The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-15
CITY OF WASHINGTON FRIDAY MORNING AUGUST I5 1856

thus will put shame the caluppfators Of our holy
faith and vindcate more enecuay than by abstract
profession or disclaimer"
But there is another declaration made by the bishops
who composed the fifth council Of Baltimore held In May,
S43 which occurs in official letter addressed the
Pope bS the assembled American prelacs In that letter
theae prelates say:
They spread doubtful against among the peo-
p with uutring Efforts they circulate among the ignorant
and auplo med books which eaiumnate holy re
g"n bt iesVe l5ried TO infect with their
their Catholic servants; and, although Tor eath
err poured their bood HE for the defence
Or thsr fellow citizens suspected by and odous to-
gover"tent by falsely asserting that reduced TO ser
priuce--naruey of tie Roman POntf-and that we are
therefore unaithul to the repubiicp
And What, NJ. Chairman think you was the Pops's
ply Was he Offended at this zeal for religious ertj
manifested by his bihop,2 Did he launch the thunders
The Vatican against their presumptuous heads2 He
tany would have done had he been the rawhead and
boody ybon-s. lhr horrible monster which my imaginative
colleague is so ond OF contemplating the bead of
holy church. No, the contrary the Pope in his reply
expressly endorses and approves the liberal sentiments OF
the bshups He says TO hem Your letter most pleas
ing and then proceeds in high euogium Of their
real.
One extract Mr. Chairman will show the doctrines
of church In America up to the latest dates II Is
ken from the pastoral letter of the Archbishop of Ba
and the bishops and preates OF the province Bal
timore assembled in council in May, 1855 Could more
explicit assertion of religious liberty be nader
" In the exercise of your rights free citizens remember
your responsibility God, and reemen but not
having liberty cloak for malice but the servants Of
power Is from God and they that resist resist the ordinances
of God, and purchase for themselves damnaon TO the
regards the civil order the authorities of the church cha
enge obedience in the things Of salvation We have
stand and constantly observe You know that We have
uniformly taught both publicly and privately to
form all the duties Of good and that we have never
the highest ecclesiastical authority incon
sstent with the duties we owe to the country and its laws
I'm
pies and even in our communications to the late Pon
rejected 4 calumny the mputation that were in
civil matters subject to his authority"
Having thus the unounded my colleagues
charges against the Catholics Of this country and against
the faith which they profess both by argument and the
testimony Of the highest Catholic authorities will now
qnote the sentiments Of Washington and others of the
distinguished patriots and benefactors Of
try adverse to the positions assumed by my colleague
In reply TO congraulatory address from the Catholic
citizens of the United States upon his first election the
presidency the Father Of his Country thus testified his
gratitude for their services in the revolution and recorded
hr rebuke OF the proscpdve policy advocated by col
league:
"As mankind become more liberal they will be apt
10 alsw that those who cupduct themselves worthy
members OF the community equally entitled to the pro
lection OF civil government hope ever to see America
among nations in examples ustic, and ber
atty And presume that iello" rrns will not tor
get the patriotic part which took in the accomplishment
Of their rs'oiuon and the estabhmen OF their govern
ment, the important assistance they received ira@ ma
author of The tina; I'll ever ,he liberty OF ths
Unired States is drsro, ed, II will be .; Ro"sh p'i ss
Now, what will the impar public inA wien II is as
Lnned that this charge not only Rruu ndsss "ut II
directly O. TRUTH II makes the Fen'h psrio
TACT directly the opposite Of what be did say Here
The extract from his leprr 10 Prostan ytIteman In
York written from Paris in 1929 shortly after HE
turn his visit the Upited States which letter no
doubt gave occasion for concocting the sslumny
The friendly expressions OF regard for my hesltb and
happiness ed your kind letter Of the 18th u
he red ul tn nv
cherish the recollection o. the services and kind
ds On the part OF both yourself and lady
white your guest in America, among tbs most pleas
en,soencrs connected with my late visit to the United
~tates. cannot but admire your noble sentl.
Of devotion and attachment tn country and Its
nutions But must be permitted TO assure you that the
~ which In your patriotic zeal you seem to that
,sh pr,e.ts certainly without any shadow OF ounda
Whatever An intimate acquaintance Of more than ha
church both In England and America, war
assuring you that need entertain no aPPre
heOon Of danger TO your republican institutions rom 'oa'
quarter"
The views Of Franklin 10 regard the Catholic faith
aud believers may easily be Inferred from the fat that
ne once wrote a letter TO the Pope Of Rome, soliciting
appointment Of hls friend Priest Carroll Of Mary yland
Afterwards Btshop Carroll, as Catholic bishop in this
aouu,r, which letter is found in his published works
M vul, do Washington, Lsay cite, and Franklin fall
below standard OF pa riotsm set up by my know-noh-
ng colleague bg bis honored leader Of other days
iusfiuus Ca,, whose eloquence one held not only
his House the whole civilized world enuanced, as be
tyranny the MUD body Of man. and proclaimed In
whose echoes die within these wallis the
principles uf CONSTITUTE liberty aud eternal justice
even great Henry Gay say would not now be good
enough patriot for my colleague Listen TO what hr Clay
said IN the president Of the South Bend College
in Indiana:
HNor IL nv satisfaction diminished by the tact that
happen 70 be OF different creeds for have believed
that that of Catholics American and hostile TO civ
Ss5y 'S On the TS
testimony my perfect persuasion that Catholics we're
devoted civil liberty and much animated BY pa
triotsm, those who belong TO the Protestant creed
Having thus exhibited the aacy OF the reasoning and
the nsccuracy Of the statements OF my colleague rea7eo
Catholicism, allow me, Mr.. Chairman, briefly TO notice
charge preferred by him. and by the gentleman nom Ala
bama Mr sTH directed especially against the Catholic
clergy.
What has the Catholic Church. what has the Catholic
Clergy ever done for the Of liberty This question
often flung into the face Of Catholics insult merely
betrays an ignorance Of history.
Cahocity and popular liberty Let me begin the ques
ton by broad, general proposition, which defy any
one 10 refute When all Europe Catholic, many re.
publics existed which all Catholic since Protestant
ism has arisen there is not instance Of republic among
people exclusively Protestant; that follows that
republic no here exists without Catholic element Pro
testantsm established firm basis the idea OF the divine
right kings against which the Catholic Church bad con
stantly and unremittingly struggled Professionalism in
roduced the idea Of parliamentary omnpoence which the
Church manfuy opposes in the belief that there In
alienable rights which temporary majority In egss-
ture authority take away. The Church has ever
sought guard the liberty Of the people, whether from the
depotism OF monarch or the despotism OF the many
Proestansm on the other hand, has constantly sought
favor both forms Of desposm and m clergy are in our
land the inventors Of the caucus
Standing armies and national debts which In Burop
like mountain the people, the fruits OF Prot
estaDusm, and were never heard Of 10 Catholic times
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