The Nevada journal., 1855-07-06
Religion and Politics.

American parry tnat u ullngies Poiilics
with religion. Il strikes us that this oh
lection, considering the facts IN the case,
is absolute weakness Religion and poll
tics are always mingled where papacy is
tolerated and they were so In this coun-
trv before Know Nothinglsm was born -
The Catholic Church IS not simply re-
hgious sect, like Presbytcrlans or Baptists;
bat unoef its religious covering it Is a
vast political engine that claims not only
to subdue man to the church, but to
subject governments to the temporal as
wei! as the spiritua. dominion Of the
Pope Every Catholic church in the world
is secret political association that inter
feres with. and attempts to control poll
tics and So TO control them as to crush
cut heresy, which is nothing short of free
dom Of conscience and tae right IF private
judgment in matters Of religlor--so 80
control them as to crush oct civil freedom,
for where thai exists pr'estcraft canrot.
These facts stand our N its whole nlstcry;
thew are the foot prints cf its progress
! for mere than ten hon3red years Every
whelc the Rorar hierarchy has warred
apcn liberalism and ID TIC recent Eui opean
struggle it was ever found upon the side of
the oppressc~s. There is not republican
IL Europe, out Of England, that Is safe
from the minions Of the absolute tyranny
that rules Rome nor is there royal,st,
If he denies the sovereignty cf Rome
Papacy Is the foe of civil freedom and re-
liglous liberty alike; and to accomplish
their purposes every priest and every
iaymen is expected to work
but papacy is not now wnat it was, u
says one; and Gin this country 1t mas
shown no such tendencies" says another
If Catholicism has changed, when and
how did it change at what point aid i.
I5leld It's ldsts for dominion over the bodies
and souls of men when did it declare
that It would confne its labors tc christian
teaching and practice 'whele did the
period of its humiliation begin. Nobody
can say, fol- these things have not happen
ed Rome is 10 day, where ard what she
was in the dark ages She pas the same
appliances, and the same cunning subtility
TO accomplish her purposes Our shores
have svarmed with her men-se, wants anG
her maid-servants-ber priests and her
nuns-her Bishops and her Jesuits; and
they have never treated us Is an indepen-
dent nation. The head OF their power is
IN Rome, not in the United States and
in their eyes we are but Provinces to
home. Their paovincial council is sitting
in Baltimore now; and Patrick is the
Bishop of one prouince, and John is the
Bishop of another province Strange men
! and strange women have planted their
schools and colleges and converts in the
I'centres Of population, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, who know nothing of our
people, nothing of our institutions, and in
many instances nothing Of our language
who arc not only not Americans, hut who
arc hostile to American sentiments, Amer
lean religion, American government. Re-
ligion IS flee here: and If they wers wiling
1t should remain so, we should have Meth
ing to say about their opinions We arr
IS wiling t+iey should be Catholics a.
Mornocs ard Mormons as Shakers; and
, ,hey need tt; be either without they have
nina 5or it. Politics are free here !;
and ii they did not interfere, ard were
willing they should remain so, We shall
lave no objection to their enioy;ng any
privileges consistent with tie constitution.
But WIEN foreign priests interfere wit,
American p,litics, and ways against lib
erty. it cames with an i'll grace from any
ih3dv 70 fenv Americans and Protestanis is
the night t. institute ave measures to
protect themselves Have til, Catholics
interfere3
Let This fact be remembered. that fif-
teen years age Archbishop Hughes claimed
portion of the public school fund in New
York, for the exclusive use Of the Roman
church Think of foreigner setting up
such a pretension in the United States, in-
ls4O Was that mingling religion with
politics The Democratic city council
then denied the request; and IN 1s41 he
organized a faction to defeat the Demo
Gratis who had 50 refused. There were no
Know Nothings then but was not that
mingling religion and politics Jhls same
thing has been done il Cincinnati, and
other cities: and their priests have at