Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-09-19
A THRILLING CONTRAST.

A THRILLING CONTRAST.
We make the following extract from powerful
letter, recently written by Hon. John d. Freeman
of Mississippi, to his constituents:
"By this constitution the right to decide upon all
questions of national politics is wrested from the
citZen-wrested from all the State and subordinate
councils and vested in the national council Like
the usurping Pope Gregory VII, they claim both
temporal and spiritual power over their subjects
The Pope papist; the council is destical.-
The Pope prosecuted Protestants heretics; the
council persecutes Catholics heretics. The Pope
protested the religion of Christ; the council profess
to believe in Supreme Being as the Creator and
PreServer of the Universe. The council say the
Pope's creed and form of worship are wrong, and
that of the council right am no theologian, nor
am l a papist; but it appears to that Christ
himself and not the national council is the proper
umpire to decide this controversy. Christ has sad
whatsoever beieveth my name shall be saved
go We into all the earth and preach my Gospel
Catholics believe in the name of Christ, and are
preaching his Gospel as they understand it. Now,
what right has the council, under the dispensaton
of Christ, to say to the Catholic, you shall not
preach the Gospel you understand it in the Uni
ted States Is not such conduct unchristian and
in violation of the above command of the Saviour
What power on earth certainly say which of
the several Christian denominations have adopted
the best or the true mode of worship? Is it not
more Christian to tolerate them all according to the
worldwide religion and redemption of Christi
Judge not, that We be not judged, is the command
of the Saviour
but the CreeQ OF the council QOeS not embrace
the Christian religion; they neither acknowledge
Christ the of God or the Saviour of sinners.
the Bbleas the exponent of the will of God upon
earth. They are simply Deists. They believe in the
existence Off 'SupremeBeing the Creator and Pre-
of the Universe ErpresiO uniusest ercIusio
aHerius is maxim of Interpretation universally
coded to, and by this rule they Deists and in
fedels. This is their whole creed as expressed in
their constitution In their Philadelphia platform
they acknowledged that Almighty Being who rules
the universe They nowhere embrace the re-
lgion of Christ The oath they administer is before
God Almighty and witnesses, and not upon the Holy
Evangelists. They persecute a Christian Church
which has taught the religion of Christ from the be-
ginning of His dispensation, and they express
other belief than that of the infde By their fruits
shall We know Them But let US pursue the parallel
between their alleged uSurpations of the Pope and
that of the "national council They accuse the
Pope of usurping both temporal and spiritual power,
and they retaliate by adopting similar measures
themselves. They accuse the Pope of administering
jesuitical oaths and of binding his adherents to
crecy, and they follow the wicked example.
They say the will of the Pope is the supreme law of
his followers; the national council abolishes old
platforms and old creeds of politics and religion, and
establishes ones; they decide all questions of
national politics. they nominate all national can
ddates for Office, and their edicts potent with
the order as was a Papal bull from the Roman
Vatican. They have yielded up their individual free
dom of thought, speech, and action, and made the
national council another immaculate conception,
before whom all know-nothings must bow with alb
iect veneration They accuse the Pope OF interpret
ing the Bible for his followers, and of speaking in
an unknown tongue, in order to cover his nefarious
designs; the council adopts intide creed and
manufactures a cabalistic language known only to
the national council and selected few of the order.
The novitiate is permitted break the seal of
this secret
And now read this vivid and truthful sketch,
which we copy from the Washington Union:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT is national in the South and
sectional in the North; secret in New York and
open in Georgia Catholic in Louisiana and Protcs-
tant in New England; black in Maine and white in
Virginia; the to prescribe the foreign
err even if that foreigner should be that sons father
it opposes the caucus, and settles its candidates in
packed cabals; it elevates the negro and degrades
the adopted citizen; it curses all monarchs, and
adopts the creed of George the Third against emf
grafton; it abuses the Pope, and declares itself in
fallible; it assails the Spanish Inquison, and im
tates it's clandestne prosecutions processes Chris.
tianity and proscrbes its neighbor; it adores the
Bible and shoots down the unofending citizen it
adores the constitutions and sets up test by that
constitution prohibited; it pays premium for trea-
son to friendship and atfiXes the brand of per- Jury
upon all who refuse obey its obligations it asks
for free schools, and proscrbes poor helpless female
teachers it repudiates the Catholic and admits the
Infide ito crown all, it persecutes the most emil
nent native citizen who does not approve its num-
meries and protects the lowest of ruifans-it dis
cards an Edward Everett for a William Poole"