The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1879-01-12
GENTS BIGOTRY REB UKED.
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rope has been quite . surpriee to thos
who looked upon him as q plain, unas
Stunning citizen of the United States
Wherever he has gone he has beel
received with regal honors, aud his we'll
known bigotry has been for him q passpor
to the favor OF the enemies of the Catholic
Church. Gambetts, Bismarck, Castella
and the other high priests of irreligiol
| welcomed our ex President as o brother
Last week Grant reached Ireland, and tn,
corporation of Dublin gave him the free
dom of the city, in return for which hi
| made q speech composed of platitudes anC
clap trap.
1t was reserved for the manly and truly
Catholic corporation of Cork to administer
q fitting rebuke to the brutal and bigotet
colder, who, in October 1875, took sdvau
tage OF his exalted position as President Of
OF "No Popery." We have been Informed
by cable that at a meeting of the Town
Council of Cork, on Friday, Jan. 3, after
eeveral bitter speeches by Catholic mem
bers, q motion that the letter of the United
States Consul at Queenstown announcing
General Grants coming be simply marked
''read" WAS carried without dissentient
vote. A previous motion to give Geoeral
Grant proper reception was ignored.
In order that our readers may appreciate
the justice of the contempt with which the
people OF Cork have treated Grant, it will
be necessary TO say a few words of the
character of the man and his well known
anti-Cathoiic pFoclipities.
Gen. Uly sses GRAFT is a man notorously
unencumbered by any religious belief at
all. He is, besides tbis, very reticent
man, one as little given to speaking right
out, az q rule, as the Emperor Napoleon
III. For once, however, this usually Silent
Ruler spoke out. very PLAINLY indeed, on
Friday, Octo Der l. 1879. The occasion was
his delivery of an sdd1e at DesMolnes, in
Iowa, to the Reunion of the Society of the
Army of Tennessee. After abiding to the
late civil war in Americas war he himself
was chiefly detrimental in bringing to q
close, by the simple device of pounding the
South into submission by pouring in over
whelming forces upon troops that were
outnunbered rather than outmar oe avred-
General Grant startled his hearers by the
utterance of words, reading, ominoHsly
enough, like the declaration of another
war--a war far more momentous in it's
character.
The reason for this Silent Ruler thus
speaking out was obvious at a glance, and
perfectly comprehensive to all who knew
his relations with the bitter anti Catholic
mob who, years ago, burned churches and
sacked converts.
Grant being essentially q man of this age
this age of blood and iron, of Liberalism
and unbelief-tOok a leaf out of the book
name of the loftiest principle of patriotism,
be proclaimed war-as plainly as words
could have put it-sgsiD st the Holy CStho
lie Church in the United States.
eff" said Grant in his notable speech
at Des Moines, three years ago, "if we
have another contest in the near future.
predict that the dividing line will not be
Mason and Dixon's line, but one between
patriotism and intelligence on one side,
and superstition, am bItion aud ignorance
on the other" He went Oh: "The cen
ten NAL year work of strengthening the
of the structure commenced by
nur forefathers at Lexington should begin.
Let US labor for security of free thought,
free speech, free press, pure morals, IN
fettered religious sentiments" (much he
cared about Lhem) "and equal rights and
the privileges of all men, irrespective of
color or religion; encourage
free schools resolve that not one dollar
appropriated to them shall go to the cup
port of any sectariau school resolve that
neither State nor nation shall support any
inststutiouR save those where every child
may get common school education .unmixed
with any atEeistic, pagan or sectarian
teaching leave the matter of religious
teaching to the family altar, and keep
Chutch and State forever separate. Vita
those safeguards, / believe the battles
which created the army of Tennessee will
not have been fought in vain"
TIE voice was the voice of Grant, but
the words, the thoughts, the designs and
Intentions are distinctly those of Bismarck.
The Catholics of Cork do not forget that,
when Grant aspired for a third term to the
Presidency of the United States, he tried
to strengthen his position as the Republi
can candidate by importing in the most
invidious manner the religious and anti
Catholic element into the political agita-
ton. He appealed to the religious pat
eions of the native American element in our
population, and that appeal has now risen
in judgment before him in Ireland.
If, as lie openly stated by the friends Of
the American Bismarck, Grant should be
the Republican candidate for the Presi-
dency in 1880, the Catholic voters of the
United States must chow their detestation
of his bigotry not only by voting against
him, but by working hard to secure his
defeat. Cork has set "Ireland in America
a good example, and we confidently trust
that our country men will profit by it.
A man may wear the same style of hat,
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