The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-10-05

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The Common Schools, the peoples coli
lesssAlhose natsusies OF RepubIicsnism
and mosali;ys have again been attacked by
the priest party The Tue WItness.' a
Roman Catholic paper in Canada, gives
utterance 45tbe following damunble Lam
gusge inst our glorious American sys-
TEN Of Common Schools: a,R
''Is'is possible to over estimate the inn
postance Of the School Question on ahe
future Of Cashoiieilyg Buttlie other DAY
the CaIholicworld was startled by the an
nouucpmens that witllia-ia few years, and
in one countfy--the United States Of Ame-
rica-rwo MILLIONS or eouts bad beer lost
to God and His Church, and gained to he'll
and the devil. Itwas publicly stated by
Catholic clergyman, that OF the descend
ants Of Catholic IrishneH, This fearful num-
her had become. not converts to Anglban-
ism, Methodistism. Preshy;eianism, Jum-
perism, or any olter form Of dogma;ie
Protes;anisfn, but APOSTLES 10 the Catho-
lie fsithasimplys that. they. had left the
Church, not that they had gone to- swell
the numbers Of any osher religious debom-
iaa;ion. At this announcemcnt, over
which the powers of he'll must have gloat-
ell, whilst angels wept, Protestantisna con-
fdently fote.old the downfall Of the Cath
ole Church on this continent, whilst Cath
olics, though Of course Recognizing some
Z exaggeration 10 the siatcment could not
bu; admitthatit contained much truth
But upon one point Catholics and Protes.
tan.s were agreed, both attributed tho loss
to the Catholic Church and the consequent
damna.iohofso many myrads Of souls. tc
the pernicious aud demoralizing influences
OF the. school system. THE GROG.
SHOPS, THE GAMBLING HOUSES
ANDTHEBROTHELS COUNT THEIE
VICTIMS BY THOUSANDS ANI
TENS OF THOUSANDS; THE COM
MON5ScHo0LS OF A MERIcA COUNT
THEIRS BYaMILII0NSe'r| ~ ,.Li
Fellow-eilizens. cherish your Commoi
Schools, for they forn,whcu connected
with free press, the palladium Of civil ant
religious libertyl Romanism fears the Iigh
acknowledge and truth, and hence its bit
ter opposition to this glorious Americanin
satution Eis'only when 'fdarkue,s. GOV
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ersthe earthand gross darkness the peo
pie" thatRomapism can live and flourish
but whenthe light Of knowledge beam
forth from every smountaiRtopi valley an,
cabin in this land baptised in the BLOC
Of freemen, itmust sink backinto tic dark
est and incrmost recesscs- Of ignorance an
superstition to find its followers AMI dcvo
tees. ~ rl 3ss ss zgl at
While every Catholic Journal in t.
country is aiming fatatblows at tho Amer
lean Common School system, what ar
we to'think Of those American journals
who, bound deyn'by tbensrrow prejudics
ofparty and whose chief object is IT,
spoils of victory, liftup their handsin hol
horror whenever an independent and lii
orty-loying journal dares to stand bold
up for the rights Of America and America
Institutions? - '"ss ' @'.t@
We have the temerity 70 say, and we sa
itboldly, that the American journalist VII
will, for tho sake ofpower and emolumen
trucGle %, ,.court and bribc tho ignorant 70
.eiSn population, Is 4 basc traitor and al
associate fOrthe Ubiquitous ARNOLD. WI
betrayed the interests Of his countryl
~ When Americans fail in the perform
.anco ofthe duty they owe their countI
what can we expect from foreigners?
was only last month that a riot occurred
the'citV Cincinnati between party,
Protestants and Roman Catholics. TIL
riot originated IN an attempt, on the part
the Protessants. to organize q Saba
Schoolin the l2tlr Ward. which was forcib
resisted by the Catholics, who attacked Il
house rented for the purpose, and thrcatci
ed death to anyperson who would attemI
to organize the school, and three person
wereacthally wounded by pistol shots, :
Only thihk, reader, that IN the high noe
ofthe nineteenth century aud in christia
land, the land Of WAsHISeroS, Am,
riean citizens are not allowed the priyileg
OF establishing schools for the moral m
intellectualtraining Of their children Ho
long, we would ask, are tho American pee
pie tos submit to foreign impudence an
Catholic tyranny We would answe
jast'so long as eortupt partisan journals
and political demagoguos truckle for tn
forsignand Catholic influence at the ballo
box, yes, ut the ballot-b box, the very plac
above all Others. thisinAuence should new
be fslt--for wherovor IL Is felt Liberty
crushed and American institutions enda
gcred
There needs no clearer proof Of tho A
Rspublcanism Of the fOmisli church. a
the danger 70 our free Institutions from
large increase iu our land. than the I
quencyofriots within short time past.
We remember hearing an anecdoto OF