Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-07-24

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gula session Of each Congress- and OsE DoLLAR for the
final session of each Congress and the foreach Extra
Session-payable in all cases in advance.
"We had thought that Republicans who repudated and
abhoed connexon of Church and State would have very
profound respect for what are called Gods temples which
are, fact, but State establishments, supported by poi
clans for secular purposes and Of which the State claims the
property.
We have vet to learn that intelligent Catholics of this
country have particular sympathy Tor such establishments
however well they may think OF the religious doctrines taught
in Them or of the purity of individuals connected with them.
If they have free to confess have not We
oil opinion that God has very little do with such establish
nents. Louisville Denocrt
The resemblance which marks the principles and
tendencies of Progressive Democracy in this
country, and the atrocities of the Jacobin demo-
crazy Of the French Revolution, has filled many Of
our rejecting countrynien with anxiety and alarm.
The Jacobins of France commenced with righ-
teous war against ruthless oppression and Gov
eminent corrupt even to rottenness, and ended
in subverson of social order, of private and pub
lie justice, of all law but that of the mob and last
of Religion itself. Kindred spirits are animated
and moved by similar feelings and impulses in all
ages and on every theatre, however widely separa-
ted. Thus the Jacobin of this country, with no
political wrongs to redress, with no lost rights to
contend for, but obeying the law of his nature, has
exhibited the same enmity to all the conservative
institutions of society, and is now beginning to
assail the great safeguard of society, Religion.
If any should deem us uncharitable let them read
the paragraphs prefixed, from leading Democratic
journal of the West In denouncing Gods tenn
ples the editor sustain the of his lead
er here, when the sequesraton ofthe Mexican church
property suggested. In his alacrity to support
party project, however atrocious, he did not wait
to see how the idea would be received by the eoun
try. That the Government was obliged to clear its
skirts of the odious scheme, and the originator of
it himself compelled by the public indignation to
react II, does not eXtenuate the suggestion, or the
readiness of the Jacobin press to advocate it. Even
though i" Gods temples stood in the way, what
were they to Republicans who repudiated such
;. establishments -
In the days of the French Revolution, it was dis
covered by the Jacobin leaders that even the little
remnant that was left among them of veneration for
what they had been taught to believe the laws OF
God, operated as check to the progress of their
licentious principles, and might prevent them secur-
ing to themselves the unlimited power at which
they aimed. In order to get rid OF this trouble
some superstition at once, they decreed that
what were called Gods temples in which those
laws were taught, were " in fact but State estab-
lishments," to be "repudiaed and abhorred" by
all who desired to be considered good /" Republi-
cans" They proclaimed that the only Divinity
entitled to Temple was human Reason, and, as.
The best representative Of that Divinity they forth
with inaugurated, with great pomp, notorious but
beautiful courtesan the Goddess of Reason,
thereafter to become the only legitimate object of
worship From that moment crime succeeded
crime with such rapidity as to distance all efforts
OF the chronicler to keep pace with them.
We are no Catholics" but, we are free to con-
fess, we nevertheless feel respect for every tenn
pie in which the worship Of Supreme Being is
cultivated; and so far are we from agreeing with
the Louisville Democrat in the opinion that i" God
has very little to do with such establishments" we
believe that those who diligently seek Him there
will be sure to find him. The adherence of the
savage doctrine that teaches the lawfuness of desc
Grating the temples of the Most High under any
pretext is not confined to the class of Christians
called :. Catholics" though we believe it to be a
catholic feeling, in the true sense of that term.
There are few even of those whom the Louisville
editor claims as " Republicans who may profess
no religion, who would not shrink, we hope, from
defling what any of their feow-creatures regarded
as holy although it might be called Gods temple"
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