The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-08-26

IL helu, entranced, as ackno wledged to ne
next cay, some OF the most pledged an
lnVeterate delegates that went into tn
= Secession Increment. headed, then, by Gale
!, Gushing aud Bon. Buter-both of Massa
chusetts! 1t was a wonderful Grafton
> Whoie sentences of it are vet printed il
our memory. 1t held, spell bound, awet
oy the majesty of truih-that the wretcheI
war made facts-epell bound it held th
pledged Secessionsfs of that last Conven
ton Of the old Democratic party
Eavlng done this full justice to the ora.
torical power If Pierre Soule, we only add
that the United States Senate never had
another member 80 iercely, 80 diabolicaHy
Ia his youth, in Paris, he had been con
demned to prison ''for outrage on religion
| and mOrals," for a brutal attack on the
Jesuits. The arrow always ranked in his
side, and his hatred of the Catholic religion.
and all belonging to it, was feroclous !
Hughes bargained for, as Minister to Spain, -,
,rhere he disgraced himself by acts no Cath
| olic would commit.
"In 1856, the Catholic cote was cast for
Buchanan !" All, it IS to be- supposed, by
order of archbishop Hughes!
the Presidency Buchanan, Fillmore, aud
I acknowledgements at.-Ie-happened that we
had more prominent part than we desired
| In the defeat of Fremont, and the election
OF Buchanan. The bigotry of the country
was appealed to, against Fremont, that he
was was Catholic. HIS supporters, in place of
telling the truth, that he lad been Catho-
lie, but was a thorough apostate, and a
member of Protestant Church, were 80
silly as to deny that he had ever been a
Catholic; and pretended to publish decla-
rations, AS from himself, saying he had
never been a professed Catholic.
Inquiries made of us, in forked fashion,
brought QS to the DOint of M All a varv
severe and public declaration, tnat was
haWked all over the country, in staring big
letters. That declaration was,
FtfSt, that it was contrary to the genius
OF our Political Constitutions to interrogate
any man, candidate for Office. as to his
religion, or whether he had changed from
one religion to another.
But Second, that no man was fit to be
President of the United States who was SO
false as to tell what he knew and Others
knew to be lie. We asserted that Colonel
Fremont had neUer, with his own lips, or
under his own signature, denied having
been, for years, professor, and an adro
cate, of the Roman Catholic faith. AS a |
matter of fact, his then keeper, Mr.. Isaac |
Sherman, of New York, after the election,
told US Fremont never did deny hGvivg been |
q Cathotic-and explained how the mana
gers got the parsons, and other humbugs,
to certify to having heard Fremont deny,
what he never denied. The ban-dogs of |
the daily press of New York, in that year
of 1856, exhausted the Bohemian vocabu-
larry of canine and human barkings at US.
Were we otherwise constituted than we are,
we could not have eaten cur dinners with
the good appetite we did, nor gone to sleep
SO TRANQUILITY. We had the documents,
which, on our point of honor, could only
be produced when, under his own name
Colonel Fremont would cay IL have new
or professed the Catholic Religion! :"
Now, in that tri-psrtite Presidential
election, Buchanan, Fillmore and Fremont
running; that terrible Archbishop Hughes
who is talked of as Afhe4ding the Catholic
vote" had a good many talks with us.
that he with difficulty accepted it that our
contempt for the rat-pit of political contest
and lts noises, was 30 complete as it was.
He was a born statesman. and could not
help looking ahead. He thought, and with
correct anticipation, that Fremont would
be elected. John w. Forney j
knows aChy aud how, it came 30 pass that I
After the dunderheads of Pennsy lvania got {
through voting az the October election in 1
$50, that the State OF Pennsylvania was s
declared carried by the Democrats The a
Republican Inspectors and Canvasefs were 8
b!e men," and the hundred thou.
and dollars raised at the New York Hotel {
vas only spent in champagne and jolItica- i
ion after the honest CONT of the votes {;
md so, Charles Fraucis Adams, so far as /
Coo Is concerned, Is right. ia saying that G
he ballot box-tbat precious blind box p
as never been the playtbing of fraud, till F
rutherford b. Hayes was counted III
ganst the votes of States.
We do not doubt that John w. FOrney n
viii swear to this, as often as asked. +
But Archbishop Hughes, in his confden- S
ial conversations with Us, and to political p
isgnst on our part that time and age have q
greatly modified, said: "Betreen the three ii
and the three parties, do not
are three Stra,Us! The party avo,Uedty the
1ost hostile, toU do as much justice as the
arty that makes the largest aud emptiest o
retentiOnS' -
Now here are facts, stated by one who "
nows. Abundant proofs can be given that N
'e have not fallen into error. AS to later Il
lections If there were such a thing as a q
oting obligatory upon Catholics, as such, g
70 would vote, and avow it. We did not b
ote for Mcclellan in 1864, for grave politi- N
81 reasons. We did not vote for Seymour m
/ 1968-because the Blair family was in al
le belly of the vote, and, If elected, Hora- m
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