M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-09-06
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From the Indianapolis Sentinel.
AN ADDRESS
TO
Protestant Clergyman.

EHE following communication from
/ Rev. Mr.. Mitchell, Of JelFerson>
vile, will, we hoEe, be taken into Sc
lious consideration. Mr.. Mitchell
was id Jeilersonlille on Monday 6ih,
and in Louisville on Tuesday and was
stimulated to write by the awful scenes
winch occurred so uear him. VI {
think he is very much mistaken in sup
posing that so lew OF The clergy belong
10 the lodges. Their influence has
been too marked in exciting sectarlan
ceiling, although many OF them, We
confidently believe, are misguided and
deluded men.
One iact should of itself be sudic-
Ieut TO prevent mi, display OF anti
Christian effort against Catholics, VIZ:
their aumericoi IlJeIiority, aud, OF
course, then lnuJIny to 90 ha;m.
By the last census (lS50,) the
"Church accommodation" Ior Roman
Catholics Is only lor 575,72l-not
cne.slAih Of the accommodation tor
the NelhodLsts, nor one>twentIeth oi
that lor all tie secIs comblued.-See
De Bows "Censls," p. 1877.
Tie number oil nominal Roman
Catholics is one million one hundred
AID se,enIy-tmee thousand, instead o!
beng as BY natural increase 1t should
have been, about iour Million Ceu-
sus, P. 1857
For the Indiana State Seniinel.)
THOUGHTS On KNOW NoTEINGIsMFoR THE
FhOl AEf CAShSi
A painful conviction OF duty, not a
desire to agltaee, prompts the writer TO
aGdress lew Thoughts 10 members OF
the Protestant churches, on the subject
oil the attempt now Ueug made to ln-
Itroduce their ministers aud the Protest.
ant community INTO a crusade against
the Roman Catholic population oil the
country In particular, aud all men o.
foreign blLh IN general and thereby
10 create civil and social dlsaUllllle:
founded on race and religion, which
attempt has engendeled spirit oil mur-
derouS strife, tie workings OF which
have been horribly illustrated IN the
transactions OF TINS week IN the neigh.
boring city OF Louisville.
1t Is not our object 10 inquire who
have been the sggressors IN this oil
that strife, which mas become OF bul
|too common an occurrence In the coun-
try. But the thing We deplore, is that
such outrages occur al all, aud that
ProlestantSm has been implicated in
what looks like prescription and perse-
cutlon Tor opinion sake-that Christi
auity IN its pureSt form has been drag
Iged lntothe strife now raging through
out the land, and made responsible lor
that STRIFE by the droltmanasemeht oI
irteliglous men, who have no interest
10 serve but that OF party, and who
being devoid OF the true spirit OF re-
llglon, are unable to distinguish between
It's theory and It's practice, aud are ever
disposed to regard the inlunelions oi
Christian charity as a refined transcen-
dalism, too highly subIImated to be
adapted to the latitude OF earth, and
tit only Tor the society OF Heaven.
In short, successful attempt has
been made 10 place Protestantism in a
lalse position, and to surcharge it with
bigolry, and the spiri: OF prescription;
aud what is the most bumllialing cir
cumstance connected with the !ransac>
lion, is The fact that willy statesmen