The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-01-15
RoPERy AND THE PRESIDENCY.

We clip the following from the n Y. Daily
Eveuing Eapress. Read and ponder.
Romansm, it is now quite apparent, is
buckling on its. armor to enter the next Pres-
Dental election, in this country, with zeal
and an earnestness peculiar to all politico re-
ligious enthusiasm. 1t no longer gropes in
the dark, or harangues its disciples in dark,
out-of-the-way places,-but comes boldly out
with the mask off, acknowledging its purpose
and declaring its intcut ave want to make
Rome the District Of Columbia for all Chris
tendon" excaims the organ of the Arch
bishop here. And as incentive to action on
the part of the faithful, it is semi-ofhcially
promised, that the next time the College Of
of Cardinals is called upon to elect success
sor to the present Pope, the candidate, posi-
bly,, moy be taken from the United States
The Papal press responds to the appeal thus,
as it were, from the very chair Of ST. Peter.
and follows up the programme with such sug-
gestions of its own, as enable us, in some
degree, to understand the plan of the cam
paign.
One of tho most active suboltcns in the
Papal army, in this quarter, is Mr.. Darcy
McGec the Editor of a Journal rejoicing in
the amusingly absurd appelation of aAmer-
ican Celt." The Celt has unfurled the Ro-
msh banner, and entered for the campaign
of 1856 with about the boldest, yet most
commercially frank, ayowal of the object its
party expects to achieve, which has yet met
our eye. 1t is the Jesuit-like policy of the
Grcemans Journal, organ of the Comman-
der-in-Chief Of the Popish phalanx,-not to
create an impression that the Romish Church
is to be a party, as such, to the approaching
contest at IL, in order to do its work, by steal
th all the more effectually,-but tho Celt,
with less discretion, speaks right out. The
Presidential Election of the 1856, it assumes
shonld be regarded on all hands as a 'true
test of American feeling" and secs no reason
why any of the apologists for that feeling in
"our own (that is, the Romish) ranks" should
any longer affect to doubt it. An appeal is
then made to Irishmcn, and Papists, to pre-
pare like men and as good Roman Catholics
for the issue,-but, lest our language, on this
head, should be misinterpreted, We quote,
rer6dhm.
Countrymen of ours, are you prepared for
the future, come what will Have you made
up your minds to suffer proscridtion Ito be-
get children for an ungrateful nation 9--to
live like crbbed criminals, and die without
transmitting any patriotic hops or holy con-
victons which your posterity may profess with
impunity, or cherish with pride9 Answer if
you can---Huvc you so determined or have
you not! tl.#I ee
Beautiful spectacle, indeed Here is an
Irishman,- an influential position
among his Romish laymen, drumming up
has "Countrymen" against the American peo-
pie, who bave thrown open their arms to re-
ceive them from beggary and bad government
abroad, and have opened to them avenues of
personal, political, and social promotion,
which are closed against them at home. The
Celt, by implication, tells its Irish Catholic |
readers to look upon us as GAN UNoRATErUL |
moment when, if its bigotcd |
Editor would but step into our Aims House |
and other charitable institutions, he would
sec thousands and thousands of his own class
fed, and clothed, and housed, at large pro-
portional expense to Protestant tax payers
1t may be very ungrateful thing for some
Protestant Taxpayers not to build Popish al
Iars on Randalps Island.--a very ungratcful
hing, not to permit government vessels to be
'tut OUT OIl piSuSufc e&CuFslOus W apNl Nun-
,ios,--very ungratcful, not to turn the Bible
,ut of our public schools,--and to refuse to
'ote an annual appropriation for the maintain
lnce of Romish schools. All this, We repeat,
s very ungratefu but we do not see, Mr.
dcGcc, how it can well be helped, until you
ucceed in carrying a Presidential election,
md putting the American party and the
american Peopls under the ban,-'a peo-
'le," to use your own loving words, "primed
With puritanism, and made riotous and arro-
sant with worldly prosperity" Bgain, the
oming Presidential election is to be.
"a war between the Know Notbings and
rish Catholics,--a war between the irreligion
f the one and the Seven Sacraments and tho
evenly thousand false ideas which the fanatics
Iisguise with the namc Of "liberality." 1t is
pitched fight between the Catholic family,
s. an institution Of the Church, and the
sviusd paganism which virtually ignores It's
If Rome is TO have her way, then, aChurch
nd State" in it's most abhorent form, Is 70