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lALIMX SCHOOL OUESTlfll
Shall the State Surrender to tlieCliiirch?
DISCOURSE
By Rev. T. B. Gregory, in the Church of
THE Redeemer,
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HALIFAX, N. S.,
JamKS HijwEs & SON.S, PRI.VTElt.<, 142 HOI.LIS SrUEKT.
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'Ific H^»'if^^>^ gd)ool Question.
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SHALL THE STATE SURRENDER TO THE CHURCH ?
A few weeks ago the people of our city were treated
to a most extraordinary oommunicatioii from the leading
dignitary of the Catholic Cliurch in Nova Scotia. Had
a similar document been sent forth by a Protestant
clergyman the people would have called it a piece of
iinpardonable impudence " Who is he,'" they would
have said, "to be talking to us as though he was a little
god ?" The Archbishop's address suggested to us
Shakespeav's lines : ,
' Man, pioud .Man. dressed in a little brief anth(.rity.
Plays sncli fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep."
The Archbishop is out of place in this free land of
the "West. During the war between the States, a
chaplain, meeting a rather suspicious looking character,
asked him what army he belonged to ; " Grant's," was
the reply. " And what army do yoii belong to ?" asked
the soldier of the chaplain. " The army of the Lord,"
answered the chaplain. "Then," said the soldier, " You
are a mighty long way from Headquarters." I feel just
so about the Archbishop — that he's a mighty lono-
way from headquarters. The headquarters for all such
men as he is not in Halifax, but in Mexico, or Lima, or
Madrid, or liio Janeiro. We people with good old Saxon
blood in our veins, and good old Saxon ideas and princi-
ples in our heads and hearts, cannot appreciate such
utterances as the Archbishop's late address. It is either
above us or below us. At any rate, we cannot under-
stand it. r.>rhai.s if wo livod in Mexico, or IVru, or
ln>land, it would appear to us in another li^rht.
I!ut. taking the Archbishop's lulmination as it stands
m cold type, let us study it, to see just uhat it means.
I am not -oin- to discuss the te.-hnical phases of the
'jiu'st.on. Thesplendideditorial in the Mornin^r Chnndrl.
did that part of it to perfectin,,. so that, in that line
nothin- more need be said. f wish at this time to
take the question in its broader bearinirs. 1 wish to o-o
down to the root of the matter. Think not that the red
bone ot contention was the building of the Russell
>treet s.^hoolhouse. There is something back of that ;
and that something is this : Shall Halifax, shall \ova
Scotia, shall the AVorld, be ruled and governed by the
nv>l or the erdesias/im/ power !"
You will remember that the Archbishop had much to
say m his address about a certain som.-thin- that he
.•ailed the " Episcopa/ Corporationr \ow, that Kpiscopal
Corporation is nothing less than the Roman Catholh
Clun-rh. The light, then, is one between the Catholic
Uuirch and the civic authority of Halifax. l!v rcadii.-'
between the lines, one can see that in the Archbishop^
opinion the church, and not the civil authorities, should
rule. The Archbishop believes that he is the most
authoritative personage in the province of Xova Scotia,
and that to him belongs the right to dictate to the rest
ol us what we shall think, say and do Allow me to
prove to you that I am not speaking amiss. The Church—
I am talking now from the Archbishop's point of view-
the Church is an institution ordained and established of
Uod. Its priests are the duly elected custodians of
(-rod s laws, ihe duly appointed spokesmen of God's will
Uod has revealed to them what his laws are, and what
his will IS, and has invested them with the authority to
impose those laws and that will, on all men the world
over. Such is the theory that every Catholic is required
to accept. The Archbishop is a Catholic, a true one, we
will suppose, and therefore he accepts it. Then the
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Ar.hbi.shop believes that he, as the highest olhcial of
the Catholic Church in this province, is the one duly
authorized by Almighty Clod to lay down the law for
every other man, woman and child in the province. Th*.
Archbishop cannot deny this The moment he denies it
he ceases to be a good Catholic- For listen to what I
am about to say. Said Cardinal Manning : " "We
declare it to be necessary to salvation for every human
creature to be subject to the lioraan Pontitl"." Said
Bishop Uilmour, in 1S73 : "Nationalities must be sub-
ordinate to religion, and we must learn that we are
Catholics lirst, and citizens next. God is above man,
and the Church above the State." Pius IX. declared :
'The pope and the priests ought to have dominion over
the temporal affairs. The Romish Church and her
ecclesiastics have a right to immunity from civil law.
In case of conllict between et'clesiastical aiid civil power,
the ecclesiastical power ought to prevail." From the
Canon Law, existing in full force to-day, I take the
following extracts: "All human power is from evil,
and must therefore be under the pope. The pope has
the right to annul state laws, treaties, constitutions,
and to absolve from obedience thereto, so soon as they
seem detrimental to the rights of the Church, or those
of the clergy. The pope can release from every obliga-
tion, vow or oath, either before or after being made."
Puring a sermon delivered in New York, January 1st,
l^^ss, Vicar-General Preston said: " l':very word Leo
sp^'uks from his high chair is the voice of the Holv
Crhost, and must be obeyed. It is .said that polUioi is not
within the province of the Chu^'h, and that the Church
has only .jurisdi<'tiou in matters of faith. You say, 'I
will receive my faith fron. the pontitF, but I will not
receive mv politics from him.' This assertion is unloyal.
You must not think as you choose, you must think as
Catholics. The man who says, ' I will take my faith from
Peter, but I will not tak? my politics from Peter,' is not
a true Catholic." In his Encyclical Letter of the year
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1«8.,, Leo said: " All Catholics must make themselves
iet-asuetive elements m daily political life in eountries
where they live. All Catholics shouldexert their power
to cause the constitutions ofStates to be modelled on the
principles ol'the Church."
No more is ne.-essary. I hare proven, by their own
words, that the officials of the K'oman Catholi<- Church
believe it to be their ri^lit, and their d.l,, to rule Ihe
>ta/e, and to make the civil subordinate to the ecclesias-
tical power. Such is the spirit of that Episcopal IWpora-
tionxn whose name the Archbishop stood up to bullv
HUd browbeat the civil power of our good city. He was
s.mply eons.stent. As a true and loyal prelate of the
<- hurch he could not have spoken otherwise If he w-vs
arrogant, be it remembered that Rome is always
arrogant. If he spoke with a high and mi-htv
authority, let it be borne in mind that the Church of
which he IS a priest claims, and has ever claimed all
authority. And there was a time, as you all know,
whe she not only claimed but possessed the authoritv
^he vas supreme. And what was the result > Slic
spread out her Octopus arms until she had grasped about
all the earth. She attacked human reason, and with
lagot, thumbscrew, and rack, beat down all opposition
to her imperial will, (h-own fat and sensual upon the
spoils wrung from the people, her priests committed
•M-ery crime, and were, by laws ol their own makino-
shielded iroin the .just punishment of their iniquitoi^s
ii\ es. Had the K'elbrmation held back much loirnvr the
Miman race would have perished in its own rottenness
in the words of Castelar, the great liepublican ol'
-Madrid. -'It th.' human intellect had completely sub-
mitted to the I'ope, Europe would have been to-day a
stag^nant empire, Asiatic in its character-an e.-clesias-
li.-a tyranny, with its Grand Luma in the Internal City "
Listen to that word again-ecclesiastical tyra,nn,
Did you read the Archbishop's address to us '. Did you
read it cardully > Dij j-^u observe how absolute it was.
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a> though it was Jupiter, thuudt'riug tVoin high
Olyini^us, or Jehovah, proelaiuiiiig hi-* word Ironi the
tin-It' of Iht' earth to us poor grasshoppers heh)\v !
•' 1 am Sir Oriu-le ;
And wlu'ii I i>pf my iiiDiith
Let 111) tli)K hark."
Ah me ! it would be a had day lor us poor dogs if the
( traele had the power he desired I 11' it was not lor the
stronu!' arm oi' the civil law, whit-h our Aaglo-Saxou
vat-e has reared I'or the protection ol' human rights, there
would he lit) living where the Church is, unless one
would consent to live as she ordered What do you sup-
l>ose the Archbishop would do to the members ot our
Scliool Board, and all such wretched heretics as mysell',
and to all others who did not kiss his hand, 1 say, what
do you suppose he would do to us, provided he had the
power :* I tell you what he would do. lie would crush
us, and sweep us away like so miach vermin ! liut is
the Ari:hbishop so bad a man ^ you ask. I did not say
that he was a bad man. I do not say it now. But this
I do say, that the System to which lie has sworir
allegiance is n had iii/slum ; and so far as the means wi'l
enable him, he must be true to that System, or be a b;.d
Catholic. But let me show y^ou the System, in the
words of its own leaders, liemember, that what I am
about to give you is not my own language, but that of
Topes, Cardiuals, Bishops, Priests and Editors, in full
fellowship with the Church. I begin with the Syllabus
of IMus IX of the year '(34 : " The Church has the right
to retjuire the State //ot to leave every man free to profess
his own religion." lUit suppose the State won't listen
to such requirements ? Then, " the Church has the
right to exercise her power without the permission of
the State." But to exercise her power to what end ?
AVhy, to the suppression of all free opinion. Pope Pius
IX, in his I'^ncyclical Letter of August, ';')4, said : " The
iih^i/rd and (■/•ro/ieo/is doctrines in defence of liberty of
ct>iisviencc are a most pestilential error — a pest of all
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others inosi to 1„. dn'a.l.'d in ;i st.it.- " Tl,
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•■I "a against ail who would „ol lall i,„„ ],„„
J>^t ,m. «,y hen., that our „„lv salva(i„„ is i„ sln,,,l-
'"S l.nnly by ,ho ,.ivil law. I, the ,„,.,„l„.;: :n",'.
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llalil-.x S.houl |;,);ir(l ar." h.T.> I(.-iiiirlit, 1 would iinplon!
'li'Mii to St 111(1 lirmly by th.' .ivil pow.-r. If you want
y(.ur riiy to n'Miaiii th.' Ik.iii.- of fr.'.'doiii, vou nuist not
<Iu. k your li.-ad to th,. aL-vm o|' an Italian priest who
ii"v.r >aw \our city, who careN for you ouly in so far as
li'' may iiidur.- you to iriv,. him your du.ats. and who
lo\.s yr.u with so t.'iuh'r a lovf that, tht" moans p.-rmit-
tii!-, hr Would most sptH'dily and tdloctually burn vou
at th." stak.'! Iletwo.-n th.' " l^pis.-opal Corporation. "
with its h.'ad.juart.'rs in liom.', and th« ;r„od ,,1,1 Aii-lo-
Sa\,.ii lil„'rty of Halifax. I niak.' my ,-hoif.' in a inoinHnt.
1 i.ik." liberty, now and forever! With the iiis.itution
tlial tells me. to my te.'th, lliat honest free thoui^ht is a
'■i-,iiie, like th.-lt, adultery or murder; that it oui^ht to b«^
punished lik.' su.h crimes, and that, if it had the power,
it /'v.///./pi-nish it; I say. with su.h institution I want
iiothin-r to do. I can sit down in the spirit of brotherly
love by the side of any man or institution that is will-
in-' to observ." with me th,' Gold.'ii K'ule, and show a
willm.jn.'ss to grant me the same charity that it asks for
Us, -If; but when an institution wont anT.'e not to meddle
with me, if 1 will airr,.,- not to meddle with it ; when it
-om.'s alt.M- m.' like a wild beast, to tear m.' to pi,',-es
unl.'ss 1 will <.•„ its way and do its biddini.-, th.'r,' is
iK'thino- for nu' to do. if 1 have any manhood, but t.)
•i"''l;nv wiir an-ainst that institution, and lii-ht it to the
bitter ,■11(1, 1,'t the result be what it may
111 Comiim' now to the .'oiisideration of th.' School
■<,>ucsii,Hi, proper, I lay down t he followino- propositions,
which I beli.'v,- to 1),' sound: T/ir rhihircn „f thr S/>,/r
^hnithl br ,'.h,r„tnl hfl Ihr >--V.VVK : (U. I lilt; f'<hlnllinH shmild be
<in'ci!ii sK('ri-\i; mnl ..d.v-si^ctaui vN.
Let us take the non-se.'tariau idea hrst. The State is
made up of many men of many minds, and the money of
ihoscin.any men of many minds <.-oes, in the shai)e" of
taxation, into the common treasury, to be employed for
a common purpose; and to take that money and devote
It to partizau or sectarian ends is a nnutilest hrrarli of irnwl
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("■'th. h is f
"avDi-itisiii of the .1
in any case, f,uf especially da.MMal.l
eepestdye; a l.a,| eiiuii..!, tlj
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Let
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'"Wealth to fe,.| that
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part of the State,
partizan and non-sectarian.
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y rnenilter of the C
is so clear, and so
'■oMir ha-s been <h,ne niin. Tl
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inent is nnnpcessary. Let
nianifestly f.ijr and
■Sfctaiian school
-•wh
or t.j.se,
all the children att
IS point
just, that further coni-
ere
put tl
it tl.
ose who would 1
t'lid these I
ion-
^^^r hands into their pockets and
eir own private funds. Let
''ills out of th
"Millions for the pul.lic schools' 1
in- of any hide-bound .shibboleth
lave tfiein -o
pay the
your word be,
'ut not apennyfortheteach-
'iut take the otl
ler
l.e &.„/,„. It i. ," ',■ ,f"l"**i''"'>. that E,l„catio„ »l,„„l,|
a ...u. that I wu„l,| „,e the ,v,„,l t„. ,i., , v ' , h'""
that education shnni I i > '^ ^" ^ "^^y' "^''^n,
a» n,ea„i„ . "' , 'T r;"'"'; "■^",' ' «"-''' '« "'uler.sc,„„,
»houl,l b, t„ « an " ' "' ""'' »"" "'■ "''■<^""""
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au-^nTe'cS-i;;,":'"^- '"-■-:■ ■^■"" """ '"^ ■'■■'"^- '
an,l its ™le I u °e, i, „77 °'''r"" °'' "'"■ "^ '^"»""-.
».|ual„,.a„, i,, 'i,'\ "■ '"',""'" '"■- '■■■'"" i^-noranoe an,l
the future.' ' ''"'^'"■'' ^^^^-^^'tm^r it ]„
inp;;sn!:u'::;ti:::i'-''''^''''''^'r- ^^-^ ^ --i'' -y,
pre one ^j " '"^" ^ ''"^"^^ '^ very y/o..vV./../ business ;t
Pesenc. Let ,.o ,ne you a few fa^ts, drawn f.oui .Hicial
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ti^'ureH. Take the city ot" Rome, the head and centre of tlie
Church, tlie very heart of the great Episcopal Corporation,
where, if any where, one might expect to Hnd the cleanest
record — take Rome, I say, and compare it with other European
capitals as regards crime. For every 100 legitimate hirths,
there are illoijitimate, in London, 4 ; in Brussels, 9 ; in Paris
4S ; in Rome, 14.'}. In the year IcSTO there were born in Rome
4,.37cS children, and 3,1(53 of these were horn out of wedlock I
The statistics corresponding 1 3 the latter years of the Ponti-
fical rule show that there was committed one murder in
England for every 1<S7,000 inhabitants; in Holland, one for
every 1()8,000 ; In Russia, one for every 100,000; in Austria,
one for every 4,113 ; in Naples one for evory 2,750 ; and in the
Estate of the Pope, one for every 7.")()! Strange, that the
moral atuio.^phere shoidd be found growing fouler and fouler
the nearer we approach the dwelling place of the Vicar of
(lod ! But such is the fact, and it cannot be rubbed out. Holy
Church has within her pale thousands of as grand men and
women as are to t)e found on earth : but at the same time She
gives to the world far more than her natural share of criminals
which ought not to be, if there is the virtue in her Sacraments
which She claims there is. All over the world you will find
more wrong-ihjing in the Church, according to population , than
you will Hnd outside of it. Take the official figures for our
own city of Halifax, for the municipal year '91-92, and they
run as follows :
Criuies committed by —
Universal ists S
Salvationists 4
Lutherans iS
Methodists (il
Presi)yterians (5>S
Baptists S2
Church of England 2>S4
R(iman Catholic 743
Take tilt! combined crimes of all the Sects, aniountinir to .'i35
an ! nd.l to tlieni the crimes of the 100 Sinners who professed
no rc.igion, giving a total of G3.j, and Holy Church still leads
-*'9-m *»*'iiim.
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them all I.ylOsl.lack marks: Holy Church Mitl
the population of the city furni.!
half of the Sinners in the city
But to return from this d
le avowed aim „f the Church
> a third of
es considerably more than
tl
isj,'ression. I
was saviiior that
for the world to
co(i)e; w
hi!
IS to make saints and
le it should he the onl
education to make good n.en and women for th
anoej.s,
f
now IS
U
ly aim o
e world that
stronir. \V
and independent. VV
his tor
yrand
e want to teach the children how to l.e well
e want to teach them how to he self-snpporti
and
ni'
y, science, art. W
e want to instruct them in the truths of
er .science, a still nohl
e want to teach them, furth
womanhood, the art of aetti
er art, the science of
de,?radincr their truth and 1
nfr through the
er, a still
manhood and
wori(
lonor. And when we 1
witl
lOUt
f]-,„. , I , -""" vvuen We lave i onp
ton ue need is the education that will ludn „• « i
not l,:.- i„„ „.l ' '" "lornin^.. ,„■ tliere may
a, tins ,,a.>.„t l,fc ,.„,, wi.at wo „„„t ,„ ,|., ,„„. ^ ' ;'^:
tDeie ]., nr ;s not, Hiivrliinr l,ev,,nd Tl • ,■
:;;t:::;:::;:;::-:r;;;,:;:ir;s: i
them since their death (..1 i ., , "^ ^'"•" '' ''^^^ h'-'l for
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schools literally ruin tbu human mind. They take the vouii"
child, when it is wax to receive and inarljle t() retain, inoculate
it with certain ideas, and presently the child is a slave, with
no more mind, in the true sense of the word, than a post The
dawuin^f reason in the little one's soid is stamped out so soon
as it makes the first appearance, and the pupil i.s taught not
to think, but simply to listen and repeat. The Chinese
woman's foot is nut a foot — it is a caricature of a foot : and
the mind that is turned out by the purely Parochial School is
not a mind, but simply a caricature of a mind. The child,
under right conditions, miofht become a thinker and reasoner ;
but under priestly control it remains to its dying day, a parrot
Not only so, but the younfj mind, under parochial tutelage, is
poisoned and corrupted. Let me explain myself. In the first
place, then, the Church is the sworn enemy of free in^estioa-
tion. She will permit no questions to be put to her. Her
wonl to her children is, " Listen, and be silent." And while
they are listening, her teachers fill them full of the truth that
is half a lie. She gives them garbled History, garbled
Science, garbled Morality. They must know things, not as
they are, hut as they have been colored and distorted by the
priests. The Vicars of Cod have never yet he.sitdted to lie
whenever it was necessary for them to do so. Everybody who
knows anything at all of the initial conflict between the
Church and the Reformers is acquainted with that accursed
word Casuisthv. And what was Casuistry ? It was, in plain
language, a deliberately planned and highly elaborated science
of lying. As Sir Henry Maine put it, " they went on with
their dex'terous refinements till they ended in so attenuatino-
the moral features of actions, and so belying the moral instincts
of our being, that at length the conscience of mankind rose
suddenly in revolt against them, ami consigned to one common
ruin the system and its doctors." The blow was struck by
Blaise Pascal, in the celebrated " Provincial Letters." Cood
Catholic as he was, Pascal could not endure such depravity
and like a mighty David, he slung at it the stone that killed
it. But no, lam wrong, he did not kill it; it came to
life again ; and its spikit exists to-dav ik every Parochial
School in the laxd; which spirit, unless its infiuence is
in some way counteracted, will poison the children's minds
u
beyon.l all hofx- of re.Iemption. Truth, in or.ler to be truth
mi.t be son-sectanan. The minute a man set. out to preach
or teach a Sectarian truth, that min.te he begins to pucker i
mouth tor a he When the priests of Mas^achuseL a f "
years ago, ra.se-l a storm against a certain public .school book
because ,t conta.ne.I a full account of ol,l Tetzel and ht
Indulgences .t .,howe.l, plainly enough, that the priests did not
nan the book to Ml the truth. In other words they want d
the , ,, eell the children a falsehood. Thus' yol ly I
^^hat I mean by .saymg that the Church teacher^ poison and
corrupt t e .nind. They will do it every tin.e unle' y a"
prevented by better influences. ^
No wonder, then that about every CathoUc country but
one has declared against the Parochial Education. Even the
poor old repubhcs of South An.erica, Ecuador alone e.xcepted
have estabhshed the Public School System, and have, a most
o :7"^",!7r' V"*^^^ '■" "P°" ^^^— -»J« a chid
Clth h"7 f f "' , ''"''' ''P^'"' ^"^^'- -^' the other
CaU.he^lands have also, of late, repudiated the priestly
ilhte acy m .sixteen nations, eight of them, until of late
hav.ng been under Priestly training, and eight under the free
"on-sectar,an Public School Systen. T^e percenta J of
illiteracy, then, is as follows : °
Venezuela
Austria-Hungary .....'.* 09
France _
P)razil \ ^^
Spain '^*
Portugal ^^
Belgium ;;;; ^2
it«'y :::::::::: tl
^o^v for the ,>ther eight nations to complete the pictures-
> ictoria !^
Sweden ^^^
Switzerland . '^^
Netherlands '.'.'.'.['.'.'. ia-o
Germany _ -^'^^
J)enniark f^
Great Britain '.[ ,,;^,.
^-'-' states :::::::::::::::::":4^
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Thf average petcentatfe of illiteracy in tlie one group is
nOMl, or over lialf the population ; while in the other it is hut
a little over 4 per cent. In other words, the illiteracy of the
first group is over 14 times that of the second '.
The most stunning demonstration of the hoUowness of the
].rit-.tly education is afforded in a hit of information fioui the
hooks of the State of Massachusetts. In that State, in the
\car LS75, there; were 100,000 people who were illiterate.
Xinitij-ft)ui' t]un\^Aiu\ of them were foreiyn horn, and .-iixt"-
seven t/iuumind uf thevi came from Ireland ! Poor old priest-
ridden Ireland '. What a rec(jrd that is to be set down a<rainst
lier! Ireland wants Home Rule, hut if .she had .sense enout^h
to throw those priests overhoard she might grt aloii" well
enough without Home Rule. Poor old Ireland : How n)uch
wiser and happier she would he, had Saint Patiick only driven
out the Jesuits along with the snakes !
WfU, tliis great tight must go on till the riglit wins.
Medievalism must not rule these closing years of the Nine-
teenth Century. We must not lie dictated to by any Italian
Jesuit, or hy any agent of his. We want fair play, and
plenty of it. We want freedom, the good old freedom that
leaves a man subject only to the laws of the State and the
deliverances of his own conscience and reason. (Jo on, then,
gentlemen of the School Board \ Build your school house '.
And when you have builded it, elect your own teachers; elect
them to teach neither Catholicism nor Protestantism, but the
plain non-sectarian truth : And when you have done that,
and opened your school house doors for the children t ) come
in, if .solnebody refuses to let them enter, then let that person,
out of his own money, provide such place as he would like.
i'es, the tight must go on— not, however, between friends
and neighbors. Catholic and Protestant, who at heart love
each other and should continue to love each other— but
between all friends of liberty and truth, Catholic (o;./ Protest-
ant, and the agents of the proud and haughty Corporation
which would beat an.l bully u.s into abject submission to its
would be almighty will : Long ago, in speaking of the good old
birthright that Englishmen held dear the great Lord Chatham,
from his place in Parliment said : " Every man's hou,se i.s
caMi'd his castle VVhv ? H
-lefonded by a wall ? No ' 17^'^^' h' '" f""""^-' ''>' « "..,ar, or
may whittle through it ; the r^/nl ' ■^'r^;'^"''* ^^^^ : the wind .
a^'ain.stall Congresses and PaHi! " '"'' ''^"■■'' "^"'-^''^
Kings. And ^hlll I think ess ""'^' ^'^ ^^^'^''^-^'^ «-'
Wbiiel say. even to ^ ^^'Z^^tT'' "'^ '''' '^'^ ^
across n,y threshold," shall I s„Ln i ^ "^^ ^hy foot
priest anu permit him to do w th it' T,'"'' T' '"""'•>' '^^'^-V
nn-serable thought from ,ne % '' '^*^ f ^«'^^« ^ ^ar he the
down fron. his tripod, deliver up STT ''' """''' ^^ ^^'^P
30.'. I never played a ^anj oTT, '^"' """'^ '^^^
t^elieve there is a pokef te'm kn " '"^ ^^^^ ^ ''"^ ^
whatisbluffin,.^ VVellTt s " T'' T " ^^'"^'"fe'" And
P'a3ingforbig;stakes nd ; ::trf "'^ ?'"' ^''^" «-
«nd you are gone, unl s.s you an 1« .t '"'^'''^ P^'"'' '-'"^
So, notwithstanding your'lrbircL^^^ '''-'' '^«-
»'et b,g, as though you had a crack ha,! l^^" ''' "'^ '^"•'
afraid to come to time and th. Tl- ' '''' "^ '^'"'^ '^'^
excommunication at yol he ."IplVu^l?"?'^ hurls his
•nake you believe that he holds fouV' T J " ^'■^''"^ ^''
b-n't as much a.sa pair of de ces hIi, " '" "^''^•^' ''^
season and he will cave in Hold vn ■''""' ^'■°""^' ^'^'' ^
up for the State against the c" eh' fo: T""''' ^'^"^ ''^^""
c. aft, and for liberty against all the wor^"^^" ^=^'"^^ ^"^^