The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-03-07


ivs.s The S~asls. txs~ Sssal Csshs'is rnioa-i
The Per.eeutiOu Of Catholics in
Amcrica-
We orc lea Teceipt Of . pamphlet of
Aneen pages bearing the above title, aud
<mbodying editorial articles originally
published in the columns Ut the Daily
Ganrtte aud Catholic Telegraph news
l4atscrs VI Cincinnati.
The concluding article closes with the
following strong. though when we con-
elder the prOvocati0n, perhaps not too
strong language:
Against the open, lawless violence of
bigotry, American Catholics in the flu
ture, as in tie past will claim the pro-
lection uf the law. But. If bigotry ever
makes written laws for their persecution
then, i'm love for their faith, and in pride
Of true manhood, they will resist such
laws Ii they are ever made The objects
Of special, oppressive Legislation, as in
Prussia. We pity those who will be
commissioned to execute these laws.
They had better undertake the work
with an army to assist them, for they
will find an army Of Catholics ready 10
oppose them- They will discover too
late. that Catholic Americans are made
Vt sterner stuff than the Catholics OF
Prussia
IL any portion Of the Catholic clergy
OF this country are ever expelled from
It. Catholic Americans will sirew the
road they take with the dead bodies of
their enemies. Thousands Of Catholics
MAJ die, but the Gazette may rest as
cured they will not fall unayenged. IL
officers OF the law ever dare 10 close
Catholic schools i'm this country, as the
Gar. lie advises, We are much deceived
In t.le temper Of our felIow-Catholics.
II Trey do not give them short sbrift and
specify execution. We say this with no
bras,gar disposition. No one .ieprcca,es,
no one would lament such scenes. more
than We But we are certain, il pcrse-
cutiou Of Catholics is begun in this
co.ntry, these will be the inevitable
consequences.
Our loyalty to the Republic is without
stain: ii is an strUcious insult TO qucs-
ton IL our devotion 10 our country Lo-
thing can disturb or weaken. Our love
Of liberty, religious as well as civil. is so
Intense, that we fear no party of bigo;ry.
that will seek to deprive us Of either.
We esteem liberty so much, that ii ours
Is ever endangered, we will decide that
il 10 worth our lives and theirs too. The
Gaaette az&@ "What shall we do with
the Je-sits?" We answer, desiring the
peace and prosperity Of the country, LEI
then alone"
We much regret TO see such articles as
tie above, from the Catholic Telegraph.
and edorsed by the Catholic Onion, two
leading newspapers Of the Catholic faith.
- we also regret the raw-hcad aud
bloedy-bOues articles OF the Cincinnati
Gazette, which called them forth. Sim
liar articles to these in tone and spirit.
in regard to negro slavery, were pub
lished in Ga-rison's Liberator, in Bos-
ton and the Charleston Courier, in South
Carolina, from ls40 when the old Lib
ery party was formed, until an artifi-
cial hatred was formed between the
people Of two sections which rendered
the war Of rebellion possible, with its
havest Of death, and near Obstruction Of
civil liberty. Such articles at first were
read with hated breath, or treated with
disdain, but afterward became the main
stock in maddening infatuated followers.
Who wants to see these scenes or horror
exeelled, let them pander to it by origi-
mating such articles, but We hope never
to live to see the day when the legiti-
mate harvest Of such enunciations will
b reaped