The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-07-30
Brownson OH the Loyalty Of tho Roman
Catholic Church
An Article ,ha. ali should BEAD.

Cht0OuC CnuICh
An Article shat all should Bead.
We make the following extracts from an
article in the last number of Brownsons Re
uiec Coming, as it does, from confessedIy
one of the abIest Catholic scholars on this side
of the Atlantic it will attract marked atten-
ton. 1t should be carefully read and ponder
ed over by all classes, especially by the MEM
bers of the church to which Mr.. Brownson
belongs:
THE NEGRO HUMAN BEING.
The negro is man, and if man he is
sprung from the same original stock as our
selves and has the same natural and indefeas-
ible rights. In his most degraded state he
almost touches the purely animal world, but
even in that state is a man, a human soul,
created by God in his own image and redeem
ed by his Word, who assumed the nature of
the black man as we'll as of the white man, for
both are of one and the same species, and
have one and the same nature He cannot
be reduced to an hereditary bondman without
sin against God and crime against humanity,
whatever Shareholders and their apologists
may allege to the contrary The negro is
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 wrestcd by violence from his natu-
raj condition slavery is violent state and
has no justification but on the principle that
might makes right. A man may, without
sin, where slavery exists and has been estab-
lished without any agency Of his, hold as
slaves persons by the constitution of society,
born in servitude, providing he treats them
well, leaves their souls free, instructs them in
the true religion, respects all their moral rights,
especially the rights of christian marriage and
provided also that he exerts all his influence
in legal way, as a man and citizen, to
change that social constitution and extingush
slavery at the earliest practical moment; but
the man who attempts TO justify slavery, to
defend it on principle, to maintain that it is
an institution in accordance with the Chris
tan religion, or he who holds that it is good
institution, and seeks to defend and perpetu
ate it, is man who understands neither the
law of humanity nor the simplest elements Of
the Chriatian religion Christianity reinte-
CRATES the human race, restores the original
communion OF man with man, and re-estab-
fishes man in all his natural rights.
THU REAL POSITION OF TAE CATHOLIC CHURCH
| PERVERTED.
They in our Catholic community, whether
priests or laymen, journalists or public speak
ers, who take the ground actually that slav-
cry is an institution approved. or at least not
opposed by the Catholic Church, give only
scandal to intelligent none Catholics, and shock
every well instructed and conscientious Cath
Ole We have been deeply panied and NOR
titled at the position we have found the great
body of American Catholics, with large por-
ton of the venerable clergy Themselves occu-
plying i'll regard to the question ofnegro slav-
cry. Not single Catholic journal, except
one, ventures to assert openly and decidedly
the true Catholic doctrine III regard to slav-
cry, and the Catholic who does not throw all
his influence ON the side of the pro-slavery
party is read out Of the pale Of Catholic socie-
ty, especially i'll this city of New York, where
| there are more Catholics than in all the Sc
coded States put together. The Catholic who
ventures to arraign the institution Of slavery
on even moral and religious grounds, though
backed by the spirit teaching, and action of
the Church in all ages. and sin all countries
but this, is at once suspected of being shaky
in his faith, and is denounced as puritan"
or as a Yankee" the two most opprobrius
epithets that can, in the estimation of our
New York Catholics, be applied to any man ;
and the promptness and zeal with which they
rally to the disioyal peace party, and swell its
ranks, proves that their sympathies are pro-
slavery. We can scarcely find Catholic de-
seconded from an old American family, or even
of American birth, that is not practically a
pro slavery man in his talk and in his int1u-
ence Why is it we find the mass of our
Catholics following Fernando Wood, James
Brooks, and the Able McMaster? Whence
the intense hatred of New Fngland-whose
Catholicity is really more Furnishing than
anywhere else on this continent-Which is the
most salient feature of our Catholic popula-
| ton? Whence, indeed, but from the convic-
ton that New England is anti-slavery, and
in favor of negro emancipation? Go where
we will in the loyal States, and we find near
~ ovcIy Catholic moot Sn1+harrl Synl,aa-
thizer, an intense Halter of the abolitionist, and
more ready to see the Union divided, or re-
constructed under jeff. Davis, on slavery, as
its cornerstone, than to see it restored by the
extinction of slavery.
| POSITION OF ARCHBISHOP HUGHES.
The Catholic organs have, it seems to us,
been very unwise and impolitic, and our Cath
Ole leaders have placed us in a very unpleas-
ant position. The Know Nothings, few
years ago, demanded the exclusion of every
Catholic who would not renounce his religion,
from every Office of trust Or emolument civil
or military, under the State or the nation, on
| the ground that Catholics are not, and cannot
be loyal to the Republic, and in case of war
are more likely to side with its enemies than
with its friends. If it had been the settled
purpose of Catholics to confirm this charge,
| they could hardly have taken different course
from the one they have actually taken since
the breaking out of the present civil war
They have showed that their sympathies were
with slavery, in which the rebellion origina-
ted, and with the rebels themselves Though
they constitute by no means, the whole of
the disioyal peace party, there are compare
lively few of them who are not attached to
that party. When the Archbishop of New
York, attacked us for proposing the emanci-
patton as a war measure, denounced or ridi-
culed the Abolitionists, and made the best
possible defence of the slave-trade he was ap-
plauded to the echo; but when on his return
from Europe, he took decidedly national
ground, and defended the draft, as a Just,
wise and patriotic measure, he was every
where murnured against, and even a brother
Archbishop, without naming him, read him
lectures through Catholic journal. on his
unepiscopal conduct, and censured him for
meddling with politics, approving the war for
the national life and integrity, and endeavor-
ing to make it appear that he had departed
from the line of his dnty as Catholic Bishop,
in supporting the flag that had protected him
at home and abroad, and in standing by the
Government to hich he had sworn alIegi- |
ance No act of the Venerable Archbishops
life ever cost him so much popularity with |
his own people as that one act Of decided 10y |
atty. Of all the Catholic pubIicists in the |
country, the editor of this review has been
the only one to applaud or even to approve
his truly patriotic and loyal act. That ser
mon more than atoned to us for all that we
had personally suffered from him. for it was
a loyal service to our country. Had he been
backed up by the bishops and clergy of the