The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-07-17

In one of the late Yankee raids through
Hanover, Federal officer, in conversation
with lady, remarked that, as to the loss of
men on their eide, they did not care how many
men they losf, as they were either foreigners
or their places could easily be supplied by
such
We have already published the monstrous
suggestion of the Yankee writer, ParEe God
win, to emancipate the negross and make
slaves Of the hish Catholics
There is nothing new or strange in what
the Yankee officer said touching the indifier
enoe of bis people to the slaughter Of 70 :ei. IL
ers. Every Vne csn readily believe il. Ba:
Godwn's proposition may be regarded as the
mere bali ;inatien of a crazy philosopher, and
not fair expedition Of the sentiments ard de.
signs OF the Northern people. We 90 not 20
ieok npon 1t. Granting, az we readily do, that
the anti Puritan portion OF the North will; sc mt
iias Indignantly as the people of the South it ia
hot ant! Puritans who rule the United States
IL is not the moderate men who in civil com,
muni:es sway ths II ada of the populace. IT
was the Mountain" with no scruples and
vast energy, not the phiosophic and patriotic
Glrondlsts, who triumphed in the Frt II ,h Re
vOlution. In liko manner il ie the audacious
and violent fanatics Of tho North who have
j'ated aside the liberal and conservative men
of the United States. Bearing in mind this
fact, we see nothing in tie proposition OF
PaiEe HoIwin which may not fairly indi-
cate the spirit and inolinatons of the
dominant power in Yankes'0m For The
p5eFeD, 1t i'd eypeiiant To use tha Lrish Catt O.
lies i'll the thIrt to anbjugate the South
lat that end once accomplished, and The SANS
fanaticism which has made the South ;ts vic,
tim Will turn its fangs npon a religion which
it hates with a fsrocity aud bitterness qasl to
it's detestation Of slavery. Its anmosiiy 10
tho Catholic faith ia older than its ansipathy TO
african serVitude, for u century has not passed
since it WAS ths most active slave tr.,der of the
nations, but the time has never been " hen il
did not regard the Roman Catholic Church as
the Mother Of Abo minati0ns, the Scarlet Wo-
| man, the Who're of Babylon, whom il were
| doing God and man esryics to hunt down and
exterminate. Puritanism has CO existed with
slavery of the most cruel kind, for in it's Ia
ture il is heartless, sslhsb, and tyrannical; bu.
it was born from the womb OF anti Catholic
bigotry, and if the Roman Church ahould cease
to be it would he cboked to death by the cup
preston Of it's own gall and bitterness.
To ensIave Irishmen as such, is n PROPOSE
ton which even Yankee fanaticlsm would hot
dare to make; but to snslave Irish CathoitcS that
il conception to which its brain aud heart
are quite equal. Know -Nothingism, exclusive
and intolsr2nt as it might have been regarded,
even without tie Catholic feature, found it's
chief recommendation to Northern fanatics
In the political prescription of all Catholics,
of whatever nation. Who can doubt that the
fanaticism which sought to deprive Catholics
of every civil and political franchise would
hesitate, if it possessed the power to reduce
them to nominal as we'll as real eervitude2-
They were the men who had rode priests to
death on rai!s-had burned converts and
churcbes--a and who, but for the South, would
have disfranchised every Catholic in the land
of every badge and vestigs Of freedom
We warn the Irish Catholics Of the North
| that they are in the hands Of party which
will one day put Parks Godwia's proposition
iu practice, and convert them all into slaves
After the developments of this war, what il
there too mOnstrOus for fahatieism to attemp,2
If they can commit upon cur soil such horrors
and denominations as modern warfare can.
not parallel if they can esok to enslavs and
exterminate those whom they claim as their
own oaun;rymen, why should they not dea
40 na. SHY with those whose religion ia as ex
ecrabls to them as our institutions Nothing
can prevent them but the want of power and
opportunity; and this they will have if they
ever can succeed in subjugating the South. Hap
PLY for the ohjse.s of their religious hatred
that is al event not likely ever to occur.