The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-02-15
THE CATHOLIC QUESTION.

spectator" in the PRESS that you
(happy fellows of Ravenna) have been
treated to a celebrated No Popery
speech from political divine. AS we
had not the pleasure of hearing said
speech we cannot say much as to its
merits, but it seems strange to us that
men who lay claims to an average
amount Of intelligence, as American
citizens, will congregste with such
greedy desire to hear harrangue un
der such disreputable heading. Cen
tlemen and scholars generally have an
antipathy to coming in contacs with
such Shiny, Rev. PoliticO Bantams,
which often saves such as the Rev.
Mr.. Hills from we'll merited chas-
tisement. l would propose some
questions to disciples of the Rey. Mr..
Hills:
l. Is not your antipathy to theCatho-
licChurch the result of a cowardly SUBJ
mission on the part of your fathers, to
a forced and false education, by the
OhAOi Ol tIC POhdl Ia w . Va hhS
New England States?
2. Were you not taught to believe
that England is the mother country of
Americans, and that the English peo
pie are your cousins; that this great
country received all it's intelligence,
its loyalty, it's patriotism and it's other
great and good qualities from the hu-
man cargo of the Mayflower2
3. Don't you believe that large
majority of the Anglo-Saxon race.
are the most noble of men?
4. Were you not taught to believe
that Irish Catholics are ignorant of a
knowledge of the true God? that they
are idolaters and Priest-ridden that
they are not capable of self-govern-
ment, and that they, as Catholics, are
dangerous to Republican institutions
That france, Spain. Italy, and other
Catholic countries, are in q semi bar.
baric state of existence? that free
people with Catholicism cannot exist
in the same country?
s. Were you not taught to believe
Luther. Calvin, Henry VIII, Latimer
Cranmer, Ridley, &c, were the most
sanity Of men, and the greatest of re.
formers?
Such are the general headings of 9
purely English education. Mr.. Hills
and the faithful of that ilk will be very
familiar with the substance of every
question. Let us see how the igno'
rant Irish Catholics will answer:
| To the first. Reverend sir, when
your cowardly grandfathers were eat.
ing s.boiled crow" and cringing under
| the penal laws of the above mentioned
States, we were resisting the enforce.
ment OF laws more rigid than you ever
witnessed. We lost our property, in
many instances our liberty. by con-
finement, and many of our people lost
their lives, and in all our poverty, we
stand before you the proud represent
atives of a race of men who could moi
be badgcred, frightened or bribed into
denying their race, their country, oil
their God.
TO the second. We deny that Eng
land ia the mother country of Ameri
ca, But we will admit that she gained
control of us by torce of arms, an(
played the role of a very bad step
mother for good many.y years that
noble band of patriots, representa-!
nearly every country in Europe. Qittl
Ireland being we'll represented), ros
in their might. denied her authority
and after long and bloody struggle
succeeded in driving her from ou
shores and defiantly told her hat the
owed her no allegiance, and that ther
was no blood relation whatever be
tween them. We believe the passen
:. gers of the Mayflower and the Crom
welian Puritsns in general, to be moth
ing more than set of bigoted fanat
les. They murdered their King, an
instead of acting like more noble as
sassins, they went through a process
Of law, as it were, to mock it aud max
their tyrannical cruelty more acute
they were asked, "By what law do yo
try your King ?" And the answe
of the regicides was: "By the author
ity of the Commons of England" Bu
the Reg icide judges had to spend tn
remainder of their days in caves unde
the ground like other brutes. W.
think Morton, of Indiana, must be
lineal descendant of some one of tn
above named officers, by the'ingeniou
way he proposed to count the Elect
oral vote. We could show goot
many acts of the so-called Puritan
not very creditable; but we pass.
To your third. We understand thi
country to be peopled from England
Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany
Holland, Spain, Italy. Nc. In fact, W
find that the Anglo -Saxens constitute,
q very small portion OF the population
and "the smaller tn, better" Bu
where do we find them? AS Horac
Greeley said about the Democrats an,
horse thieves: Everv Aaslo-SaxoI
was not tory, but every tory was al
Anglo-Saxon. We find them, true t,
their race, taking advantage of tn
absence of the Revolutionary heroe
to cut the throats of the women an.
children. Others of them fled TO Can
ada. When the war was over the.
responded to the noble call of the for
giving patriots and returned to par
take of the hospitalities of now fire.
people, whom they tried to destroy
But with the cowardly subtlety pecu
liar to them we find them in the Fed
eralist party. and during the admins
trations o! Washington and Adams