The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-01
A REPLY TO

without defenders, and Judas Iscariot,
is perhaps not without admirers"
1t would be doing your correspon-
dent Shamrock an injustice to say he
is the defender of the w~oulI-be muir
derers who justly met their deaths at
the hands of the military on the 18th
of July, but he may justly be accused
of palliating that which is incapable OF
%palliation, and is the logical result of
religious svstem-vindictive, agrees.
sive. graSping and ~unbending III its
determination to rule the world by the
laws of an etlete system opposed to
the spirit of the age. and more especi-
ally to the institutions and Constitu-
ton of this Repuhlic-it is the spirit
that begot the Inqui>ition in Spain,
the persecution of the HuegenOts, the
massacre of st. Bartholomew, the as
sa>>ination of William the Silent. the
greatest of the Orange family, and the
spilling of rivers of blood by Cortez
and Pizarro. The same defects would
naturally flow from the working of
any system claiming lnfallibility and
universal dominion as attributes.
That the Romish Church was the con
s~erVator OF justice. and 10 ON eNten
of liberty. in the dark ages. hOnors it;
that it tempered the ferocity Of the
feudal tyranny. and educated the peo-
pie up to the standard of semi civil
cation. j. true; but it was the civiiiza-
ton of ObsOletisin-Such a civilization
as has fiouri,hed under the systems of
Buddha and Brahnna, mingled with
the ferocity of o energetic races.
1t had no sooner raised the people TO
its own standard than it said to civil
cation: stand. thou shall go no fur
lther!' 1t has accomplished its mis-
sion and civilization has no longer any
use for it. If any doubt this, let them
compare the lowest in wealth and mo-
rality of the Protestant nations, with
the most highly cultivated and wealthy
of the Catholic-France-and judge
from them. It's grand ~solemnities and
the perfection of its system of govern
ment must forever make it the re-
liriOn of the poor and u~neducated.
If it raises the races of Africa and
other uncivilized portions of the
world up 10 its own standard here
after. As il raised the Caucasian in the
past. it will he entitled to the gratitude
of humanity. But the time has gone
when the Je>uitic motto-''the II
justIties the meaus"-hold>gO good, even
with Catholics, especially when that
end is not desirable. The writer of
this is not the apologi>t of nor synIpa-
thiser with Orangi>m, but Shamrock,
like too many of his countrvnen, con-
sti.uteS himself the judge of who are
TRAITORS TO their country. and con-
demn~ them to his eternal pity and
contempt. If all the people of Ire
land were a. conservative even as
~>harurnck. it would be useless t call
to their memories the atrocities of
RibboniSm. and the fact that that toe
j. engendereI in hate and As blood be
erinmed as 1ianquo'> ghost. sham
rock intlmates that Catholics would
not. if they could, put a stop to Pro
te>tant PROFESSIONS. No Protestant
in>uItclI the procession in honor OF the
25th wear Of the pOntiticaIc OF Plus TX,
in san Francisco lately. but when a
people. even though Catholics. who
have been robbed of liberty and their
capital for twelve hundred years, cell
ebratc the acquisition of both. they
are threatened with death, and in "A
Francisco with a bloody not. by the
men whose never ending cackle-
Liherty-i~ the laughing stock of ma
tons. Let Iri>hmeu learn that lib
ertv here means liberty for all, and
not a right inherent i'll them to OPP
press all others who hold different
Opinions, and there will he fewer uto-
plan Republics built OH the unstable
sands OF Irish character.
IIBERTAD.