Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-10-29
Archbishop Hughes Organ on
AbOiitlOnism.

a late number Of Brownson's Quarterly
Review, the leading Catholic periodical Il
America, contained an article on slavery
and the war, taking debided abolition
ground. The Metrop, Titan Record. tbe
recognised organ of Archbishop Hughes.
contains seathing review of Brownson's
article, from which we extract as follows
We cannot help thinking that this paper.
so far as il was intended to influence the,
Catholic readers Of the Review. is at once
untlmely and mischievous. The Catholics
OF this country have obtained great credit
for having entirely kept out Of discussions
on the question Of slavery. Neither 90
they wish to have that question thrust upon
them in q periodical which 10 supposed 10
be Published in the interest of their felse.
len.
DIR. BrovnsUn maintains that the end
and purpose Of the war is not, or AZ least
should not be. merely to sustain the con.
stitution, government and laws ofthe coun-
try. but to abolish slavery in the southern
states. New, we, Catholics, and a vast
majority Of our brave troops in the field.
have not the slightest idea of carving ON
war that costs so much blood and treas
ure, just to crafty a clique of abolitionists
in the north. IL it were generally known
that this is one Of the purposes of the war,
the drafting of troops would become imme-
diately necessary-volunteers would be
few indeed-and the business Of recruiting
would become even Stacker than it is now
said TO be-
The war is, as we have said, for the
maintenance and defense of our constitu-
ton and government. In the progress Of
war it is difficult 70 foresee what turn
events may take in the south, under the
pressure of military necessity. Bot TO an
Eounce beforehand that one Of its purposes
is to set the slaves in the southern states
free, and, as q consequence, even arm them
against the white population, is to vitiate
IN popular estimation the high motives by
which the governments and the gallant
ofncers IN command Of the army are actua-
ted.
Napoleon III. announced that France
made IN Italy for an Idea :" but the idea
was his own, and not furnished by abolit,
ionism. Here, on the contrary, that CLIQUE.
who shun the battlefield, and become self
complacent in their fanaticirm, under the
Imagination that our brave soldiers are
fighting their batfle without being aware
of it, are teeming with "ideas" which they
expect the country to take up and realize,
even by The sword.
True patriots will be shocked at the Re-
viewers Interpretation of what the war
means or should mean. They will ask -
Was 1t tor this that our dauntless soldiers
Tell IN battlef Was il for this many Of
them. together with their brave officers. are
now pining away in the captivity of SOUTH
ern dungeon Take, for instance, Colonel
Corcoran and his gallant fellow-prisoners
OF the 9th. Was it for this that Cameron
fell on the battlefield, without any friend>
Is eye to gaze on his countenance whilst he
lay
"Like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around hin"
Was 1t for this that the noble.hearted ard
gallant Ward was, we might say, assassi-
mated on the deck of his vesself Was
for this that the unyielding patriot and he
roic commander of Fort Sumter, as well as
the equally heroic MulIigan at Lexington.
no less than the brave Gen. Lyon who fell
on the field, were so cruelty neglected and
left TO their fate until reinforcements came
too latef Was it to carry out the idea of
ab0litionism that these noble warriors. and
thousands Of less distinguished names, have
already given their Liver, as they imagined
for the support Of the constitution and the
preservation Of the Unionf
No, no. The crime charged against the
adherents Of what is called the southern
confederacy 10 their wish and attempt 20
overthrow the constitution and the govern
ment Of these United States. Now this
crime has been attempted by the abolition
lists. but not in the candid bravery of the
southern secessionists.
One of the abolitioDifts, perbaps their
ablest man, described the constitution a. q
covenant with hell" The sbolitiopiste
would take advantage Of double tides, and
in order to be consistent whilst they would
have our army to destroy slavery in the
south, they themselves sympathize with
the people Of the seeded states who are
endeavOring to destroy this same Covenants
with hell" We do not say that all the ab-
olitionists regard the. constitution in the
light as the author of the atrocious express
sion just quoted. But we have nsser seen
the expression or its author rspudisted in
their speeches, writings, or resolutions,