Year: 1863

For some weeks past discussion has been
going on between the Catholic Telegraph of
Cincinnati, edited by the Very Rev. E. Pur-
cell, brother of the distinguished Archbishop
OF Cincinnati, and pro-slavery Catholic
journal, on the subject OF Slavery. The learn
ed editor of the Telegraph insists and proves
that the Catholic Church and Slavery have
never got along well together; that the Church
abolished that peculiar institution whenever
she came in contact with it and it is only in
America Catholics have ever been found advo-
eating Slavery. The controversy has called
forth the following letter from Major General
Rosecrans, which appears in late number Of
the Telegraph. The editor says: He Rose
craus) has never been an Abolitionist- and has,
ike ourselves, stood up for the Democracy"


MURFREEsBoRo, April 81, 1868.


MY DEAR FATHER EDwARD-The rebels
grabbed the last letter wrote you, but they
will draw very little consolation from its con
tents. I am happy TO see the splen-
did stand you took in the Telegraph against
Slavery, with its horrors, barbarities, and base


mmoralities. Slavery is dead. Nothing can
resuscitate it. To learn this fact fully, you
should pay US a visit. There is not a negro
in the South who does not know be is free
Around here they have squatted on the plan
tations, and refuse 10 work for any one but
themselves. They have sown little crops of
their own, and the masters have ceased to ex-
ercise any control over them.


AS an Indication, l will cite strong case.
The lady of the house where am staying at
tempted to punish one of her negro women
this morning. l had to step in TO save the
mistress from being badly used up, as the dar
key was belaboring her with the stick intend
ded for her own punishment. EE uno disco
omnes." II is needless for me to say that l
applauded every sentiment you have expressed
in the Telegraph. Your course Is that Of the
prudent navigator, who, watching the black
speck on the horizon, sees it expand into por-
tentous storm, and calls up his crew to take in
sail and prepare for contest with the ele
ments. The storm will pass away, and you
will be found sailing under full sail, while those
who took not heed will be scattered by the
gale am heart and hand with
you in this cause Slavery is doomed and
those who would uphold it will be held up in
a very short time to public Odium and execra-
tion. No statesman will viudicate 1t, 20 friend
of human progress will stsalch forth h and to
break its fall, no lover otsfumanity and reli
giOn will greve for its overthrow. | have lived
long enough in the South to see its weakness,
its disgusting features, debasing the higher
principles of our nature, warning with religion,
and patronizing vice ard immortality. AL
mighty God has certainly ordained its destruc
tion in this country, where it mas been more
and immoral than in any other, and
until it is utterly extinct, this war cannot,
from the nature of things cease. am in ia |
vor of a cessation of hostilities at as early
day as possible, therefore, am in favour Of
the Presidents Proclamation. Fhis State was
made for white people and free labor, and when
Slavery no longer blights its borders we may
expect to see the church and the school house
take the place of the slave-pen aud market.


w S. ROSECRANS.