The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-22
lo, Our southern Friends Como.

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Let Our Southern Friends Como
The interest shown in the recent regattaa
at Saratoga. the honest, healthy interest in
an amusement which strengthens the body
while it lightens the mind, which calls into
play the highest mental and physical qualities.
leads us to feel that the college boat race
every year will become as much Of national
event as the annual race between Cambridge
and Oxford. Unlike England, however, our
colleges are more representative not only OF
States and sections, but even of denomina-
TONS They should in the future be moro
rept sentative. What " missed in the last
regatta were our friends from the South. We
cannot really call any display, whether a regatta
or q horse race, national in Which all sec
tons are not represented. And as the specta-
tors looked over the blue waters Of the beautiful
lake aud saw the company of stalwart. noble
young fellows pulling for victory, every muscle
curving, every VEN swelling, fire i'll every eye
and undaunted courage in every heart. the
thought must have arisen in many minds,
eve have Pennsylvania and Massachusetts
and New York, but where are Virginia and
the Carolinas? Here are the men OF tho
North, but where are the men OF the South2
This is the blood that conquered at Gsttys.
burg, but where is that which won Chancel-
lorsville and Bull RUM" The Southern
people have shown their prowess and skill
and nerve in too many forms not to make
their coming into the Saratoga regatta an
event of unusual interest.
We trust, therefore, that in another col
lege regatta the lads from the South will take
part, and the palm will compete with the
pine. Nothing will do more toward reconcile
iation, reconstruction and all the good things
that are to come in this swiftly coming year
of concord and centennial harmony than tho
assembling in friendly emulation Of our
young men in such STRIFE as the Saratoga
regatta Let our young men of the North
and South once come to know and respect
each other and the sections will have peace
upon the only basis on which true peace
can rest-triendly knowledge and self-respect.
Let our Southern friends come and they will
have warm and generous welcome.
RELIGION IN SPAIN.-We can hardly credit
the story that the Spanish government means
SO far TO forget its pledges of liberalism as to
force the Protestant missionary now laboring
in Madrd to leave that city. Nor is it credi-
table that the influence of the Papal Nuncio
should be used to such On object. The effect
of such an example, especially when under
the direct stimulus of the Papal Minister,
will be most unfortunate. Here IN America,
in England and in other countries the Catholic
Church receives the widest liberty 1t is al
lowed to spread and grow and exercise all
the functions Of spiritual authority. In
Germany we find laws limiting this freedom,
and the result is that the Pope never ceases
to protest in tones that spread all over the
world against the persecution of the Church.
And yet, in Spain, as soon as Catholic
prince ascends the throne we have the
Catholics adopting the same system as Ger
many. How can the Pope ask tor that liberty
to his Church in Germany which lie denies to
the Protestant Church in Spain? How can
wo welcome the spread of a Church in
America which threatens, as soon as it has
power, to oppose and suppress all other
churches, and in so doing violate an express
and cardinal principle OF our constitution