New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-28

csess 10 quote Judge styry az authority FOX the a''sf
ton that is the duty Of our Govern neot 20 o''s, Aui
sreoursge tie dusion Of Christianity among all our
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81 state OF rewards ard Punishmen,s' We take '4s
e. an illustration Of the dangerous and utterly uaAer
ic,n tendency Of Mr. Cheeyer's project we Sehe'e
thstuen viii suffer in future state Of beng on &c
count OF the evil they Lave done in this lie but some
Of tie purest men and best Christians we have ever
known u1derstand tie Bible teach that all SIN u limited
to tbs life aud that Ill sin here committed i here mex
orably punished By what risht-On VIVA. principle
Consistent with our Constitutional guarantee that
"CCngress sha make no law respecting the establish
"ment o. religion or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof with the corresponding provisions 10 sill or
most OF State Coustitutions-shsl money be taxed
of these citizens for the support Of schools wherein
their children to be auG theolO cal dOgnas which
they earnestly regard as borrowed from ancient Pagan
len and Of war with the fundamen al basis Of Cbrsrian
tyl II a small minority may be thus treated. who can
feel secure in the immunity hitherto enoyed by has re-
lieiCus convictions If to-day the Common School
nay teach that the punishment of sin committed here
is wholly or partly postponed to another life, may
hOt AVAAH4lVN bC tbrhsCN IA tHV AA-'-N~-''~ -
Roman Catholic or Lutheran Trnitarian or SOcinian,
Baptist or Methodist tenets tae majority may see
TT 10 prescribe And how. much longer Will they
deserve the name OF Common Schools
True Mr. Clever seems TO be animated by spe
cisl hostility 10 the Catholics against whom his bat
teres are generally pointed, while he is professedy
pleading Only for the unqualified of the Bible 10
Schools; but one must be blind indeed who does not
tLatthe scope OF bis argument is far broader. aud
tends virtually 70 the recognition of legally estab-
lithed Regioa 70 be based as nearly practicable,
his IDEAS Of wba the State Religion should be.
To such establishment sure large majority
Of the American people sterny opposed, aud not
the cry Of No Popery" petent as that is, will
suffice to swerve them from their settled convictions,
No one can need to be told that our religious views
differ widely radically from those Of the Roman Cath
Olcs with whose Hierarchy the march of events in
Europe has involved us in a conflict which the fu-
ture is likely to aggravate. Roman Catholics class
DO rot take The TRIBUNE, and we presume they
will; they do not vote with US, and that suppose
will generally if not always remain We mean 70
deserve their aspect, with that Of all other citizens,
by speaking the truth sarlessly and standing firm for
Equal Rights to ALI but their favor and patronage is
pie justice to say that Nj Cheevers incessan repre-
sensations that Roman Catholics dread the Bible, fear
the Bible or as he says on page &c. hate the Bible
are in view false and calumnious The only Cath
ole family wherein we ever lived had open Bible in
its paTOr throughout stay in il; and this was more
than twenty years ago, before any collision with regard
10 tie Bible in schools had been developed in this City
In almost every Catholic journal glance over, we
see editions Of the Bible advertised for sale and
mended to Catholics by their Archbishops and Bsh
OPS and these facts are to mind utterly nconas
tent with the assuu pton that they either hate the
Bible or dread ire dissemination. That they may object
to the use Of the Bible as school reader especially if
version be used which their Church has condemned
as and heretical by no means justifes Mr.
Cbeevers mputations, which seem only calculated to
fan the fires of sectsraa bigOry and increase the BIT
teTntss of religious hatreds.
1t is in this view that we ask the attention of all
earnest intelligent friends of Universal Education to
tie doctrines and spirit of Mr.. Cheever's book
Surely no discerning person fail to that this
spirit if allowed TO dominate, will prove fatal to all
homes of the maintenance OF Common Schools We
hear it asserted that the Catholic priesthood hos
tile 10 our Common Schools, aud mean 10 withdraw
the Catholic children therefrom fast possible
If such be the fact, Mr. Cheever is helping them eff
GENTLY and only needs to become sufficiently inauen
tial with Protestants to insure the meditaed consum
malon For whenever the spirit which animates
his book shall predominant in the management of our
Common Schools. Catholic parents will be driven, By
selfrespect if nothing else, to take their children
away, aud give them such education as they can find
e,evtere. Ignorance is calamity and to pay twice
for an education hardship, but better even this than
to submit tamely to insult Misrepresentation, and
wanton attack profoundly cherished convictions re-
.pectirg the most momentous theme that can fix the