The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-02-16


For of az sd words 81 tongue d pen,
The saddest are these: They might have been!''
All, wei fer % AZ some sweet hope les
Deeply buried from human eyes
And I'll tae hereafter - may
Roll stone from 81 grave aWag
THE TEMPORAL PRINCE or Ro1E,
John Mitchell, in late letter 70 Archbishop
Hughes, has asserted some notorious facts, Illus
tFatipe Of tie deleterious influence exefted "a
Italy BY the Papel Government
Having shown that the spiritual and temporal
authority Of the Pope have no necessary con-
nection, he proceeds to characterize the govern
ment Of thePrncs Of Rome. which The Romish
priesthood would iain establish ii this country,
IS follows:
sBut undertook further % show that he
POpey as prince, bad prince, and his gov
eminent nischego government TO most
persons the universal and intense hatred Of the
Romans % that government would Be proof
enough. In ls4s ay fought til their city was
. rum il order to be rid Of II and from that
day 10 this il has needed all the Papal troops,
lmostly foreigners and an army Of Frsnchmen
besides q thrust hat government down their
tlroats This enough but Americans, and
those Irishmen who. n America. see and know
what freedom and justice are, hadboltsr consid-
er q little The nature Of the Papal governments,
~ order that they may learn . regard 4 with
utter execration as one 81 ire worst ana mean
80 q otisms th1 o.g INor
3 Thini 81 govern which an oli-
tCes Of trust and emoIument ere flIed BY cle1ry-
men monlzsl IN which one 81 the tcOnerega-
tions,' TIE congregation 81 &c Index, with
Cardinal for project, and monk for Secre-
Itary, Prescribes to every ROmaa what books he
may read, and what not, under pains and penal
tiesl In which another congregation called In
QUESTION Of Holy Office, has cognizance Of an
heresies, blasphemies bad books, pfoianations,
abuse oflsaGaments, accusations Of sorcery,
and in general, Of everything that interests re-
ligion and tie faiths In which the dungeons Of
Angelo, and the galIeys, and the penal labor Of
marshes, and the fines, and imprisonment which
await those who may be convicted Of reading
the twenty thousand books named in the Index
of prohibited literature, including the writings
of Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin! IN which
certain bankers have monopoly to sell some
Of the IecessaTies Of life, in consideration of
lending money to the Pope to pay foreign troops
for crushing his peopIel Need / say more!
That these are facts, neither your Grace, nor
any Of your three Graces. can venture to dis
pute; and to me, and to every American, and
toevery layman / have met with, they furnish
the exact ideal Of not only bad. but Of the
very worst Government in the world except
only the Government Of England and ireland"
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NUNNERY QUsTIoN.- "A correspondent Of Gle
Providence Tribuns has Gle following:
aIst. / have seen it stated that a very large
proportion Of INNS became insane that very
many die raving mad. AS there are hundreds
Of thousands Of this class Of females there can
be 10 question that some Of them at least be-
came insane inalady which their ssdentary
habits would seem to render them peculiarly Iia-
bic to.
QUERY Did you Messrs Editors ever hear Of
an insane nun2 Where and how do they dieg
Where are they interredl
End. PROFESSIONALLY there must al least d.
casionaIly Be instances Of violent death q SIS.
eide occurring within the precincts 81 hume.
ties
UERy Can you inform usoi single insian-
ss where a cofnner,s innu6st laeshron hela ev;th