The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-07
scctarian Politics.


cause when asked If she thought II was In
"lS8, according to MIR. JowIs, or in 1883
according to Mr.. wAPsHoT, that the Pop,
was to fall" she said, Poor Popcl | hope
not. What has he doneT" The condition OF
| Innocent Indifference i'm this country to the
alleged Vaccinations Of the Vatican re-
minds us very strongly of the almost CON
temptuous reposc with which what Is left
of the Republican party receives the sug-
gestion of n new Roman Catholic crusade
ms the only means Of salvation.
There is no doubt whatever that this
has been seriously proposed ns, under
the circumstances, the only means OF saw
ing Rcpublcanisn. Mt. THURMAN long
ago, before the currency excitement, fore
told 1t as sure to come-fniling all else. IL
has come in thin disguise in Maryland,
where the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor is an ancient and notorious Know
Nothing. Mr.. WALLIS we fully ncduit of
any such association. though we can hard
~ imagine that he works well in harness
with one of those who ncghcd so loudlyand
so Loyalty on the 18th September, 1861, when
Mr.. WALLIS aud his friends were dragged
by Mr.. SEwARD's order TO military prison
and kept there for fourteen months. Scna-
tor MoRToN, rs we are told, proclaimed il in
Philadelphia, on his return from the West,
ms the essential policy of his party. at is
the only thing to save us" he said. narnish-
ing his rhetoric with pious expletivcs which
we prefer not TO repeat. "lf | talk about
currency and banking and legal tenders and
specie payments, nobody listens. aud the au-
0lpnHn IN fs.t
TO my own hereses. | venture upon the
bloody shirt, and though II don't amount
to much II is rather better; but when hit
the Pope blow between the eyes, and de-
nouncc the GEduAN bill which il the law
OF Massachusetts, do find something like n
response. We must light the sectarian
fagots' And finally in his Des Moines
speech Gen. GRANT takes up the cry and
with cool ferocity that exceeds imagina-
ton, forebodes IN the near future an actual
bloody, religious war between Protestants
and Cathohcsl
But the truth OF il Is MoRroN's fagots
won't burn and GRANTS war can never
get itself declared. While there is always
some facility for such incendarism,
this time the fire won't catch.
even down in Maine. For sectarian OK
elements there must be pretext and OBJ
portunity aud time; aud just now there
happen TO be none. Never have the social
relations of the Christian churches been
kinder than now; ana never has the eccle-
siastical antagonism between Protestants
and Catholics been less acrimonious. Tie
elevation OF an American to the Cardinal
ate was received in the spirit IN winch If
was offered, and instead of exciting fauati-
cal passion rather tended TO allay it,
But there is another ground of hesitation
ut which Republicans may well pause
There is monstrous amount of peril i'm
such experiments among n right-think-
ing people. Sectarian politics has DESTROY
ed everybody who has ever touched IL.
The fist outbreak that we can recall Of il
was some half century ago in PHILADELPHIA.
when a worthless priest named HoGAN
managed to excite sympathy for wrongs
AT the hands OF his ecclesiastical superiors.
and created Il riot with brick bats and other
congenial missiles, disturbing the calm OF
Fourth street. But the priest being soon
afterward tired ana convicted OF an in
famous offence, the matter ended. Politics
did not condcscend to touch 1t. Then we
had the MARIA monk Montreal mysteries.
which were not very substantial, ana the
CharleStown convent was burned-unpaid
Tor we believe TO this moment and Mr..
MARTIN BoZzELL acquitted. Under the
form of Native Americanism, il assumed
III very decided type political charac-
ter III lSiii5 first in Philadelphia and then
here. OF course, u was very acrid in Phil
ndelphin. Churches were burned and men
aud women killed in the city which was
founded by the intimate friend of JAMES
II. 1t was, however, but make-weight.
ana OF all the men who then figured in it,
no one III any possible political position
survives.
Lastly, in ISL, came the great spasm OF
know-NothIngism whose story we need
not tell further than this, that those few
OF its leaders who have down to this time.
or Tor any time, maintained any public
standing, have had TO change their uni |
forms and hide the sins of the past in the ex- |
lberance OF some new present. The Know
Nothing candidate for Governor of Penn |
'ylvania, who swept the State in 80, is con- |
tent with small Federal office in niadel- |
phla' and Is making speeches for "GoD in |
The Constitution.' His friend and Secretary
Of state, ANDREW G. CURTIN, had Inanliness
81 character enough to survive and with
'tand this faint; yet how few, how very
ew, OF the thousands Of q erinan and Irish
soldiers whom he sent forward to the war
Is Pennsylvana's contingent, dreamed
hat rs recently hs 1854 he and his party
lad taken solemn oath never 10 appoint
o Office any one of foreign birth or hold
ng the tenets of the Church of Rome No
me more regrets It than he.
Thus il is that, on the grounds Of mere
and with the sure penalties
before it, no party, however desperate.
iaro now resort to this mode OF rescue.
A Historic Parallel.
Everybody remembers the story of King
NNUD OF England, commonly called
A hA Ii.