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would not permit them to be brought up
in habits of indifferent, which means
practical infidelity, or trained in know
ledge hostile to their religious faith.
Prussia, though she is the very embodi
ment and representative of Protestant
Europe, soon came to the conclusion that
tliis would not do—that education must
be Christian—that it must be doctrinal
and conductive to religious practices—
that, as all could not or would not be
lieve alike, each should have full oppor
tunity to be reared in his own taith, to
learn its doctrines, and to fulfil its duties
and discipline —and, therefore, that en
lightened Government e&tablisned the
denominational system, giving to each
creed practical equality before the law,
a separate school organization (wherever
numbers made it practicable,) and a
ratable share of the public school fund ;
reservin'’' to the Government only a
general supervison ; so as to secure a
faithful application of the public money,
and to enforce a proper compliance with
the educational standard. 1 lie public
schools are organized so that every citi
zen shall obtaiu the complete education
of his child, in the faith and practice of
bis own Church. All difficulties have
disappeared, and perfect harmony pre
vails.
In France, by the last census the .popu
lation was thirty-seven millions, divided
about as follows; 480,000 Calvinists,
267,000 Lutherans, 30,000 of other
Protestant sects, and 73,000 Jews ; the
remaining thirty- six millions being
either practically or nominally Catholic.
Although the dissenters from the national
faith are less than one million, that Gov
ernment has provided for them, at the
public expense, separate primary schools,
where each sect is at full liberty to
teach its own doctrines. There are, like
wise three seminaries for the higher edu
cation of Lutherans and Calvinists.
Austria also supports schools, col
leges, and universities for a Protestant
minority.
The British Government has likewise
adopted the same principles of public
education for the Catholics and the Pro
testant dissenters of England, while with
her traditional and malignant hatred of
the Irish people, she still denies them
the justice which she extends to all of her
other subjects, at home or in the Colonies,
even to the Hindoos and Mohammedans
of her Indian Empire !
“And thus, the most powerful and
enlighteded Nations have decided that
Christian civilization eannot be main
tained upon Pagan ideas ; and that the
safety of every Commonwealth depends
upon the Christian education of the
people. They have also clearly seen that
doctrines, discipline, morals, and “the
religious atmosphere ,” must be kept
united, and made to penetrate and sur
round the school at all times; and that,
however greatly the Christian denomi
nations may differ from each other, or
err even in their belief, it is far better
for society that their youth should be
instructed in some form of i Christian
doctrine, than be left to perish in the
dreary and soul-destroying wastes of
deism. Experience has proved to them
that moral teaching, with Biblical illus
trations, as the piety of Joseph, the
heroism of Judith, the penitence ot David
will not suffice to establish the Christian
Faith in young hearts,- or to quiet the
doubts of inquiring minds. The subtle
Gibbon, mocking the cross of Christ,
will confront the testimony of the martyrs
with the heroes of Pagan history.
Voltaire did the spine for, the French
youth of the last century, to their destruc
tion. No. The experience of wise gov
ernments is this: that morals must be
based upon faith, and faith made effici
ent in deeds of practical virtue; for, faith
worketh by charity. And another experi
ence is this, which is best given in the
very words of the eminent Protestant
statesman and historian, M. Guizot :
“In order to make popular education
truly good and socially useful, it must
be fundamentally religious. I do not
simply mean by this, that religious in
struction should hold its place in popu
lar education a»d that the practices of
religion should enter into it; for a nation
is not religiously educated by such petty
and mechanical devices; >t is necessary
that national education should be given
and received in the midst of a religious
atmosphere, and that religious impress
ions aud religions observances should
penetrate into all its parts. Religion is
not a study or an exercise to be restric
ted to a certain place and a certain hour;
it is a faith and a law, which ought to be
felt everywhere, and which after this
manner alone can exercise all its bene
ficial influence upon our minds and our
lives.”
“The meaning of which is, that not a
moment of the h ours of school should be
left without the religious influence. It
is the constant inhalation of the air which
preserves our phys ical vitality. It is the
‘religious atmosphere’ which supports
the young soul. Religion cannot be
made ‘a study or an exercise to be res
tricted to a certain place and a certain
hour.’ It will not do to devote six days
in the week to science, and to depend
upon the Sunday school for the religious
training of the child. 31. Guizot is right.
The enlightened governments of Europe
have accepted his wisdom and reduced it
to practice in their great national school
system.”
“Now, the Catholics of the United
States have said no more than that; have
asked no more than that; and yet, a will
cry of anger has been raised against
them, at times, as though they were the
avowed enemies of all popular education.
They pay their full quota of the public
taxes which create.the school-fund, and
yet they possess, to-day in proportion to
their wealth and numbers, more parochial
schools, seminaries, academics, colleges,
and universities, established and sustained
exclusively by their own private resour
ces, than any other denomination of
Christians in this country! Certainly,
this is no evidence of hostility to educa
tion! And, why have they made these
wonderful efforts, these unprecedented
sacrifices ? It is because they believe in
the truth uttered by 31. Guizot. It is
because they believe in the truth estab
lished by all history. It is because they
believe in the truth accepted and acted
upon by the enlightened men and gov
ernments of this age. It is because
they know that revealed religion is to
human science what Eternity is to Time.
It is because they know that the salvation
of souls is more precious to Christ than
the knowledge of astronomers. It is be
cause they know that the welfare of nat
ions is impossible without God. And
yet, they fully understand how religion
has called science to her side as an
honored handmaid; how learning, chas
tened by humanity, conduces to Chris
tian advancement; how the knowledge
of good and evil (the fruit of the forbid
den tree) may yet be made to honor God,
when the 4 sanetilled soul rejects the evil
and embraces the good. Therefore the
Catholic people desire denominational
education, as it is called.”
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
The Twenty-Second in New York—No
Military Display , but a Flag Demon
stration— Church Services—Trinity
Church—Trinity Chimes — Trinity
Church-yard — A Curious Little Story
—Swapping Dinners.
New York, February 2ft, 1869.
Banner of the South :
The 22d was celebrated here this
year with uuusal eclat. Places of busi
ness were closed, flags displayed on the
public buildings, and many of the
Churches opened for service. Contrary
to woant, there was no military display;
but to make up for this lack, there
seemed a conspiracy afoot among the
eartmen and wagoners to deck their
animals and vehicles with little pennons
and banners, so that altogether the streets
presented quite a gay and festive ap
pearance. Small and dirty urchins drove
quite a flourishing trad*3 in selling little
paper flags, some of the blessed gridiron
of the -‘Nation,” and others the Sun
burst of Erin, which latter, by-the-bye,
seemed quite as favorite an investment
among the draymen as the blessed grid
iron itself. Chief among the Churches,
stood Trinity in the extent, variety, and
splendor of its services. This, as you
know, is the finest ecclesiastical edifice
in New York, and, as belonging to an
immensely wealthy clerical corporation,
has neither pains nor money spared to
make it resemble the gorgeous Cathe
drals of England Being extreme High
Church, there is much scope 1 for display
and on a gala day like the Twenty-
Second, the appearai-r- • it presents is
quite imposing. On this special occa
sion the altar was luminous with many
candles in silver sconces, and the chancel
crowded with all the magnates of the
Episcopal hierarchy in this Diocese,
The choir consisted, according to ritualis
tic wont, of surpliced boys, and many of
them having remarkably pure, clear
voices, and the organ, which is a miracle
of architectural design, being of excellent
tone, the rendition of the anthems was
exceedingly fine. After this holy opera
singing, a clergyman got him up in his
robes into the pulpit, which is perched
awav np in the air like a bird’s nest, and
has" an old fashioned sounding-board,
emblazoned with doves and olive
branches, over it, and there read Wash
ington’s Farewell Address. In sonorous
tones the words of the Great A irgiuiun
rang through the edifice and seemed to
proclaim, as with a clarion, that though
he, too, was called a “Hebei,” }*et the
day came when he held up his head
Mil® 01 SIS 101 SS.
among the foremost and trampled a
servile “loyalty” in the dust.
After the address, the choir and organ
burst forth into that magnificent anthem
which exults in the awaiting glories of
the city of the Great King, and then
the congregation dispersed to the porches
and graveyard to hear the far tamed
Trinity chimes. In the spire of the
Church are a large number of differently
toned bells, and on grand occasions
various airs are performed upon them,
Flow Gently, Sweet Aflon, Evening
Bells , What Fairy-life Music , and The
Last Bose of Summer being on this
occasion in the repertoire. When this
was over, I lingered awhile in the
churchyard, and could not but have some
emotions excited by the contrast present
ed between the close proximity of that
very incarnation of business activity,
Wall Street, which comes up to the very
Church door, and the antique mausoleums
on every side. Here in Trinity Church
yard, where the ceaseless activity of the
greatest city on the continent goes bust
ling always by, lie the remains of Alex
ander Hamilton, the only deputy from
this State who signed the Constitution
aud who fell afterward in a duel just
across the river with Aaron Burr. Albert
Gallatin, who succeeded Col. Hamilton
in and afterward negotiated
the second peace with Great Britain, is
also buried here, and here also lies Cap
tain Lawrence who died in action with
tiie words “Don’t Give Up the Ship.”
There are other monuments of even
earlier date, and among some reaching
far back in the last century is one of a
family that went hence in 1720, a quar
ter of a century before the Stuarts made
their second attempt on the British
throne, and more than half an hundred
years before the colonies declared them
selves Sovereign and Independent States.
These mementoes of old times it has
often been proposed to remove, as it has
also to tear down the Church, and cut up
the graveyard into building lots for pur
poses of trade, but so far Trinity corpora
tion has met money with money, litiga
tion with litigation, and still keeps the
Church useful for the living, and the
■tombs sacred to the dead.
Quite a curious little story is going the
rounds here about Grant. It seems that
some days since when that person came
on here, an eager aspirant for the New
York Custom House, one Moses H.
Grinnell, a trooly “loil” man of course,
thought to procure a promise of that
position through the medium of a good
dinner administered to the little great
man’s epigastrium. Off, therefore, hied
our aspirant to Delraonico, and bid that
caterer prepare a banquet regardless of
expense. The same day a private citizen
on returning home f jund no dinner await
ing him, by reason of some domestic
disarrangement, and oft' he hied, too, to
the caterer with directions to send him a
plain, substantial meal forthwith. By
some mistake of the cook’s the dinner
that was to have propitiated Grant
went to the citizen, and vice versa. Some
what surprised to see Signor Delmonico’s
idea of a plain dinner, the good man
and his family nevertheless sate down to
what was spread before them, ate up the
oysters, absorbed the soup, consumed the
fish, and made wild work generally with
the entrees, roasts, pastries, and dessert,
all, mark you, with much gastronomic
felicitation and inward joy of heart. Not
so with the aspirant and the little great
man he sought to entertain. Before that
company was spread a plain meal, very
good and substantial, so far as it went,
but still heinously scant and nothing very
extra in quality. Next morning the
two disappointees, the citizen agreeably
surprised with the good dinner, and the
aspirant taken all back with the poor,
met at the caterer’s and then came a scene.
One swore he had ordered but a plain,
family meal, anu would not foot the soenor
mous a bill; the other vowed by each god
and goddess, that be had given a carte
blanche order and the paltry mess sent
him had forever destroyed his Custom-
House chance. Between the two, Del
rnonico is like to kill himself with his
own carving knife, and the story is all
over town. One version appears in a
city paper to declare that “pigs fee:/'
“codfish balls,” “baked beans,” and “pea
nuts” were set before Grant while the
citizen’s family feasted on kettle-drums
ala Cabinet, ham ala Wandering Jew,
pier’s head ala General-in-Chief, cabbage
a °la Washburne, Appomattox apples,
and a choice confection called Lait
d'amendes rubufice au sang du sud ,
which may he rudely rendered sugar
plums dripping wite the blood of the
South, all these choice dishes having
been excogitated in special honor ot the
little great man.
And speaking of that little great man
the chances are that he turns out to be as
colossal a humbug as ever sat in the
Chief Magistrate’s chair. It is reported
that he lately said that he had the dis.
turbed condition of the South aimos:
alone in view when he said “let us have
peace,” and now we have it that he
meaus immediately oa his inauguration to
reinstate those satraps whom Johnson
deposed. Terry is to lord it over V ir
ginia; Sheridan to be put over Lousiana;
Sickles to command the Carolinas, and
no doubt the fragrant creature Pope will
settle his hindquarters anew in Atlanta.
A pretty peace this will be, and yet that
such are Graut’s purposes seems hardly
to admit a doubt. To look for aid from
him is but to repeat the mortifying de
lusions that have been cherished in the
past. There is something farcical, if not
even indecent and disgusting, in the
South boasting her hopes of reinvigora
tion on the man who of all others helped
to lay her low, and for one I do not be
lieve that the great body of the Southern
people entertain any such unbecoming
aspirations. I believe they* know as well
as anybody can tell them that the welfare
of this country does not depend on the
good will of any one man whomsoever,
and in their hearts I fancy T they care as
little for Grant as they do for Julius
Caesar. All this stuff and trash about
his clemency—his clemency, as though
we were criminals who needed mercy in
stead of a wronged people who demand
justice!—is but the forerunner of an at
tempt to build up a Grant party to back
him, in his coming fight with Congress.
What have we to do with this quarrel be
tween the wolf and the bear. Let them
fight and gnash and tear each other to
their hearts contents; the more they do
it the better it w*iJl be for us. The
fighting will enfeeble them and if we re
main quietly to one side attending to our
own business and recuperating our ener
gies, the day will come when our inter
position will be desired and then we can
make our own terms. This trash about
Grant doing the South good is but a
party device, I repeat. The development
of her resources will do her more good
in a day than a bushel basket full of
Grants would in a year. He is but ODe
man and in a vast and complex organism
like this country any one man is but an
exceedingly small, small potatoe when
compared with several hundreds of mil
lions of dollars. A good crop this year
will lift the South forthwith out of the
depths and set her feet fast and firm upon
the moiiutain heights. One year ago
when a Southern man went into Wall
street they turned the cold shoulder on
him because they thought he wanted to
borrow money*. Now when he goes there
they are all smiles and complaisance be
cause they think he has something to
sell. These things underlie politics. It
is not the noisy brawler with his mouth
full of caucus and candidate that moulds
the destiny of governments, but the
quiet worker who makes the earth yield
her increase and the mine its spoil.
Wealth is the maxim of political economy,
comes ah originc from the land or the
sea; there is not a dollar but is, in the
first place, fished up out of the water, or
dug up out of the ground. This funda
mental principle is easy of explanation.
You go into a city, and you see here a
cotton factor, and there a dry goods mer
chant, and this man sells hardware and
the other man sells shoes. They ail
make money, but they make it by traffick
ing in things already produced, and not
by producing the things in which they
trade. Ask the cotton factor, and he
will tell you that the bales that crowd his
warehouse come from the plantations
round about; the merchant says this
linen came from the farmer who grew
flax, and these woolen goods from the
shepherd who raised sheep; the shoe man
sets his wares from the stock raiser; the
dealer in metals has not a pat or a pan in
his establishment that some other man
did not first dig up as ore, and smelt, and
cast. The jeweller has pearls, and the
grocer fish and oil, but where did they
both come from, if it was not - that the
pearl diver and fisherman drew them out
of the sea. 3la»ufactures but weave
and form what original producers supply
them, and mariners but carry from shore
to shore the crude or textile products of
other men. Run all business through,
and you find when you have got to the
ultimate aualysis, that the wealth you
see in all these varied forms came origi
nally direct from the land or the sea.
Now, then, iu this view is it not easy to see
what makes the basis of wealth? It is
normal production, and of normal produc
tion the South has, in some of the most
important items, an absolute monopoly.
What makes New England rich ? The
mills. And what do the mills manufac
ture ? Cotton. And where does the
cotton come from ? Exclusively from
Southern soil. And what makes the
North rich ? Commerce. And what
does the commerce transport ? Raw and
manufactured products. And where do
the raw and manufactured products come
from ? Mediately or immediately from
Southern soil.
Thus you see that when you reduce
the wealth of the United States to its
last analysis, it centres in Southern so n
And yet with this fact patent before 7."
with that bright, sunny land stretchier
broad and genial as the corner stone !
all this mighty power, we are to be told
are we, that our salvation depends on ’
mute adoration ot a five feet six that bur'
tons itself in a blue uniform and calls it"
self Grant! Be it known that wh
this shall have passed into eternity ar ;
the very name thereof be no more knov
in all the earth, there will yet grow 7
the Southern country that same soft siikv
snow-white fibre that now speckles tD
sea with ships like flocks of sea-bird,;
and makes the land roar and clang with
the din of great machinery.
A jest of yonr sprightly correspondent
from New Orleans is so excellent that [
have seen it repeated in some paper
here. He stated that a bill to impris.
vagrants had been introduced in that
scunvcalled the Louisiana Legislature brt
failed of passage as it was feared th ■
operation of such an act would lock r ,
so many of the learned body that it would
fail of its quorum. “V faith a bitin;
CestT Os apiece with it is a declara
tion in a fat volume, for the printi: r
whereof the good people of Louisiana
will no doubt be duly robbed, that comes
here from the same crook shin asset: -
blage to the effect that in the year past
there have been 1,234 “outrages” on the
loil. Os course the whole thing is mere
trash but then it is such remarkably
imaginative trash. The fellow had aj
the figures in the world to choose from
and only took the four most pitiful on* s
he could find 1,2, 3,4,. Why not have
taken the four last and sworn the V.
bels” had massacred the saints to th
tune of 7,890. Tyrone Powers.
O&fter)
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