The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-07-16
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Have the Protestant Ministers Taught Fallsehoodsi

Have the Protestant Ministers Taught Fallsehoodsl
The Protestant Clergy have always taught their
congregations the doctrine that the Church of Rome
is an enemy to true religion; and, inasmuch as it
claims for the Pope, its head, temporal as well as
spiritual denomination, an enemy to free govern
rnent. They have taught their congregations to
beware of its nsidious approaches to power in our
country, and to watch with jealous eye all its
movements. Their teachings have always been
accepted as truth-we have never known them to
be questioned by any but Roman Catholics, until
within the last twelve months. And now, here.
ave, even in Tennessee, daily do we hear the cor
rectness of their teachings, denied, and that 100
by men protesting to be Protestants. Can 1t be
that the ministers of our holy religion-the men,
who have done more to make American society
what it is than all the politicians in the land-can
il be that these pure men have been teaching as
faIsehoosd? Have they unjustly, and without the
fear of God before their eyes, mlsrepresented and
libelled the Roman Hierarchy? No! fellow citizens
they have done no such thing They have taught
us truth nothing but the truth; and yet for patry
partisan purposes anti-Americans, and anti Protes-
tants, would persuade you 10 tne contrary. The
Church of Rome is all that your ministers have
represented it TO be; and il at this good hour
it votaries were in minority in this country, you
would no more be permitted to read the Holy
Scriptures-your Protestant temples OF worship
would be shut up-yoUr schooihouses purged of
all books that teach Christianity the darkness
of superstition would settle npon the whole nation
He who denies these truths for party purpose, is
false to our country traitor to God and to man
and unworthy of the protection of her free nstitu-
tons We speak plainly, because we feel that it is
our duty to do SO. We cannot silently hear the
Nashville Union or any other anti American de-
nounce such men as the pious Breckenridge of the
Presbsterian Church, and other minister's as "rev-
eyend hvpocrites"-as engaged in "INFERKAL PLOT
TINGs AGAINST THE LIBERTIES OF MAN" because
they have warned the people against the grasping
ambition and insidous policy Of the Church of Rome
We feel when such men assailed for such an
offence. it is time for every Protestant, and every
friend Of ethe truth of history" to speak out
in condemnation. When the broad issue is made
whether these ministers ana all the Protestant
Clergy have been for years intoxicating in the pulpit
and in the social circle falsehoods against the Ro-
man Catholic Church, or whether they have taught
the TRUTH there should be no neutrals; every one
should come up to the support of the sacred cause
of civil and religious liberty, the rights of conscience
or freedom of opinion, by Papal tyranny and usur-
patton, taught by all history, and by the Protes-
tant Clergy The issue is to be determined, so far
as Tennessee is concerned, on tue second day of
August next. Will not the people of Tennessee
acquit their Clergy of the monstrous charge nvolv
ed against them of classifying the established hsto-
~ of the Christian world!