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OR, TRUE AMERICANS’ MANUAL. 55
friend will see to it,’ he replied, putting his
hand on the shoulder of the good young
clergyman, whose face attested: the excel-.
lence of his heart. The cld sexton, how-
ever, performed the same service for his
schoolmate that he lad for his children;
and now, if he could stretch out. his aris,
he might embrace both his darlings,
SENATOR WHITNEY ON THE
_ POPES ANATIUIMA,
Tue Honorante Tuomas RR, Witney, a
well-tried and ever faithful champion of the
American cause, during the delivery of his
able speech on the Church Property Bill,
made use of the following powerful language
in reference to the Pope’s excommunica-
tion of the Catholic Church Trustees at
Buffalo. After representing the effects of
the influence of our free-school system and
free institutions upon the more intelligent
Catholics, the Honorable Senator said :-—
“They grow. restive and uneasy,’ un-
der the dictation of ecclesiastical. tyran-
hy; they resist its despotic edicts, they
assert their rights as men, as freemen, and
throw themselves as in the case of the con-
gregation at Buffalo, upon the protection
of our laws. Rome, horror-struck at this
audacious vindication of-an inborn. right,
cries treason—think of that—treason to
Rome from citizens of a free State, in the
City of Buffalo! Yes, sir, these citizens of
the State of New. York are) pronounced
rebels against the sovereignty of Rome!
and a Vice king is sent here armed with the
awful thunders of the, Vatican ‘to bring
them to subjection! They are anathema-
tized, excominunicated—the papal curse is
hurled upon thein—they are declared to be
abandoned of God and despised of men—
the gates of heaven are eternally closed
against them, and the yawning gulf of
eternal fires is opened to receive them !
Now, sir, to ows view, in this nation of
Roger Williams heretics, all this fulmination
is simply ridiculous, and I allude to it only
to show the aims of the Church, the tenacity
with which she clings to the old artillery
practice of her Gregories, and her Leos, and
her unalterable and invariable application
ofthe iron rule. The ban of excommunica-
tion in the city of Buffalo is a senseless, Un-
meaning formula; the anathema is absorbed
like a noisome vapor in the free atmosphere
of Lake Erie, and the deep withering curse,
which like the hot breath of the gimoom,
has ere now blasted where it fell, melting
crowns, scepters, dynasties in one common
ruin, drops powerless before its mark, and
dies in its own vindictive writhings.
Not a member of the Church of St. Louis
at Buffalo has been scathed by ft. Not one
has lost a particle of the good esteem of the
community in which he resides, by this
obsolete procedure—this relic of supersti-
tious ignorance tnd ecclesiastical bigotry,
Not one of them feels that his chances
of eternal salvation have been lessened
thereby, or that the anathema of the Pope
can affect him to the value of a straw. So
much for the influence of liberty, and
intelligence, under. our free /rotestant
institutions; so much for the power of the
State where te people are sovereigns.”
IE VOrED FOR It.
We heard an American incchanic come
plaining:the other day, because, being out
of work, he had applied for, but’ had. been
refused, the office of policeman in his Ward,
where the police are mostly Irish Catholics,
This foolish man has been voting for an in-
discriminate and overwhelming emigration,
for many years—he has been voting for the
competition of imported cheap laborers, for
many years—he has been voting for the
low wages which that ruinous competition _
must produce—he has been voting for an
Irish Catholic police force, ever since he
has been voting at all; and now that he has
obtained everything that he has been voting
for, the foolish man complains /
There: are thousands of just such simple
men in this great metropolis, as well as in
other cities, who will vole the ‘regular
ticket,” if they starve for it, and their fami-
lies with them.
Men (?) will see their sisters and their
daughters driven to zcalk the strects for a
shameful living, but they will vote for the
foreign competition that drove their sisters
or their daughters “upon the town.’”” They
vote for cheap wages. They vote for a
crowded labor market. They vote for the
influx of cheap laborers from Europe, that
must drive their sisters and daughters ton
life of shame. They vote for foreigners to
{il the offices, and then complain ! There is
a species of idiocy about this elinplicity
that puts a man to the blush, who has apy
pride in the intelligence of his kind.
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