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REV. A. J. RYAN, Editor
AUGUSTA, GA., JUNE 20, 1868.
ANOTHER HOWL ACAINST CATHOLICS,
A short time ago there was a meeting
in Albany, N. Y., in favor of the Presi
dential nomination of the man of splen
did slaughter. At the same time there
was a convention of Northern Presby
terians in the city. Rev. Dr. Breckcn
ridge was a member of that convention,
and for the purpose, we opine, of giving
a sort of religious tone to the political
meeting, he was invited to address it.
lie made his speech, in which among
many other very pious sayings, he al
luded to the city of New York as con
taining* 50,000 Roman Catholic voters,
whom he denounced a 3 the cause of the
Radical defeat last fall—and he proceeded
to say “that the State must be redeemed,
even if to do so New York had to be
burned to the ground.” And the audience
rose to their feet and gave him a hearty
round of cheers. We thank thee, Dr.
Breckinridge,for the Christian sentiment!
A friend of yours from Tennessee, Brown
low, once said the same thing of the
South ; “the South,” said he, “must be
given to the torch.”
John Calvin, the progenitor of Dr.
Breckenridgc, was satisfied with burn
ing a man, but the Dr., with broader
views and more burning zeal, would con
sign a whole city to the flames.
So the leaders and political speakers
give the watchword of the hour—and the
people applaud.
What next ?
TWO PATRIOTS !
“The State Department has no official
advices regarding enlistments for the
Papal army, but will forbid them should
such enlistments be attempted.”—Tele
gram from Washington.
Seward is grateful. He does not for
get his many obligations to Garibaldi.
During the unjust war waged against the
South, the Italian Revolutionist was one
of the foreign spies appointed by Seward,
At bottom, we are of opinion, the two
men hold the same principles. Seward
was one of the prime movers of the war
against the rights of the Confederacy.
Garibaldi is the prime mover of the war
against the rights ot the Papacy. And
it is but natural that Seward, now, in his
turn, should be the foreign agent and spy
of Garibaldi and his party. And this
same Seward ransacked all the nations of
Europe for mercenary recruits in order
to prosecute the unholy war against us.
Ilis paid agents scoured France, Germany,
Ireland, England—and every week came
ship-loads of poor deluded men, who
were sent to the front, and slaughtered for
the benefit of the stars and stripes. But,
now, Seward has become quite scrupu
lous in regard to international laws. He,
of course, could disregard them—but no
one else must dare to follow bis example.
Besides, Garibaldi helped him, and one
good turn deserves another. Hence the
above telegram. Seward would wish to
>oe his friend Garibaldi take possession
of the Eternal City. He would wish to
sec the Papacy destroyed. lie was an
xious enough to send Catholics to battle
against the South and for bis own ideas;
but he is not disposed to let them go and
fight for the interests of their Church.
He used them as his tools, and now he
llings the tools away. But let him threaten,
and do his worst. If an American bat
talion is called for, Pius the Ninth will
have it; and many of the young men of
our Church in the South who fought
against Seward’s hordes, will be ready,
when needed, to cro>; the seas and battle
against Seward’s friend, Garibaldi.
STAND BY YOUR COUNTRY-
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, in a recent
communication, advises the yoimg men of
the South to stay at home. The voice of
patriotism appeals to them to stay at home.
The voice of Reason urges them to stay at
home. Do not abandon your native land.
Do not desert your bleeding country.
“Don’t give give up the ship.” Your poor,
oppressed, desolated South carmot spare
you. She wants the aid of all her sons.
Their stout hearts and strong arms are
needed here. The conservative people of
the North are striving to restore the coun
try to peace and prosperity again; and
they want all the assistance and encour
agement that we can give them. It is
true it may not be great; but remember
how often one vote has turned the tide of
political victory or the scale of political
contest. Remember the value of one vote.
Stay, then, and give that vote to your
Country; to the Constitution, and to Liber
ty. It is a vote, not for yourself alone, but
for your wives and children, for your
friends, and for your posterity, for a cause
that should be dear to every advocate of
Constitutional freedom.
Remember too, that there is a soil to
cultivate, ruined fortunes to retrieve, com
mercial and mechanical prosperity to build
up. Remember, in short, that the South
wants you in a hundred ways—she cannot
spare you—she has a right to demand your
presence and your services.
She is your Mother—your fond, loving
Mother; and though she can give you no
thing but poverty and political humiliation
now ; yet she will cling to you with true
affection, and in her day of peace and pros
perity will not forget you for your filial
devotion and patriotic adherence to her
rights and interests. Stand by your Coun
try, then, young men —stand by the South;
and abandon all idea of seeking fortune
and political peace in foreign lands. God
has given you here a glorious and a fruit
ful land; He has given you manhood and
strength ; “your own good hands must win
the rest.”
“LET US HAVE PEACE.”
Such are the words with which Gen.
Grant accepts the nomination of the Re
publican party, as their candidate for the
Presidency of the United States. “Let us
have peace.” Why not? Is there aught
to prevent it ? Yes ; the rod of the Ty
rant is here to prevent it. The sufferings
of a ruined people are here to prevent it.
The injustice of wicked and designing
me n ig here to prevent it. And so we
say now, as one of the Fathers of the
Republic said, when the “clanking of the
chains was heard on Bunker Hill,” as
it is now beard upon every Southern
hill and in every Southern valley : “Gen
tlemen may cry peace, when there is no
peace.”
Is that peace, which drags a citizen from
his quiet home and throws him into
loathsome dungeons, without giving him
even the poor satisfaction of informing
him of the charges against him?
Is that peace, which girdles election
polls with bayonets, and yet refuses pro
tection to the voter who will not east his
ballot for the dominant party ?
Is that peace, which keeps ten States
under a galling subjection, forcing upon
them Conventions and Constitutions not
of their choice, prostrating the energies
of the people, and paralysing every limb
and sinew of trade and industry ?
Is this the peace that Gen. Grant
would give us ? Is this the peace that
the man of cruel and relentless war
would have? Is such a man and such a
peace to bo endorsed by the people of the
United States? We hope not. We ap
peal to them to pause and reflect, before
they give their voices and their votes to
such a man and such a peace. And this
is not the appeal of the partizan—not
the appeal of the politician; but the ear
nest warning of patriotism and justice.
The woes of the South are not alone her
woes. They are the woes of the whole
country, and as they are meted out to us
so shall they be meted out to others. If
they arc endorsed by the people of the
North, the peace of Grant will be the
peace of sorrow, of desolation, and of ruin,
for them as well as for us! The iron
hand of the military despot is broad
enough to cover the whole country, and
the greed of power is never satiated, hut
grows with age and strengthens w r ith time,
until some vaster power comes to stunt
its growth, shear it of its strength, or
strangle its existence. How much better
then, to “crush it in the bud”—to nip it
while it is young and comparatively
weak, ere it grows to that proportion
which will be too formidable for the pop
ular will to extinguish. How much bet
ter, then, to arouse now to a sense of the
impending danger, and aveit it while we
can. How much better, then, to consign
the leaders of this growing power and
their greedy co-workers to that oblivion
which they so justly merit, Then, in
deed, would wc have peace—not the
peace that Gen. Grant would give us—
not the peace that the Republican party
would give us—hut the peace which
blessed our country in the palmiest days
of its prosperity and glory ; the peace
which alone can bless it again with pros
perity and glory.
REBELS.
Our Northern brethren love to call us
Rebels. It is a pet word with them ; and
they will use it whenever they have the
opportunity. Well, we have no objec
tion to it. On the contrary, we have
learned to love the word, and to glory in
its application to our people. The Fa
thers of tlie Republic were called Rebels;
and they never blushed at its application.
They learned to glory in the title; and
gave a dignity and character to the little
word which had been intended as a term
of insult and reproach—a dignity 7 and
character which was augmented by the
Irish “Rebellion of ’98,” intensified in the
Southern “Rebellion” of ’6l. They were
Rebels—those men of ’7G. They would
not submit to the yoke of tryanny; so
with a mighty effort they shook it off,
and established lor themselves and their
posterity, a government of freedom and
political equality. They were Rebels,
those men of ’9B, who fought, like their
American protrotypes, to cast off the
bondage of a hated Government; but,
alas ! they failed, and were consigned hack
to that bondage of which they so vainly
essayed to rid themselves. And, shall we
say it? These men of ’6l—were they
Rebels? Oh, yes! they were Rebels, if
you please, against tyranny and wrong.
They strove to cast off the burden of op
pression, and to establish again that con
stitutional and free Government which
their forefathers had founded in the past.
But they 7 , too, vainly 7 strove against over
whelming numbers, and were conquered—
conquered by men who once themselves
gloried in the name of Rebel, and thought
Rebellion against tyranny no crime—
conquered by men who declared that the
States were sovereign, that the people
had a right to throw off an oppressive
Government and put on another of their
own choice, that “all just Governments
were derived from the consent of the
governed by men, too, who had sought
to make Ireland and Hungary free ; by
men who had been banished from Germany
and elsewhere because they declared in
favor of this great American principle of
self-government. And so they defeated
us —our hopes and our efforts; but they
could not take away our principles from
us —they could not crush out our love
for a cause so just and so holy as we es
teemed ours to be—they could not, with
their bayonets and their swords, force us
to confess sorrow for our rebellion against
tyranny and oppression ; and thus, taking
nothing away from us but our liberties
and property —they gave us the appella
tion of Rebels. Yes, wc were Rebels
then. We are Rebels now. Wc glory
in the name; and our posterity will glory
too, in the glory of their fathers, who
were not ashamed to proclaim, in the face
of the world, that they were “Rebels”
against Tyranny and Oppression. The
glory and the honor did not perish with
our cause—they will not perish with our
generation ; but they will live in the fu
ture, as they live in the present, to give
additional lustre to that glory and honor
which lived and shone in the Rebel of
’76 and the Rebel of ’9B.
THE GROWTH OF CATHOLICITY.
Our Protestant bretheren are in the habit
of associating bigotry, intolerance, perse
cution, and many other unchristian acts,
with Catholicism. Indeed, it has been
fashionable with them to ascribe to our
Church anythiug but the most compli
mentary epithets. In other words, the
Catholic Church has been held up as the
embodiment of intolerance, an enemy to
education, aud the greatest opponent of
civil liberty and the general advancement
of ma»kind. But the old Church has
stood it all; and while the anathemas of
the Protestant world have been hurled
against her, she has prayed for and bless
ed her enemies. The mutations of this
world make no change in her conduct
towards her erring children—the same
yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow. Every
thing earthly is changing and passing
away, but the Church of Christ remains
the same as when first instituted for the
salvation of mankind. Os all things here
belo\v, it alone survives the decay of mat
ter, and will survive until time changes
into eternity. The world may con
tinue to misrepresent and villify the
old Church of Christ and the Apostles,
hut the day will come when all the chil
dren of men will be gathered unto her
fold, confessing and believing in one
Lord, one Faith, and one Baptism.
The various Protestant denominations,
however they may differ and abuse one
another, seem to cordially unite in abuse
of our Church. The rapid growth of the
Catholic Church in this country, is a fre
quent subject of discussion, and a source
of great alarm, as will be seen from copi
ous extracts from the Protestant Press,
given elsewhere. But the Ohurch will
overcome all efforts made to impede its
onward progress, and while the work of
man is crumbling from internal commo
tions and dissensions, the work of God
will survive to fulfil the Divine mission
of its founder.
With the view of giving our readers
the impressions ot the Protestant Press
on the growth of Catholicity, we copy
from an exchange the comments before
referred to, and to be found in this issue
of our paper. These papers appear to he
seriously alarmed, but there is no remedy
in their power to prevent the progress of
our Church.
INFAMOUS.
In order to give our readers an idea of
the devilish fanaticism which has taken
hold of certain so-called reverend gentle
men in the North, we published some
weeks since a monstrously infamous let
ter from a certain so called Reverend Mr.
Waldo, of the Northern wing of the Me
thodist Church. It will be remembered
that this poor creature held that the peo
of the South, having been conquerred,
had neither political, social, nor religious
rights; that they they must throw aside
their own religion and accept the religion
of the Conquerors; that all the Churches
So»th must he confiscated and turned over
to the Churches North; that while the
Radical Congress was reconstructing the
South and confiscating the property of
our people, the Radical Churches should
reconstruct religion in the South by sell
ing the Churches and appropriating the
proceeds; in fine, this reverend sinner,
if we remember aright, informed our
people that they ought to he thankful for
having their lives spared and he perfectly
willing to hand themselves over, body
and soul to the conquerors, and be unto
them for the balance of their natural
lives, hewers of wood and drawers of wa
ter. Such is, iu brief, the opinion of this
expounder of the Gospel, but where he
derives his authority from for his doc
trine is unknown to us. Perhaps he gets
it from his right to “private interpreta
tion ” If so, then it is the strongest ar
gument in the world that the devil put
his “private interpretation” into the mind
of his pupil —and a most convincing ar
gument that private interpretation of the
Bible leads to error and fanaticism, else
how could this* Rev. Mr. Waldo have
been lead to the conclusion at which he
arrived. That lie is in earnest about h[<
diabolical proposition and considered sane
by his Northern co-laborers, is evident
from his presence at the late Methodist
Conference which assembled at Chicago,
and his having introduced the following
infamous resolution :
“That all government is based upon
the religious ieeas of those who carry it
on, and that the Northern Methodists
have acquired by conquest the right to
control the religion of the South. I hat
it is just as wrong to allow the Southern
Methodists to meet and worship in their
wav, as it would be to allow Lee and
Johnson to call together and drill their
armies again. They will soon be prohib
ited from so doing. The religion of the
North is bound to rule this continent, and
it proposes to make a proper application
of our Bible to all the Southern States
and people. A subjugated people have
no more right to apply their own peculiar
moral ideas than to to use their physical
implements of war.”
Monstrous! hut monstrous and fiendish
as is this proposition and the sentiments ex*
pressed therein, it is the level to which
Rev. Mr. Waldo would bring the people
of the South. It is not stated what dis
position was made of this resolution,
hut the fact of its introduction in such a
body, shows the fearful depravity of a
people who sustain such men, and entertain
such ideas of religion as those expressed
by this Rev. Mr. A\ aldo. It is best
characterized as infamous.
Pearl Rivers and her Home.—
There has been much inquiry as to who
is the woods nymph, or rather Nayade,
who sings so sweetly under this pseu
donym. Perhaps we might as well tell
her anxious readers, not only in the Pica
yune, hut in all respectable journals into
which her verse so gracefully runs, shat
our poetGss takes her name from that
beautiful stream, Pearl River, near the
mouth of which she was born. She is a
maiden of hardly adult years, Eliza Poite
vent, the daughter of Capt. W. J. Poite
vent, well known to most of our business
men as a builder, and owner of steam
boats, and a manufacturer of lumber at
Gainesville, on that river, about twenty
five miles across the plain from the Bay
of St. Louis, which is now, as Gainesville
formerly was, the seat of justice of Han
cock county, Mississippi.
On the father’s side Eliza, is ofFreneh
descent; on the mother’s she is connected
with the extensive and well known Russ
family, of the Florida parishes of Lou
isiana and Southeast Mississippi .Dur
ing the most of her life she has lived
with her mother’s sister, and her uncle
by marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kim
ball, with whose leaf-embowered and rose
embellished cottage, intelligent views,
contented seclusion, comfortable life,
home.obtained luxuries, and welcome to
all who exhibited culture, those who jour
neyed in that region have been long fa
miliar.
Being without children of their own,
they asked and obtained the privilege of
rearing their niece oti the hanks of the
Habolochitto, a clear, deep, and swift run
ning affluent of the Pearl, under whose
magnolias and hollys she spent, doubtless,
many an hour of soft repose, watching the
fish darting through its placid waters, and
listening to the birds as they sang their
delights over the wild flower treasures
around them.
Among such scenes as these, Eliza
Poitevent grew up. No wonder she loves
to sing of warbling birds, of the rippling
waters, the home of the insect, and the
sweet incense of flowers. Such is the home
and such is the history of “Pearl Rivers.’’
A. O. Picayune .
Trinity College had better look to its
monopoly in time, and engage the services
of these clerical mountebanks, the Rev.
Messrs. Ferrar and Flanagan, for the
purpose of “stumping" the country in
its behalf. Mr. Fawcett, the member for
Brighton, lias given notice that, on the
29th inst., he will move “that, in the
opinion of this House, Catholics, Pres
byterians, and other inhabitants of Ire
land, will not be placed in a position of
equality, in reference to university edu
cation, with members of the Established
Church, until all religious disabilities are
removed from the fellowships, scholar
ships. and other honors and emoluments
of Trinity College, Dublin. That this
House, in order to give more complete
effect to the foregoing resolution, is of
opinion that an executive commission
should be appointed, whose duty it
should he so to re-arrange the existing
revenues of Trinity College, Dublin, that
it may be enabled satisfactorily to fulfil
the functions of a national institution.’
Dublin Irishman.