Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-03-05

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power on the one hand, the moral and intel.
ectual forcb of che most despotc religion in
Christendom fhe other.
"Rishop Hngbes,and Bishop AeCloskey are
net. lighting forthe Onion, onlg 50 far as Il
suslkins The designs of Catholicism, which are
tho hltradts restoration Of that religion TO
nsofAl and phlsicei power. They believe ~
their religion and It's principles first; the
Union or any other government only 90 far as
! IL noaFishes and snstains- those principles and
religion, uext Witness the speeches Of Nc
ICloskey and Hughes IN ireland. They said
In those speeches that they were Just as ready
! 10 submit 10 JEFF. Davis and his government,
should they ttinmph, las tolLipcoln and hisl
government lq They thus virtually confirmed
Russell and palmerston's assertions that We
we're lighting for power, for territorial domin-
ion and BY such statements as that quoted
they virtually declared they did not care which
whipped, slavery or freedom. They only
hoped and expected they could use the win
ner in the 6ght to aid Catholicism in Europe
in helping TO overturn free governments. And
this man Hughes is said to have been in pay
Of our Government Bishop McCloskey also
said in his speech in Dublin, or some other
| Irish city, as printed in the New York He''!
aid, from an Irish paper, that the Irish, Ia
proportion TO ther numbers, as compared to
the Americans, furnish but tithe Of the srmy
| of the Union. He might also have said that
! there is larger proportion of Irish Catholics,
| TO their numbers in The Southern than in the
Northern Army. i''.' '''is
"The Democratic leaders always have had
| the Irish vote, because they always appealed
to their prejudces and passions rather than
their reason. The Irish are prejndiced
against negroes, dreadiug the competition of
their labor The Irish Ike all the more ig
norant Catholics, are prejudced against the
paper money, which in the material sphere
constitutes the great power of Democracy,
Of Professionalism, of New Englandsm, of
modern commerce every where, and even OF
revolution itself 1t is curious that paper
money came with Protestantism William
Prince of Orange was Engands first great
banker. II fought Frances great revolution
against the despols Of Europe; fought ours
against the irresponsible power Lord North
and George the Third sought to exercise here
! 1t is fighting our second revolution against
the slave power, and all who aid and abet
lit With. Professionalism and revolution, the
great and good God sent the means to sus
tain them against despotism both in Church
and State.
! What great fight our gallant army is
now 6ghting2 1t is a fight fully as important
as the great French Revolution; aye, more
important. Like that revolution, il is fought
against slavery in the material, and despotism
in the moral and religious sphere. II is a
mistake to suppose too, that revolutions are
Iimpelled and fought by the. masses. It is not
SO. 1t never was so. 1t was the intellect of
| France such as it was at that time, that fought
the Frence Revolution 1t was the brutality
of the masses, and those that seized upon that
brutality to gain their personal ends, that
caused the excesses Of the French Revolu-
ton. 1t was the brute force OF slaves and
Croats that crushed revolution in Hungary
1t was the intellectual power Of that people
that fought for il. II is the brute force Of the
Ignorant white trash at the South, and igno-
rant Irish at the North that is depended on
to pre- vent the ere-esabishment of this Union
aud the total extinction OF human slavery.
1t is the intellect and reason OF the country,
its New Englandism. and its Professionalism,
that is depended on 10 sustain the one and de-
stroy the other
"When Merrick, seymour & Co. assail
Il New England and ita islns, as they call them,
they assal the Proleatantsm, the wealth, the
commerce, the credit, the progressive spirit
Of the age and the country. They assail
them with q purpose too. And in assaihng
. them they are the biggest and blackest trait
ors that ever lived-the Benedict Arnolds of
the day, for they assail the very bulwarks OF
civil and religious liberty in the United States.
need not defend New England from their
assaults but l may say, in passing, that il
she did persecute she learned to do so in the
school of persecution, in the dark and bloody
; ages when Catholicism dared to defend, urge
} and enforce the odious doctrine everywhere
in Christendom, that reason should be entirely
subject to faith that he is the best Catholic
! who gives himself up unreservedly to his
' Father Confessor Now that freedom has
! fully dawned upon her she persecutes nc
(. more, while the religion Of those who are hei
a accusers, still retains its old dogma of oppo
( sition to the right Of private Judgment L
2 free speech apd civil and religious liberty gen
3 orally wherever she has the power she crush
! es these out by physical force :"
i Great Democratic Meeting Ia
i Hamilton, Butler County
Y Ohio, March Dist, 1868. '' ~
q There ", A he one of the greatest gathering o.