The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-05-21
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To the Fremont JoURNAL.
The reply of the Messenger 10 my last
article is Of the same kind and character
as the former. We have had the manli-
ness to answer his questions, as far as
we know-but perhaps not to his salts
faction--that we hardly expected TO do;
for whatever ideas are not coined in the
Democratic mint, are condemned as
illiberal and intolerant. But wholesale
charges are not proofs; we are willing
for the impartial reader to judge wheth-
er the arguments we have adduced
evince a spirit of intolerance, OF whether
they are not protest against the willy
intriguing of a power in our midst,
which history informs us has always in
termeddled with politics and govern
ments, and has thereby stirred up strife,
war and bloodshed, when their ofIicious,
demands are not met We are willing
to grant to others the same liberty of
conscience we claim for ourselves, but
when the Catholic church presses a gov
ernment to make for their special bene-
fit, when no such demand has been
made by the Protestant church for their
seperate and denominational interests,
we shall protest against such partiality
Notwithstanding the thunders of the
Messenger.
The Messenger man is astray when he
says that "only urge" this question,
''for the purpose of advancing the inter
ests Of the Republican party" do not
belong to those who are ready to sacri-
fee principle for party, there are too
many of these already, who do that.
Can any one make the application2 The
Messenger produces no new argument,
and being unwilling to repeat my own
arguments and answers, l will return
from this depression to the point at
which we started out, and from which
this slippery editor hastened hard to get
away and has not had the manliness to
answer The question at issue is as fol
lows: .t.
"These bigots who are so much
alarmed at the passage of this bill seek
to establish union of Church and State,
with their church recognized as the one
entitled to control and which is to be
sustained by law and eventually compel
the people to pay taxes for the support
of their established church." We have
emphasized the above, that he may not
overlook it.
Why this hue and cry in the Demo
cratic papers about "church and State2"
The idea is not original in the mind of
the editor of the Messenger. There are
many who seem to take great delight,
just now, in using this phrase as descrip-
tive of what they are pleased to call the
secret purposes and sinister designs of
all Protestant Chistians; but rarely, if
ever, apply it to any of the movements
of the priesthood. They only aim it
against those whom the Catholic priests
revile as the "EvaDgehcals. " The
phrase "Church and State" has already
become, in certain quarters, political
watchword, and is generally used as q
kind of anti-spiritual scare crow. 1t is a
silly device designed to mislead the ig-
norant, and frighten the timid. But it
neither exhibits wit nor common sense;
as a war cry against Evangelical Chris
tains' it has no possible application,
neither has it the slightest degree of per-
tinence. If there is any danger of such
a union in our country it is to be ex-
pected not from the Protestants but
from the Roman Catholics. That they
are earnestly striving for power cannot,
in the face of their own confession, be
denied, and yet the very men who i'm
pute that design to Protestants, are as
silent as the grave about any danger
from the only quarter from whence it
could possibly arise.
What means this silencel Does ii
foreshadow q new political combination
Are the political flags of infdelity and
Catholicism to be united under the
name of the Democracy VIII the sage
at the Messenger office please answer
A WATCHSIAN,