The Carmelite Review, Vol. 3
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Excerpt from The Carmelite Review, Vol. 3: A Monthly Catholic Magazine Devoted to Our Blessed Lady of Mount Carmel James A. McMaster´s Love Of His Country. An Upholder Of The Federal Constitution. - An Unionist and Douglas-Democrat. - The Freeman´s Journal Attacks More Violently The Extreme Democratic Bolters Than Republican Principles. - Firing On The Flag Denounced As Traitors. - McMaster´s Loyalty To The Integrity Of The Union. - His Arrest And Imprisonment. James A. McMaster was an upholder of the federal constitution. If anyone should ask us "What has Mr. McMaster done for the upholding of the federal Constitution." We answer: To uphold the constitution Mr. McMaster combatted for the reform of the ballot box, for Christian education and religious liberty. "Our ancestors, who imbibed principles of civil and religious liberty, fled to America to escape persecution: and when Britain attempted to encroach upon the free exercise of those principles, our fathers hesitated not to dissolve their oaths of allegiance to the mother country, and declare themselves free and independent: and exulting millions of freemen yet bless their memories for the deed. A new theory of government was reduced to practice in the formation of the American republic. It involved in its structure principles of equal rights and equal privileges, and was based on the eternal foundation of public good. It protects the weak, restrains the powerful, and extends its honors and emoluments to the meritorious of every condition." It was the pride of Mr. McMaster to labor to preserve this noble structure in all its beautiful symmetry and proportion. Hence in politics Mr. McMaster was from the beginning independent of everything except of the American federal constitution. No party nor political leader ever dictated to him a single word that he ever uttered. When Bishop Grace was appointed to the See of St. Paul he gave out, in his first pastoral, words of gold. He advised all Catholics to be slaves to no party, but while faithful to the laws and traditions of the Revolutionary Fathers, to guard the purity of their vote, that highest privilege of an American citizen, as a woman should guard her virtue. "Acknowledge vassalage to no party." "Never consent to sacrifice or sink right in the interest of any political organization." "Hold your right of suffrage as a something sacred to be exercised conscientiously for the common good - for the good of the country." As the civil rulers in the United States are elected by the people, every citizen should vote for such a candidate as, for good reasons, he believes will conscientiously keep up and protect justice, peace, property, virtue and religion, and punish injustice, all violation of right, all wrongs caused to citizens, not only in their temporal goods, but also in those of their souls, by public scandals, by the corruption of mind, heart, principles, and morals. Hence it is not right for a Catholic not to vote in the elections of presidents, governors and other civil magistrates. "If Catholics are idle in such public affairs," says Leo XIII, "the reins of power will easily be gained by persons whose opinions can surely afford little prospect of welfare. Hence, Catholics have just reason to enter into political life: for they do not enter it, nor ought they to enter it, for the purpose of sanctioning what, in our times, is vicious in the character of public affairs: but for the purpose of turning this very character as far as possible into honest and genuine public profit, having in mind the purpose of introducing the wholesome life-blood of Catholic wisdom and virtue in to the whole system of the State. The action of Catholics in the first ages was not different from th
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