The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-12
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The pending storm foreshadowed in
President Grants Des Moiues speech, be-
tween the Church and State, seems to be
gathering in force. That the Catholic
Church is preparing itself for the contest,
there is no doubt, silently, but none the
less surely. Whether they desire 1t or not,
the question will have to be decided by the
people Of this country, as between free and
secular schools. The sooner the better
for the longer it is delayed he more intense
and bitter will be the conflict. CONNER
ciai.
/. Perhaps it would be as well for the Com
meYctdt to be a little more specific. 1t call
not point to a single instance to sustain
the monstrous falsehood it puts for
ward. The storm foreshadewed by Presi-
dent~lGrant has no existence save in
the imagination of the Radical leaders.
his Des Moines speech was simply a
bid Tor Third Term, and he imagined
that a platform of religious bigotry and
hate would be popular The lie that car
ried Ohio, aided by wholesale fraud, is to
be made to do duty in the Presidential
campaign. There is no body insisting
upon n religious war; except Grant and
the Radical leaders, and they announce
their determination to force "A contest be-
tween different religious denominations,
whether the people Gesire it or not. Men
who engaged IN such things are too mon
strously wicked to be chan aIacterzed in
words. When they strike at the liberty of
conscience, and make the exercise of that
right the grounds for prescribing portion
OF our citizens, they strike at the very
foundation of our constitutional liberties. /.
a newspaper editor, like the man of the
Commercial, who declares that there shall
be q religious war and the sooner it is
fought the better, possesses not only the
mind of a bloody bigot, but is doing all in
his power to destroy civil and religious
/ liberty, and overthrow Republican form
OF government; for from the smoke and
carnage of such horrible war as he insists
! shall be forced and fought, we will emerge
I i'll a monarchy, i'll which neither civil lIbe r.
! ty nor the right of conscience will oc toler-
| ated. His deliberate and studied proposal
! to deiuge the country in blood upon an
/ issue that has no existence, eciipses even
the midnight Vaccinations of tue Know
Nothing order OF twenty years ago, and be-
! ing proclaimed as the policy of powerful
I political organization is enough To fill the
country with alarm. If such a policy as
that proposed by the Radical leaders is in
augurated, the people of this country with
| in the next decade VIII be far iliarzed witt
all the blood curdling horrors of the Middle
Ages which read like nightmare romances
i'll the dusty pages OF the past.
! Party leaders who map ont no program
me for the future but blood and carnage
and the fires of religious bgotry and hate
consuming the accumulated labois of ;
century Of civil aud religious liberty am,
destroying the fabric of freedom itself, ar,
to be Slammed more deadly than til,
Upas. Tu-day one denomination is tn,
quarry to morrow another aud auothe
viii fall under the ban, until finally tn,
ravcning vultures of ntidel France wi,
come forth from their hiding places ant
fatten upon the bones of Liberty in tn,
very temples where once She walked will
an imperial tread, with none to breathe
aught against her right of dominion.
But the Commercial and its party leader
invite us to a feast of death aud d carniva
of nameless horror-to war that vii
spare neither age nor sex nor condition
that will respect neither God nor man
that will regard neither life, liberty no
conscience. Are the American people
with the light of history before hem, read
to surrender civil and religious liberty AN,
plunge into the horrible abyss Of a religion
war at the bidding of any set of part
leaders? We cannot think that they are
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