The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20
WHAT ROMANSIM HAS DONE FOR HU-
MANITV

MANITY.
Catholicism has done more for humanity
than any other Church. = Uaion aud AR'er-
lean.
A writer in the Daily Gazette answers
Yes, she has established the IngUisition where
she had power, and would establish it here if
she could. She has already said, through
one of her organs in this country, that no
good government can exist without religion,
(meanlng Catholio,) and there can be no reli-
giOn without an hqlRsition, The inquisition
is the right arm of her power. The proceed
ings Of this Court are conducted in secret,
and in violation of every principle of law and
justice. II any are suffered to escape 1t is
after suffering the most cruel tortures, tedi-
Gus and dreadful imprisonment and the loss
Of the greater part Of their effects. If eou-
victed and condemned. they are attired to
represent devils, and led in procession on the
festival Of the Auto dd Fe to the place OF ex-
ecution, and there, in the most cruel manner
roasted and burned to DEATH And what are
the crimes for which such dreadful punish
ment is prepared Perhaps nothing more
than reading Protestant Bible, or some book
which has been denounced as heretieal-as'
suming the title of a Freemason-irritating a
Priest or niendcant Friar-uttering the Ian
guage of eethinkers-declaiming against
the celibacy of the Clergy-insinuatins hints
or suspicious. respecting their amoefrs and de-
baucheries, or holding the sentiments OF Ma
homedan, of 4 jew, or of CALVIN, or of Lu-
therl
This Infamous tribunal. ''rithom Which
there can be no religion is said to have caused,
between the years 1851 and 1850, $4,000 per-
sons to be burned alive; and between the
years l4Sl and 1908 TO have sentenced 1885,
PA persons to- the galleys or to rerpetual
imprisonment! Under the accusation Of be-
ing witches, more than $4,000 women have
persisted by the hsnds of the Inquisition!--
Forquenada, that Internal Inquisitor Of Spain,
brought into the lhquisition, in the space of
IA years, no fewer than $4,000 persons, OF
whom 5000 were condemned to the flames,
and burned alive with the greatest pomp and
exultaton.
Their numerous massdcres in different ages
under some heretical charge, also proves
what they have done for HUMANITY" We
have time only to select single example,
The massacre Of the protestants in France on
the feast Of St Bartholomew, in l572, was
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and cruelty ever perpetrated. Every one
suspected of being Calvinst, without dis
tinction of rank, age or sex, was indiscrimin
ately massacred The horrible cry was. "kit
the Hugenots" The number of victims thus
slaughtered, in the city of Paris, we are told
was above 5000, and in the Provinces at the
same time, there persisted about 10000! The
news of the massacre produced in Rome @
jubilee; cannons were fired, bonfres kindled,
and a solemn Mass celebrated, at which the
Pope assisted, with all the splendor which
could be exhibited upon the happening of al
event of So much interest.
Progressive Democracy, which the Pops
hates as he does the D., is, just now
counting, as 1t has done before, Catholicism
They may have some views in common, bu,
they never can coalesce. The one, for a Civ
en- purpose, may however be useful to th'
other. and lie used by the other, as the enc
justifies the means. But, my good friends o
the progressive, take care of that hq"isitio'
when it is established, and don't trust toe
much to the hmnanity of the LnquisitorI
though they are certainly yey humane, and
have done more for humanity than any oihei
Church, or the world besides.
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