American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-03-01
The Claim of Temporal Power
Re-Asserted.


A lecture has lately been delivered in
st. Louis by ]. v. Huntington, an adYo-
cate for the claims Of the church, in which
the following broad propositions were made.
After settling the matter satisfactorily to
himself and his Irish hearers that all good
Americans and handsome ladies spring
from Irish parentage, and stating that while
the whole American population had doub-
led, the Roman Catholic population had
trebled, he made use of the following re-
marks:
"S.ill, notwithstanding the loss of mate
rial aui moral force Of this emigration. il
maintains tsunity and efficiency. That
unity is composed by the system on which
Uatholicity is organized, ensuring the
strictest discipline and the greatest con-
cert. The Pope is the presiding general
of the army; the archbishops, bishops,
priests and curates are the subordinate Of
ficers ardently attached to, and devou'ly
desiring the success Of their faith. Cath
olicity differs from nom Catholic;tv ,notonly
in religion, but in literature, science, art, and
social instructions. 1t views things from
a totally different stand point, looks deep
er into affairs, and takes more compre-
hensive survey of events. There are Cath
olic historians, Catholic novelsts, Catho-
lie artists and authors. There are Catho-
lie books, organizations, corporations, and
institutes: there could not be q Prcsbyte-
rian institute where Presbyterian lectures
were made the vehicles OF Presbyterian
tenets, for the public would feel no inter
est in it. The Catholic emigration is not
mere wave of population which spends
itself on our shores. 1t is an army with
banners, on whose front is written "Con-
quest" amid the smoke and gloom of whose
darkest conflicts, victory perches at las, ION
their standards. 1t is bound TO triumph,
ultimately by reason fits undivided uni
ty, its thorough discipline, and wonderful
organization. Catholicity is destined to
triumph, and Irish emigration to be the in
strument OF victory"
Have We not repeatedly called the at
tention Of the public to these points. Did
we not quote from standard Catholic works,
doctrines, dosmas, ,andtencts Of the church
to prove that the "Pope is the presiding
general of the army, the Irish Emigrants,
the arch bishops, priests, and curates, are
the subordinate officers" and that these
including the whole body Of Catholic Irish.
could be moved by nod, and made to ac,
in any manner by wink of their General
the Pope? Have not we shown over and
over again, that the Pope claims temporal a:
-. well as spiritual authority over every mar
iIasli lands and over all temporal thing
And seiyhout the Earth? Here then W.
TIE kamong many others, another admis
A'"'I the fact, another declaration of the
'nsaS Sad Ct Il. supremacy of the Jesuit's inten
ffo% Iishb .hb of their different views, and wishes
{; ,ia.. literature and arts; that tho Catholic
emigration is not mere wave that rushe
upon shore and dies away, but tEat it il
what we have always contended for "al
army with banners on whose front is in
scribed Conquest" Yet with all this ev
idence before them, there are some VIII
cannot believe it, who honestly regard
asa phantom Of the brain some whose eye
are dazzled by the vision Of some con
temptible Office till they cannot sec it.
We are told that Romanism is "boun
to triumph. ultimately, by reason Of its un
divided unity, its thorough discipline an
wonderful organizations" Ought, then
this wonderful organization" to complai
if the American people are aroused to Pre-
tect themselves? am. use all constitutions
means in their power TO SECURE the r'9h'
handed down to them by their fathers?-
How can we decide in favor Of the two @
three who deny that temporal power
claimed, when we see it exerted, and tn
right to exercise it promulgated in the lee
ture room from the pulpit, and in the off
cial documents of the propsgandists of tn
Pope himself-the order Of the Jesuits, vii
are the most adroit as they are the mo-
inscriptions of men.
Mr. Huntington, speaking by authorit.
thought our nationality would be "modi6e
elevated and refined by an infusion of Ce
tic blood;" that religion Catholicism, ft
there is no religion with him, out of IL
Holy Mother Church., would become
part Of our institutions, the church partan
parcel of the state.
Religion is the foundation of national
ty, and religion, inculcating the primai
social dogmas and cardinal rights Of maj
will become a part Of our institutions.
"Anglo- o-Saxonism is calculating, selfis
unsympathetic, mammon-serving, vii
more head than heart. 1t, four nationality
will be refined, softened, and elevated, t
the infusion of Celtic blood, with devo,
Ter spirit and more sympathetic natur
characterized by areligious fervor whit
has never been hardened by Calvanist
theology"
What Ameriean--we will not say Pro
estant, for this is opposed to all we belie'
in regard to the character of the predom
nant race in this country as well as that
the Irish emigrants in America-what
merican, we say, will not be convinc,