American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-06-28
TrulI1s FItIy spoken.

herediIn L. Gentry, the American cam
didate for Governor in Tennessee, is stump
ing the State. He has been on the hunt
of the Mount Pisgah candidate, Mr.. John
son. He met him at SheIbyville some
time ago, and pitched into him in brilliant
style. as follows:
Now, said Col. Gentry. wish to be
understood once for all, that do not in
terfere with q ian's right of conscience to
worship God as he pleases; nor do l desire
E union Of Church and State. All that I
ask, and all that believe sound statesman
ship to require, is ;hat they should not be
entrusted in piloting the skip Of State
through the rough seas, when we have
mariners, born On the ocean, who can stand
at the helm. Let them come over TO our
free land-let them enjoy, after they shall
have served their apprenticeship, the ad-
vantages Of our institutions-Let them be
fully protected in their enjoyment; but do
not place them where they can dictate to
us the laws by which we shall be govern
ed. Why, sir, take this case more Into
your own household; you invite astranger
to share your hospitality, you give him
protection, you furnish him with food and
raiment, and take care of him. After a
while, growing fat on your good things,
he assumes TO rule the household in your
absence, and when you come back you
find your orders disobeyed and your plans
broken up! what would you say to hispF
But my competitor says, that the Ameri-
ican party is warning against one branch
of Chrisfs Church; they refuse to vote
for al member OF the Catholic Church
for Office, And he argues that the devils in
he'll with ali their iegicns are &afring,
and have ever since they were east out Of
heaven by the Almighty, against the
church of Christ on earth--that the Know
Nothings. he says are warning against the
Catholic church, one branch Of Christ's
church, and therefore, the Know Nothings
are in league with the devils in he'll, In al
tempting to tear down the Christian religI
ion, and building on its ruins atheism and
infidelity.
Now, let us see if there is any force in
such an argument. Let us dissect it. Let
US see what it will prove. My competitor
knows that the Catholic Church claims
TO be the only true church on earth, and
| that the Protestant churches are only scis-
matics and heretics, going TO the devil as
fast as they can-and the Catholic Church
seeks to exterminate them everywhere
Why, they burnt them at Smitbfield; they
extermnated by scores in the tortures OF
the Internal Inquisition; they now refuse
Protestants burial in the countries under
their sway--in Italy and Spain: they re-
fuse them the right to worship IN their
own country-they interdict their ver-
sious of the scriptures of divine truth
they are evidently leagued together for the
purpose of destroying the Protestant
churches of Christ on earth---and my COM
petitor is their advocate Does it not fol-
low, therefore. according to his own argu-
ment, that my competitor, together with
the Romish church and the devils in hell
are leagued together to destroy Christ's
church on earth? How can my competit-
OF escape this conclusion, if his argument
il, sound? Now, We know that my COM
petitor is too firmly convinced Of the truths
of Christianity, and the moral blessings
attending its spread, to be leagued with
such uRholy alliesin endeavoring to destroy
ProtestantiSm. Yet such is the ineyits-
BILE result Of hrs argtmeht.