The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-06


and although il was enabled 10 do much harm as it ad-
yaneed in steps Of blood and Of umult yet We can now fell
eiate ouseves that the road is clear for The near future
and that we 20 into the contest 1856 only with this
persecution tramplcd beneath feet in contempt and in
dpuaon but fortified with the honor and the glory Of
having broken il down.
THOUGHTS FOR POLITICAL PREAcHEhs-lRELAND
AND CANADA.
SO many Of the decisions which have divided the pub
lie mind have risen from The productions of political cle
gymen that cannot too often call attention TO the fact
that il is much better to educate people into law order
aud religion than egsate them into it. All attemptsto
force morality religion have been failures from
the beginning the world. mo Popery has always been
yorie cry every country in which the doctrine Of pro.
scrpon by law has been formally advocated and our as
have seem has tey lately proved that Il Is not an es-
cepon to the rule 1t is significant circumstance loo,
that the Protestant gion should have advanced against
numbers prejudice bgoty and interest and that in the
times of its infancy the power Of princes could not prevail
against and yet whenever has sought to ror upon
Catholics with the weapons in defying which i Las Itself
grown athletic and irresistible it has as il wee LOST It's
vigor aud dwindled into inieriority
Let us take two instances show how little the forcing
system in matters religion has operated to aiyance Prot
estant faith or in other words, to put down the Catholic
faith Ireland has for many years been to the Bh leg
ators a subject upon which they have exercised their
fell anatomy of intolerance and cruelty They have hacked
aud cat and mutatcd its fair proportions and the rights
which God has given It's people until it may be said to
Law before them manged corpse Why has ireland thus
suffered? Why has England piled upon Ireland disqua
living statutes thes fines and vast church establish
ent to crush it. as were still deeper into misery and
shame why have war and famine been invited by Eng
fish legislation to this hapess islandf Whyf Only be-
cause tile people Catholics and notwithstanding Eng
land has boosted Of Milton and Shakespeare aud thousands
Of great in the law, in divinity and in letters still
from this very nation of intellectual superiority have sprung
the unnumbercd which have been poured through
hundreds of years upon Ireland and all because her people
have been Catholics Now venture to say nowthsand
ing all these prosecutions that at this day the people Of
Ireland are pronder of their faith and eager to die
for it than ever they have been.
Catholic Ireland is the sore spot in the whole British
system prosecuted Ireland is filled with animosites
against prosecuting England; tax-paying Ireland i,
crowded with ittrigues against txgahcring England;
ridicued Ireland is always suspected by paronizng Eng
land Ireland the phantom which hauns the pillows Of
the English statesmen and in every popular cohvuson
!
instruction and Of revolt Such is tile result of attempt
ing legslate and Cypress Ireland out of her religion
The other instance taken from Lord Nugens letter,
addressed English gentleman the political claims
of the Roman Catholics, and is as follows
At your conquest of Canada you found it Roman Cath
ollie you had choose for her constitution in Church and
State you wise enough not to thwart public opinion
Year conduct towards sbycriansm III Shetland wa
an example for imitation your own conduct towards CATH
ocsm in Ireland beacon for avoidance and in Canada
You established and endorsed the religion of the people,
your only Roman Catholic colony Your other
colonies revolted they called Catholic to support
them and they achieved their independence Catholic Can
ada with what Lord Liverpool would call her half allegiance
stood BY She fought by your side against the in
reference of Catholic France To reward and encourage
loyalty you endowed in Canada bishops and
ordain others mass whom, at that very time your
laws would have hanged for saying in England and
Canada still yours in spite of Catholic France in spite Of
spiritual obedience the Pope spite of Lord Liver
pools and in spite of the independence of all the
States that surround her. This the only trial have
made Where you allow to the Roman Catholics rregcn
undturbed it has proved tsecohpatble with the most faith
u allegiance 1t only where you have placed allegiance and
religion before them dilemma that they have preferred
Gas who will say they ought not y their religion to their al
legiance. How then, stands the mputaon Dsproved BY
history dsproved in all States where both religions coexs
and in both hempheres and asserted in exposition BY
Lord Liverpool, solemnly and repeatedly abured by all
Catholics of the discipline offheir Church."
A kNOW-N0THING CARD FOR MARYLAND.
If undertook expose the abs trdly false statements
which daily put forth by the opposition press with the
hope of bringing the national administration into discredt
with the country at large would task which
would prove wearsome to ourselves it would be
profitable to readers But there is class of misce-
GUS fasehoods which have be met noticed and promptly
slenced matter how frequently the annoyance may DO
repeated The last of this class which has been sud-
denly thrust into form and substance for immediate ccu-
laon in Maryland be etIectuay disposed of in few
lines.
A contract recently awarded to Messrs Beae
Dickson of New York, for supplying the granite for the
Treasury extensone bid Of that frm in the opinion OF
the Secretary Of the Treasury being the most favorable
for the interests Of the government Of the many that
were offered Since this award has been made public, it
has been than insinuated that bids far more m
vorabe for the government, passed in silence
and that so far from Messrs Beae Dickson being the
lowest and best bidders respectable and responsible @
zens of Washington and Baltimore had offered to furnish
the required amount Of granite for half the amount
which government agrees pay the successful
tractors Indeed know-nohng organ does not hes-
assert that the prices Of the firm already named
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