Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-05
NUMBER l2O.
E From the Albany Register.
More of the Bull from the Roman Vatical

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GUS as well as civil rights and we shall fpd twenty
ways outside the intricate web OF It's prohibitions
for doing, and doing moro largely still, the very
things which il wishes US not to do. In these mat
ters which inyade our religious as wen as civil
rights, we shall take the liberty Of doing what Is
/ right in our own way.--Bishop HugheSs Letter
on Senator Pat,sogi's 6W.
| The official proclamations of Archbishop Hughes
to the Roman Catholic people Of this country, have
| deep significance. They breathe n spirit and
| speak language outside of the mere words and
sentiments which on their face they contain, and
| 1t will be well for the American people to make
note of this These proclamations under the Off
cial signature, and peculiar sign of an Archbishop
are new things in this country Pastoral letters
we have had addressed to the communicates OF
the churches, relating to purely spiritual mattcry
to the regulation of religious character and con
duct. But we have had, until the advent Of Mr..
| Hughes, no pronunciamentos to the Roman CATH
olic people on the subject of temporal affairs.
| The Bishop seems anxious to impress everybody
with the idea that there is in this country such
political and social entity, as the Roman Catholic
people, and as such they are to be considered not
as American people, not as American citizens, but
as social and political isolation distinct from the
masses OF this country; to be regarded as a peo7
pie standing out by themselves requiring peculiar
legislation and subject to regulations and governs
| ment applicable to themselves alone. Over these
Roman Catholic people, these citizens of his f,itl,
no seems to arrogate control, and boldly claims
for them exemption from general laws, passed for
the protection and regulation Of all. He arrays
the system of his church governmental against the lc
| gislative enactments of the State, and claims for
the dogmas OF his sect higher sanction than be-
longs to the DEGREES of the civil government. He
places the Roman Catholic people by themselves,
and says to the world in the language of conduct,
| !. these are my people, and will govern and con-
troll them. will rule them according to the dog
mas of my church Iwill speak for them they
must stand separate and apart I; and they must be
| let alone they must be subject to no law that
shall conflict with the infalble DEGREES Of Mother
/ Church.
4 "They are peculiar people a people Of n ten
der conscience children of infalible faith, Of
church that cannot err" And there he holds them.
He stands in the way of their assimilation to the
American people. Mostly of foreign birth, he
chershes in them the prejudices Of country, of ed
ucation and of creed when they take upon thent-
selves the rights of citizenship they remain Irish
citizens, German citizens or Catholic citizens ex-
ercising the rights and constituting the duties Of
citizenship, with reference, first and foremost, to
the advancement of their sect and the promotion
4 of its propagandism.
| In this position of the head Of the Roman Cath
olic people of this country, there is much that
should engage the careful reflection of the Ameri-
can and Protestant people. 1t explains the signif-
cant title, the official signature with which in these
latter days we are becoming SO familiar, of John
Archbishop of the Province of New York He II
looking ahead to the far off future concentrating
power in his own hands, and the hands Of his
| Church.
We do not assume that he looks for her supreni-
acy in his generation, but when Europe shall have
| poured out upon this country her millions Of
| educated and bigoted people, when Catholic ire
land shall have emptied itself upon shores,
| when Catholic Germany shall have sent us her
| Of pmUrante tho tarfn ~ nroVinoaO may
come to have practical meaning. In the progress
of events the archbishop may be changed into the
cardinal and through the transmutaton of Catho-
| lie immigrants into American citizens the thun-
ders of the Vatican may drown the voice of our
| republicanism, and the DEGREES of the church bc
made TO override the enactments Of the civil
power. Whether such thing shall be in this
generation or the next or this century or the
i next, is matter of no moment to the Roman
propagandist, or the patriot statesman Of this
country. Onward, is the cry of the Jesuit and
onward has been the word with him alway.
/ Whether the final triumph shall be now n hun
| dred years hence, Is OF minor consideration To
yield no inch ofground, but TO step forward always
is his motto, and history shows how earnestly lie
has carried it out in practice.
CAmoLIc AND Protestant NArioSs, compared IN
their threshold relations TO Wealth, knowledge,
and Morality. BY Rev. Napoleon Rcussell, Of
Paris. With an Introduction, by the Hon. and Rev.
Baptiste Noel, of London Svo., Boston John r.
Jewett Il Co, New York Sheldon, Lamport, a.
Co. Our readers will probably remember that we
have often called attention, through our editorial
columns, to the contrary effect Of Romanism AMI
ProtestantiEIn, exhibited by the physical ami
moral condition Of the nations in which one or tho
other system prevailed. But VIC could only general
iZe. Neither time space allowed us 20 20 into
details and hence the comparison was necessarily
incomplete. The book before us goes into minute
examination of the particular facts upon which the
comparison may be made derived from official sta.
tstics, and from the Information given by travellers
of high reputation many Of whom are Catholic,
giving the results Of their observations honestly,
apparently without any apprehension OF the
which Protestants might make of them The
whole exhibits beyond all possibility Of gainsayiur,
chat Romanism tends, necessarily, to the ignOi-
i ance poverty, generalization and political slavery
| of people or population, IN exact proportion as
It prevails unmixcd by Protestant influence; while
Professionalism has the contrary tendency Just ia
proportion 70 the universally with which Il Is
adopted by any community, nation, or people
All this the author makes unmstaRably clear,
in the comparison he institutes between North
America (Protestant) and South America (Catlio-
lie y Roman Catholic Ireland and Protestant Scot
land; Catholic ard Protestant cantons of Switzcr-
Land; Roman Catholic Austria and Protestant
Prussia Catholic Belgium and Protestant Holland
and Roman Catholic missions compared with Pro
| testant missions. The whole exhibition OF facts
and statistics is given with perfect fairness, aud,
in arguing from them, the author gives tho Cath
olics the advantage Of considering the operation
Of any local causes, such climate, race, or soil
which could have influenced the results to which
bis investigations lead him These are found how
ever universally to show the superiority Of Protest
sntism.
This Is not only book, but the book for the
times. IL reduces the controversy between Ro-
manfsm and Protestanism TO a question Of histori-
cal fact. II God has given a revelation TO man, It
would be imputation on his goodness to suppose
he did not design to promote the physical and
moral welfare Of all who believe and obey. II.
therefore, It be true that the most implicit obedi.
ence 70 Romanism uniformly only produces physi.
cal and moral degradation among its subjects, the
inference is clear that Romanism is not OF God
| ". y. Christian Advoeats
Gn A Are occurred at Macon, Geo, on Thurs
day last by which the houses Of John Chair, Alex.
Richards, Mr.. Moulton, Mr.. Jordan and the stable
OF Mr.. j. 81 Hutton were consumed. The Wesleyan