The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1856-01-17
The Catholic Standard.

our whole nervous system becomes un.
strung by its perusal and we feel very
much like swearing, thing that we
eschew as much rs profanity ITSELF
All narrow.minded-one sided, mer.
cinary scctarian papers, Of whatever
cast, are in our minds eye the same
lechers in society. drawing their very
life's blood from ignorance and bigot-
~, and all are entitled to about the
same amount of respect at the hand Of
the honest and plain dealing, intelli-
gent and virtuous citizen. Were they
all-from the american Crusader "
Claiming to be the organ of the Amer
lean Party down to the sickly sheet
above named, melted down and con
centrated in one head, there would not
be sufficient amount of honesty gath
cred from them all, to shade the COM
plexion of one kDave's mind to virtue.
This is our opinion, founded upon our
own observation and experience, and
as no. one but ourself can suffer for it
in the community, we have no fear in
giving it plain utterance.
In long TRADE, III the last number
Of that very Christian newspaper (the
Catholic Standard) aforesaid, in which
some one (perhaps the editor) labors
over several columns, to prove that
there is no true religion but the Ro-
man Catholic, and all outside are to
be damned-we find the following par
agraph to which every page in the
past history Of the world gives the
point blank lie. Should like to use a
milder term than this, but would re-
place it with one more forccably ex-
pressive of falschood could it be had
in the Kings English. Listen to the
man:
The Popes were always opposed to
violent measures for the propagation
of the faith among pagans; and they
were also in the habit of throwing the
shield Of their protection around the
Jews, whenever their religious priv
leges and civil rights were infringed
by Incorporate Christian zeal. The
Church has thus always adopted and
acted upon the maxim of Tertullian,
who, more than sixteen centuries ago,
claimed religious liberty for Christians
as an indefsasible right, growing out of
the very nature of religion itself: -
Religions non est religionrm cogere
1t is not the part of religion to es-
tablish religion by force" Her spir-
it OF mildness was breathed forth by
the great St. Augustine, when, writ
ing TO Donatus, the imperial Procon.
sui in Africa, he deprecated all undue
severity against the Arlans and Dona-
fists, and said: I'VE desire them to be
corrected, not slain." As one of her
greatest Popes, St. Leo the Great
says: "The lenity Of the Church being
content with the priestly sentence,
shr'nks from sanguinary vengeance.
What is the fact? Why the fact
is, that the above has not one single
word of truth in it, To believe it, a
man must deny every page of history
from the birth Of Christ, to the pres.
ent time, and confess that the writer
for the Catholic Standard. published
in New Orleans, January 18th, A. D.,
1856, knows more about the truth of
the matter than Josephus did, or any
body else, following on down in his
wake to the period above named.
What this same writer in the Cath
Ollie Standard says in reference to
Common School Systems of Edsca
ton in the United States, snbodies a
Catholic sentiment that should pew-I
if ever-receive a check, whilst the
enlightened citizens of this nation have
it in their power. No books-not even