The Portland daily press., 1871-08-30

.for,,dln ,tndemocratic,iitS attitude toward |
n,r form of government is one of hostility
A Accordingly we find it making use of Its inn
mense political power to support the party
that its sagacious priesthood judges will best
subserve its purposes. 1t naturally cooperates
with the most undemocratic people it finds
here, with those who are doing the most to
bring popular government into disrepute and
to break it down altogether. With all their
Jesultlcal subtlety theCatholic hierarchy could
not be much troubled in making a CHOICE
they find for the Democratic party the fol-
lowing record: ..---
1t holds theory in regard to- the nature of
perpetuity-a theory of State rights that gives
such a preponderence to centrifugal forces
that the whole structure would be likely, in
every case of disagreement between sections,
to fly to pieces. The enemies of democratic
government could not invent doctrine more
insecure and unstable.
1t only gave up the idea of the ownership of
labor by capital on eompulsion, and its mem
bers in the Southern States, aided by the
moral support of their Northern brethren, are
endeavoring to establish some new system
which shall restore the old relation between
capital and labor without the old bad name q
slavery. So long as slavery existed we had
| no Republic, and Rome Joined our Conserva.
| tives in upholding it.
| The memcers OF this same party engaged in
a war which had for its distinct and avowed
purpose the overthrow OF the Republic, ard
only the Providence of God prevented the
hopes of the human race from suffering thai
dreadful eclipse. 1t is but justice to concedt
that many individuals belonging to the Cath
Ollie church fought on the patriotic side, bu
The masses still acted with the faction which
at the South supported their treason by al ms
and at the North by seditious language AM
obstructive acts. So sure was Rome of tn
disruption of our Commonwealth that its I'm
perial patron, Louis Napoleon, was alread.
establishing new Catholic monarchy on the
ruins of the Republic on our Southern border
The same party makes the name
democracy hateful in foreign lands by its con
tinued assaults on the public credit, ana DI
constantly agitating the subject OF repudla
ton, partial or entire. Nothing can be more
inauspicious for democracy than the mora
weakness induced by dalliance with even. the
thought of such crimes.
There is also a continued menace to the
peace and integrity of the country in the re-
i sc 4l,oD 20 rpsults
of the war and those great principles of civi
and political equality which are calculated tt
finish and strengthen our popular form o
government. The virtual refusal of the DemOc
| racy of this and other States, sometimes
express and sometimes implied, to sanction
the "new departure" that processes to accep
reconstruction and impartial suffrage as fnai
ties, shows how little real progress has been
made since the war;
And when opportunity offers the Democracy
cooperate directly with their allies in assaults
on popular government. There is nothing
that Catholics regard with more disfavor thar
the American school system. The system il
the very cornerstone of democracy. In tn,
Pope's late domains only an exceedingl.
small per cent. of the people can read AM
write. There the Catholic theory was carrie,
out without any secular interference. In thi
country the church magnates make it thei
great practical aim to weaken the common
schools and, where it is possible, divert tn
funds to their own uses. Wherever the Demo
Gratis are in power they find ready compli
ance with their demands. In New York
where Democracy is supreme, they have thei
so-called schools" richly endowed, while 9th
er denominations get but pittance, and tina
only as bride. The people of this city hav,
not yet forgotten the singular favors accorde,
to the head of this Catholic diocese by the las
Democratic municipal government. 1t is trul
lamentable to observe how thoroughly indoc
trinated even the Democracy of Maine ar
with hostility to schools. The last Democrat
State Convention came near adopting a serie
OF resolutions, aimed at our State school sys
tenn, that must have originated in the corne
| grocery of some "Confedera.e Cross Roads,
and have been brought forth amid the accla
nations Of all the Nasbys there assembled
And at the late County Convention at Ban
sor tney were actually adopted Without OPP
position.
These are few of the proofs that Pepper,
allies itself with Democracy because it hate
self-government Workingmen of Maine
You are asked to join this league of Papac
with Conservatism against your own liberties