The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-01-25
our Common schools .

country can control the education OF tho
masses they nced no legislative enact
ments. Children educated under Turkish
isfluences, are Mahometans; if educated IN
Asia and imbibe their principles oil pagan
ism; they necessarily become idolatorS'-
The same is true of Protestant and Papai
countries, and hence the unceaslng efforts
on the part of the Romish Church to have
set aside for its especial benefits portion
,,ftbe American school fund. 1t is, there
fore, of the greatest Importance to Amerl-
can Republican;sm that every true patriot
IN the land-that the great American
people act with the greatest unanimity OF
sentiment in support Of America" 'daeG
GOn. Romish priest-craft is already being
very sensibly foltiu this country, by train
ing all the youth of this great Republic
that they can get under their influence in
20 a reverence and humble submission to
the Church, which can at any time be used
asiustrumentaln in subordinatingthe State to
the Church as its auxiliary in controlling
temporal.affairs.
The Catholic Germans Of New York are
orowding their petitions upon the Leglsls'
ture fer law vesting all church property
IN the hands of trustees in the county
where such church may be located and
asking for law restricting the tenure Of
church property to legal trustees.
These petitioners are even more earnest
and active in opposing Romanisn than A.
merican born, for they have felt its iron
heel; yet they accept its religious dogmas
that are unconnected with temporallties'--
Such men as these are Americans in pol
ttics and public policy, and as the Amen-
can movement is against foreigntsn', not
foreigners, as such, they meet with ira
ternal feelings everywhere, and receive the
hand of fellowship, as certainly as native
Americans are discarded who hold to for
eisnssm in any shape. 1t appears-that
though illegal, Roman priests manage tc
use the public schools of New York to car
nv out their schemes-and as we canno
state the facts better than petition pre-
scented to the Senate of New York, wo give
1t, as sign of the times:
SENATE-AIpANY. Jan. Is, 1855.
oUR COMMON SCHOOLS AND CATHOLICISM
Mr.. WHITNEY this morning presented
the following petition, which is numerous
ly sigued. It is understood that quite
number of these petitions have been cir
culated, received signatures and are nov
in the hands of Senators, who will presen
them as occasion offers:
To the Honorable, HE Legislature Of III
State of New York:
The undersigned, voters Of the City an
State Of New York, beg leave respectful
to represent to your Honorable Body, thu
they view with deep alarm the perniclor
influences that are brought to bear upo
che minds of our youth, in the Commo
Schools of the State and especially in IL
City Of New York, through the introdu
ton of sectarian teaching, the exclusion
the Holy Bible, the suppression OF histor
cal truths, and the inculcation OF ideas
variance with the principles OF America
Republicanism.
Your petitioners aver as afact, that II
man Catholic teachers are employed
eomo ofthe public schools of this State
the exclusion Of Protestant teachers; al
when tits known that the inculcation OF I
peculiar tenets, superstitions and servlll
TO the priesthood ofthat faith, is declar
by them to be an indispensable ingredlc
in the education of the young, the fact
self-evident that such teachings are Ell
ployed in utter disregard Of all rules
the contrary, and beyond the casual or
different scrutiny of those appointed to
porvise these primary institutions OF pc
ular instruction.
That by this process the common sch'
fund, which is derived by tax from
whole people, but almost exclusively FRI
Protestants, for the purpose Of literary
ucation among the rising generations, ir
spective of creed, is perverted to Sectarl
and anti-republican uses; and that, Will
participation inIthe use ofthis funds den
to the schools Of all other denominations
Christians, it is, in effect, not denied to
Roman Catholic.
This your petitioners declare to be
act Of injustice toward the contributors
this fund, as we'll as dangerous to the
interests of the future of the State; Il
cannot believe that either the nature of
fund, or the interests ofthe State, will W
rant or justify the application of any
ton of the School money to sectarian
struction, yet they claim that if any
religious sectis permitted to use this fu
either directly or indirectly. all other Sc
ought, of right, to enjoy the same pr
lege. f.
Your petitioners aver, as further fl
that some Of the public charitable inst
tions in and near the City of New York
also under the control of the same anti
publican influences, and that persons
Protestant faith, who are, from necess
compelledto take refugein those inst
j. tons, are required to submit to the rig
ofPapal authority.
Your yat;tionars helieva that the on