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

IT - an fnBututl0u In occOfoance Win
Christianity, are not Catholics, except in
name and BY baptism, but are really pa
gans. and pagans Of the lowest type, low
er even than they themselves represent
the negro.
sKowHsoK's YoRMER POSITION CONSISTENT.
Our Catholic brethren erred in sup
posing that opposition to political anti
slavery agitation before the rebellion neo-
essarily implied any sympathy with slav-
cry itself We opposed that agitation
from love for the Union, not from love
of slavery, which We never defended. but
always detestsd. Even in the oration,
some years since, before the literary 70
cie.iee connected with Mount St Mary's
College in which it was said, by writer
in the Catholic Mirror that We defended
slavery, 80 asserted principle .ha,
strikes at the very root Of slavery. We
denied that man has or Can have domin-
lon or property in man, and maintained
that the only title Of the master to the
b,dily services of the slave is in consider
alton Of benefits conferred On this
principle the slave ceases 10 be slave,
and is simply debtor, and the service he
owes is liwAed by the debt he has incur
red, or benefit he has rec. ived. We as
serted the same prin ;ipls in public lee
'urs in Charleston, g. g., in May 1856
and it requires no remarkable sagac'ty to
psrcsive ihst its general adoption and op-
L
THE REBELLION TO BIZ PUT DOWN.
But when the rebellion broke out. and
the life of the nation was threatened. all
tho aspects of the question were changed,
sud We could no longer deal with it as IN
times of peace. The danger apprehend
ed had come, and the agitation OF the
slavery question could no longer endan
yer the Uu,on. for the Union was de fdctt
dissolved. The slavery question coulc
then be practically important only in it,
bearing on the means OF suppressing th'
rebellion, and of obtaining security fo
the future. The nation had then but on
wo,k before il, that of putting down tb
rebellion aud guarding sgainst its recur
renee. The emancipation of the slaves
if necessary to both ends. or to either o
them, could be lawfully resorted TO, IN
, der the war powers of the Government
, Just as constitutional rs its peace powers
E But it was evident that to avail US in tn
struggle. emancipation must be immed
ate and complete. The error Of the Ad
;. ministration has been in delaying To
: long the adoption of the emaDcipatio
!. policy, and adopting il only partially i
some of the States and parts of State
. instead Of adopting j. for oil the State
and making emancipation immediate IN
universal. Halt -and-hsif measures ~
/. the worst of oil possible measures in rs,
olutionary times. They make a. man
: enemies as most thorough going mea
= ures, and gain, no friends. They alier
!. ate portion, and gain no supporters. T,
. they carry out no consistent and con
q mauding principle.
Is RIGHT GROUND.
~ The change which the rebellion ma,
In the bearing of the SLAYER, questio
=. our Catholic publicists have tailed to u
tice. and our organs seem to have lima
lned ths, they should treat it precisely
as they had done before the rebellion brol
&c out. Hence they have, as far as in the
ID power, placed our Church and the Cat
hr ollc people on the side of slavery and d
D loyalty. Here has been the error. an I
e ror which has had grave effect on t
Id future Of this nation, and has done, d
IL is doing 'ncalculable injury to the Cath
nt lie cause. The Arch bishop of N
York saw that il was madness for Gait
81 lies in ,hs loysl S;a,es TO take the side
~ disloyalty, aud the Very Reverend Z
IN ward Purcell has seen that it was eq,
ID madness for them to take the side of .
rs very. The Church never dies, SO it
to nor absolutely too iate.s Let Chathol
co und rs,Aad the ques ion, and they n
's' set repair much Of the hnrm they ha
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