The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-07-22

bellion; and had Governor Seymour's at
tempt to remove the Republican Police
Commissioners at that moment been sue
cessful, the city of New York must have
been held at least for time by the ennis
saries of Davis. A universal sack must
have followed, and shock have been
given to the stability of the nation which
Gettysburg could scarcely have repaired
Again our ultramontane population
was awed into submission by severe exc
cutions, and Wood, Seymour, and Ker-
nan, the representatives of the Catholic
vote" were forced to content themselves
with subdued murmurs against the
"usurpations" of the administration and
the rigor of Grant. But the Catholic
vote" survived the rebellion and was
soon employed by its managers in sys-
tenn of corruption and crime that may
we'll be studied by all other cities that
are threatened with papal rule. Gin
cinnati and st. Louis may well observe
the ultramontane policy in New York.
For from 1865 to 1870 the Catholic voters
were led in a solid, unbroken body to the
polls to place in power men who would
advance the interests of the Papal
Church, destroy the common schools, and
rob the public treasury. The city began
tian Brothers. Our new cardinal pre-
sided over the ultramontane orgy of cor
ruption and crime in manner that am
ply satisfied his Roman masters. But
the unhappy city pined and withered un-
der the baleful reign of the Catholic
vote" An enormous debt was fastened
upon it to satisfy the forgeries and frauds
of our ultramontane rulers. Its neglect
ed streets and tottering wharves, its pes
tilential alleys and crowded tenements,
drove commerce and prosperity from
their favored seat Its prisons fell un-
der the care of keepers often more dan
gerous to society than those they pro-
fessed to guard. Its charitable institu-
tions and It's homes for the young or the
insane were made dens of infamy and
oppression. The ultramontane keepers
were, apparently not without design,
chosen from the most degraded politi-
clans of their party. In one charitable
institution they suffered a miserable
woman to be eaten by rats. In all, the
unfortunate and the helpless were sub
jected to outrage or neglect. The COM
mon schools were studiously discouraged,
and rapidly decayed. Meanwhile ultra
montane schools and. charitable institu-
tions were founded at the public ex-
pense, and flourished in lavish opulence
in splendid buildings, and were ostenta-
tiously contrasted with the public chari-
ties and schools where decay and disor-
der had been designedly suffered to pre-
vail
Such was the condition of the city in
1870 and 1871 under the reign of corrup-
ton produced by the Catholic vote. -
Recent revelations, so slowly unfolded,
throw strange light upon the private
occupations at this time of the ultramon-
tame leaders. Connolly, Tweed, and
Office wrangling over the division of their
plunder. Governor and Mayor, judges,
legislators, officials are all at their dis
posal. They endow Catholic schools
They literally disperse their bribes.
They rob, force, squander. A fearful
dread hangs over them, but they are
sure of the Catholic vote" and threaten
their foes with ruin. No Democrat ven
lures to oppose them. Nor does Tilden,
Herman, or OConor break the unaccount-
able silence. But once more the people
rose in fierce revolt against their tor
mentors. The gallantry of the Orange
men showed that they at least were re-
solved to submit no longer to ultramon-
tame tyranny. A new battle of the Boyne
was fought in our streets. A courageous
forgers and peculators. The pencil of a
brilliant artist helped to save New York
from bankruptcy and shame. A man of
rare financial ability restored its failing
revenues. A better administration has
prevailed for two years. Yet once again
we have fallen into the hands of the
managers of the Catholic vote" At the
recent election the people sank into apa-
thy, the Americans and Germans were
disunited, and Tammany Hall rose into
power by the aid of the whole ultramon-
tame faction and the folly of our divided
citizens. The men who had once voted
for Tweed and Sweeny now supported
their natural successors, and fifty or six
ty thousand of the most faithful adher-
ents of Cardinal M'Closkey or Plus TX
chose the Mayor and Public officials of
New York. AS might not have been
unlocked for, they opened the election
day with horrible murder. A band of
the adherents of Tammany Hall, armed
and violent, paraded our streets, and
shot one of their opponents in open day.
One ruffian fred pistol three times at
the murdered man as he lay upon the
ground. The shade of the dead M Ken
ma still hovers unavenged over the meet
ings of Tammany Hall, and the sachems
and satellites of that Catholic club may
well tremble at the name By the "Cos,
tigan bill'' our Catholic rulers planned q
new robbery of the city, which was hap
PLY prevented by a chain of fortunate
circumstances.
This brief sketch will serve to show
the necessary condition of community
ruled by the Catholic vote
The story of New York may
be read with instruction by all its sister
cities. A Catholic vote" will everywhere
produce its Tweeds and Connellys, thiev
ish officials or murderous politicians
with unfailing regularity. Blind fanati
cism when it mingles'in politics is GER
tain to choose for its leaders the shame
less and the corrupt. Yet to win the
support of blind fanaticism the Demo
cratic leaders are willing to forget that
they are Americans, and join with the en-
emies of education and of freedom. 1t i!
not difficult to foresee what must be the
final fate of this unholy league; nor will
Americans long endure the rude violence
of the ultramontanes, or the base servili
ty of their political chiefs.