The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-08-10
LAsoAsrEF, O. Aug. s, 1854.

require me to forbid your paper appearing
in my family. You will therefore please
discontinue. j. GARAeHrY.
On Friday evening last we published an
article taking positive grounds in favor of
an undivided Common School fund and of
Americanizing our own Language. 1t
seems, from the above letter, that some of
our Catholic neighbors have taken great
offense at what they term our presumption
in yindicating an American Institution
from the vandalism and inroads of a GER
tain religious sect. The Common School
system which we now enjoy was instituted
for a wiser purpose than the rearing and
educating any particular religious sect. 1t
was instituted for the purpose of %elfectu-
ally opening the gates of the temple of
knowledge wide alike to every child in the
land 1t is an American Institution of A.
merican origin-purely American in charac-
ter and inluence-the corner stone of A.
merican freedom-protected by the strong
arm of Americans d supported blythe pub
lcfor the public good. Shall strangers, who
are generally allowed the privilege of citi-
zenship, be allowed to dictate tus the
course we shall pursue in educating odrchil
dren who are at no distant day to take
charge of American institutions and stand
sentinels on the bulworks of American lib
ertyl God Forbid Aye! and Americans
forbid!
Why do you propose to take possession
of our common school fund and incorporate
your own peculiar ideas into the institu-
tions and young minds ofthe country? Is
it to advocate the divine right of a mere man
to WELD with supreme power both the tenn
poral and spiritual sword, and claim to
Speak under the sanction, and by the au-
thority of d powerful church? Sirs, it be-
comes Necessary that every freeman who be-
lieves in the preservation and true enjoy
ment ofreal religious freedom, should know
what these proscribers of freedom ofspeech
and thought have said about our institutions
and what their views are upon religious
liberation For the purpose of exhibiting
to the public gaze the doctrines laid down
and subscribed to by these worthless, we
quote a few paragraphs from their leading
'%'oficial organ Brownson's Review. To
show the unity that exists between church
and State in the estimation ofthe Catholic
portion of community, we invite spe-
cial attention to the following from the a.
bove ReOiew of October 1852, page lo1.-
Mr., BRowNsoN says:
eve found the age clamoring for re-
ligious Liberty. n n n Maintaining
that every man has the natural right to be
the standardization between truth and
falsehood, virtue and vice. Were we to
be silent and suffer manifest error to be
imbibed by our Catholic communicates?
+ We found a very general dis
position among the Catholic laity to sepa-
rate religion from politics, to emancipate
politics from the Christian law, to vote God
out of the, State, and set up the people a
gainst the Almighty. Was this, in these
revolutionary times to be passed ovcrin ST.
lence, and no effort made to arrest the tide
of %political atheism"
Jan. '53, page 81 he says:
"The Church Tin person of the Pope)
bears by divine right, both swords, item
poral and spiritually The temporal SOW
reign holds it 1.-THE temporal sword ofpow-
er) subject to her order, to be exercised un-
der her direction"
eve believe the direct temporal author
iy of the Pope as Vicar of Jesus Christ on
earth"
In an Grafton delivered at Mount st.
Mary's, Maryland, June 80, 1853, Mr..
BRowNsoN madeus of the following Ian
guage, which, unless We are greatly mis-
taken in the character of the American
people, will receive what it deserves re-
buke from every quarter of this great coun-
try. Mr., BRowEsoN said:
Equality is an idle dream, an empty
word-ft only to beinscribed in the blood
red banner of the Atheistical Revolution
list. .s..
"'The strength and glory Of a nation de-
pend not on the vulgar, the commonality,
the %servile, or the simple, but on its free
men, its gentlemen, its nobility. It is one
Of the saddest as well as one of the %silliest
mistakes of our age, that the few may be
safely overlooked, and for all that's great
and good and wise and just in the action of
the State or of society, reliance must be
placed on the many, the masses so called
But a nation is great, good and just, only
in its freemen, its noblemen, and a great
nation without mobiles, titled or untitled, is
an unheard of anomaly"
In his Review of Jan. 1852, page 31-2,
he says:
Speaking with aneye to the immediate
future, there are but three great powers of
the first order in the worldA-the United
States, Russia and Austria. The Russian
and American are the two great aggressive
powers of the age, and they threaten to
meet ere long in China'o or India, to dispute
the empire Of the world. and the triumph
of either will be the triumph Of heather
ISM, and the oppression of the Church OF