St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-04-26

will satisfy the Indignation OF the peo-
nle. II is a case in which every citizen
sbould interest himself, since it involves
tb, welfare of all it differs from every
common assassination, since it is the
most fearful of il long series OF acts OF
sectarian bigotry, of papal assaults up
on the free school and the freedom of
the intellect. Let every patriotic
American aid in enforcing the rigors of
the law. let the common voice of the
country put an end at onceto this reign
of terror which the foreign priests would
establish among us. and the wounds OF
the martyrcd teacher at Centralla VIII
not have cried out i'll vain.
The condition of our foreign Romlsh
population. in fact, is become so dan
gerous to public order and good morals
as to require immediate legislative ac-
ton. The poor vanity, the diseased III,
telect. of an Italian pope has reused
his spiritual subjects To new violence,
to uneXamped tanaticism. The Ignor-
ant and half-SaVage throngs who have
s,yurmcd over the ocean from the Irish
shores are taught by their priests and
bishops to avoid the sottening influence
of American civilization and live i'll $50
lated harbariSm. I'VE will not permit
our children to attend the same schools
with yours. lest their faith and morals
suffer-" exclaims ii RomiSh paper. rep
rcScnting population from whence
come two thirds of the criminals that
prey upon the community. ''WerefuSe
To pay your school taX," adds another,
conscious at the same moment that
eighty per cent. of the public and phi
waite charity distributed annually in the
great American cities is doled out to
Roman Catholic paupers, who, If they
were educated, might maintain them
selves. \ Romish bishop in the West
urges his flock to prefer ignorance to
instruction ut the public school: would
revive the happy day when i'll Ireland
the priest stood in the road that led to
the parish school house and whipped
the children who attempted to enter
back to their novels. But it Is quite
impossible for any modern community
to permit any portion of its members to
remain in this dangerous condition; and
every free state is entitled to insist that
its voters shall he properly prepared
for their important duties. We well
come the emigrants of Europe to our
shores: but >clf-pre>erVatlon demands
| that they shall submit to the process
necessary for their publication and en-
/ lightenmcnt at least their children
must he made to pass through the alem-
/ bic of the public school, and he trans
formed into conscientious trccmcn.
Compulsory education is admitted i'll
Europe to he the only effective means
ofcombating paupcriSm and crime. The
outcres of the priests have been every
where disregarded; the idle prejudiceS
of the supcrStiti"uS treated with con-
tempt nor can the triumph of the sys-
TEN he longer delayed i'll our own corn-
| try. We are weary of recording the
growing series of RomlSh outrage>. The
aSs;tSSinS of Ccntralia. the Protestant
families flying from persecution. the tri-
umph and eXultation of the instig;ItnrS
of the crime. the martNred teacher.
must arouse the nation to decided ac-
ton. If the RomiSh priests still object
to the publication. the reform of their
/ people. they may he pointed, as IL con
/ elusive argument, to their most recent
victim fractured skull, his manned
head, and shattered brain. - Hdrprr'>
/ Weekly.