Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-05-17

holy cr1Sade;Whlch would RESULT IN the
END in their OWN overthrow and carry
|us back to the Revolutionary times of
Iinfdel France, when the hoof Of
1.-THE cavalry horse was saturated in hui
man gore, and liberty went staggering
from the struggle through carnage and
blood.
I The Know-Nothings were opposed
Ito the Catholic religion because it,
WAS of foreign origin, and many Of its
members in this country we're foreign
ers also. He said that if it was
valid objection to tolerating the Catho-
lie religion in this country, because
! it was of foreign origin and many of
), it's members were foreigners, we would
be compelled te expel most of
the other religions of the coun-
try for the same + ason. Who,
he asked, was John Wesley, and
} where did the Methodist religion
|, have It's origin? 1t was in old Eng
; land, and John Wesley was an Eng
!, |lishman. But if John Wesley were
alive to-day, and here in this country,
) K ow-Nothingism would drive him and
: his religion back to England, whence
! they came, because they were foreign.
! Who, he asked, was John Calvin, and
}, where did CalvinisIn take its rise?-
1 Was it not in Geneva? And were
t Calvin alive, this new Order would
f send him and his doctrines back,
whence. they came. Who, be asked
+ was Roger Williams? And would not
= Roger Williams and the Baptists share
e the same fate? And SO with Martin
e Luther,the great Reformer. He would
# be subjected to the same proscriptiyt
e test.
Il If ACKNOWLEDGMENT could be Car
d RED out as assumed by its authors, i
: would expel every foreign religion be
IN yond the limits of the United States
le in fact if its great aim was not the es
IS Enlistment of Atheism and Infidel
if ty, it would adopt some religion tina
d was purely native in its origin and in
D. diginous to our soil, which he sup
le posed would be Nornaon;sm, as tina
b. was purely American. Mormonisn
y. as ne supposed, was to become the re
t. ligious standard of the Government
as by which the consciences of men wer
n. to be measured, and those that though
,e a little more than the Mormon stand
as ard would have to be cut of, and thos
he that thought little less would havet
I'd be stretched out and made to conform
re this Mormon standard of religion an
It. morals.
re The ridiculous absurdity and in
le consistency to which such doctrine
US lead must be apparent to all. Thi
IT. subject may be turned and twisted i
be every wav that the inventive mind {
st man may suggest, and there was bu
st one doctrine that was right and SCUM
- afterall, and that was, let all men wol
n ship God in their own way, ACCORDING
It to the dictates of their conscience
lis Men will differ in their religious fee
i'll ing and opinions. 1t was as naturd
at for them to do so, as it was for ther
- to differ in the color of their hair, o
as in the expression of their countenar
L. ces. These differences of Opinio
le must be tolerated if we expect tn
ed mind and conscience of men to b
ne free. Charles the Fifth, the Empero
1t, of Germany, when tired of the care
Ie of State, resigned his vast possession
ne to his son and retired to a monastery
or and there, to amuse the evening of hi
E. life, undertook the regulation {
n. watches, and after many experiment.
ID patience and perseverance, found
I'd impossible to make any two of ther
P keep precisely, the same time. Thi
ID led him to reflect upon the crime an
o. folly he had committed while Empe
n TOR, in attempting to make men thin
d alike. Hence, he said, he was dis
" posed to tolerate all religions, leaving
ID it matter to be settled between
)t the professor and his God. i 1856
Of Gov. j. said that he thought tn.
s, danger apprehended by many from
n the liberation of the Catholic re
i igion in free government, was more
y imaginary than real. He said thai
+ San Ma17no, situated in Italy, is now
/ the oldest republic in the world. This
e republic was founded by Marino, who
: was stone mason by trade, and a
d Catholic in religion, mere than fifteen
e hundred years ago, and it has stood
: upon its rocky summit, two thousand
e feet above the elevation of the sea,
: undisturbed and composed amid the
: rising and falling of surrounding en-
4 pres; and the Catholic had been the
5 principal religion enjoyed by the peo-