The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-06-16

These are sensible remark. The question
has nov assumed a form when it is no longer
q contest between the Protestant and Romish
religions. It takes wider range Roman.
ism comes forward and throws down the glove
to all the rest Of the world. It proposes "a
change the customs and institutions of on,
fathers 1t proposes to dictate to this nation
of forty millions of people the system of pop
ular education and, through the nurture Of
the children, to bind its yoke on the neck Of
this whole people.
To accomplish this, # is ready to employ
any means within its power. Political parties
are to be subsidized. The venal press be-
comes its cloquer while the serious facts are
that demagogues and men greedy Of gain will
play into its hands. Its members are very
largely of foreign BIRTH of low average
education-strictly organized and disciplined,
and led solely by the priests. The political
object of this Church--of its clergy rather
than its members, for they have no voice
whatever IN the shaping of its policy or its
government the destruction of the non-
seetarian public school system, and the SUBJ
stitution Of schools in which the Romisli
priesthood are to supply the teachers. Thus
they hope to 0atholocise the population, with
the assistance and connivance of the State
As this church steadily increases, the danger
becomes more positive with the value of it's
vote. =
The Democratic party has always courted
the patronage and support OF the Romish
Church, and has given evsry indication of
yielding to its demands whenever it has had
the opportunity or the power. As a recent
and most humiliating example of this, we re-
fer to the Greghan Bill in the Ohio Legisla-
ture, one object of which was to prevent the
visits of the members of Young Mems
Christian Associations, or their performing
any religious exercises in the PRISONS aims
houses or other public institutions throughout
the State. and to confer unusual and exclu-
sive privileges upon the Romish priests. The
bill was drawn under the eye of the Romish
Bishop Purcell, and forced through Demo-
cratic Legislature by the threats and intimi-
dations of the same scheming and remorseless
power. Upon this most outrageous aggress-
pointedly observes -
" 1t is plain proof that in future the Papal
Church means to strike openly at Republican
institutions and American freedom. Here,
three years ago, the Papal Church pledged
all its support to the followers of Mr.. Greeley,
and hoped, apparently, by a sudden intrigue
to seize upon the National Government 1t
was the Catholic press that gave rise to some
of the most violent denunciations of Republi-
can leaders, and the grossest ISLANDERS against
the men who had dana mnst To saye tho Me-
ton. The power of the Papai priesthood ov-
er the Democratic leaders is no doubt sli-
preme, as the Catholic Telegraph assefts.-
Nine-tenths of our Roman Catholic popula-
ton, it tells the trembling Democracy, are of
their party-have raised them to otfce--are
conscious of past favors, and are expecting
more. They can never throw off their chains.
The Cathode Telegraph has shown them the
naked truth Of their condition. Scarcely
Democrat would be in Office to-day, IN any
free State, except for the solid and mistaken
Catholic vote. Even in Connecticut at its re-
cent election, it was mass of ignorant and
bigoted Catholic voters, in the worst wards of
Hartford and New Haven, that drove the Re-
publicans from power, and placed in office the
friends of the Southern obligarchy and the
servants of Rome"
And this writer further states, that in New
York, aud even in Massachusetts, where the
Papal Church is held somewhat in check, as
well as in the great States of Ohio, Illinois,
Indiana, and Missouri, and in nearly all the
Western States, the Catholic, joined with the
Democratic vote, is sufficient, when Republi-
canism slnmbers, to carry the elections. No
man, however infamous his political career,
whether traitor, rebel, knave, or public rob-
Der, has failed to receive the undivided Rom
ish vote, if he would but serve the interests
of the foreign Church. In the rebellion the
Papal priesthood lent their sympath o. largely
to the side of the Shareholders, and since it's
suppression they have labored to create new
obligarchy in the South. What kind of Re-
public must be left to us when politicians are
sunken so low as to cover beneath the threats
and yield to the arrogant and unjust demands
of Papal Bishops and the Romish press. AL
ready the Democratic party is preparing, in
almost every State, for the destruction of the
common schools, aud yielding to thu menace
of political ruin held over them by Papal
priests. Unhappy men they may assume
the garb of freemen, but they still wear in
secret the chains of Rome
But there is yet one hope left in the politi-
cal prospect. As general rule Republican
voters and ofiice-holders are free from the do
minion of this Papal and priestly dominion.
No Romish Bishops nor Romish press could
drive Republican Legislature into the COM
mission of 80 foul shame as that of the
Democrats of Ohio during the last Winter.
The insolence to which they bowed their
necks and surrendered the last vestige of
American manhood, is crouched in the follow
ing terms, from the Catholic Telegraph, to
those Democrats who ventured to oppose or
protest against the infamous Geghan sectari-
an Bill: "They have dug their political
graves; it will be our fault n they do not fill
them. When any of them appear again in
the political arena we will put upon them a
brand thai every Catholic citizen will under
stand.'' Is not this the spirit of the days of
the Gregories and Urbans Of the Papal
Church?
This spirit must be resisted by all the