The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-10-21
The Irish Catholic Benevolent Union
OH Secret Societies, Public Schools,

The Irish Catholic Benevolent Union
Oh Secret Societies, Public Schools
&c.
The following are the resolutions which
caused the debate described in the Dispatch
of yesterday:
"Resolrcd, That the present deplorablc at
titude of the Government toward religion
and religious institutions is the result of the
abandonment of true, necessary, and saving
principles, conditional Of God and expressive
of His holy will.
Resolred, That the conduct Of the Go
yernment and rulers in permitting the de-
thronement Of the Pope and the absorption
of his dominion by the Kingdom of Italy is
fragrant injustice to Rome and the whole
Catholic world, a crime against truth, social
stability, and legitimate authority; that in
the present Imprisonment of the Sovereign
Pontiff is beheld the contamination of q bell
lish conspiracy, whose offspring Will some
day return to torment their authors, and that
to the venerable Plus, in bis raeieh shed city of
Peter we extend our profoundeN sympathy,
Joined with the wish and the prayer that he
NAV live to see bis crown and kingdom once
more wrested from the grasp of the de-
spoiler.
Iemn protest against the unjust persecution
inaugurated against our mother Church by
the Government of Prussia, and offer to the
German urchbishopS and bishops, as we'll
rs to the German Catholic clergy, the male
and female religieuSe, the assistance OF our
best sympathy.
" Resoiped, That morality grounded on
religion. and religion grounded on fixed and
dogInatic principles, are the srreSt GUIDE
and tirmest support Of man in all the clrcun-
stances and situations of this life; that So
briefly in conduct, honesty in intercourse,
and truth in everything, will prove the
greatest safeguard against individual demo-
ralization and national degeneracy.
E" Resolred, That secret societies ana osher
dangerous associations of men unlaught IN
the principles of religion, and bent, through
tortuous ways, on purely material ends, are
subyersiye of social order and fatal 10 the
faith, as it is destructive of the morality oil
Catholics. r..sat.r 3-g#-t ..tf+
/" Resolped, That a Catholic cannot be
true to his country il he be false 10 MS
church, or faithful In his duties to society5
and his fellow-man II he be q stranger TO the
sacraments and recreant to his God. 9t
+" Resolued, That the best interests of the
State and OF society centre in the proper
education of the young, and that education,
to be effective of good and conducive OF So
cial and national advantage, must be Chris
tian, begin with the catecbism and end with
the knowledge that God is our gold, and
Heaven the reward of virtuous deeds and
holy lives.
public schools, ignoring all supernatural au-
thority, and making God, the first knowt-
edge, the last thing to be learned, is curse
to our country, and flood-gate Of atheism, !
Of sensuality, and Of civil, social, and ma
tional corruption" a.a.t =, 80.
The last resolution was modified as stated
yesterday. u..,
"Resolred, fhut prize of 500 be offered
for an appropriate ritual for the national,
State or diocesan, and local societies. OF tEls'
Union, with a design for an,appropr1ase re-