The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-06-25

dientuuto St. Peter, the Holy Apos,
tolic Roman Church, and 70 our
most Holy Lord, the Pope, and his
successors; sa, that will,
by every way and every means, strive
to preserve, augment, and advance
the rights, privileges, and authority
Of the Holy Roman Bishop, our
Lord, the Pope, and his before-me
toned successors That ]
will seek out and oppose persecute
and fight against omni conatu per-
seeuturim ct impugnaturim all her.
etics, schismatics, against the name
of our Lord, the Pope, and his be-
aforementioned successors, with ev
cry possible effort"
twill be observed, in passing that
this remarkable document becomes
more conspicuous by leaving ont
all references to God, the Father OF
all, and the Savior, the Great Head
of the Church on earth.
That the Pope, a foreign Potentate,
stripped of bis temporal power, for
abundant reasons, should be able to
transform, on these shores, an Amer
ican citizen into a Prince, owing
allegiance to that Potentate, aud
confer the title, with the garments
which are to distinguish him; that
be should be able to subject him to
the terms of such an oath, which
transfers the allegiance of that
Prince, though disguised in the Car
dinal, and directs the labor of his
life to the interests Of "our most
Holy Lord, the Pope"-ought to fix
the attention of men who have the
interests of their country at heart
and wish it's prosperity.
1t is not strange that the purpose
of life of Cardinal McCloskey, as ex,
pressed in the oath, is not now to
elevate and ameliorate the condl-
tion Of his fellow-citizens, but to do
all in his power to increase the
membership Of the Roman Catholic
Church, and stamp upon it the same
alien character Of devotion, the same
alien power that he himself wor.
ships? To this end, he denounces
the instruction of youth by the
State, who would be taught the true
principles Of patriotism and political
freedom at the start of life, and who
would grow up to manhood to ex
hibit devotion to them in practice.
The function of a Church is TO in
struct in religion; and to this no one
would object. But the Roman
Catholic Church is battling for the
youth the State is teaching, in order
to prevert the young mind FIRST
with devotion to the most Holy Ro.
man Lord, the Pope, and his sue
cessors, and to treat devotion to
country as of secondary and inferior
concern. The Roman Catholic
Church has, therefore, in this pure
ly political aim to accomplish; be.
cause the Pope, beng an alien, has
no right to issue decree molestiDg
or in anyway governing the perfect
political freedom of American citi-
zens.
The oath of Cardinal McCloskey
shows him prepared to carry out the
Pope's DEGREES. Has the Pope in
termeddled with our political affairs ?
What is at the bottom of the action
of the Catholic Bishops at New
York and Cincinnati, as regards the
Public Schools2 1t is said that the
late Legislature OF Ohio, which was
Democratic, was the worst that ever
met in that State. Yet, for certain
privileges granted by that Democrat
ic Legislature, the Roman Catholic au
thorities have undertaken to control
the foreign Catholics, ignorant vote,
to endeavor to perpetuate the pow
er of the Democratic party. The
Roman Catholic priests have always
claimed the right to direct the votes
of Catholics; and they will do so all
the more in Cincinnati, if the Cath.
olic Church is to be benefited. In
places where the Catholic Church
may be said to flourish, as in New
York, there political corruption is
most firmly entrenched.
The uneducated Irish and Ger
man vote ties the hands and defeats
the will of the cultured and patriotic
citizens to rectify wrongs and re-
form abuses. Could Tweed have
plundered 80 enormously if it had
not been for the Catholic vote and
the Catholic church, The principles
of the Republican party, which are
the principles of moral and political
honor and of national progress, have
but little expression in the face OF
the priest-led vote. The read OF
the Catholic Church claims tempo
raj power as well as ecclesiastical
rule. The Pope once did, and still
wants to, sway a sceptre, while ne
governs as priest. A complex
claim of this kind makes the Ro
man Catholic Church an institution
bothl political and religious. AS q
religious institution, nobody will in
tertere with it, so long as it inter
feres with no other religious body.
But the Roman Catholic Church is a
secret and oath-bound institution,