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! in the s1ayeho}ding States, and not all even o,
them, are deliberately aud Intentionally dis
loyal, or On moral and religious grounds ir
1a5or OF slavery, when brought forward as q
= alst1nct and separate question. Catholics
I{{ II ate ysass It least bear
that party, since 1850, has been politically a
pro-s!ayeEy party, and from Its ranks have
Issued the chiefs Of the rebellion. Secession
vas me Work Of the Democratic party In the
Southern States, aided aud encouraged, up to
; certain point, by the Democratic leaders at
the North, for reasons not difficult to divine.
Catholics hare become pro-slayery through
party associations and party attachments.
They have confoundsd opposition to political
; Abolitfonism with the defense of slavery It.
self, and mistaken fidelity to their party for
cannot conceive It possible for man to be q
good Catholic aud not support the Democratic
party; and to large number Of them, leav-
Ing their political party Is next ncfghbor to
rcnouncing their Church. The leaders Of the
rebellion at the South were also among
the Know Nothing movement, and the mass
Of our Catholics hare a much more ready
sympathy With Southern shareholders than
they have with the more prosaic population
Of the North. The stakeholder seems to them
nearer akin than the Northern freeman to the
Here is, we apprehend, the real secret Of the
pro-e1are1yism and dlsloya1 proclivities which
we notice in large portion Of our Catholic
population, Or If not aisloya procliyities, ut
1east lack of heart sympathy with the Gov
ernment to which they owe allegiance. 1t Is
probable that the majority Of our co-relIgion-
lists consider tho fearful struggle for life In
which the nation is now engaged, Is only an
ordinary struggle for place and power between
two political parties, in which q man may
take either side O. no eide at all. with
derstand that the struggle Is between the
Government representing the nation, and
rebels seeking its overthrow, and that be-
tween the Legitimate government aud rebels
there is but one side which loyal citizen can
take. f1oyal he can neither side with the
rebels nor stand neutral When the nation is
engaged in struggle for Its existence against
an armed rebellion, neutrality itself Is treason
and made 80 By laws Of Solon,-and taking
sides In any respect with the rebels is hig b
treason, and punishable as such. Yet our
ic leaders, who are, for the most part, nom
Catholics, and more censurable than they.
| HATRED OF NEW ENGLAND.
We maintain that Catholics are only accl-
denta1ly pro-slayery and dis1oynl In their ac-
tiun. II tho Gaze were reversed, and the
Northern, especially the New England states,
Te5e VET, the ,s: aeeeding States, and to put down
| pae the slaycs, we think there would be no
more earnest emanclpationists, and no more
loyal men in the Republic. The public opin-
| ion Of the Catholic body is formed mainly by
the Catholics in the Border Slaye States, and
the Catholics in these States, including the
District Of Columbia, are intensely Southern
| in their character mud sympathies, and bitter
| II hostile to New England, CT to the IL Yank-
ees," Their Southern sympathies, and hat
red Of Yankees or New Euglapders are diffused
New England States themselves. Catholics
| have been made to believe that but for New
England, nay, but for Massachusetts,, there
would have been no rebellion, no civil war.
1t Is, they generaIly believe, theintermeddllng
policy Of Yankee ahoiitionists, Of such men as
| GnrriEon and Phillips, that has caused all tho
troub3e.-a ridiculous belief, no doubt, but
still seriously held by u large majority both Of
our clergy and laity. Hence their extreme re-
luctance to be found on the side Of the hated
New England against the darling South. It
! goes decidedly sgaiDst the grain. If the Eai-
lander by birth and descent, Or If he had been
willing to hive denounced his Puritan auces-
tors rs . set Of psalm singing hypocEites with
our single virtue, he would have been a
great tagoEite with American Catholics, and
if he had been willing to make Ills Review
tender to the New York Freen,an's Journal,
the redoubtable graduate Of Fort Lafayette,
thu Able Mc1faster, as the Herald calls him,
WnnId, We doubt not, have been q staunch
| Union man, and foremost and loudest among
IT, opponenta Ut the rebellion, aud advocates
OF the vigorous prosecution Of the war, against
1t. He is now one Of the leaders Of the Cop
| perheads, and a most belligerent pence man;
and Jet If, per impossible, We were to side
with the rebellion, he would renouuce his
| copperheaalsm and become loyal lie Is
| scDal or sectional prtjudices, and we hare
sometimes hncied b. would rather 20 below,
than enter heaven with Yankee, or as other
than the chief of his clan. All preiudices Of
| this sort arr silly, and get they hare too much
| influence with Us Catholics.
AND REpRoyrD.
poc.xa,n, +,a 49,, a+astsas ssta - o,.u.o,o,u
n3;.inaI Gart;4a ~ 4aeesun1 ~ sItseay as solEy
hare done themsav.a ua' end ths,. So%ua5 a's5
rTeat inirstice hv tSa,r ~. nnhiic .++,tuaS -
regard to it. No Catholic You'd ] ever % dream N
arv means ma ~ = }athai,c " who b,a ~
s1;rhtsst Ena~ieane ~ h;a ra;;,," W. ia ~ tno
a nRonnent entertosn fhe notio5 tha1t ba nonii
bc trne Cnfhu1;c and MT ha hoart;le ~ 80 os"ns4
ed to slavery IN thjs snh;acf ths cfaT@v cip11
mnst nerm;t ns r. .av that thsv in hsve ei9 haSg
1oo ,et;eant ~ +;n,,a ~ .,,,t;y nasS as b b.s
nnshed b1nn,n p.1an,e beaad 81 Yet11tt nato
f;,nIts Thsr ~ fa,1.S - hase ~ tast;
naa.1 ,<-oin a'os .aA.1 ,1 ~ oIta e1s tseu
HInIo1, sisas. 1,aas naas Tn T. LII Gtaone
~ ha1.ar t1:n 10 ~ y. 10y hnoM'
h;',tn 81 ' a,nar;o,' ~. aooo.unS ,.;ti, iIESptl>
oLity ~ MHetIan A1! a!asesy villa christian
moiansy. ! tneJ know tnat. save ~ very raEe
soza IT, u n ior tns slase 70 or
sel'e t1e laws oi Cnflttaan marriage, or fulfil
ne imperalse duties OF Christian parent
Ci!fisuan marriage IS almost universally sub
sthuted by eoncubtnage, and tue masters sell
aom respect inc sanctlty OF tue marriage r.
lal9n among Their slases, and they hold it
neliner aqnltery nor iornlcation TO satisfy
tnslf own brutal lusts WITH any Of their female
1n,.tar ~ s,o. eaogng ~ ~ H. e, e5eer 1or
In fhe Confcssinnal. and IN most narts ~ the
South the priest is regarded only os a better
sort of servant. and is yery inJiaarently sun-
ported. We have never conyersed with
ua.ed steak bis mini lid mt ienioya ~
moral md re]1sinns prnnn1s tho evistanca ~
sIayerv md fselinrlT cynress hIa e,rrest w;sh
fnr tx extinetinn How Tn,nv en1,1htenad
deyont. and trniv Catholic LADIES hars 20 11a1
in our visits r. the stare Stotaa who cnn,J MA
mt w},hont vis;hle shna3ar rafa, Eo ~ tha
moral ..normft,es ~ neg-n sfaTaw1 1us bs1s
fnnn6 Ca1holir io1ies E, fhe sioEs at,tos who
were onnosed r. fhe inter,ncad1;no ~ +ha
Ahulitianists Int nona whn won1a .1nrass " xus
fhr1nseires r. f,ror ~ sIa-ar4 Ve h,-s
fouud many who ernraased thsrsa1raa r,e m.
able to zee any nractienble 1rnv ~ sett;o1 r;d
Of slavery, but none Who exnFessed viii tn
have it perpetuated, No tatholic. in1epd
can uphold e1avery rs q good fustifntion, os
be otherwise than opposed to It, aud prenared
to abolish it in the best way, and at the ear
ldest moment possible, without doing great