St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-04

AS our naCl00al COuStilutluh 10 Uhiy
the practical development and appi!.ca-
ton of the principles of the Declaration
of Independence to our republican form
of government, it is only necessary to
compare the thirteenth amendment
with the teaching of st. Augustine as
repeated eight centuries later by st.
Thomas:
Thirteenth st. Thomas.
Amendment. ''Thus wills the
Neither slavery nor order of nature; thus
involuntary servitude, has man been created
except as a punish-Iby God, He has given
mentor crime where him to rule over the
of the party shalllfshes of the sea, the
have been duly. con- birds OF the air, ana
vlcted, shah existlthe reptiles that crawl
within the Unitedlon the face of the
States or any place earth. He has Or
subject to their juris dained that reasoning
diction" creatures, made ac-
cording to his own
image, shall rule only
over creatures devoid
of reason" est. TIL,
/, cues. SO, art. ~
1t Is evident, therefore, that there is
no antagonism between Catholicism and
the republic on the part OF the church.
But the close relationship between
popular governments and the Catholic
faith is still further shown by the fact
that all republics since the Christian era
have sprung into existence under the
influence of the Catholic church. Those
of San Marino in Italy and Andorra on
the borders of Spain and France are
more than thousand years old. Then
there were the Catholic republics of
Venice, Pisa, Genoa, Milan, Florence,
Padua and Bologna. The Swiss repub-
lie was founded in medieval times, and
counts among its heroes and martyrs of
political liberty William Tell and
Arnold Won Winkelried, both faithful
SONS of the Catholic church. The re-
publicS in South America, though lit
tie Quarrelsome, are at least the growth
of a population altogether Catholic.
There is, therefore, no antagoniSm be-
tween Catholicism and the republic on
the part of the former at least, nor has
there ever been any on the part OF the
latter.
The American people haye never, in
their national capacity, rejected the
Catholic faith The United States gov
eminent has never made war on the
pope. or cast off the authority of the
church. The nation, since its birth, has
never performed one act of hostility to
the Catholic religion, martyred or per-
secuted single Catholic, and its first
act OIL winning its independence was to
repair the injustice of the mother cOun-
try towards the church and to place
CathOlicity on an equal footing with
Professionalism.
Now, Mr.. Editor, as the lineal des-
cendaDt of the man who enjoys the
proud distinction of being the first in
as the symbol of the thirteen original
states in our national flag, 1 contemplate
the future of that starry banner
and the nation it protects with an
earneStness, a patriotism and per
sonally inherited interest that others
can scarcely feel or understand. But
if any one could prove any real antagon-
ism between this young republic and
that old church, compared to which the
proudest royal houses are but OF yes
terday, (which has seen the commence
ment of all the governments and all the
ecclesiastical establishments that now
exist in the world" and which has al
ways come out victorious from the
tremendous assaults she has encoun-
tered-then, indeed, should view the
future of my country with fear and ap-
prehension. But recognizing, as l do,
the same fundamental principles guild
ing both the republic and the
church; knowing, as | do, that
the church never changes, and
believing that the republic never will, /
venture to think that its future is as
sured; that it may expect to enjoy the
same immortality that is so conspicuous
a feature in the career of the Catholic
church. Already / see a hungry horde
of plutocrats, monopolists, communists
and anarchists creeping stealthiiy upon
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tim; and when that struggle comes, as
come it must, woe betide American
Ii berty if the Catholic church be not
there to protect it with her strong arm
in return for the boon of religious lib
erty so freely granted her by America.
VIM. f, MARKOE,