The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-10-26
He who Is NOT for ms Is
Against us."

1--WE can see no cause for joining cru
sade against the political rightsof our cath
olic citizens--rights that are guaranteed to
them by the constitution and laws of the
land Ohio Eagle.
Nor can we; butwhenthe Catholic church
takes a stand directly antagonistic to the
laws and constitution Of the land, we deem
it an imperative dutywe owe our country
to teach them few lessons in the first ru-
daments ofRepublicanism. The Catholic
Church claims, as a political right" the
privilege of entering the Common Schools
ofAmerica and debating to free born A
mericans what shall be taught their chill
dren, and in case they cannot succeed in
securing to themselves the mental and NOR
al training of our children, they presump-
tuously demand division of the School
Fund that they may beablet to erect schools
of their own in which to propagate their
own peculiar religious and anti-Republican
dogmas, This demand, on the part of the
Catholics, of division of the American
School Fund has had the good effect of a.
rousing the American people to the para
mount Importance Of keeping vigilant
watch over the institutions of their coun-
try as well as keeping aloof from all for
eign infuence--an influence that threatens
the total subversion of Republicanism and
the establishment Of the worst form of tyr
anny-a tyranny at the ballot-box.
If these constitute the political rights
of Catholics we confess we have hereto
fore been ignorant Of the political rights
guaranteed to the citizens of the United
States We feel confident that no other
religious denomination in our land will
ever claim the high prerogative of dictat-
ing to Americans the lessons that shall be
taught their children, or ALLEVIATE them
selves from the constitution and laws in
case of refusal to grant this high and re-
sponsible privilege,
ors of the Eagle challenged us to point out
single instance where Catholics had op-
posed our present system of Common
Schools, and agreed, in case we should
succeed, to ''pitch in and denounce them
asbitterly as the Gazette" We directed the
attention Of the Eagle to the Farewell Ser
mon of Priest Young, delivered in this
city short time before his departure for
Erie, in which he declared the Common
Schools Of Ohio institutions of Heresy
and Infdelity" and advised the Catholics
of this county to erect, schools of their
own and stand aloof from the "mixed or
Common School system as dangerous to
the Holy Catholic Religion" The Eagle
however took false yi.w of its own inter-
csts, and notwithstanding it had earnestly
requested US to refer it to one instance
where the Catholic Church took stand
against popular education, it was too cow
ardly to show its hand after its request had
been complied with. This was before the
popular sentiment had been expressed al
the ballot-box, and the Eagle, fearful o.
loosing patronage and votes maintained q
1humiliating and cowardly silence through
out. tits now too late for it to give ar
honorable change to its tone, and deny the
fact thatit courted Catholic votes and Cath
olic patronage. Itnot only courted bu
received aid and succor from the Catholic
portion of community, and it cannot blame
them if the vote does foot up against it,
Again we would remind our readers tina
''he who is not for us is against us"
H NuNNERIEs. Southern Baptis