The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-28

which he Is entitled as an American citi-
zen, and consigned TO parties acting under
ecclesiastical and foreign control, by whom
he is subjected to dogmatic and un-Amer-
lean teaching and discipline, with no
State official near 10 whom an ap.
peal can be made In his behalf,
or who can guard his religious free
dom and secure his culture and training
rs an American citizen. An honest legis.
lative investigation into the management
OF our institutions OF charity and correc-
ton will show the extent to which foreign
intermeddling with State legislation and
State institutions has multiplied the num-
Der OF pauper children and increased heav-
lily the burdens OF taxpayers; and statis-
teal comparison OF the resultsof the Amer
lean and papal systems OF education will
show the danger threatened by the latter
TO our American civilization by multiply.
ing, in the future, political corruption aud
pauperism, vice and crime.
Ii is hardly necessary TO repeat the de-
claraton so often made by this Alliance and
recently announced at the National Chris
tian Conference ut Washington, that while
IL must resist as American citizens and
Christians all attacks upon our public
schools or any OF our institutions by a
foreign power that has no sympathy with
our advance M a Republic, we have no
feeling but that of kindly regard for the
American Roman Catholics who rs Ameri-
can citizens, in good faith renounce all
allegiance 20 n foreign potentate; who re-
gard our common schools rs essential TO
the common welfare, and especially to
TO that Of their own children; and some of
whom have set the noblest example TO the
American people in their determined re-
sislancc 10 ecclesiastical encroachments on
religious freedom, whether in State insti-
tutions or in State legislation, even when
their refusal 10 admit clerical dictation us
10 their official duty rs American citizens,
has exposed them 10 ecclesiastical dis
pleasure, which. ~ in the case of the late
Judge Henry Alker. when disregarded by
the living man subjected his remains to
indignity.
Touching the management OF our COM
mon schools, ON the purity OF whose teach
ing depends tho character OF the nation,
this Alliance would respectfully aud ear.
ncstly ontreat all who would maintain in
their purity aud beneiicence our American
institutions, 10 have constant eye to the
schools In their own immediate neighbor-
hood; to cherish them with anectionate
and Jealous care; 10 guard them from par
tisan and seclarian manipulation; 10 see
that the teachers are fitted for their work,
morally ~ well as intellectually, and that
they worthily appreciate tho grandeur OF
their task IN training children for their
high duties Us American citizens They
should clearly understand that while those
duties are based upon the broad. tolerant
Christianity which our country holds TO
he, in u modified sense, a part OF American
law'-tho Christianity revealed in the
Bible, and whose divine origin and birth
are judicially recognizable Christianity
not founded on any particular icncts, but
Christianity with liberty OF conscience TO
all men; the Christian ethics aud inilu-
encc thus authorized and demanded
in our schools, must never be mar
rowcd orpcrverted in our State institutions,
and least OF all in our public schools, by
the admission Of dcnomnntional dogmns
or doctrines, or of DEGREES or maxims at
variance with American rights. American
principles or American law; or incon-
sisicnt with the fundamental American
principle Of n complete separation of
Church aud State. w. l.. DoDGr,
President.