Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-11-27
from the N Y News Of Monday !
AnGI-CRIhOIIC NrmAnna.


The Tribune Of last Saturday makes VIC
lent attack upon the Clergy and people Of the
Roman Catholic Church at seems" says
our puriiantical cotemporary, that this sub
stanlial accord between the clergy Of one Of
our most numerous bodies Of Christians aud
the keepers, almost without exception, OF the
hannts Of low dissipation and moral rrin,
challenges investigation and reflection Why
should the great body OF the clergy Of any
Christian denomination be OF ore mind in pol
tics with The keepers and irequenters Of the
haui ts Of vies aud infsmy2 What is the
mystic tie that binds those seemingly incon.
gruOus classes in political fellowship" The
TrbHue goes on in the next place to inquire
into "the grave fact that the Roman Catho.
lie clergy OF this country aud "ths keepers OF
the dance honses Of Water street and the rum
holes Of Corlears Hook, Mackerelvlls, and
Five Points ardently supported, With scarcely
an individual exception. the same candidates
in the recent election r.
This assertion Of the Tribune is put ia
spirit OF genuine Black Republican malig.
nance Public deceDcy, Il not a genial con
siderAton for the feelings of ones neighbors,
would have saved any but q Puritan from the
outrage of associating with so.called resorts
OF crime, body OF most exemplary clergy
men. The malice that thus wantony attacks
in such manner large aud respectable
class of men who confne themselves 10 their
duties in private lie, is the true emaualion Of
{ the acridly of the Praise God BArebonss
school Of malignant selfrighteousness. A
curse upon the spirit Of evil which is seen
thus to actuate these Black Republican lanai
ics; and which, possessed, as it is, like the
leper among the tombs, of legion Of devils
has not only torn to atoms the Constitution
and the Union, but would drag down all that
is sacred in our private life and pure in our
Christianity to It's own level OF social, political
aud religious rottenuess
: How does the Tribune know that the Ro-
man Catholic clergy voted for Mcclellan
They have, as far US we have been able to
learn, never met in 'csucus" on the snbjecl;
they have not committed themselves to auy
particular view of the case by letter to the
public press and they certainly have not de-
graded themselves by any such display OF
their opinions on the struggle by weak day,
still less by Sabbath day, 'stumping" That
the Catholic clergy have been supporters OF
General Mcclellan during the late campaign,
would be but an exercise Of one of their rights
OF citizenship; but If thsy have seen proper to
exercise that right thus, they have done so
with such decenoy and minister-liks modesty
that it can be stated to-day but as a mere as
sumption The necessity does not therefore
arise for dealing with the improved assertion
of the Tribune on the subject, beyond rebuk-
ing the malignance that has put the AlegA
ton 10 lerms outrageous to every suggestion
oi religious proprlety and public decency.
The attack of the Tribune on the Roman
Catholic clergy aud Church gives expression
to what may be regarded, for the reasons We
have glanced st "a very natural hate. While,
however, doing so under passions of the mo-
ment, 1t also speaks ia accord with those Of
the past The CromWelliau spirit Of the days
in which the Bishop OF Drogheda was dragged
from the altar to be murdered IN his canoni-
Gals, has lost nothing Of its savage intolerance
in the bosom OF the modern Roundhead The
ianAtical hate Of that time is ready, and, we
firmly believe, bat abides its time to to-day
ruin the churches" that do not accord with
its atroeous politics pestilental poemics.
The unity movement Of the sects is an ema.
nation from the Virtual indifferemtism charac.
terstc OF religious opinion among the Puri
tans, and seeks an amalg amation of all the
wide differences of Protestantism with the
avowed purpose of hostility to the Church Of
Rome. 10 connection with this, we regard
the attack Of the Tribune on the Roman Cash.
lie clergy highly significant; and, reading both
IN the light Of the facts of the past and the
passions of the present. incline to think that
it but breaks ground in religious crusade
which, when the political conflict OF the hour
shall have done its work of atrocity, will dark
en- the land with worse horrors than those that
have, during the last three years, degraded
our civilization and, in many quarters, de-
based our Christianity.