The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-07-01
CALEB CLARK, PuBLIsHrE.
CINCINNATI, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1853.

keep away. No, we like rather to hear the
explosion Of the barrel Of gunpowd der, to pre-
vent civil war, and save our freedom. Ap-
piause. We are told not to disturb fanati-
| clsm. 1t is rather duty to take up the
match, and to put down riots, mobs aud civil
war, and put them out Of America Loud
applause.
Remember that you are Americansl II a
Frenchman, or an 1rishman, or an English
man, or any foreigner comes to your country,
and asks to become an American citizen, they
are no longer French, or Irish, or English,
but they are Americans Applause. Fhere-
fore, let them send their children to the Com
mon Schools; to the AmericaA Schools.
like Prussia, because in that country no per-
son is able to occupy any public situation ul-
! less he has been educated in the natior al
school. Let Catholics have their private
schools, but let your Senators, your Legisla-
tors enact laws prohibiting any person who
! has not been educated in the common school
from holding office. OF the Canadians, /
will only say that they were very uhkind; be-
cause if they had anything to say to me, they
| could have told me so, and would have
: granted them a private audience. But no,
they must make riot, not against me alone,
but against women and children, and unGrmed
! good a right to come there, as had others who
did not like it to stay away. No, my friends,
! they could NOT speak to me in private; nothing
| but the qualification Of their brutal passion
for revenge could crafty them.
They had three revenges to crafty; the
first Of which was against the church. This
| church had been used by others before for
the purpose OF exposing the wickedness and
H infainy of the Roman Catholic Church. The
second. which Yas nothing, against me-
\ IlaU M 81. md the thifd was against The
/ leader Of the opposition in the Canadian Le-
II pislature. The object Of the riot takes this
II shape--it was not against me as an iDdiyld-
II nal, but it was against the freedom Of speech.
\ And when you lose this liberty, you may say
you are locked up in a prison; that you are
! all slaves But | will repeat, what | have
before said, if am wrong, if speak falsely,
don't answer me with sticks and stones, AID
guns, and such like arguments, but by facts;
ansW er me as men, and not as brutes = Here
he quoted an Italian proverb, When the
Romanists use such arguments, they only
show the weakness of their positions. Such
arguments are very forcible, but rarely per-
Il suasive or convincing. Laughter. There
came an unknown man into the church, who
distributed number Of sticks, and another
man came into the church bearing cruclflx,
and to all the Catholscs he said, "For the love
of this cross, you must have his blood. -
Others carried stones in their pockets-those
were their school books. | suppose those
were the stores which are alluded to BY
Matthew, where it said, "On this rock build
nm nv church. Laughter and applause.
do not think this dreadful riot would nave
been attended with such disastrous conse-
ouences but for the weak -mindedness Of the
Mayor Of Montreal. For our friends were
able to repel two attacks which were made on
the doors, and the lecture passed oil without
anv mishap, But the Mayor became fright
ened, and as the audience were going home,
he ordered the troops to fire. No one can de-
nlore this melancholy disaster more than my
self, and hope that no more blood will have
to be shed lOr me.
/ do not use violence to prove that the Cath
olics are wrong, but take pas SIS from their
own works, which use as arguments against
II them. IL The children Of Catholics are sent
Il to the Public Schools, | venture to assert,
that before one generation shall have passed
away. there will be scarcely any but Protest.
ants in America. But if Catholic desires to
send his children to the Common School, his
nriest interposes, and compels him to send
Them to a Catholic School. In Lower Canada
The Catholic Schools have tor seventy five
wears been fostered. What is the result The
| result is that the pupils have been taught to
arpue with sticks and stones, and weapons OF
a similar nature. So long a. live, SO long
! snail / lift up my voice against these yicious
Summaries. They say there are three hun
dred and twenty seven Primary Schools in
the Papal States, and people say, Well that is
verv excellent and praisew Orthy. But, my
friends, let us see what these schools are.
These schools are kept by some old men and
women, and have some very dirty little boys
land girls attending them. The parents Of
these children must pay, some four, some five,
and six shillings per month, for being taught
| a few prayers, and little from the Catechism;
not reading and writing if they would learn
those branches, there is another school for