The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-10-20


SYSTEM A CURSE TO THE lC0US TRY
SOME INTEMPERATE e TTERANCES--
MAYOR KEILEY's VIEWS. I i-th
ST. LOUIS, October 1.-THE Irish Catholic
Benevolent Union this morning resumed
discussion on the report of the Committee
on Constitutional: Amendments. Henry J.
Spaunhorst, president, and Rev. Mr.. Ash
menger, secretary of the German Catholic
Central Association addressed the meeting,
expressing the hope that O near future con-
vention of all Catholic organizations, of
whatever nationality, may be held, with
view to still further promote the interests
and welfare of the Catholics. Right Rev.
Bishop Ryan also addressed the meeting, In
which he urged the necessity of the estab-
lishment Of an emigration bureau, and sug-
gested that they study the plan adopted by
the Germans =
THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED,
Resolutions were adopted that the de-
plorable attitude Of the Government to-
wards religion is the result Of the aban-
sent Imprisonment of the Pope is the
that we protest against the prosecutions
briefly, and honesty are safeguards against
the National Democracy; that secret socie-
ties and other dangerous associations of men
untaught in the principles of religion, and
bent. through toEtuous ways, on purely ma
terial ends, are subyersive of social order,
and fatal to the faith as it is destructive Of the
morality of the Catholics that Catholic Is
not true to the country if false to the Church |:
that education, to be effective, must be rell-
giouS; that the present system Of public
schools, ignoring all supernatural authority,
and making the knowledge Of God, which
ought to be the first, the last thing TO. be
learned, is curse to our country, and a food
gate of atheism, and Of sensual and civil, So
cial and national, corruption.
DEBATE ON TIE rrBLc-scHooL RESOLUTION.
A long and spirited debate ensued on the
last resolution. Mr.. Kelley, of Virginia,
thought the resolution should be recommit-
ted to the committee with instructions to
modify it, He was, by virtue of his office
as Mayor Of Richmond, president OF the
Board of Public Schools. He had been
elected Mayor by a constituency which was
about eighty per cent. Protestant. The
Bible was not read in the public schools Of
Richmond, and he had the assurance Of the
taught in them. He was not in sympathy
with the resolution, nor could he vote for it
without stultifyine himself, which he did
not propose to do.
Father Phclan, of st. Louis, defended the
resolution. He said we have nothing to do
with Richmond or its schools. If religious
instruction was excluded from them, as Mr..
Kelley said, they were the most ohjectiona-
bic of all schools. Public men of America
| were educated i'll the public schools, and
were
EXHIBITIONS OF TIE SYSTEM,
and they were the most corrupt and dishon-
est Of any in the country-in the world.
! Men can steal in this country with impunity,
! provided the amount is large enough. That
| children Of the country go heels over head
| to the devil must be attributed to the educa-
ton they receive in the public schools,
| which does not tit them for the temptations OF
| the world. f..
In these schools men of science are no.
nored and eulogized, but the name of Jesus
| Christ is not allowed to be mentioned with
reverence. These children turn out to be
| learned horse.thieyes, scholastic counterfeit
ers, and well posted in all schemes Of devil
try. -,
| NIL fldIltS, VI CuuSS ~ chia, NStiouhSSS
| the resolution, as it contemplated union Of
the Church and State.
! President Dryer said the resolution
meant no such thing, and he did not wish
| such an impression to get abroad. lie adj
vised that the resolution be changed so as tt
simply favor Catholic schools.
| Mr. Harley proceeded, and said the Catho
lies had gained great victory in driving tht
| p;hIa ont of tha D1lh1ip Snbo01e
Father Graham, interrupting, said th'
| Church did not drive the Bible out of tn
schools. The purpose was to put in them
correct version of the Bible and the Catho
lie Catechism.
NJ. Harley: Exactly. Now, ask you
ais it Just or right that we should Introduce
our Catholic Catechism among Protestant
when we will not allow Protestants, who arr
in the majority, to use Bibles in the public
schools? 20
Mr.. Chance. of Delaware, thought this wa
| q fling in the wrong direction. They Nigh
favor Catholic schools, but they should 10
denounce Protestant schools.
Father Butler, of Kansas, thought the re
solution went too far. It should not be for
gotten that the public schools Of this coun
try had served as a
! MODEL FOR CATHOLIC PARoCHIAL SCHOOLS,
and in that respect had done good. Thu
main difference between them was one of reli
gion only.
Father Phelan again spoke, and said hi
! thought the delegates from the East had no
studied this subject enough. He frankly
confessed the Catholics stood before thu
country as enemies Of the public schools
and the reasons, therefore, should be stated
| He considered that these reasons were embo
| died in the resolution. They must say they
would as soon send their children into {
pest.house or bury them as let them go Il
the public schools. They were assured they
would lose faith. They were afraid chile
who left home in the morning would come
back with something in its heart as black aS
hell.
Father NIangler: The publc-school sys
tenn is a nuisance. The words in the resolu
ton are none too strong.
Mr.. Chance moved to recommit the reso
luton with Instructions to report on favor
ing Catholic schools; which was carried.
SUBSTITUTE REPORTED.
The following substitute was reported tol
the education resolution
"That the system of State education now
established in most of the States, by its fall
ure to provide proper religious instructor
for the young, and its enlightenlnS the head
TO the entire neglect of the horticulture,
meets with our unqualified reprobation; thai
il uuiustly taxes large class Of our people
who cannot, without danger to their faith
and morality of their offspring, avail them
selves of its advantages"
The resolution was adopted unanimously
| 4. NJ. KELLEY, of Richmond, was elected
| president. and NJ. J. Griffin, of Philadelphia