The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-10-25

No less sacred, Citadel than iIe :tnrlr o
worship ard family altar viii be nis,.t. up am
illumine the arth with her frs Ave $;
already has this internal work began under tn
auspices of tbs modern institution of reform
alrei idy have Catholic churches becn bu ned :.
the ground or barerrd ,wn by The hands o! tn.
lawess irresponsible mob, patr,nized by those
grace!ess demagogu-s who would ref, m ih,
world and miintain tha Super, Excellent char
acter OF Christian grnlem n, whilst they use
/ for most enormous crimes as Ininiens heated b,
mad :an'ticls.n, the worst and bases; of the
whole family of man.
/ Where is the church burning 10 end. under
the auspices ofsuch an extended, and powerful
and sly.and hea tiess bnnd' A fyonr churches
may lie in ruins upon the E lrth. Then may yonr
monas'eries and runeries share the same fate
By this time church burning may brcone iash-
ionabe, and the hand long trained to inoendiar
ism may with the sam fac.biy-trv his experiment
| upon the Neutrality-suspicious. which like Catho.
lie churcL~s~may be devoured by flames But
l<ne dwellings OF Priests and the houses of Me-
thodist preachers may endure a similar fate, as
they beco ne subject to the ov .rrulin mandates
OF King NIB Indeed the forebodngs 10 oae
accustomed to melancholy feelin. are truly
frigh'ftl To the sober minded the fearful re-
suits of such organizations promise no less than
the overthrow OF free government 1t was their
secret political reform ttion ,hich preceded the
French Revolution and contributed TO the tro
phcs of Mara, and Robesperre The results
are plain and natural, and it requires FIR more
OF fortitude than wisdom to inresee Nation Of
Christian Republicans giving way 10 vandal-
Ism until she is overcome with a pure bar
oarisn and seeks protection and pleads for
quarters beneath the hospitable throne OF an ab-
$ 'lute despotisn. /, surely reqnir-s no vast
stretch OF Imagination to travel back to the |
reign of our Catholic and Protestant English
Kings and Greens who have left nothing to
posterity bu. loa hsome em,ry Of their per-
secntions nh.ctei upon c,nscirntinus men for
no other crime than the voluntary worship of
he living God. Indeed sir the memory of the
llustrious Calvin has been soIed by the re
iecton Of prosecutions inflicted upon his dis
renting contemporary Seryetus. New England
both the cradle and the grave Of true liberty :,
destroyed the Portrait of her Plymouth landing
the frightful Spectacle of hanging
auakers and Babists for their opinions and
v ho that has had absolute power and has not
hus appropriated it, and with generous for
.etFulness these our mutual wrongs and muiual
are consigned to oblivion
What high minded, intelligent, Catholic or
Protestant would see these scenes re-enacted
lpon the Continent of America though they
we're regulated by law. Who, IN the name o
liberty, who would seek their Introduction by
mob violence under the sacred garb, Of religion
wearing the Sacerdptal robes of the Temple of
sod. These may be wrongs in every eccleslas-
ical organization l. they conflict with the
/. hts Of citizens the law under our C,ns,ita-
ion is abundlntly able to correct the evil. If
hey do not conflict with those rights il remains
hen question with man and his Maker with
'ut an intervening power
'ot sufficiently scrutnizny and severe in the
rohibil,on OF the emigration OF Foreign paapSrs
nd Foreign criminals; il that be so, let those
a Us be amended, and every honorable foreign
r will rejoice in the distinction which is made
etween virtue and vice; what would be le-
cling blow indeed which at one fell stroke
trikes down the good with the evil, the wise
With the foolish indiscriminateiy. But such is
Know Nothinyism in its ince ption God only 4
nows the end, and may he IN mercy fnrefend
> the worst.
! am my very dear sir your sincere friend,
nd fellow citizen bound by the fralernaI feel
ngs of holy and liberal christianity.
HENRY CLAY DEAN.