Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-08-24
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Free Suffrage A Religious Safeauard
BY WILLIAM a. noaegt I.

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| The hewYark Observer has dssaa. and
ID doing. an excellent work bs shoaia6
| the danger to our institutions gsssEz The
presence OF 50 large body 81 cathsiics
Ia this eouatry. Bound togesaer by the
tie Of common faith that allows poAisi-
cal and religious headship in d eorssgn
pdtentate, all secrets developed Trough
the confessional, without rnenta culture,
| they constitute unit TO be worked H5y one
string 10 the hands Of the prieHisy bqag,
It has been the misfortune Of tha Irish
Catholics 10 have been united. not oDlv
against Professionalism, but assinst eli
those ideas OF freedom and euaality that
| should be ths hirthright Of essfg AmfTi-
can citizen. They have. to man, been
in faTor Of slavery; they are now united,
10 man, in their denial Of suArage to
| the blacks,
| The danger IL a growing ena.I The
| Catholic H'orid informs us that In 1903
the Catholics were l0O, 900 in a pei ula.
tion Of six and n half millions, or one
sixty fifth OF the whole: 10 1880 they we're
40 900 in thirteen millions, or one etwen-
| ty-nInth Of the whole: while 10 1860 they
were 4 400, 600 in 81 900, 900, or one sew
enth Of the total population. This pom
ulation will continue to grow; for Canada
/ IL pouring hrr legions into this eaantry
faster than eyer before. while the terni.
nation Of the war throws the whole South
| and the magnificent West cpRn TO foreign
immigration. The ma enitude Of the dan
ger cannot be oEer-estimated. But the
| ObSeTrer only tells Us of the danger 1t
points out TO mode ct escape. Et llFus
up voice Of warning: it docs not tell
1 how to avoid the evil. We propose to
show a complete means Of ohviating the
| danger.
/ There are in the United States a large
| body OF men. their numbers increasing as
| We move southward. wha are ~ igHsaraHt
and uneducnted as the Irish CatholSes.--
| But they have ne common religious faith.
nor does the contests Jaal put thea end
! their secrets in the power of any mrs or
any priesthood. There are four millions
Of them; almost The exact nunlbf7 shas
| there are of Catholics; all bIn1k, 4Ia l0Ta3,
and nearly al Protestant. Like TIE Irish,
they reason through their ferlnEsE unlike
the Irish, shsy show great desire and ap-
tituie for intellectual improrPaunnt.' r.
| Without any free school system wAataEfr,
their children are counted in free schools
| hv tens Of thousands. While l7 Wash
irgtou, Norfolk, Richmond, Newbcrn,
wherever Northern philanthropy In willing
| TO teach. thousands of adult hlaakg Labor
by day. study By night. ThsY &F4 unlika
| the Catholic Irish, In being dotiih, affse4
tomato and gentle. Their lore af Il usies
their willing obedienea, their raas5otls as-
pirations are valuable characteristics. In
persistencv Of labor, for stern Aad rti1.
ged work, the Irish are xuperfot3 for the
mare beautiful qualities of busgshlty. the
blacks. Bat the Christian esp.feisl n netes
the fact that the Irish are all LsaahAIie, all
hostile TO the Bible. all hatfrs be Ptotesf-
antism, while the hfaeks havF an intRrse
desire to read the Word Of t45d. are near
" all Protestant, and ali follp~ssk of Him
wfo came to let the oppressed "a fFss.
| Thesctwo classes are the aappIfmsnt OF
each other. Each is rich in the qualities
lacking in tho btber. To ssne the fran
chise is granted from his birth, or alkas a
temporary residence. The esher aBust rise
from poverty to be orth $3.50 Before be
/ can vote in New York. 10 2tSttHs Vast
aud South of New York be can not vbte
al ntk Now, If tits desiraI Ii 10 meet the
lrositive Catholic element ia TsqHsies or re-
| hgion by one equally positi9a Ifn another
direction, we have bat 20 efst9ie ahe black
with the same political power Ee have al
ready given the white. True, sha blask
il uncultigated ard ignoraEE bat so il the
Irish. In all our political debates on this
| question, we remember OF no argument
against black voter that 6s not equally
adverse to an Irish enc. And the black
voter bas these advantages: bis Instincts
are on the side Of freedom and Of Prot
estantisrn, be il more susceptible Of euI-
tiyatian, and he is not the loot Of priest
ar laylnau. The gift Of franchise TO the
black iHsurfs the perp~tuity nf free edu-
datian and religion in oRr land. Give The
black man vote, and every Southern
State will be loyal. every Rsrtheru State
true to freedom. Refuse bin the fran
ehise, and the rebellion will not be ended
| VITA the generation which gavo it birth.
+ The ADORE article is 100 plain aha 10 the
lpoiut to require any comment from u.s.
| II spenks for itself, ard prorcs vlhat we
Isaid sometime ago that the next war got
ten up by the New England sanasies wa'd
be against the Catholics. "a Tie above
article it is plainly showr that aside from
a religious point of viaw, The fanaties of
New England and the Ahollt5ohists every
where prefer a negro I'd an Arisbuan, ret
they hypocritieATly pfetend to make waF
against the Irish on tho grnaba lhht thttf
are ignorant and doan t#ve s'rnusie, =
while the negro is ! .Iorer 81 'Frnusic,
! willing, obedicnt," (" aha has sfr4lieiuus
ASPIRATIONS which suit ti}a Nex fiaglasna
i fanatic. Again according q ibis Repabl
iican authority, the Irish far ''peraistsne4sl
of labor, for stern ard rugesl work ars
the supcriots OF the Bsgrpes.'' y bnt this
kind OF qualification doe suis shelFanat~
les. They despise The sfr4rsEatent'' labor
er--the man of fssseru aF1d rugged work, :,
and pick mp snd admir- II nsgro brcnuse
they say be possesses '4saors beautiful
qualities Of humaaityl's Al this talk i
mere pretext hypoerFtse&i showing to
hAde their parpose Of making war apoa
the Irish on account Ok their rtIigian.--,
While they are making was apon the Irish,
no one can doabs bat shsrs II asep-
rooted determination asapng the leading
Republicans 6, give tht sgs D tAe rigst Of
outrage. and Ia the end u establish abso-
lutte negro sqaaliiyS I n