The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-06-24

IN New Orleans by Moreheaad u 20 ),
some time ago) new Journal has
sprung into existence entitled The
Southern Stonard, with the motto
"Pure religion is the foundation Of
peace. " To Which is added for head
embelishment. an American Eagle
with outstretcbed wings, grasping in
his bill the stem of The Star Spangled
Banner. On the end of the pole is a
liberty cap. and on the banner is EN-
blasoned very black looking cross
Around the Eag1e f1annts D tibbon,
wle,eon is written "M hoe yigno
ru,ces. . The sign which gave rise
to this motto. may have served ambi-
tions Constantine but the fourteenth
is not the nineteenth, century, and the
Southern Standard has made up bis
head bellishments, out of antago-
nisms that can never he reconcilcd,-
The rational flag of this Union, should
never be stained with the emblens of
any sect Or creed. Blood enough has
been shed by intolerance and fanati-
csm. Under the stars and stripes,
all Religious creeds are permitted to
assemble. and worship the Great Gre
ator and Invisible Spirit, in whatever
manner is most agreeable to their own
reason; but not to build up a tempo
raj power aud ceuteralize wealth to
enslave the people. All sincere reli.
gion is good but as Our Celestial an.
tipodes say, Reason is one, and i'm.
mutable - The world has emerged
from darkness TO light, and will never
be again enslaved, by having the nat.
ural piety in the human bosom. mis-
directed for selfish and merciuary
ends.
The Church property question IN
New York has aroused the public
mind Of this nation to the dangers
which lie in the pathway of the Re.
public, and the spirit of universal tol.
erance will not be at rest. until check
is put to the ,7ropsrty'absorbing pfin.
cipIe, Of different religious scots.
Commerce is king, by wea'th--oon-
centrated wealth, in tbk hands Of one
man or one sect, is absolute despotism;
an autocracy at whose nod all must
alike bend.
But to return to the Southern Stand
ard; in bis last number, be extermi-
mates our other.side. .of.the.river con-
temporary In this manner
"Tbe seditor of the Visa Wis, or
whoever penped the remarks contain
el III the columns Of his paper, of the
4th Inst, Is an 1GNoRAMUs--a Know
Nothing, in the literal sense of the
words. He wants two tbings--intel-
ligence and candor, and before he at
temps to discuss Catholic points, it
would be well for him to have his
mind disabused of educational and ma
tional prejudices, by consulting either
some Catholic priest or intelligent
Catholic in his neighborhood The
child who knows his Catechism, knows
more about religion than this bigoted
editor.
Oh. Ignorance how many follies
are committed in thy name.
If this individual were a respecta
Bile editor-we mean il he were the
editor Of a respectable paper, IN size
and extensive in circulation--we might
be induced to refnte his objections and
Misrepresentation; but SO long as he
remains in his present state, to do so
would be--time lost. An indulgence,
"a permission from our priests to COM
nit sin! :" Get penny Catechism,
and examine what it says. y
This certainly has never before met
the eye of the Capitoliau, " and now
that it has, he should say something