The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-15


5 Marino Andora, exist upheld and sustained by the
patriotic clergy we'll by their patriotic dsciPrsf
how do Mexico and all the republics OF South America
exist? why does Calholciy appear necessary in
gredient in q republic
Il win be objected that these Catholic republics refuse
liberty OF worship, and have established religion So,
too has New Hampshire now so had Massachusetts New
York AMI many other Of the United States after the
luton. So too has federal government 70
In Its army and navy since imprisons the Catholic
soldier Fort Hamilton, and puts the Catholic pupil OF
the naval schsol Annapolis in rons for refusing TO at
tend Prolesta worship.
horeoytr, a law maintaining religion which Is the
creed Of the whole people is In fact dead letter but
law forcing the whole the religion OF part tyrann
CAL aud this Catholic State does England did IL and
though in the reign OF Elizabeth the ajoy OF the Eng
sh people Catholics, has made the majority
Potestan or mere pagans for many know not Of God OF
Redeemer. Sweden did II, and Gusavus Vasa even
slaughtered his brave Dalecarean the who achieved
Swedish independence because the heroes refused "a re-
nounee their ia,,h Denmark did it, aud may say eKr"
pae6 the Catholics within her borders or iorced them into
Lutberanism.
These were State acts long deliberaed long enforced
till the object attained not retaations in periods OF
civil war, when mems minds were all infamed and ex-
which Catholic need avoid No Catholic State ever
acted to its Protestant subjects England Sweden and
Denmark have done to their Catholic subjects
But have the Catholic clergy taken the part Of the
people against The Catholic Church has
head the Pope and by the acts Of the Popes
whether they favored tyranny or popular rights Inc
beru the prince and his peopa contract made IN the
hands of the Church, with the Church judge OF its
faithful execution Many monarch from the eighth cen
tury the sixteenth excommunicated tor violation
OF his coronation oath and every instance the OBJECT
of the accommodation was tyran who oppressed his
people, and invaded popular rights Our schoobooks and
histories are all English in their tone and that
from the 1t is time that should seek the truth OF
history and adopt the tone OF truth What names IN Eng
lsh history constantly held to execraon than
Saint DuRstan and Saint ThomasaBecket2 fetwhat the
cause Dunstan, in time of Edwin, and Thomasa Beckett
in the time of Henry like Saint Ansem in that OF Rufus
declared that the individual had rights which the king
could take away. They the champions OF Eng
ish liberty against the Saxon yrant and the tyranny OF
the Norman
"There is no law to say such things
As are not pleasing to the ears OF kings,
was however doctrine pleasing to the rulers of Eng
land the Saacen and accordingly Duns'an per
secuted in life and revled after death Beckett was uea
ed in the same way Nay more Henry VIZ could not not
his throne till be had Beckett centuries after his
DEATH taken from his honored grave and tried for oppo
st0n 10 kingly power-ay and condemned too we haVo
seen how kings eaed Duustan and Beckett How did tho
church these Of popular rights She eL
anlne their lives and devmed them men whom she couid
p pose the OF the world, and TO tins day ene
hUpors the da, their death the men Hho ia ed to
pose the power of yrans leave II to REPUBLICANS to
decide whether in this should follow The court
the church For my own part no less as republican
III Catholic, honor Saint Dunsan and HE succts
sr Saut Thum ,s-a-Becket bouor them Tor their in-
dlydua ats and members OF that body OF clergy 10
whom, Chief Justice Savage OF New York, declared
" ~ e the preserv OF all our liberties
AL know what the Spanish inquisuu was, but aho,
pray struggled constantly To demolsh It's po@er-io mike
its pt rediuga open appeal and revision Again We
find the Popes the SIDE OF popular Gery. a'd ss~tu
fnd he OF kings iestlng ttose Who sohght
TO abr,dgr 'her power Sextus Is name aluIos ~
lunded with oboquy as a Beckett or DunstAni md
". hs great crime in the eyes Of Spanish monarchiss
was that with all the resolution OF his nature be Insisted
the right OF prisoners in the inqus'on 10 appeal
Rome hreaeued 10 cut Oh from the church. OF which
he was the head ali connected with the tnqusiuon IN
Spain u they Persisted
do not 60 hunt up Obscure psmeS to parade before
you lake familiar Names and bid yOa To- 10 history
and Judge yuurseves after such exAiainaaon a. IN
IA jury -UOI you would pive case before you.
There is another priest in history, whose name not SO
familiar whose oouuty should possess greater interest
for early American republic Iceland "as during
the middle ages republic renowned for the learning OF
It's monks and clergy and for being the first country IN
modern times to cultivate the vernacular ln Language
is oldest spoken dialect which has literature Of It's
Europe would fain claim Iceland as psrt OF ner
continent but position amounts TO any thing, icelsnd
as much American the Bermudas West Indies, ana
French geograpber give 1t to Here then Is anoneI
Catholic republic; and we find that at last when Den
mark became despoc Protestant power II reduced thc
Catholic republic the state Of provn and TO tins DAY
II groans under the Danish yoke One bold effort wac
the republic, aud the leader OF thnt mort
cbon led BY Danish historians as dissoue abandoneo
man What wonderl he Catholic bishop tina thought
popular rights sacred IhinR to be blo"n away
by the bea,g o king For ten years this bishop MAJ
fully upheld the sncent standard Of he Iceland republic
aud in bis blood sauk together Cshoeity and rrpuoh-
cansn on the lsat d.
vi the part hken Oy IdtuOhS SiOtJ IVY = -
ouon need not speak there no tories among hem
and Canada did JOIN us II was because he hrSl Con
grsss denounced the Canadian clergy and me C'no &c
h1on yet then many OF the Catholic clergy W Cana
d favored cause and suffered for IL One tie Rev hr
DE la Vanerc was sent in irons England and expia-
led by nearly two years imprisonment in prisonsh
bis love Of American independence The Indians VINO ha
been trained Christianity by the Catholic clergy sdeo
with the Americans; and Orono with his Catholic Aoena
kis and Micm,cs from Maine and the East Captain Louis
and his lroguos OF Caughnawaga and ST Regis oa'ea
for the freedom OF America.
Mexico when Il attempted TO throw of the Spanish yoke
led by parish priests Hidslgo aud Moro and re
publican Mexico honors them the rst the pures and
noblest Of her patriot sons
Belgium gave another proof Of the sympathy Of the CATH
oc clergy with popular liberty Towards the close Of the
last century II Austrian province but when tho
AusisDs invaded their liberties the people were headed
by the students Of the Catholic theological seminary o.
Louvan and guided by Maon who aferwards died e1er
csinR his ministry as 4 Catholic priest at New York.
achieved their independence, which wresed, indeed
from them ere long by the armies Of then in6del France
The Catholic Church. In its very nature Is republican,
in ihe true sense Of the word Her monsstic ORDERS in
which prince and peasant stand equality in which
the superiors elected and hold Office generally for
limited time show that she accepts but does not value
distinctions OF birth and rank and the exKng Of Sar-
dna the cardinal prince who enters order becomes
like those around him-ke the meanest Of his own do
pendants who enters there simple father or brother
There few specific personal charges preferred by my
colleague which desire 10 refute before close Ny col
country 10 settle the 81 Louis Buffalo church controversy
case he avers between the bishop Of Buffalo and the
laws OF New York This 10 not true Neither the Pope
bis nunco guilty Of such interference. Bedni
stopped in this country his way TO Brazil which
government be appointed ambassador; and although