Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-15

by man, into the swamps and starved them
to death. Oh the valor, the exceeding
patriotism of these men on paper. Oh! the
valor and patriotism of Greeley, who rushed
up to the Canada border, colleaguing with
George N. Sanders and Beverly Tucker for
dishonorable peace-who never risked his
body, even through curiosity, as Wilson did
at Bull Run, and who now says 1t was a
terrible misfortune that the war ceased so
soon. Who would have been the sufferers
ii the war had been pushed on? Would
Greeley, taking his ease at home ? Oh ]!
ask the Union soldiers who fought the war
to a success and then stopped it at the sug-
gestion of patriotism and humanity.
[Cheers The valor of Greeley was some
what of the stamp of the valor of Falstaff,
and Falstaff's stabbing the dead Percy af-
forded no inapt illustration of the extent
OF his achievements. [Cheers and lau gh-
ter. zns r
A Malignant Asss sul1t by N Radical
Press upon the Catholics.
The Chicago Post is an intensely Radical
paper. 1t supports GRANT and CoLFAX
with great zeal, and assaults every thing
Democratic with poisonous venom. Know
ing that the Irish, as a general thing, vote
the Democratic ticket, for the reason that
the Democratic party, in the dark days Of
Know Nothingism, when SCHUYLER COL
FAX, the Republican candidate for Vice
President, was one of its high Priests, in
terposed its power to shield all foreigners,
of all creeds--not discriminating between
races or creeds; but for the same reason
that Hon. GEORGE 81. PENDLEToN intro
! duced into the Federal House of Represen.
tatives, resolution demanding the i'm
Z mediate revocation of General GRANTS de-
famatory order against the Israelites.
THEY DEMAND PERFECT RELIGIOUS ToLERA-
TIoN. That the Chicago Post reflects the
views of the Radical leaders with regard
to the Catholics, in its assertio n-that
slavery was never more threatening
to the institutions of the country
than Catholicism of to-day"-it is as clear
as light that if GRANT and CoLFAx and a
Republican majority to Congress shall be
elected, that a war of unmitigated persecu-
tion will be commenced upon the Catholics.
They have done nothing, and are doing
nothing, to invite this war OF persecution.
Irishmen and Catholics fought as bravely
and as well in the Federal armies in the late
War with the South as did the Protestants.
They have always been as truly devoted to
the Union, the Constitution and the we'll
being of the entire country as any other
class of people; but they are not devoted
to the Republican party, and because they
are not so devoted, it is supposed that by an
appeal to Protestant prejudices, the totter-
ing cause of the Republican party can be
bolstered up. 1t is the last venture of a
condemned and desperate party.
The following is the Posts editorial on
the subject: H
IFrom the Chicago Post eRadicaD. September IL.
1861
THE REASON OF IT.
ssWhy this hostility to Catholics ?" is ask
ed by friend. "Why the ill temper and
vituperative tone of recent article in the
Post, entitled sNigger, Niger, Mig in
which the Irish and the Catholics were so
severely handlei?" asks another. We re-
ply to both, that neither against Irish nor
Catholics as such, have we the slightest
feeling of hostility. For the Irish as a
race we have no more hate than for any
other tribe of men. For the Catholics as
believers in a particular form OF religious
faith, we have no reproaches. Race is an
accident ; religion is thing of ones own
choice, with which we do not choose to
meddle. But when we find the Irish Cath
olics banded together to almost the last
man in support of system of despotism
in this country which has no parallel in the
old world--all belonging to the party of
rebellion, of reaction, of tyranny, of all
that is false, foul and hateful-we are
forced to look about us and inquire
why this strange phenomenon is pre-
sented. In politics the Germans divide.-
We have German Democrats and German
Republicans. And so do the Swedes, the
ha
the English divide. All English snobs are
Democrats. All English Liberals are Re-
publiCans. Why, then, are the Catholic
Irish all on one side? The answer is easy,
and we have already limited at it. Catholi-
cism is not alone q system of religious
faith. 1t does not amuse itself with what
concerns TransubStantiatiOn, the Immacu-
late Conception, the Infallibility OF the
Pope, the doctrine of Purgatory and the
like, for which we care about as much as
we do for Mother Goose's Melodies, or the
story of Jack, the Giant Killer. Holy
water to us Is water-nothing more. Holy
grease is lard or oil, animal or vegetable,
as those who use it please. For chdusabtes,
stO les, candles. incense, ge7ltJectt0nS bOl1InJS
muttertngs, crossings, the eleoation of the host
the aodfer, and all the other signs, obserUGnceS
and syebdLs of the Church, so far as they are
supposed to tgpify this, that or the other, tve
have as much respect as for the botu- aooao made
bV heathens before their idols, and not a aolit
more. But we say nothing about them, be-
cause they are no business of ours. They
don't concern US. The law of this country
Furnishes no one for making tool of ones
self, either in religion or politics; and we
do not care to correct what the law disre-
CARDS. Hence, we say again that for Cath
olicism, as a system of theological faith,
we care nothing. But it is more than that.
AS system OF statecraft it Is the most in
genious specimen of human polity ever
given to the world. -..-
In this country it is dduerse to the progress
of free ideds-to the spread of truth-to the
liberty Of the individual; and so it is every
auhere. The Pope is not only the Spiritual
Head of the Church; he is Temporal
Prince, and as such he is to be obeyed by
the citizens of the Republic as well as by
the citizens of the Monarchy. In word,
all Catholics owe to him higher allegiance
than they owe to the State of which they
are citizens or subjects. Hence, zoe hold
that no man eau be a good, obedtent and
loyal citizen of the United States. and at the
same time, be q go)d, 0bedtent ami loyal son
E of the Church. He mnst be false to one or
the other. Oar experience is that he is most
trequently false to his political rather than
his religious obligations ARd that is just
,uhat is the matter 1oith the Irish. They
have been oppressed a5 nome by the tyr
amy of England; ; they have been kept In
Ignorance by the conscious guilt of the
priests. Hence, degraded below the aver
age American level in all that concerns the
rights of man and the duties of citizenship.
and mere children in their knowledge Of
their relations to their Creator, they be-
come the fit tools of the proslavery despot-
ism that uses them. We believe that their
priests control them for a bad purpose. We
haue neuer1tad any doubt that it is their inten-
tioa to make Catholicism the established relig.
ion of this country; and zoe knos0, as aoeH as
knoso that the sun sUiL rise to-nsorroU, that
,uher that thing is done, liberty Of speech, free,
dom of the press and freedom to acorshtp God
each man after his o,on convictions, are at an
end. Catholicism is to-day in quarrel
with Austria because that Empire gives