Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-06-09
The Religious Question

Al the recent Barker presentation IN y. York,
the Hon james Brooks of the Express was call
ed out and made a speech. In regard To the qucs
ton Of religious persecution, he used the follow
ing just and appropriate language:
II make war, and | am you mike war
upon no mans religion. (Cries Of No, no }
What care you or what IA man thinks before his
God of transubstantiation, the immaculate
conception. or any of these techncalites of re
lgious profes sion, provided he ahlures his ale
gience. as has been said before tins evening, to
all foreign powers, spiritual aud temporal What
care you what he thinks of the Virgin Mary
What care you if he has his religious profession
in Latin. instead of in Anglo Saxon English
What care you what he thinks of this transub
sanitation or OF THE immaculate conception L
"a laugh) 1T Is not. them 10 the Roman Cath
ole religion that you and are opposed it is not
The religion Of the foreigner who comes here,
hut il is to his temporal and spiritual allegiance
to foreign power from which require his
heartfelt ebjuration. fCheersl
All other religious bodies have ahjurcd that al
logiance. The Epsoopaans from whom sprang
they hut from the Church of Fpgland' From
whom their organization but from some Arch
bishop of Cantorbury.three thousand miles across
the ocean! But in ZIG. when we made our De
claration of independence, they abiared all ten
poral and spiritual allegiance and established
the. own bishops and archhishops upon Amen
can soil. the creation of their own American peo-
pie Cheers
The abiuraiion Of temporal allegiance, we are
often told. though inereduously upon our part,
exists on the part If the Roman Catholics. 1t is
not enough TINT man Is Independent in the
goods aud cha,tles of the word that he may pos
seas: it is necessary that he should be indepen-
dent in body, IN spirit, and in mind also. When
ever the Roman Catholics of our onantrv. ndhering
faithfully to their religion for their reli gon is
better than religion in my Judgment and opinion
whether they will ALLURE all sorts OF allegiance
whatever to the foreign dominion Oft he Pope of
Rome, and to the hierarchy of Rome--to its spir-
itual and temporal suhugaton-they will have
done what the Methodist have done, what the
Episcopalans have done, what the followers of
Luther and of Calvin have done-thcy will have
done in 1855 what other religious bodies did
sixty or seventy years ago. tChecrs.)
Let it not then be said fhat we make war upon
the Roman Catholic religion. Nothing would
give me more pleasure than ia every Roman
Catholic church among our Irish and German
population an independent American church, re-
ceiying archbisbops bishops from four
thousand miles across the oooln, not living and
breathing and existing only by the fiat of the
a atcan, but holding all their rights and prlvi-
leges under the authority of an American gov
erDment aud an American constitution. Cheers
/ deny, then, the imputation that any of u
make war upon the Roman Catholic religion
1t is a heirarch. and government and class o.
nobility, alien, and foreign to our Institutions
that o4gha never to exist among us,and that ought
as sc6D a. possible to be overthrow. (Cheers
Let The Irrh andGerman people understand tina
if they arc independent Temporarily and sPiritu
ally of any foreign power. we leave whatever
they may think Of characterization, Of Latin
masses IF the Virgin Mary and of the Immaculate
Conception. as matters between them and theli
God, with which we have nothing whatever to dc
in our political action"
FAuLKNER's DISTRICT BoTELER PROBABLY
ELEcTED.-We learn from the Washington Or
gan that in the late election two hundred citizens