts of England and the very principles
for which he had cOntended in Hungary, were OF
Catholic origin and nothing has been added 70 them
since the country changed It's Constitution Tney
the original work OF Alfred tae Great, Catho-
lie sovereign, educated in an Irish University. He
would have known and proclaimed that the common
law--the trial by jury, and all those elements OF
British and even OF American freedom, originated
under Edward the Confessor the sanity Prince, aud
he did know ali this, for he is educated man. He
would have known that If they were distinguished
by learning, they took from the Catholics the col
leges and schools with which their faith and
science covered the whole face OF Europe, and to
which their oppressois have added nothing He
would have known all this and would have
spoken Of it if he had been disposed to be just
1fyeu strike out OF the surface OF Europe me Catn-
ole Colleges, YOU will leave Europe desolate,
you will scarcely find school worth naming and
II Catholics have not now the means OF education,
there for IT, and that reason does no credit
to the English Government. The strength OF the
Catholics lay in their property, and for that reason
their property was taken from them, and they were
left without means In came the Legislature to
adopt the next process to put out the eyes OF the
made crime for Catholic to teach Catholic |!
Was it not felony Was it not enacted that
though he could not get educated at home, II
he went abroad to get educated it was a felony and
If he returned back educated 1t not a, the risk
of his life And yet by the sustaining influence
of the Catholic faith there was no lacA OF teachers
\ Dung men devoting themst Ives to the propagation
OF that faith, went abroad TO become educated IN
foreign colleges and were consigned to the gallows
for other crime. II the prosecutor of Ireland has
at last thrown away the sword, and must have re-
course to strategy to accomplish its purposes and if
the Catholics OF the Empire rising In intelligence
and in the possession OF property and II the press is
spen TO them, as 1t is now, and was no. then, and
especially under the lustriOus hierarchy that pre-
sides in Ireland over the Catholic Church, do
think there is reason to warrant the hope that In
the commencement of the University at this
time, We behold sign and pledge that so long
the English lasts there is destruction either for
the Celtic or for the Catholic religion. | say
al is time, because there is something peculiar in
the time. 1t may be asked il education
qured, why did not Bishops take steps for this
purpose 81 years age for atterly they TO have
become exceedingly smitten with education. | say
It'll not so. There is something ominous the very
successes OF the government of the time. The
country has Just passed through famine scarcely
equalled IN history 1t is pressed, it were to the
lowest point 1t is precisely at that point where
its people have been inspired with the purpose of
erecting an institution without an admix,ufe
of any state medicine, where they can educ ate their
sons with the that they do not barter Their
souls in the other world for the aiurements and lux
uries OF this. The British Government employed
every means to attain the assent of the Holy Father
to their scheme of College education and yet even
in his exile-showing that the Pope is not man
governed BY the principle of human cabinets-he
said TO the SoveregnS OF Europe, as John the Bap.
fist said to IIerod, :" 1t is not lawful" Notwith-
standing the prediction of the gentlemen of The
London Times, and the anticipated annihilation of
the Celtic race, yet II is not Ii is not dead but
sleepeth, and is awakening to consciousness of
these future purposes, and is now putting forth
her activity and displaying her vitality, and the
first monument will be, this College, from which as
favth 10 thn
lights of science and religion in the East and the
West In the North and the South. / anticipate no
such consequence as these papers predict and say,
once for all, that my humble opinion il govern
ments would attend to their own specific duties and
discharge them faithfully and honestly, they would
have enough to do without turning schoOlmasters.
Society is constituted so that government is Separ
ate department. The family is as much part OF
society as government, and If government under
takes education 1t steps INTO the second stage OF
family development, 1t says that parents are In
capable of Judging about education, and that gov
eminent forsoOth must step IN AMI take care
of it. Whence is this government institution
derived 1t began in despotic Prussia, under
a sovereign who thought he could mold and
manipulate society just as he pleased II is thought
he could take Calvinsts and Catholics and weld
toe cthor he would t~e P'eoos Of hon' rio"
him 1t spread to France, and wherever governments
wished to be absolute, and 1t was, too, "a powerful
lent of absolutism Even here augur no good
from it, and have battled against 1t FOR DOUBT
much II you saw the spring wheat OF education In
the soil which has never been cultivated by the IN
luences of religion, whether you are not likely to
re ap harvest that no country need to be proud OIL
IL had time could show scenes already not favora.
BILE to this governmental assumption though would
not press one single principle upon my feilow-ct.
Zens not agreeing with me that would be harshs tnu
uncharitabie but say that IN the present state OF
the world, that popular education as manifested In
Germany and other countries, Is going on and d.
mnishng the respect for the Christian religion SO
that in those countries, none OF those common
dOgmas that We are acquainted with are received
They are all secuted at The priests draw their
salaries. and that is nearly all they care about.
But will 1t be so in this country! 4 doubt not IL
will and among other proofs OF the inclplen1 de-
yelopment of its consequences, call attention TO
recent movement. II is that among the Protestant
clergymen OF this City. within few days past
OF nearly all the diferen, denominations an
agreement come to since the people would
no, come TO the church. TO bring the church TO
the people. lROars OF laughter.l Churches they
have in abundance In their churches there Is
no want OF room, and II Is the easiest tnlhB
in the world to exercise the politeness OF handing
stranger 10 a seat IL is not therefore, for want
OF chuIch that they so into the street. but Tor
want OF people. They complainant L. VINO READ
their religious newspapers, see their complaints
from almost every section of the c9untry-deploring
the circumstance that for fifteen or twenty years,
the Holy Spirit, as they call It, has not visited the
churches; but perhaps, when they say TINS, II
did not occur to them that If the Holy SPIRIT
had not, the Public Schools hare, and the
schools affect them so that they have 10 go atteI
the people where they can find them. ms Is one
DEVELOPMENT and speak OF II with no unkind .eel-
ing but | speak of It's developing itself first upon
the Protestant community; for We, by the blessing
OF God. enoeavor TO keep clear OF It, though we
have not entirely succeeded We know very well
that il is an unnatural come cton for the State to
step in between the family and the Church, and
unc ertake 10 educate. | have always maintained
that the religion which is least complete still IN
cuca,es. in its form and belief the first element on
which you may ground the hope for good ci'izens
Give a country education without conscience, ana
future times will see It's condition with sorrow
Oh there is sagacity-a penetrauon III 'he
Catholic Inind-there is length and breadth oil
foresight which the widest statesman that
ever occupied the wool-sac never dreamed OF.
| look upon the institution of the Irish Catholic
University, at this tune, and under these clrcun-
stances, as a sign and pledge OF better future.
Greater empires than that OF England have TAI
n'and she too may fail, and there may oe enough
founa of the Celtic race TO sympathise with her ca
lamities, and to once again under the influence oil