Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-11

.s,ive roIiiieisr. Ia ireland, we are
I'll thsv eoniroi the elections by men
sees. rei.ate. from the pulpit. and ihfea's
or exeoumunieaiion. uni have ben ar
rested 10 large numbers or plain VIOLA
tons Of ,he law. In England resent
lsi,er-uriisr relates that they have al
ready formed their ignorant members into
q powerful political party. and that Arch
bishop Manning has organized his diocese
with adrnira Die skin. The Csrlisi insur-
reeiion in Spain was lei by Romish
priests. The Italian government i en-
gsgei in a vigorous conflict with the cler-
zeal party. Germany and Switzerland
are agita;ed by the inirignes Of the Jes-
uiis. But apparently the struggle IN
America Is watched with extraordinary
attention by the whole Jesuitieal faction
in Europe. Like the Romish press Of our
cwn country. il urges its transatlantic adj
herents to vote for Mr.. Greeley. and joins
the Catholic Telegraph in lamenting the
misrule of President Grant. The Berlin
GcrmaRia. aud every German rsactionary
paper that seeks 10 destroy German unity
anl revive the authority of the Pope, has
responded to the nomination Of Mr.. Gree
ley aud his allies with lavish econigms.
lie is evidently the favoritc Of the Jes-
uiis and OF the extreme faction in the
Romish Church his cause is that Of the
priests who have been imprisoned'in Ire
land, and of those restless schemers who
have siriyen to excite disloyalty among
the Catholics of Germany, and have been
driven ANONYMOUSLY from their bative
ian1. But it is plain that the true nature
of our present political contest is well
understood in Germany. There every
friend Of German liberty and progress
sees with alarm the union of priests and
rebels under the indiscrcet guidance OF
Greeley they feel that many of their
countrymcn in America have been misle1
by the arts of the Jesuiiical faction they
warn them that every vote given for
Scaurz or Greeley is blow aimed against
the peace and independence Of their ia
thcr-land. So closely have the interests
Of nations become united that the election
of Mr.. Greeley, the candidate of disun-
ion aud of religious bigoiry, would, in
the opinion OF the German liberals and
ProtestanJs, prove a subtle and dangerous
assault upon the foundations Of German
unity.
We know that there are many prudent
and pa triotc Roman Catholics among us
who have never shared in the schemes of
the Jesuitical faction who, like the jew
or the Presbyterian, the Methodist or the
Episcopaian, have accepted with graft
tudo aud JOY the duties as we'll as privi-
eges of the republic; who never clamor-
ed against that system of education which
has made us great, or have strlven to ex-
cite sectaran dissensions m the home of
religious liberty who never during the
rebelIion took part in traltorous councils |
an who were always the firm defenders
of union and freedom. But, at the same
time, it would be unwise as well as un-
patriotic to attempt tie hide from ourselves
or from others the dangerous aspect which
the Romish Church has recently assumed
in our own and other countries. ROmish
editors urging the nomination Of Mr. Gree
ley, or an Archbishop Mlnuing appoint
ing his interior priests eectlcneering
agents in the heart of London, AMI form
lug the Ignorant Irish voters into for.
midable party, are indications OF designs
that must prove fatal to good order aud
the peace of nations. Here, at least, we
can permit no clerical faction to rule aud
destroy us. the genus of our institutions
demands that any effort on the part CT a
foreign church to control our elections
should be crushed at the moment of its
discovery. If the Romish priests persist
in driving their ignorant voters to the
polls, as they have so often done, to adj
vance tlreir own power at the destruction
OF freedom, if they ally themselves with
the disunionlsts at the 5 outh. and labor
to revive the Tying elements of chivalry
aud OF tyranny, they viii bring upon
their church speedy rctribution, and
meet with a final overthrow. Let them
dread the vengeance Of the people. A
free and united nation will never suffer
the agents of an Italian ruler to plot
against its institutions. They will remem-
Der that the Romish Church has never
consented to become, like its rival church
es, American in its principles, and that
It's existence among us must ever prove
dangerous to the nation, which has so Of
leu fell Its ingratitude. --Harper's Weekly