American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-03-08
CITY OF LANCASTER:
Thursday Morning HIarch s,is5a
.'wnAT RANK nYFoCRIsY.o
We clip the following from the Ohio e

"WzGt rGnk Hypocrisy" eh? That is
Just what the Pope's ninions have been
srying to impress upon the minds Of the
American people for years past; but how
Ear the teachings of their Diyines and
Journalists coincide with theirhypocritical
pretensions can be seen by the following
extracts:
Bishop o'CoNSER. Of Pittsburgh, says:
"Rsligious Liberty is merely endured
until the opposite can be carried into ex.
soution without peril to the Catholic
world"
To direct public attention to the above
proscriptiye. anti Republican sentiment
from tho lips of Catholic Bishop the
Z Ohio Eagle would call "Rank hypocrisy"
Again. The following from the Shepard
Of the Valley, will doubtless be termed. by
the editors of the Eagle. harmless and in
offensive, and to call it any thing else
would be "r0nk hypocrisy"
"Religious liberty, in the sense of lib
erty possessed by every man to choose his
, own religion, is one Of the most wicked
delusions ever foisted upon this age by the
father Of deceit"
50 much for the crank Hypocrisy" Of
the American people in alluding to the
ptoscriptive tendencies Of tho Church of
Rome. But let US travel little further in
to Romish literature and see what their
learned Divines say in regard TO the great
American Common School System. Beg
ging the Eqgle's pardon for not calling its
attention to this matter at an earlier day
we trust it will not find it Improbable
even at this late day, to calmly perusc the
following from a lecture delivered BY the
Rev. DR.. MANNAnAN in 1858. The Doc
tor says: @ .s
1.-THE exclusive right to educate belongs
{, the Church. Either this must be her
exclusive right or the powers granted her
are of no avail. We are, moreover, boInl
not to expose our own and our childten's
salvation to the dangers inseparable from
un- Catholic education--we must, therefore,
have resource TO Catholic education, not
as matter OF choice, but absolute obliga-
ton
Again ho says:
'Is not education, in fact, tho engine
and instrument now hoped most from a
g,ihst the Church? Is it not, in fact, a
conspiracy against Catholiciiy-this cont
=" mon educational system Of common schools
and mired scAools!"
BsowNsoN, in his Review, says;
'Oar enemies rely upon Goddess schools
State education as means of checking
the progress Of Catholicity. We must ad-
nit they have laid their plans with intern
al Skill The result will not meet their
nnticipations, however"
The New Orleans Catholic Messenger
echoes the above sentiments in the follow
ing strain: @
''Public Schools infringe on our rights,
and those who advocate them, such as they
now are, would be betrayers Of the Holy
Faith which they received from their faith
ers."
Archbishop Huge's organ, The Free
mans Journal chimes in as follows:
Certainly it seems as if the Devil were
let loose upon the Goddess schools to rem
der them abhorrent even to Pagan ma
ture."
M The Western Tablet goes step further
ifpossible, and makes use Of the following
language. which is enough to arouse the
most lethargic from fancied security
The Tabletsays:
Parents must first come 10 feel tn,
dangers of the Goddess schools SO pro
foundly as to forego with alacrty all tht
apparent advantages they afford, and t.
gdreamno more ofconsigning their offspring
to these nurseries of hetthenism, vice, ant
crime. than they would of casting thei
children ihlo some Ganges. or beneatl
some carof Juggernaut, or immolatin!
them to some grim and bloody Moloch, o
making them over, soul and body, for tim
and eternity, to the Devil"
1t remains, however, for the OHIO Edgl
to put the grand climax on the whole, b
declaring every allusion to these damnabl
sentiments ''rqak hypocrisy" We ha
hoped there was not man in the Union
who had received the benefits of a Com
mon School education, who would thu
boldly and openly stand up Us the appolc
,gist of the Romish Church in its war upo
the educational interests Of this Republic
There is. perhaps. nothing of more impor
tance TO the happiness Of our people an
perpetuity Of our institutions, and whic
has more direct bearing in cqualizing a
ranks and professions, than the cultiratio
of the mental powers and the acquisitio
ofusaful and substantial knowledge. o
the acquisition of knowledge and the col
responding course of conduct to which
leads, depend the happiness Of our fellow
men, considered both as an individual, an
as a member of the great family to whic
by government he is attached. A comrau
nifty may be generally considered as vii
tuous as it is intelligent, and this geners
intelligence has heretofore and probabl
always will be received through the chan
nal of our Common Schools, which may