Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-07-27

Orangeman is pledged to Protestant sue
cession on the English throne. The Hi
bernian" is pledged to the freedom of Ire
land from English domination. Re
ligion has nothing to do with it.
There are thousands of Protestant Irish
who are not Onngemen, and thousands
of Catholic Irish who are not members of
the Hibernian society. Here begins TIE
point Of departure IN the argument say
this: Let the foreign born citizen celebrate
his festivals and keep his fasts. Let him
have his social enjoyments as he had them
at home as far as possible without trench
ing on the rights of others and without
creating public disorder No person who
differs from him in religious opinion has
a right to dictate to him or seek to mo-
lest him; but, when he comes to exercising
anything that Is cif;ensice to any material
portion Of the CONNIE unity, then he has no
right to do so, moral, civil, political or
religious, reserved or guaranteed; and if
he insists upon it, he becomes mobo-
crat; is melting to public disorder and
should be stopped right there. Even if he
should do this, those individuals who are
offended have no right to stop him, in a
public manner, but the authorities should
for have a right to be protected from
gross outrage, insult and humiliation, and
| have no right to offer either to another
Illustrations are legion. A minority of
the people are religious professors. A
majority do not keep the Sabbath Yet,
the law makes it penal to hunt, fish, or Ia
Dor Oil Sunday. If my conscience per-
mits me TO do either, according to you.
argument it is tyranny for the authorities
to prohibit it. The French have horse
races and theatres on Sunday The Span
drinking, dancing and games The law
prohibits them all here. Under your ar
gument by what right do We do ity Ii
he has the right at home, the German
may keep open his saloon here, and his
customers may gather on Sunday after
noon, and drink, sing, dance, play games
and enjoy themselves in their own way.
Il is nobodys business and no one has a
right to be offended Let every body
else mind their own business" as friend
argued the other day Now this is simply
twaddle. Whatever is offensive to ma
terial portion Of the public sense is des-
tructive of good order; and on order de-
ponds the peace of society and the stabili-
ty of government; and without it there
can be no liberty of any kind. Who would
claim for amoment that the Negro has the
right to celebrate in the public streets the
naked, disgusting, filthy, barbarian doc
trine of Voudouism. Ten thousand
black, naked, bedaubcd men and women.
going through horrible, obscene, and
devilish exhibition in honor of their con-
scientious belief, and exercise of the liber-
ty of consciencel Mark you-a mob
would not have the right to stop them,
but they thems elves are a mob.
Now my position is this; and it is sus-
tanned by history, law, philosophy and
reason
The Irishman came here and asked for
citizenship. We gave it to him. lie had
first to proce that he had lived here five
years; all that time had 6eJtaoed like IA man
ofgoOd, moral character, and well disposed
to the good order and happiness of the
United States and as if be was attached
by affectionate regard-to the same. Then
he absolutely renounced the English SOW
ereigns especially, and all other kings and
potentates generally, and swore allegiance
to this country. Hence he had nothing
whatever to do with Protestant succession
on the throne of England or the over
throw ofthe English sovereigns. He had
no right to conspire here, or get up armed
combinations for the release of Ireland
from the British dominion. He had no
right to do anything that tended to des-
troy "the peace and happiness" or good
order" of the United States, or any por-
ton ofthem. He could worship as he
pleased or not at all. He could exercise
publicly, any rite or ceremony that was
not offensive to any mai erial body of the
people. He could aid towards the free
dom of Ireland, by money and pen. He
could aid in all laefm means for the sup
preston of one religious error Tin his opin-
ioD>, and the spread ofanother; but he had
no right to publicly celebrate foreign
feud, or foreign victory over any respect
able number of his fellow citizens from
abroad, whose countrymen had been de-
feated. Inundated or overthrown
When the German renowned Kaiser
William he was done with him. He
might want united Germany, and with |
money and his pen aid it, after the battle |
of Sadowa opened the way for it; but he |
had no right to celebrate victory of Will |
Ian. tver the French, or the forced ac- |
cession of Alsace and Lorraine to the |
Kaiser's growing empire. If he has re-
nounced his allegiance to Germany, united |
or divided, and his heart and his love goes |
back there, let his body go back with it /;
or, if he stays here, and has the benefits of |
citizenship, let him be content with SYM
pathizing and not fire cannon, carry flags, |
make speeches and exult over his neigh
Dor from France. because in the countries |
both have left and renowned allegiance |
to, the brother of the former has killed |
the brother of the latter. In other words,
to take my first and exact position; pro-
hi6a them al from celebrating in this |
country in the political garb of American
citizens, the memory of their feuds and
their hate in the countries they have re-