The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-07-30


On Sunday evening the vast throng 0
ultramontanes filled the Grand Opera
house To replefion. Bishop Purcell pre-
sided; the Jesuit college and the CnihO
] lie T,i'gTdJ,h Were, no doubt, well rep
Resented in tlie crowded house, and Bish
Op M'Qnaid, the Catholic knisiIt-errant
attack upon the American common
schools. He Ind been invited to Gin
cinnaii for the purpose, and one chiel
object Of the ultrlmontane gathering
was evidently TO mark out for the Dem
ocraey that policy ia educational mat
ters which they will hereafter be expect
Ell 10 pursue. Having "GegiIanized'
one Legislature, the priests feel that the
Democratic leaders in the future can
give them little trouble They have
only to secure the next election If they
would elTectnally injure or destroy the
common schools of Ohio. To further
this object, Bishop M'Quaid unsheathed
all the weapons Of his spiritual arinory
The schools, lac said, were .,godless;n
they were pagan; they were unpopular;
they We're dying out He thought it
cruel injustice that Catholics should be
forced la pay for schools which they did
not choose to Use; as il Catholics were
To he favored above all other sects. He
might perhaps, had he daied, have com
planned that Catholics were forced to
pay taxes to a government that had not
yet learned to obey a Pope. Animated
by sense of persecution and the ap-
plause OF unreiiecting Germans, our
hish prelate said the common school
system of America was no better than
the Spanish Inquisition. lie forgot that
but for popular education and the com
mon schools the Roman lnqGisition
would have iiourished still ia Europe
and America, and the Pope its Supreme
Inqnisitor, would have crushed freedom
and knowledge where his faithful bish-
ops had fixed his sway. The Roman In
QUESTION, which still lives in the person
of Plus TX, and which is sanctioned by
the Syllabus and the Council, the ardent
prelate forgot to mention. In fine, the
address was received with loud approval
The immense assembly of ultramon-
tanes inaugurated anew the war upon
the common schools. Tie American
system of education is the first of our
institutions which we are called upon TO
surrender to our European Church.
Ohio is to be the scene of Il memorable
contest. The Catholic vote" claims to
govern the State, and Bishop Purcell
and the Catholic Telegraph have promis-
ed to support the Democratic candidates
with all the rage of blind fanatieism.-
If they succeed by threats and by ex-
in driving their Irish
ard German followers in solid unbro-
ken body to the polls, the Democracy
will have gained its reward, but it will
be ut the expense of every American
and every honorable sentiment. !
Nor is it possible to believe that any
large number Of American Democrats
can long consent TO follow those party |
leaders who have shown a haze geryility
to the ult-aiHoniane rule.
The contest in Ohio is one between
European and American ideas 1t is
the foundations of the. republic that are
assaiIed by tI.e altrAmontanea- 1t is
ridiculous 90 suppose that the faction
which is the deleUdeF Of the honrbOns
in FIs.nOe and Spain, of Catholic unity
at Rome, religious tyranny, and the tenn
poral power of the Pope, which threat
ems Germany with the horrors of inva-
sion and civil war. aud lya,Y with the
fiercest pI,gees ot Prirstly tyranny, is
any different IN Cincinnati or New York
The politics of the nltranontane mnst
every where be controlled hy the decis-
ions of his spiritual head. The Pope
may guide his l50Q ormore bishops with
the ease of IA praetIced commander, for
rule of conduct; and beneath the bish
ops an immense hest Gf prieS,s move
with constant regularity. It's the Pope
and the Roman Curia with whom the
of Ohio are brought face
to face. 1t is to enfoFpf the doctrines
Of the Syllabus and the Council that
the often RELUCTANT Demoorats are driven
by threats OF accommodation to the
polls What the ultrtmOntanes hope to
do in Ohio is to retain that control over
the future Legislature which they ha,d
over the past Never before has the
foreign Church S-'nfured 10 speak TO
American legislators aS il spoke recently
to the Democratic Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Ohio ''Obey u.s." cried
the priests, cor we will drive Y0G from
power, and mark ynu, with an inellaocable
brand" And the Democracy Obeyed.-
1t is to retain this power that tile priests
have promised to the Democratic lead
ers the Whole Catholic vote. The sole
question in the fall election is, Shall this
Catholic vote rule in the State? The
olrertc the people OF Ohio
caste and seatarianisIn, European prcin
dices, and transatlantic follies; the Re
publieans, those Rrineipias q human
equality and nepga! nrqagress which have
made our country II lPpy AMI great The
ara pvorY where the Rd-
voeates OF despOtiSm and absOlntism;
the Republicans, of liberal and generous
Our ultramontane Democrat
signs for titles and rink, The rule OF
priests anu hGtehr;ttes, the privilege OF
unlicensed and arbitrary corruptiOn.-
The true Republican lives in his native
alone. Ohio has TO decide
two. EorGould that state do an
act more worthy OF the Centennial years
of the republic than to set a striking
mark of condemnation pRon Gitramon-
tame folIies and European impulses in its
coming election Let us all be purely
American Republicans, whatever lie cur
race or creed, in tl,is gEe4s era of the
nation, and let qs place 40 person in
Office who laments the progress of free
dom and slghs for the abuses of the past
Nor can the whole country more fifty
- =. &C. natal SoaSon in 1875 than hx-