True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-02-15
ignorance, fin antagonism to the very
Z basis Of American rights9"

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ION the side of America and liberty" Does
be not know that at that very time and for
years afterwards, Catholics we're precluded
From holding any Office by the Constitu-
b ton Of many of the States. In one of
lathem, as hate as 17S4, they were prohibi-
ted even from becoming voters Is Mr..
Wise ignorant of all the great truths from
q History? 'ea
And though our Government now se-
cures religious liberty to all its citizens, it
does not'place all religions, SO called, on
, the same basis. Polygamy is a part of
the religion Of a Mahomedan or Mormon
Our laws not only interfere with their re-
hgion, but prosecute this tenet oftheir faith
9 as crime. Is this, 'bigOtry," 'persecu-
tion," Mr.. Wise? If there should be a
colony of Hindoos to settle in this country,
would you interfere with their religion and
stay the slaughter Of babes at the shrine of
gIVrishnu, of widows on funeral pyres, or
the sacrifices beneath the wheels Of Jug
gernaut2 Would you do this, or would you
leave them to their faith and freedom of
eonsoience?" In some states, au avowed
atheist is not allowed his oath. Is it an
unwarrantable interference with the 1iber-
ty of conscience2" Ifa free government
would preserveitself there are certain great
principles Of right it dare not disregard.
Our heritage of liberty is glorious heir
loom. For the sake of foreigners and ma
tiyes, Catholics and ,Protestants, we should
guard our institutions: Then they may
bless all But Mr.. Wise says this Ameri-
can principle is Opposed to our progress as
nation "oIts history is,yet to be written.
80 far it speaks well for liberty. 1t has
hurled from their seats of power the be-
trayers of the peoples trust. But, that
The principle we oppose is the enemy of
freedom is stamped on every page of the
past. It's SO by the testimony of its own
friends. In 1928, Frederick Schlegel,
himself Catholic, one of the most renown-
ed literary men Of Europe, end a cabinet
counsellor of Prince Metternich, delivered
course oflectures in Vienna, on the phil
osophy of history. His object was to il
lustrate the mutual support which monar-
ehy and popery derive from each other"
Professionalism he proves to be the enemy
monarchy, and 'the ally of republican
IsIs." In the close of his 18th lecture he
says: tle true nursery Of this destructive
principle iE North America.p' May it
long continue to be sol Yes, it is true.
Civil liberty follows in the wake Of religi-
Gus freedom, so that it has become an ora
Gle of philosophy that they act cause an d
ofect. That Catholicism is the enemy of
both, and thus necessarily of Four pro-
gress as nation" is ritten in the toter-
ing decrepitude of once powerful Spain, in
the nonentity Of Portugal, pioneer of COM
merce and civilization, in the despotism of
Austria, in the desolation of sin-bound Italy
---whose marble palaces are moss-grown
and whose fertile shores are abandoned to
wild boar and the buffalo, and in the woes
and wretchedness of hapless and impover-
iShed ireland, whose generous children
starve for bread. -
Yet, by the influence of this double des-
potism, throughout the earth, even in this
day oflight and liberty, despite the strug-
giles of patriots and the blood. of martyr
heroes, despite
THE hopes thathave gone down, the young
life vainly split.
The Eternal Murderer still sits crowned,
and thronged in damning guilt;
Still in God's,golden sun, the Tyrants'
bloody banner burn,
And Prissts-Helps midnight Thugs
TO ,hei their. isoul--stranpling work return y
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