Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-07-10


over quiet, submissive, and most humble W
subjects obeying without enquiry; pay p
ing without questioning the right OF de- n
manding, any amount OF taxes, the prince s.
choose 10 dictate and submissively Civ 8
ing up their sons to the army, at the die Il
lalion of ruler. For the prince is abso- 4
lutte, and uncontrolled, and sovereign by h
divine right over all Where Roman t
ism reigns, the princes are absolute des-
pots The people are nothing The j
princes dispose Of the people, as they do
Of the horses in their stall, or the dogs in {
their kennel !! The prince is absolute and
despotic-- but subject 10 the priest only
For say the canons of Romanism. -"a
priest is as superior to magistrate, as a
man is superior to beast And the pope
is as superior to a chief magistrate, as
God Is superior to a man ~ Hence,
Schlegel concluded in his popular lee
lures, that Professionalism must be put
down in order TO secure their thrones to
the tyrants of catholic Europe. For
wherever Protestantism existed, there was
an end to legitimacy-there the Holy AL !
lance faiedin its influence; there liber-
ty,-that is RIGHTEOUSNESS, -Teigned with |
the people. Wherever Professionalism ex-
listed, there the priest was deposed; there
the people read there they would think
for themselves, there they demanded the
right of representation they deter
mined they would RULE themselves -
Hence SchlegaI declared that no throne
on the continent OF Europe was safe,
where Protestant principles Prevailed
Hence Romanism and Legitimacy We're
identified; while Professionalism and Iiber-
ty civil and religious, were equally ident-
flied, and the object of unbounded hatred
and opposition
/ will conclude this with an anecdote.
A particular friend OF ours, missionary
of the Evangelical Association to France,
gave US, the other day, the following mar
ratIve In a late visit to Rome, | waited
on the doctors of the De Propaganda
knew personally, Father Vespers, who
was formerly Roman priest Of New
York He is French priest They
differ widely from your Irish bigoted
priests, and your Italian deistic priest
The Irish priest drinks, swears, and com
mlts all licentious crimes. The Italian
priest is an in6del, and makes trade O
Il "
his shop and Office in Sicily. But g
French priest is an easy joval, theatre
going, badinage-talking and licentiou;
man of the world, by no means bigotec
papist.
asked father Vespers 10 give me al
account of their foreign missions. Fl
shook his head he could not give an,
account | pressed him to show me tn
books; | would save him the trouble c
copying them. NO. said father Yes
pers, "you can obtain no informatio
from our people" And he shrugged u
his shoulders, and smiled quizzically, an
took his snuff.
Immediately repaired to my friend
house. the Baron b, the Prussia
minister at the Court of Rome. He is
noble minded, intelligent, and truly piou
christian. told him of my intervie,
with the doctors of the Roman De Pro-
uganda. He smiled as told him that
could get nothing out of them, in refe
ence to their missions in the East Indie
Africa, and North America "My friend
said the Prussan ambassador, "the fact
ihis,-ihey will not make public wh
they are doing. l have lived here seve
al years; and know their movement
They soiU not publish what they are d.
ing. They dare not do it. l will te
n YOU what have discovered them doin!
and | assure you on my honor, you wi
II find it too true The De Propa ganda
Rome, and the De Propaganda of tn
South of France, and Of Vienna, are pu
III ting forth all their might, and contribu
ing immense sums annually, for Tw
grand purposes; namely, TO ocerrun, an
paraIyzc, and proselyte Great Britia
and The United States! They know,
added the Prussian Baron, "that if the
can only paralyze the efforts of these tv
great nations, they gain mighty vict
Tyl Now" added he, with great ear
estuess, mark it well,-the Roman cat
Ole missions, guided and impelled by Il
terrible Jesuits are making last al
a giant effort, to secure Britain, and yol
country, the u. s. of America, TO pap
power. No money, no labols are spar
to overturn your institutions, and tai
possession Of your free states You S
the splendid prospects held out. If th'
can only over-run you, and gain the po'
er in your national government, then th'
have all The cast continent of AmeriC
under their ghostly despotism IL ha
only to add to this, that in the De Prop
gaAda Of the South Of France, at Lyol
the sum of one hundred and fifty housa
dollars have, the last year, been raised
penny societies, and sent to propagate t
Roman catholic religion in the Unit
States!r
My Reverend brethren-my felix