American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-10-18

( In shOrt--sne Ope sClalnle Aupoiuec ~ -
,r over Church and State. And no one
with history can but know
What the Popes would do If they had the,
power. We must judge the future by their
past history. Did they not, when their
power was atits highest pitch, cause kings |
md emperors to bow down and hold their
when they mountedon horseback? h
Did they not take away kingdoms from the
Il yhtful soyereigns. aud give them to,oth-
FRS? And did not Clement, one of The /
early Popes, declare that God had given |
him all the kingd0ms.of heaven and earth?
And were not those, WHO denied the au-
Ilority Of the Popes, burnt alive? And let
me ask, what would our fate aud ycondi-
lion be at this time, were it notfor the glo-
rious Reformation by Luther, who boldly
and preached and wrote against
the encroachments and power of the Pope,
until all Earope was shaken from centre to
Thank God for Luther!
Though the Reformation agitation has cost
the li"es of my millions Of people-and
who would not guard against asimilar re-
suit and bloolshed !? ar q
Allow me, however, hro. Elitor, to say
that finl one trait in the ntallible church
which highly afmire;--They come out,
boldly and openly before the world, with
their anti. Christian and anti American
principles. An to me 1t appears. strange
--mySterious Strange--that some, who
profess to have the best interests Of our
free American Institutions at heart, and
who arc protestants too--by profession at
Ileast--who are suffering extreme agita'
ton in favor of Romanists. And this for
eign, and to me singular and novel, sympa-
ty and agita ion has developed itself more
extensively anl eopously in some dlroc-
tons, since the late movemcnt--by some
of our best and wisest free American citi-
izens--in our political horizon. Why all
4 this hue and cry, from certain quarters, in
| favor Of lht Holy Mother Church, that is
said 10 be prosecuted by a certain political
organization, and who are said to affirm
that they wovld not dcsecrate their sacred
franchise in casting their votes in favor ol
I Roman Catholics? Are they alarmed that
we would no mole have-a Roman Catho),-
to fill the important Office Of Postmaster
General? Or that no green foreigner OF
: Catholic would be sent any more, as min
lister, or plenipo;entiary, to foreign courts
What is the m1ttcr?-or is it because the
R,mish Church has, in her former history
evinced Christian aud a republican, spir
: it? And when and where was that spiri
manifested? Do tell us--we would lik
, to know something, what We don't know
= When or where dill ever the Church o
Rome display any deyotedness to free Am
erican republicanism Was it when sh
;; set up her holy ponlitf crowned with thre
: crowns in the "temple OF God, d" compel
: ing a benighted world to bow to his shrin
! and do him reverence?" Or was it whe
'' she robbed her bewildered vassals Of thei
: souls and their silver, by her sale of abon
: Unable indulgences to commit every specie
J. Of crime, and her exhibition Of wild supel
i stitious relics, her boards, and her bones, he
: cradles her seulls, and her crosses, and
:, whole host of unhallowed trumpery, pro,
u ing herself to be the cage Of every unclea
~ and hateful bril-" Or was it when sh
y "thundered out her anathemas, and hurlc
= her missiles of vengeance fraught wit
5 death over the scarlet walls Of the Vitica
> after the heretical monk who struck th
! spark from the old chained Bible in th
IT convent of Ulfurth---a spark Of celeslii
T. light which served to show the darkness {
y her spiritual kingdom, while the beast be
y lowed and sun.struek b:gots cast their m
70 tres in the dust, and kings sat mopiu
" over the writings OF Martin, and popis
in princes cursed the son Of miner of Man
10 ield, and all her deluded votaries gnawt
~ their tongues for pain 2" Or was It wht
", she grew drunk with the blood of Il
y, saints, and weltering in her debaucherie
w stroye to kindle the funeral pile of Prote
a. tantism, while with iron foot and blood
~ ~ arm she lighted up the fires Of martyrdo
10 through the eastern world 2" Or does 81
10 now exhibit any attachment to our free +
= publican principles, while she ''sits sin
rs ing on her seven hills, looking over t
"" western seas with an envious yet visit
no eye on the fair lands Of America. while h
ne tribes of infatuated subjects darken t
'"s Atlantic, as they swarm like so many
'er Gusts toward the green fields Of freedom
'P' Again would ask: What is Tie mat
.se with those blind political enthusiastic sy
, 'e, pathzers of the great whore that silt,
~. opon a scArlet-colored beast, full Of nan
sA' nf blasphemy, having seven heads and
.e horns? Arc they really afraid that b.
s. =. ylon the Great, with her golden cup in
Du' hand full of denominations and Glthiness
IVY W her fornication, is tottering and about f
nh ing-and going to perditoh into the b
Jul tomless pit. from whence sho ascende
W. Oh If you have one tear to shed--do
"a drop that tear over the ruins OF tho won
aP drunken with the blood Of the saints,
l"s' with the blood Of the martyrs of Jesus
q, Rev ~ Save--Oh, save that warn
",o that sympath eyic tear, for a betterand
10 10 bier purpose And let Babylon fall
i'S she must and all the sons of God,
eh heaven and on earth, shall shout for j
,,," ~" "Hallelujah, the Lord God omnipol
IVY reigneth r. al,, e' i,
'Iu W., As my communication has already
! wv !, come rather lengthy, | shall for this /
=" conclude in the words Of one Of our e
-, !" nent statesmen, General Jackson:--"'l
y W, time We should become little more An
icanized." And l would add. Protest
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