The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-06-10

orphans OF Poland went over the land, twice /
she was ground beneath the hoof oe the Cos
sack, before "order reigned in WARSAW"
Now this is to the point, and considering II |
lies between political friends Just after
a victory achieved by the common exer.
tions of the combattants, may be significant
OF rich family quarrel.
For the life of us we have no heart to step
in and separate the pugilists, believing that |
should the fight result in the entire sacrifice |
of the parties militant, honest men would get
their dues. Our advice, therefore, is "to hit
him again."-- Cleveland Hsrah, ~
The following appears in a Catholic paper
at st. Louis, which is under the especial su-
pervision of the Bishop of that ilk. 1t is
modest truly Wheeling Gazette
"The Church, we admit, is OF necessity in
tolerant; that is, she does everything In her
power to check, as effectually as circumstan-
ces will admit, the progress Of crime and err
ror. Her intolerance follows necessarily from
her claim to- nfalliblity; she alone has the
right to be inioerant Heresy she inserts in
her catalogue of mortal sins; she endures it
when and where she must; but she hates 1t,
and directs oil her energy to effect its destruc-
tion. If The Catholics ever gain, which they
surely iciH do, though al a distant day, an i'm
mense numerical majority, religious freedom in
This country is at an end. So sayou enemies.
So zoe believe"
awe gain nothing by declaring 50 earnest
ly against the doctrine ofthe cipa punishment
81 spiritual crimes. Our enemies will not be-
feve that we are better that our Church, and
for her--her history is before them; they
Know what she sanctioned during the middle
ages, what she did then, and does now where
she can; they know too, what they would do,
were they in power; they judge us by them
selves.-They can reason besides, and when
we say t'oo and two, they will add, make four,
whatever we can do to stop them. Heresy is
a mortal sin, kills the soul, sends the entire
man, body and soul, to hell; it is, besides, a
contagious disease. and affects the interests
of unborn millions Christian Kings, believ.
ing this, ,oM crash IL in the she'll Christian
: States, knowing this, will drive it from Their
bodies when they can" . .ua"i H
"We will say, however, that we are no. in
favor of roasting heretcs, and that, if this sort
of work is to be revived--though in our mis-
cradle times IL is quite impossible, since men hau,
obelief Which they care 10 propagate, or for Thicl
: they dare endure-ifpersscstisn is to be renew
ed, we should rather be its victims than its a
/ gents; but we are not, therefore, going TO de-
ny the facts ofhistory, or to blame the Saints
of God or the Pastors of the Church for what
4 they have done and sanctioned. We say thai
i The temporal punishment Of heresyis mere ques
, lion Of erpediency; that Protestants do not per-
= secute us here, simply because they have moi
: the power; and that where we abstain from per.
scouting them, they are well aware that It IL
merely because we cannot do SO, or think that
by doing 30, we should injure the cause that
we wish to serve" ... .. ...