Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — WRITES AS HE THINKS. [ARTICLE]

WRITES AS HE THINKS.

Gen. Rosecrans Has a Word to Say About the Flumed Fraud. Alleging that He Denied His First Religion for Political Greed. Washington, D. C., Sept 24. Rev. Dear Father: I never have found much reason to trust * man who openly denies the religion in which he was educated. Among the actions upon which our religion lays maledictions are the denial of our Lord and making and loving lies. That Mr. Blaine was brought up by a Catholic mother is well known, and equally well known is it that he has formally denied the Catholic faith and gotten a certificate of his membership of a Congregationalist church from its pastor. While at Augusta, Me, during the latter part of last month, a weekly newspaper of that city—Plaisted, exGovernor, and Morton, proprietors—in a then current number, published evidence given under oath by witnesses highly considered for intelligence, conscientiousness, and integrity, proving beyond reasonable question, that in 1875, while Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, James G. Blaine —now Republican nominee for the Presidencycaused to be printed and secretly circulated where it was expected to do the most good to that party, a circular addressed “to Protestant Democrats" of Maine, and signed “Protestant Democrat,” and known as “the Madigan circular," in which he appeals to them and the people of Maine generally against “the machinations” of the Catholic hierarchy, and the “secret society of Jesuits" as “planning to secure political power through Congress for the destruction of our system of common schools,” and thus depriving the poor of their only means of education. The circular states that “already they have four United States Senators,” * * ♦ one of whom “was elected by the use of SIOO,OOO of Jesuit money,” and that when there was a threat of Investigation “he resigned rather than nsk an exposure of the secrets of his order.” [The circular said he was a "lay member of the secret society of Jesuits.’! Whether he far over-estimated the dense Ignorance and credulity of those whom the gigantic falsehoods of this circular were designed to dupe is uncertain, but there can be no doubt of the devilishness of its appeal to religious bigotry and fanaticism to secure a miserable party advantage for those who twenty years before had made a vile invgptment in Know-Nothingism for a similar purpose. Every statement in that circular is a falsehood, directly or by implication. These facts ought to be known to every citizen, whose duty requires him to vote for President of the United States at the approaching election. They are bound to vote according to the law and the best of their judgment and conscience for the common good of the whole country. It is a matter of conscience above all things to choose an honest Executive. Does any one doubt what the stockholders of any corporation would think of any director who should vote to elect as President of the company a man proven to have been engaged in circulating mean and dastardly calumnies to impose upon the ignor-' ant, the credulous, and the unwary for his own credit or advantage? But the voter is one of the trustees of the great corporation known as the United States of America, and votes as such when voting for a President of this great corporation. By the greatness of the interests involved, he is proportionately bound to take care that he chooses for President a man whose antecedents assure every one he is trustworthy. Can any one not given over to believe a lie trust a man who got up and clandestinely circulated the Madigan circular? The inclosed editorial, clipped from the Washington Post of this morning, shows how Blaine’s Kennebec Journal talked of Archbishop Hughes in the days of that great and patriotic citizen’s lifetime. When you are told that our President Lincoln got him to go to Europe and exert his influence and intellect to make known in high quarters the real issues of our war for the Union, you will conclude with me that such denunciation of this great Union citizen pnts anotherfeather in the cap of this Plumed Knight d' Industrie, pecuniary and political, and discredits him as an aspirant of any office of trust, much less for the Presidency of this great and free Republic. Knowing the circumstances wljich regulred you to present that gold-headed cane to Mr. Blaine, but not knowing your views as a voter, I write as I think, and remain very truly yours,

W. S. ROSECRANS.

To Rev. J. 8. Early, Highland Falls, N. Y.