Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-03-05
Friends OF Religious Liberty
Read--Attack Upon the CathO-
lies by the AbOIltiOnIsts--A
Crusade 10 be Preached A
gaInst them NeXt--Read Demo.
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We make the following extracts from a
letter in the ST. Louis Democrat, an Aboli-
ton sheet from its Abolition correspondent
at Springfield, illinois. 1t shows the object
Of this Abolition movement, Who knows
what the secret Abolition societies are at in
their private conelayesf The correspondent
writes: a.u..l.. aiai H...
And here would says that some of the
leaders in this movement are men whose ideas,
not only in politics, but in religion, are entire
" despotic They are most of them either
mere politicians OF Catholics In this State
Merrick, Caulfeld and others are Catholics,
on the one side Z inlNew York, OIConnor,
Brady and James Gordon Bennett are Of the
same faith The views of o. Connor on slavery
are we'll known. He is as thorough believ-
er in its divinity as JEFF Davis. As to the non
religionsits, on the other side, there are John
Van Buren, the Woods, and others too MINER
GUS too mention, and the great, the leading
mass cf politicians geherally stho have no
fixed religious belief, but would DIVORCE poll.
tios ! altogether from religion And morality
Merrick, o Connor h Go, hate New England
because of its Democratic tendencies and
Professionalism They want Confederacy
which, like the South, can be governed by the
word of mouth-by oratorical appeals to the
passions and prejudices Of the most Ignorant
glasses in fact governed through the un
reasoning passions This is despotism il
Church and State. Protestantism released
the intellect and reason from the control o
the priest Protestanhsm in religion was fol
lowed by Professionalism ia politics. tn,
moment the higher region Of the mind wal
freed, the lower plane began to feetthe effect
of freedom also. Thus Protestantism' wa
followed by democracy or revolution-revolu
ton in France, revolution in England, rsvolu
ton in Germany, revolution in America
irevolution everywhere. 2 - f-ftIl
This present revolution is only the old re
J voldtions repeated tis the principle of in
dvidual freedom, struggling against despot
fiamT-theT eTdespotismpft the -slnve power, whicl
is simply the same as all other despolisms-
an attempt on the nartof the few to coutro
! thslmAny, to lcompeLthsm une9asonihRiy lant
bindly TO do their behests And this consti
tutes the strength Of the JEFF Davis Govern
ment il constitutes the strength Of the Demo
J cratic party. The JED Davis Governmen n
controls the masses Of thesSouth through the
passions and prejudices, The few intellec
7 Itnally ereAtmen in that part Of the .conn4 \
have vlways an immense mass Of brute forei
= and native stupidity to operate upon. It isa
solid force. II is like one Of the European
armies-a mere mAchine. The Democrats
pAttyl as compared 10 the Wing and Republi
can parties, is Of the same character TIL,
masses Of Il atthe South ate IgBoEa1t ON 90
count Of the despotism Of slavery Tn,
! masses of II at the North, Irish aud German
Catholics, are ignorant on account Of the des
potism of Catholicism. Both theae daspolism
have been the causes Of the present troubles
slavery at the South aided BY Catholicism a
the North, Constitutional freedom--aye, in
dlviduAl treedom--is again assaisd this tint