Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-11-29

the domain Of conscience, no Pope
lprelate, or priest has right to plac
bis foot; and the intruder within tha
sacred enclosure, should be as uncere
moniously expelled as we're apostat
), angels from Heaven, who we're drive
pell,mell over its battlemehts, an,
cast down into everlasting chains ant
penal fires" Again he says: "Ha'
our present emigration taken plac
one hundred years ago, it would b
substantially transference here 0
Ireland and Germany, and of th,
other European nations, With thei
language, and religion, and social in
stitutions. But nowit affects Us bu
little more thand the fresh water:
Of the Hudson, the Susqushanna, Of
the Mississippi the salt water of the
ocean. Indeed, as the Atlantic takes
these and other rivers into its bosom
and assimilates all their turbid waters
to itself, imparttng to them all ats col
or, and sailing them NTH its salt
so may our country receive into her
arms the multitudes fleeing to bel
for refuge from the dsspotism of the
old world, and mould them all to the
American form. When
priests claim to think for US, we only
think the harder. The more they
seek to induce US to sing hosannas to
the Pope, the louder we proclaim him
to be the Antichrist. The more they
oppose the Bible, the more we print,
circulate, and read it. We
hare mill, Of mhieh the Common
Schools the neither, and the BILE and
us Institutions the upper stone: into
This mil let as cast the people Of all
countries and forms Of rclg0n that
come here, and My wiH come out ia
the grist Americans and PrOtestants.
AND THE HIGHEsLswIsDoM OF OUR coUN-
TRY Is TO KEEP THIS MILL IN VIGOROUS
OPERATION.
These views would be marred by
comment. They clearly support our
proposition as to The impolicy OF
excluding Catholics from office, and
Indicate the true policy of our coun-
try in relation to Catholic immi-
grants.
We will now briefly notice one or
two objections, and draw our remarks
to close.
We are told that the Pope
claims a political sovereignty over
the Catholics in this country, and
that such claim is dangerous to our
government. Well, let him claim
it. Great Britain also claimed per-
petual allegiance Of her subjects; but
when she attempted to enforce it, by
impressing our seamen, we denied
the doctrine, and discussed it with
her. at the cannon's mouth, to her
hearts content, in 1812-l4. She
still held on to the theory OF
perpetual allegiance until lS42, when
her Minister, Lord Ashburton, aban-
doued it in discussion with Daniel
Webster. Then let the Pope claim
it; but whenever he attempts to en-
force it, by putting a finger into
American affairs, let him take care,
or he will find himself elapped into
the Gulf of Venice. It is but just
to say, that our naturalized Catho'
lies deny their owing political allie
giance to the Pope. Spain, Sardinia,
and the Catholic Cantons OF Swift
erland, have recently repudiated the
political interference of the Pope
And even in the Church States, where
they really owe him political allie.
glance, he can maintain his political
SUPREMACY only by the aid of French
bayonets. That the American Re
public, which has whipped Great
:. Britain twice. Mexico once, and has
bulIied all Europe, should now be
afraid of the political power o.
such poor, trembling piece Of NOR
tally as the Pope, who has to DC
saved from his own subjects by French
bayonets, is, without dispute, the
climax of absurdity! Again, we are
told that the power of the jesults II
dangerous to the existence OF ou
government. Equally ridiculous
/ The New York Observer, Angus
3Oth, 1855, says: "An Italian pub
I lica.ion estimates the present mum
Der of Jesuits at $50. In Hl7 l
was 1885, Absolutely sinking
into iusigniicance! Any person
{ who didn't know better, would hav
! supposed that the Jesuits were abou