Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-12-06


their errands amid our schools and churches and
free farms. When the moral sense of a relig-
ously bred community revots at such barbarty,
and religious men, and moral men, and humane
men, without consultation or studied agreement.
but as God-sent impulse declares, that they will
not obey laws which break the past which binds
man to man, which destroy the foundations of all
law, which set man against his own conscience
and against the God that planted conscience
then they are the agtators that taunt Christian
men with the heresy of a "higher law and scott
at all the considerations of religions humanity.
But this, too, is but another act in the drama
that is fast fastening to its close. 1t behooves
all men that can be reasoned with to remember
thati the progress of free sentiment oA this SUBJ
ject, there has been but one direction. For thir-
ty years everything that has opposed the current
of antl-siavery feeling has been swept down by
it. There are no signs that it will be otherwise
in time to come. Let those on the other hand
take courage, who have pledged themselves to
the work of God in all its forms in this crooked
and perverse generation Hope deferred may
make many heart sick. But they who assured
ly believe that they follow the banner of God,
and who have seen that banner, though agitated
and rent n many conflict surrender never. but
again and again emerging victorious from the
storm and battle let all such once again take oath
offealty, and be true to humanity, and so true to
their country and to their God.
The No-POpery Agitation ia EngIand---
Letter from the Premier.
The excitement caused by the recent move
ments of the Pope RACES with unabated fury in
England. The clergyman of the established
Churches arc holding meetings in all the proyin-
ces, which are reported in full BY the daily pa
pers. Lord John Russell, the prime Minister,
has written letter to the Bishop of Durham
which is quite as indignant any of the speech
es of the clergy; but he hits the Puyseyites
even harder than he does the Pope. Here is his
letter:
My DEAR LORD agree with you in consid-
ering the late aggression of the Pope upon our
PROFESSIONALISM as insolent and nsiduous,' and
| therefore feel as indignant as you can do upon
the subject.
not only prom ted to the utmost of my pow
er, the claims of the Roman Catholics to all civil
rights, butt thought it right. and even desirable
that the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Cath
olics should be the means of giving instruction
to the numerous Irish emmgrants in London
and elsewhere, who, without such help, would
have been left in heather ignorance.
This might have been done, however without
any such innovation as that which we have now
seen.
1t is impossible to confound the recent meas
ures of the Pope with the division of Scotland
into dioceses by the Episcopal Church, or the ar
rangement OF districts in England by the Wes-
leyan Conference.
There is an assumption of power in all the
documents which have come from Rome-a pre-
tension to supremacy over the realm of England,
and claim to sole and undivided sway, which
is inconsistent with the Queens supremacy, with
the rights of our bishops and clergy, and with
the spiritual iIdependeneo of the nation, as as
serted even in Roman Catholic times.
confess, however, that my alarm is not equal
to my Indignation. 1880
Even lift shall appear that the ministers and
servants of the Pope in this country have not
transgresscd the law, feel persuaded that we
are strong enough to repel any outward attacks
The liberty of Protestansm has been enjoyed
too long in England to allow of any successful
attempts to impose a foreign yoke upon our minds
and consciences. No foreign prince or poten-
tate will be permitted to fasten his letters upon
nation which has so long and SO nobly vindi-
Gated its right to freedom of opinion, CIVIL poit-
ical and religious.
Upon this subject, then, will only say that
the present state of the law shall be carefully
examined, and the propriety OF adopting any pro-
ceedings with reference TO the recent assump-
tons Of power deliberately considered.
There is danger. however. which alarms me
much more than any aggression of foreign SOW
reign.
Clergymen Of own Church, who have SUBJ
scribed to the thirty-nine articles, and ac-
knowledged in explicit terms the Queen supre-
macy, have been the most forward in leading
their focks, step by step, to the very verge of
the precipice.' The honor paid to saints, the
claim of infallibilty for the church, the supersti-
tous use of the sign of the cross the muttering
of the liturgy so as to disguise the language in
which it is written, the recommendation of auricu-
lar confession, and the administration of penance
and absolution-all these things are pointed out
by clergyman of the Church of England as wor-
thy of adoption, and are now openly recommend
ed by the Bishop of London, in his charge 10 the
clergy of his diocese.
What then is the danger to be apprehended
from foreign prince of no great power, conpar-
ed to the danger within the gates from the un-
worthy sons of the church of England her
self.
| have little hope that the propounders and
trainers Of these innovations will desist from their
insidious course. But rely with confidence on
the people of England, and ] will not bate jot
of heart or hope so long as the glorious princi-
pies and the immortal martyrs of the reformation
Shall be held in reverence by the great mass of
nation which looks with contempt on the num-
meries OF superstitiyn, which are now making to
confine the intellect and enslave the soul.
| remain with great respect, &C.,
j. RUSSELL.
Downing street, November 4th.