The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-16

hensbie, still equal for all which no one can control
and which must be left TO find remedy In the conse
quences Of it's own mischievous Injustice
Inc inyeerate predsposition to make Gods
to ans from him to whom alone i belongs and
breadth from our standard Of orthodoxy of the
sranges phantasies of human nature Most happily is
exposed ana reouked in the beautiful apologize OF Dr.
rsnkn 80 scriptural in its language and spirit as to
nave deceived many into the belief that Il was bbl
car story: " Abraham" (thus il was sitting at the
uoor OF his tent, and seeing stranger pass BY,
invited him TO enter and sojourn with him in
the true impulse Of Arab hospitality of that day
and equally of this" Finding however, that the
traveller would not worship the God Of his host because
said 9 in mine house, and proydeh me with all things"
guest with blows into the wilderness.
And at midnight the Lord called to Abraham and said
"Where is the strangerY' And Abraham answered
He would not worship thee therefore, l drove him
out from before my face into the wilderness" And
God said, (" Have Tborne with him these hundred and
B.nety and eight years and housed him and clothed
him, Notwithstanding his rebellion against me; and
eoulds not thou that art myself sinner, bear with
him one nightp' And thus is prone to drive
another into some wilderness of persecution. fre
quenty to death, in the of that God who spares
mercy.
These golden words truths. persuade my
sell they will be everywhere written upon the hu-
man heart and understanding before the world ia
much older Do but crush the spirit of persecution
punish severely whoever shall dare disturb on
account of their creedand you will all living
IN peace In their common country and ambitious of pro-
.uucng good citizens" Where all persuasions pro-
tecteo hy equal laws and established by excu
sive ones practical intolerance will disappear be-
interest will exist to nourish mutual preudice
nor power to in iulge them.
1t is humating confession that in the of perse-
cuton many of the Christian powers have outstrpped
their Moslem comp eor. 1t has been long contest,
and bitter one begun early and continued late, and
carried on with fiery zeal, writing its hsotry in charac-
tiers OF blood but the follower of the prophet has yield
ed and friendly circumstances and the light of truth
have at length been felt in the high places of Islam
ism.
The Imperial Manslayer of the titles of
the Sultan. and once not barren one, who issued
his DEGREES from the royal stirrup, and annually
ransomed his Christian subjects from death by the
payment of the haratsch for a year embraced
taken his place among the liberal soveregns the earth
feeling his responsibility to the public opinion of the
world and shaping his in conformity with it. His
appeal to that great tribunal contained in the State
paper recently issued reiutng the unworthy pretext by
which the Emperor Of Russia sought to give to his amb
ton the guise of religious fanaticsm repeing his pre-
tensions with equal power and oalmness is one of the
Gently gladden. those who grateful for much
yet anxously look for still better things 1t asserts
boldly though in the form of an interrogation which
challenges contradiction that obstacles exist to
the exercise of the Christian religion in the Ottoman
pire proud boast, and believe a true And the
declaration OF the Governor of Adrianope just made to
assemblage of its principal citizens Is beautiful and
practical commentary upon this claim of liberation
Our creed is different" said the Pasha of three tails
de deserved forty of these honorary caudal appendage
Sour creed different but obey the aw-we pray in
the mosque the Christians in the temple and the jews in
the synagogue-we not less faithful subjects of the
Sultan: we are therefore brothers and ought to love
each other SUCH And this, while the Russian auto
crat in his proclamation that his mission is
to aunhilae Paganism and that whoever stops him in
of Babylon boosted Of the might of his and of the
honor his majesty but he who raseth up and pueth
down sent him TO eat grass in the field till his under
standing returned him, and he learned that those
who walk in pride will be abased The Car may yet be
taught the same lesson
And who is this self constituted champion of the re-
1gon OF the meek and lowly Jesus whose high mission
is not to convert but to annihlate He is the head
of the Russian branch of the Greek Church. which claims
for him the title OF vicegerent OF God, aud makes him
the object Of faith and worship Through al the vast
jected to the supremacy OF the knout not single copy
Of the Holy Scriptures in the modern Russ the
lar language of the country gain to the popu
laon and though the Saviour has sad go we into all
the world and preach the gospel creature yet
he who assumes be his missionary an initiation
dsres to say if you to preach the gospel in my
world will send you to Siberia, "who is ignorant,'
"who ignorant OF prosecutions to which dssenters
and the Catholic and Evangelical religions in Russia
sonares 1t is the most cruel in tolerance formed into
system" And this new crusade by which destruction
is TO take the place of persuasion nominay owes it's
origin to dispute about the possession of desecrated
church and an empty sepulchre-monumens, interest
ing indeed from their associations with the most wonder
ful events in the history of though with doubt
full Evolutionary claims to be the precise places Of the
they commemorate sinking into insgnacance
in the eye OF and offah when compared with the
tremendous evils, both moral and physical which
threatening the old continent and whose consequences
may be felt in the The world before this has
INSCRIPTIONS ambition march to its object under the
cloak Of religious pretences, but never has such
spectacle been exhibited more revolving to the moral
feelings of mankind, than that which is fixing the
earnest attention and receiving the condemnation OF the
Protestant places of worship have recently arisen
even at Jerusalem under the shadow of the Mosque of
Omar, upon Mount Morah the site of the Temple of So
lomon, while in than of the capitals of the
Christian world an American believer in the word of Cod
but who does not believe in the creed Of the established
church. is allowed place of public worship but
worship privately and by connyance not worship at ALL
and even this connvance' is withheld from the native
citizen whose secession from the dominant high
offence, sure to be visited by severe punishment.
And the soil of the Holy Land trod by the feet of
the Saviour not too sacred to receive the eless
mains OF his Protestant believer while there fitting
repose for him in many Christian land deecrated by
the 25th of November, 1852 decree was issued from
the ROYAL mandatory of intolerance at Madrid which
prohibited any stranger, whether domicate ira
yelling in Spain from processing any other religion than
that of the Catholic Apostolic Church of Rome"
Now here is an act which has been justly denomi-
mated in the English House of Commons incredible
one aimed specially and exclusively at foreigners de-
rights of man and which shuts the borders Spain to
their entrance unless at the sacrifice of their convic
tions OF the hazard OF punishment.
And does Archbishop Hughes believe that all these
abuses are destined to continue, untouched and un
changed2 That they will much longer resist the mighty
tide Of public opinion which has already done much
in these latter days and is faed do much more9
II may not be- The past is pledge for the future.
Within the memory Of the present generation the abuses
OF ages seemed TO possess mpregnabe fortress
plying its position in the midst of Christianity and civil
h:aton, and overlooking and overawng both But one
after another its outworks have fallen before the efforts
Of truth and long the citadel itself will be leveed
to the ground And are the representatives of the Anne
rican people to lay their hands their mouths and !
their mouths in the dust to look and the perse
cutions expressions wnlch their are
exposed abroad and express their dispeasure
and their demandsY And all from afectaton of
xonal decorum-nationa squeamishness it should be
caled-which is tender TO the presumption OF others
IA to sacrifice own true rights and honor trust
DO such humiliation is in store for
Mr. BADGER, (whig) Of Ga, asked IL the Senator had
seen paragraph going the rounds in the newspapers,
purportng TO have been taken from the Shepherd Of the
Vuitey Catholic magazine in ST Louis, published under
the authority and supervision of a Roman Catholic
Bishop the diocess in which it stated that soon
as the Catholic population OF any state in this Union
should get the supremacy, religious liberation would be
at n end In that state.
Mr. CAss said he had such paragraph, imputed
TO that paper but had not seen the paper itself
Mr. Badger suggested to the Senator 'he proprety OF
amending his resolution TO direct the committee TO
enouire and report such would secure to
American citizens RELIGIOUS liberation at home.