Year: 1875

VIEWS OF THE PRESS ON THE sEcTARIAN ISSUES


IN THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.


The delivery Of the latest Message General Grant
TO Congress marks one OF the most important epochs
the partisan history Of the United States il places
the author Of that Message squarey before country
noi'only as a candidate for third term OF the Office or
President but a candidate on the platform-ior tbs
use or that word to have become allowable-or
antagonism to the growing power Of the Catholic
Church.-NeW Pork Sun tiHdl


We cannot help rcgretng that President Grant should
deem II necessary to intimate that the simple taxation
OF Church property, tins day and in this country,
may lead to sequestration through blood Il is not


good omen that executive utterance at the thresh
old OF the discussion contemplates violent and
bloody adjustment No words in any recent Message
have been SO pregnant OF i'll omen as those two'
Through blood n-Uuca Herald repl


Should General Grant succeed in stirring up such q
contest he aims at neghbor would be divided against
neghbor friend against friend brother against brother.
sister against sister, parents against children and chill
dren against parents.-Netu York Sun (ind)


The excitement attendant upon a Presidential cleo
ton, or "campaign," conducted on this issue, would
be such as has never been approached in intensity in
all the previous history Of our government.-NelO
Fork Sun ind)


That part Of the Presidents Message which refers to
the question of schools will fail we trust OF
its transparent object II is the artful trick OF the
demagogue, bidding for personal popularity by an ap
peal to religious preudices and sectarian anmositiea
Ne,o York Journal Of Commerce (den.)


The national government has nothing whatever to do
with the establishment care or oversight OF common
schools. Tho proposal made seems designed to
introduce directly into the national politics those dis
turbing ecnents which have embittered civil dssen-
sons in all ages of the world There is no mstaking
its drift or meaning. g.-Neo York Journal Of Commerce
(dem.)


We shall not willingly believe that this proposition
has tho sanction of the great party which placed the
present incumbent in the Presidential chair As bid
for personal popularity, with view to that reelection
OF which, it is sad he still fondly Dreams may be
treated with contemptuous indifference. ANew York
Journal of Commerce dem


Ifit to be incorporated into party platforms and
be made the lever by which to stir up sectaran sro
and bitterness all the land may forte the
far reaching desolaton to which it must lcad-NeU
York Journal Of Commerce (dem.l


What has engendered this nightmare in the Presi.
Dental brain2 Has subtle demagogue persuaded
his ambition that in the absence of other issues he
can put himself at the head OF Know Nothing
movement and maintain his hold of power by playing
on the sectaran and caousics of the ignorant
and bgoted portion OF his countrymen 9-HGrrIsburg
Patriot (denl)


We believe that Catholic and Protestant will unite In
crushing this baleful pestilent proposition, and
that in doing SO they will have the hearty sympathy OF
every man woman who has the slightest apprecia-
ton of the beauty and power Of religious ifeAbdnv
argus (demG)