The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-08-04
rs TT RACE OR RELIGIONS
From the Chicago Evening Post.

From the chicago Evening PosJ.
We do not know what better evidence
the world could have of the necessity of
giving its moral support to Prussia, in
the war now Just commencing, than the
fact that the forces that formerly sustain
ed Slavery, and that now sustain Popery,
and that are invariably on the wrong side
of every political question that has a
moral side to it, are, alnccst to man,
shouting for Napoleon. There is, in all
forms of despotism from the grand des-
pot of the World-the poor old Pope
down through kings and aristocrats, to
the most brutal of the monsters who are
wishing for an opportunity to whip negro
woman again-a bond of sympathy that
is wonderful in its length and strength.
Touch it anywhere-at either end or in
the middle-in the United States, at
Rome, in France, or at the Tongo Islands;
attack either the priestcraft that pur-
sues trade of imposture and charlatan-
ism in the souls of men; or the wicked
and irresponsible power OF despots or
aristocracies that claim to rule by divine
right and the anathemas of the most
intolerant and despotic of all churches fly
thick and fast land the roar OF artillery
manned by the victims of tyranny, is
everywhere in the air. A Pope's solemn
curse of 8 political offender, will be
almost surely re-echoed by a nasty article
against the object of Papal wrath, In the
Chicago Times Napoleon killing a
MARTYR to freedom in France, would be
sure to have the praise of every Copper
head in the United States. The illustra-
ton of the above general facts is, in the
case of Prussia and her causeless enemy,
exceedingly clear. They are the reac-
tionary and despotic forces that are array
ed for the desperate attack upon the
freest and best of the Continental States.
Austria, Italy, Spain-the kingdoms in
Popery has done its worst-are the
friends of France.
Is it r, &c or is it religious faith that
makes these forces gravitate, each to its
nucleus, with such certainty? Whatever
the cause, let not our American people
hesitate. The great body of them are OF
Saxon and German blood. Our institu-
tions are only the refnementof the
earliest ideas of the German mind-they
are not Celtic in any sense. Our religion
is of the German reformers who defied
the terrors of the Inquisition In all its
hideous forms, that the world might be
made better, and Heaven nearer. " Old
Hundred is as much an expression OF
the depth and endurance of the Saxon
faith, as is yet the imperfectly realized
idea of Personal Freedom, the corner
stone of the political institutions that
the Saxons have built!
War is not thing of arms and money
alone The moral power of the world is
a battery of countless guns. In the days
when men like Napoleon used to ride
forth in armor and spear women, and
personally cast children into the flames,
that power was not much felt. But these
are better days. Even that thick impe-
rial hide may feel the force that there is
in the shafts of humanity and truth.
Even the Prussians, powerful as they are,
may have hopeful encouragement from
the worlds applause. Let the American
Press but echo the hopes and aspirations
Of the American people, and it will do
thing by no means without great weight
in the wonderful conflict before us.