, 1855-06-22

your hand moment, and reflect. Don't
you know that persecution begets sympathy
for the prosecuted? Are you not now, all
of you, half praying for the success Of the
Russo Greek Catholic arms against the
Protestant legions Of Allied Europe, just
because you can't help sympathizing with Q
prosecuted or oppressed people. And II
has ever been so. ''The blood of the mar
tyrs is the seed of the church." Commence
your persecution. 1t will be resisted, Of
course. No people possessing rights will
permit them to be trampled upon ; war
follows the martyrs stake is erected the
faggots are piled (for to what last resort
will not bigotry drive!) and history, and
the philosophy of humanity are false, or
ysu will find on your shores, 10 less than
three years, ten. millions of Catholics where
there is now but three. Make this land
battlefield of religion, for blood and blows
instead Of argument and teaching, and you
will precipitate Catholic Europe upon your
shores. Brethren will defend each other.
You would do it yourselves. Did Method
ism stop because proud Calvinism drove IL
out Of Boston on to the Common TO preachf
Did Mormonism fall with Nauvoo- die
with its founder, slain Has Judaism fai.
len, though pierced with every dagger on
earth ? Was Christianity nailed eternallv
to the cross with Christ Did Islamism
Fly from the earth with the Hegira Of Ma
homet Religion was never particularly
loved by mans reason, but has always owed
its greatest successes to the throes Of pas
sion. In war of this kind the Catholics
will have the sympathies Of the rational
world. They have always been true to
their country. Not one Of them has turn
ed traitor to Office bestowed upon MIN and
in the wars of the country they have shed
the best blood Of their hearts freely at the
feet of the Constitution.
But the bugbear Of the Jesuit is arrayed
against them, and Sam" is melted to
measure arms with him in trial Of oaths
and secresy, plotting, Contemplating, and
espionage, and his first lessons in drill taken
behind stump or in a hen-hoose doubtless
confirms the young man that he Is able to
cope with lifelong live Jesuit, when be
can't even see that he is no match for an
old coon. All SAM" II You are afraid
of that scare-crow of Europe that never
had power, except in land Of gross relig-
ious ignorance and intolerance turn him
over to the political handling Of such men
as Andrew jackson, who, when q priest of
some persuasion came to him for an Office,
the old hero asked what he followed for .
living? He replied that he had been called
to preach the word Of the Lord ."Well,n
says the old General, 'that is q higher Of
fee than / can give you I; so, go back and
attend to H." Rest assured, "Sam, !" that
you are in bad company. The political
Protestant, at home, is not less to be feared
than the Jesuit Of Rome, Of whose tricks
you are history-informed, and are yourself
the accomplished mimic and Antagonist
If any Of my countrymen fear the Jesuits,
l would say to them. be honest lido no
deed Of darkness have no secrets that
shun the light deprive no one Of his rights;
love your neighbor as yourself, and you are
safe. 1t is only as the confessor Of sinful
consciences that the Jesuits eYer had any
power.
THE POPE.
The next phantom Of fright that the old
coon has reared up to excite the pugnacity
Of SAM" is the Pope, q mere man Of
straw, who, added TO q little temporal
county government, has no more or greater
actual power and control over his church
than has Protestant priest over the lives,
conduct and consciences Of bis covenant
members and his power is precisely Of the
same order,-the pOscer to ci. of by INfer-
did, and to hiss on the hounds Of proscrip-
tion and intolerance and so great Il that
power that few men exist, oven here In en-
lightened America, who dare brave the
condemnation and persecutixe force Of the
localized Protestant Pope Of his vicinage.
Talk about the power Of the Pope. He
cannot maintain himself without loan Of.
French bayonets on his old tottering tenn,
poralty and the poor, feeble old creature
is vainly endeavoring to arrest the inevita-
BILE fall Of his rotten dynasty Of the Peters
by the PRONUNCIATION Of such Sam catch.
ing absurdities as the Immaculation Of the
Virgin, and the startling discovery, after
1900 years Of error, Of fourth divinity in
the Godhead. If you want Popery 10 die,
let it alone and turn in and educate your
children in the light Of Mature and Truth,
that they may see God in His Works, and
thus prepared, no misinterpretation Of His
Word can delude them. This is the true
Egis. Superstition. bigotry, persecution
and hate are the children of Ignorance and
fear ; but liberation, equality and the
brotherhood of man are the children Of in
tellgence, wisdom and light. shaiA
Now, "Sam," If you have no religion Of
your own--you spell your name "B'h-o-yn;
If you help one Of these parties, and they
succeed, where is prescription to stopi Is
not each Protestant persuasion offensive to
the others, and their hands once into blood
and determination, will they stop till they
have Topped of every sect tinctured with
heterodoxy, such as Unitarians. Universal
lists, Shakers, Quakers, and SO on-and then
"Sam," before they eat up each other, you
will come in for share of their attention,
and they will either orthodox Won and let