Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1853-05-12

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Thus much by way of parenthesis be-
] fore introducing the article of the En-
quircr:
The excitement of the past ten or
twelve days, among our citizens, has been
produced first by the insulting language
of street preacher against the females
Of the Catholic Church; and secondly by
the want of Judgement on the part of the
Mayor, in suppressing in advance what
he thought Was going to be discourse
provocative of bleach of the peace,
and using a special police force to
protect Catholic procession-part of a
ceremony in laying corner stone OF
new Catholic Church, on the same day
that the street preacher was put down
This street preacher, who is styled
Reyerend-and let us say, by those who
take the name of God in vain every day
and almost every hour Of the week-used
in his first harangue, language grossly
insulting TO every Catholic hearer who
might be listening or passing al the time;
the substance of which was that every
Catholic wife is whore, every daughter
|, prostitute, every born Catholic a bas-
tard, and every Catholic Orphan Asylum
a mere re fuge for the bastard children OF
priests. Nuns and unmarried women Of
the Catholic church. If he had his coat
torn, or his nose pulled, or his head broke
for using such language in public thor
oughfare, who would want us to SYM
pathize with him? Were Jesuit or Cath
olic priest to get up in the same place
and make use OF similar language in
regard to Methodist, Presby terrain or
Baptist wives, daughters and orphans,
how long do you suppose. reader, he
would have whole bone in his body?
There is sense in all things, and time
and place for all things. If man, under
the right of free speech is to be a black
guard aid use language in public
thoroughfare calculated to provoke
breach of the peace, and the offender
:. should be soundlv threshed, are sensible.
and quiet, and peaceable citizens expected
to svmpathize with such a scamp. pay
for his torn garments, and turn the city
upside down to put dimes into his starv-
ing pocket? For the credit ofthe city and
its inhabitants we hope not. We dono
think it becoming freemen, jealous of
the right of free speech, and which we
hope they will always feel, TO exercis an
: unusual quantity of sympathy for such
a person. Look at home! Do not our
!, wives and daughters have the most friend
ly intercourse with the wives and daugh
ters of Catholics? Would we, as Pro-
testants. allow that, if we thought that
: Catholic wives and daug hters were whores
and prostitutes. We speak plainly, for
: the occasion demands it. We do not be-
| lieys it, and therefore, the sociable and
5 friendly relation and social intercourse
!, of our Protestant and Catholic families.
5 ''Let us 60 step further: We insist
l that the Catholics are even worse than
: Professionals in this controversy. They
D have provoked it. When we speak OF
: Catholics we speak of their Pope, Bish-
4 ops, and public journals. They are just
a as extravagant and provoking in their
S language as KIRKLAND, fer whom we
e have not the slightest respect.
3. "Those who profess to speak by author
f ity for tie Catholic Church, have de-
S clared that our Common schools are mere
e receptacles for the rearing of prostitutes.
which is one of the grossest insults that
could be put upon the poor of the city.
{ and the citizen who takes an interest in
i the welfare OF these most excellent and
y highly laudable institutions of learning.
e That was spoken by what would appea r
: to be authority. Had it been uttered
# in Filth street misrepresentation seems
d 5y common consent to be set apart for
J., the utmost freedom of speech-no odds
). how offensive to female or Christian
e ears-we are pretty sure the speaker
t would have been pretty badly used by his
: hearers. Again the Pope i'll his Allo-
: cution. delivered in a secret ConsistOry
: at Rome on the eth of last September,
n and which has been extensively published,
S declares that the marriage of imam and
: woman among Christians, made in virtue
h of what civil law soever, is nothing else
! than a shameful and miserable concu
v binage" So says the Pope of Rome, and
d so tits promulgated through the Christian
world! Could anything be more offensive
d insulting and impudent to Protestants
t and all Others out of the pale of the Cath
}. Ollie church! 1t is as much as saying that
every Protestant wife is whore, and
n her offspring bastards! Is the Protestant
a world going 10 submit tamely to such
: an imputation from the Pope. and as a
S matter Of course from his Bishops?
! I've know that Catholic females. of
!. the most refined sensibility and the strlc-
v test virtue, do not regard such an Allo-
: cution of the Pope of the slightest impor-
e lance. for they visit aud are in social in
d tercourse with the very females that the
e Pope proclams to be no better than kept
# mistre sses or whores!
C $50 on the other hand, Protestant fe-
O males visit and are In social intercourse