Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-05-11

the pains to read that tnfallib1e manifesto
of the spirit of the papaey you will find,
among other things, the following prop
ositions, clearly stated:
/. E'That there should be a connection |
between the Church and the State, and |
that connection should be with the Cath !
Ollie Church, as Catholics recognize no |
other.
,. That the State shall tolerate no reli-
.@iOn but the Chatholic.
B. That Immigrants, or others, should |
own worship.
4. That the liberty of conscience, and
of worship, is not the right of every man,
and should not be granted by law.
). That the Church may exercise its
authority by force, if necessary, and
without the consent of civil power; and,
that in a conflict between the two powers,
the civil law must give way to the e-cle-
siastical. [The order of the inquisition
is in that.
G. That popular schools, open without
distinction, to all children of the people,
and free from all ecclesiastical authority
and interference, are not advantageous to
civil authority, and should not be al
lowed.
I. That the ecclesiastical power is of
divine right, and distinct and independ-
ent of the civil power
Let him be accursed who dares contro-
vert all of this. This Nation ought to
! say to that power, as God said to the waves
of the sea, E'thus far shalt thou come but
no farther
But, again, it was truly said a few
| years ago, by one who embodied in him
self the very genius Of American journal
ism, that if our politics remain as they
were, and as they ought to be, they will
invite the criticism both of the press and
the pulpit. But here is a cesspool so wide,
so deep, so ruinous, thatto survey its pro-
portions is not the work of few moments,
but of hours Official infide lity corruption
in high places, combinations to defraud
the Government of its revenues and tariff
whisky rings, railroad rings, Indian
rings, pension-frauds fraudulent claims
!, against the Government post-tradeships
land-grabbers, safe-burglars, together
with State and municipal peculations, il
! not arrested sooner or later, will write
''Thy Glory has Departed, upon the wal
! of National and of State Capitols.
The simplicity of Republican customs
} and the virtues of the earlier functiona
ries of the Republic, seem to have giveT
5 way to that greed and corruption tha
: whelmed in Iuin the nations of the earth
in the school-boy days of her history.
f It was recently stated in the public
= prin is, that within two years previously
e twenty-five per cent. of the county treas
D urers of the. State of Ohio had proved de
t faulters When the spirit of corruption
$ becomes so rife; when its reach of powe
is so great that it can steall$6 ,0O0, ,0O
: from a single city; when it can afford i'm
Y munity to its instrumentalities5 when
Y can with impunity turn loose the chief o
: rogues; when it can lay its hand of powe
G upon the great Secretaries of the Nation
e whenit can inveigle the trusted officer
e of the Chief Magistrate; when it can bu
i off revenue agents, and corrupt the brav
r sons of the Republic, who stood in th
:, hour of treason unfinchingly true, mi
e iron hail and leaden rain of the battle
: field; when it can stalk with uncovere
e front III Senate Chambers and Represen
l. ative Halls, both of the State and Nation
when it can commit its crimes upon Il
i very affairs of liberty, it would seem
IS though the very spirit of '76 was put c
is sale to the highest bidder. When the gre
% sources of power for good and the col
II servation of the Republic become tt
r a
n injecting every grade of public servic
r from the law-maker to the whisky-carte
10 the portent is no auspicious one to Il
a life and prosperity of the Nation. III
n very laws giving rise to the enormol
ar stealings of the whisky rings, whe
\ carried to their ultimate and. legitima
+ results, will sap the foundation of al
J. Government. A nation may be born
of blood, but it can not long subsist on bloc
O. The law of the Eternal will interpose f
0s vengeance.
he Slavery, as know from personal o
Id servation, was bloody MolOch, and
I'd bloody stains were only washed out
of the blood of 500, 900 of the sons of t
n. Nations, slain on either side. The whis
as combination is bloody power-a bloc
he principality, fattening upon the blood
,r its victims. The revenues it pours il
no the National Golfers are the price of bloc
ne and the Nation that fattens upon tht
IS. fattens upon sthe blood of its own cf
at dren; like the woman of the ATeocaly
IL FFdrun1en with the blood of the saints
on so in the future, if the whisky pow
,ot continue, this Nation, drunken with I
,ot blood of its own sons and daughters, "
at behold its own bloody tragedy end; WI
mt it's national sun shall forever set "a
me scenes of darkness, blood and death.
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