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POPERY AND OUR FEES INOTITII
TIONS.
AY PROFXOSOS JACOUVR,
•Of Mc. Western neologiug„ &mina
,A very large and Ditelligent audience mama •
bled in'hlssortic Halt, on Tueeday' creating. to
, .
• - listen to an address which was deliver'ed by
. • tensor. J.C . .ICUS, of that Western TheiptogrealEi S i
minor", on ••POpery and our Institidiont!
..„. The Rev. Dr, Dutton announced - thicthe
Meeting would be 'aliened trith. prayerlithe
' Rev. Hum J. Cianx, D. D., of thelidathodist
•Episcopal Church. ' .4 , •
' Dr. liftman then 'mid th P eider Winos,
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who would addrus th tnyettiug, had re
cently returned from through Europe,
.„. • where.he had enjoyid , opportunities of
acquiring informarieig relattire , :to the important
enhjectentehich he was about to lecture, es be
ytrited.ltatnan Catholic countries, bud nun
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.4, k . ...thettnehticed !erokkings• or that syetein of reli•
• - gipu.lrovements.,, The revereindgen..
tieutatttAinirielnt:uof*rofesfartiiiidrffa lathe
' - A t te nottillsW Pridadantootintor , liOt Our
in '
• eleuidooncouttlefOrtiethiNglitatid speech
•.' night, 'a I,oon - of - Pretestant-tibertY,' such or
„ -> tall! Papal •worlif - knowemothlrig at . Can any. ;
roplibuy,of the Archldshoplitialidatethelaer;.!
- - - thatirwaeere met within thtilmaidedStiiVii*
the`Chittuti - this assembly witald' bibrolies Is' .
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. tupon hint' armed pence; and 'Aden natiourniti,;;
"t• . l olo,conitillstion. in giaranteelhe to tut thatten.R.
ti te"idedtellif civil, right, mate ad and open Pro":?
• "t' ifi, - tek# , fist the whole polityientetaef-.
preen has, too, latelicled for no
null of the more open strocitiCit or Papal En •
ntettld pain your feelings by re-ital,
. . whit* hursitist came to hand, of a summary:
.ejection fromilimgary of Prnestant Scotch - min,
inters, to all whose remoisitrance the otity'veply
• woo, "There le nothing against , you but the en
- - wily of the civil .governee-who is a Romanist
and pupil of the Jesuits " are protill to think
that in their report of so much suffering. they.,
proclaim the fact that the American - Minister, at
Vienna gave them every lasful'aisistatiee, lend
nobly pat bin:Unrso at their disposal. Pretest.
ant Americans, wherever in the _world their...ore,
must be the,patrons of liberty.
It testriffsladtly startling that. hi the hrfned and'
•aptal day of such doings, thu Papal functions
, rice in thin country, with evident 'concert; are
just.now claiming an affinity in - their eystem for • free' tinstitutione—nay, even a paternity in
'them all. But the Catholic chapter in the hie
,. ~ tory, of the. United Statee in now written; It has
gone forth with the irsprionseer.of that aim Ito
, orish functionary in our lab& the Archbishop of
Sew York. Research and sophistry have been
pat to the stretch to swell its dimensions, end
'what in the rude That theronan one Catho
Lc Commodore in the Nam, one Catholic
rer of the Deriaration;rthat there is now one ea-
Mono Jed* on theifiriproine .Rettek, and that
fairistoptier Columbutribmovered:AMerical '
Has the direhhiehlip - forgotten thei Catholic!
chapter in our twolitionary A:toggle for tree in.
stitutions, that of the fourteen Colonies then
platted • there wee one Catholic coleny--Canc.
• . ' Jar - Did It join with nein achieving our 'Thor
riu: Vibe's the rights of a G were alike meo
aced and Jeeparded by the British' Crown,. and
those very free principles were se, stake' did it
rrily with on on the side of /ache to 'oistebiet
and conquer? No! but stood aloof against all
' cur entreaties adremonstrances. the foothold l
and ]rilltag aeoomplies of tyranny., tiere.
!allude rut that the soldiers of Catholic, France;
fought With us against a common enenijr„. in
' '• dia; bur-Okit of Catholic America, as embo- •
died in thatnorthem colony, indhaving !Tette'
ibierest. - y,ou would think, if Holy Mother hi the
parent of free Institutions? there Iles Catholic
• Canada, pri,,heyond the river of the thetatind
• iglu, tagbulegoontrast to free America.
-lie engage, by the way, to find for,the Dish.
ops'imd their, people a broader, bettor claim to
. liberty on these shores, then any they, have yet
. advanced or dreamed of: 'tis aground of claim,
- 'however. Which they must allow us to stati from
aproscribed book, - the Weed of God; 'a ground .
of claim which 'would apply equally to Protest-,
sate litpatn, Italy,. Portugal and dusts* end
to thaultatubi of groaning Papists at Home. That,
"
it Watt, because men are of one religious kith
inotlter, not became they sailed or not, or
fm4hlltntot , in acquiring the land, but because
our hie prinolplesnre a revelation of God to
the rite for inisessal weintre. Will they, ac
cept the liberty of our heritage and on Oils on. .
ly ground where they at stand? The
op &elates that the great eleintats of oar
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T!!!Tpxr , moßmilim, APRIL 16.1E*1
ntiatimmic and Whig County Convention
acki"!Thn Whig. and Anti-11E01mi, of Alle
yin meet on Manning. the Zit.h of Hoy
nee at it. lomat Owns or holding primary meetings in
intrie Memo] elitetion
Jo the tonsuiltine raved/rely at 3 o'clock. P.ll. to •d•
$, urn It 6. etnent townsbia.
In the !I . ..tonight and Pitt township et 3 o'clock, P it..
. 1, Minn. it 7 o'clock; and In the to oral warts at 12
11.. to Miriam at 7 o'clook, the election In ths
•erda lobe.II.( ballot. Each of lb: election districts to
orlect two drhogst., to • county convention. to be held al
the Court Boum, on Monday. the god of Can. follooloic.
e. nt Pi...clock. A. 111, to nominate • ticket to be sunteirted
Li the parts, al the catalog October election. 0,
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4 41 Clmirouln of Counollte of Corroopoodenle.
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virREA DING MATTER 1141;I:Ll E. POPNA
ON }•.4 CB PAGE OP Tlll3 P.f PER
The Journal ewleuvoru to oxense ito conduct
up_propriating our property iu the adilt4uei or
U:. by oharginfens, with u similar of
fence in'copying the opinion of Judge Golan,
•in the Ecouonir case withorit credit. The cases
ore entirely dissimilar, and the Editor of the
..7entnal, was well aware - of it *lieu he penned
miaerible;-an Spoil:Ty tor,bia itoroolon of our
publigf document, each as Jndge
Oa, 'a opinion, to public property. The-J o u r
tifrstennired no right in it by publishing it brat.
'Wily' more than the National Inteiligenc, does
in a President's Messege,when it sets that docu
ment npfrom the manuscript. It cost the door
nil nothing. It used the manuscript of the pub
lic officer, and- it wee fully repaid for any oxtru
lahor by having the first publication. The moo
of a reported speech stands en entirely differ
eat ground. Reporters are employed nod fur-
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'. owing to ouch expenao and labor. Jt thus he
s'' •
come. the property of the paper which be+
the enterprifte to ferule), it, as much so as its
ate eaurials. The Journal's excuse, there,
r. , ro, only adds to the onginal offouLe. It clot'
evidence that the editor was conciaus of his
but instead of atoning faril, Lo seek. to
Iltliate it by trumping op n groundless charm ,
opined us.
• AID FOR TIM Cut taceritt;
.131. rro no es.
art requested toaive - notieo to all who have out
yet contributed to the relief of the sufferers by
tte late terrible fire which de,titt,ol the town
of Chpicothe, and reduced h'undreds of its pt,-
pla to poverty, that ' , lessee! PALStrit, lIANYA
df.f.to ,-corrter of Third and Wood streoLv, will
receive and transuill their coutributioue. II is
very important that there should ho no delay..
buffering humanity ought not' In be required to
nay long for relief. l'Freons at tv distance iota.
ace disposed to Aire, can do so by remitting
Ateircontriliatitus to-the Odle:lieu named, who .
tare been appointed nor altannere; and no ear .
neatly solicit such gifts, ,be they ever e 3 amine
We again urge the chime of the people of
Cidlienthe upon
,thoso 4f Pittsburgh. When .
iris city wax prostinted, seven years age, by e
Lee terrible catamit,g, the people of erdlicothe
—a - little city compared with hi.—rare over
i ,- 2000 tee the relief of the sufferers ; then surely
we cannot do leap, on the score .1 simple yuvire,
to lay 'nothing of charity, than return to them,
la thiir their day of calamity, thrir munificent
contribution with compound interent.
There ern a areat number of persons of gen
arse* hearts, bac of limited means, .who would
perhaps blush to offer a single dollar to nieli a
cruse ; bet let such cal to meld the cerameada
ti on' bestriared upon the ridolq's - and
hesitate nu longer in beide wing_their nit ts,_hows_
over small, throigli ihe amount we heave indi
cated. The ',Tent proportion of the charities.
of the church nail or the world aro made up of
tiese little oflerings.. •
rations were all the inventions of Cathidice a
line, and' thnlilinhop.mmerts that they are sub
i tantially the work of Catholic hands. .And yet,
immediately, as if camaions of the contradic
tion that such I. free system should have =oh a
!Mires, be says, •'And if 4 difference existed be
' tween the civil institutions of Continental na.
tletts;arid those of England, Catholicity in just
,ly entitled to claim the whale credit." After
just
,
English history fur the purpose, end
taking to Itomanism the credit of ell the free
principles end institutions,erhich have dmernd•
ed there, be claims them Men as contrasted with
llone itself. This in, indeed, by the diviner pre
rogative of forming light and creating dark
neon. Rome, forsooth, is alike the parent of
despotism and freedom, of the Anathema and
the Magna Charts, of the Inquisition and the
Trial by Jury, of the common law, and.the can
on law, which mileterts and annuls it all. Rome
can make capital of both. _She disputes not a
bout the children before Solomon, but claims
them both, the good mother's and her own. She
has begotten alike both 'Michael and Beelzebub,
every thing human and inhuman, but Protest
antism.
The Bishop, observe, has not gone on in his
historical argument to find tree iustitutious fol.
hiring, in the back of Popery. Ile ban not
thus 'proved to us the irtherent,tendency of that
system to work popular nod political freedom!
Why hart ho not rh own us bow, everywhere and
always it has produced there blessed results—
how it has planted free principles wherever it
bay prevailed—how the history of Papal State.
is the history of Republican Liberty—no"
polism, on trammelling of teen's consciences, tto
cunloviog-of the mind, no lording it over the
people, but on the contrary how despotism has
thwo at its approach—bow popular suffrage,
popular intelligence, and popular 'government
bite arisen under its magic influence, to glut.
don and bless mankitor Sow the dark and iron
,400 of the world have paosed4 away before it,
aml now the poor slave of priests:raft, bigotry,
and superstition has started up to the dignity of
freemen' Iles he explained ht 00 the ration
ole of the matter, to show how, from a bitter
fountain can issue sweetest Ashlers—how vn
avowed principle of intaleratioe brings freedom
of conscieuce—how a priestly inquisition of (hr
try 'thoughts begets independence of Mind—
how a blind subjugation of the will to despotic
authority produces pereoual liberty'
Instesol of thus tracing tko history of Pope
ry, and marking for tot its Idessed alevelope
wogs—instead of showing us the Papal Itepub
, licanisto of Southern Europe, he hoe-seised up
, con solitary , instance in which Popery did not
utterly trample out the life of liberty, atlit here
Otnnt4ll9, at this dap, has. presumes to claim all
the liberty as its own If, even hi this one in
sionce,Popory hail t coo foetid to bear such golden
fruit, the obscure. of all sinology, would make
it out a freak of nature, and an anomaly: tint it
is not an exception to nature, so notch as a de
imitator in feet. • Yon hove seen a child tie a
cherry to a thorn bosh, or it bunch of grapes to
yi bromide to mate you think it grew there, but
you detect that deception You have seen
stone upon the field, and under it 1110 struggling
plant, borrowing and finding the light, notwith
standing. tint what man would tell no that the
clone has produced the plant—that the prate,.
tiog germ has sprung out of its bosom, instead
of crept front under — it, sod grown In despite.
A favorite point with thesellishops, and the on
ly hinierical point, in, that free principles date
hack In Catholic finite. And eito dues the morn
tog date back to the toght, but has the night
therefore produced the mot - nine inn truce
of' the 'banish paganism, when, tit Cleat old to'y
thithigy of the Orphiu Lynne. night woo said to
t.e the Itlothcr Gods and moon It is antler
'its pretext that the Bishop clouts, thr Common
Lin fir •lic Church, berstr, he says
none ho re beta 0.10 t., tract it to any other
oonme.
Pot he points nein the fountain of represen
rAive geternmetit rahnii in the chsr-Ii lint!
het us lebk, he says at the institution.; which.
have grown Up in the Church, to find the sour
ces of repuhliCan principle Hear him—.•Cv
ery rdipents Nhirr in a rephblie, which elect. its
own coirer+, non Ito buperior. - Menetreue! to
refer WI to the internal polity a Itornish Mon
barnee. whirl you Duty ser reerywhere in In
pal Inn+, like 00 tnaby town jails, planted in
,he most remote places, away from the Labile
lien: of men j (70 to tlic bott,iii or a troll to
tin.] the dayliihr Who would ever think that
lephlilietin liberty was horn within those prison
walls, and those Iron gratings, where solitary
monks in their cello lire in unknown ways! lint
no no of lie man nay that they have not an elec.
five polity. Vet what is that to the world 7— '
Parent I::yolilicanisra thie—that the flotnitil•
can safer, with thumbscrew and rack, elect
their own Superior:
And who are three functionaries of a toreigti
power, who arrogate the special patronage of
law. and who with sophistical ad. 1,..., ell im now
for Mother Church the parentage of our in
-dinitionn Is net this an atilt preface to an
other claim of sovereign:A over us, and prapetrey
in net The late Papal aitgeinsienin.Englaud ell
citedtfithat t. ~ ~ .. ' •
un• Ito .t - tre .• . &anon rroi rapers...ding
'dm "Smartt tipostotie,". by a batch of Bishops
In the Papal establishment there, was this—
that to the Bishoprics belong the administration
F
of the canon law. And is canon low? It
is best defined to you ,•y +nollification of the
the cam son and civil ft In favor of the Vapo
r 4y—that it in the code that rules, and is en
forced chore all law, wherever Popery has the
sway---that it is the product of Piiestly ingenui
ty to evade and invalidate all righteous legisla
tion It even exempts the clergy from criminal
jurisdiction. And the chief feature that roused
-as the indigtintion of the British people, is that
',a this orderbelongs the enforcement of the in
quisition. - .Yon will not be startled, then, if I
'read II you froth the Borneo Pontifical, the very
terms of the oath under which the 'Bohol-w
or/tong:UN are 'morn to their Papal Sovereign.
One fialterlCt will nage: "Heretics, sclasmaties,
or 'rebels against the came, our Lord, the Rye,
or /us successors ofsiresaid, I mill persecute andlight
neoinst to the utmost of erypoterr." . And when an
Indignant 'Protest:Mt public Confronted Cardinal
Wiseman with these teaser the ease, What do
you thiuk 'he pleaded!' That the Pope had made.
'll4landisspeciat erMrption, and even slamed his
•challengers, Dr. Cummings and others, where the
pen woe drawn over these words in the copy for
'swearing the British Bishops. Itut'does thin
relieve our ease? • It only proves the plain mean
ingor the oaths as applicable to all others and IL ,
e.t.' Will Bishop O'Connor nay that iAmerica,
too, is excepted? Will be show no inhere the
pen ban been drawn over these shooting words,
in the copy by 'which he was sworn?
• And the law rends "that ifs Bishop shall
'have been negligent or remise in purging his
beetle of heretical privity, es moon. is .this is
'evidenced, he obeli be displaced by a fit person,
..veliplieffl and nut." I pretend note° , Say why . .
.1111115BiTe Cathedrals among no are under -.
liWCerith . ranger of dark cello and deep vaultsi ,
. Sii,SeTidier to thin Banish architeetore; but thlil
Ag . ;the olden) which nry*lmithe "paternity sad
Tratronageef oil gond , leguthwirwand all popir.
*liberty! .
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Hot it steal not legate tte to find the tfrigin of
free .principlcs in immemorial times. ft needs
no sorb doubtful deiliatiOn. <W'e take 'broader.
ground thanlbe date of a particular code. We
look for the primal, pereneialsonree. Whence
mime Win tight of low and libeitty upon the world,.
Seal ado art Ito-legitimate inheritors? We pen
"tiolo, then: to trace the principles of our free
iestitutions to their true origin and fountain in
Ail! Mime: to Wei, '
, foout, ; That the great . .elements of • civil law
and liberty, aro retina revealed In the Bade,
•In'th(lftbrew CommonwesalWi—tbe twelve Del-,
tedllbwes of-larael. '
'..-814 - 4111DLY, That Popery is in avowed woe with
the' Sittitb - as n hook for the profile, sad An the
lauds of popular education anit-govarnttient. and
-that ea it aaa lay no elairri to the !latent of .eivil
liberty taught in the Beripttiren; and employed
pro-cminentty in oar land. •
THIRDLY, That -it in every way at variance
will. free prineiples,und
-- FINALLY, That' so far from one institution.
hriog ••io harmony with .ho geiiiim of Popery,"
the sway of Popery in this Conntry mutt be fatal
to oar liberties. •
The Common Law, - lope the Bishop; •ia wholly
the production of Catholics." But consider.
the principles of rs wise, jririsprodenee, ouch
sts the experience of ages has most approved,
'hate had their firm revelation and their perma
nent embodiment, le the Book of God. Heath
en nations, each as Greed°, and Egypt, and Per
sia, felt the inflriene,e of the Jewish node. The
Homan Civil Law, en compiled by. Justinian, re
duced itself to the great elements of .justioe
•
here rayed revealed; and the refund table of
God's own written demslogue, comprises all the
great rudiments of social right—:is the;basis of
all criminal statutes—and each' an the Most tip
proved legislation nen only ro-echo and re-enact,
In asserting and defining the rights of men.
And the cirri/ rock or the: Hebrews. creblidies the'
elements of perional right in" the transactions
of common - life. As regsvis the law of Um-
Lion—most lenient and considerate, according to
man's posseemiuns, and OeVerarnally enthrals&
As regards the dividing of Inberitancess re.
garde debts siihdAkiir accumulation-4e mania
the Important laWnt bailment, which Sition ju 2
risprudence hoeinserted--we and great leading
principles laid down in all distinctness and eke
plleity, by the blassio statutes. The law of de
positaries or trusts, which hoe entetedllo exten
eiiely info ail eubsequeut elutatetenta, ie found
ittre,,anbetantiallythe same an has been adopt •
.ed by all Vine and eafelegislition. '
In regard to. the law of dtriaitr, Sir 'Mathew
Hale, in his history of the Common Lew '.of
,gogland, deolartenhat there is no almost exult
resemblance between 'the Ilebrelr and Greek
cloaca So wo might trace the tame Scriptural
element into the .RAUISin yaws; and Sismondi,
labia !Tan of the Roman Empire,"iellevethat
whin. Alfred the Groat rained a republication of
Saxon awe. hilnairted WAIF i itatetee
al token from J 90810codc,. to, giro new
itiengiliuntocenoi to liite:PAlinip!mi of mar
-
laity. So, .in the legislation of the early Freak",
:divers 7ewish Jaws, from the BOae of bilitter-'
anomy acid 'Leviticus, were Introduced. So,
also, the early English reporters make frequent
reference to the Mosaic laver, and meet learned
jurists and scholars, such as Fisher Amen, and
litichattlis, have declared that no man could be a
sound lawyer who was net well read in the Mo
saic
Here, then, we find the primal source of juri,.
prudence, to which all goalies is indebted.
And when, in the early history of the New En
gland colony, the Mosaic code was recognized
as the basis of law and justice "their motive,"
says an accurate historian, “was, in providing
for a complete and vital independence, that
they should adopt, at once, a system of laws,
which was in every man's hand—which every
ruse read, and, as he was able, expounded to his
family: and with which every subject of the ju
risdiction could easily be made familiarly ac
quainted."
But where have the principles of republican
liberty had their origin! The Archbishop de
clares "that they ore the inventions of Catho
lics alone." But plainly representative govern
ment, and the electoral franchise were revealed
to Moses in the wilderness. When the chosen
children of hod had come out from among a
succession of despots, who hail filled the throne
of the Pharoalts, and were now separated as a
people, to take the form of a state, thin was
, countril matter of sufficient moment for them
and for mankind to be the nut.ject of special
revelation. This, therefore, was the divine
constitution by the hand of Alones. I read from
Deptronomy, I. 11 and 14:
"Take you wine mon and understanding, and
known among your triter, nud•l will make them
rulers over you."
••And ye answered me and said, The thing
which thou host spoken is good fur us to do."
Thin elective government was to he their glo-•
ry as a nation, and to cloud as the pattern of a
representative system for all time. The vote
was directly popular. The rulers were to he
from no privileged class, but to he chosen from
out of all the people. They were to`stand for
ottice on the ground of a high personal alterna
tor, an men well known and true, and thence
forth we find in the congregation of Israel the
chiefs of the trilust nu the representatives of the
people; and thus the pia of popular nulfrage
wan perfected on principles which the ages to
the present hiker MOM fully proved. And again,
Mc independence if the judiciary, lens it unto(
Catholic origin? nays the Bishop. We ought,
perhaps, to excuse some ignorance of the Bi
ble in those who - have so much set it .amide,
but we quote again. from the gleriptures. Deu
teronomy eft. 18..
...dodges and officers shalt thou make thhe in
all thy gates, over thousands, over bnotlreils,
over fifties, and over tens: who shall judge the
people at Aid/wantons."
Read the Monsic code, and you will find that
thin wee public and popular justice—the tribu
nals were of readiest access—to be "in all the
gates" for prompt and universal administration.
And en, also, the principles cf evidence, and of
verdicts, and of trial by jury, are found more
or lens developed here, an all time has heitdap
proved them; and we challenge the Bishop to
examine ilia Bible for himself, and nay what ele
menu of our free institotionn have not their
precedent and origin here
And Magna Marta wan pOtterned.
in a written conhatutton for the Commonwealth,
defining and securing men's rights for all time,
an no other charter has Jove. The Archbishop
has the effrontry to call the Engilvh instrument
an niers/ton of Cathatier alone, when all history
mimes that it was never had lint in spite of them
—owl never held but in the Nee of all Copal
anathemas—when now, an tore, Popery is the
ewer,, foe of written constitutions, no tbo world
ha, Milt Neer', and When e'en that Magna Chu
te of mankind, Gon's written rode eel Bill f
Right', in the notable dread oft le Paproy The
Italievim the first written constitution for a
pattern state, far a glorious republic, which
tiourinhed 440 yearn The people were to "ob
serve to do sit that no: written 'n the nook of the
tam_
These features of civil government 1/1:1 be found
ti contain the cardinal principles of all eq nty
to the State. Nationn have bran hapPyand free
to proportion as they have copied them-rag,
before Popery blighted the world, were they in
living force. People in ell time have orne
where struggled after the enhvtante, and most
palpshly after this °rand Model have our own
glorious loslitutions been framed
fili.terve The Bible itself, as then cutout,
woe delivered to that nation as their conantutioa
and law, and in Ito careful and pious keeping
was their prosperity laid. It was when the
Law of the lord wax not found in the !sande of
Steamiest. and People that their glory depart
ed Item then. it is found that the Bible is
the authorized text book of popular liberty .
Clod's Book is this, to teach it to the people, to
net guards abglitx it, and arm it with Dieine Sane
doll.ll-40 instruct men in all civil relstincor— a
Inculcate a genuine public and personal man
- ore rsZn n as 447..had'tro to
sar tit eguard fres'in
stitutions. It is the free cumin:m[llM Holy
Volume, Its habitual, unrestricted was in the
community where it goes into every hand, is
opened at every fireside, and is lisped by the
children of every family—it Is this popular use
of the Bade that at once educates arid adapts
for mailer liberty. The history of nodes
which may change with the next generation, is
of minor consequence, compared with the nee
that IS made of this original and permanent
Revelation, which holds in Its bosom the prin
ciples and substance of whatever is good in
them all.
But we are now ready to show, secondly,
that Popery is M avowed war with We Bible a,
a book for the people, sad am the basis of popu
lon silos:anon and. government Thank-of (hit
',ahoy about popular viyhte by shore who deny .to.
NCR the fint and Aiyfint right of having Cod a
IltoelalioriP Upon whatever pretext this policy
may be tialeated by the Papal Church, it can;
not be denied that this Volume iv forbidden to
the conlinunity. • If this Book him anything to
do with civil liberty, either for its finding not, pr
fur its preservation, Wen can Popery lay no
claim to'it whatever, and is it not plain that in
this question of popular right, the Bible an a
popular book, is a vital nearsaity 7 Has not all
history divulged the fact, that where this Vol
ume bas hail free circulation, there civil liberty
tine most prevailed?! Look now at England,
Holland and America; as contrasted with Spain,
Portugal and Mexico. Do these Bishops pre
tend that there is popular government in Rome,
or that the Bible has any toleration there? I
do hero testify, that when a year ago I spent a
mouth in that city, one of our company par ! '
poorly searched it throughout inquiring at every
book store, for a copy of the Scriptures in the'
language of the people, and ono each copy was
net to he found. - And is It otherwise in Portu
gal er in Spain? You may ask-intelligent pet
sons of the lower climes *boat the Scriptural,—
the Bible—the Oldor New Testamentf;and they
- will not know to what book you hawfitllaifidi
so is it, we' see, that in web a oink even the
bright and otrong light of the Bible goes ant'
Have we not just lieard•of an Austrian inter , .
din erela upon Englieh Bibles? And th a t, by
she government, that seeks through the Leopold
Foundation to plant Popery in our American
Stites—the government of Chtralirr Hultman.
Hear the report to the Pope of the Papal
• ItiSholis, Snabled at B
Et ouonia, after the Refor
mation Cjtieftili. "The Seriptierm" may
ahoy, "is at Book which, above all others, bath
raised Weise tempests and whirlwinds with
which we are almost carried +my.° "And in
' , WIWI-they edd,.: - a NMI one diligently con
eiders if; rind compares it with what is done io
our Church, he will fled them rely contrary to
each other, and our doctrine to be not only vary.
'different from it, Nut repugnant to it!' •-:-.; :,
' Hear Pope Leo AIL Reinert the Bible Soolety;'
"Yonaremwore, venerable brethren, that sigi
tain Society, called the Bible Society, strolls Wilk
effrontery throughout the world, which Sockelyi
contemning the traditions of the Holy Ifai4arc,
4 4
and contrary - to the welt known decree o
, s.
Council of Trent; labors with all its neigh '
by every means to, translate tho Holy Blld o fej
the common langoagos of every notion, to area
whit% plague, our predeeineorn published many
ordinances, aid in his latter days Pins VII., of
&Ward memory, vent two briefs to show how
sto.rioui chit-mat wicked novelty it, to both faith
and morals. We also, venerable brethren, in
Conformity with our Apostolic duty, exhort you
to tarn away your flock by nil means from these
poivonom partscra." 1
. To this Papal Bull, the Irish Papal Bishops
responded, In an address to their clergy and
people,lbus: " As to the hooka which are die
' intuited by the Bible Societies under the names
et Bibles and Tntamenta, se they trent of re- '
Rgion, endue not sanctioned by us, or by any
competent authority in the Catholics Cistroh,the
use,tin,pernaskthe raiding or retaining of them,
Is entirely, aid without nay ekception, prohibl
gied to 'you" And in Papal Ireland to-day,you
might see the glaring handbill. placarded and
'distributed in the street/4 by We Papists, in
these words, "Have nothing to do with Scripture
renders, drive them away by making the holy
sign of the cronetwhich they hate,and which the.
Devil always from Meld them as you would We
Wicked one whose ministers they are." 1
And yet now, in Ireland, with a way opened
for the Word of God among the people, thous
made are becoming convene to Protestant Chris
tianity; aid if any proof were needed that lit.
Patriot was a Protestant, wo have it in the fact
that the Itemlak 'Synod of Thanes lately; in
their alarm at the epread of Preteetantlam there,
have dropped St Patrick as the Patron Saint,
and - elected the Virgin , Meryl What will our
adopted clamps of Erin say? Did not their
Bishops impact that their ancient guardian Inn
not safe to be trusted as the Patron against Pro
teetanUend lint the latest news, and worst, IS
that of the burning of Bibles by the Fiend in
Ireland, last byinaf. Do wet:lntl:now howlste;
ly houses heretical searched from garret to eel;
lay, in Pherenoe and Naples, tor.ttils very'NO:
tome, and nobles Mai torn from their families and
thrust lots loathes/time dengeons, for the high
- mime of reading this Book—nay, of harboring
it—until the heart of all Christendom has sick
ened at the tale of snob atrocity? And as in
this Book is contained the charter, pattern, and
preservative of free institutions—as herein is
the leaven Which must pervade all society, to St
it to be free —thelight to guide the governor and
the governed alike—the fret possession of this
Volume by the people, is a vital condition of,
free government How else is it, that a nation,
which more than once has achieved bribloocl the
name and form of a Republic, has found it only
the shell and shadow at late Because their
Papacy had denied the Bible to France, end so
had seen to it that the house should he founded
on the sand, knowing wall that when the flood
thoald come, the fall of that bonne wottld be
great. Let it be noted that the same Pope In
nocent the 111 , who anathematized the Barons
for their demand of Magna Charts, who pers.
mated the Waldenses, and who founded the In
yaisition, is be who is extolled by the lost Pope,
in 1844, as of AdYP!/ memory, and eulogized fur
his zeal against the vernacular Scriptures.
Will any protest that these are not, cannot be
the proscriptive doctrines of our day, urof our
country! Ilear,Archbistrop Hughes, in his lec
ture on the Decline of Protestantism: "There
are 2110,000,000 of Catholics ncattered over the
face of the globe, and I run no risk in saying
that out of all these there could opt lit found
ten in whose inmost souls there exists the slight.
est deviation from the actual and of eourne or
wine' doctrine of the Church, in regard to the
Ite;eledion of the Sou of Coil."
Say not that the Popery of Ore ,lark ages 1,18
share so horrible, while the same Pope, Greg
ory, -quotes a Lug ILA of Lis pr.ic,ss.r. the
Piusereand Clements, and what not Ile utters
special anathemas against the ChriThan Alliance
of Amer.C.l, in these words: ••It is their inteu•
(ton," he says, "to inuitter Bibles in the popular
tongue, unit to diasetninate war. boot. still."
And here we ask,. the Pope, as Pilate asked
of the Savior, Why, what evil bath it done?
Observe, now: it is Jost beeßttne this volume in
too source and basis of free institutions, just tie..
cause it announces and authorize s them for the
State, just because all its prineiplro favor them, '
and all its morality fumes them, and all history
hits shown that it lays the ground work nod op
ens the coy for them, that the Bible is the dread
of the Papacy. This is that which confessedly
prompts the hitter denouncement of our Amer
icon society, for sending the Bible to Italy.
Says the same Gregory, in May ; '44, •Let on not
doubt, brethren, but your exertions added to
our own, will be nronded by the civil authori
ties, and especially by the most intleential sov
ereigns or Italy, since they plainly prrrrere bow.
much it rollers-n.l them to frustrate these sectitif- .
ag combinations. These nien nvuw' rays hcithat
ones liberty of interpretalion obtained, and
with it, what they term, hOrry of romeiencr,
mong the Italinas, thesedant wilt naturally sous
unfair, patrimi hh , rty'" And so I could chow
you a list of ten prominent ettizeus of
Fhr
cocr, who, within the five months tireerding
last, were imprironed for roading the Bible in
Tuscany. The wicked dental to men of their
picnic judgment has been mainly to refuse, if
possible, •Yit divine 'extolling of free polities,
and petitions*, rights You remember in Kew
York, the determined policy of this Papal eye.
tem towards the rieriptuirui When this ,ten
Archbishop rallied all his political fore,', to op•
pose the noble neheme of Common - &boot eta
cation, because this book was taught to the ria
ing rare; and it woo in that contest that we first
heard the Bible ilitnotall,l in this country no
sectariaatiook, tangerine in popular in
struetion.
The ballet, only ile•piscs it, the l'ritA 11(0.1r
the very shailew at it Anil tell our, if is
way,this revel di.. of (10,1 to man favored I•:t
-pai
institutlims, it it ever taught thou, it it hay
ahem, encouraged theta, II a,, principles and
teachings were ouch 1124 1,, snarl o u t promote
them; would not the Par., follllll with
/ale Orte y/ellly leas chrrrney .Irord
of nod? Only rot:Randier now, that during our
American revoluuun, the Coniereeu, will, all their
preening want of money fur the war, judging the
rant of Bailee, a greater calamity renolved . 11141
the into of the Bible burin univerestl, and It, Im
portnnee no great, IttgOini Bibles he imported
from Houdin., tiecrtal.iii, or eleorh ere , i nto th e
Union." We demand; then, that Popery, or to
dielinetly denying to the people the great elm,.
ter .and tett .hook, of free prinelphie, cu, Icy
no claim whatever to the eyhtem of popular
liberty, taught in the Bible, and enjoyed on pre
eminently in our own laud.
Bat, further, 11111101-1, it iii eyer},iirly at to,
with ;ll free principlen Let It hr Irtarhr'i u, at
P.M)/ is a political Pyi.tent, Vert, in it, plant ,
anti despotic In its principles. Il ie a an a ehrih•
lion church that it elands before 11,0 or
even as a State Chnrch, holm a monstrosity— a
compound of Church and State—a Shae, under
the gniee-of a church, a political hierarchy --
. :Atirldl saw this in the late Papal aggrevsi,ms.
Olga jos seen it sadly.. ..gee past. The Did,.
.alioolv,hmagullvlAik. - . 3 101 . 114 '
Iflout; of State policy. ester three prelatical'
robes all spangled and sprinkled, there is e.m
cealed the sword or tbo sceptre. The keys of
St. Peter are avowed to ho the keys of cabinets
and of prisons --11 N well as of Purgatory and of
Paradise. .And ws a polities/ system, yet claim-
ng protection and ectridcration, 10 only n
church of •Christ, it It to tho hest degree the
peril or a free people; for, otaierveyou how Mg Ek
secret political system it hoe crowded the En
glish law with enactments; restraining nod fee.
.1.
reting out this oomph ' and Jesuitical pow.
or. Look at the atatu of INOriffltiill . taxing
the legal ingenuity of many parliaments, to
check their grasping , i . i.ricious poliCy. Look
at the abjuration oath;:and pros/lionise having
an eye to this secret alteilanco, and to this irn
pilings in !impel°. The Sitocresive statutes of it
bore upon those verynnitetishments of the nom , .
lab Clergy, and upon . their assumption of au
thority in Engiand, by tirtni of papal provis-
ions. And let me ask, It Americium usk, if the
Papacy be neck n politicil establishment in all
its; genius awl essence, dieeseo only iu religious
robes, how do the titles from the lope coutiMt
with our Constitution, which expressly provides
that “no citizen of the United States shall no,
cept, receive or retain Any OITICO or title of hon
or from any Emperor, King, Prince, or Foreign
power, else he shall cease to be a citicen."
And no a political system, Popery is essen
tially despotic. Reed ,I prove this when we have
seen it a religieus despotism, tin:Meriting •the
word of God. Rat look tikthe nature of its tem
poral claims. not to spank of those divine titles
which the, blanphentonsly arrogates: he
claims to be temporal prince, sovereign, pon
-tiff, dispenser of orowneand governments, and
their best authors so lay it down on principle.
43ellarmine teaches in these words: 'Chat Christ
vested Ht. Peter and his successors with all tem
poral as well as spiritual Power, leaving him at
fall liberty to exert it when Its thought expedi
ent and necessary for the good of the Church."
It Is only not yet expedirti4l.or porrible here, ne in
Italy. .Dowe not know **the late republic in
Rome which so enlisted' a energies of that
people, and was pat do ',Only by French ar
mies, teemeded to the , ' 7, spiritual iligrd
ty, denying him only tie' ,
"government, and
yet imet.he horror of Pe : - Lirsiesintative - rights! 1
read Ilareply in his own words:
4
" , We fulminate the • communication to be
incurred withintlitrith taloa by whimver
shall fake part hs:st ~ General National
Assembly", for the RO .' . te, to establish new
political forms," 4rit : -- t:,1"
I could tell 'inert/10p evenings in Rome
0...
among eVEry poopliti. ho.were crushed in
:their - attempt at liberty I the prison gratings
eiroWthiKerith'citiloni, yeeting out their hands
ti en rot' alms,,And. heeded there togetheeby
Atippes of thousands riii..thil high crime of peek
rii*lAtti civil liherlYZ',soloheet. at home— the
y
ir °We: own peoplei.:-.Ak't ' ' . If.' there is any
thing iongenlal with 014 Air. personsl liberty
, to the Pupal Oorentmbert: Vito Worn. the Ito.
I man Frees, thimomoolit . ‘.4.cionld speak oat,
under the Republic. 14 Xikii..'the words, pogo
PO, of the Roman Ailverairef,.March 10, 1849:
, .
"The people of the liotissi'atate were deeiroue
to reform. their polities,' condition, and the Re
public was itiolituted, and Wore this front sh
~ .
e
of the.Allitnitobleuortrel ly of the people ell
the poet has 'enntiumeil nn iniftie.bed away. The
people willed it, who is soc rior to the People?
(Ind alone; but God oroaletyhe Peoplo for liber
ty. .
, , • ; .
"The people have willcd,: - and bite will has no
need to neck for SO illStjficattiou fr o m the p as t.
Its rights are prior to Menet' institutions.
- "If we tern our eyes back, we may Contem
plate the fall of the Papacy with tran9ulllty, and
the more soles the` Papacy itself anitenot tranquil
when it became planted-on the ruins of our an
cient political grandeur. The history of Italy
teems with ;Motion, and to the Papacy much of
it la to be attributed. •Nakenhaless when the
Papacy came forward andjlaced the cross up
on the summit of the National Standard, the
world eaw that the Italians Vera ready to forget
its faults; and In the name of ; a Pope the reve
lation bolum. And " now it was clearly proved
what the Papacy could, an& what It could not
effect. The predecessors of the 'lest reigning.
Pontiff were too wary-to roe the risk of a sim
ilar proof; their power was only measured by
the evils heaped upon the People. The Not
reigning Popo !colored on the work, but he was
dogmas to draw back, when he saw that he had
revealed a fearful truth, which was this, that
Ne Papacy vas potoerleu lo pipe liberty, iadrpen•
&Wes and ylory to the Adios notion; and he whal
ed to draw back, but it was too late. The Pa
pacy had pronounced its owe sentence. This
was the reason why the failsof the Papacy so
immediately 'followed ire glory: the glory of the
Papacy wan the Aurora Borealis which preced
ed the darkietw. :
"w o lipped, nevertheles;.bues system orre
action was the answer that came from the Pa.
piny, The- traction' failed.. The Papaw, at
Bret had censurer to dischnulation.iav the pi
'Wks bearing of the people, Auld del A nt i i n I to
flight it toot - with It the cestal e Vof Causing a
civil war, it violated the p2litibl oonatit n n oin
.• r
Mil
MOE
left us without a government; drove away the
meseengers of the people; fomented discord;
threw itself duo the OM/ of the nest ferceirmr
, ny 0. 1 May, and foully excommunicated IlAe
Priorii. The facts were sufficient to show
that the Papal Sovereignty neither could nor
would admit of modification; it remained, theta
fore, either to eubmit, or to overthrow it. It Was
overthrown."
The history of Italy teems with afflictions, and
to the Papacy much of it is to be attributed.—
And now it hat clearly proved that it was
powerless to give liberty, independence, and
glory to the Italian nation; the power of thu
pontiff is measured only by the evils heaped up
int the people It threw itself into the arms of
the must ferociotis enemy of Italy, and finally
excommunien led the people. Had these Bishops
among us any sympathy with this? How imme
diately, when the Popo had tied to theta in din
guise, on a coachman's box, before the dread
spectre of popular freedom, did those very Bish
ops inotilute Peter's pencain America, and vend
cocci thousands to furnish bullets for the
Amon. and French musketry, until the Re
public was battered down.
I beg you consider how, at this moment, in
Europe, as absolutism advances, trampling upon
free constitutions and political liberties, Po
pery ill seen throwing up its entrenchments be- -
hind it, while all the influence of the l'ope's le
gitms is iipplted to make new exactions, and
strew - then the hoods or despots. It suits the
Bishop iu this community to speak of the French
usurper with disparagement. But do we not
know that it in he who keeps the Pope in his
unitsly'srat by his ten thousand troops, do we
not kniivt'how his 1101i131`01, hailed thee.), d'eta/
with joy' Asti the Romilh prevs.ot lit: Louis
:souks w.ilL exultation of the feet, that. "every
semblance" of a republic is swept from France,
and the republican leaders banished from French
sail Wby, its the Archbishop here declares,
has Popery never recognised any civil gavorn•
moo' Ix it Itecnol+e all 'are alike, unmolested?
No, butt because all are alike held ,111.614/illtlie.
There is no place for nay of them in fL system
:lint claims all gimerninent to itself, and would
11.10 kings only on passive instrumtuts, and yet
is it it question what kind of government has
the greatest nlfinity to Romanism? To whose
lemon, does the Popo lice for protection from
the —.dear people" but to that of the Bing of
Naples! the Caligula of .r day. This reign
ing, overshadowing despotism in the Church,
attr.ts In itself the same element in the state.
The Pope fled before the very shadow of a re
public, and to•dny you may see the masses of
Ramat citizens prof... Minis against the forced
compulsion of France, and the temporal domi
nation of the Popo together. And France her
self, why in she non hound to despotism,
though struggling within for Republic. Myth- •
totiont.? Ileetanse yet the priests have power,
and the whole system of Popery is In away.
Ono Protestant alono'is found in the Bench of
tit :treaters, and ode alone in the Council of
State Bear alontalembert, the chief of Ito
maiti.g tape. tinder Louis Napoleon:
"No mimes man," be says, "will any longer
rely opon these new theories, which pretend to
11erive democracy from Catholicism." The Ro
tnish author. Ida Toconevillr, who writes upon
itnr nstitutions, sop, "In France I hail almost
w..)0 .4'll the spirit if rißigien and the spirit
of freedom persoing onurmrs diametrically op.
pestle to each ether. pint in America I found
that they wen, intimately united. ..1 that they
reigned in runinum over the sante country."
it was just because religion in France was
Papal and political. and religion le America
Protimutet and spiritual Despotism belongs to
the one, and freedom to the other
Root: mists at4ond theumetvis, we see, admit
it, but he, it 1, Con venient for the pushups to
say ;lint Papari and Republicanism are tit
tki obvicim for Is Alts, further, that Popery
ix , IvetruLliwo I he gol•alor rhlrarler and writ
It in the nature of a true repohlietnivna to work
3 ilevelopemeni of the people's energies, to en•
lighten awl iditoninte the indi•tiliol mind, and,
hr giving to each hi-s part in the government, to'
invent him with the rertionsibtlity nod dignity of
irceonth. elo it is, hitt, under nosh a system
popular right, there Must he popular culture.
Anil popular energy is the result. And even
whore a form of republicuniam might Clint. this
nould not be enough without the foundation in
public knowledge nod morality. A scheme,
they shire, which keeps the mind to bondage, and
she cut Heaven's own revelation front a free
ncoess to the tool, must be the toaster .urse of
the world, So hue Popery been found. Noth
ing eine cao - explato the aspect of European
ilisotiun Tint oat Rome her mighty monuments
of onsient art? !lee Pantheon and Colosseum,
sod aqueducts, nod arches, to annulate the peo
ple 11 come generous' otoulattort of the ancient
that) , Iles nut the Pope's Vatican the richest
remoitis of tlreek and Roman sculptures, from
the elMist . of prouder title Yet, u down trotl•
den peep!" can have little commerce with such
treasures of groins among them, heemtse they ,
tikiliitn'atfifelant — lfriiellilif re% •
doom! ton mercantile marine, where whole ton
nip, is eyed to that of lieu of our ocean sten-
Inert.
I,ok tot Italy—whet outpouring natural a‘l•
Vantages—et to tie the glorious garden of Eu.
rope--with summer skies and fertile soil—no
Domain of rook like that of our New England,
et of the sta'rmy North. But the uncultivated
tracts held in raorhaairs stretch out for mites to
gether, and are almost wholly neglected; Atte
net forests untouched; the vines yield their
richests juices, with scorer an effort, to the hus
bandman; and yet they are not known beyhnd
,I .
the frontier. Tmineral riches of the lan lie
he m
unexplored, and the Gulp-life-like spot el out
home woo where an English company, last yr , r,
were pushing their enterprise, with special eon.
sent of the Pope, to Jig up some remains of art
from the old Appian way. Any traveller on
tell you that the wretched depreciated paper
money of the Pope will not pars a mile out of
the city, and is worthless even along theqlon
tine marshes, and at Naples itself Does the
Bishop ask that New York or Pittsburgh shall
be like Rome—commerce dead, and the yet ow
Tibor, that mice bore royal argosies upon ek
heroin, choked with mud? Industry dead, in.
tellect stilted, conscience enslaved, and the gI ry
that once shone around her in Patton days, put
oat by this midnight of Papacy.
Look at the Swiss Cantons. It is no elan er
to say, that, with all the disadvantage of P ,ot
errant liberty in -noel an isolation, and sd in
the very bosom of Papacy, you can _know 'the
boundaries ef'it, as when you pass out of be
sun into the shad, •
Look at Protentant Holland, where the (eve
of, liberty hos sometimes let the ocean in upon
her low lands, to defy the Spanish Papal sulijn.
go:ion. The most wonderful country under the
son for its poular industry. Ito territories !re
claimed from the era by dint of iron pereever
once, cities with their churches and mansiinus
founded on the mind and yet standing. Whor ev
er elao was the sea higher than the land, or
where else were the keels of ships above the
chimnies of the house'? The grand Canal of
Venice, fronted with marble. palaces in their
weeds, is plied only by the gondola, while (+hips
of every land crowd In to the very heart of Am
sterdam with richest cargoes. Could Spain me
none England any more with her invincible Ar
mada?
Look at Preabyterian Scotland. Look at the
North of foolonol, alwaye to'be
North of 11.4mill—blest no by tbo proximity to
Scotland that it ban become like a different
land and a Mcrae' people from the South of
the same little into.
What has given ouch Inipulse to manufaeture
'awl commerce as to have placed the world's me
tropolis in the ocean bom of Britain, but that
it has nobly shaken off the. Papal bondage, and
the people are free? And the famine that
pitched upon Brio, and that America helped tn
reboil!, found the abject Papiet paying not his
lost penny in tax to the privet; and lying down
to die.
But I oak further, where under the son of
Heaven, in a lend claiming to he clan:ed, is
there such n degraded population as in Italy;
where, with all the hoast of church hospitals,
and religious inatitntiona, beggary in the grand
profession and trade of the people? Look nt
Pisa, along the beautiful Arno, where one of
the wooden! of the world, its leaning tower, at•
tracts 4the traveller; but its streets are like the
grave-yard, and the troops of beggars aro niar
dialled every morning by the poliCe to their
respective stands at the bridges, the hotel doors,
the cathedral steps, and on the thoroughfares.
How often I have pointed them to the priest
, along the street, and saw thorn beg in vain.—
And what must he the state of soolety, think
I you, %here young children. are purposely de
formed by their parents to make capital for the
trade, and to practise upon the sympathies of
And !Lilo the poor people are starving under
the eye;of this mother of the people's rtghts,
the jewelled mitres, 'and croilars, and signets,
and crricitliess—the. 'splendid, gilded furniture
of the Vatican and Quirinal—the stately equip
age of scarlet cardinals, are untaxed for their
gond,. silver lamps, and either Virgins, and
relics sledded pith gems and gold, have tatty
laughed at the people's poverty. And yet the
priest filaties'his pay for masses and'indalgen
ces front the veriest beggar.
aml farther, Popery la every way, at variance
with free prizielples.—,Where, in foot, is all'its
boosted patronage of liberty! Is liberty of eon-
Faience, acknowledged? They glorify it now to
us, eo though it were a jewel from the Pope's
ring or diadem, when the whole world has seen
It trampled under foot in all Papal lands sit a
thing ,of the sty. The Bishop charges upon
Protemontlem that it felled to adrenee after the
fleet 110 years of the Reformation. Lot nut read
from a late etandard Tiotaish author, a para
graph which may throw light upon the facts:
"Afterwards mane the Protestants, upsetting all
Europe by,means of their Bibles. Philip the it;
let Oa not forget was one of the foiemost defend•
ens of the Balballa Church; end in hint was Pei .
edmiltd thfk Poltoy of the faithfttl ages, amid the
vertigo, which, under the impulsed Pruteetant‘
ism, bad taken poesession of European poliey.".
What - wordsthave happened to you if Proteatan
tism bed been introduced into Spain aa into
France, if the !legman, had been able to count
on the assistance of the Peninsula? What would)
haie happened in Italy, if she had not been
held in respect by the powers of Philip! Would
not the sectaries of Gertnnny have succeeded in
introducing their errors there Then I appeal
to all men who are acquainted with history,
whether, if Philip had aimed:Med his much de- -
cried policy, the Catholic religion . would not
have run the rick of finding itself, in the 17th
century, under the hard necessity of existing on:
ly ON a tolerated religion in the generality of
the kingdoms of Europe." You will remember
Philip by the auto do fee of the t
And when the Bishop charges protestantism
with lack of vitality, that it numbers only some
1 50 millions, let the 60 millions more, that this
eiterminating power hos sacrificed, rise and tell
how their generations, in all the glorious repro
dm:Uri:nese of Christianity, would have swelled
the ranks to this day.
Will the Bishop eubscribe now to the doctrine
in question? Say, Bushop, is it every man's
right to worship God according to tho dictates
'of his conscience? Is this hilt civil right, ea be
' ween man and man, and without human force
or penalty? Why, then, cannot foreign Protes
tants men speaking a foreign tongue, be allow
en. their houses of worship in Rome? AL! tread
knit upon the mil, come within the shadow of
it, rind :slavery of conscience reigns. :.It is just I
diecanse lwltticnl ntrairs enter so the very
life and 0/18011cs of that Papal Church, that any
other worship, even in an unknown languago,-is
a hind of treason to the State. I know of
an instance in loin is which a Christian
parent asked to leases Elltlllllo inscription on a
dear child's gross, 'She sleeps in Jesus,' and to
have it in any tongue:own it woe refused. Why
must the old man of the Vatican grow so on
easy, mil have his dreams so haunted, end
muster Mr his another:lm that the Poor Wal
denses, bunted in time:: pact, should, at length,
have the liberty of building a Christian church
at Turin? and lately rei you know, the British
Government, negotiating for a Cemetery at
Toledo in Spain, are forced to the degrading
condition of haring no service of theirown Per
formed, even in the retired act of burying their
dead.
\
But, nearer home than this, hear Bisho p
Hughes himself, in Ida reply to Sir. Greely:—'
"Liberty of conscience," he goys, "in your
muse, if extended to the papal dominians, would
require that the Pope should become, ni directly, a
party to every species of error andimplety, and
the overthrow of his own authority both as tem
poral prince and sovereign pontiff.", And iernot
this an admission, by a man who claims the pa
rentage of all free principles for the Papacy
alone, that it can never alloi Liberky, of Con
sicence where it prevails, and that, if it should
allow it, this would every way jeopard Ito exist
emu. So the Bull of the last Pope, in \ 1832,
speaks of that "absurd and erroneous doctrine
or rather raving, in favor and indolence oflib!
rely of Conscience—that moat pestilentialer.
ror." "Hence," he 'adds, "that pest, of all
others most to be dreaded in a State, unbridled
liberty of opinion." The ban applies, you nee,
to Liberty of Thought. "If any one should pre •
come to teach or think differently from those de
. orees, (said the Council.of Trent,) let him he as •
Carved."
' If you could me the caution with which men
speak in their most familiar circles in Rome,
Lest something be dropped against this State
Church, in the oar of some spy or iutormant, you
would understand the privilege of free thought
and free speech in our Protestant land.
Ile is liberty of the press guaranteed? flear
them:l:kilobit:4.f the Roman - people from the pa
per which saw the light and could speak freely
for 11 brief season while the boasted Father of
Liberty wax in exile. We read the very words:
"Ti,,' present liberty of the press subjects the
Pontiff's doings to a scrutinizing examination
which it hue never yet been allowed to undergo
in any Catholic country." I have had every
printed page taken from my trunk. and Pockets
by the police of Italy—even the railway guides
alVictionaries—all swept away into the in
ane. es ofnce, until they should bo examined
and registereil. Speak. of any prom, free \or
bonill,in Rome! tine newspaper, a poor, coarj,
pigmy °beet, and only one, is published Were
in the capital of three millions of people. Apa,
that a mere bends supporter and organ of n o
most ultrw despoti s m, the only condition of its
being allowed.
Why speak of reading says Father Oavaxxi
Is not the • Invention of printing sought to be
neutralized.' altogether! Is not typography the
great bushearaf all! "That damnable liber
ty of the prerur' Bays one Pope " that worst
and never sulliotentty to be execrated liberty.of
the pre.," tayit, another, Whitt are the free
inatitutions of Popery ! Where are the unison
and congeniality 'at our Alherties ! Arrests
dietlceft • •
would Americans Boyd° have their letters opened
a t the popover to Jr\ delivered or perhaps,
even to be produped in evidence on an accusa
tion of some unfaithfulness to the church or
State' I
What IN Ilse ca,linary;XuAttfr in tho Stofeo of
the Church I speck not now of the In
quisition. Within nine prisons for convicts
under the eyes qr the Pope, an overage num
ber of thousand 'persons are immured
in ordinary times. No limits to imprisonment
on suspicion or tothe kinds of offence, milibers.
non or . buil the most indefinile , delays of lri•
al, often finding the Prisoner dyad in hie cell
before ho khows the nature of the charge
against him. No power to bring the case to
judgment, and 'ao possible appeal. That is tho
common law in Ileum! What would you think
Of the personal liberty, to be presented from
leaving this city.undl you had procured a tier.
ti6cato from n priest that you had attended,
rcgala.ly at confessional. and hid noehade of
heresy on your character] Youhavoheard from
Oladstono's letters the revelations of darkneesln
the kingdom of Naplca— the refuge and • shelter
of the \Popth-----111en —noble men; the pride of
the people, condemned I to perpetual imprison
ment, witkout accusation, and with no way of
knowing of their offence... Is this the affinity
of Papal Vovernments ferffree institutions 1
.
You may l'udge how universally this revolte,'
Promatant hynericane when I tell you thee, aw
we found ours Ives, a largo c rpatiy; returning
home to differ t quarters of our happy land,
and on the ace talked of what we had seen
end heard of e ociwrongs, the n'eep feeling en.
pressed itself in en unanimous memorial to our
government for theymose of humanity. •
Iles not the-,Pope a word to say while 'all
Protestant and free Christendom shudders? lie
whoileposen Kings fee not persecuting heretics,
for not Worshipping the Virgin, has he ug voice
to raise nor finger to lift ea behalf of the thous
.ands whose cry comes arose the Pontine mar
shes to hie ears? %The \is 'Common Law,—
where is Magna Charts in ante or Naples? In
the very home of the Pap y—tbere, where is
its ark, its Uri,* and Thum im,and Holy Fire,
Its Aaron's red and pot of m bus—there,where
there In en eeclesiastio of so kind to every
thirty parsons, ‘ and'a priest t 'ovary "illy or
seventy—tbere;. where we look 'for Its amplest
and beet friltal-where, we ask again, are its
free institutional\ in there security to life and •
property? is there anything which litcounted a
safeguard in society? Will It he said that any
adequate religious instruction islurniebed to
the people in lien of lite word. of God? The Jen.
uita are the ehlef preacher' in Home, and in
the Church eervice whin wonder that the priest
turns his back sal matters a dead" linguage?
lie has nothing for \ the \ people. And whaklif
knowledge and morals meth., basis of soeiallit,
dot! .. To tell yon_of kite authorised canonical
ignorance and immorality in Home would shook \
this audience ; Where, everyday, you bear that
no domestic *ire% is sacred from the intrusion
of the prieskoad no domestic confidence can be
found, where strolling motiv ,
ates khrongkbaci-
Sy, and the-confessional Pries lino all secret
household affairs. " I saw the,Corneisn the fish •
bath, thronged with horses driven, furiotudy,
With ribbon, streaming and 'hutrahii ringing,'
Making this day a chocking desiccation, and lo!
on the•poreh of St Anthony's, en old meek wan
baptising every mane horse or. donkey \at ten
cents a head, the Pope's State caeriago,leading
the train. And thin Archbishop *tut in Home
on that day, preaching on the Pope's anpremgey.
Two days after came the bletudng of a ludic(
lambs, under the auspioes at. Agites—fioip
lambs, to furnish' the wool for the pSilitun
this new dignitary of New York.
I saw poor peasants, at all hoins of tie day,
walking up the nave of fit. Peter's, and kissing
the toe of as - Iron image; some kneeling before,
it, and with clenched hands, praying*, tt. And
this was the measure of Chrictian knowledge,
and the fruit of religious instruction from all
the priesthood of Rome. •
Is there any guarantee of popular liberty in the\
State where this politioal church has the 'way?
What is the latest Mabry of constitutional, free
dom in the Papal mu:unties of Europe? Grant
ed, ono day, at the popular uprising, but ,re ,
yoke" at the first moment of returning Flier.
The catechism of liberty in Naples answers to
every each question, that, as thu king la invest\
ed, under.the Pppo, with all temporal power,'
ho is at liberty to annul the Constitution as he
pleases. And is this in tlaiao/1 with our free
itunitutions, where the.powor emanates from
the people, and liberty is scoured to them by
an Instrument which binds vintner and gov
erned alike?
We contend, fisaily, that not only in Popery
at ouch utter variance with onr free Institutions
in alrits,olements and fruits, bat that it iv a
'most dangerous ',sten, incompatible with our
liberties. Thie,. indeed, to already laretra—
Plain to that either the Itotennist or the RO•
publicanTrinuiplo must yield. The sovereignty .
of the people is our doctrine—tbe Sovereignty
of the . Pope; is theirs. We live by the liberty
As t
of,oplulea , d speech, claiming to enjoy our
sentiment 'expremethein, and to.propagate
tit\
them. ls tie vulszeorstlon.of Popery.
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This it would stifle and trample on as upon a
hydra. The doctrine of Rome is that meti must
not tbiuk.fokthemseleas—must not discuss the
measures wh ich concern their persooal, social,
civil or religiOts interests. Passive and blind
obedience in ttke creed: Life, liberty, and , the
pursuit of baYpiri ass, with the securities guar
anteed by law, are not popular rights, in the
eye of this polities! church. ' I say to that part
of the American press Slid loves to setter Po
pery for the hope eit,ita influence and votes, you
MOW not what you do. If you sholdd help It
into power hire, its Heist 'business would be to
.muzzle your freedom,',to banish you for your
opinions, or put you to n the inquisitor's root
Rot, well may - we dread a system among us,
which, abusing the religious principle, and with
such mock of all freedom, puts the whole mem
bership in a slavish unity at the feet of a de
signing priesthood, who are sworn io a forciA
State.
I can only refer you to some features in its
very religious polity, which make it so much the
peril of our iostitutions.
It tampers with the obligation of an oath. Thin
lies at the root of public and private morality.
Oar rulers swear to the Constitution, and our
citizens give evidence under this solemn sane.
Gm Our law is that an Atheist—a man whose
religion is such att to make the oath an empty
form—cannot be admitted so testimony before a
Court of Justice. But whet better is a religion
that absolves from the obligation in
on °alb,
whenever this Church can be served by ouch
means? What is the oath of allegiance, but an
empty name, if it can ho waived at the will of
the priest? And the acknowledged motto of Ito:
monism in: "No faith is to Le kept with a heretic
or Proitstolit, where it may conflict with the in
terest of the Pape." And so, on the impious
Trinclplo of the end sanctifying the means, dis
honesty of any kind is legaliaed—fraud and
falsehood become canonical virtues, if only in
this self same. service. What underitanding
con he bad of such earth..? Bow are words to
ho token with such deep mental reseriation?
What Guy Fawkes' plots may not be laid, at, any
time, to spring a mine wider the fair fabric of
our Institutions?
And the system of elissiution-whkh iS de.:
fined by them ns the powei.of follicles ore.,
tabling sins—takes away trout the•mosseiencM
the auctions of Divine. Lew, robs society otitis
chief securities, and putt the worst prinelplea
and passions at the service of this corrupiletab
liahment.
What a Catholic chapter in history, 'wh e reA
this art has been plied in courts and cabinets,
to set all good (nab at defiance. So the `einep-
Meilen in the Honey of Lords,' on the Mite: of
Ireland, in 1825, disclosed the fact that all aread,l
of future retribution was removed from the "Mail
Ple, by their confidence in this priestly abnolu , ,
lion. And nothing more Characterises this
tame priestly power than the 'chime of bidall.
pence. (ser the doors of the great Suffices et' ,
Rome, null every where through Papal coutariea
1 have seep the inscription—lndulgence Daily and
PuPritteftenaro Indulgence. The 'histnry of
thin traffic, in which impunity In sin iit bargain
ed for, hos given its mark to the Catholic chap
ter in history, I have crossed the magnificent
bridge at Drendeo, built by Teasel's sale' of in
duleeaces; and Lcould !letterset how that iolole•
• sale peddling of\ criminal privilege helped to
built another bridge than that—a bridge aver
the great gulf of Papal abomination ' to a Pro
testant nod Beforieed Chtuch. And nutter `it
polity like mire, laid so upon the public virtum
and fidelity—so mucitdependent upon the inili- •
Tidied conscience—thliVn a means of popular
corruption and crime \ ‘ hich iii enesteppallingi
And thin indulgence is 'Oen artist upon the per.`
pie in all Papal lands, thancrease the sway of a
religion which irould . hobLeonl and body at Its
control.' On n,arooden croiti, evenly the old ruin
of the Celositeum, \I saw adiertitted, '',"it hundred
days' indulgence te any who'
. 11 kids the cross
end say Ave filaria" ~
And so, alto, l'etrnalary is •(
earful ',agent in
the hands of the Priest. The thrror. of an utt
seen 'world are sumaroned to Whatever? work
may be planned, and fees are niched from the,
poor, oppressed people to carry on \the plots of
State policy, and to onpport armies for the
Church. You should nee te picture of• Purga.
to along the roadside and t the altar. , At St
Stapice,' in Paris, art has eau levitated upon
it \
the cancans to, depict the worof tomato, with
the`, angel fl ying doves to the 4 \
lion , gates, and
iu his hand the keys to race* the snifeiers,
the piiest being first paid of coarse, and under
Abe paintidg the inscription, •ThiC Maas teethe
dent rthinine the deliverauce of rattail who cut',
the in Nirgatery.' And yet, these beating
shepherds are the men of whom the VArclabitlarp
deeltmes that hey did not duchies the gat( of Cal.
rforriM, ' , Kati. l they tor, looking op tit . Dearen,'
and that thijr\motad not hare discovered It if they
eyed& \ I hevaseen the money boxes, situ the
great eathedriant Friberg, with • o piaturn over
them of Mee in•fismen, and the words, 'Pity me
my frit-mai, Pay nie,' Making appeal tor . pritat4 \
keeping - the conscient - Teiiiia - Eiii iia, - 4 -- s a. iiiiiil"Tir
bondage, pad what Mips is there in the popular,
vote, in the .publie mentlity, or in a regard for.
our free institutions? 'The Church becomes by
thin moans politically omnipotent, nod this, 'as
we have seen, mast be fdr despotic ends.
Yet., crowning all in this device of priestly
domination is the Coaliational, _where every
snob thing, titled 'end evilAis unborn:treed to the
Priest alone, A police is Malt over the inmost
thoughts,
.no pa that nothing ehall escape the
knitirledgehnilmoutiny of this same lordlypoir
er. No possiblitelusion of their schemes shall
come to peas. The secrets of families Muth
be disclosed. Spies fur the Church shall be in
every, houdehold, ice , the penal of every good'
Catholic man- or maid, and a kind of omnis
cience tibial be securedlhe Letter to accomplish
any undertaking. So Amalie is the fianc—
ee ramified ere. the operatiens--so deep are the
devices—no coneentrated \tis the interest—no
perfect is the management throughout. 'So this 1
the Jesuits have alwayneaidoGive as the Con-` I
tensional and School, and we .nll be mestere of ,
the world." ,\ , \ ,
I might speakher of e penan ce poly as shoii
ing the power coil developing thafruit, evenln• ,
our own lend. Think of a nun\ or Meter of
charily, taking the therareeneorthe Itetaistri
Church in the abapeof a public whiliping,nuder
the canonical Itish of a Prleal, as lately, In the
front yeril•of a Westerriaiennery , --and• when an
indignant publio interfered, it was vindiested
and preelsted,in on the'ground that it was a
strictly relish:Ms observance and entirely at her
ein.will: What subjugation of the sag go
further. ';, ' - \ -
' We are compelled by all history, \ and by the
present facto to leak upon the Church 'et Rome
amougus as porter-colossal ',steed, with the bead
in. Italy, having designs upon our free *tite r boos. Bons. The only 'civilized land 'never yet
ravaged and • desolated by it, we are :else \ the
very land most easyttf \ theess and most inward
ly exposed. Our citizens .know hothinirof 'its
atrocities as the childrdo of other lends; have
been told them by their gearing sires. OurAtar
typoliticionshave oarrassed and crouched Math
consolidated interest, as bolding often - the bal
ance of \ power, that they \ the dictating already
who shalt be nominated to 'pahlio poets, and the
krockling millions are marshalled by these
Bishops Ito the polittelll arena. Alreedy,the
press at. the Capital dares not, offend them, and
the Arobbiehop, with ell bla Itomish party
satiates and \ foreign alliances,, chathinges us
with the fact that our laws make diatinction
of religious. Jesuits, whoie very name is a
niothyst for plot, craft audpolitteal intrigue,
throng our great eines, build their riot religious
houses through the growing glorious Wool, and
hang around oar halls of Leation. What is
a secret political society In g o
\ Biala if it Be
leagued under oath toe foreign peon ? Is\
not this treason, and will these Bishops thy that
\,,,
they themselves are not, sworn to the Pepe to
seek hie enpremacy in on loud?, Apd does he
not claim to be temporal As wel an spiritual
ruler? Can his headship in the thurch be p
meted without so far involving the Blithe? IV ,
else was It that. Cardinal,, Wiseman struck fro ,
his Church service the prayer. for the Queen
Because it was 111 heretical government for
whose prosperity, be: would not pray. And does
not then tho accession of every million of Ro
roaniats from the Old World just es far Peril
our liberties es they are true,' to tho Papacy..
Then who does not see that they have' only toy,
flock hither from their own down trodden land"
turn this land of liberty end beauty n into elitist
ouch ti degeaded, wo.begone-land as Indy -- a
land of priests, soldiers and beggeze, and then
to extripate Protestants by Are and sword yet
let them come,' but let no meet theist with •In
open Bible. Itomardsm, hated by all but"
despote, may. yet need -an asylum here. I.
warn you that while tho Archbishop la).ely
talked- of Ids two millions of people_in our
country, , he now ventures to reckon them at
three millions., Popery marsballe her gees
d'armerie ofeminks, abbots,, friari, coat:more.
and Jesuits by hundrdreds of thousands; and.
they are every where a line of express and
telegraph around the world: tied so this Arch
bithop is.bold to say that he expects this Conn
try'to become thoroughly catholic. Ah lif the
sad day should ever be when 'Mean claim the
majority as we have it now, wilt he say that this
is sot a Catholic land as he now denies that it
ia Protestant.
This brings us to the other chief point of-the
Bishop--the mischief of Priest/ ./e4etent. Let
it not, then; be denied thstLiberty ilpinion is
prolceibed by the Itomish Church. The DilirhoP
admits it, end ►indicates the. proscriptien. Ile
argues the mad out direful volt of this liberty to
think. from
.tWfillit t Pasie wider anCh a system
of freedom ; " tipixdons here eprium
up, and fro m coasequesce th at MA
is thus left with'etothtliiitia to Heaven. Dukes
to the , guide! -litteestifit,:.-phriethaity
guide. It Is this hetet; haltp4 Bible. It kri s
■a authority.: It is Ood'a'aitherity. , Will the
Pope,
,the . ;boseted mfaUjblp , guide—or the
dumb . : al ' somo other* of thud teach—wilt
then ofthese be any safer, mires guide to Hes.
►en. How . could we , know that either of these
, ,
were guiding us aright but by the Ifible, Gant
infalhble Revelation to monkitult Yon bumf
well enough what kind of a gold* they 000 id
offer nei when they never yet hove settled it
among themselves—whether, it - is the Pepe
alone, or Pupas and Cornelis, or Popes, Coun
cils and Church—or how this boasted infallibil
ity an be reecticiled with the glaripg diversity
among themselves!, Resides—is that agoras et
4 14 the, instead of gkidoky us, would &lee tta
by the civil arm to adopts particular belief:
Con outward compnlaion ever induce the belief?
It may chain a man to the Pope's pillory, bat it
cannot compel him to the Popes creed. It may
torture him by rack sad faggot till the poor suf.
fend; flesh should to worth recant. Bat, plaia
ly, if a roan be left to bL choice of tit guides, '
then is he left free to think for himself. There.
fore it is not a guide at all, tootle goad that they
offer us.
And what'gain is there in opluivie limo o re
mtaprifett Every where there Must he the event
and bsyonet to keep these morktlplUiol3l in their
place. So it is now at Home. The Lay 4 / 4 6ht
guide 'for the, !lotion people, iu the very bosinn
of the Papaey.—in the very Stites of the Church,
is put the infdlliblo French bayonet, Bo has It
come to peso that under the very eaves of. St.
Peter's you may see the Popv's Inquisition',
charging upon you, with ibiziorniy walls and ,
window-gratings, to keep the faith or the laurels.
It is part of tho very pile of buililinp in whisk -.
the Pope has his pylons., tutil,tinn Church beird
tars. Disaent then, if yeti dory! 1.
And as to the reslyirons clortnnrc which have
sprung up under the the ayslem of private judg
ment, is then:any thing more nououi and blas
phemous than klllillsprung up under the despotism
of Papacy. With whet grooo o once this
holy horror of false dontriue front the Wallop of
a Church, whose trinho, , perversions, end supir
ti Duette, hove done more trnn 41 infidelity to bring
religion into disrepute. -Weil may May gimlet that `-
they offer sacrifice in the lilass,for toy sacrifice
afresh, the Loolof The religion of Rome
is the religion of the\ Virgin. What another
Gospel have they made by making the Queen of
Reason, the great Geddeatbatiove k'attier end.
Son. Talk df Calvinistic dettadttor•obasing the
froe will, when the Jesuit creed Mot lb. tens
obedience is "to bees a corpser or "as the staff
of an aged man iu the hand, lit the' pries t, 4. And
' that _what we see to be white tie obould believe
I to be: blactif tho llierarrnical, Church no lie
does7L -
\Row is the outright denial or \ Chritt's Divini
ty any whit Read than thy. hriptied denial
which places the Virgin Nary his stern? any
wois'e then to melte a ficid ut the Pape, nay, to
tasks gods as 1)11[1101r0111. IS these of lho Pagano,
by woushipphig imaputattd plcturea! Is this
Unitarirn tenet that Christ is not GoiWony more
!Mocking than the Romish tenet that a wafer is
Gott—and that the priest tine made it to be
ttod?
,
. ,
'What winked impiety to pot the palest above ,
thirgeripturit--or to deceive the pi opts by grew- •
nit impostures which Coolie iill, Bible religion. •.,
mid. \ I have Ween crowds' of oil and young,
Ihronging to the marble Virgin to 1116 'Church ,
.f Bt. Atignstine'S at Rome, and hissing, the sil
ver foot, betanse they arc taught . that it is •
nitre-Wino image4-nittbers dipping a Gager in
the oil 'a n., the .liitir that bunts beside it, and
crossinglkeir children with Itin filtbf,eil—and- ,
poor Men hying down their peed. on thh shrine,
Find the rich 'twinging their jewelled gifts as vu- '
tive offerings.' Do•nut the prinito t euw.that this
marble statue is neither gamma., nor the .nark
f St. heir,
as they say? 'line san,thee Pope
himself, as lately at Naples, olliciated. in the
• •
Shameful imposture of the liquefying of. It.
.. • anoarius' blood? . .
\
dud let it be remembered that the aCcesisions -•.. •
in this church' are to such a f ail', of falarhootiv;
Makin, progress must be • great,'
'a mong - the
most ignorant, the hindrance inning setae Pa
gansheing chiefly ibis, that it Cella them to
worship a women. \ In the ehoreli of • the holy
l'araily it Nastfmtb, I asked it honk • Low the
trick hiintie of Joseph nod Mary, Mould 'bare
gotten tti.Loretto in 'linty. Ah! add he, Aloil
can do ill thing..!And ouch puerile tnitiite.as„
1 that apostate, church has taught, without num-
ter, have thmwn contempt on the .i,hlime Won-
der.workiuga•hf the Sou of Pod And ,erat in
Callow. one, I'll - ont] thin 'same pi ienthood; pea.
dling the twigs front the Old tdirr:., end outlive- .
ting room for thei..4lothr, 01 God. What no, ar-.. .;
remotion of pined regret at the errors COEI/61 ,
tjIICIA upon pritte\forilymttot. when the Bishop
Allows that the fooleries and ntoordltke which . •
Cie church compels men to belies-•, are innerad
ureably beyond there, all • • • , .
,'
, • What tenets moremischievous hi, society • k '
than that of doing tionanceto a priost--buyiag '.
Baena° in bill ivemoney—getting, absolution for ‘,.
crime bypayment of a fee—'getting release from ?
oaths and privilege for perjury? What doctrine 1
more blasphemous thou that of the tirleits poie .' 5 ."
er to forgive eta, which la claimed
.bY God . fee. -. ' 4
•
What' grosser immoralities were eier'.."litteiti - ,
in any comemeittak'..ALly : - .;m.t.r..4.C...1- , Trittl'ityttrit----f
eititolomments ? Bo that the pr....aeat Pop, in .
his bitter dips, was Moved to institute a cornt:....
mission for their correction. Let them ocineult
the antiquity \of 'their church aa to peiseetttioit
Joerelistious faith, add they will find that time
lit the mother of this, and that all-other yes
either patterned by it or prumpted 6EI on the
defe,n\ivii. Aid 'the only , connexion '.between
'infidelity and • pridestant chrinPunity; as we
Shall \ thou,. is that infidelity, has been found to
prpttat \a*Alnat Rome, and. so thristlanity has
done. Bop thin make iefidelliy add protestant
chriatianitY one? lf, ern; in the bosom' Of the,
\
profenarit Phurch, infidelity has 'appeared Wail
extentleiV;th is, nut therefore proved, owing to •
proleatiatili until yea can hhow that infidelity,
in not also dt il in the bosom of Papacy itself. '. .
Thirltishop chn genus with Modern rationalism. • •
'lour the teethe ny of Dir•Tocquoville, the Ito-
manihit nether-A e eays, “41n the pSesent tine,
mortifilian in any recoiling one, Roman (lathe- ' '
lice are sore to' lop into infidelity.7--Vol. 17 &.,
I point you to the \evidence that htifideUty;,.'
both in. the • State, and \io the Chereh e has teitell
-iidlectki by the very andabnuilnidiasof•':
Pcitery% Rho does not know Bud Booltdisilit anti fr . ,
1k 6 .1 \ Republicanism have'grown,in 'the' Pupal
States as in a very hot-bed? ttlegehianst took
toot where the free cant of ruitehak been. troth: .
den &tin under the iron heel of Newry,' Whence:' •
hive tlise Mischievous' dewiness, come tans' •:','
From the 'States of theßonsialt,Chialtels, from?`.
rips! Italy and Pranite , :riihk'aelirnewinl ' era*
informed' hot year-that there*iii'.3oo.ooopo-",
liticoUrefitgees In SortUnli, nearly' allfrenithir. ' \.'.
despotism of tower Italy. The Ameilikti Co.). - , i .‘
rut at Martell/es told , me that there were ten
thousand in
mi that city; mostly Italians, waiting .
for an, rased iu R ome .' , And iti t&latidellty in • -.
Refigi.on, who does not knoW that dm' French • ~
'coign of Ittniscio,.eith nil its atrocities, - , sprung ;
out of the corruptions andabates'of the Romish
Church. , The, argument vim a - sheet one: If • .
this Is Christianity, with Its deep - wimp, ileeep . - ,
lion, and barteivif boors down, wit n it. • Thorn ", . '' -
nix be no taligion. DU. test priests rue into- . ,
thecarnage \ and \bishops \ propose the 1ittrib1e....... - „: ,
measure of dethroning - the G .-..-.
ml of Ve&Veol
`Dom not the Biehdp boos 'ef the hlcoMilholice
Movement of Rouge •, in 'Germany, that.dpromg ' ,
net of the ;Popish r Impositions of the ..Iltily . - ,
..4111 wonder that itooge protested, and lo a lot- 1.
tos s to Bishop Arnold,"dtelared - AT ilctiV ercen bi-• • '
Beni in etch things' without, lasing \ lini. reap:lt' •-, .
Lae o : reason to lose."",This• breught,:about a .•
hew albeit° Church , which is new isifidel.-. • Dlit.'.
that I fidelity clone from'Eritlectintirin? ?free, - ..
it pretested,, but in its mendsion at rue* knot- • ,L . -
led Rouitiniem, it - rejected Vtaistieni,ty:ltself.. 1
13n bad Paindy , begotten Ibitiotisbuni;, anise the
time of theTheoPhltatithniplate of,Etstiesi, and - ...
os 'theat\ . Witi birth It totienitn;breocht forth. • '
the reign, ofteatioat,...and. the isiks,.4 . terror, it. .
ttoubly, , career \ ilia' world; It' la notoiioyes that ' •
abatis the'latelligent Rommisis ie.grance, and
Germany- 'infidelity abounds: , :Whi,tu - we have
sect\ the , Pope carried;, on the shoul i fern of Ala - r • ~...
cnmsoned'autralicrit, likei:doretitti. through," ...: 1-
St iteter's; \weduate found but, few :WIWI people Ar...-;
.to piiltoulageit, he piwicd,'.wiii chit'tly Wheel- i
dierr,`Rwelitigend'pFesenting arms ` , ..tlitinhal;: - .-1
leege n'ttenialvf 'the\ fact•thatac to the divine . - r.....,..,1
,
euthosityar the 101 t ',ltainsnists end Itation.,. ~ ;1
alistaalike reject id , ry tida l nt iiinetilti- - • 1 .:!',I
Mg the - ininifiaiency \ Wf . he Retiittier = -the has . ,'• i 1
pleading for \ traditieTp•odifr roT "rvaet*; hal . . • 1
troth alike nothing koi the Won/ ef.. Md.. - I.tetut,",. ..,',
lig,' the,Baticinalist,\ id the surceases of\tls ;.. '
Scriptures to be an itkientba of the , gairicil , ,of '," -,
Nice. that the ,Iteruish ' author titaphylus, de. ,'. '..,i
charm it to be skinvetdiott of\te Itefonuatimt ~.. . - '.
Roth cry itsPintion. ' H dOwns`` li en that PoPeri•-; .
••
-•'• ..
illinot acknowledge theiWonl of tied, man al,
timaterulediti not erca'so innit nano, it ht' '•
"i•,
thieltght, during itiCown dant rig • of,the World, .:-.,. \„. ;
and that when that Vital trail' trad'rseuenatell .: .-
\ - 1
by the Reformers, It was tramplc.l . cot ItyPonei ' . '..
ry. and charged upon 'Protestantism as Wpm° , -
insentient . The pretence of Romanian' Ittithit .
the Pope and the Priesthood Stand itt men ;is`c
. - .1
place of - the Bible,- and Ilia \ bast set ignsicteneef., \
.' 1
fectively as the Rationalism
that 4.Ftilvl9 B la' \ ,\''
' I say,to Americans, our fm.inslitidloilehaso. Nt s .*s
come f ro m the Bible, and ant safe otilkettont`• .; '1
cleave to this hook , give it peat eldiiiiWiJi : \' ' '• • .:.t
too world t . ,
wily, nein VU goal faith, we' op . , Slitil'Mloot:., \. ~I
est inittaity that Would beidelt.. dllbli f .f7iii. \, \ '
dad Bite 4rchliinbep, wooer_Natediest., \\ 4
in the Sistine Chapel it Rome, ert:eiribig_k , ' . ..., - ; ...,
die to get it blessed at thereat Of tliedielfilits. 't. l ..
returns to vindicate intoletioeaßz thePoisteadi \ ~,, -
his priesthood, nod to claim the felleitWitWing;\. ,
from us. We see him just now. laboring ORM'" A,..
Cure a. law which has beta tee of thenitAllierw, '•\ i
sinus secular abeam in other laschs4Anni
which shall the property s of all‘thelrpittffin - .:-.. s y s '
latiltations•Lelhis ollodal Suomesion fog piaPti-: ‘ , .7z . ,
! °11 1 . .7 * Akin g at Mu. en ilitSnetwP Wi4 10 4Wrder.:,.. 7 ...IL
among tus--a power. ottinhadaititi that of thee `
.. - - Ic
llorevutzient knelt liktk Whilldeteefpriestry : ..'• 4 . ";",
amitudiett in his twkirctin on thisieirbjeette hie .... ..t
. people... ~ .ft would be no difficult matter he . ••,:,
nye, “to have appended thoilicortaioaredik.
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