Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1853-06-02
The School Question Again.

The Editor Of the Madison Courier,
has admitted into his columns a very
lengthy article, from the pen Of one Fer.
refer, an Irish Catholic school teacher.
which Enthusiastically shows what some
of the Catholics desire. We take the
following from the correspondence in
question.
''They tell us that there is no sectari.
anism taught in those schools. but when
they tell us that, they tell palpable and
public lie. Lee: any man look into the
Madison Banner and Judge whet this
is lie or not. He will see there the list
OF textbooks used in the Graded Schools
and he will find that the first book men,
| toned in the catalogue is the Holy BIZ
BILE, edition of the american Bible SOci-
ety. This plainly shows that sectarian-
too. from a mutilated Protestant Bible.
Are zoe Catholics 10 send our children to
these dens of pollution and roselytism?
No! we will not. We will educate our
children as we did under the tyronnical
| government Of England. and we now say
with the editor of the American Celt,
that it is ''better to languish and die un-
der the red flag of England. than live to
beget children of per9ition under the flag
of a prosely tizing Republic" This is our
conviction. and we have right under the
theory of the Constitution to have it re-
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much consideration. The sovereign ma
jorty is just as arbitrary as Emperor
Nicholas. or the Grand Turk. When it
decides that your children and mine shall
have 10 religion. to resist it seems trea
son. If we demur above one breath, we
are threatened with IA Protestant party
and a Protestant party is not altogether
improbable"
Why is it that Catholic writer's strike
at the Bible first? Because the Bible is
spoken of as text book in the Common
or Graded schools. Ferreter concludes
that sectarianism is taught in all Of them.
He would have the Bible kept out Of the
hands of the common people if he could,
for that il the course taken where they
have had the power. or to keep up an
appearance. have suffered some to read a
Bible revised by councils. and changed 10
suit The doctrines of the Church of Rome,
whose head is the Pope.
One great object with the Catholic
leaders is to keep the people in ignorance,
unless they can be taught in Catholic
schools, where Catholicism is taught
If they can have such schools where the
minds of the youth can be trained and
embittered against everything else, then
there is no objection.
But so long as the affairs of Church
and State are kept separate, so long Cath
olics will oppose the Free School svs-
tenn. For it has been heretofore shown,
| when the Bible is admitted as school
book, the cry of sectarianism is raised,
and when that book is excluded, the cry
of Infidelity is raised in all directions. -
| They are not satisfied with the Bible Ell
Their in or out Of the common schools
If they could get clear of what they call
| the Protestant Bible, great victory
would be achieved; but this they cannot
do so long as it is in the hands Of the peo-
| pie. --thrown out broad cast, without
note or comment, the common people
will read it and investigate for them
selves, aud Just so long Catholicism in
this country will be held N check. and
not be permitted to overrun our free in
stitutions by the introduction of its
blighting influences.