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Constitution, it has repeatedly violated
the most sacred pledges under which aione
rallied that noble vffiunteer army’ which
carried our flag to victory ; instead or re
storing the Union it has so far as in its
power dissolved it and subjected ten States
in time of profound peace to military des
potism and negro supremacy; has stripped
the President of his constitutional power
of appointment even of his own Cabinet.
Under its repeated assaults the pillars of
the Government are rocking on their base,
and should it succeed in November next
and inaugurate its President, we will meet
as a subjugated and conquered people
amid the ruins of liberty and the scattered
fragments of the Constitution.
Resolved , That in the future as in the
past, we will adhere with unswerving
fidelity to the Union under the Constitu
tion as the only solid foundation of our
strength, security and happiness as a peo
ple, and as a frame work of government
equally conducive to the welfare and pros*
perity of all ihe States, both Northern and
Southern.
Resolved , That the Union established
by the Constitution is a Union of States,
Federal in its character, composed of
States thereby united, and is incapable of
existing without the States, as its continu
ing integral parts, and therefore the per
petuity of the Union in its integrity de
pends on the preservation of the States in
their political integrity, the Government of
the United States being a Federal Repub
lic and not a consolidation of the whole
people into one nation.
Resolved , That the perpetuity of the
Union ahd the maintenance of the Gov
ernment, as both were established by the
Constitution and as both under the Con
stitution have been expounded in the fore
going resolutions in conformity with the
venerable teachings of Jefferson, Madison
and Jackson, have ever been held as car
dinal doctrines of the Democratic party,
and they are now reiterated with increased
earnestness, under the solemn conviction
that constitutional liberty can be preserved
on this continent only by bringing back the
administration of the Government to those
time-honored principles on which for sixty
years there was such unparalleled happi
ness and prosperity, and in rescuing it from
the hands of those who ever held the Con
stitution itself to be no better than a cov
enant with death and an agreement with
hell: whose revolutionary policy and meas
ures have brought such general discord,
strife and war, with its attendant ills upon
a large portion of the country, and such
wide-spread demoralization throughout the
whole of it.
Resolved , That the Democratic party in
sustaining the Federal administration in
the late unhappy conflict of arms did so in
good faith, with the hope and earnest
wish to maintain the principles above set
forth, and with no view of waging war on
the part of the Northern States in any
spirit of oppression against their brethren
of the South, nor for any purpose of con
quest or subjugation, nor purpose of over
throwing or interfering with the right or
established institutions of those States, but
to defend and maintain the supremacy of
the Constitution, and to preserve the
Union with ail the dignity, equality and
rights of the several States unimpaired.
The subjugation of these States or holding
them as conquered territory would be, in
the judgment of this Convention, the de
struction of the Union itself.
Resolved , That the highest meed of
patriotism is due and should ever be ex
tended to all those who in the recent
war perilled life or fortune for the main
tenance of the Union and the beneficent
system of American Government thereby
established upon the fundamental princi
ples set forth in the forgeoing resolutions;
btlt we have neither thanks nor sympathy
for those who entered and carried on the
contest for the subjugation of States and
for the subjection by Federal authority of
the white race in any of the States to the
domination of the black; the right of suf
frage, or who shall exercise political power,
is a matter that rests under the Constitution
exclusively with the several States ; there
it properly belongs, and there it should
continue ever to remain.
The Republican Candidate for Vice
President. —Mr. Colfax, the candidate
of the Republican party for Vice Presi
dent, wiis, at one time, a member of the
proscriptive Know Nothing party, and
has never been known to change his
views in regard to that party. The In
diana Sentinel is the authority for saying
Mr. CoI?A uth P u„ flowing ilUberal an(l
atrocious oaths :
p -.jR.EE.
Tn the Dresserof Almighty God, and
in the p ou ,j 0 solemnly promise
these witneg^ t - * * * y g Will not
and swg f
give your influence, for any
' °if for any office in the gift of the
people, unless he be an American-born
citizen, in favor of Americans ruling
America, nor if he be a Roman Catholic.
SECOND DEGREE.
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legally done, you will, when elected or
appointed to any official station, confer
ring on you power to do so, remove all
foreigners, aliens, or Roman Catholics,
from office, or place, and that you will, in
no ease, appoint such to any office, or
place, in your gift.
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A STRANGE ANOMALY-IRISH RADICALS
Some days ago we received an official
notification from the Postmaster at Rich
the South to the following subscribers,
as their copies were not taken out of the
Post Office, viz : Jas. Sheppard, Patrick
Ahern, Jno. Bropby, Thos. Colligan, Alex.
Delaney, Henry Miller, and Jno. O’Neal.
In connection with this, we observe that
an Irish Radical Club has been organized
in that city. The Southern Opinion
gives an account of their organization,
and transactions, which would be ludicrous
if they were not too mortifying to con
template. Now, we say mortifying, be
cause we cannot contemplate anything
political so abhorrent to us, as an Irish or
a Catholic Radical. The conjunction is a
monstrosity, and not to be tolerated. We
have charity enough for a Northern
American Radical, or a Protestant Radi-
MSBiS ©f l©lf S.
cal; but none whatever for ail Irishman
or a Catholic who embraces the political
creed of that party. They have no ex
cuse, no pretext. They have seen their
own land deluged with the blood of mar
tyrs, their Religion proscribed, their
Priests hunted down as if they were dogs,
their property confiscated, their schools
closed up, their children deprived of the
means of education, their families starved
to death, their leading men hung or ban
ished for no other crime than loving Ire
land and the glorious old Faith of St.
Patrick too much. They have seen and
felt all this; and to-day they see Radical
ism preaching and teaching the same
bigotry and intolerance that led to all
their woes and sufferings. They see in
Grant a hater of their race and religion,
in Colfax a persecutor of their race and
creed, in Breckinridge, the Radical Apos
tle, a would-be destroyer of foreigners and
Catholics—in all the leaders and journals
of that party the life-long intolerants and
persecutors of everything foreign and
Roman Catholic ! And yet, these Rich
mond Irishmen dare to stand up in the
light of day, and proclaim themselves
members of such a party ! “Oh! shame,
where is thy blush !” Is there no feel
ing, no sentiment of self-respect at all
left in these minions of power, these tools
of degradation, these vile, polluted crea
tures ? Are they so debased, so ignorant,
so wicked, that they can be bought away
from the Faith of their fathers, and barter
the glories of Ireland for a policeman’s
place, or a constable’s baton, or act as
paltry lackeys to corrupt and degraded
political tricksters? Shame on them !
Ireland spurns them—America despises
them ! As for us, we loathe them—we
pity the unfortunate city of Richmond
that it has to endure the presence of these
debauched creatures, and thank them for
giving us the gratifying privilege of
erasing their names from the subscription
books of the Banner of the South. They
arc not wanted. We don’t want them
to stand among the names of the pure
women, and true men, and innocent chil
dren of the South, who are so faithful and
devoted to the Lost Cause ; we don’t
want them to stand among the names of
the sincere and earnest Catholics and true
hearted Irishmen who love principle better
than place, and would not disgrace their
Religion, or their native land, by sacri
ficing the interests and the property of
their adopted country. Yes; let them
go ! and in the condemnation of their
own consciences let them dwell. Per
haps, they may, ere long, open their
eyes to the folly and wickedness of their
course, and repent of the evil thing which
they have done. If not, let them for
swear their Faith and their Nationality.
The anomaly is too great—too striking—
to exist. They cannot be Irish Catholics
and American Radicals. They must give
up the one or the other, and the sooner
the better.
We feel too deeply for the honor of
our Church and of the Irish people in
America to let this contemptible and dis
graceful movement pass unnoticed ; but
if, in the course of our remarks, we have
done any of the parties injustice, we ask
their forgiveness in advance, and shall
hasten to repair the injury, and to do
them full and ample justice in these
columns.
— j\. paragraph
is going the rounds of the Press, purport
ing to be an epitaph on Brownlow, given
by Father Ryan, at a banquet in Chat
tanooga, Tenn., when it was thought that
the aforesaid Brownlow was dying. The
Chronicle & Sentinel, of this city, recently
stated that Father Ryan was not the
author of that very unchristian epitaph,
and requested the Press generally to
notice it. It is due to the Reverend gen
tlemen, to repeat the statement here.
He is not the author of that epitaph, and
never saw it until it was published in
some of the papers. Our exchanges
will oblige us by noticing this correction,
not from any good feeling towards the '
Tennessee renegade, but as an act of:
justice to Father Rvan «
EDUCATIONAL
Catalogue of the Officers and Stu
dents of Georgetown Collxge, Dis
trict of Columbia, for the Academic
Year 1867-’6B. Georgetown, D. C.
Courier Print.
Catalogue of Pupils of the George
town Academy of the Visitation
B. V M., for the Academic Year
1867-’6 8. Georgetown, D. C. Courier
Print.
The war and its necessary conse
quences—impoverishment and the gene
ral overthrow of our established institu
tions—have interfered seriously with the
cause of Education in the South. The
Southern people have always been noted
for their good breeding and mental ac
quirements, and for their encouragement
of the Arts and Sciences. Indeed, these
characteristics of Southern society are so
well defined as to secure for our people a
marked degree of respect and a prominence
not accorded to the people of any other
section of the United States. It is due
to our history, and the fair fame of our
people, that the rising generation be in
ducted into the footsteps of their prede
cessors. It is, alas! too true, that the
sad results of the war have rendered the
great majority of our people too poor to
give their children the benefits of a classi
cal education. But those of our people
who have the means to give their chil
dren a finished education, should take
care to select the best institutions of
learning—institutions in which Christian
doctrines are inculcated—where the false
philosophy of skepticism does not exist,
and where Christianity is not ignored, or
reduced to the level of a problem, to he
proved by the application of a worldly
philosophy which requires every article
of faith and point of Christian doctrine
to be demonstrated as plainly as that two
and two make four.
These remarks have been elicited by
the reception of the Catalogues named at
the head of this article. The writer has
had agreeable memories awakened by the
perusal of the Catalogue of Georgetown
College, and he takes pleasure, from per
sonal experience, in speaking favorably
of a College, which deservedly ranks
among the first Educational Institutions
on the American Continent:
GEORGETOWN COLLEGE,
As is doubtless known to most of our
readers, is situated on the Northern bank
of the Potomac, in the suburbs of George
town, commanding a magnificent view of
Washington City, and of a great portion
of the District of Columbia. This Insti
tution is conducted by the Jesuit Fathers,
the course of education being the same as
that so long and so successfully pursued
by this Society in Europe. This College
was founded in 1789, and has been in
successful operation since that period.
Its graduates have carried the fame of
their Alma Plater into every State of the
Union, Mexico, South and Central
America, the Canadas, and even across
the Atlantic. The standard of education
is of a high order, and students are re
quired to prove their proficiency before
the honors of the Institution are conferred.
In looking over the list of the Faculty,
and other officers of the College, which
embraces a corps of twenty-nine, we
recognize many familiar names, among
whom are a few who have changed the
sword and the jacket of grey for the
' students embraces representatives from
every Southern State. Although George
town College is in no sense a sectional
institution, it has always enjoyed a large
measure of popularity in the Southern
States. We had intended to refer to the
fifty-first Annual Commencement, which
took place Wednesday, July 1, but this
article has already been extended beyond
our space, and we must conclude, by
saying the poems, orations, essays, and
discourses, evinced a high order of
talent.
THE ACADEMY OF THE VISITATION
Is located in Georgetown, and enjoys
a reputation second to no female institu
tion in this country. It is conducted by
the Nuns of the Visitation. The course
of instruction comprises Orthography,
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Gram
mar, Ancient and Modern Geography,
the use of the Globes, Prose and Poeti
cal Composition, Sacred and Profane His
tory, Mythology, Rhetoric, Logic, Moral
and' Natural Philosophy, Chemistry,
Astronomy, Mineralogy, Botany, Geom*
etry, Algebra, Book-keeping, Frer.ch,
Spanish, Italian, German, and Latin
Languages; Music on the Piano Forte,
Harp, and Guitar; Vocal Music, Draw
ing, Painting, in Water Colors, in Oil
and on Velvet; Plain and ornamental
Needle-work, Tapestry, Embroidery, and
Lace Work.
Every attention is paid to the wants of
their pupils by the good Ladies of the
Visitation whose lives are devoted to the
cause of education and Religion. The
Academy is in a flourishing condition.
In the catalogue we notice the names of
pupils from every Southern State from
Texas to Virginia. The commencement
exercises are spoken of in flattering terms
by the Press of Washington City.
OUR BOOK TABLE.
Form of Consecration of a Bishop of
the Roman Catholic Church, Accord
ing to the Latin Rite : with Expla
nations, by Francis Patrick Kenrick
Archbishop of Baltimore. Fourth Re
vised Edition. Baltimore : Published
by John Murphy & Cos., 182 Baltimore
street. 1868.
This is the title of a very interesting
little work, paper cover, from the Press
of those enterprising publishers, John
Murphy & Cos., of Baltimore. It is of in
terest not only to the clergy, but also to
the laymen, as giving in full the form of
that grand and imposing ceremonial of
the Church, the Consecration of a Bishop.
PERIODICALS.
United States Musical Review.—
This is one of the largest and most valu
able musical publications in the country
It is published at New York, monthly,
at 82.00 per annum, in advance, and con
tains a great deal of sheet music, and a
large amount of musical information. The
July number contains the following
pieces : “No Crown without the Cross’
—Sacred Song; words by George Cooper,
music by Harrison Millard. “ Strawber
ries and Cream”—March ; C. Kinkeh
“ Heavenward” —Valse Angelique; G.
Vibre. Making, altogether, 14 pages of
sheet music in one number ! It should
have a place in every family, where
music holds sway.
The Southern Review, Vol. IV., No. 7.
July, 1868. Baltimore : Bledsoe k
Brown. Entered according to Act of
Congress, etc.
This is one of the ablest Reviews pub
lished. Southern in its character, and of
genuine merit. The number before us
contains the following papers :
I. Public School Education at the
North. 11. Shakspeare’s Personal His
tory. 111. Congress versus the Consti
tution. IV. Apollonius of Tyana. \
The State of Nature. VI. Landscape
Painting VII. The Gobemouchian Idea
of Government. VIII. Mr. Bancroft as
a Historian. IX. Book Notices.
The College Courant.— This is the
title of a very neatly printed and inte
resting quarto published at Yale Col
lege, and edited by the students of that
Institution. It is devoted to Hollow ’
Bu. 8 u.i ol any, and contains » great
deal of interesting matter to the friends
and patrons of old Yale, as well as to th
patrons of other leading Colleges in the
United States.
Gov. Seymour’s Speech and Gen
Blair’s Letter.-— We need oiler u
apology for devoting so large a portion o
our space this week to the great speech e
Gov. Seymour, of New York, the Pemo
cratic candidate for President of the Unite
States, and to the letter of Gen. F. P
Blair, of Missouri, the Democratic card
date for Vice-President. They are pari
of the history of the times, and arc of tie
greatest interest to the people of sh
South, as expressions of the views
those from whom the South hopes >-■
much.