The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-07-19
A SIGN OF THE TIMES.

papers 10 the country. II is changing its sails
in another direction, as the following article
from it's columns Of last week will show
Siraws show which way the wind blows
LED. efthe Star.1
A Little Common Sense for the Know
Nothings.
We see in several organs Of the Know
Nothing party throughout the county, con-
slant illusions TO the Pope, and symptoms
of great alarm with regard 10 the spread of
Roman Catholicism. From one journal we
learn that the day on which the news Of Mr..
Wise's victory reached the Vatican will have
been kept with unusual ceremony; from an
other we gather that the high priests of Anti.
christ have been in ecstacies ever since the
action of the Massachusetts, delegates 10 the
Philadelphia convention; and generally we
may say, the newspapers of this stripe talk
as if we were living in the days of the great
Spanish Armada, and reduced 10 trust 10 our
brcadswords to defeat the famous bull by
which the whole Of America was given 10
the King of Spain by the Pope. "There is
not q single spectator of the politics of this
country" says one, "who takes deeper in
terest in them than the Pope Of Rome;" and
instead of feeling fa,tered by this informa-
lion, which will be new 10 most of US, this
ungracious Know-Nothing adds energe,icaIly
that we ought Ito make Rome howl" for
elf there be cloud in our nations horizon,
it is the Papacy."
1t is high time that this stuff should be stop
ped. We have made asses of ourselves pref
| ty freely-we Chrisiians-since the days of
Luther. about our theological quarrel and
carried matters 10 such an extent that no sen.
| sible Chinese who has any respect for him.
| self will at the present day have anything 10
do with church SO obviously divided
against itself. But if our ancestors, who shot,
stabbed, burned, tortured and hanged each
other on points of theology, were undenia.
BILE asses, what are we who have not tilhe
Of their grounds for controversial rancor.-
For, il must be remembered, 10 The English.
man of The seventeenth century, Catholi.
cism implied submission 10 the Pope, and
submission to the Pope involved the surren.
der of America TO the Spaniards: small won.
der forsoo,h that they were fierce Proiestants,
and that, while they trusted in Providence,
they likewise kept their powder dry. But
we, what cause have we to fear the Pope
What harm has he done uss What can he
do?
Why, really, good people, who are quak-
ing IN Your shoes about the inroads of the
Papacy, and muiterlne dreadful things about
the scarlet woman of Babylon, you are much
more likely to damage the Pope, than he 10
iniure you. # is hard work enough for him
-poor old soul-io keep his place, with
board and lodging and fire, at the Vatican
nor would he be there still, in fact, il Napo-
leon iii. had not condescended 10 use Chris
tianiy, just as he used the Delvigne bullet,
TO consolidate his new empire. Since The
first Napoleon showed that Pope might be
kicked about as we'll as any other man, there
hasn's been sovereign in Europe that would
forego the pleasure of trying the new sport.
All the ministers Of Spain, from the republic
can juntas TO Espariero, have had their turn
at it. France has treated him like dog
Melternich let him know plainly ,ha, he
must consider himself mere pensioner of
Austria on his good behavior; and now in
these latter days, even Italy's self turns round
upon him, and will have no more dealings
with him. Rome drives him into exile,
Sardinia deposes him from his authority
And 10 this the potentate OF whom we are
afraid, This poor, hunted, deserted, bul.
lied ere AZURE, set up by this or that iyrant for
his own purposes ard knocked down the
next day like nlnepiE in mere sport living
on mere sufIerance, sof of Smallweed,
shaken up now an then by some neighbor to
scare the unwary with his shrill voice The
piiiable relic of an effete order OF vilization,
so wholly out of place in the middle of this
nineteenth ceptury, that, as we are told by
the most reliable travellers, the ceremonies
and fashions essential to his state are proba.
bly, the most comical sight in Europe-is
this the man-this The power--of which the
Order of Native Americans confess TO the
world they are af.aidt God help their back
bone, If SO it be-!
But we shall be told that Catholicism is
no, the Pope, ard that though The wings of
the latter may be cut, the former will thrive
notwithstanding. We have before us
Know-Noibing journal in which this ground
is taken. I, resolves itself into very simple
question: is there any danger Of the Roman
Catholics preponderating in the United
States!
il was with no controversial intent that W.
venture boldly the assertion that Roman
/ Catholicism is not The creed for the presen,
day. Itis religion Of The feelings and Of
1.-THE heart il rests wholly on faith, and dis
cards reason with contempt: ii appeals 10
the senses more than 10 the mind, to the
passions more than the understanding; and
though culEiua,ing in system of morality
al least equal 10 that evolved out OF Protest.
antism, it is, az every honest person must