Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-05-05

disease to a large proportion Of the English ma
ZION. Of which in spite of all talk We are too
.d,en tho seryie initatprs, = shephsfd u the
Vdiiey. Oct % 1893.
But my limited space f1rbids me to multiply
as might indefinitely, and from ether Journals,
these specimens. Let it not BIZ supposed, either
that these doctrines are mere theoretical abstrac
,inns On the contrary. they form the life and
.prit Of the practical peilities If those Journals
md their ecclesasfical endorser@.
The political issue recently rui~ed on tie school
Question, is u case in pont--one that needs lit.
tie illustration. since il has been forced upon the
consideration 81 the public in "A mannerto make
all familiar with it. \ change oi ground, aud IA
change of taetic~ has # late taken Plaee IN the
opposition 10 the schools, precisely IN aaeors
dance with the doctrines inst cited 9aef Tue
objection wHs not to theory ot pubIle ~eh7ois
5ut merely Ia having the Bhr Rad III them -
MANY umiub'a people both Protestant aud 10
man Catholic were made To b licye. thu the
whole trouble was with the "seefariani>nn' OF
he pubic schools. in permitting the Protestant
Bible to be read. But now the difficulty l. that
the schools are 'tiodless' aud "Athelstiehi'
hat The education we laberng 10 give \
arrican children in our common schools i only
lifted to make them infdeis. hbertRes, sharpefs
md rogues ."-BrotpnsoRs Grafton at ~. Nd
'y's p. 20.
From the same quarter from which Of old came
he cry against the schools rs sectarlan, now
eoues the declaration that
"rhe enemie, OF reli zion and society
seize upon the schools and seek to
control the education of the Young. To accom-
Ish their purposes they hare only to erciade re
igion from schools, under The piea Of sectdrian.
sm. = BropHsoaS Grafton at 81. Hary's p Il
nd -.
And the whole idea of education for the peo-
ole. even in the sense of teaching them To read
,oPcnly opposed thus.
I'VE are not the friends Of popular education
sat present understood. We do not believe
hat the masses as our modern reformers insult
ugly call the laboring class, are one whit more
a0ppy, more respectable, or better informed for
>,owiug how to read. In view OF these
and other faets, we, onoar private account, not
A.. It Catholic, bat prudent man aud Us n
good citizen, uaheSitdtiagiy declare that IRE r..
gard The jarenfioH OF PRINTING as the rSperSe o.
blessing; and our modern ideas Of education as
ESSENTIALLY hepherd Of the taHey,
Oct. 22.
Sir, think are beginning now to let the light
4 little upon the mystery of the popular etter-
essences which have marked the last year or
NO; aud of the hostility towards Romansm which
laS manifested itself at the polls, and in popular
umuts. When we reflect that our people are
''consiitationaity ram Of their peoples col
ages" we cannot be surprised if hostility To the
schools ON such grounds should stir the blood of
'hc people.
Nor Do those theoretic doctrines develope
'.,u-c,yc, only IN opposition 10 the schools
hoy enter - the views of these writers on all
mo Yalitcal que, tom of he div. and break cut
alto most violent aud unpatriotie hostility to the
pirit and measures of the Goyenmcnt-espe
ially it, foreign policy. Iha-, on the great
question of The relations of our country TO the
.'urd-
speaking with an eye to the immediate future,
here are but three great Powers Of the first or
.er in the world the United States, Russia, aud
Austria The Russian and American are the
wo great aggressive powers of the age, and they
nrcaten to meet ere long, IN China or India, to
isputc the empire of the world, and the triumph
f either will be the triumph of lieathenSm and
he oppression of the Church of God.
Where, if not in Austria, under God and His
hurch, the hope of Christian freemen,' &e.-
Bro,rnsoas Rctietr, January '5l-Pp. IL.
/ In every question between our country aud
| ny Of the papal nations Of Europe, these writer's
are uniformly against their country.
/ Thus in the recent kosta case
ale Captain lngraham) mistook his duties,
nd suffered his zeal to get the better of his iadg
/ nent. But As his Government has approved
Is conduct. we must hold i, and not him respon-
/ he for the insult offered to the American flag.
/ le was pre- badly not initiated into the plot, aud
+ las used a blind tool by the reyoIatlonisis.-
. he secret Of the whole tran,aeiionltis not dit
I cult to divine. 1t was To get up war, II pos
. -jblc with Austria, in accordance with the plans
nd ardent wishes # Ludwig kossuth, For this
urpo~o. g doubt not, kozta returned
rlcrpd by Kossuih to return to Turkey, and
. rrv possibly with the knowledge and approba-
ON Of our JacobiHicai Government Bro,onSons
2srislc January ls5i-pp. o6-sl.
/ Manifestations of the unpatriotic politics OF
icse writer's might be multiplied Indefinitely
must content self with this specimen Of two,
aud they are by no means the most snguar,)
nd refer those disposed to examine, to the col
INNS of any number of any Roman Catholic jour
al of the last two years.
have minated in the third place, SIR, that
OF only have such theories of government,
nd such practical politics rs are cacala-
ID to arouse the people been advocated,
ut also that this advocacy has been IN a
brit of viruence and abuse well adapted To IN
anne the resentment of the people. Nor can
rlp thinking that such tone has been assumed
it'll IA design to provoke. since they seem To know
.ttcr. 1t is amazing to contrast the meek pro
stations of these editors, and may add of
everal ecclesiastical prouunciamentos, against
n violation of the spirit of peace and love, and
i wrangling of the different religious commu-
ions against each other &c, with the practical
pplication of these homilies,as seen in the exam
! les of their authors. | refer here agan 10 a
W, by way of example:
A meeting in this city a year ago, remarkable
r ITS dignity and lofty spirt-silnply to express
le sympathy of American freemen with the suf
rings offellow Christians, imprisoned for CON
iience's sake abroad-is openly denounced and
lifted with every epithet, by the ecclesiastical
gan of Archbishop Hughes, and.ndeed, ylted
ythe hitter diguiary himself, but IN his usual
vie of inuendo. The Freeman's journal in
armed its readers Of the cutter scurrility and