The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-09-27


Is Douglas CathoIics
Many of the readers OF the iTess
and Tribune have expressed desire
to know how the account OF Mr.. Doug
las remuneration of Professionalism,
while Of Rome, during the summer of
1s5a reached this country. We an
swer. that it was first made public
through the columns of the Freeman's
Journal, of New York city, the lead
ing organ of the Roman Catholic
Church, in this country. The an
nouncement was made upon the author
ity of letters received directly from
Rome, doubtless written by some of the
high dignitaries of the Church to Arch
bishop Hughes, and by the latter CON-
municated to the Freendn's Journal
The notice of this remarkable event
as it appeared in the above mentioned
journal, is embodied in the following
article which appeared in the New
York Budget Immediately afterwards.
We quote from the Budget:
"An incident has quite recently oc-
Cured, that looks very strongly as
though one of the most noble and aspir-
ing candidates for the Presidency, is
preparing to throw the chances of his
election upon the influence which would
of course demand every Catholic vote
In this country and march them to the
polls with as much precision as gen.
sral ever marched an army. The incl
dent to which We allude is partially dis
closed in the following extract of letters
from Paris to the Freenads's Journal,
the Catholic paper in New York city !:
Letters from Rome received here three DAVIS
ago, announce that distinguished Senator of the
United States made his formal remuneration of
Church of the Feast of Visitation July 2.) by his
Eminence Cardinal Fransonl, Project of Propa-
ganda have not been able to ascertain the name
Of the convert, but it will not long remain
known
Who is the distinguished Senator of
the United States? As NO AMERICAN
SENATOR is KNOWN To BE IN EUROPE
AT PRESENT EXCEPT JUDGE DOUGLAS
OF ILLINOIS,. the Little Giant" it is
perhaps fair to guess that he is the
man. Judge Douglas is an able man,
a strong politician, and he has fixed his
heart and his eyes on the Presidency /;
but if the paragraph we have quoted
alludes to him, We fear he has taken the
wrong road"
This statement, made in 1853, has
not been contradicted to this day by
either Judge Douglas or his friends.
How his truthfulness has been con-
firmed by the subsequent action of
Judge D. his marriage into Cath
olic family; the solemn baptism of his
children by former and Protestant
wife, into the Romish Church; his
ownership OF a pew in a Catholic
Church in Washington, on which his
name is blazoned in full the support
of all the Catholic journals of the
country; the attendance of Archbishop
Hughes at a Douglas meeting in New
York; the position of the Catholic dele
gates in both the National Conventions
of the pro-slavery party; the invasion
of Mr.. Douglas Golfers for the benefit
of the Papal fund by which Garibaldi
and the italian revolution were to be
put down the exhortation of his flock
by Catholic priest at Urbana, to vote
for Douglas on the ground of his Catho-
licism his brutal attack upon the Prot
estant clergy of this country, in the
Senate of the United States, immedi-
ately after his return from Rome to-
gether with the well-known fact that
the Catholic Church will cast its vote
as unit for him in the coming Presi-
Dental elections too well known to
the country to need repetition here.
We dismiss the subject with theoft re-
peated inquiry-is Douglas Catholic ?