Washington telegraph., 1856-06-11

50 NnScfu111sious, and so zuodeyIy. thai
it were folly to deny its strength, and COW.
ardice to shrink from its contact. Its prin.
ciplcs have ever been ultra montane and
des1otic. Its ministers are perhaps the best
selected agents. the ablest men BIZ training
ard discipline. the most learned in book,
and in the human heart the most dextrous
and meanest in the world <
They form, in their order the most gorgeous
monument raScaiity has We, reared ON the
earth, are the tyrants of the church and the
curse of Christianity They educate youth
they console women, they set up golden
calf before the unfortunate stung to despair;
they tend the sick. they bury the dead:
they clothe themselves in the yesture of
charity; yet is their order Infamous = ::
So perfectly and astutely do their sy~iean-
of training, teaching and espionage. warp
young minds naturally honest and indepen-
dent that hundreds and we doubt not thou
sands of young men belong to this order.
who believe it, practices and rules to be the
paragon of religion, Christianity. and virtue,
and who lay all the acts of dubinus morality
TO the good of the church. Occasionally.
indeed, a contact with the living vsorld lift
the veil of Mol.anna.' and di>clOses the hor-
nd features of the power TO which they are
subjected The victim then rebels outright.
or shrlnks back in terror into that form of
rascaliiy to which he has been so defily
accustomed. * They dcba<e boy
hood, enchain manhood. and sway empires
and nations hither and thither like reeds
Obedience is their only law, espionage
their earliest and omnipresent engine.
They make war on families on
/ friendship, on society. as they have always
done on the principle of nations
That was the truth as spoken by the
greatest organ Of the Sag Nichts in 1852,
before the American party had arisen to
! Joint out these evils and abuses, and warn
/ the country against them They were
''grea: truths" then for the Says. but now
they repudia;e and turn from such senti-
ments with as much ''hoiy horror" as would
the Pope himself.
But here is another dose. Sec page 609:
Whatever deceptions may be thrown up
here and there by ministers Of State or re
igion, by moaarchs or their agents. we may
rest assured of one fact. that the Interests
| ofthe Roman Catholic Church system, Of the
English aristoeraey. of the despo;ic bond
which rules Europe, and of the violent,
subversiye and really anarchic party among
ourselves. which is opposed to the growth
and the grandeur of American Republican
ISM are one and Identical"
How do ou. Democratic friends relish
this, from the Democratic Rcvicw-how
can they reconcile it with their present
opinion of the Pope and his Church and of
their own Republican opinions If the
organ of Democracy was right in 1852 the
exalted opinion of the Pope and the Roman
Catholic Church entertained by Democrats
in 1856. is certainly wrong
On page 610 the Review continues:
Ignorance and prejudice are as much
and as naturally their weapons, as progress
in Democracy. popular institutions in sci
ence. art. knowledge. the freedom Of the
| mind, Of the person, Of the State, are ours"
In speaking of the "secret treaty (and
our Pope defending friends of the Says are
horror-stricken at secre~y when it comes
from AmericanS,) which was made on the
llth of April. 1854, at Peiersbursh. be-
tween Catharine H. and Frederick OF Prus-
sia. the Review, on page Clio, says:
It's first article, (the treaty. declares
the system of Representative Government
TO be as Inconsistent with patriarchisil
principles as is the doctrine of popular SOW
ereigntv with that of divine right. and
pledges the high contracting parties to
exert all their efforts to annihilate Repre-
sentative Government in all countries OF Eu-
rope in which it may exist. and to prevent
its introduction in States where it is now
unknown The third article is as follows:
Convinced that the principles Of religion
contribute most powerfully to maintain ma
lions in that state of passive obedience
which they owe to their princes, the high
contracting parties declare that it is their
intention to sustain in their respective do
minions, such measurs as the clergy may
adopt for the strengthening of their inter
ests.&c. The high contracting parties Of
fer in addition, their common thanks to the
Pope for he has already done for them, and
solicit his continued cooperation with their
views for the subjugation of nations
Upon this infamous agreement. the Dem
ocratic ReUietc truly adds:
CuCn Tue iu1udlHeutdl ldN anu odSiS VI
that vast conspiracy against the liberty and
very existence of nations"
These rulers mark popular reputation
and free press. as the surest means of
obtaining and upholding liberty.
X 1T marks religion as the surest aid
to tyranny and for the sake of this tyranny
NOT of the religion-it returns its thanks
o the Vicar Apostolic Of Jesus Christ,
and solicits his continued cooperation for
the subiugations of nations
On page 6l3. in speaking of the Roman
Catholic Church in this country, which the
Sag-Nichts now defend from all such lmpu-
tations as urged by the Reuieto. it says:
THE Roman Church in our very heart,
is hostile to the progress of Republicanisn
everywhere. Democracy everywhere. and
the territorial or other extension of Amerl-
can institutions everywhere. and as much
on this continent as on the European.
And vet we fnd Protestants. Americans,
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