The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-12-04
"a NYERITED REBUKE,"
Under this head the Albany Argus says !:

Under this head the Albany Argus says;
A MER1TED REBUKE.-The New York |
Sun, neutral paper, notices the efforts ofGen.
Duff Green, of the Baltimore Pilot, and his |
coadiutors in this state, TO get up a political
crusade against the Catholic religion and its |
professors in this country in the following just
and strong terms:
"The time has gone by when there is any |
thing to fear, in enlightened countries, at all
events, from the civil power of the priesthood
either of the Romish or Protestant churches.
And if there was any cause for fear, ii would |
be from the latter rather than from the former, |
because they are immeasurably the most nu
merous and powerful. But the pretence is too
ridiculous to talk about. The opposition to
any union of the civil and ecclesiastical power
was planted at the very birth of this nation. 1t
has grown with our growth and strengthened
with our strength, until it has become con-
stituent part Of our institutions, and can never
be separated till the whole fabric falls Let the
Pope or any other ecclesiastic summon all the
power he can muster, and attempt TO make the
so much talked of attack upon our freedom; we
venture 10 assert that we need not go out the
pale of the Roman Catholic church itself to find
sufficient force TO protect us from harm. We
have never been able to discover but that the
members of that church were as fond of liberty
as those ofany other.
awe make these remarks selely to show the
ridiculous absurdi;y of holding uD this bugbear
before the American people, and not with any
disposition to enter into religious controversies.
We meddle net with theological creeds or mat
tiers OF faith. Such subjects we are content to
leave to the Rev. John Quincy Adams, the Rev.
Duff Green, and other clerical gentlemen"
Ce,nIENT.-We are not surprised at seeing
such an article in the Argus In the first place
the controversy between Bishop England and the
editor of this paper, commenced in an attempt
on the part Of his lordship to control the Catho-
lie vote in favor of Mr.. Van Buren,, who was
the party candidate of the Argus; and as the
editor of that paper is party man, it is natural
that his sympathies, democrat as he Processes to
be, should all be on the side of his lordship. In
the next place, the editor Of the Argus is much
a party man, that he always follows what he
believes to be public sentiment We recollect
that in 1924, he was the devoted partisan of Mr.
Crawford, and that he was then violently op-
posed to mister Jackson, and spoke of him ir
h much less guarded terms than he now does of thu
# Protestant clergy, although, when this SAM
HttotcT OuCHoOftJ phitil huA-iDA
efforts, became the President, and dispensed
(; the power and patronage of the Government
! the same editor of the Argus denounced US il
znmeasured terms, because we dared to question
the prcpriety of some of his conduct. Again. il
( 1892, when the Richmond Enquirer jealousy
advocated emancipation in Virginia, we opposed
it, and the editor OF the Argus up to very lat,
day, denounced us in bitter terms for agtatin,
1 the question of abolition; yet that same paPe
relied more on its opposition to a5oitionisln thai
on any thing else in the late election.
l. 1t has been fortune to be opposed by tn
J Argus upon almost all occasions; but if we lool
bark it sill be seen that while ours has beer
: an independent course, fearlessly opposing pow
II er when in the wrong, and vindicating the right
4 regardless of whether 1t was in the majority o
in the minority, the editor of the Argus wa
governed by his party, or by his party leader
: We are therefore not surprised TO find that GU
course is rebuked by that print, because we ex
e pect when the battle has been fought and won
: to it ii lie into column and claim to have LEI
e the charge, and accomplished the victory. Eve
i now, although it has republished the Suns arti
= Gle declaring that there Is to fear from tn
r, Priesthood of the protestant, than the Romis
M Church, with such strong commentator, we d
- not believe that the Argus will openly avow, o
re thatit even entertains the obnoxious opinio
'g here asserted. The Argus cannot believe tina
70 our free institutions in any danger from tn
y, protestant clergy II is true that Composition
id any union oftte ciUu and ecclesiastical po,oe
~ and it was SO planted because we were prt
e. testant people, and this is the distinction betwec
= be protestants and catholics The protestaI
is in favor Of liberation in religion of the Ere,
n dom of opinion, the liberty of consci enee, and
OF the press, all Of which are denounced and pr
no r.bed by the catholic creed, as we hav. full
l. demonstrated by extracts from the present pope
=, encyclical letter. Il follows therefore that Il
d. question before us is not Of religious faith, but
il politics. because, the Church Of Rome is essel
rt tally political institution, the extension of i
- = power in this country must necessarily modil
70 our institutions by ENGRAVING upon them the p
. litical principles Oft the "unchangingly church
1t is this aspect Of the question, that we PR
pa pose to discuss, and will not be deferred fro
il the discharge Of our duty in this respect by ed
G. torials written by Roman Catholic priests an
e. inserted in the ssneutral Sum-" although the
10 NAV be transferred 20 the columns Of the Argu
endorsed by that paper, and repeated by its echoe
D. INsUBoRDINATIoN: II Story Of Baltimore,
the author of the "Stsbordinats,"
IL Is the the title Of an interesting story, to a
Is pear in numbers, at regular intervals Of abo
is two weeks, and the whole to be contained
five or six numbers. The story is an illustrate
IN Of real life in Baltimore. The first number
Just published, and for sale at Knight & Go
D. burns. The author of the tfSubordinate," ar
lg Of sInsubordnation," is we'll known to the pu
IN lie. who will not fail to give his new werk
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