Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-05-03

We will suppose they have done SO. aud that Cath
olics are now out OF the way. The crusade las
commenced, but has it ended win the work of
demolition stop here? The nostris Of the persecu-
tor being once distended with the scent of the
blood of the prosecuted, will he stop at this point
or will the work progress? We say that it viii go
on, and the Methodist, Presbyterian. Baptist, or
some other denomination will be selected as the
next work Of persecution. The Catholics having
been Frustrated will then join with the perst entor
and help to perpetrate the same work upon others
that has been perpetrated upon them; and 50 the
work will progress, between the prosecutor and
the prosecuted, until the various churches have
destroyed each other, and thereby the Know Moth
ings accomplish steathy and coVertly what they
dare not attempt openly and boldly-the desiruc-
ton of all the churches in the Uni&d States lesv
ing the Bible in existence barren and unproductiTe
Atheism and Infdelity now having fall sway, we
may now prepare TO see Te-enacted the sangninsTY
scenes of the French revolution. Ee said there,
when the Bible and religion bad been put down.
Atheism and Infdeity, sometimes called Reason,
were IN the ascendant The Bible condemned and
secuted as fable and idle tale and to make the
demonstration more perfect and compete, female
was selected as the Goddess of Reason, and sested
upon chair, festooned with ivy. She was attired
in white sky-bue mantle gracefully thrown upon
her shoulders, the chair borne by four Of the most
respectable and intelligent citizens, preceded and
succeeded by large concourse OF females dressed
in white, the mass moving along in thousands, un-
til the Metropolitan Cathedral was reached and
then the Goddess Of Reason was elevated to the
throne and the crown placed upon her head,
with luxG-iant ringets hanging in graceful neg
hgence around her neck and shoulders" This he
said, was the triumph Of Atheism and Inhdelity.
Gov. JOHNSON said be could not believe that the
Protestant church Of this country would Join IN such
an unholy crusade which would result n the end
4ko-o To-
revolutionary times of ipddel Francs, when the
hoof of the cavalry horse was saturated in human
gore, aud liberty went staggering from the strug-
| gle through carnage and blood.
The Know-Nothings were opposed to the Cath
Ole religion because it was of foreign origin, and
many OF its members in this country were foreign
| ers also He said that if it was valid objection
10 tolerating the Catholic religion in this country
| because it was of foreign origin aud many OF its
members were foreigners, We would be compelled
to expel most Of the other religions Of the conn-
| try for the same reason. Who he asked, was
| JOIN WESLEY and where did the Methodist reli-
| gion have its origin? II was in old England, ans
| JOHN WESLEY was an Englishman. But If JON
WEssEY, were alive to day, and here in this eoun
| try Know Nothingisn would drive him and hhi
religion back to England, whence they came, be-
| cause they were foreign. Who he asked, was
! JOIN CALVIN, and where did Calvinisn take its
| rise? Was it not Geneva Aud were CAsvN
4 alive this new Order would send him and his doc
| trues back, whence they came. Who, be asked,
| was RoGFR WILLIaMs2 And would not Ro0Es
! WILLIAMS and the Baptists share the same isteg
| And so with MARTIN LUTHER, the great reformer-
He would be subjected to the same proscnptve test
| If Know Nothingsm could he carried out as as
sumed by its authors it would expel every foreign
| religion beyond the limits Of the United States
in fact If its great aim was not the establishment
of Atheism and infdeIity, it would adapt some re
Hgion that was purely native in is origin and IN
digerous to our soil, which he supposed would be,
| N0rmonisn, as that was purely American. Nor
monism. a. he supposed, was to become the Tel-
/ gious standard of the Government, BY which the
consciences of men were to be measured and those
/ that thought little more than the Norman stan
dard would have to be cut Oh, and those that
thought little less would have to be stretched out
and made to conform to this Mormon standard OF
| religion and morals.
The ridiculous absurdty and inconsistency 10
which such doctrines lead must be apparent to all
| This subec. may be turned and twisted II every
way that the inventive mind Of man may suggest,
and there was but one doctlne that was
right and sound after all, and that was let all
| men worship Sod in their own way, according to
the dictates of their conscienees. Men viii differ
| in their religious feeling and opinions Il was "a
natural for them to do 90, as it was fOT them to
df-r il the color Of their hair or ia the expression
of their cOuntenanees. These differences Of opin-
ion must be tolerated if we expect The mind ard
| conscience of men to be free. Charles the fItb,
the Emperor Of Germany, when tired Of the cares
of State resigned his vast possessions to his SOP and
retired TO a Monastery, and there, to amuse the
evening of ais life undertook the regulation OF
| watches and after many experiments, patience
and perseverance, found il impossible TO make any
two of them keep precisely the same time This
led him TO reflect upon the crime and folly be had
| committed while Emperor, in attempting to make
men think alike. Hence, he said, be was disposed
TO tolerate all religions leaving il matter 70 bs
settled between the professor and his God.
T. Gov. j. said that he thought the danger sppTe-
| heuded by many from the liberation of the Cath
| ole religion in a free government, was more mag
| mary than real. He said that San UaT1ao situa
ted in Italy is now the Oldest republic in the world.
| This republic was founded BIZ Alariao, VINO was =
stone mason by trade and Catholic IN religion,
more than fjleea hundred years ago, and 1t has
| stood upon its rocky summit, two thousand feet
| above the elevation of the sea, undsturbed and
composed amid the rising and falling Of surround
| ing empires and the Catholic had been the prin-
cpal religion enjoyed by the people Of that repub-
lie from ITS foundation by Marine to The present
Fsd Z. said that be aPprehended no
very -, rom the few Catholics which
% ~ nsf ~a0 esa nsss 6 8sd 5s ace
comrncd4ron The whole number of Proie5tsuts
being some sir hundred and il0eaty fJdT hOlsdld
taUo hundred and HinetyJfrs with tCo thousand
and elerea churches for their accommodation. he
could not believe that there was any sane m nded
fman in all the length and breadth Of all Tennessee
I who could think or believe for moment that II
was necessary to form and have secret political or
4 CARNATIONS, bound together by terrible and penal
0oths, for the purpose of putting down Joi'-teeA
Hundred professors of tie Catholic religion IN the
midst of Protestant population numbering serst
hundred and fifty sir thousand eight hHndred ana
! t5irtI-sir TIE simple facts were so glarlng IN
themselves that further remark upon IN IS point was
UNI e,essary. =, - -
p Coy. Johnson demanded to know what was the
religion of this know-nothing ordert what religion
| did they profess what system morals did they
| teach were they believers in Jesus Christ do
! thew acknowledge the doctrine Of the orthodox
| church, what right have they p makes war upon
! The religion Of others, when they profess none
| themselves The Devil, his Satanic Majesty, the
! Prince of Darkness, who presides over the secref
! c,uelavs held in Pandemonium, make war upon al
| branches Of Christ's church. The know nothFDgs
| advocate and defend none, but make war upon one
of the churches and thus far become the allies jot
the Prince Of Darkness. ~
"A denomination like this to set up as the guar
dian of the religion and morals of the country
denomination bound together by secret and TERRI
RLE oArHs the first of which on the very intia-
tion fixes and requires them to carry lie in thsi:
rbav SOlemulv sworn uDOu the