Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-07-13
THE CATHOLIC MOB IN NEW YORK.

If it has already come to pass that in this
free republic in its great metropolis,
peaceful protrotestant society cannot
quietly celebrate great event in the his
tory of its faith and organization, without
being beset by armed ruffians inspired and
directed by the bigots of political church,
it is high time that the fact should be
known and the influences that brought it
about, understood.
We gave yesterday some facts connected
with the history of the Orangemen, and
the great historic event they yesterday
proposed to commemorate. We have
to record this morning a great and
startling civil commotion, endangering the
lives and untold treasures of the greatest
CITY of this continent. We give in our
dispatches the details of the great riot and
its serious and alarming proportion. Why
does it happen that, in this free land, such
serious results follow the mere attempt of
a peaceful organization to do, what its
sworn enemies do every week of the year,
or so often as they have mind to do it
indulge in civic celebration? 1t happens
simply because the Irish Catholics of New
York city, through the Vaccinations
of their VIGOROUSLY corrupt leaders know
and feel that, like the Communists of Paris,
they, for the time hold the great metropo-
lis in their cruel, brutal grasp. They know
that they are the great power that keeps
their corrupt leaders in office; enable them
to divert the millions of revenue of the
city to their own base purposes; and in
timidate and overawe its law-abiding citi-
zens. Do our people want an illustration
of the character of Government we would
have in America of this insiduous, corrupt
and ignorant political church could con-
troll its affairs? Do they want to see what
kind of protection Protestants, Jews or In
fidels would have if this church was once
as securely dominant in every city, village
and hamlet in this land as it is to-day in
New York city? Do Americans want an
illustration of the venality, impotence
and cowardice of municipal government
more striking or alarming than this Demo-
cratic Commune of New York?
Do the people of this city want more
alarming demonstration of the purposes
ana ODlecIS Ol IHIS NlOAOli III
New York and elsewhere, " demands
division of our public school money! that
has already intimidated some of our lead
inc officials so far as to rob them of the
moral courage and manliness to publicly
make known their views on such ques-
tons? If they do, they can see it to-day
in the utter helplessness and fearful dam
gers to which good citizens not in sympa-
thv with this church are subjected in New
York.
We see in these frightful outbreaks the
legitimate result of the corrupt union of a
corrupt political party and a corrupt, big
oted and priest-ridden church, and we can
MOI do less than to warn the people of this
country of the great dangers before them.
In late number of the Catholic World,
the doctrine is boldly put forth that the
"church - is the head of all power, tempo |
raj and spiritual; that the Pope is infalli- |
BILE, and of course, as an inevitable cOnse-
uuence, that he must control the Catholics |
of the world in everything. This is the
ambition of that church, and it embodies |
the great power the American people must
battle, now and hereafter. !