The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-10-30

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gion if you
| to undertake it, ,-. ,-so universal cry o
| Indignation be uttered against her, and oul
very women and children be in arms to de-
| clare defiance and death to the insoent nva
der! Do not all know how our blood boil.
within US when England, upon religious prin'
ciples, insists upon abolishing slavery, mere
civil institution among US? 1t is bad enough
to talk about debating civil government to
Mexico, and it seems to us that we have about
as little business with the constitution and
form ofgovernment she may choose to live un-
der as our city bakers have with the question
whether the Mexican women cook torti las or
biscuit for their husbands and children but
when it comes to invading the sphere of con-
science, to dictate federation of religion, it is
time for every man woman and child through
out the land to enter a solemn protest against
the shedding of one drop Of blood for such a
purpose. A IS soon as Mexico desires federation
she will doubtless, of her own free will, out of
choice adopt it; but that liberation which is to
be dictated to her, through the slaughter Of
her citizens, the destruction of her cities, the
desolation Of her fields and the dissertation of
her affairs, she will resist SO long Mexican can
bear sword or priest of Mexico can pro-
cure copy of the New Testament. That we
may do the Mississippan no injustice, we
quote from it few sentences declaring
distinctly its doctrines. After stating that 1--WE
hat hoir
Two-rHIRDs of their territory" and that they
still refuse to treat for peace, it proceeds:
"We must no,c proclaim peaee ao,th the trun,-
pet.-We must establish a government for
them-restore every article and clause of their
constitution of 1924, except the biasphemous
article that established national religion
That article. and that only should be abrogated,
SO that the Mexican may look up to his Crea-
tor as his own soul may prompt him, and may
turn away from the dolls he has been robbed to
decorate, if he choose. Appoint Scott as
Governor General; he was born and educated
under the compact Of these States, and is devo-
ted to constitutional policy. Appoint local
Goyernors-establisha Judiciary-Iet their own
laws be administered without bribery and by a
ajury. Let the Bible be stereotyped in Span
ish and circulated among them, and schools
formed to educate their children. Let the ex-
penses of this unavoidable establishment be
levied upon the towns, haciendas, ranches and
priests, and if it need be levied at the point of
the bayonet!"
Children educated and religion tolerated
sat the point of the bayonet." Well might an
exclamation end snch sentence, and point
such proposition.
1t is true the Missssippian afterwards pro-
ceeds to say that ''the inclusion of the priests
and the exclusion of one article only CT their
constitution may be elements of the projec, of
our own conception, and will be considered as
introduced with great dffidence" Well might
it be introduced "with great diffidence :"
but this ''incusion of the Priests'' is SO like
the Washington Unions scheme to rob the
Mexican churches, and smacks so much Of
great consideration, that it seems part of set
tied plan and deliberate purpose to overrun the
Mexican Catholics religion shy the persuasion
Of the svord." But it pcoceeds:
sIf it be not, it ought to be known that the
Mexican is not branch of the Catholic church
but from having in corporated in its rites the or
gies of the natives, it has been cast off from
the care and jurisprudence of the Pope"
Well this is news to US. When did his
holiness the Pope, excommunicate the whole
Mexican church, which is national church
An event of such transcendenr importance
would and did certainly challenge the atten-
lion and astonishment of both the christian and
political world. Thousands and tens of thous-
lnds of copies Of so important a document as
that accommodation must be extant; and
where is one of them! An intelligent Ca,ho-
lie informs us that it does not exist. But the
paper proceeds:
ave cannot perceive what injury can follow
he experiment. Already through the false
moods of their leaders and priests, the Mexi- |
FANS are aroused to resist what they are induc-
ID to believe a religious invasion, crusade a |
yainst their affairs, and war between races. |
The effect deprecated has been produced. To
proclaim federation cannot make things worse
md then to call on the priests to dsgorge their
ll-gotten treasures-being two thirds of the
wealth of the country-would be the first and
most potent thing to change the political phisper
1t their Confessional They are sordid beasts"
Where is the evidence Of all this! Is it sol |
Ifit be, we should suppose those who are of
he church of Fenelcn, of Bossuet, of Lafay-
lite, OF Carroll and Castor, would with one
accord proclaim to the whole earth that they
lad neither part nor lot with a church whose
ministers according to the elegant vernacnlar
II the MississiPPian, 'sare serdid beasss.n1 In
conclusion we state these two facts as fixed,
settled and conclusive: FrrsL. the attempt 10
ay the sins Of this war upon the Mexican
priests or Catholic religion, is denial Of his