The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-09
THE CHURCH AND STATE MOVE.

turn the whole negro vote against us.
THE CHURCH AND STATE MOVE.
From the NJ Y. World.
There has been of late a convention in
session at Pittsburg engaged in drawing up
an indictment of infdelity against the Ameri-
can people, specifying that said people have
no recognition of God in their fundamental
law. One of the articles of this indictment,
or, to put as the convention put it, one of
the resolutions adopted, refers to the neoes-
sity of affording ''the fullest security against
a corrupt and corrupting church establish
ment;" by which, we take it, the convention
means to allude to that Catholic faith pro
fessed by so large and respectable body of
our fellow-citizens. Now, we means to COM
pare divers of the resolutions adopted by this
convention with certain of the canons in the
schema lately put forth in connection with
the Gcumenical Council and desire the care
full attention of the reader TO the exhibit thus
made:--
ROME. PITTsBuRa
CANON XVIII. Whose Resolved. That civil gov
ever says that the power ernment is grounded, like
necessary for the govern the family, In the prIn-
ment OF a civil State does ciples OF the nature OF
not emanate from God, or man q social creature !;
that one is not bound by and that 1t has its powers
Divine law to submit him. and functions thus deter
self to such power or that mined by the Creator and
such power is repugnant is, therefore, like the
TO the natural liberty OF family, an ordinance OF
CANON x. Whosoever as soyereienties welding
says that the church Is moral as well as physical
not perfect institution, power, and having moral
but merely corporation, well as material effects,
or that II Is OF such na, are morally accountable
ture, with regard to civil to God
society the State, as to Resolved That the pro-
be subject to temporal posed religious amend
power, let him be anathe ment to our national Con-
CANON XII whosoever ringing any indyiduai's s
says that Christ, our Sa- rights OF conscience or
viour and Sovereign, has tending in the least de-
conferred upon the church gree to union OF Church
the power to direct only and State, will afford the
by advice and persuasion fullest security against q
those who turn aside not corrupt and corrupting
to compel them by ORDERS church establishment and
by coercion and by exter form the strongest SAFE
nal verdi cts and sautary guard of both the civil and
punishments, let him be religious liberties of all
The worthy gentlemen who met at Pitts
burg, and drew up, among other resolutions,
those above set forth, would doubtless con-
slider it very grievous thing were any to
charge them with seeking union of Church
and State; and yet see how closely the utter.
ances of these gentlemen who express an
adherence of that doctrine agree with the
declarations of those other gentlemen at
Rome who do really believe in Church and
State, and are, therefore, consistent, at least
in their opinions as above given. So re-
markable similarity, much as it may grieve
our Pittsburg friends, does mean Church and
State; and that meaning is intensified by the
fact that prominent in that convention were
such well-known politicians as j. w. McClurg
Governor of Missouri General o. 0. Howard
of the Bureau; and Bishop Simpson, of the
Methodist Church. We beg these gentlemen
and those others with whom they are associ
ated in this matter, to have care as to wha
they do. This country has already grief
enough, without bringing in as a fresh dis
| traction the blood-staiped. old dogma of {
union of Church and State.