Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1854-08-16
From the Mobile Register.
Sectarian Aninositios.

HALL, Judge.
From the Mobile Register
Sectarian Aninositios
II isa common boast that the nineteenth
century is wiser, better and more liberal than
any which has gone before. Its schools, its
Libraries. its newspapers and its lyceums are
quoted continually as proofs of its high intel
lectual and moral culture. Yet in one respect
should have been. SectariaL animosity, that
bane Of good order, that foe to Christianity it.
self, wonld seem TO be increasing, instead Of
diminishing.
We are rot the enemies OF denomin al tional
divisions. We believe on the contrary, that
the diversity of sects is the best safeguard Of
true religion. Truth cannot exist without dis
cussion. A domin ant church always becomes
impure. But sec arian bgotry has nothing
To do properly with sccts. The Methodist,
list, Catholic, Episcopalian or Quaker may
rishtfully worship God after The fashion most
pleasing to himself; but he has no authority
to denouuce the motives or assail the faith Of
others; in fact, il he does either, he violatcs
that charity, without which, il has been EN-
phatically said, "all that man hath prof eth
him nothing"
In all ages, sccarian animosilics have walked
the worst passions of the human soul, From
the slaughter ftbe Albgenses to the persecu
lion OF the Mormons, they have been the fruit
ful authors Ct brutalities. cruel,ies and a;roci
Ties from which our common nature rcyolts.
They lighted the fires uf s.niihfeld, they sent
Servetus to the stake, they burned Craumer,
they murdered Anne Askcw, they prosecuted
the Cuvcnanters, they caused the massacre
Of ST. bartholomew, they hung the Quakers,
they founded the lnqnisition There have been
few or 20 sects free from the ta,nt Of persecu-
n.
and Roman Catholics slaughtered so called
herelies The blood Of the martyrs smokes
under the atars of almost every church; Tor
bgotry aud intolerance are common tO unrcg-
ulated human nature. Yet, thank God for IL.
holy men haze iM'en couamon To AL the Chris
tian. churches. The Same faith hat produced
a Dominic sent forth Xavicr; the same Gran.
tner tha, burned All Auabapist went himself
to the stake. Wcsey and F.neion adorned by
their meek virtues, churches which had sent
forth the most cruel prosecutors, Landos and
Philips. Siuarts ana tIoody Mays. Ought mol
this to make us all cultivate Christian charity
aud avoid seciarian ahinaaitie>I
IL may be said that thcIc Is no room, IA this
enlightened age. ior renewal ot persecution.
it is true that the stake can never DO re light
ed; the rack re erected; the axe Of mar,yrdom
re sharpcned. But there are other mel hods IN
which Intolerance may show Itself. Nor ran
any man tell where secrarian .xcilen,ent viii
end when IL has once commenced. IL starts
from small beginnings, but sooD AS experience
las been shown, RACES aud roars ike a wild
conhagration, surging through the streets.
soaking up human blood, shal,ering the very
foundations Of society by its explosions. II a
wild beast is uncaged IN n crowd, some approx
imation 10 the injury, al the worst can bo made.
But il seclariau amino .ities are fuIncnlcd,
Omniscicnce alone can tell where The fr.ghtful
havoc will stop.
And il TO religious differences Lbe antipaLhy
Of race is added, as au element in the Internal
cauldrOn, which dcmasoBuIsp would sit up,
aud stimulate WITH It's unbaio~ed Incanta
tons, who can say what atrocities may not be
perpetrated, even in this enlightened age!
Atrocities to winch men will look back shud
deringIy few generations later, as we now
regard with horror the persecution Of Quakers
in Mass achusetts, the siaughering of the Gov
.nanters, the burning OF La'iner and Ridley
Rogers and Harrer
THE GREyrowS ExPLoIr.-The I'rabuae relates
the following incident ot the Greyiown ex
plot:
.Whle the Cyane was caunoDading, a note
was received b, Capt Holiins frou the Cap
tain ,f the British schooner Bermuda, stGtIng
ths, be regretted thathe had nota British yes
sci OF war here Of the size OF the Cyane-he
WOULD COTnpet ulnl 10 uesist Cdpt HoIiDs, VI
reply to the note, regretted that Capt. jolly
had not tuo just such. as he believed tina the
United States could get possession oi them on
the same ter,us as they got the Cyane. There
was q good deal OF an IONS looking for the Brit.
~ mail steamer dee. then hourly exmcted
and remarks were made tha, when she arrived
hns,,li,ies would immediately be .usp.nded
L., az ,b. ,oxu WAS 10 b. fred The ,xpecteJ
~. i s,ea,ner arrived bu, 10 ,he SUR ria, If 4
,h.. Envl,shmen IN. w.rk nt pii aging and
sc,,ing IRE 10 he town went forward. When
B, was all over. the BRUSH mail steamer lei,
for some other part. having the Bermuda in
,ow
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D,v,xo ron pnx.Rr..-.On Saturday last
our new Governor, famous for his ii hing pro
peusities. together with Colonel Moore, he re
por,er and one or two other dsciples of lsaal
Walton rode over 20 Soucook. wiiefe ,bey ro
,n,n !. ,icle,v hna, ,o Ash for nckere,. PreIt,
"u,,;'a his foo, on he side of The boat SO 4, /,
stand FIRM. over IL went, s,,,sine HE parry ini.