The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-07-27

we make the IoiioWlng extracts from
an article in the last number of Brown
sons Review. Coming. o. it does, from
confessedly one of the ablsst Catholic
scholars on this side Of the Atlantic, il
will attract marked attention. 1t should
be carefully read and pondered over by
all clssaes, especially by the members of
the church to which Mr.. Browason be-
longs
THE NEGRO HUMAN BEING.
The negro is man, and II a man he il
sprung from the same original stock n
ourselves, and has the came natural and
iadeisasible rights. In bis most degraded
state he almost touches the purely animal
| world, bu, even in that state he Is man,
a human soul, created by God in bis own
image. and redeemed by bis Word, who
assumed The nature Of the black man AZ
we'll as Of the white mau, for both are Of
one and :he same species. and have one
and the same nature. He cannot be re.
ducsd to an here Iitary bondman ~ithout
sin against God and crime against hu-
maui,v, whatever .lavsholdsv and their
apologists may allege to the contrary
The negro ts d man, and all men are born
| free, and slavery is the natural and normal
condition Of no man, race, or class Of men.
| The slave is always the man wrested by
violence from his natural conduion
slavery isa violent state, and has n JUS
tfes,on but 90 the principle that m,gh,
III kes right. A man may without sin.
whare slavery exists and has been estsb,
lish.d without any agency Of his, hold as
slaves persons by the constitution OF So
ciets born in servitude. providing he
treats them we'll. leaves their souls free,
instructs them In the true religion, re-
spects NIL their moral rights, especially
the rights Of Christian marriage, and pro-
viding also that he exerts sll his influence
in a legal way, ss man and citizen. to
change that social constitution and extin-
guish slavery at the earliest practicable
moment; hu, the man who undertakes to
Justify slavery, to defend it on principle.
to maintain that it Is AN institution in ac-
/. cordancs with the Christian religion, oil
/. he who holds tha, il is good institution
. and seeks to defend and perpetuste it, IL
man who understands neither the Law o
r humanity nor the simplest elements O
n the Christian religion. Christianity rein
n tergrates the human race, restores tn,
original communion of man with man
/. and rs-establlshes man in all his natura
rights.
8 THE REAL POSITION OF THE CATHOLIC
: CHURCH PERVERTED.
They in our Catholic community. whe
ther priests or laymen, journalists or pub
lie speakers, who take the ground actual
ly that slavery is an institution approved
"a or at least not opposed BY the Gathoii
ne Church. give only scandal TO intelligen
,e non Catholics, aud sh ,ck every we'll in
,e structed and conscientious Catholic. w
,e have been deeply panied aud mortified Q
r. the position We have found the great bod
ai Of American Catholics, with large pol
er ton of the venerable clergy themsslve'
at occupying in regard to the question {
~ negro slavery. Not single Ca,holi
Iy journal. except one. ventures to asset
ii openly and decidedly the true Csthol
y, doctrine in regard TO slavery, and II
A. Catholic who does not throw all his inf,
gel ence on the side Of tho pro-slavery part
is read out of the pale OF Catholic sociei
he especially in this city of New Yor
I'D where there are moye Catholics than in 8
We the srceded States pus together. III
'ry Catholic who ventures TO arrsign the i
slitution OF slavery on even moral and r
q igious grounds. though backed by Il
IT, spirit, teaching, asd action oil the Chur,
he IN all ages, and in sll countries but tin
be i al once suspected of being shaky in
me faith, and Is denounced ~ q puritan
i, or as Yankee the two mest oppt
t, d brious epithe,- that can, IN the estimate
Up our New York Catholics, be applied
lso ANY nlan; and the promptness and =.
OF with which they rally to the d,s.o,
.ud pence party, and sweil its ranks. ov
sur that their sympathiss are pro-siave
ee- We eau scarcely find a Cathoio
-lor scended from an old American family,
ds ; even OF American birth. that is nut pr.
din IDEALLY a pro-siavery man in bis talk a
AT. IN bus influence Why is it we fud t
ave mss Of our Catholics following Fefnan
,er Wood, james Brooks, and the Abbe n
81 Master? Whence the intense hatred
New England-whose Cathollcity
Of more fourlshing than anywhere else
ON this cou.inent-which is the most sali
rce feature Of our Catholic populatio
the Whence, indeed, but from the con,
ing tion that New England is anti-slave
At and in favor Of negro emancipation?
ault where we will in the loyal States,
l be We 6ud nearly every Catholic We me,
sue. Southern symps.hizer, an intense h.
am. OF the abolitionis., and more ready to
r,ng the Union divided or rcconstruc,
un Ter JEFF. Davis, on slavery. as its
ends ner stone, than to see IL restored by
xer- extinction OF slavery.
Ce-
sfnl, the ROMAN CATHOLIC pSAss DisLofl
inis To deter Catholics from engaging '
lere, patriotic ardor in the war Tor the
fate pre- sion OF the rebellion, the so ca
Catholic press circulsied the mischiey