Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1868-10-10

can no more possess it than minorities. But,
so long as a minority, however s,httf,, have
backgrounds conscientious objections 10 an n
enactment enanating from the ma5osari,y, lhe'
aattef do the wrong, in fotringSon ,fletfblfner
the enactmen', or the penalty they do tina,
which they have no tight TO do; do an INN -
,ice-an i"jnty to nno,her's' property Gods
property in the mos, vitality ifnhoftan, portion
the soul.
For some years after the establishment of
the Pnblic School system in Louisiana, Yam
kee School boards managed to m]onopoI 10
their con'rol while Yankee school masters
Impaired, in ma al twanged accents, 10 South
etn youth. instruction, liur,nrel with "duwn-
east tanatlriSlh. But this was done after the
most prctentIons mode OF long -vi-aged sanr,i.
mo'l"nSn"ss: and in a Nrw.l.ngland amos
hhere, art'iicialiy created, by an apparently
>ulem, %fralfnr of he Hfhlc. As scarcely any
two akres can be found. that peri ,ctly agree
III 'llr h.hl" interpretation, it is cvidrn, that the
"mnral IDEAS elnced from The Gnol Book, in
The ~diil'rent schools. We're variable: or, in ma
'h'inaiiral rhrasrolH-y->uscrrtille OF an in.
flute number al values; and, of con.se, as The
teachers were, from time 10 time, changed.
the moral confusion, necessarily ensuing, sur
passed all comprehension!
The Public Scllunl>. at ,lt stage of their
existence, were nnaeniihly sectional AID
when. afterwards, the Bihlerrnding was aboi-
isI,eL, The wrong. aS aluvr shown, was IN TO
way nl,iIpi ga, /, l. ,,,I ...l .l.,l.,,l, .. J..-
m'"r Whether laukec religion OF 10 religion
Is the more pernieions!
Now. as the rntlic Schools, at il,eir ince,-
ton. daring their progress, and in their decay
tt'r they are now Iccayin-I have been always
under the 3til.ence ut one ar other Of these
evils, II IS c!'at lI'at. To tie on,rag" (a'ronhy
rotttte'l o'1) 'lfirtr "t the CONSIDERATIONS cont
%1iriions Of the Catholic o.,nDaDion, has been
snpTla Iled another no less tclrrhrt>ihle
Wr""--'lta' Of iInpallirg 10 the non-Callmlic
children attending lii, schools, an itrel,uious-
a codl5 IS education.
All, being a, Ike the children of God. The
cma"atIon of Osnnipo,cnce. the property of
the Creator, no man is more or less Justified in
dom" i"jnry to Gods property in his own in
~divianal person t'an in rha, OF ano'hef. The
rights of property must he always respected.
The non.Cntltolic popnlalion. therefore. Of
this Sta'', ant those of the Catholic popnia-
ton who have nbe,led them. are, undoubtedly,
under a great responsibility for their operation
of the cocrci,e School system ;-conrcivc,
because forcing alike, the n,n,rtial meaus, and
the religious creed Of those opposed 10 it; and
coerrive in n greatly aggravated degree. by
imposing on a large proportion of our Young
people. n system Of instruction Of whose mi.
qulti"s they had no understanding and from
which, even If they had, there was no escapc.
Thus, tien, it is cvihru, 10 demonstration.
that the Suite system Of education, has been.
from lis Inauguration, one huge, continued,
wrong: a wrong against which the Catholic
Church NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. conscious Of The
evils flowing from intellectual culture, when
Invested Of the religious corrective Of intel.
@lcctnal aberraions,-have always protested.
1t is not TO he supposed that the con>islen,
Catholics, nnitin. with their pastors in
nnpos,ng this goddess scheme of education
uniting with them in building up separate
scliools in which God and religion have fir,
and chiefest recognition, would lightly enter
their probes, against the Yankee system or
keep up their remons,rances for a long series
Of years willou, solid rea sons.
Rejecting minds understand that sound
reasons, disregarled honest expos,uia,inns.
spntned, are apt. in the flow of time, to be re-.
%'r'bn'ed, IN ore way or another thus often
demonstrating that justice, as well as honesty.
is The hes, policy. A long experience Of the
working of those Public Schools, satisfies rs
tina, The INNS, graceless scamps in all the large
cities of the Onion, are, aud always have been,
graduates of these establishments. Perhaps il
would moi be going too far, 10 asser, that the
corruption those unrestrained rowlies bring TO
Society, is one phase OF the retribntinn, When,
a few years ago, the ahn,ninatle Know.
noiling' atrocities were acted ihrourion, the
length and breadth Of The land. the most pro.
minent members Of "The Oder" were youn,
~rascals fresh from the Pnhlic Shoots. These
the most violcu, Of the violent. mi. heroliny
Herod in wiekeaness- paraied The streets Of
the cities at all hours OF the day and night,
penetrating their coup dessai in the art of
thanksgiving. on nnof.nding citizens, who had
bni'' up the fortunes of the country, by their
honest toll, before the young reprobaies were
horn! Perhaps that was another feature Of the
retribution.
And now, when the Public School system is
falling to pieces by its intrinsic ro,ienness
when, to the accumulated intolerance Of *Na.
tive Americanism", ESQ. called) Puritan fana.
ticism, and whie, and even democratic snip.
%ineness, Thy each Of which the Yankee sge,.
penny" has been handled and fnndlei as a ne,
institntion) there is added the horrors of
African stupidity, with all its native unrestraint
and impiety, who can fail 10 recognize, in the
revolving legislation which has broneh, the
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