Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-12-15
NUMBER 2s.
AMERICAN ORGAN.
Garrett Davis ON Native Americanism.
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ICoNCLuDED
That have stated truly the objects and policy
of the foreign Catholic priesthood in this country
win be proved by an extract or two from one Of
| their principal organs 6 sFreeman's Journal and
! the Catholic Herald, published in New York.
have been informed that it is the organ also of
| Bishop Hughes, and II Is edited by his brother.
| The number Of nth March, 1849, makes this quo
tation from Brownson's Review, another Catholic
publication
| Our readers win perceive from this number,
that we are preparing to give our Review a more
popular character. Of entering more largely into
the discussion of the great political questions of
the day. and are aiming to adapt it to the interests
| Of wider class of readers. We cannot as Cath
olics, blink the great political and social questions
which are now agitating the public mind, both at
home and abroad; and these questions WIN receive
more attention hereafter than we have heretofore
given them 1t ia of great Importance to our
community that these should be fully and boldly
discussed In the light of Catholic faith and morals
and we that Catholic journal that will so
discuss then WILL If it finds here and there an en-
emy never want friends. The time has come when
Catholics must begin to make their principles tell
| upon the public sentiment of the country. Here
toforc we have taken our politics from one or an
other Of the parties which divide the country and
have suffered the enemies of our religion TO i'm
| pose their political doctrines upon ma but it is
time for us to begin to teach the country itself
those moral and political doctrines which flow from
| the teachings OF our own Church. We are at home
here, wherever we may have been born; this is
/ our country, and, as it is to become thoroughly
Catholic, we have deeper interest in public af-
fairs than any other Of our citizens. The secs are
only for day, the Church forever. We care little
how the elections CO. for that is small affair, but
we can never, as Catholics, be indifferent to the
moral principles which enter into the laws and
shape the public policy of the country" The ed
itor Of Freeman sJournal" adds; "No Catholic
should be without complete copy Of Browpsons
Review, past as well as future" &c
The same paper in the number 2Sth March, ls49
says, in an editorial SIS It not possible for us
Catholics to do something to prepare our brethren
for the trials that await them9 Can we do moth
ing to direct and to shape the course of the new
comers in way that viii afford more protection to
their faithg Can we do nothing to keep them
united one to another, and to make the centre an
object Of their union? Can we not unite our
selves more firmly, and make abrogation Of some
of our personal opinions, pursuits, and wishes for
the sake Of securing our brethren, as they reach
us, to the Catholic church, and of making them
instruments of her more complete and speedy tri-
umph in the land"
In the number Of Brownson's Review Of April,
lS45, which il Catholic oracle Of such high au-
thority, are the following passages; :" But would
you have this country come under the authority
take away our free Institutional Nonsense But
how do you know that From what do youinfer
After all do you not commit slight blunder Are
your free institutions infiible? Are they founded
on divine right9 This you deny Is not the proper
questions for you to discuss, then, not whether Pa
pacy be or not compatible with republican govern
4 ment, but whether it be or be not founded in di-
vine rightly IF the Papacy be founded in divine
! right, it is supreme over whatever be founded only
in human right and then your institutions should
be made to harmonize with it, and not it with your
institutions The real question then is net the
compatibility or incompatibity of the Catholic
church with Democratic institut ions, but is the
/ Catholic church the church Of God Settle this
question first But in point of fact, Democracy IL
amischievous dream, wherever the Catholic church
does not predominant, to inspire the people with
reverence, and to teach and accustom them 10 obc-
dience to authority. The first lesson for all to
learn the last that should be forgotten s to obey.
You can have no government where there is no
obedience; and obedience to law, as it Is called,
viii not be long enforced where the falliblity
OF law s clearly seen and freely admitted. But IA
1t the intention of the Pope to possess this coun-
tryY Undoubtedly. In this intention he Ia aided
by the Jesuits and all the Catholic prelates and
priests. Undoubtedly, IL they faithful to their
religion"
Mr. Brownson thus concludes
That the policy Of the church IL dreaded and
Oppobcu O1 IIOte5ttuts, lnHuSI ueUlhpOGuef,
tyrants, and oppressors Is also unquestionaby true
Save then, in the discharge of our civil Duties and
in the ordinary business of life, there Is and can be
no harmony among the Catholics and Protestants"
Those extracts avow, most distinctly, all the dc.
signs which have imputed to the Roman priest.
hood in this country. The discussion of the great
practical political questions Of the day, fully and
boldly in the light of Catholic faith and morals,
that this country itself may be taught the moral
and political doctrines which flow from the teach.
ings Of that church, and may become thoroughly
Catholic-all other sects being for day, ard that
church forever; and that our republican institu-
tions may be made to conform to the Papacy by
! its principles being made to enter into the laws,
and TO shape the public policy Of this country-are
all here boldly avowed; and also that every Je-
suit Catholic prelate, and priest, who Ia faithful TO
his religion, win mid the Pope, their hierarch, to
possess himself Of this country. The means by
which they expect to achieve all this, H. by the
slow and cautious movements, the profound dis
stimulation and arts, which have ever characterized
the operations Of his priesthood, to get possession
the political power by controlling the ballot box.
That Is their sleepless effort, whether they ever
succeed or not; and 80 subtle in their operations,
thousands upon thousands arc unconsciously made
their agents who would never knowingly submit
themselves TO any such purposes Of mischief The
| priesthood are encouraged by their own strong
faith, that, If they do not succeed in this century,
their successors may in the next.
Whatever may be the result of these great pro-
jects their prosecution Is utterly opposed and hos
tile to the design, spirit and practical ends Of our
system and institutions Our ancestors came to
this New World TO enjoy themselves and their
posterity forever, perfect civil and religious free
dom and the right of inquiry, thought, and the
expression of opinion upon subjects short Of inva.
Of the rights Of others, unfcttered as the winds
Of Heaven. The divorce Of Church and State, of
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fairs, they have provided for In our constitution,
and il was intended TO be absolute, complete and
forever In the scheme of the hierarch Of Rome
and ts emissaries, spread and spreading over the
face Of this country, to revoutonize, silently and
sealthily, this order Of things they now have more
than fifty thousand voters, legal and illegil, in
America. At every election local or general this
mighty force is made TO act with view, pres
ent or remote, to the grand objects Of these who
control 1t. The certain and the promptest way to
get large accessions- which, n another
generation, may give them the mastery at the