Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-11-29

10 invade our country with the army
of Xerxes, from the noise of the
knownothing panie-makers! Sup
pose all the Jesuits in the world were
poured in upon US: what could they
do? Our prying Nymph of Liberty
with her Heternal vigilance would
work like a ferret, into all their Sc
crets, just as she did into the know
nothing secrets. Besides this, our
government, in its legislative policy,
has no secret. Our presses throw
every thing to the Wind, and orators
proclaim everything from the stump.
The government can only be reached
through the people. Then let the
jesuit take the stump, and, the first
time he attempts it, he will find some
democrat who will have impudence
enough to step up and ask him ste
divide the time" 4oeH
But American Professionalism is,
surely, not afraid of the spiritual
power Of the Pope! If Luther could
Stand out alone with the Bible, that
mighty battle.axe Of truth, in his
hand, and smite Popery, ship and
thigh,'' from the Gulf of Venice to
the Baltic, and from the Vistula to
the Alps, surely Protestantism, after
it mas acquired a firm footing on both
hemispheres, and has the strength of
centuries in its limbs, and shielded
with the cuirass of immortal truth,
is not afraid to enter the list of fair
discussion against Popery in its de-
crepitude and imbecility! The mitre
is now trembling on its palsied brow,
and the hand Of Freedom is reach.
ing forward TO grasp and tear the
keys from its girdle Of power. Its
secular arm is even now witbered
and powerless. The moral sensibil-
ity Of Christendom, like an exposed
nerve, has become so acute, that
not even the sigh Of victim of
persecution can escape an Italian
dungeon, but it elicits a rebuke which
swells into appalling thunder, and
shakes the very pillars of the Vatican.
The news of the recent imprison.
ment of Domenico Cecchetti, for
reading and teaching the Italian
Bible to his children. fell like burst
ing bomb upon the public sentiment
of France. Her presses, which in gen.
eral are the supporters of public
opinion, responded to the news with
startling emphasis: ''No religious
persecution; liberty Of conscience; lib
berty of public worship; a right for
every man to think what he believes
to be true, and serve God as he
pleases: this is the motto of every
enlightened man in France. . The
Bible is the mother of this moral
sentiment in France. But al arm
nearer home, gives the Church States
blow on tho other side; in August,
1854, 5000 Waldenses were assem-
bled on the very scene Of the mas.
sacre in 1906, singing praises and
giving thanks to God for religious
freedom in Sardinia! She is now
a missionary in the field, and is clo-
sing up the unsettled account wiM
Popery," by converting thousands
of its subjects to the faith OF the
slaughtered saints!' But when we
turn to our own country, oh, aston.
isbing perverseness, while Providence
has been driving the gospel car in
conquest over Catholic territory,
from ocean to ocean, we find Amer
lean Christians, in terrible alarm,
hanging. like clogs, on the wheels!
Let them off! before God in his wrath
shall smite them off! Afraid Of the
spiritual power Of Popery in this
stronghold Of Protestantism? Ri
diculous! Up, and play the man.
If our religion is true, it will be pro.
tected like Daniel in the lions den,
or the Hebrew children in the fiery
furnace. My last world Why for.
sake the platform of the Bi6le, to stand
upon any platform Of man?