Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-09-05

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From the London Christian Timesl
Persecution Of Frotestants.
The noble army of martyrs is not yet com
plete; they are still passing into the realms Of
glory. There they rest, while candidates for
the same honor are here waiting for deliver
ance. The choir of St. Peters enchants our
sentimental travellers with its grand antipho-
nal
TIE martyrum candidatus laudat exercitr,s
1e per orbem terrarum sancta confetur eccesia
The unfinching confession of the prosecuted
responds TO the anthem of the martyrs-wail-
ings from the dungeons answer bitterly to the
litanies of the streets. Yet the depths of those
dungeons none can fathom, nor can any human
eye search into their horrors. Now and then,
the cry of some desperate victim family es-
capes, but no sooner strikes the ear than it is
hushed again, orit is drowned by drums of
Tophet, lest the sympathy of the civilized
world should be awakened if the means were
heard again. Even SO, there is reason to fear,
it will happen to poor John Evangelist Bor-
zinsky, now immured at Prague; and to his
brother Ubaldus, also, incarcerated in Gortz.
To these two names that of an older sufferer
is added, Joachim zezule, priest of the Order
of Augustine, advancing towards threescore
years Of age. Borzinsky and Rezule-the for
mer for about two months, and the latter for
twenty years-have been shut up with the
rae3Ffnen ofthe Monks of Mercy, whose very
scientific discipline, it seems, ordinarily drives
marked men to madness, or condemns them
to anguish in the dens Of manacs until them
selves bereft of reason. Zezule, however, al
though reputed mad-because- he would have
cen, if very sturdy nature, or special de-
fence Of Providence, had not resisted the in
fuenccs of the place-actually lives to tell his
own tale, and startIe Christendom by a dis
closure of barbarites that commonly pass for
fabulous. The Austrian imprisonments have
the peculiar character of atrocity that they
are in direct violation of the law OF Austria
That law permits any man to declare himself
Il iOtGSLdHl, anu bClAI NlopOSSh " 1Als'hC obSii
a declaration, instructs, him what formalities
to employ, and offer him protection in the eX-
ercise of religious liberty. But law is not
law in Austria, as any one may see; and who
ever pauses for an instant to peruse the details
of these prosecutions, will be confirmed in
persuasion that it is not the intention of the
Jesuits dominant over Austria to grant title
of liberty to those who profess the Evangeli-
cal religion. Rather, they resolve to- pour
mockery and contempt upon US all until we
thoroughly deserve it. In Austria, then,
there is no justice for any Protestant who at
tempts to act upon his profession, nor is there
even life for an ecclesiastic-perhaps hardly
for layman-of the Roman Church, if he
ventures to assume the name. Not that the
Brethren of Mercy, or any other such brethern,
mean to kill him in open day, for their fash
ion is to catch the deserter, shut him up in a
convent, a mad-house, or pit, and there
leave him to die Of grief, or to run mad, al
ways preferring speedy death to madness
for their prisoners, as the cheapest punish
ment of the two. Accordingly, one of the
Prague fraternity didnot blush to say to Ubal-
dus Borzinsky, speaking of his brother John
Evangelist, g Ne toiU rather treat him SO that
he must sink under ii, than that he shall! euer
come out of the icaIls Of the coHpeat.' The ad-
vocates of the tender charities of St. Vincent
de Paul might have been seasonably requested
to describe this Austrian treatment the other
day, when they were recounting their philan-
thropic labors to their English friends in Han
oyer-sauare Rooms. ssA Protestant in Aus
tria," DIR. Wiseman might have explained,
sis placed by my bretAern in these dominions
beyond the verge of law even as | place my
self hey ond it here. AS archbishop of West
minister, / laugh at law, so do my reverend
brethren in Prague. If man wishes to turn
schismatic, he may say so, and report himself
accordingly. If Lutheran priest even in old
Hussite Bohemia can dare to accept this pros
elyte, he may, but he win be sure to smart
for it. Therefore their usual method is to
slip away to Prussia, and there get privately
admitted into the Lutheran sect. Some are
wise enough never to venture back again; but
others, foolishly trusting in the law, do go
back to their country, and then my brethren,
the worthy inquisitors of heriticle prayity,
catch them as quickly as convenient, and put
them in prison. When the apostates are once
lodged there, ii is all overwith them. Whips,
kicks, short rations, solitary, confinement,