American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-05-10

s.. .. From Tie Cincinnati Times
THE CINCINNATI CATHOLIC TELE-
GRAPH. ..
This paper has abs,ained for several
months last past from dabbling in poll
tics; and W. had hoped that lis Revcr-
end, very Reverend and most Reverend
conductors, had sccnrhe folly of endeav-
cring I" keep up the idea Of union of
Church and STATE in the minds "f .hc:::
! subjects; the church o,ing the superior
and entitled, by Divine right, to the
civil power, 1t appears however by the
Photograph "of Saturday, that for our
contemporary, to give up politics is about
as difficult as FOR duck close by creek
to keep out Of water. The truth is as
we have stated, that the Roman Ca,ho
lie Church, as an ecclesiastical body, is
as much apol,ical as religious asso-
citation. The warp may be formed of
religious threads, hut The wool is as un
doubledly political. For long time
religious persecution was charged up
on the American party; that is The Ro-
manCarholics were prescribed political
y, because Of their religious doctrines,
d"gmas, nc. The cry Of persecution
aud The claim to the honors, profits and
sympathies Of martyrdom, are strong le-
vers in a country like This, where relis-
lous liberty is constiluliorally guaran.
teed as an inherent aud inalienable
light, and denied by none save Roman
lists themselves, as exempliGed by the
following extract from the Catholic
Visitor" Of Piusburg-viz:
For our own part, we take this OBJ
portuuity Of expressing our delight at
the suppression Of the Protestant Chap
eLat Rome. This may be thought in.
tolerant, but when we would ask, did
we ever profess to be tolerant of Protes-
ianlism, or favor the doctrine that Prot
estanIism ought To be tolerated On
the contrary we hate Protesr antism-we
dcrest it with our whole heart and soul
and we pray that our aversion TO it may
never decrease. .[.
The most melodious string of the
photography being broken by the adj
mission of delegates from Louisiana
who are GalIican Catholics. not Roman
Catholics-to National Convention of
the American party recently in session
at Philadel phia, it seems, not whit
better pleased; for in truth its most a
valuable thunder was thereby exploedod
aud dissipated
The Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph
of The 10Th inst has leader entitled,
"Political Romanism, Union of Church
and State" The Gallican Catholics
differ from Roman Catholics oaly in re-
gard To the temporal power over the
ecc'esiastics of foreign States and their
benefices. In doctrine they are main
ly the same, differing in regard to Ger.
tain d"gmas merely of ecclesiastical or
lgin and the authority, as applied to
lempora ais This is the distinction, brief.
" yet c"mprehensively set forth in the
terms tram Ontane and ciSmontane as ap.
piled to the division in regard to tho pol
ity Of the Church. The same idea is
expressed by low and high Church in E.
piscopalansm in Presby terrain, Meth
odist aud other churches, by equivalent
terms-all signi(ying, in effect monarch.
ial and Republican doctrines or princip-
les; one giving power TO the laity, the
other to the clergy, and carried out to
nltimates or temperatures.
The Gallican Catholic delegates of
Louisiana who were admitted TO the A.
merican Presidential Convention that
met at Philadel phia on the 22d ult are
liberals, denying To the Pope and her.
archy jurisdiction in temporals, and re-
pudia,ing uniformity and uniformity of
political action as necessary TO the wei.
fare Of the church. Gallican Catholics
are the same sort Of Catholics who de.
pied to Bishop TMoN, to Archbishop
HUGHEs, to BEDINI, and to the pope
himself, any tight to interfere in the Ii.
tie To the property Of the church Of St.
Louis, at Buffalo, and others in short
they are not Roman Catholics, who are
fond of wealth for tho power it gives o.
yer the people, aud who WELD all the
political power they can get also for the
benefit OF The church as an organization.
The photograph" don't like this
proof positive Of the fact that it is MT
The religion Of these men that the Amer
lean party war against, when their poll
tics a,e American aud not foreign in
their Origin and tendency, as is the pol
tics Of Roman Catholics. The king
Of Sardinia and the Ministry ut Madlid
recently rebelled against RomaDism in
tomporaliies yet the religious opinions
of either arc not impunged by the Pope
aud Cardinals. There is difference
then between Catholics some keeping
their religion and politics separate, while
others unite them, in holding tho civil
Authority TO be subordinate totho church
as is light arm to execute lis DEGREES.
The Cincinnati "Catholic Advocate"
knows these things. and undcrstands