Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-12-27

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Political Jesuitism.
IF the course Of the Washington Union du-
ring tho past six months, by its misrepresen-
tations Of the American party, and its pcrver-
Sions Of truth, in reference to the principles Of
that party, had not prepared US to look with
out establishment, at any attempt on its part to
mislead public Judgment by political Jesuit
ism, we should regard its editorial Of Sunday
last under the head Of Thomas Jefsrson's
great act on Religious freedom, ]" as q remark
able instance Of reckless dcmagoguism, In that
press. But it is not the first nor the second
time, the Union has "put on tho lirory IF q
Saint, TO SERGE tho depil in"
Thomas Jefferson was the author Of the act
passed by tho General Assembly Of Virginia
in 1856, to establish religious freedom. Had
lie done nothing more in a lifetime Of eighty
years to render his name glorious, that act
alone should render his name and fame i'm
mortal. That man who shall, at any future
period in the history Of Virginia, attempt its
repeal, or seek to render it imperative, will de-
serve, and wo hope receive, the cxecration Of
his contemporaries and Of postcrity. That act
stands, and If Jesuitism can DO thsoaytcd, viii
ever stand, proud monument Of the patriot
ism, and Of the Americanism, of the illustrious
Jefferson.
Beware ye defenders of q foreign hierarchy,
We assembling hypocrites, who cry "peace,
peace" when the cmissaries of the Whore Of
Rome arc marshalling their forces to crush
out religious federation in this land of liberty
beware how We trifie with the intelligence Of
the American people, or sport with the name
OF him whose pen wrote the death ioayrdnt Of
Popery, in the very act for establishing rcligi-
Gus freedom, which yc now jesuitically pervert,
to give color of justice to your assaults upon
tho only true and genuine friends Of religious
Bear in mind that VIC know the form Of the
Jesuit's OATH
II am dispensed to assume any religion hereti-
cal for the propagation Of the mother church's in
tercsts.
So swears the Jesuit to his MASTER Pope Pho
Mono. As the religious Heaven save The mark!
Jesuit assumes any religion convenient to serve
his master and to promote his mother church
and her interests, 30 the defenders, siders, and
abettors Of foreign Jesuitism assume to rcver-
cncs tho character and memory Of Jefferson,
(who out up Popery BY the roots in Virginia
the better to deceive the unwary, and to per-
vert tho doctrines and acts Of Jefferson, and
mako them subscrvicnt to the purposes Of po-
litical yesuitisn,.
We publish to-day, and shall keep standing,
in our outside form, for the present, aside
the resolutions adopted bya mass meeting of
the citizens Of Washington, on the 27th Of Sep
tcnbcr last, (Which resolutions present the
views and opinions Of the American party on
the question of religious toleration,) the pre-
amble and act Of Assembly of Virginia, draft
cd by jefferson, and adopted in 1885 by
the General Assembly Of Virginia, and we
invite our readers TO compare the aforesaid res
oulions Of tho American party with the "act
establishing religious freedom, and answer the
question, Whether the same spirit and prinei-
,,tcs arc not found in these mcasurcsr
The charge, originally made, and so often
repeated by the Washington Union, and rcite-
rated by its allies that our party Is opposed TO
religious federation" is foul, reckless, and
rroundless. When made originally, II was
doubtless made in ignorance, but il has been
again and again repeated, with full knowledge
that IL was false and libcllous, else the editors
az that icsuitical press, have failed to read our
promulgated doctrines, and now SOW broadcast
fheir csiumnics, without caring whether they
publish truths or errors.
We ssk especial attention to that portion Of
Mr.. Jefferson's preamble in these words, to
wit:
THAT the iapiom presmpfion Of Legislators
and rlcrs civil as we'll as eocicsiosfcoi, who being
Themselves but faiiibie and uninspired men, have
assuned dominion orer The faith Of Others setting
up their o~n opinions and modes OF thinking, ns
de only frps and IN aiiibls, and A. such endcav-
orine 70 impose them upon Others has established
and maintained false religions over the greatest
part Of tho world, and through all time, &c
Thus spake the prophetic and philosophic
Jefferson in his preamble to tho act establish.
ing religious frecdoml viii the Union please
inform us to what ecclesiastical and profcsscd-
" intallibie men or power, Mr.. Jefferson had
especial reference when he sought 70 annihilatc
their impious pretcnsionss
No other power or potentste, except the
Pope of Rome has ever. in this age and coun-
try, assumed dominion oser the faith Of
others" No other potentate has ever, in this
age and country, claimed to be the only true
and int;stfibis" exponent Of the win Of Heaven.
There was not then, and is not now, any other
power or potcntate, than the Pope at Rome, a
whose assumptions Mr. Jefferson directed hrs
pointci and unmistakable language. And yet
the American party !" are denounced by the
Union because they now oppose the claim TO
political or temporal supremacy set up by the