Litchfield enquirer., 1835-09-03

and republican, BnegIfntlDnss and the varl~ ous powers of assimilation, aud we are pre- pared cheerfulIy to abide ahe conseqnen- ces. If in these circumstances the Pro- tesiant religion cannot stand before the Catholic. let it 20 down, and we will sound no alarm, and ask no aid, and nuke no complaint. It is no ecclesiastical quarrel to, which we would call the attenti6n ot the American nation. g 3, ,,ts szs :sAss.
 " Nor would consent that the civil md rights Of the Catholics should b0 abridged or violated. sgnaturalized citi- xens, to all that we enjoy We bid them well come, and we wo0ld have their property aud rights protected with the same impartiali@ ty and efficacy that the property and rights of every other denomination are protec- ted and we should abhor the interposi- ton of. lawless violence to injnre, the pro- perty or control the rights of Catholics as vshemently as lift were directed against 'Protestan.s and their religion. For when
 the day comes that lawiess force prevails. argument aud free inquiry are ended; and law and courts are impotent and useless, and liberty Is extinct, and anarchy by its ,errors will compel men to call in the pro-
 tection of despotic power to save them
 from the ,pprsaing hell: Thelats yiolence done to the Catholic property at Charles
 townis regarded with regret and abheE- .renco by Pfotestanls and patriots through
 out tlse land, though the excitement which
 produced 1t had no relation whatever to religions opinions, and no connection with any religious denomination of Christians. x" We are equally opposed to any at- tempt to cast odiam upon Catholics ofthe present generation for any maxim, doc- irines nrspracticass of the past ages phick
 are now byitke competent GatkOrity off sithc pope 0r aa gsney0g leoaneil 1isaoowed bylh;s h0ssneSs or 9bgad council, THE CATHoLlc 'CHURca Is AccoUNrA y, whatever iiiay be the personal opinion of particplar inai-
 yiduals or particular departments of shatSG great community. isea1 \ se.,s
 !" Il is, to the political claims and char
 actert of the Catholic religion, and its Church aud State alliance with the politi- cat and ecclesiastical. governments of El-
 rope hostile to liberty, aud the tendency. opon Ioar republican institutions of dood- line the nation suddenly with emigrants of this description, oil whom for many years
 European Influence may be exeried with
 such ease, and certainly, and pcver, that
 ws call the attention, .0f the people of this
 nation.s Did the, Ca.holics regard ihenl- selves only as one bfgmnny denomination
 Uf 0iHissiasiss rUttteuuuty tsv suquut rtgmIs and privileges, fh6fe would be no such
 cause for apprehension while they pcacea- biy sustained themselves bytheir own ar- pImiehts and well doing. Buti if 'Catho- lies arc taught to believe thar their Church is the only Church of Christ, out of whose aenclosure, none can be sayed,-- shat none may read lhe Bible but by per- mission of the iprieslhood, and no one Do permitted tpflnndersland IL and worship God according to the dictates ofstheir own corscience, that hereby is1 a' capital Of fence not to Do tolefat6d, bmf pInisbcd by the civil bower with disfranc tJiscnGff, .leat, and conliscatiioeii,i tiieii,i of tho pope and the councils of tEe. church are
 infAllible. and her srighls of ecclesiastical jurisdiction universal, and az far as possi- bleo and sxpedient may be of right. and
 ought to beta matter of dusy, enforced by
 the civil power, ,---that 0the pope belongs
 the right of fDterfsrehce with the political
 concerns of nations. enforced by his au-
 thoriiliy over tbe consciences of Catholics,
 and, his power tp ,cofroborate or cancel lheir oath of allegianre.r and to sway them 10 obedience ofsinsarresti0p by the power Iuf life or death eternal. .l # such. n say, arc ti,es haxims, aDoscca by ker. ponsifs,
 soscsiOSed by Her council. K stssvotgped or Asi. ancient records, G9D6cafed q '6y herl ss6sf
 approDed dhtlt t0rs, siiklsistfated in az 33Ss by Aer, History, and stilll iUNREPEAEEp and still aessd i,on in the armed prphibiiion
 of free iDqpiry and religious liberty, and the punishment Of heresy whatever her power remains uhbroksn saifl these athingS aee so, is itinyidiods and sislit s6per6uoGs to call tho attention 0f lhss nation 10 tl5e bearing of such denohiination upon our civil and religious instiiisionss and equal righisl It is inc rigkt of sELF-PkEsER- NATION, and the denial of Is TREAsoN9r the INFATUATi0N or, FOLLY, '" 4lltass8
 We believe there is no man. having the ordinary intallecinnhl capacities of man. and sxercisi0g the ordinary power ofsre- fieciion, who will not feel the force of the. eOnelusiJns tO which shsswriter arrives. r Let thOss wlD bayS witnessed tbb opera lions of the priesibood in tho ciIy of New-
 York, during tho last two years. and Hho have, seen similar operations. but. on \ sipl- liar scale. in otber. cities, say uwhetlar ahey do not, ,silh Df. Beeeher, feel thnt n shere snaa .h . < q.