The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-07-03
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

vention organized in the afternoon, about
Q O'Clock, with Mr. H. H. Brady in the
chair, and Milton Y. Kidd, Esq, acting as
Secretary. DR.. J. V. Wallace, of Chesa-
peake City; State Senator, Hon. w. M.
Knight; President of the Public School
Commissioners, F. S. Everist; and States
Attorney, Clinton Mccullough, Esq, were
chosen delegates to the gubernatorial con-
vention which is to assemble in Baltimore
on 21st inst. Several speeches were made
before the convention the head and front
of which was made by Mr.. W. 7. Miller,
ex-Clerk to the County Commissioners, IN
support of a series of resolutions offered
by him, reciting the claims, craftsmanship,
ability, &C., of Governor Groome. The
speech is reported as belonging to the or.
der of gushing elocution. The Governor
was held up as Cecirs young statesman
and rising star, before whose light the splen-
dor of all of Maryland's former Governors
paled. Not vestige of the poor Radl-
calls was spared 10y the speaker, who urged
his hearers and the renowned and time
honored Democratic party, to never cease
from their patriotic labors till every line Of
Radical legislation " was swept from the
statute books of the State.
Some of the enviouS Democrats came out
saving to one another, Why should we be
led by this man, did we not behold him in
a Radical Union Convention once, march
ing through this town ringing bell-ring-
ing out this grand old Democratic party
he now praises so, and ringing in the new
Radical party? This man is bidding for
the Clerk Office four years hence, and so
the loving party bicker and backbite, and
are quick to charge that any man among
them who manifests any zeal, for the "ge-
lo-ri-ous" party is influenced by no other
motive than desire for office. The dele
gates are all Groome delegates, as was pro
per and fitting they should be, and are firm
officeholders of the Ring, except the Dr.,
who should not be reproached for this, as
he has been trying to enter into that select
circle for number of years.
eYWe published short article in the
Whtq of June 10Th, from the Washington
Republic, which we neglected, however, to
credit. which referred to the antagonism Of
the Catholic Priesthood or Church to our
system of Public Schools, which Mr.. Barry,
the Port correspondent of the Democrat, a
most Jealous Catholic, took violent excep
ton to in last Saturdays letter. That arti-
Gle was nothing more than statement of
facts and cited the opposition of Bishop
McQuaid, of Cincinnati, who had recently
denounced the Public Schools as 20 Goddess
Schools The article had nothing against
the Catholic Church as religious denomi-
nation, but condemned the priesthood very
justly for their opposition to the American
system of Public Schools To strike at our
Public Schools is to sap the foundations OF
our Republican form of government, and
the church or ministry which arrays itself
against the Public School system has en-
listed against Republican government, and
they may depend upon it that they will be
fought, and they may make up their minds
to fight to the bitter end. 1t is no secret,
not intended to be by the Priesthood of the
Catholic Church, who, we believe openly
proclaim it, that they are utterly opposed
to our system of Public Schools and never
hesitate to condemn them when opportun-
ity is favorable and they will hardly thank
Mr.. Barry for attempting to deny a plain
statement of facts which was the substance
of the article quoted from the Republic.
The intelligent reader must have smiled
at the following rhapsody by the CORE
spondent of the Democrat in the light OF
facts and history:
s'It is gratifying to see that as people
become more enlightened in their religious
belief, and understand better the meaning
of brotherly love and good will to their fel-
low-men, their prejudices soon vanish; but
so long as papers continue to publish fire.
brand articles like the one published in the
last issue of the Cecil Wing on the first
page, headed Catholic Church and Public
Schools just so long will the spirit of
intolerance, bigotry and ignorant prejudice
continue to exist in the less enlightened
towns aud rural districts Of our noble little
State-the cradle of liberty and liberation"
When did the teaching of any denomina-
ton ever Danish prejudice against all other
denominations? And the " enlightened re-
ligious belief, brotherly love and goodwill
to their fellow men," which prevails in
America, are owing more to secular educa-
ton impaired by the Public Schools to the
masses of the people, which enables them
to think without prejudice, than to any and
all other means combined "just SO long
will the spirit of intolerance, bigotry and
ignorant prejudice continue to exist in the
less enlightened towns and rural districts -
You had better go to Spain, Mr.. Barry, to
build such castles. The people of Port
"and rural districts have been familiar
with Public Schools too long to be fooled
by any such gasconade. There is no church
in Spain, save the Catholic, and there is
not public school in that kingdom ANY
intolerance there? any "ignorant preiu-
duce?" Mr.. Barry had better study with
more care the history of the Church and
Public Schools before he commits himself
to such folly in the face of facts, as con-
tanned in the above paragraph from his let
eCl' L uOlIO CCuOOIo lut UeSG ITl60QS
of mankind, and those who war against
them are the enemies of the human race
whether clothed in priestly robes or plain
citizens coats.
Bishop McQuaid in the name of Jehovah
denounces the Public Schools as Goddess
School, our Democratic County Commits
sioners attack them in the name of Nam
mon, and cut off the revenue necessary to
support them. Is the Church which sus
tains the one, and the political party that
indorses the other, the hope of "govern-
ment of the people, by the people, and for
the people,"
THE ENEMY MOVING ON THE SpoILs.-
1t is time now to begin to exhibit the
"grand old Democratic partyr' of this
State in its role as a spokesman. They are
already snarling like brotherhood of