Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-04-08


n tell us, tell your associates, tell the worl,
j what you found. Tell me II .you four
i none but Americans and Protestants O
o guard.
q CATHOLIC vALoR THE PROTECTOR @
y THE CONSTITUTION.
? Tell ms truly OF the thousands and ter
OF thousands Of loyal Catholic Macs an
, Os, who nobiy gave up their iivas on Ian
and sea that this, tho glorious land q
. their adoption, might live.
. And now that your Investigation q
Catholic rights in this country IS abou
completed, 90 tell your anti Cat boIi
horde, your :raitorous companions; n
} and tell your narrow minded, ignoran
and bigoted associates, that the Catholic
OF this Republic are the champions ant
defenders of the Consultation. Go ant
Tell your Order OF Deputies and kindred
societies, that Catholic valor will ever b,
found ready to do and die In tho protec
tion OF their rights and in defense o
those heavenly principles Of civil and re.
ligions liberty.
Despotl fifteen millions OF American
Catholics OF their right to worship their
creator according to the dIctat Is of their
own conscience? Despoil fifteen millions
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liberties as well IL is simply i'm possible.
1t Is far and awsy beyond the power of
all the combined Know Nothing hordes
and A. p. A. bigots IL the world. And
YET, my friends, these fanatics and cranks,
while thny cannot succeed, they can do
great deal OF harm. IL the voice of a
truthfully daily press can be REALIZED upon,
and unless our eyes, our ears and our In :
teiligence mislead and deceive US, passing
events portenda gathering storm. And
while 1t Is our duty to do everything
honorable, In our power, to avert It's
Jury, 1t Is also our sacred duty to be fully
prepared to meet and resist its virulence.
AS Catholics In this crusade OF bigotry,
It Is our duty to invoke the ali (and we
do) OF every lover OF virtue, every ad-
vocate OF justice, every friend OF freedom,
o. every man, without distinction Of
creed, nationality or political connection,
VINO mas singie spark OF true Am,ri
patriotism burning in his heart, to com bar
with us every attempt to undermine and
destroy any part OF the Constitution of
our state or country, or any attempt to
interfere with the free, full and un.
restricted enjoyment OF civil and religious
liberty In Its broadest and holiest sense.
by all the people OF this glorious land of
freedom.
A MILLION DARK LANTERN NcoNsPIRAToRs
we are told, and repeat II, and there
is every indication and evidence OF its
truth, that more than three million men
nave banded together, and, by the most
horrible and blood -cprdling oaths, have
sworn to antagonize and destroy, as far as
they can, the rights OF Catholics In this |
Republic. holo that societies organic ed |
against any form OF religious belief. in |
This country, are rot only direct Insult !
and blow at the amenities OF social life:
out engender suspicious, create jealousies,
and enkfndIc aDimosities among the peo.
pie, ana thereby attempt total and COM
piete revolution OK the moral system es.
Lapllshed, ana consequently destroy the
relative duties OF man to man. And in
view OF all this, that In this age OF en-.
lightenment and progress, here in the
greatest, grandest, freeest and most liber-
II nation on earth, the Catholic religion,
me religion OF peace and charity, or any
'ther religion should be so persecuted and
shocks all reason; aud that fac
ion SO gcontemptible In character and
numbers should re permitted knowingly,
or single day TO defy the laws of God
md State, Is, 10 say the least, truly Ia.
n sntable.
We are pot the advocates OF violence
nd never have been, and we should very
ndch regret to see this bitter anti Catho.
ic feeling carried to extremes; but look
ng at the matter squarely in the face, as
Ve are Obliged to 90, we cannot conceive
low CONFLICT can be avoided, IL these A.
:. A. b-aggarts persist in carrying out
heir unholy and perfdious programme.
'EACABLY III WE CAN; BY FORCE IF
WE NnIsT.
We would that this organized attempt
destroy our civil religious rights,
hould be defeated rather by force of pub
ic opinion, than by force of arms. We
7ould that the justice and equity OF our
iaims under the Constitution, should
',netrate the narrow and hitherto i'm
'lacable little minds and souls OF our
nemies, with the clear yet strong light
4 truth and conviction, rather than to
nd 1t necessary to shed single drop O!
lood in the vindication OF Catholic
ights. But should these stall-fed cham.
ions OF ofgotry and intolerance persist
D carrying out their Goddess oaths, then.
nth all the enthusiasm of my Catholic
cart, would cry, "Courage to tho heart,
trength to the arm, and God be with the
ause that strikes for civil and religious
berty, and the indefeasible rights OF
nam"
But we hepr some goodl conservative
Imerican Protestant say: "Such talk is
II nonsense. You Catholics should be
lore moderate in language. You are ex.
gerating things too much, The Ameri-
an people will not permit In the slight
vt degree, any such conduct, intolerance
+ persecution as you complain OF. You
nauid forbear, and take no notice Of the
lutterings and threats Of these anti
atholic societies."
Well, perhaps there may be something
} consider In this kind of advice; but the
arkest side OF the picture js, that, wisely
; Catholics have determined upon for
and upon the strict avoidance OF
ersonal contact and violence, 1t may be
erhaps beyond their power to avoid It