American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-11-29
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act, something that we can do. Do we
expect to do all?, Who knows how
much we NAV do % Yt

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4, Blasphemy and iilolatry arc here
unblushingly iavowed, ais part of the,
agencies inrthis scheme OF conversion.
| The priest pretends toibring the "God
'of Heaven down to earth" whcn he
administers the sacrament of the mass !!
Changing the bread into tlcyery God,
And tbs pretended miracle is avowed,
in the middle of the 10Th century, in
the city of New York, in printed
newspaper, as one of the means that
Archbishop, Hughes and his priests en-
ploy, to convert Americans to Rome |,
: ldelatry, too! Every clIili who
worships the Virgin Mary, is engaged
in the same great work, even fit is too
young to use the words, of prayer, if it
liaye.only the .intention for the con
version Of my country" So priest
and people, parents and children, ono
and all, are to laboraand to pray, each
in their own way, to makethe, Catholic
religion dominant in this land of Pro
testapt light and liberty.la gclagodg
This is the fact. What is our duty
in view of it.? Tomcct them with the
weapons of truth, of love, of labor,
faith and prayer. To make this land
yet more intensely Protestant, to make
our people more and.morc intclligently
opposed to the idolatrics and supcrsti.
tions of the Papal Church, to guard our
civil institutions against the ambitious
grasp of Jesuit agents and emissaries,
to train our childrcn in the faith of our
fathers, and keep the Bible in their.
hands, as the palladium of our liberties
as it is the well spring of our religion,
these are the duties that devolye on all
of us,g who love the principles Prot
cstantism. rat-&! s tBsslaI& Z, aa'
But we have applied the term Sill.
ness to the idea, that this country re.
quires only the Catholic faith to make
it'the best and greatest country in the
world I! The Frccmah's Journal says,
this: g a full grown man, who has been
to school and college, says that this
country requires the Catholic faith to
make, it. the best and greatest country
in, the. world. He must have studied
geography and history, and unless he
has forgotten all that he ever didknow,
how can he, in the face of allhistoryL
in the face of the present condition Of
the Catholicand Protestant countries
make such an assertion as this! Has
the Catholic faith made Italy good and
great? or Austria or France? or Ire
land? or Mexico? or South America?
Take the map Of the world, and point
to the square mile of land on the FOOT
stool of God, that has ever been made
better and greater by the Catholic
faith. What makes Scotland, to-day,
better and greater than Ircand2 All
nature is against the land of the Scot,
and in favor Of the gem of the sea-
Religion has made them to differ. One
is Protestant, the other is Catholic
Let the world answer which is the best
and greatest, Ireland or Scotland.
Pauperism, misery, crime are proved
by tables and figures that cannot lie,
to abound in Papal countries, and ira
vcllers often tell us that they know
their arrival in those borders by the
swarms of beggars that beset their
paths, and implore their charity with
an importantly that no stoicism or
economy can resist. Does the Catho-
lie faith make these countries good
and great ? But what it does for them,
it would do for this, if hordes Of priests,
like the locusts of Egypt, were fatten-
ing on the people, gradually drawing,
and eating out their substance by tax
cs and impositions; cnfcebling the in
tcllcct by destroying the press and dis
couraging education, breaking down
the enterprise and spirit Of the people
by tho tyranny of prcstlyg rule, and
subjecting tie movements of the advan-
cling American mind to the palsied,
stagnant state of every land where
the Catholic has become the rcigning
faith, and it's chains have been fastened
on the heads, hands, feet, and hearts
of the people. We trust in God that
the prophetS ana priests OF the Free
mans Journal arc to be disappointed in
their hopes and prayers. At any rate,
we will pray against them, and prophe-
cy against them, and never give up
For We know that much asthis country
has alfeady suffered from the aggress-
i've efforts of Romanism, there is a
strength Of Professionalism yet remain
ing, to make its conquest by Rome one
ofthc impossibilities, only to be achiev-
cd in the imagination Of her foes. =
If this has been q serious chapter
thus far, let us conclude our remarks
by tellinga story. i@
An lrishman who is proprietor Of a
boarding house east of the city, pur-
chased u COW, which being rather wild,
nc had to halter and lead home. When