Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-08-13

sapping the democratic foundations ON
which our political system is reared. The
union between the two is pcrfect-an union
of interest and feeling which only q revo-
luton in public sentiment and revival of
the ancient faith can break up. The one is
the backcr and supporter of the othcr.-
When Slavery demands new conquests
over Freedom, the Catholics of the North
stands as the fast allies of the propagandists
of the South. When Catholicism covets
power and place for the wider dissemination
of its pernicious political and religious her.
estes. the Shareholders of the South fight
their battles with zeal that test ifies the
binding force and sacrcdncss of the treaty
between the two cmbodiments of all that
is persecutingly intolerant in religion and
tyranical in government. Thus working
together, and with purposes that do not
mar the harmony of their action, every
year they achieve some new victory over
Justice and right The one acknowledges
allegiance to Rome that is paramount to
the duty it owes to the Republic, and the
other has sworn fea!ty to the South, which
it denies to the Union at large. The cause
of good order and good government has
nothing to hope from either. One would,
if permitted to rule without opposition,
make freedom in its political sense, impos-
siblc; and the other would punish opinions
different from its OWE as to the infallibility
of the Pope and obedience due to the de-
crees of the Councils of the Church, with
the faggot and the rack. Rational liberty,
in its civil or religious sense, could not live
an hour where either Slavery or Catholi-
cism hold the reins. Catholicism is not
system of religion that can be separated
from affairs of State. Those who adopt
its dogmas know no line of demarcation
between State and Church. 1t is politi-
cal outgrowth from seed planted in the re-
ligious sentiment ofman--a growth trained
so artfully by the princes OF the Church,
that it conceals the statue of despotism,
which its rankness has over-run. 1t is re-
ally Theocracy. The Pope, is a tempo
raj ruler, as we'll as Coils vice -gerent; and
that his dominion is not extended until it
embraces the whole earth, we owe to the
love of liberty in men, not to the lack ofef-
fort or ambitious desire on the part of the
Church itself Slavery, on the other hand,
is not system Of politics. 1t prctcnds to
derive its warrant from the religious princ-
pic and the commands Of God. 1t is really
the creature of fraud and force, and its
workings can no moro be controlled or cir
cumscribed by known political maxins
which men call just, than murder and arson
can be regulated by the same.
! These are the enemies which American
Democracy-the assertion and mainte-
nance of the highest degree of civil and re-
ligious liberty to every subject of the
State-fnds arrayed in opposition to its
onward progress, These enemies are rot
to be successfully met, without an union
of forces, concert of action among all
who do not favor a. transfer Of political
power to the hands of religious sect, and
the propagation of slavery in the soil where
freedom should flourish. In word, this
amalgamation of all that is worst in Ca
/ tholicism--its ignorance, prejudice, intol.
erancc, pauperism and hate-and all that
is most odious in slavery-its arrogance
and blood dthirstiness--is not to be over
come without burying the prejudices against
men on account of their birth, against par
ties because they have been misreprcsented
by lying enemies, and against leaders be-
cause they are villiiied and maligned by
| traitors.
! We quarrel with no man on account of
his religion. But VIC bclieve-so rapid
has been the degeneracy of our government,
and so corrupt and recrcant is its admins
tration--that the time has come in which
the friends of human liberty must unite, in
defence of those institutions which are in
danger of being ground to powder by the
joint agencies that we have reviewed. We
do not suggest basis; but point to result
When Slavery is crippled Catholicism is
shorn of its strength, orwhen Catholicism
is beaten the power of Slavery is destroyed.
E1- The Rensselaer, Gazette says that a
German friend translated for that paper