The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-05-25

n1lure Of O. nligon which. ofiissls Isa per-
pctual instigatOr TO violence against al Who srs
not 81 sthe faith"
IN Or own country, we have seen but mild
exerciso of - spirit and power, yet enough to
betrsy DO hoary AMI pr found despot sm tat
lies concealed beneath its local. temporary ina
bility. & has I. among n, dared. or rather.
has not en Ct for It i p litic, and patient
" thai to re-thunder the motto Of that Austrian |
bravo OF the .Hely Alliance, who said Il will
oppose will Of iron lsteeli) to the progress Of
lioeral pri ciples; It has not ventured save IN
petty instances-sto burn sacred or prosane liter.
AZURE in our highways; Il has not kind. d the
material faggot. nor raised auto-da-fe;it has
not denied oil decent gravespace to s'heritics.
M, it 10 not bold and brave ii defence Of itself;
1t does not sp IN time-ser ing policy. and un-
mask tssI at once, in all It's hIdeous ugiiness.
Tie spirit is thee, burning with h4te q dvsuge-
ace, as deeply Us on BArthclomew's Day. q
when the Bohemian expiated his Prot santism
IN ire, or the e up ror-lnonk 4 Ydste dabbled
his cruel in hereto gorei but the time Is MT
come to ma ilest it ..in the iesh, and G ID grant
thar it nevor may come.
But it has done al, it dared to do. /. has seiz
I'd ON strong elem nts of temporal power, grasp
ing Tor Is p mt lcal he d TEN LIS, AMI treasures.
al graves. reared, and coined, and dug by its
bin followers sweat and Llood. I. Has isola
Ted and armed its herd---wth one weapon or.
ther--- gainst oil hearty coalit on with the peo-
pie OF the land. Ut ha, b4ttied ag inst ee.
thought aad free speech, and particularly against
The etacatio OF the children of the l4ni, free,
and in commo,. J. nam OF a religion
which it dare not trust to he march of mind ard
the progress OF ev aats, 1t has st0oi Ike rock
Lint in the way OF | De tvs watch-l;ghts- :
rec liars and free schools. 1. has opposed, se-
{ city always, AMI openly when it dared, what
ever tended to make people more free AM
self-reliant.
I 1t has veiled the pag ants and mummeries
VII rewth it has deluied and de auched in 9TH
| r lands, il Is because The intellig nee of thu
| people It la ge wonl not tol rare them; or be-
;ans,, perhaps, il has found ampl work for it,
genius and craft in attempting to stem the cur
rents of int lligelce, lest they should so wideL.
land swell, and burst, as to sWtire down tn Jesu
site R )man structure, stripping despotism of IT
might est stronghold, and Riding freedom of her
Ieadliest TO-. Wehave hadth tue programme
Of what Catholicism would doifit had the Stat
in its clutche~---as in Spain, or Naples, or Rome
--sounded in our ears by an Arch-bishop's or
gan, ..Tae She, herd of the Valley" 1t woul
would crush or censor tn. pr SIS, and by any ant
every means drive back the people to the C nve
nient blbarism of ignoran> e; it woull max.
them serfs in mind, soul ana body, and fin lily
by putting OF the inquisitorial screws of an gin
failbae faith,,' hay; but one Church, one fold
and no heritics.
Beautiful AMI harmonious entity! We can
fancy this consummation so devputly labored TO
by shepherds OF the Val ey;' ---honest shep
h .rds, ut belching the truth too SO ;--it Wolff
not be different from the Stlt OF Christeadon
ere tae reformers arose; ali knees would benz
1r DE broken. before HIS II ,lness' OF Rome
I al tongues would sing pecan to the tenant o. th
I V.tican, or be tucked out by roots; the Cru
, sier anu the !, ord would beat the bon OF her
. esy to dust; uarlng G aiileos woul' supin dun
7 geons on horrors; en'perors ain kings, and ma.
Ii Dc Presidents, would 60 a-toe-kissing, and pei
) cha ce be Ell d to exei.te s,me rebeli1us dee
! by two gays i'er d ,ub !, in. wfntr
: eather, in Pipes ante-cn .mber. All, Their
e1 would bennitv; the uaity of hand-bounl an
: ton ue-uedsllsss Pfotest-ants would be hu b
e ed, even to the stiffness Of the grave. Tie
: there would be re time for haven monk.
i an imperi-l I'd of plumber and rapine. -
Bat let ds heliev, thrt counter spirit
: awake, a par OF who's business It will be |
smite this el gion, in 8, far as it as politica
e ant-republican aspect, on the heaa-.-sulste
surely and swiftly. N, intengen, C theli
$ priest OF liymsn. n $ ~ that r man th,li'
. ism, un,ho-n, is compatibie with liberty. II
VIII, is trn to the last extremity to his oblg'
!, tiyHs as Catholic, c mot be equally trae
the cnnsntu1i n and iHstitaIosls OF this un
lry TIE ma Ter can be narrowed down to jul
/ go small a point d 4 is. Taere is deep, un
If versal crafty and ngarN political spirit
e connection with the Catho c religion,---a spir
. more threatanin /, the future OF our Rspubl
than any othr / msst be huntsd ont an
! hr ught into he light, and have it claws pare
n R ligion, purely, We " nld havs divorced frol
+ p .iities, bat poi tco- Cath Ecfsm can only !
stripped as it des.rv 5, / the free schon
house, by the enmuzzled press, and It he
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). xs s rARrIA, Ny 81 1855.
Ts>c,mmunicatim from Dssas.,Ils Is * sugge
Itii& q j. j. J.. b. White ~ snitahle candiial
te4 present Us in our Senatorial Dis riot hav
+ b5en oile.i IN this section Of Yazoo county vii
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