New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-26
Especial Correspondence Of the Republican.
NORTHERN POLITICS,

NORTHERN POLITICS.
| New Jersey AID the Jesuists-BehoIdW VIVA,
4 Great Fire . Small Spark Will
Aindie-New Jersey the Bar0metricaI
State in American Politics -EHect of the
Protestant Conflict In New Jersey ON
National Politics-N0rthern Protestant
Democrats and the Jesuists-Ssuthern
wings and Northern Protestants-The
Near Future, etc.
NEW YORK, October 1S, 1875.
New Jersey has been famous from time
immemorial for possessing a decided
Esprit" as we'll as determined "mind" of
its own. 1t has always been the strong.
held OF the Northern Democracy. New
Jersey has also served not only as an in.
piration, but as barometer in national
politics.
off we can only carry New Jersey" aid
the Wigs in oldsn times, 1--WE can be sure
that public opinion has at last turn ed
| against the Democracy"
$50 long as we hold New Jersey" said the
old line Democrats in the days of Clay and
Webster 1--WE are sure of the anchorage of
WI POI WO Cdu uUG urlIU IAT, II new
Jersey remains true"
To-day, the same interest attaches to this
barometrical State The Democracy feel
that so long as New Jersey stands BY State
sovereignty, hate of the negro and "sec.
tionslized South" as necessary balance of
power in American politics, that the old
and long tried anchor Of the old and sorely
tried Democratic ship of war still testifies
to the truth of the Democratic reactionary
| idea, that deep down underneath the
swollen tide of progress and liberty, and
material civilization and American expan-
sion is the solid though stagnant foundation
| on which our primitive Confederate fore
fathers" builded the temple of constitu.
tional white mans government in l776. On
the other hand, the Republicans feel that
New Jersey, as a Democratic strong hold,
is as thorn in the side of every national
man. What, under these circumstances,
will such Democrats as Houston, of Ala
| bama. think of the fact that New Jersey as
| the sheet-anchor of the national Democracy
has Gifted" at last The State is drifting
| into the very middle of the great national
| current which has swept so many other
members of the American Union away from
the ancient Democratic State sovereignty
| land maOks. The significance of this po-
lical overturn in New Jersey arises from
the fact that it occurs on the school ques.
ton, and is the direct result of the open in
| reference of the Roman Jesuists in the
local politics of this plucky little American
State. These Jesuists, as the organized re-
representatives. of the political purposes of
the temporal power of the Roman hierarchy
| in America, have had the hardwood to
openly instruct the Roman Catholics of
New Jersey how they must and shall vote
on purely American question. This in
reference by three Roman Jesuists in our
political affairs was accompanied by q
gratuitous assault upon the character and
authority of the chief executive officer of
the American government. Thus the will
of the Jesuists was sought to be placed over
the will of the people and the character and
dignity of the Pope, as q ruler and po
tentate over the President of the United
States. The reply of the people-especially
| of the Professionals in New Jersey-has most
rudely startled these Jesuists from the
dreams which fill their brains in the mouas-
terry. They find out that in the broad sun
light of actual existence In New Jersey at
least "life is real, life is earnest" What
New Jersey may be 200 years hence, no one
can tell. She may, for aught We know,
become the site of new st. Peters, when
the Pope as ruler of all the earth takes up
his abode in the Americas But for the
present, New Jersey is Protestant and
national, and 80 this sensitive political
barometer shifts from the Democratic to the
Republican side. In the light of this mar
velous transformation, We can almost see
the SHELTON of Henry Clay stir in its grave,
and hear the deep chest voice of the old
Wing leader mutter: "Now let me turn my
bones over on my side and rest in peace
New Jersey as a political indicator thus
points the way which is leading the great
national Republican party to victory in
1876. The New York Tribune, in an edi-
torial entitled, 1.-The Coming Struggle"
clearly indicates the inevitable conflict
which is to occur at the polls in this coun-
try, sooner or later, between the political
representatives OF the Roman hierarchy and
the Protestant sentiment of the nation. 1t
is one of those issues which make them
selves, and which political management can
neither make nor unmake. The Roman
Jesuts in this matter will force the fighting.
They believe it to be their duty to under
mine and overthrow the civil and religious
institutions of Protestant America. They
believe the time opportune for carrying out
their plan. They feel absolutely certain of
the political allegiance of every Roman
Catholic in the United States to sustain
them in their attempt. They feel certain
also that tisan spirit will still hold the
Protestant Democrats of the North in union
with the Roman Catholic party in carrying
out this plan. They are equally sure of the
Southern Confederates for the same pur-
pose. 1t is confidently believed at Rome
that the Southern Confederates would sac
ritce their Protestant faith in order
to secure the overthrow of the
national Republican party. 1t is plain
that so bigoted class as the Jesuits, with
such encouragement offered them as is pre-
sented by the facts above stated, will not
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