Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-07-19
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 a great event in the his
tory of its faith and organization, without
being beset by armed rufflans 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 commotisn, 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
It's serious and alarming proportion. Why
does it happen that, in this free land, such
serious results follow the nero attempt of
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-abidng 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 eowardice of municipal governm ent
more striking or alarming than this Demo-
cratic Commune of New York /?
Do the people of this city want a more
alarming demonstration of the purposes
and objects of this Church that here, as in
New York and elsewhere, demands a
division Of our public school money! that
has already intimidated some of our lead
ing officials so far as to rob them of the
moral courage and manliness TO publicly
make known their views OH such cues
tions? If they do, they can see il to-day
in the utter helplessness and fearful dam
gers to which good citizens not i'm sympa-
thy with this church are subjected in New
York.
We see i'm 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
not do less than TO warn the people of this
country of the great dangers before them
In late number of the CdthOlic World,
the doctrine Is boldly put forth that the
church " is the head Of all power, tempo
RAJ and spiritual; that the Pope is infali-
ble' and of course, a. an inevitable conse-
quehce that he must control the Catholics