Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-10-04
WHOLE NUMBER 1895,

ments are the usual resorts Of weak men, who,
when reason fails, attempt 10 enlist prejudice
in their behalf The head Of the Order is an
old fashioned Jackson Democrat. Wherever
they have nominated candidates, they have Ia
ken the larger number from the Democratic
ranks. Judge Gone, Of Georgia, who reported
The platform adopted at Philadelphia. Is an old
line Democrat. He Wss 6 member Of The Bal,
imOre convention in 1914, that no1ainalad Mr..
Polk, and reported the resolutions adopted By
that body as the principles Of the Democratic
party, How stands the case on ths other
side? Mr.. Wise cOnfessediy ewes Ls election
to the Wings. Messrs Toombs and Stephens,
Wing leaders in Georgia, are at the head Of
the anti American party, and 50 Titn Mr..
Preston, in Kentucky, Every where yOr find
Wing leaders among the bilIeresl opponents
of American principles, and Il tits k.itisk
they have been a long time time finding !. out.
There is another breneh Of the queadon
which / approach with more reluctance, be-
cause am afraid with moro prejudice, than
will enable me 10 consider it dispassiOLa ely
Without belonging to any ehuIehJ / gTa- up
in the Methodist persuasio7. 1t was the faith
in which my mother lived and died, e-d I
could not change it If would. Apqr- the
earliest books which fell into my hands. / found
accounts Of Catholic Prosecutions Of tEa early
Protestants. OF meH, women and children
thrown into ungeons-stretched upo. the
rack, tortured with thur1b.screw5, p7d faally
burned at the stake, for the crime Of Ec-lIip.
ping God es reason and conscience dictstsd.-.
Then came the Order Of Jes-9,' with the In.
QuisItions in its train. For centuries every
page was blackened by the iniquite' OF that
Church, whose POntif arrogan!ly cIain'a to be
the immediate representative Of tic Almighty,
and who has not hesi,ated e. al times to exeE.
else powers in accordance with that cisim.-
Subjects released from obedience 70 tbNir legal
rulers; murder; perjury; incest; every crime
made Venial, il it tended 10 the edVar""ruent
of the Church. / know it is said tbs. these
powers are not now exercised or claiE"1;-
Where has il ever been abandoned wht7H they
had power to enforce il? Whet is tie re Of
the Confessional, If the Priesthood do ~ still
claim the power of forgiveness Of sins ccamit.
ted? have searched in VAN fsr aay authen.
tic document which shows that they have ever
abated one jot or title Of the pretersions which
characterize them nov in ether lands. have
visited two countries in which the Catholic re'
!igion is established by lav, and found In
both the same intolerance, the same bigotry,
the same hatred Of the Protestants as Of yore.
Even the dead bodies of Protestant ere denied
the right of burial in Catholic grave yard
The masses are taught to believe that the rOs'
ting corpses of the faithful would be polluted by
the neighborhood Of Brother who held in life q
different creed. In Spain, an s'semblage OF
more than fifteen Protestants, for The purpose
of religious worship, is declared en- unlawful
assembly, and all the remOnstrances Of Eng.
land have failed to ameliorate this detestable
tyranny. What we see existing elsewhere
what we know has always existed wherever
Catholics had the power, We may surely dread
for ourselves, withoE. being liable to the
charge of excessive timidity, particularly when
we see the rapid strides they ere making 70
power and influence among US. From 1910 TO
1850, the number Of Catholics in the United
State doubled, and now they exceed two mil
lions of souls. Al that rate, it will not take
them long to acquire all the power they want,
and when acquired they will not iail to exercise
lit. In the very nature of things, The Catholic
must be prosecutor; when ne believes that
Ievery Protestant is on the highway to he'll
when he believer that It is charity to torture,
and piety to murder thess whom he looks upon
as enemies to God, it would be absurd to ex-
lpect mercy; or look for federation.
Another greet danger We have to dread 70
The prevalence Of the mischiavOus dogma, that
1.-The Pope is superior to the cohEiiiu' ION, and
can abaolvs his FOck from Oaths to support it.
know how bitterly this is denied; ~ If a.
lmericca Catholics do nc. acLhogladge +; they
are widely different from their eihrca else-
where. History is fell !! instsTces o. King
doms laid under interdi.., Nonarch6 exc 7Jsmu-
nicated, and whole people doomed to Purga-
tory for some real or imaginary saalt O. their
rulers. We all remember, that King Of
France was assassinated by Priss9 at the
bidding of his superiOrs. We all Eea'ambeE
that King of England was compelled TO salk
ibarefooted IN sackcloth and ashes, u the
to NIB of Tho mas A. Beckett, and that The great
/ Bruce wandered for years an outlaw, hunted
bv assassins and bloodhOunds. for idGing 10
punish traitor to his COuntry within the pre-
Icincts Of a Catholic church. The best way OF
Judging tree is by its fruits, and these fruits
lare familiar to us all.