Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-03-29
SPIRIT OF POPERY.

The following most extraordinary article
was published in the Frecman's Journal,
Bishop Hughes organ, in 1859. Protest
ants-Chrstians Of America! read it, and
here learn the real spirit of Popery in the
nineteenth century, and in this free country!
Persecution still RACES on the face Of
the earth. The blood Of Christians is vet
flowing. Where' in Europe? Yes. In
Rome! No. In Spain or Austria. No.
Neither in Italy, Spain or Austria does blood
flow either for the Catholic faith nor for her
esy. Where then does persecution rage
Why. in England' In England, the tenn
pie of hrresy and unbelief. The very shrine
of Professionalism, where the impure idol is
worshipped. Yes, in England, persecution
RACES, edic,s rivalling, and closely copying
those Of the Pagan Roman Emperors of the
are issued by British Ministers in the name
Of the British throne. The government and
the courts oflaw of England stir up the blind
fury Of the enemies of the Catholic church !;
justice is trampled in the dust; the mob are
reused TO shed the blood Of Catholics and to
tear down the houses of Catholics and the
churches Of the Most Holy; and when the
mob has done its worst, the servants of
English "law" are sent to seize the wound
ed victims and to imprison them in English
prisons.
Persecution, then, RACES in England-per-
secution for conscience sake. In that Eng
land where the most savage errors in reli-
gion, morals and social life have free scope.
on the ground that it is the country Of per-
sonal liberty. In England where Mormons
transact their infamous bargains, where the
Agapemony is protected in its lewd and re-
voting rites BY the police; where the devil
and his works are all encouraged; there, as
of RICH: it should be. the Catholic church
has its sanctuares rifled, her priests insult.
ed and beaten. aud her people slaughtered
How long is this to continue How long
is the England that does such things to con.
tinue, We know not precisely how long
but we know that even a heather had OBJ.
served enough of the course Of the world &c
have said: sQuem Deus vult perdere prius
demanta,.'
England is mad, and there are tens o.
millions who long for her speedy destruc'
ton. What say the millions Of French Ca.
tholies to the blood and the slavery of theil
brethren in England VIVA, thinks Cath.
olic Austria! What think the millions o.
Catholics in northern Germany and in the
. lowlands! VIVA; thinks Catholic Spain
What thinks all Europe united of this dia.
boiical power, which, after having done fol
many years her utmost to create trouble and
revolution throughout the continent, and be
/, ing ANONYMOUSLY defeated, has turned with
ferocity unnatural even to wild beasts up.
on her own children, and wreaks upon those
Of them who are Catholics the rage she feels
against the faith that has saved the rest oil
Europe from her snares1 Oh, it is time fol
Europe to think and to feel that England is
no longer human. She is possessed bodily
by the devil. and as she insanely RACES
against everything good and holy, SO, il
the name Of God and of man, it is a duty
the world owes to put her down.
She has for hundreds of years been pre-
pairing one potent instrument for her owl
chastisement. Her horrible wrongs done 4