American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-10-18
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ROMANISA---READ Irii s's ~
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with saper,llion and traditions iAihs'--'@''
RksPscrKp En1foR:---As there has been
for some time past, and sllIl IS. consider.
ahla excitement throughout our land, reia-
tive 20 Catholicism, Foreignism, Know
Nothiupisn. and know notwhat all other +
iszasss and. as the saying. OF our immortal
washington, 'BeUars offoreiga infaence,'
is an Injunction near aud dear TO all'our
free American citizens, who know how to
appreciate. 20 the full extent. the glorious
principlcs.of civil and religious liberty, IL
may probably not be considered out OF
place 10 give your readers some Of the sem
iimsnts which are held sacred, and as pro-
ceeding from heaven. by the Roman Cath
olics. Aud all ask from your readers,
is-rea2--rsfsct- ---digest--and then act IN
accordance with your convictions. .-det
manfnlly aud decieiyely. No one can bntI
perceive that those sentiments which
Intend TO givs bsforeI am done, are high
ly kntagenistic, 10 our free American insti-
iutions and republican principles : princi-
pies which every true Protestant Ameri
can citizen holds sinhonor and sacred in his
heart--pyinciples which have been achiey-
ed with the lives an 1 blood Of our forefa-
thers--principles which every true Amer
lean shonld defend aul vindicate with all
the ability, zeal ami bravery he possibly
can muster up, against all insidious wiles
of foreign influence and encroachmenls
upon our sacred rights and civil aud reli-
gious freedom which Col, in his infinite
wisdom ami benevolence, has so graciou'ly
lavished upon us, as an American people
mo matter from what source Church
or Siate--such inhusnce or rencroachments
may emanate. +. ,...,.
Smile when you mast, anil mild when YOU can;
Bat ViRdieats tbs rights OF God aud min. .s.
Letthe candid reader, whose heart beats
for the welfare of the church and our A.
merican soil, judge for himself, whether
there be no just Cause for alarm and ex-
citement among our free American citi-
zens, on account Of such anti Christian
and anti-republcan principles manifested
in some directions. Let every Protestant
in our beloved land, and every one who is
not in principle q Major Arnold, who offer
ed 10 surrender West Point to British
General, speak out in time. AMI in such
language as cannot be misunderstood, a
gainst such blind zealots who think they
are doing Gods will, by obeying the hellisl
mandates of such Romish AMI diabolica
prelates. o,ssf II
That the policy--the fundamenta prin
ciples-of the Roman Catholic Church is
and always has been, deadly mslign an,
highly detrimental to our civil and religi
gious liberty, needs no proof foi tho unpre
JUDGED, cultivated, anu rejecting mind
and no one, in whose veins a drop Of Am
erican and Protestant blood circulates-
can deny il. 1t is true, we have some sc
mi Catholics In our land, and some polit
cal bigots, and some old degraded, supel
annuated, political party demogogues-
whose craving hunger for the loaves an
fishes, causes them to cry out: No dang
----ao dangerl. Indeed. some are so ia
gone in moral rectitude that they woul
not only kneel down and kiss the Pope
toes for the sake of gaining n few vote
but they would, for the sake Of Office, aC
wise Others. who might be true to the
country and TO their God, to>"throw cor
science or conscientious scruples to til
devil" and vote for the interests of the
own party--no matter how corrupt Il
principles Of that party might be-. j ha'
my doubts whether German inidelity,
its worst form, threatens more injury
our free American institutions than Romi
Catholicism. just look, for momer
at the heretical aud atheistical bearing
the doctrines of the Romish Church, al
particularly at the doctrine OF the. Immac
leb Conception! II might not be ami
here to give the sentiments Of one Of h
Ablest writers in our country, relative
this novel heresy: o"There Is d logical n
cessity for II, Some such decree seer
wanting to put the top.stone upon the
brio OF Romish idolatIy. She is not n
cannot be complete without it. II is t
last and crowning blasphemy that renal
20 be avowed; and having ayowed it,
cup will be full. When we look back |
on her history, We see her advancing sta
by stage, blotting ont one great truth af
another--denying first the Mediator. NJ
theatonement, mex. the Divine Spirit. nj
the Scriptures. Que other truth alone
mains---the eristence of God--and Il
truth, Rome, with awful impiety. is ab,
to blot out. For to what, does the, dec
Of the "1mmaculate Conception amou
but to this, that there is no other Slyi,
and no other God but Mary? Thus
see the extreme Of Romanism, AMI the
treme Of in6dslity, after long pursuing
paFently divergent courses, meeting at
in common eliminating point. namely
"Atheism." Why the: Pope claims
authority Of Gods viceroys on earth
have the keys of heaven and hell in
possession, and TO rule over the consci
ces and souls Of men. Hence. they
make their poor ignorant subjects bell
anything at all that might suit their O
freakish craft. And IL his Holiness sho
see propergc in his infalibility see
profitable to the Mother Of Hartots. -
tell his people that their souls, after de,
had to migrate and 1--we in the body o
Peacock---ahd after certain peacock
process would pass through the amin
stomach, and thus be purged from
and made it subjects for heaven,
would Just as freely and readily believ
as did Pythagoras, Grseian pliilosop
who positively affirmed That his sonl
once lived in the body Of the same ami
And why should they not believe it. il
Holiness would say so? OF course
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