Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-06-20
ANEKTCANTsM AND RELIGION.

The distinction drawn by Mr.. Brooks is an i'm
norfant one, and such as is well worthy of tho
consideration of all rejecting minds. There
are but few people we opine, who would inter
fere with the religion of another; but the dis
| tinction drawn in the remarks which follow,
is so marked that he who runs may read, the
reasons why there would seem to be an illibe-
ralitv in the movement now going through
tbe country, which, in the abstract, could not
be properly justified.
THE VIEWS OF THE AMERICAN PARTY OK RoNASISM.
| s.J make war. and / am sure you make war.
upon NJ mans religion. (Cries Of 'no, no.
| What care you or l what man thinks before
| his God of transubstantiation, or the Immacu-
| late conception, or any of these technicalities
| of religious profession, provided he al9ures his
| allegiance, as has been said before this even
| ing to all foreign powers, spiritual or temper
al? What care you for what he thinks of the
! Virgin Mary? What care you ii he has his re-
| ligious profession in Latin Instead of in Anglo
! Saxon English? " hat care you what he thinks
| of this transubstantiation, or of this immacu-
! late conception? a laugh.) 1t is not, then,
| to the Roman Catholic religion that you,and |
are orposed--it is not to the religion OF the
| foreigner who comes here, but 1t is to the tent
| moral and spiritual allegiance to 4 foreign pow
! er from which we require his heartfelt abjura-
| tion (CheeFS. > All the other religious bodies
have al,i,,red that allegiance. The Epscepa-
| lians-from whom Sprang they but from the
| Church of England From whom was their
! organization but from some Archbishop of Can
| terburv three thousand miles across the ocean?
! But in I776, when We made our Declaration of
Independence, they ablured all temporal and
| spirifual allegiance, and established their own
| Bishops, and archbishops upon American soil,
the creation of their own American people,
| fCheers.l The ahjuratiOn of temporal allogi-
| ance, we are often told, though, incredulously
! upon our part, exists on the part of the Roman
| Catholics. 1t is not enough that a man is in
| dependeut in the goods and chattelS OF the
| world that he may possess; it is necessary that
! he should be Independent in body, in spirit,
| and in mind also. Whenever the Roman Cath
olics of our country adhering faithfully their
refeion-for their religion is better than no
religion, in my judgment and opinion-when-
| ever they will ablure all sorts OF allegiance
| whatever to the foreign dominion of the Pope
| of Rome, and to the hierarchy of RoIhe-toits
| spiritual and temporal suhiugation-they will
| have done what the Methodists have done,
| what the Episcopalans have done, what the
| followers Of Luther and Calvin have done
t44ev viii have done in 1855, what other relegi-
ouS bodies did sixty or seventy years ago.
| (Cheers.) Let il not then be said that we make
war upon the Roman Catholic religion. Moth
ing would give me more pleasure than to see
every Roman Catholic church among our Irish
icln church, receiving no archbishops or bish-
| ops from four thousand miles across the ocean,
| and not living and breathing and existing only
| BIZ the fiat Of the Vatican, but holding all their
| rights and privileges under the authority OF an
| American government and an American con-
| stitution. (Cheers.) l deny, then, the impnta-
| ton that amy of us make war upon Roman
Catholic religion. We make only upon
the foreign government. Ii is hierarchy,
and a government and class OF nobility alien
rTNs,. hot IL Ta4S
soon as possible be overthFowR. CCheers) Let
| the Irish and German people understand that
| if they are independent temporarily and spirit
| ualv of any foreign power, we leave whatever
thev may think of transubStantiation, Of Latin
mtsse-z- of the Virgin Mary, and of the Imma-
culate Conception, matters between them
and their God, with which we have nothing
whatever to do in our political action. (Cries
of good boy and cheers.) require one thing
more, and that is the re-introduction of the Ho-
ly Bible into the free Schools of the State (Re-
newed and protracted cheering,) 1 make no
professions of religiOn-this is not the occasion
loI tha hour for it: but received from my fa-
ther and from my mother feeling of devotion
to the Bible, and the most valuable and earli-
est instruction impaired to me in the schools
of New England was delivered from the pages
of that sacred volume. For some reason or
other, know not why, it has been d:iven
from the free schools of the United States,
and call for its ro-introduction. loud cheers.
demand its re-installation. 1 will be insurrec-
tionary. will be rebeilious until the holy Bible
is again introduced into the schools Of ". Y orIl
81 make no war upon foreigners, as foreign
ers; but l do require this of the foreigners
and it is a great requirement-How long, Mr..
Chairman, you compelled to live in the
country before you voted ~ The Chair with
solemnity)-0nly twenty-one years.
Mr.. Brooks-Only twenty-one years; and yet
the gentleman from Berlin, Kenigsberg, vi
emma, Tippefary, or Cork, come over here and
claim a right to vote within five years; altlo'
you and l, who were born here, are obliged to
live twenty-one years before the we can vote.
| claim, then, that the foreigner be put upon an
equality with me, and that be put upon an e.
quality with, the foreigner. (Applause and hi!
hi hiD | give him liberty, which he has not
| at home, and require of him equality when
he comes here and settles with me. know
very we'll there are some foreigners who, with
lin five years, or one year, on ten years, may be
able to exercise the elective franchise Alright /;
but I know very well, too, that if l We're to
place myself in Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg,
lBremon, or anyaof the cities of Euope,a and
isclaim right torvote within five OF six years,
l should be. secuted out of alt Germany,
France, and Italy, Tor the preposterousness
and audacity of such claim Lzsy b1s ,s9bfe
9z5ssItis but right, ,itis jrst,Iand the irinciple
can be, maintained on that ground, that every
foreigner who canes here should stay before
he has right TO vote, Just as long as every A
n1erican born citizen stays here, and the pro-
muigation of this principle by the country
cannot be resisted by Tammapy Hall, and the
foreigners, who are the spokesmen of it. And
now, fellow citizens, one point more and am
done. object to the establishment of these
military organizations-Eap applause l--these mill
ltary leagues, when in going about our Streets
/ l. sometimes do not know hardly where am .
from the multiplicity of tongues which hear