The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-09-26
"Fair Treatment for Catholics"

NY. Independent Protessant).
In an article with the above heading our
Protestant contemporary examines the
hue and cry raised by the politicians of
the Radical party in Ohio. The Indepen-
dent says:
The Catholic Telegraph (of Cincinnati,
Ohio) says that there are fifty Thousand
Catholic voters in Ohio, and that no pol
itical party can afford to ignore or despise
them. 1t intimates pretty plainly that if
the Democratic party does not please the
Register calls this language "impertineut,"
"imperious, "insolent," "impudent." We
| cannot see it so. To us it seems that it is
the duty of Catholics to do just what they
| here seem to threaten. Ii party does
not please any voter or any class of voters,
| 1t ls their duty to desert 1t, and they have
the full right to let the fact be known and
if that be threatening, to let their threats
have their full force. That is the very
gospel of boiling which DR.. J. F. Clarke
ought to have taught The Register
We happen to have before Us u religious
paper edited by Negro, and the last issue
contains these sensible Words
We are Republicans, as are most colored
people, because we think our interests can be
better subserved in the Republican party at
present than in the Democratic party as is At
members of the party, ,and intend to remain so
as long as our party is in the right but when
wrong, injustice, and foul play become the
order of the day, we should bid it adieu.
This is just the Catholic Telegraph's doc
trine published in the interests of the Re-
publican party, and nobody would think
of complaining of it. Negroes will be Re-
publicans just as long as it for their inter
ests and the party appears to them to be
right, and no longer. So has said the
Wonan's Journal on the question of female
| @. Ill 1f
We will help that party that will best help
} the interests that seem to us to need atten-
tion and if the party opposes us we will
leave it and let our intention be known.
Here is another example Judge Taft has
said that "in this country the civil law must
, can stand againstit. "The Catholic Telegraph
is bitterly attacked for reply ying:-
Since the Son of God became incarnate, gave
liberty to human conscience, established q
: Church and invested it with His own divine
= authority, civil law has no such supremacy as
he attributes to it. 1t is subordinate to the law
of conscience, to the divinely revealed, super.
= natural law. Civil law has no authority
when it conflicts with that higher law and nc
: Christian will ever recognize it.
j To us this is grand utterance of truth
D 1t has the ring of the days of the Fugi
tive Slave Law. So long as the Vatican
lists believe that Ged speaks through Plus
I TX, that he has revealed that a purely SO
: cular school is pagan and sinful, they ars
, under every obligation of duty to Oppose
,, it to the utmost, and we respect their self
, sacrifice in following their mistaken judg
ment.
. 0nce more. A circular sent to Protest
I ants urging them to vote for the constitu
{ tional amendments in New jersey contain
these words:-
A We have learned on good authority that t.
them the priests of the Roman Catholic
. Church have been directed to call tho at
q tention of their parishioners, with stric
= injuuctions to do their utmost to secure thei
= defeat.
It An "Evangelical Conference" held a
Cape May lately expressed "its profound
It regret" that ecclesiastics were interfering
q in New Jersey to defeat the amendments
! Why should not they7 To us it seem
q that they are under the highest obligation
o to explain to their hocks the bearing o
Il the amendments that would forbid appro
It priations in support of sectarian schools o
l. churches and warn them to vote agains
d them. We Protestants do not hesitate t.
10 do the same thing, The writer last Sunda.
night listened to Protestant sermon speci
. ally prepared in support ofthe amendments
q. and would not in the least have hesitate'
3. to preach just such sermon, if the coca
q sion had called for it. We must allow fai
W play to Catholics if we hope, as we do, t
Is vanquish them utterly and finally on thi
It great question of free unsectarian ednca
!. tion.