The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-01-15
Anfi-CathoIic Stuff.


nounced as the impotence with which it fas
tened itself upon an unwilling people, ana
coolly proceeded to absorb their substanc CO
in spite of their most energetic protests
Its modesty and it's orthodoxy were about
on a par. For our part, We thought il
quite natural that an organ of political
despotism should be at the same time ar
organ of religious anarchy. 1t matters
little to an extremist at which end he
stands, as extremes meet.
Our opinion that this religious bigotry oil
the Republican was not an individual pc.
culiarity but q natural result Of the
Radicalism which tainted it's whole politi-
cal party, has since been amply justified
The whole party has now openly or tacitly
declared against the Church and in favor
of its oppression. Radicalism is logical
recklessness. 1t flee to fanaticai extremes
upon an insolent and egotistical assump.
tion of it's own superlative wisdom, scorn-
ing that cautious and conscientious care to
be right which is called Conservatism. It
mounts a hobby and rides it furiously
to an objective point without regarding
the wreck of rights and principles which
mark it's path.
Thus, In its haste to emaucipate the ne
gro, it enslaves the whites in its 10y atty
to the central government it tramples I'M
der foot the plainest rights of States and
municipalities in it's exaggerated asser-
ton of liberty which it fails entirely to
understend, it revolts against the authority
of God as delegated to His Church. 1t be-
comes despot on the one hand and a
rebel on the other, respecting, in it's head
strong egotism, neither the rights of men
nor those of God.'
It lie not alone, then, our little Republi-
can organ, but the whole Republican or
Radical party that has declared war
against the Church of God. The key note
of that policy has been sounded by Grant
himself and cbeerfuily responded to every
where. One of the latest of these echoes lie
a Boston correspondence of the N. o
Republican Published last week. 1t opens
% follows:
The Southern Republicans lay before the
American people the following propositions:
First-That the objective point of the po-
litical diplomacy of the Confederate is to de-
tach the negro as an Independent political
power from the North.
Second-That the objective point of the
of the Roman hierarchy in the New
World is to detach the negro power from the
Protestant faith.
Third-That the Confederate and Romanist
are one in every essential issue which separates
the Confederate from the American idea of
popular selfgovernment.
Can the North permit this political suppress.
sion of the negro as an independent political
force within the Unionf Can the Protestant
party of North America afsrd to have the
negro power become the ally of the Roman
hierarchy of the New Worldf
To detach the negro power from the Pro
testant faith: We hope SO. If this were
not true tho Catholic Church would have
proved recreant to her mission. The duty.
of the Church is to carry the truth to all
men, black or white, and to detach every
body, not only from Paganism, but
from heresy as we'll. When the Catholic
Church is so steadily converting from their
errors the white population of the United
States, it seems strange that che should be
expected to neglect the negro,
meaning in the word "power," as used.
We are not able to divine exactly what is
intended by the negro power" The
Church's effort is to save, not "powers,"
but men. We know of but one way Of
separating the negro power, whatever that
may be), 'front.' Prote slant faith, (what-
ever that may beg, which is to convert the
individual negroes. The gentleman who
writes from Boston may mean that the
Southern people are trying 60 detach the
"negro power" from the Republican party,
which is true enough, and that the Catholic
Church is seconding the movement in order
to detach that population from the "Pro-
testant faith" which is just as false as the
former is true.
Though the Boston man may not know it,
there are plenty of white Protestants in the
South. The SEPARATION of negroes from
Northern Influences, or rather from the
Republican party, would not necessarily
i'm pair their Protestan tism, because they