Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1853-05-12

apprehended, and although we may fond
ly hope that none Of our fears may be re-
allied. yet an eye TO the safety and per-
petuitv Of our institutions. is surely sug-
gested by wise reflection.
In neighb,ring State but short time
since, five drunken IriShmen from one OF
the public works. entered church where
Methodist congregation were worship
ing, and with vulgar and bitter anathe-
mas hurled a. the minister. thrashed and
knocked about amongst the crowd. strik-
ing be tb male and female, and succeeded
in dispensing the congregation. They
were pursued some five miles when they
were overtaken by an officer and his pos
Sc. and stoutly resisted the operation of
the law to such an extent as to result In
the loss of two of their lives, and the
wounding Of one Of the posse. In this
instance it was clearly demonstrated that
they will resist. even unto death, the
due operation Of our laws, regardless OF
the enormity of the offences they have
committed 1t is enough when we ex-
tend to them a warm and welcome recep-
ton into this country, without being
expected to yield to them the right OF
aver,ing the rue principles OF this gov
eminent, which, under our control and
management. have afforded them such
blessings as has induced so many of the IN
to seek homes amongst us. We have
thus far kept it free from the contamina-
ting influences of priestcrafts and corrupt
ecclesias tical rule, and any attempt
to enforce change of our purposes, even
through the aid of the ballot box, will
create a sensi.iveness difficult 10 encoun-
ter; and whether it is right that this feel
ing should be entirely smothered, we ma
! leave for each individual member Of this
Republic 10 say for himself. For oul
own part, we are jealous of our rights In
this particular, and believe that our self
preservation requires that we should be.
! OF the excitement which is still pre-
vailing in Cincinnati and elsewhere, the
Detroit Free Press and Cincinnati En-
qurer frankly speak. The Free Pres:
looks upon the movement as
SOURCE OF ALARM.
No good citizen can view the bitter
ness and luminosity that is growing up il
those sections of the country where there
is large admixture of Protestant ant
Catholic population. without sensations
of alarm. Our own city was recently
disturbed by contest ill which religious
zeal was very large element. and il
which religious animosities were engen
dered whose traces it will take long Il
entirely ohliterate, In other cities thu
same causes that operated here have beer
followed by similar consequences; and
warfare enlisting all the worst passions
of :he human heart has ragged with mor'
or less acrimony in different localities
And for some days past. in the city o
Cincinnati, q religious excitement ha
been surging The pOpulace with a violence
that threatened riot and bloodshed.
There is a cause for this lamentab BIZ
state of things, and we think that cans
is probed TO the bottom by the Cincinnati
Enquirer in the article which we cop
below. We are free to say, that whit
the conduct Of many Pro:estants is illib
eral. intoerant and indefensible, that o
some of the Catholic Bishops, Priests an
papers is outrageous and anti republican
not TO say in some respects intolerable
II the constant and antiring abuse of tn
Catholic religion by certain Protestan
secular and religious papers and preach
ers, is reprehensible, the recent systemat
ic and incorporate attack upon and un
measured denunciation of the Common
School system by Catholic bishops, priest
and papers is not less SO; and the late AL
locution Of the Pope of Rome, ir which
he declares all marriage throughout CHS
. tendon, contacted under the civil Law
to be concubinage, is disgraceful an
damnable.
We intend to speak fearlessly an
plainly on these subjects. 1t is time tina
: the press should do so. 1t cannot be de
MED tina. the unceasing goadings of Cath
olics and catholicism by Protestants i
this country has heretofore furnished
sufficient apology for complaint and per
: haps retaliation. This has come, it
true, from the most part from irresponsi
BILE persons-street preachers and zeaots
, But we must say that the responsibility
of the recent upheavings of public opin
ion rests mainly with the Catholics. Tn
t assumptions of the Pope, bishops an
, priests in respect to the authority Of tn
church, their denunciations of certain O
our institutions. and their systemati
warfare unnn than are all calcula ted L