The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-02

has the imnudence to call himself Catholic and who
vends his duness in the city OF Charleston, 0ou'h
Carolina-a city virtually in sackcoth and osoeS lor
her sns-s continually warning the Southern Catholics
against U.S. being guilty Of the sacrilegiouS CRIME OF
being willing to accept of the aid of colored men to
assist in freeing ireland.
In our last issue, article appeared, under the
heading of Bigotry on the Rampage" which
was one of the finest specimens OF the rantnS
of his satanic holiness from behind his sacred
barricade. The paper from which we cleaned the ,
article is published in that ehiest OF ctles-speak
ing in double sense, white shutters and hatred to
black skins-Phiadelphia This pretended Catholic
crusader accuses the true spenetc style SO peculiarly
the property of those pous indyiduawho have bgoty
carefully and beautifully developed to the exclusion of
that first principle of true relgion-charity.
Wewouldnot oblge those polticorelgi ocopperssimo-
fossil scrbers by stepping their coat tasabeit they
very long and drag very loosely in the mud
for the purpose of bandyng bilngsgate with them but
that we have duty to perform to country We
beg to assure them that we live in the nineteenth
fury, fact which they-moving in the dark ages-do
not seem to comprehend and that do not vanish in
blue blazes leaving awful smell Of sulphur behind,
at the ringing of bells and the frohing Of incensed
bigots who worship mammon in sacred robes.
| To show our people that those "vexed old women
who rail at from behind the (socaed) pious press of
America, using the Church to promote political
party have only compare their cries. against
us and how nicely they echo each other" radical
and infdez."
They place the sin of radicasm in advance of inf
deity Did advocate the political doctrine which
these gentlemen claim orthodox they would willingly
forgive us for our heterodoxy
The Philadelphia paper boasts of being the oldest
Catholic paper in America It the old adage verified
the older the worse 1t is like the old farmer who
boosted that he had lived for eighty years and
moved ten miles from home We have the exalted
veneraton for old grannies and of
the oldest Catholic papers in America in the Anticipated
list There is such thing, however, living too long,
and the venomous and lying mounting of driveling
contemporary has in nothing but the garrulous spleen
of extreme age How long the shadow that covered the
dark ages throws its gloom the sunshine of the
reign of mind
Of all the pretended Catholic papers in America there
is not that is not opposed to Repubicansm There
is not that does not class Radcalism with ndelty
There that does not foam at the idea of giving
black the rights of citizenship. In fact, black
skin or red shrt-in cases green jacket also
sets them wild.
Now, if those papers had such an interest in the
spread of Catholicism as they pretend the correct pot
ical course for them pursue would be to maintain and
defend the rights which Cod the author of religion
gave to all men. Why attack the Radical party, when
they know that within that party the great majority Of
the American people think and work? Why try to make
the American nation believe that Cathocity and cop
perheadism' are linked together and that to be a
radical is to be nde? Are the Catholic Church and
the Democratic party closely allied, that to be Ca
thoc must be Democrat also? To this of course,
we as well as all our readers can answer NO. But we