The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-11-20
JEsUITIsM AND REPUBLIcANIsM.


"MR. KISKEL-A professor of Democracy
from the University of Bonn, has arrived in
town, and all persons, under pain of being
kicked out of the Democratic party, are required
to call and pay him their respects Mr. kinkel
wants to raise two millions of dollars only, and
as the fools are not all dead yet, he pays the
Americans high compliment in appealing to
them on this interesting occasion What does
Kinkel want to do with this money! To revo-
lutionize Germany! To extinguish the armies
of Prussia, Bavaria, Austria, Russia, and other
things too numerous to mention and too won
derful to be expressed in the English language
"All you who>have more money than you
know what to do with, and whose funds are not
affected by the condition of the Ohio river, come
forward with a confding spirit such as Demo-
Gratis alone can feel, and give kinkel dona-
ton. Step up ladies and gentlemen-two mil
lions only asked for all Europe-gong going
Kinkels name to the conveyance-dog cheap
what chance for red-republican Propagandists
in Hamilton county !"-Cathoiic Telegraph.
We quoted paragraph last week, respecting
European Revolutionists, from the Catholic Free
mans Journal of New York. The Catholic
Telegraph of Cincinnati is an organ of the
Catholics in the West Both papers are under
the control, we believe, of Jesuits; both, it will
be noticed, entertain the same horror of Revo-
luton and Republicanism, and indulge in Ian
guage equally coarse and yiruent.
With the religious doctrines and ceremonies
of the Catholic Church, the National Era has
nothing to do. 1t was not established with
view to the discussion of polemics or ecclesasti-
cal institutions Its main purpose is the exhibit
ton and enforcement of the doctrine of human
rights; doctrine of equal interest to all men,
whatever their church connection or sectarian
ideas The various ways in which human
rights are infringed, the modes by which they
NAV be secured, the Instructions to their estab-
lishment, the influences hostile to them, are all
legitimate subjects for its discussions. 1t wages
w"r @seiest tlx's eUeOeies TO tteS European
tyrants or American 'oppressors apologists for
~ t.~e,sy- ss.r.-s, Supporters of the
usurpation of masterdom lay or ecclesiastical
The doctor of divinity who breaches the divine
right Of the Government de factO regardless of
its form or origin, cannot shelter himself under
his cloth from the denuncations of a true re-
publican. The priest who denies the right of
revolution or seeks insidiously to undermine
revolutiOnists. cannot save himself from con-
demnation by laying hold of the horns of the
altar And if there be any order. secular or
spiritual, whose rules require complete and i'm
pict subsection of the individual to authority,
and which. as II general rule, is found in close
alliance with arbitrary power, it should be ever
treated as the foe to popular freedom. There
is no more reason why we should wink at
hierarchy which inculcates despotc principles
than at an aristocracy which does the same.
Nay-there is more reason for exposing and
asSang its power than for attacking the latter.
by just so much as the poison that reaches the
heart is more to be dreaded than that which
confines its action to the surface.
We arraign the Catholic Hierarchy for its
cnmity to the cause of popular rights. 1t may
be said that in former ages, it was at times
the protector of the people against kingly
power True, so long as it was necessary to
have an ally to secure itself against the en-
croachments of that power. 1t may be urged
that, while the Puritans were prosecuting the
Quakers in New England, it was tolerating all
were exceptional cases The Purtans and the
Priests were both inconsistent with their own
principles. Again, we are told that the priests
are goodrepubcan citizens, patriotic supporters
of American institutions Their policy is aexi-
BILE enough to adapt itself to circumstances.
They are feeble minority and dare not openly
attempt all their principles would dictate In
countries where they bear sway freedom is i'm
possible The slave of the altar il is well
SAID " rs the slave Of the throne that is of
the powers that be-" Revolution in Europe en-
counters no more formidable foe than the priest
hood; and, if YOU would see the true principle
and policy of the Catholic hierarchy fully ex-
hbitcd, turn your eyes to Rome the seat of its
supreme head. Grosser oppression of mind and
body nowhere prevails. And yet an Ameri-
can Catholic, editor of the Freeman's Journal.
is shameless enough to glory in it, and to pour
ridiculc on Incorporation made in some quarters
to memorabilia the Pope in behalf of religious
liberty In fact says this bastard American.
We wish very much that Professionals in this
country would get up petition sufficiently cx-
tensve in it's signatures, and influential in the
character of the names attached to enttlc il
to formal answer from the court of Rome
From the nature of the case, the answer TO the
petition would demand insertion in all the
Protestant papers and so much of truth as it
would contain would be IA rare godscnd to our
Protestant fcllow-citizens We can imagine
the tone of an answer to petition for freedom
to make new religions in Italy We can inn
agine how the Holy Father would inform the
petitioners. first of all. that God had made n
Revelation to man on the subject of religion.
and that from the nature of the case. this Reye-
lation must be distinct, easy to be understood
in what it commands and requires, and COM
mitted to an authoritative and visible Judge for
its Interpretation and its keeping This would
be general answer az to why, being in pos
session of the true religion and the pure Reye-
laton, Italy should not be opened by the act of
any of its Sovereigns to the propagation of
doubts uncertainties, falsehoods and the Pam
dora s-box-full of evils that, whether under the
name of Professionalism or what not follows the
withdrawal of the light and authority of Gods
own teaching
And yet there are people who tell US that the
y IL.
views of Civil and Religious Liberty No it
is unchanged in spirit and policy 1t does not
recognise, it never will recognise the right of
the Individual to Freedom of Opinion and Con-
seience Roma IL still lie kaa,, :Jo.I r. CT