The Placer herald., 1863-08-29
RELIGIOUS FANATICISM AND INTOL.
ERANCE OF THE SACRAMENTO
ssUNUONy

GAAANCH OF 1HE SACAtAMktNxO
ssUNION."
We find the following communication In our
Red Bluff exchange:
SroCKroN, August 18th, 1868.
EDITOR BEACON: 1t is lamentable TO observe in
this, the hour of our countrys affection, that
there are men in our midst mean enough TO sell
their birth-right for q mess OF pottage, and who.
to subserve partisan purpose, will set aside
every consideration OF justice, principle and
honor. OF this class. the editor Of the Sacramcn-
to Union, (whoever he may be, as his name does
not appear) is a notable example. Assassin like,
he would strike at the very vitals of Che nation
10 gain a temporary triumph over his opponents.
The course that that journal is now pursuing
towards the Catholic citizens, is sufficient to con-
vince the most superficial observer. that love of
country can have no influence in the conduct of
that journal, for l maintain, Mr.. Editor, that
true patriot will do all in his power to concliate
every element of our society. Our population is
heterogeneous, and the public writer who at
tempts to array class against class, is traitor,
who would sacrifice the honor and dignity OF his
country for self-aggrand2ement or the gratfca-
ton of malignant and intolerant spirit. And
who would ask, is this class of citizens that the
base maligner Of the Union would thus misrepre
sent?
Is it possible that in this once happy Republic,
that sectaran bigotry would openly insult peo
pie UhOse ancestors first reared the standard Of
whose Catholic blood cemented that sacred eddce
which the puritanical bigots of the land are doing
their utmost to destroy. This religious fanat-
cism reminds me very forcibly Of n graphic pic
tire oil bigotry drawn by the Irish orator Philips.
Here it is: "Bigotry has no head and cannot
think. She has no heart and cannot feel; when
she moves it is in wrath; when she pauscs, it is
amid ruin; her prayers are curses, her vengeance
is eternity; her decalOgue is written in the blood
of her victims; if she stOops for q moment from
her Internal fight, it is upon some kindred rock,
to whet her fang for keener rapinc. and to re-
plume her wing for more sangunary despera-
ton"
Those writer's in the employ of shoddyco
tractors who charge with disloyalty, should rec
collect that every page Of our history gives the
lie to the assertion During the war of the revol-
ution, who ever heard Of Catholic coward, or
Catholic traitor? General Gates WAS not Cath
olic, and when he fed from the field of Camden,
Catholics stood firm at their posts and fought and
died with the brave old Catholic hero De Kalb,
the veteran, who, when others had fed, seized his
good old sword, and cried out to the brave old
Maryland line. "Stand firm for am too old to
fly" Who ever heard of o Catholic Arnold?-
And who has not heard of the brave Irish and
German soldiers, who had at q somewhat later Pc
riod, composed the invincible army ofthe impetu-
GUS Mad Anthony Wayne, and constituted the
great bulwark of our defence against the savage
invasions which threatened our whole north west
ern frontier with destruction and ruin!
Is dark ingratitude tho toulest stigma to be
our own, as it has been with the most ancient Re-
publics? And in our unhappy struggle, have we
forgotten the devotion to the Stars and Stripes,
exhibited by the thousands and tens Of thousar DIS
of Catholics, the achievements of whose brigades
the future sunbeams OF glory will daguerreotype.
Now, sir, would ask, who is the cowardly puppy
that dare insult the relatives OF the gallant dead
whose bones whiten every well-contested field,
where the sword of Meagher flashed, and the green
banner marked the progress of battle
T. G. MALLON