New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-21

all Europe. These ''anti-Republicans
were greatly captivated by having a
Prince of the ecclesiastical dominion ap-
pointed from the United States. These
''an.i-Republicans' have been captiva.ed
by berrettas, thrones, chasubles and
genufiections; they have fastened to
favor the progress of doctrines which our
fathers had emigrated into wilderness
to escape.
These last neutrality-suspicious." have
been thrown off by the politicians. There
are few ideas which politician will not
adopt, provided they may lead to salaries
and spoils. Hence, when it was init
mated that solid vote would be cast
upon the Ohio Democracy in favor Of the
separation of the schools between Protest.
ant and Catholic, the 'anti-Republican"
went in for it, as for any other slot of
votes" There was, however, recoil in this
movement, of which the anti Republicans
knew nothing. There are a great many
persons in this country who both read and
reason. Society is filled with people who
have read ofthe old wars against popery and
wooden shoes They know that dissent
ers from Romanism have been burned BY
the thousand They have read of royal
edict by which the Professionals of France
were guaranteed in safety, and have
seen acted upon the stage the massa-
ere of ST. Bartholomew, by which
these Protestants were perfdiously
shot down for the promotion of their re-
ligion. We know an excellent Methodist
lady in Georgia whose Huguenot ancestor
escaped to American after the massacre,
and whose hostility to the bigotry aid
cruel intolerance of the royal government
was such that she forbid any descendant
Learning even the language of France on
pain of FORGETTING any inheritance derived
from this ancestor Owing to such diffu-
sion of history and tradition among free
and intelligent people, the anti-Republi-
can who had never read history, and,
perhaps, never acknowledged an ancestor,
thought the "lot of Catholic votes" good
thing. AS it, however, awakened Protest
ant apprehensions and even personal tradi-
TONS it did not answer their expectations.
Those who were not partisans in poll
tics and religion saw that firebrand
of mischief which lad desolated and
demoralized Europe, was preparing
mission in America. These apprehen-
sions, and it might be prejudice, concen-
trated strong opposition to the slot of
Catholic voters" Now, when the Demo-
cratic or ''anti-Republican" politician
finds the authorization idea unpopular,
he throws off on the propagandist of the
Vatican. Soall these magnificent hopes of
American restoration to the faith and fold
tumble to the ground, and all the pecu-
mary oblations-if any-which have been
confided to the "anti-Republican" politi-
clans proves to have been utterly wasted.
If the Ohio election were to be repeated
tomorrow the 'anti-Republicans" would
not give more cold shoulder to the infla-
tionists than to the slot of Catholic voters"
who wish separation of the heretics from
the orthodox
We do not object to the generic name of |
''anti- Republican" under which it is now
to collect the disbanded Demo-
Gratis. 1t is not the first time they have
been driven to assume an alias but they
have never before chosen one SO properly
expressive of their true intents as that of |
the 'anti-Republican party" Let it stick
to them.