Gazette and sentinel., 1860-09-29
From the New Orleans Catholic Standard
The Anti-P opery Candidate.

III NJtlilllDhi . 49, ~ 49,
papers in the United States, we have
desired to avoid all Political discussions
in our columns, or take any part in the
partiZan conflicts of the country.
Our special duties require that we
should devote the limited space at our
command to other subjects.
But whenever our religion is directly
or indirectly assailed, 10y assaults on
co-religionists, as such, We should
be disloyal to our faith, and recreant to
the duties Of our position if we did not
oppose It's enemies with whatever zeal
and ability we possess
Such is our position in the present
political contest.
As long as we were unaware that the
record of any of the Presidential candi-
dates was insultingly proscriptive OF
our fellow Catholics, 50 long we were
silent.
We have personally, like all others,
our political preferences, but although
| we sincerely believe that the platform
represented by Major Breckenridge and
Gen. Lane, is the only one on which a
Southern gentleman can stand, consis-
tently with State Rights principles and
I Southern honor, we do not claim that
we are infallible, and concede that those
who conscientiously prefer Squatter
! Sovereignty are not only right, but in
duty bound to sustain its candidate.
In urging our subscribers to fulfill
their duties as citizens at the polls, at
whatever cost or at whatever peril, we
have, as our readers will recollect, al
WAYS urged them TO vote eOnscientiOusly.
Nor would we now, up to the chin as
we are personally for Breckenridge and
Lane, desire any partizan of MIR. Doug
las to vote for our favorites in violation
of his conscientious convictions.
Messrs. Breckenridge and Lane we
believe to be equally sound on the sub,
iect of religious liberty, as they are e,
qually free from prescription of natur,
allied citizens. Major Breckenridge we
know by reputation only, by his fidelity
to Southern rights, his devotion to the
Constitution and the equality of the
States as the symbols Of everlasting
Union, and by his opposition to political
prescription and religious intolerance,
in his gallant crusade against Know
N%othingism in Kentucky. Judge Dou-
glas we knew personally twenty years
ago, and we checrfully assert that no
one could know him and not admire his
genial cordiality, his colloquial powers,
his sparkling wit, his generous and man
" social qualities. In fact, our person,
al admiration of him was such that ne
would have been our first choice In the
last Presidential canvass, a we no'
been repealed from him politically by
his ultra pro-filibustering sentiments
: We stand in a similar relation to MN
with our friend Col. j. F. II. Claiborne,
of Mississippi, who, loving him gener-
a ouslv as a Southern man should love his
friends. is obliged to sacrifice him in the
> present canvass to to the higher obliga
a tions of an enlightened patriotism, pro
claiming his adhesion to the platform Of
Breckenridge and Lane in those noble
words to which we have already called
the attention of our readers: ~ am
Southern man., and / stand By my sectiol
and State against the uord."
The Hon. John Bell, the man withou
F.: a platform, who points to his record 70
the principles which would guide hin
in the administration of the Govern
ment, if he were elected to fill its chic
executive chair, appears before us IN
der very different circumstances.
e Let us glance at that record. In hi
; speech at Knoxville, at the very tim
a that both Douglas and Breckinrldg
d were manfully opposing Know Nothing
prescription, Mr.. Bell was more Pre-
scriptive than many of the Know NJ
things themselves. Mr.. Flournoy, tn
|. Know Nothing candidate for Governo
of Virginia, hardly went as far as NJ
) Bell in his prescription of Catholics, an
vet the Hon. Mr.. Eustis, the Know n,
: thing member of Congress from Lou
= siana, said, from his seat in the Hous
of Representatives, that 'he thanke
God that Flournoy was defeated-th'
he ought to hare been deGeated--that the
was enough in his letter, in which
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