Demoine courier., 1855-08-09
Fol the Demoine Courier.
LMERICANISM AND ROMANISM.

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the other day, by the principal address
delivered in the grove near O.,umwa.-
/, viii be recollected tina. the speaker
closed by an eloquent eulogy on Roman
Liberty. Now if this was called forth
by the mere fact tha, both Romans and A.
mericans adopt the eagle as The enbleT
of their power, i, nigh, be passed with
out comment, but if the speaker would
make Rome a model for America in her
civil institutions, at the same time that
he decries her ecclesiastical system, We
had better look a lille into history and
see where i, would lead US. 1, is a gen.
eral truth illustrated in history that near
ly the same ideas Of Power and liberty
prevail both in Church and State in the
same countries and nations. Indeed the
alliance of Church and State seemed al
most a necessary thing till the time Of
the American Revolution and it seems SO
now almost every where except in our
own country.
Our objection, 10 he Romish church
is tina. she claims the Liberty OF con
trolling religious belief, and practice
Throughout. The world. bu, when did the
Roman State claim Tess than the liberty
TO rule others as far as she had the power!
We object to the Romish Church because
j, is too much like the Roman State, and
the creates, objection TO the Roman State
is that by a perfectly natural process i,
has given to the world just such a thing
as the Romish Church. Rome hates us
because our freedom in church invigor.
ales our freedom ia State and our free
dom in State protects our freedom in
church. She knows that if she can ces.
troy the one the other is as surely gone,
ss are both the forecastle and cabin in a
sinking ship, which ever may 60 down
first. A real American Party therefore
must stand on fwo fundamental ideas. -
Religious Liberty and Civil Freedom
If she fights the Romish Church with
the Bible in one hand she mus. fight the
doctrines of the Roman State with the
Declaration Of American Independence
in the other. II she discards priests be
cause they burn the Bible, let US discard
those politicians who snesr at the self
evident truths which our fathers fought to
defend. Rome with her Kings, consnls,
decemvirs, triumvirs, patricians, plebe-
ians, and slaves was ever an Imperial
City, let America aspire to be a continent
peopled with freemen.
But another thing that suggested these
thoughts was The fact that when the Plat.
form of American Principles was read,
the article that declared Slavery local
and Liberty national was at first oye..
looked aud then called up as a sort of
u%nimporianl after thought. Now this
seems strange, for nothing could have
been SO effectually used against!he recog-
nized opponent, of the American Party
as this idea. Nothing has been used go
triumphanlly agains. them where il has
been tried. No American principle could
have been more fully sustained by the
authority of The mos. brillian, Revolu.
lionary Statesmen. They enacted il,
when they abolished the slave Trade
and when by the Ordinance of 1887
they prohibited Slavery in all the Terri.
tory, which they then possessed. This
Principle has traversed The Continent,
from the battle ground Of Bunker's Hill
to San Francisco Bay. Ii has bull. towns.
cities and railroads., fenced farms and
opened mines along the route. And
now when Political Priests are trying TO
arrest its course. let us say TO them as
Galiles Of old said to ,he Romish Priests
in reference 10 the nations Of The earth,
when they tried to silence him, by The
terrors of the Inquisitisn. ..It does move
though" The opinion is getting very
pre- valent tina, the American Union will
be quite as safe if the North stands by
such noble spirits in the South as Hunt,
Bell, Nc Cullom andKerne,h Raynor who
declare the repeal of the Missouri Com.
promise d~ishonorable and unjust, his If il,
follows in tho rsar Of such renegade Yam
KEGS az Pierce and Douglas, shoulder 10
shoulder with such men as A,chison.
Strlngfsllow and the fiery little French
man. Pierre Soule Of Cuban and Spanish
notoriety. VlNDEX.
u By papers received by the las, ar.
rival from the Pacific. we learn that the