The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-07-21

purposes has been paid out, upon
order of Commissioners, without any
evidence existing in the Office that
such bridge was being built or re-
paired, and no data by which the
Auditor could tell when he should
be done paying. 1t is right the
people should know what they are
paying for and how much, but the
report does not show it. In this
connection, we may be allowed to
inquire why the Commissioners do
not publish the report of the Com
mittee ofExaminers2 Is it their in
tention to smother that because it
may tell some unpleasant truths?
If so, the people will hold them re-
sponsible for the manner in which
they have discharged their official
functions.
In ANOTHER COLUMN we give the
Trt6mes account of the riot in New
York City, the mere announcement
of which we were able only to give
in our last weeks paper. It is, per-
haps, as calmly written and as i'm
partial as any ofthe statements which
have been given to the public.
Riots are at all times to be depre
Gated, but when the result of pro-
scription and intolerance, are par
ticularly inimical to the public well
fare, and the authorities of New
York deserve the commendation of,
the public for the decision and ener-
gy displayed in quelling demon
stration, which, if temporized with,
might have become as alarming in
It's extent, and as destructive in its
violence, as the uMeasoning mob Of
Paris. We are pleased to see the
public expressions generally fayora-
BILE 70 the civil authorities, and to
note, especially, that some, of the
higher authorities of the Catholic
Church, among them Bishop Rosen-
cranz, is disposed to condemn the
spirit which would actuate men of
any religious belief, in interfering
with the exercises OF others of diff
ferent faith. He denounces the
leaders and participants in the riots
as not children of the Church, be-
cause they obeyed not the instruc
tions of their spiritual advisers, in
these words:
The fact Is, those men, when they disobeyed
the command given them from the alter ceased
to be children Of the ChurCh-and the secret
they revealed was the old, old story of human
wrath-known since the time Of Cain.
In another portion of his letter,
which is published in the ,State Jour
nal he enunciates the following,
which sounds like the liberal spirit
of Republicanism;
liberation, to be wholesome, need not be
founded on a convection that there is no religi-
Gus truth-but rather on the belize that God
alone is master and Judge Of men. This was
what aetuated the Catholics of Maryland, who
were the first TO legalze religious liberation in
America This IS the principle on which the
Cqtholics Of this county who are true
to their faith propose to live in peace with
their non-CathOlic countymen. They do not
think of saying eve may be wrong in our be-
lief; therefore let our neighbor alone;" but,
1--WE know our faith is true, therefore we know
that we are bound to love our neighbors, no
matter Of what creed or color, as we love our
selves, and reverence in him the right we claim
for ourselves, of having God alone for master
and judge"
All people viii have cause to
rejoice when every professor of
the Catholic and other faiths
shall have been educated up
to that stand point. But the time
seems scarcely discernable in the
dimly distant future, and may only
be realized at that period when the
''lion shall dwell with the lamb and
the leopard shall lie down vita the