Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-01-30
PUTNAM A>swEREn.
o'sulIven Takes IIisa a Hand wIth s Masseriy Defense ar Catholicism.
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 Sunday afternoon, MT. Putnam, the inhdel lecturer, was compelled to draw in his horns to a certain extent. He preferred various charges against the Roman Cathohc Church. The charges were, m substance, that the Pope was seeking to destroy this government; that the Catholic bishops of this country were trying to destroy the public school system; that Catholics would MURDER non Catholics at the command of the Pope; that Catholics perseouted non-Catholics in this country, etc. Mir, Putnam also produced various documents to prove his assertions.
 After Mir. Putnam finished his discourse, r. W. 0'Sullivsn, of the United States Land 0lBee, arose ia the audience, and taking the plat form, commenced rebutting Put nsm's arguments.
 OSullivan produced a United States school hi tory, showing that the Catholics of Maryland were the first to establish religious liberty on the soil of America. fApplause)
 He showed up how Catholic churches were burned to the ground by bigots 40 and 50 years ago, in the cities of Boston, Philadelphia. and Louisville. He stated that he did not briug the matter up to revive -ols,.s.A,,. Farags.sen, A,rf s1 -.,k,..t the diahoiical charges preferred against the Catholic church. (Ap plause,l
 O'Sullivan showed how the A. r. As printed bogus and spurious papal enoyclicals, and in which the pope is alleged to have commanded the ten million Catholics in this country to murder the sixty million non-Catholics on a certain day. Naughter.) He showed where the Catholics offered Sl0000 reward to \. F. As to prove those alleged encyclicals and that the 4. r. As have never done so.
 He said that Putnam's extracts were all A. r. 4. bugaboos and false from beginning to end. He proved that Lafayette never said, as alleged by Putnam, that the Catholic clergy would yet ruin this country, and he l showed where Sl00 was offered to the author of the statement to l prove it, which was never done.
 O'Sullivan exclaimed, iu tones of i thunder, that Catholics h1d as much 1 right in this country as any one, but 1 no more.
 He showed how Catholic France | sent out thousands of soldiers to | aid the Americans in the War of the 1 that 5000 French Cath 1 olio soldiers were with Washington | at Yorktown, where Cornwallis met 1 his doom. (Tremendous applause.) 1 That Barney Sullivan, Pulaski, l Koscoskio, DeTernay, Count Koch i and Lafayette were Catho- lies. (Applause.)
 He stated that Catholics were as patriotic as any other class of American citizens; for. said he, this Is our country and our home. (Long and continued applause.)
 He showed up the yalorous deeds of Meighr, Corcoran, Shields, Rose crans, Meade, Sheridan and other Catholic generals in the war of the and stated that 1l4,000 Irish Catholics grasped the sword in defense of the Union. (Applause.) ] He paid glowing tribute to the Catholcs--Meade, at Gettysburg, and Phil. Sheridan, at Cedar creek. He stated that on every battle field, rom Lexington to Appomattox. i Catholic blood flowed in defense of his country. (Applause.)
 He closed by stating that he Mir. Putnam was mistaken; hat he (Puinam) read \. F. A. lies md bugaboos to such an extend, hat he Putnam was not responsi- ,le for what he did say. (Great aughter, which was followed by ong, continued applause. and cries # good for O'Sullivan, etc.l
 Mir. Putnam then took the plat orm good naturedly, and replied to ir, O'Suilivan, but admitted that most of what his opponent said was rue; he, however, maintained that he extracts which he read were acts, etc. ***