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

the pilgrim bones of Joseph, are carried
back to the ''fiowery land'' for final sep
ulture.
One eighth of our native population is
very largely represented by the old freed
man, who affirmed that the Nation was
worth nothing to him without his life;
nothing to his family, to his race, or the
world, without his own participation
therein. Perhaps his mere estimate of
freedom and citizenship was little thing
within itself; yet, political prophets argue
that the power he represented will, at the
next, and may at many succeeding cleo
tions, elect the Chief Magistrate of the
land. l cannot divest myself of the
thought, that it is worthy of the most pro-
| found consideration by the people, when
the ignorant and the vicious WELD the
same power at the ballot-boX that the
most patriotic and intelligent do. The
| balance of power in all our larger cities
is said to be held by that class who will
WELD it for the elevation to Office of the
party furnishing them the most whisIley,
beer and money, in consideration for
their influence. Said wise old Roman,
that FsI1e first sold the liberties of the peo-
pie who first gave drinks and treats for
votes.'
The estimate, too, of personal liberty,
as it is advocated by many of foreign ex-
traction, as we'll as by thousands of ma
tive birth, is but single remove from
complete anarchy. 'Tis nothing, or but
little less, than the liberty of the mur-
; derer Staying his victim, of the assassin
stealing upon the object of his hate, of the
robber waylaying the traveller, or the thief
, as he breaks through and steals. But re-
Gently, one of the leading periodicals of
the State asserted that the nationality it
represented ought to be protected in the
most palpable violation of the law, and
that too, by a constabulary force of the
State, appointed for that purpose.
t ''Humph," said a band of gamblers,
whose haunts were recently broken upin
Columbus, ''this is free country in
l deed.'' In the assumption granted in the
'EBill of Rights and which is distin-
gushing feature of our Government.
t 'ethat all men have the inalienable right
of acquiring, possessing and protecting
f property there is great danger that the
= unscrupulous will ignore the interests OF
f the whole Nation in unlawful effort tc
f secure personal ends.
= 1t was altogether worthy the peerless
4 Burke, when in a burst of eloquence, he
S laid it down as maxim of law, tha
4 FEsoJus popult supprema ler." (The safety ol
? the people is the supreme law of the
: land.) Nor was it unworthy one of the
: most illustrious sons of New England tt
e enunciate the proposition, EFstc atere tuo II
: dttenuns non loedds." $50 use thine own Al
L not to injure another')
It The gravest apprehensions may be just
d ly entertained, lest the spirit, whose only
v motto is personal liberty" incited b.
y ambitious and designing Marats, may III
y timately superinduce in this country tn
It atrocities committed in Paris during tn
|. revolution of 1888. To such lengths hav
o the unscrupulous and designing comb
= nations already gone in securing thei
It own ends, that many of the great cities
IL and some of the States of this Union, ar
,, verging ON absolute bankruptcy. A bank
l. rupt Nation is standing on the very verg
le of the burning orator of anarchy, rebel
10 lion or revolution.
ct But there is politico-religious organ
3 zation embracing this entire land with il
he various ramiications, that day by day
at deepening and widening and enlargin
b. its trenches against the ry>genius of a
ut our most endeared liberties, as we'll
v against the Government itself. 1t is a
IN organization made venerable and .powe
IL full by the lapse of ages, of ineXhaustib
+ resources, of indomitable perseverance
IL of most persistent effort, that knows n
r. such word as failure, that defeat new
e. disheartens, and that holds allegiance OF
eel ly to foreign potentate. 1t has repea
IT. edly absolved its votaries from State a
'ss Iegiance, has legalized the barbarities
r1t the inquisitions, has made right wron
OF and wrong right, has often deposed kin
W and elevated its own favorites to Il
or thrones and principalities of the o
Ie- World. That it has designs upon, al
ess proposes to change the organic laws
w our land may, think, be easily show
IL Arestes A. Bronson, whose death W
in announced but few days ago, said in Il
mt Catholic Rerieac, of which he was editC
ms sFBut would you have this country con
ats under the Pope? Why not? But the Po
'ur would take away our free institution
of But how do you know that ?-from VIII
ay, do you infer it? Are your free instit
my tions infalible? Are they founded
of Divine right? This you deny. Then is /
or the proper question for you to discuss, l
ons whether the papacy be or not be comp
the able with republic government,
r1a41 Ioa
ms, right? If the papacy be founded in
md vine right it is supreme over whatever
'ee- founded in human right, and then yc
to institutions should be made to harmon
the with it, not it with your institutions.
oil real question then is not the compatib
tied ty, or the incompatibility of the CathC
nd, Church with Democratic institutions,
lose is the Catholic Church the Church
e of God? Settle this question first. But
point of fact Democracy is a mischiev'
or dream wherever the Catholic Chul
ex- does not predominant to inspire the p
Ell a pie with reverence, and to teach and
pies custom them to obedience, to author
iven The first lesson for all to learn, the
ever that should be forgotten, is to obey,
lice obedience to law will not be long enfor
S of where the fallibility of the law is clea
JUS seen and freely admitted. But is it
um- intention of the Pope to possess
uni country? Undoubtedly. In this in
atri- ton he is aided by the Jesuits and all
Are Catholic prelates and priests, undoub
that ly, if they are faithful to their religion
IS ac- That the policy of the Church ther
,rdid dreaded and opposed, and must be dr.
suits ed and opposed by all Protestants, ,intit
t en- demagogues, tyrants and oppressors
up unquestionably true. Save then in
lesti- discharge of our civil duties and the