The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-01
HiIIsborough Highland Ohio Thursday July 1875

| Gne. .SIduts VI IlOIlud, VI LII Odll'
and Marqsette threaded the rivers
and travesed the Indian trails of the
| Northwest
She has for nearly two hundred
years been steadily losing ground
in Europeuntil, by the advance Of
freedom Of the press, freedom o.
thought and liberty of speech she
has been driven to extremities, and,
seeing that her day is about to close
in tie old world, she is looking to
the United! States for re-establish-
ment of her grandeur and power.
Strangled by Bismarck and secuted
by Victor Emmaiuel, sneered' at by
France and driven from Russia, hat
ed in EpAlnd ard abhorred by the
! Scotch, b q un,er strict surveillance
in Irelaud&nd stripped Of temporal
power everywhere save in bigoted
and weakened Austria and imbecile
Spain she looks to the western world
for new field for her Vaccinations,
her pomp and tyranny and subjuga-
tion of thoughtand conscience.
We assert it unhesitatingly that
the sole hope ofMe papd posoer IN
the soorld rests IL Anaerica, and that
her sole hope in America rests IN the
Democratic patty of the United
States.
We undertakeno crusade against
Catholics nor against foreigners; all
are welcome toour shores and to
the liberties which we have secured,
but when Jesuis attempt crusade
against us and against our institu-
tions it is another matter and every
true American, when he realizes that
such an event iseven probable, will
fly to arms, if necessary, to repel
the encroachmerts of power which
brings to those lnder its sway only
ignorance, vice AID decay.
That an alliante has been entered
into between the Jesuitical Roman
lists and the Leaders of the Democrat
ic party in our country is too evident
to allow any one who loves his coun-
try and its institutions to rest long
er without protest. The demands of
the Catholic papers and priests for
special legislation n behalf of their
church, and the ready yielding to
these demands by the Democratic
legislatures, the cryfor o division of
the school fund, which has in some
instances been acced,d to and always
favored by Democratic authorities,
the threats made openly by catholic
organs to compel reluctant Demo
Gratis into. subjection to their will,
the establishment Ct a ecardiualate at
New York "a purely political move
ment), with all the pageantry and
pomp and man millinery of its inau-
guration, the meeting of Governor AL
len with the Pope's Legate Roncetti
and Arch Bishop Purcell at Cincin-
natl to 'fx up" the schoolfund
plank of the Democratic platform of
Ohio on the Saturday before their
State Convention, and, above all, the
eager subserviency of the Democracy
to the will and dictates of the Roman
Catholic priesthood, all show that an
alliance has been effected between
these two seekers for power to Sc
cure joint control of our local, State
and Federal Governments.
We repeat it, we are entering no
complaint; undertaking no campaign
against Catholics as Catholics, but
we speak to warn American citizens
of the dangers threate ming their lib
critics through an unholy league of
politicians with intriguing
priests, and to protest against toler-
alton in positions of influence and
OF men who show their will
ingness to betray the trust imposed
in them by yielding to the demands
of Jesuit propagandists and thus allow
them to fetter our institutions with
the bonds which the old world has
through centuries of struggle just
cast off.
There are men who sneer and