The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-10-22

Politics and Religion.

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all subjects involving the vital interests OF society,
without ecting themselves to the charge OF pros
iitutiDg the sacred Office to partzan purposes They
may nov advocate temperance, both in and out OF
the pulpit-and there is great need for it-for III
temperance has triumphed, and he'll is celebrating
a jubilee They may now unmask the hypOcritica
Jesuit and warn unsuspecting freemen of his insd-
ous designs upon the liberties Of this great Repub-
c and there is urgent necessity that it should be
DONE for the Catholic world are shouting their tie
Deum" in commemoration of the signal victory that
Romanism has gained in this and other States Of
the Union.
Ministers and the religious press, may now, with
out being charged with electioneering, vndicate the
Protestant religion against the foul aspersions Of
unprincipled demagogues and it must be done, Of
the hope of the world will speedily set in endless
night. For the metropolitan organs have lmplousy
asserted that Js,itiaa has done more for the world
than Protestantism-( Great God! forgive that enor-
nous lie I and the little echoes are yelping the
vile SANDER from the mountain tops, and through
every cove and valley of the land and thousands Of
supplemented, confding Protestants are sympa-
thisng with the great who're of Babylon" Al
ready Luther is regarded as merely bigoted sec
tartan, and the Reformation as nothing more than
the temporary triumph of a disafected and heretical
party, whilst a new born zeal for Rome is fostered
as the quintescence of patriotism.
And has it come to this, that Protestant Ministers
in this Protestant Republic, must hold their peace,
and leave to politicians the discussion and the de-
cisiOn of the momentous question whether Protest
antisrn or Romanism is to be the religion of this Re-
publcH Are We prepared to bide their decision,
and at their dictaton, to yield up our blood bought
religion, which is dearer to US than life itseif and
which has been cODsecrated by ancestral hloodshed
upon many a battle fed for its maintenance? Shall
heartless parilzaus and foul mOuthed Gemagogues
be permitted to assa, to Willy and spit upon our
pure Protestant religion? 10 cast it out as evil TO
make room for hollow hearted Jesutsm seethed in
every crime in the catalogues Of heland shall the
Pulut and the Protestant press remain silent?-
Heaven forbid! Shall we be terrified from our duty
by the slang of designing politicians' Did our
fathers their ancestors, ut any period since the
days of Luth,r. for1ear to speak out when their
religion sssaiIcd, lest forsooth they should be
charged with "mrddiing in politics?' Dat upon
such patriotism religion.
L. the DAYS of thu Revolution, Protestant Minis
t.rs preached against forrgn domination, defended
the declaration, advocated for the maintenance
Of their civil and religious liberties and some won't
30 far as to raise companies and march them to the
field OF battle. But nov, Ministers must stand by
aui hear miserable mage -ues drnource the Pro.
tes,Gut rcli-ion, and huI the viauous Je5uits |
aud he NUT not utter wOr in self lcfeu-,, either
from the Pulpir or the PEGS, lest, ors oCh ne be
fluid "urdiling in politics." or lest perchance, he
should become excited in politics" Were not our
fathers excited" when they marched their respect
i've companies to the battle fcIdS Are We more |
holy than they?
We much opposed to mingling in mere
struggle for Office between the ms and the Outs,
as any patriot ought to be. But when the Protest |
ant religion is dragged into the political hustings by
unwashed hands and subjected to all sorts of
denunciation-when Romanism is lauded as the
purest most venerable and republican Of ali reli. |
gions forbearance to be virtue, and he that
remains unexcited is d poor Protestant and cold
hearted patriot.
Are ministers a prescribed class Have they
forfeited their rights9 Are they not still American
citizens, and are they not the peculiar guardians of
ProtessntismY And, it is assailed have they not
right, as citizens, and ia it not their duty, as min
isters to defend the religion purchased for them by
the blood of their noble Sires and guaranteed to
them by the constitution of the countryl And if
we fail to defend our goOdy heritage are we not
ignobe sons unfathful guardians, despicable slaves,
deserving no better fate than subsection to foreign
despOt?
If the malignant denunciations of Professionalism,
and the coarse abuse which has been heaped upon
Pedestrians shall be permitted to psss without a
stern and whitening rebuke from the pulpit and the
religious press, in vain may We hereafter, rely upon
politicians to defend our religious rights. Hitherto
they have nobly stood ~ in defence OF the Protes-
tant religion, confidently relying upon the co-opera
ton of the pulpit and the press and the hearty ap
prevail of all right. minded Professionals But If min /
sters and editors tmidly shrink from the response
bity, lest Catholics and those who sympathise with
them, should chance to speak evil OF them, politi
clans will curse their cowardice, and abandon them
10 their fate.
Let every minister, who loves our holy religion, /,
md the peerless liberties it has secured to US, lift
up his voice in indignant Iebuke Of the miserable
iemagugues who have basely sought to conciate {
he favor OF Catholics by scandaizing honest Prot
sstants. Let every Protestant press these
modern Esaus, who would sell not only their own, t
out the nations b.rthrigh for less than mess of
,ot,gc that they malign the Protestant re-
igion without rai.ing storm of patriotic indigna
ion that will overwhelm all who would Romanze b
his happy land.
NO KNOW NOTHING.
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