The Republican journal., 1884-09-18
Cathoic journal Excoriates the New
York Nation.

The odious morality Of the defence of
Grover Cleveland published in the New
York Evening Post and Nation is scath-
ingly reviewed in the following terms Nv
Bishop ireland's paper, the Northwestern
Chronicle
Cleveland has been accused of tlagrant
violations OF chastity. Chastity, we are
assured by the Nation, is not the great
est Of virtues. 1t is we'll enough for a
man to be chaste, the Nation tells us,
but although Cleveland can lay no claim
to that relatively inferior virtue, his
"virtues are those which bind human
society together, and in which States are
founded and maintained !" What po-
litical philosophy is this We supposed
that II there were any institutions on
which the State securely rested more than
on any other it was on the family and on
marriage. Take away marriage and the
family and you have social chaos. 1t is
the family and marriage which distn-
guish man from the brute; and the basis
/ OF the family is chastity. Destroy chastity
In nation and you destroy the family
and with it the State. To be satisfied Of
this we need only consult the conscious
ness OF every individual man. What
would he give for his home or his hearth
if he could not trust in the virtue Of bis
wife or daughters Chastity is the
corner stone of States and of social order.
Cleveland's vice of unchastity is the one
above all others by which Governments
are overthroWn, States brought to naught
and homes turned into beastly brothels !.
The standard of chastity, we are led to
infer by the Nation, would have prevent
ed Washington from taking any impor-
tant part in the foundation Of the Ameri-
can Republic. What gratuitous and
brutal sander on the Father of his
Country. The Nation should have
headed its article Gan Apology for IN
chastity" And what are we to think of
the assertion that there have been very
few of the benefactors of the human race
who have been chaste If this were true
it should not be told but it is most
damnable lie. There are thousands of
benefactors Of the human race greater
than Cleveland, and living today, whose
lives are as pure as the driven snow
The writer in the Nation has a perfect
right to make public confession of his
OWN corruption but who has authorized
him to enter plea of guilty to the charge
Of lechery for the whole American people,
or to declare what relative value the
people Of the United States set upon
purity and truth?
This bold, manly and Christian ex-
preston Of indignation against the
strange and shameful moral detection of
the New York Post, the paper which
William Cullen Bryant did so much to
create and render worthy the confidence
of those who care for private and public
virtue, must receive the warm commen-
dation of respectable men and women
everywhere. Such foul imputation on
| Washington and his successors for the
purpose of shielding a present candidate,
and the nnblushing inculcation of such
corrupting doctrines as has been done by
the Nation and the Post, seems little less
disgusting and not less reprehensible
than the admitted offence which has
called out the exposure and denuncation
by the Buffalo pastors. All honor to the
Catholic editor for his fidelity.