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Show A LAT CATHOLIC SPEAKS, Salt Lake Cirr, July 31, 1871. ! Editors Hercdd: 1 Noticing in the columns of your con-: temporary, the Tribuue, the uncalled j for notoriety into which certain politi-i cal demagogues have seen fit to drag j the namo "Irish Catholic" before the, public, I would beg through the col-1 umns of your over rational, aud truly! honest and popular journal, to enter . my protest, authoritatively, against being represented by any self-constitu-1 ted committee of one in any connection 1 whatever, much less politically. And, while repudiating tho disgusting harangue har-angue and its author, as far from being be-ing the expression of sentiments entertained en-tertained by myself and colleagues on tho question at issuo, as given expression expres-sion to at tho so-called Liberal convention conven-tion held in this city on the 22nd inst.; ; he would also request Mr. Kelsey to 1 state, when, how and by whom, have the ! "Irish Catholics of Utah," tried to en- graft themselves into "his Liberal par-1 ty?" This most illiberal and gratuit- oua assertion, being as uncharitable as it is untruthful can be no other than the emanation of a brain jaundiced by j the most intolerant bigotry. While admitting that individual ! Catholics may have coalesced with the : party, and others styling themselves' such, have done the same, is it just or fair that the entire community of Catholics should be so stigmatized before be-fore the public, beoause of the acts of individuala of questionable standing in that church? Mr. K. may rest assured that he will never be troubled to "get rid of the Irish Cathoiio element" in hia party, as no intelligent, praotical Cathoiio would for one moment entertain the thought of affiliating with a party: where such intolerent zealots zeal-ots and rabid dissentioniats are permitted per-mitted to hold forth, and where, as already declared by the oil and water elements that compose the antagonistic wings of the party, "No Mormon must be admitted, and the Irish Catholios must be got rid of." Would it tot be wisdom in those frothy champions of Uberalism(?) tohavestayedjthe outpour-iugs outpour-iugs of their wrath, until the genuine article in either case sought and obtained ob-tained admission, and not make such a display of their animus over the mon-grol mon-grol elements of both parties, Mormon and Cathoiio, who constitute a portion of this liberal (?) body politic, and whom, it is safe to assert, judging from the facta before us, would kick up a rebellion in heaven if they only had twenty-four hours opportunity to do so. The teachings of theCatholio Church being charity in the broadest aud most liberal sense, as its very name implies, towards all men, the faithful and practical prac-tical Cathoiio can never be found vilifying, vilify-ing, abusing and denouncing the members of any sect because of their religous belief, no matter of what denomination de-nomination it uxay be; thcrfore it should bo understood that, as a body, they are no more capablo of comroiiug the indiscretions of an individual claiming claim-ing to be of them, aud perhaps trying (blindly though it be) to use it as a means of advancing his political designs, de-signs, than they can be of curbing the intolerant bigotry of the individual who finding the Mormon citadel too for-midable for-midable for his puny attacks, imagines (he can better gratify his thirst for conquest, con-quest, by leveling his pop-guns of gall and vinegar at Catholicity. Such men would hold tbc entire Christian community of Catholics .c-; .c-; countable for the acts of scheming pol-: pol-: itieisns, and debased city mobs, over whom ihe church holds no i control, from the fat tbat ; they hold uo connection therewith : sav.e in name; preferiug, liko the mal-'. mal-'. contents of Utah, the absolutism of their otfn vicious disposiuouii, to the restraint of tiw moral teachings of any ' church. Why not place all tuch where the? ' properly belong, and not, as ihe 1'ri-iutu 1'ri-iutu is nuw doing, a6 well by itself as its conesJXMideuii. foisting them in the Uliiliee of then' illibeial noa:'t, on to the CatholL church, while they veil kuow their proper pI-J i.o be amoug ,the socialistic busts that furiiiahid tLs materid.of the Yandai Communists oi' France, the murderous and blood-, blood-, thirsty rioters or NewYoik, and the ' disiemtunists of this chy. A Lay Catholic, For self and many others, i |