The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-04-29

- kon,s nothing papers object TO the interference o.
alie priests in politics and elections So do We w
further We object 10 the interference Of Protestant
r,,. In politics and elections. The know-noihing pa
- seprecate political Romanism So do we We -
.h,, we deprecale political Protessants. The know
,bay pspers abhor Jesussm. So do WEI but not more
|r,holic than Protestant Jesaitsm-
tn Institutions Of this country contemplate complete
o.rson of Church and State 10 theory and 10 fact W.
q Of IL II Is Of the best features OF the con-
,;on IN viii be of the millennium when priests
IN reeds and secs shall devote themselves singy Y
h,iv affairs and leave temporal affairs TO De managed
r. those educated 10 the business When that day shat
.om. ,here win be far less strife, less contention
y Ngotry and less infdelity in the land than now y
IN be the good time come
There il deal Of inhdeiy abroad and u Is every day
adne mainly because there are few coun'erae'lng M
as Ths christian church is not engaged in the same
nou il once Its adherents nave nov ''is s,'ne
| i The saving grace and efficacy Of the Gospel thty
Ma They no longer appeal the conscience OF men,
hsy usea 10 do but appeal to the legislature to make
~ eomnel men 10 be good. It's ministers I've speak
~ poss,an, church leave the pulpit for the husungs
|hpaou divinity for politics. They have been known 70
n know-nothng lodges and to take the fearful Wieheu
,mning oaths there administered The descent Is fearful
50 wonder that nGdelity prevails We observer .ne
anv among the names Of officers OF one OF our e
CHRISTIAN churches that of VIGOROUSLY prominent know"
ohiue but not notorious for piey. We make no pro-
ourselves but we know what mockery OF relgion II.
| I, ,onaer we say that infdeiity prevails
THINGS we suspect will be mended by and oy Massa-
.,ts has had full frui,on ofkaow-nothngism- Through
4 iorumentay Of the order thirty or forty proiessed
,.,srs Of Christ were sent to the Legislature Those
- forty ministers have exercised influence enough
ave the legislature from disgrace. We do not know
a, ,bey have tried They voted for the appointment
he committees whose exploits have been recorded
~ nublic journals and Of whose members offered
hme indignies to the Lady Superior ola convent and
oher OF whom on the expedition to another convent
, with him dsreputable person of the opposite sex
100 e,penses we're paid by the State These things
- enacted in the name OF Professionalism, Massachusetts
4 committee ola legislature containing among its mem
s thirty or forty professed ministers of the Gospel
,v never win be reenacted in that State Massachusetts
al had surei, OF know nothingism Few other States
yil desire to he thus saed
We believe in Professionalism But don't believe in po-
M Professionalism We don't believe in the Professionalism
b eounienanoes Acknowledgment. We don't believe in
n Po,estantsm which permits It's priests dele their
sgon We don't believe in Protestant nquisitions more
ssn in Catholic inqustions-in American inqusiiions
.sre than in Spanish nqusitions The Professionalism
ys 10 that whose weapons truth and whose faith
hin i'd efficacy This is what Professionalism used to be-
rAat il must be it would itself from disgrace and
tan and the country from infdelity
Hnow-no,hngism has done Catholicism no injury yet
la. injury has it not done Protestantismg