THE ROMISH CHURCH AND THE VOTE FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
The Southern Catholic, of Memphis, the official organ of the Romish Church in the South contains an article which lays down the programme as follows:— “There are two very essential steps to be taken in order to win the next presidential race. It is scarcely necessary, I trust, to urge our fellow-Catholics to assemble everywhere around the Democratic colors; for they are all, by choice or necessity, external to the Republican party, and it is incredible to believe that any Catholic who has a modicum of self-respect and love for his church can co-operate with that party. If hitherto he has done so, the time is at hand to abandon an organization which is confessedly, and without longer disguise, at war with our holy religion.” A reporter comments on this paragraph as follows:— “The Southern Catholic has torn the mask from the face of the Romish Church, and made it stand forth in all its hideous deformity as a political body allied with the worst element of American politics. Such bold and defiant assertions as that the self-respect of the Roman Catholic American will not allow him to co-operate with the Republican party, and more, if he loves his church he cannot do so, seem a vile slander on many citizens. But be that as it may, the truth as to the Roman hierarchy in this country is out and undisguised, and its attitude known; and doubtless a free people, proud of their freedom and general intelligence, and understanding their duty, will not fail to perform it. Let the information here given reach every town and city and hamlet in the land. Let the people know that the Romish Church has risen up against their political power. And let every citizen who loves his country and its free institutions prepare to resist the influence of the Romish priesthood in their infamous attempt to interfere with the freedom of the suffrage of American citizens.”—Reporter, Windom, Minn.