The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-29 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1852.

THE RADICAL CANDIDATES AND THEIR
ROMISH SUPPORTERS.
IF the page of history could be sealed up, if the
press throughout the world could be gagged, and
postal communication between various countries
could be prohibited, we might possibly be made to
believe that Popery was that mild, conciliatory, and
tolerant system, which it was represented to be by
Mr. RICHARD SHIEL and the various speakers at
the meeting of the Roman Catholic electors on
Tuesday last. But we cannot do any of these
things. We cannot, with Mr. SHIEL, ignore his-
tory. We cannot, with him, arrive at the conclu-
sion that, because in Great Britain Popery has
allied itself with democracy, and can boast of having
supported every measure tending to " Civil and
Religious Liberty," that it is not essentially a per-
secuting and intolerant system. We are compelled
to regard it as a whole; and, if we find that, in
countriev its irlatlOnoo le °moll, it afoot° tho
meekness of the lamb, and babbles of its liberality;
but, where it has the giant's power, it exercises the
tyranny of the giant, we are driven to accept as
true the description given of it in its own text books,
and to conclude that it only waits for the necessary
amount of predominancy to enable it to become the
enemy of the spiritual and social liberties of the
human race. Mr. SHIEL tells us that " the
Catholics advocated the removal of all disabilities
under which their dissenting brethren laboured
some years ago." The Catholics and " their dis-
senting brethren !" Why the very essence of the
" Catholic" creed is persecution of all dissent. Not
to accept of the dogmas of Rome is to be guilty of
•heresy and we are told that where Popery has
sufficient power, heresy is to be punished with
-death. The very w ord " Catholic," -as explained by
by the Church of Rome, implies that all are in error
who presume to interpret the doctrines of christianity
differently from the members of that church. Our
Protestant Bible, we are told, is -a forgery, and,
wherever Rome has the powereit is condemned as a
fabulous and delusive record. In this very coun-
try, where Popery is asserted to be so weak and so
tolerant, we have had it lately asserted, on the
authority of the London Times, that the Protestant
Bible has been publicly burnt by Roman Catholic
authorities in the streets of London. This is
-toleration 1 This is carrying out the principles
of "Civil and Religious Liberty!"
We refuse to allow the genius of the Roman
Catholic religion—or rather system—to be judged
of by-the doings of its followers in this country.
The ileading feature of Popery is absolute., sub-
mission to the sovereign Pontiff. Who differs
from (Rome, differs from God. Politically, Rome
is pliant.; doctrinally, she is inflexible—in every
country ,semper eadem. Give her hut the power
in Great Britain, and God's own word would be
a -sealed tbook, and its teachings only be permitted
to ooze through the slime of man's interpolations.
We had pointed out to us, at the meeting of
Tuesday last, by Mr. J. B. ASPINALL, who spoke
with the ardent zeal of a convert, the happy condi-
tion enjoyed by the people in the Roman Catholic
countries of the world; and Belgium was particu-
larly instanced. " There," the speaker said, " the
ministers of all denominations were entitled to equal
support, and, -if any difference was. made, it was
made in favour of the Protestant minister, because
he might possibly get:married, and have a family
We prefer turning our regards nearer
to support."
to Rome itself, the fountain-head of Popery, and
from which we have just been importing Cardinal
Archbishops and Bishops, :and the Canon Law.
What has been the most recent instance of the
action of that Jaw, as carried out at Florence, within
call almost of the fountain-head of catholicity and
of—toleration ? We give as our answer the fol-
lowing passage from an advertisement which ap,
peared in the London Times of Thursday last :
" PROTESTANT ALLIANCE.—The Earl of Shaftesbury
chairman. At a meeting of the Managing Committee, held
this day, it was resolved:—That thiscommittec, having been
made acquainted with the trial of FRANCISCO and ROSINI
MADIAI at Florence, and with the sentence pronounced
upon them, condemning the husband to 56 months at the
galleys with hard lalour, and the wife to 44 months at
the ergastolo, or female galleys, with hard lc
each of them to three additional years of sv,rveill
the police, with all the costs of the trial, FOR THE IM-
,IME OF POSSESSING THE BIBLE, AND LEAVING
_AUNION OF THE Roasisu CHURCH, hereby ex-
their grief and detestation at the iniquity of the
-4 the inhumanity of the
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