Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-05-04
OUR CITY SCHOOLS.
Father Finnegan,s Reply.

Many,u who, by the way, has not the NOR
| al courage to come out in 0rOpria persona,
| my first impulse was to treat the whole
thing with silent contempt. Ihad fondly
imagined that the present controversy
would be carried through in fair and hon.
est manner, without appealing to Protes-
| tant prejudices, and without making false
statements. I will endeavor this time to
show my friend that have not forgotten
my logic. H7N1a7 ga GaWa MkI
again demand portion of the school
| fund, not indeed, as the writer supposes, to
be controlled by myself, nor to support a
sectaridn school, nor yet to establish a
principle destructive of the common school.
Some, who would restrain the State to the
fewest and necessary functions of govern
ment, deny the State has any right to tax
| citizens for the schooling more than for
| the clothing of children. However this
| may be, the parent sthe natural guardian
| of the child, and his authority over the ed
ucation of his child is immediate. 1t is a
| naistake to suppose that Catholic schools
| are sectdrian. We teach in our schools the
true principles of christianity, as they have
been handed down from the beginning,
| and the Protestant children who come to
us for instruction are not tempered with
nor is their form of religion ridiculed or
maligned. iH
It is contended that my claims mean
that the State or city has no right to tax its
citizens for any common object at all. The
conclusion is not contained in the premi-
ses, and you willremember one of the rules
of syllogisms:
Latius hume guam pr@missa, conclusio non
sult'' 7-'
The writer has most profound respect
for conscience, and little after he bushes
not to make a most foul assertion. My
church, indeed. has STAINED every page
of history with arbitrary prescription"
Again give an answer: "Quod gratis as
seritur grales negatur." Let the facts upon
which this assertion depends be brought
before the public. Let them be real tangi-
BILE facts, drawn from more reliable sources
than were the statistics given in Wednes-
days paper. -+@ -
How very logical it was to refer only to
murders Are there no crimes i'm exis-
tence then but murder? Why not give
the statistics of Infanticide, and of still
more common and destructive crime, foe
ticide? How honest to compare the South
uated in the North Listen to what Bish-
OPP Cox, of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
has published:
" have warned my flock" he says,
"against the blood outlines of ante-natal
infanticide. If any doubts existed here
tofore as to the propriety of my warnings
on the subject, they must now disappear
before the fact that the world itself is be-.
ginning to be Mortified by the praeticai-re-.
suits of the sacrifices to Moloch which de-
file our land.n
Hear a writer in Harper's very anti
popery Magazine: "We are shocked at the
destruction of human life upon the banks
of the Ganges, as well as on the shores of
the South Sea Islands; but here on the
heart of Christendom, fnticide and infan-
ticide are extensively practised. <
1t should be stated that believers i'm the
Romon Catholic Faith never resort to any
such practices Z; the strictly American are
almost alone guilty of such crimes" DIR.
Storer, also q Protestant, makes the fol-
lowing confession in his "Cremeral AbOr-
tion," p.74: Several hundred of Pro-
testant women have personally acknowl-
edged to us their guilt, against whom only
seven Catholics, and of these, we found
upon further inquiry, that but two were
only nominally So" r5J
Any one who wishes to consult Thom's
Directory of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland for 1870, will find
the following in PIP. 1921. In that year
there were convicted of crime in England
1908, in Scotland, 2,490, and in Ireland,
1884. OF those sentenced in Eng
land q were condemned to death, and
Is to penal servitude for life, and 1921
for term of years. In Scotland,
one was condemned to death and 243 to
penal servitude, while in Ireland none
were condemned to death and but 23S to
penal servitude. This subject, viz: the
comparative morality of Catholic and
Protestant countries, has been frequently
discussed, and, as might be naturally ex-
pected, the results are in favor of the for
mer. If time and space would permit, i
could demonstrate this assertion.
But to come to other points. 1t is again
a base calumny to assert that L, or any
Catholic, owe allegiance to the Pope, other
wise than as before explained. / would,
indeed, be very glad to see these certain
Documents 1t has now become point
of honor. I defy any one to prove that
have falsely represented in this particular
the teaching of the Catholic Church. AS
regards "the act of conservation to the
sacred heart of Mary" found in ST. Vim
cents Manual, this only proves that we
believe Mary to be the Mother of God, and
our Mother also. Did not Christ from the
cross say to the beloved Disciple, .-''Son
behold thy Mother? And it is because
she has been selected among all women,
because she has been hasled ''full of grace"
because she has been raised to the dignity
of Mother of God, because of these things,
we ask her powerful intercession and con-
secrate to her our hearts. Do we not often
times ask our friends in the world to inter-
cede for US Do we not love some of those
on earth? Do we therefore adore them ?
A lexicon is very fine place, indeed, to
look for the meaning of theological term.
The author of the lexicon, in all probable
ty was infallible.
I will not tire your readers by explain
ing the Catholic doctrine as regards reli-
gious worship, and the different meanings
of the word alteration. / repeat, Catholics
do not adore the B. Virgin. / challenge
the writer to prove the contrary.
The columns of daily journal is not, |
however the place to discuss religious top
les, but from the beginning 1 anticipated
another crusade against the Catholic
church. 1t might be we'll to remember
that " whatsoever falls on this stone shall
be broken.n rsstfFe
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