Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-05-05

practically, but who have coupled tha
question with the notorious abuses O
which have spoken, are alive to the sub
ject; men who hare read it, who feel an,
acknowledge its truths, and practice it
: morality, but who have been averse to any
! political action on the subject, who have
stood aloof on the ground that the Catholic
church was too far in the minority to give
. any cause for alarm, begin to look upor
the subject in new ligL ,and are ready te
| meet the question independent of existing
parties.
Catholicism alone, is political cypher
and unless it is attached to some one Of
the great parties can accomplish nothing
Its most potent antidote, and worst enemy
is American republicanism, and universal
education, for Notwithstanding the con-
tinual accession Of numbers from cmigra.
United States it is an exotic to which the
soil is unsuited, aud the only hope Of the
church is the extirpation of the Bible, and
the suppression of light in whatever way
conveyed, and their only means for the
accomplishment Of this, is by the aid Of
whichever party they may succeed in
turning over to their interests, for say as
you will, it is not the Catholic vote that
is bought; that can never be cast where
the interests of their church is not recog-
nized What to them is wLig or demo-
crat, America or Europe, monarchy or re-
publicanism without their church? What
are Ireland's wrongs but the encroachment
of the civilization, intelligence and happi-
ness of Ulster, on that priest ridden, semi
barbarous and starving region-the. South?
They talk of "absenteeisn" and the impo-
sition upon the people of an established
church which they are compelled to sup
port, though they never enter; we ac-
knowledge the imposition, but the same
thing exists in the North among people
as bitterly opposed to the establishment
as the Catholics of the south, yet they pay
their tithes, which are not onerous, and
permit starving curates-reotois are always
.absen,ees to read the service ,c empty
pews, and bare walls to echo the responses,
while they are worshiping i'll their own
way-content and we'll fed and loyal.
l repeat it, We have nothing to appre-
hend from Catholicism alone; her power
is gained by collusion with corrupt parties,
whose leaders would sell any birthright for
the coveted mess of potiage, and be con-
tent to see the fair fabric that shelters
them in ruins, SO they might share the
spoils
In the place where 1 passed my boy
hood, stood beautiful relic of past age,
a druidcal altar-an immense boulder,
poised upon some half dozen of upri ght
slabs, its gray head rising above surround
ing objects. The ignorant and covetuous
yaudal who owned the field in which it
stood, wanted the slabs for yrorestones, and
in attempting to get one out for that pur-
pose, the immense block fell and ground
the slabs to powder, and the beautiful
relic which had attracted thousands to the
spot, lay q ruin. The case is parallel,
There is craven race in our own midst
who in their eager race for spoils, neither
see the beauty and grace, nor the value to
us and the world of the structure they are
undermining, nor look forward to the
ruin they work by removing the sustaining
prop-its keystone and its crowning glory.
The Editor of the Daily Register a few
days ago, in an editorial on the subject
asserted that, in every question of free
dom or slavery, the vote of the Irishman
was invariably recorded in favor Of the
latter; an unqualified and sweeping charge
and in its unqualified sense unworthy of
the Editor of that paper, who had only
black slavery in his eye; but let any party
introduce an "omnibus in favor of all
the forms of slavery combined-black and
white, mental and physical-and take
l." Holy mother" aboard as passenger,
and that party is sure of the vote OF her
faithful followers, to man. 1t is broad
assertion, but who can prove it false from
the history of the past or the present!
When the time comes, however, to de-
terminc second time, the question free
dom or slavery, Ireland will be found to
contribute her full quota of men, who both
think for themselves and act for them
selves, and whose vote never has been, and
never will be recorded on the side of sla-
very. Apropos of this subject, Bishop Ives
volume has been issued at last, and so great
is the demand for it, that many Of the |
smaller dealers can not obtain copy for
sale. l have not seen it, but l suppose it
explains the entire modus operandi of the
transition effected in the case of the B:sh-
op, ct les autres de cette e'cole, from the
larvm to the perfect state.
The "Chronicle has already assumed
the face of an old friend to me, and look