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REV. A. J. RYAN, Editor
AUGUSTA, GA., SEPT’R 12, 1808.
NO APOLOGY FOR THE PAST-
With shame and regret, we have lately
noticed, that not a few of our public
Speakers, and very many of our Southern
Journals, when discussing the political
questions pending before the people,
allude to our Past, when they allude to it
at all, in a tone of apology. We protest
against such apologies, and we have less
respect than we would like to say, for such
apologists. To speak, or write, of the
Cause of the South in an apologetic tone,
may, possibly, just now, be the best
policy; but we, for one, scorn such
policy. We would not abate one iota of
the history of that Past to please any
party, or to win any political victory.
Better be just than successful. If there
were anything in that Past to bring the
blush of shame to our cheeks—if there
did not clearly exist Right on our side—
then, indeed, there might be reason
enough for apology and apologists.
No—wc have nothing to apologize for;
nothing to ask pardon for. There is
nothing in connection with our Cause to
be ashamed of; and we ought to be far too
proud to make an act of contrition for
daring put on the suit of grey. Away,
then, with apologies ! When you speak
of the South, and her People, and her
Cause, use brave words; do not lower
your tone, and sacrifice not a single glory
or principle of the Past, to any or all the
policies of the Present. Concession to
the Present is oftentimes apostacy from
the Past. If you are to choose between
them, for the sake of the Dead that hallow
our Land as they have hallowed our
History, prefer the Past. If political
triumphs, in the Present, arc to be won,
at the expense of our love for the Past,
let such triumphs, a thousand times, be
lost. For God’s sake, let us not worship
mere Success—it is a mean Religion,
unworthy of a man. Let us exhibit a
nobler spirit; let us stoop to no unworthy
means, in order to achieve political vic
tories. Right defeated is better than
Wrong victorious. And the man of the
South, who dares to apologize for our
Cause, and our Course, commits the most
heinous of all treasons—treason against
our Great Past and our Honored Dead-
But more of this anon.
THE PRESIDENCY,
That is a wise and proper maxim, which
declares that “the office should seek the
man, and not the man the office.” And
it would be an equally wise and proper
one which would declare that “none but
good and honest men should hold office/’
Unfortunately for the welfare of the
people of this country, both of these
maxims have, too often, been ignored, and
the very reverse of them put in practice.
We have been in high places, a man
whose chief characteristic was his buf
foonery; another, whose principal recom
mendation was his propensity for strong
drink; another, whose ignorance ought
to have made his constituents blush.
And so the people went on, putting such
men in office, clothing vice and ignorance
with power, and making them respectable
by association. The result is seen and
felt now, alas ! all over this country. Is
there no remedy for it ? We believe that
thej'e is. Is it too late ? We think not.
Ihe time is coming when the people of
this country will have an opportunity of
participating in one of the grandest politi
cal contests ever witnessed. They will
have an opportunity of rebuking vice and
intolerance, tyranny and oppression, cor
ruption, fraud, and extravagance. They
will have an opportunity of putting in
high places men of character, of honesty,
ot temperance, of virtue. They will
have the high privilege of rescuing the
Nation from the infamy which its leaders
and office-holders have fastened upon it,
by their wicked conduct. They will have
the power to restore the Republic to its
bright days of virtue and grandeur. And
will they fail ? Will they lose the golden
opportunity ? Will they let apathy and
indifference defeat them, and snatch from
their hands the golden prize now so nearly
within their grasp? They must not.
They must arise in their might, and throw
off the shackles which now bind them; throw
off the incubus of corruption now weigh
ing down their unhappy country, and re
store it to its former greatness. In
Horatio Seymour, the Democratic Party
has placed before the people a gentle
man, a scholar, and a statesman; a man,
whose virtue and intelligence will shed
lustre upon his country, and give to it
that prestige and glory which once ranked
it among the foremost Nations of the
Earth. To place him in the Presidential
Chair, is one of the first, highest, and
mest patriotic duties of the people; and
that they will not fail in this duty, is the
prayer and hope of good and true men
everywhere.
THE NEGRO,
So much has been said and written
about the Negro, his origin, conformation,
and present status, that there would seem
to be no room left for further exploration,
examination, or criticism. Yet such is
not the fact. The field is a broad and
almost limitless one ; at least, as broad
and limitless as the views and opinions
of men. One proclaims the Negro a
soulless beast; another, a higher order of
brute creation ; and yet another, a man
with a soul, yet of a pre-Adamite origin.
And so treatises, and dissertations, and
pamphlets, multiply and find readers,and
believers, and supporters But, despite
all these different views and opinions,
despite the ingenious fallacies of Ariel,
or the learned mistakes of Nott and
Agassiz, wc must still look upon the
Negro as a being, possessed of a God
given soul, destined for immortality, as
well as the more favored Caucasian. It
is true, he is of a lower order in the
Natural scale. He is not endowed with
those high mental faculties which charac
terize the white race ; still he has reason,
and feelings, and attributes, which we are
bound to respect, and to provide for. We
cannot, it is true, believe that he is
capable of self-government. We cannot
even believe that he is qualified to share
in the benefits of the Government—cer
tainly not as an office-holder, and, in
most cases, not even as a voter ; but we
ought not to treat him as a brute, with
no feelings to respect—no rights to pos
sess—no soul to save. These are attri
butes which God has given him, and
which we are bound to respect. Beyond
this we cannot go.
There are extreme men on every ques
tion. There are bad men in all classes
of society. And these men would elevate
the Negro to a social and political
equality with the white people of this
country. And for what purpose ? Not
that they love the Negro, but to satiate a
miserable greed for office, aud to promote
their own selfish aims and ends.
And not satisfied with their efforts in
this behalf, they would stir up strife be
tween the two races. They would make
the Negro believe that the white people
are his enemies, because they do not
recognize the Negro’s social and political
equality; and, so making him believe, they
are proving themselves his worst enemies,
and preparing for his injury and suffer
ing. Why will the Negro listen to such
blind leaders and wicked teachers ? Why
will they not listen to the voice of Reli
gion, of experience, of wisdom, speaking
to them through all the centuries, through
Revelation, and through their own senses ?
Religiously, “all men are equal”—social
ly and politically they are not. It is not
in the power of man to make it otherwise.
Unavoidable, irremediable, it is a
Religious duty to submit to this inexora
, ble law. To submit to it cheerfully-, is to
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promote peace, good feeling, and pros
perity. To rebel against it, is to create
confusion, enmity, and bloodshed. The ,
man who counsels submission to this law, j
is the friend of both races. The man who
couusels rebellion against it, is the foe |
of both races. Let the colored people
submit to it, and they will not regret it.
Let the white people be kind, and gen
erous, and forbearing, to the Negro, and
they will not regret it. In the spirit of
mutual kindness and forbearance, the
great problem of “the Negro” can be
easily and satisfactorily solved, and the
peace, prosperity, and happiness of mil
lions of people secured.
THE KENTUCKY ELECTION.
The Louisville Courier , after a care
ful addition and comparison of the figures
in the table of the returns of the late elec
tion in Kentucky, arrives at the following
conclusions :
StcAenson’s vote 115,524
Baker’s vote 26,275
Stevenson’s majority 89,249
Aggregate vote this year 141,799
Aggregate vote last year 137,031
Increase of aggregate 4,768
Helm’s vote last yoar 90,225
Increase of Democratic vote.... 25,299
Barnes’ vote last year 33,939
Decrease of Radical vote 7,664
The Democratic gain lacks but a few
hundreds of being equal to the whole
Radical vote. Last year the third party
polled for Kinkead 13,167 votes. Add
this to the Radical loss, and it only makes
20,831; which is 4,468 less than the
Democratic gain.
Northern Mktiiodist Preachers.—
In speaking of the Northern Methodist
Preachers, the Richmond Dispatch says:
These Radical parsons force themselves
upon an unwilling people for political
purposes , and not only steal the livery of
the court of heaven to serve the devil in,
but would, if they could, steal the churches
themselves. Their excuse is that these
churches are deeded to the “ Methodist
Episcopal Church.” The fact is that
when they were so deeded the people
owning them were members of the
“ Methodist Episcopal Church.” But
since that Church took to politics, and
blazed the way for the present Radical
party, our people have established one of
their own, which they call “ Methodist
Episcopal Church, South.” The people
who built these houses of worship and
support the preachers are the rightful
owners of the meeting-houses. No hon
est man could attempt to dispossess them
on a technicality. Yet this is just what
the Northern Methodist Church is at
tempting to do. We are sorry that Gen,
Stoncman has not thought it his duty to
expel these mischief-making hypocrites
from the State, instead of allowing them
to have the use of our churches on alter
nate Sundays. It is impossible to believe
that men who thus stir up strife in a com
munity, and, under the cloak of religion
give vent to the vilest passions of the hu
man heart, are anything but villians.”
The Radical Party— A brief Chap
ter from its History. —Would-be Vice
President Colfax, in a recent speech, as
serts that “the history of the Republican
Party is written in the brightest pages of
the country’s annals.” The following are
the more prominent results of the .success
of the Radical Party, which now seeks
by usurpations and military force, to per
petuate its power, as stated by the New
York Express:
Ist. The history of the Radical Party
begau in 1860 in a war which extremists,
North and South, labored to precipitate.
2d. In two millions of men, North
and South, in arms, facing each other
with the most destructive weapons of
warfare, of modern invention.
3d. In the loss, North and South, of
over 500, 000 lives.
4th. In an expenditure of over four
billions of dollars for the North alone—
-54,000,000,000.
sth. In an existing debt of over two
billions and a ha1f—82,500,000,000.
6th. In the heaviest taxation ever im
posed upon any people in any country,
under which cur labor is so groaning
that it can nowhere come into competition
even with taxed Germany-, England, or
France.
7th. In enormous high prices upon
everything.
Bth. In an irredeemable currency of
mere paper money, 8300,000,000 in Na
tional Banks, which is paying the owners
of them from 10 to 30 per cent, per an
num, and in $400,000,000 of Greenbacks,
not good enough even to pay duties to
the Custom-house, or interest due the
bondholders on their 82,500,000,000 of
debt.
9th. In a standing army of 60,000
men on paper, 56,000 men in fact, cost
ing millions and millions of dollars,
nearly 82,000,000 for every regiment.
10th. In the hordes of Freedman’s
Bureau office-holders, paid by the North
to govern the Degroes of the South, cost
ing millions per annum.
11th. In eleven negro-governed States,
admitting the most brutish darkey to
vote, but excluding over 300,000 of the
most intelligent white votes.
12th. In a tariff which drives off from
the outer ocean (reserving for Americans
only the coastwise trade,) almost every
American ship, and which nearly stops all
foreign ship building in the Uuited
States.
13th. In a tariff monopoly which
everywhere makes the rich richer, and
the poor poorer.
Albany (A 7 . 17) Arg us.
Voorhees Summing Up.—Mr. Voorhees
has propounded the following stiff ques
tions in regard to Radical economy in the
public business;
“Do you find it in the collection of
nearly five hundred millions of dollars a
year, from the pockets of the people? Do
you find it in the establishment of a vast
poor house for the able-bodied Negroes of
the South, at the expense of at least fifty
millions since the date of its creation by
law ? Do you fiud it in the keeping of a
standing army for the purpose of enforc
ing negro suffrage at the point of the
bayonet, at a greater expense to you than
any entire Administration cost before the
war ? Do you find it in the support of a
navy in perfect idleness, which is costing
you more than during the first year of
the war, whim we blockaded the entire
Southern coast ? Do you fiod it in the
purchase of ‘rifled muskets,’ with which
to enable the maddened and deluded
Negro to turn the South into a bloody,
and blazing Pandemonium ? ”
We hope that Mr. Voorhees will keep
during the campaign at the figure of
interrogation. He is a mail of genius at
it. The good of the thing is he cannot
be squarely answered by the party at
which he draws his lance.
A Catholic Priest Arrested.—
Father Murray the Victim. —On
Thursday week, Father Murray, the
Catholic Priest in charge of the Church
at this place, called a picnic at Mrs.
Grover’s pasture, near town, for the
purpose of raising money to complete
the Catholic Church here. Every body
was invited ; a considerable number of
citizens were in attendance, and things
were progressing finely, when some very
loyal chaps discovered the names of
Seymour and Blair on the large flag
which had been loaned for the occasion,
by this office. These names were more
than they could behold and be easy, so
they proposed that the names be cut off
the flag, or the flag taken down. At
this juncture, Father Murray informed
the crowd that he had nothing to do with
politics, this was not a political meeting,
that the flag had been loaned on the
occasion with those names, it was their
bounden duty to return it in the same
condition, and that not a single letter
should come off, or the flag come down.
The Priest stated that he, like other
men, had political views of his own, and
while he did not obtrude them, he was
not ashamed to say he was a Democrat,
and that he looked upon the men whose
names were upon that flag, like the
Catholic Church, as the friends of civil
and religious liberty everywhere. He
pointed to the persecutions of his Church
in this State at Radical hands, to the
imprisonment of Priests, and Sisters of
Charity, to the taxing of Catholic
Churehes and Catholic graveyards, and
asked if it were possible that Irishmen,
! and Catholics could become “fletcher-
I iaed ? ”
| The rabble failing to accomplish their
| desire, several knock downs ensued, and
in the disturbance, Father Murray push
ed a man out of his way, for rude lan
guage used to him, and next morning
was arrested on a warrant charging him
with assault and battery. He was
brought before a Justice, aud prosecuted
as though he had been the worst despe
rado in the State, by two Radical law
yers, who found it an admirable oppor
tunity to vent a portion of that pent up
fury that the Radical party has ever har
bored for the Catholic Church.
The Priest was denounced in the most
i unfeeling manner, and his Church villi
j tied and abused. He was lined five dol
! l ars a nd costs, but refused to pay it, and
j has taken an appeal to the Circuit
i Court.— Warrensburg (Mo,) Journal ,
August, loth.
[official.]
THE ROMAN BATTALLION.
The Most Reverend Archbishops 0 f
Baltimore, Cincinnatti, and New York
the last of whom held the proxy of the
Archbishop of St. Louis—addressed a
Letter from Emmitsburg, on the 24th of
last June, to his Eminence Cardinal
Barnabo, in reference to the Battallion.
which some unauthorized persons had
attempted to enrol in this country for the
service of His Holiness. In their Letter,
these Prelates stated their reason for be
lieving the undertaking not only inex
pedient, but utterly impractical; while
they, at the same time, crave full expression
to their feelings of love and veneration
for the Holy Father, and of deep interest
in the maintenance of his temporal sov
ereignty. The Letter was entirely satisfac
tory, and even highly gratifying to the
Holy Father, as will appear from the
answer of the Cardinal, a translation of
which we subjoin.
The whole question is thus fully and
finally settled, by the express order of
His Holiness. The Letter is addressed
to the Most Reverend Archbishop of
Baltimore, who is instructed to commu
nicate its contents to all his Venerable
Colleagues:
Most Illustrious and Most Rev. Sir:
I received your most gratifying Letter of
June 24th, and I immediately took steps
to lay before His Holiness the consider
ations, for which you, and your colleagues,
the Archbishops of those States, deem it
not advisable, under existing circum
stances, to encourage the formation of a
Legion of American Volunteers, fo~ sus
taining the cause of the Holy See. His
Holiness examined with all diligence
your observations, and he desired that
answer should be made to you, to signify
that he was most joyful (lietissimo) at
receiving the explanations furnished by
the Prelates, and was most grateful be
yond expression (oltra ogni credere) for
the good will which they exhibit towards
the Holy See. Moreover, he commanded
(ordino) that all steps in reference to the
raising of the proposed Legion should be
abandoned, and that you should signify
this determination to all your colleagues
for their Government. Meantime, I pray
that God may preserve and prosper you!
Rome, from the Propasrnda, July 21
1868.
Your Most affectionate servant,
Alexander Cardinal Barnabo,
Prefect S. C
John Sim bon i, Secretary.
To Monsignore Martin John Spalding,
Archbishop of Baltimore.
ersonaTT -
Rev, Father O’Hagan, S. J., for many
years assistant Pastor at St. Mary’s, Bos
ton, left for Georgetown College on Mon
day, where he assumes the position ot first
Prefect. Father O’ll. endeared himself to
the Catholics of Boston by his kindness
and fatherly care of both adults and chil
dren, and wherever he goes he will have a
place in their memory.
We regret to learn that the health of the
Bishop of Philadelphia still prevents him
from attending to his Episcopal duties.
Right Rev. Bishop Williams celebrated
Mass in the ancient chapel of St. Augus
tine, South Boston, on the feast day of
that great Saint, Father Emeliano, with
other Augustine Fathers, assisted on the
occasion.
The Right Rev. Monsignore Talbot.
Private Chamberlain of Ills Holiness, and.
Right Rev. Dr. Brown, Bishop of Menevia
and Newport, were the guests of Mr. T.
Weld Blundell, at luce Hall, England
A cable despatch from Rome, states that
Most Rev. Dr. Henry Manning, Archbishop
ot London, is to be made Cardiual. It b
also reported that Joseph Ruardi will soon
relieve Cardinal Antonelli as Secretary of
State and President of the Papal Ministry.
On Sunday, the 23d ult., the Right ILy.
Thomas A. Becker, I). D., Bishop of Y il*
mington, Del., took possession of the See,
to which he had been appointed by the
Holy Father. A formal reception by'
been kindly offered to him by the munici
pal authorities, but the Bishop declined it.
preterring that the only ceremony which
should take place on his entry to the Bp ”
copal City should be that prescribed }
the Roman Pontifical. The Archbishop o.
Baltimore delivered the installation sermon
on the occasion.
The Bishop of Erie had a splendid rectp
tion on his entrance into Saint Mary s l '
the 15th of August, at which he couth”at'*•
on that day, 326 persons, among who’.- 1 ,
were eighteen converts. From St. Mar;. -
he was escorted, on the 16th, to Centre
ville, about six miles distant, by a mounts
cortege of thirty horsemen, where he a
- the Sacrament of Continue
tion, and returned to St. Mary’s the :iit
afternoon.
Reception of another Dominic an h N
—Only two weeks ago we noticed the
ception of a number of Dominican > ai-~ -
St. Peter's Church, Memphis. On A ts
16th. the Very- Rev. G. A. Kelly, O. -
received in the same Church the p ro .‘
sion of Miss Kate Rapp, under the reb-'y y
name of Sister Gertrude. This isthe -t-yy
Nun received at St. xVgnes’ Convent. Mem
phis, within a few months.
[X. 17 Freeman's Journal. Sept. D -