Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-31


took possession Of that river, OF all the rivers that
enter it, aud Of all the country watered by them."
lucrative Of La Sales Voyage down the Missls-
sippi, by Father zsnobius Msmbre, Franciscan
Friar.
Here the Franciscan Friars we're taking, for
Roman Catholic France, not only the Mississippi
river, but all its mighty tributaries, and in 1912,
Lieutenant Fremont planted the same emblem Of
the cross in that vast territory which his prede-
cessors, the Francscans had taken possession OF
through the same cross, years and years Deioro.
Colonel Fremont, " not unmindful OF the customs
OF (these) early (Friar) travellers initiated mem
in 1912, though an officer in the United States
Army, and representing Protestant people and a
Protestant nation
yuRrHsR BRITISH DISCOVERIES.
To do away with all pretence, that Lieutenant
Fremont, in planting the cross on Rock Indepen-
dence followed the example OF the British expo-
rers whose (State) religion is that Of the Church
Of England-the church TO which, it is given out,
Colonel Fremont now belongs-we continue our
extracts
COOKS VOYAGES, ssrr. Ia, l772-DIscovsAr OF
NEW CALEDONIA.
q In the afternoon went on shore, and, on
large tree which stood close to the shore, near the
watering place, had an inscription cut, setting
forth the ships name, date, &c, As testimony OF
had done at all the others At which we bad
touched +.
Inscription at Christmas Island:
Gsorgius Tsrt;us, Req, 81 Decsm5ris, l777.
~. Resolution, Jac. Cook, Pr.
N'e' Discovery, Car. Clerke, Pr.
POINT POSSESSION AND COOKS RIVER.
"In the afternoon sent Mr.. King again, with
two armed boats with orders TO land on the north
eastern point Of the low land on the southeast side
Of the river there to display the Hag TO take pos
session of the country and river in his Majesty's
name, and to bury in the ground bottle contain
Ing some pieces of English coins of the year l772,
and paper on which was inscribed the names of
our ships, and the date of our discovery Cooks
Voyage, Northwest Coast OF America, June LIST,
l77s.l
Inscriptions on the outside of 0msi's house, es-
tabshed as King by Capt. Cook, in one Of the 30
ciety Islands:
Georgius, 1srtias, Req, 2 Nopembris, l777.
~. Resolution, JAG. Cook, Pr.
Discovery, Car. Clerke, Pr.
sPAsIARDs AT rHK sAME PLACE.
AT the same place, the visit of some Spanish
Aavigators is thus indicated by Capt. Cook:
AT little distance from the front stood
wooden cross, on the transverse part OF which
was cut the following inscription:
cHRIsTUs viNcIT.
And on the perpendicular part, (which confirmed
our conjecture that the two ships were Spanish)
cARoLUs III. IsPRRAr, l774
The cross, the Holy Catholic cross,-the crucf
fx.-were and are thus the emblems of Roman
Catholic nations --while the flag, coat of arms,
coins with the escutcheons of kings and queens
npon them, are the emblems of Protestant nations.
But here now Lieut.. Fremont, an officer in pay OF
a Protestant people, under Protestant govern
ment Gays in his official report to that Government
-"I engraved on the Rock (of independence
of the great West symbol of the Christian faith,
-" on hard granite, 81 large cross" &c.
why did he thus initiate De Soto on the Mis-
sissipp the Franciscan Friar, Hennepin, and Jac-
cues Cartier on the St. Lawrence, and Wey-
mouth, an Englishman in the employ of the Ro-
man Catholic English Lords2 Why did he shut
his eyes upon the religious Puritan lesson Of the
Rock of Plymouth, or of the Church of England,
landing at Jamestown Why did he thus insult
all Protestant America by engraving the Romish
cross upon this rock and taunt it with the declara-
ton of the symbol of Christian faith"-as il the
puritans at Plymouth, or the Virginians at James
town, were not CT ristians, with Christian Symbols
when they founded the two leading colonies OF our
country? Unquestionably, as Roman Catholic,
Lieutenant Fremont thus ignored the habits, GUS
toms. and religious practices OF Protestant Eng
land. Holland, and the United States, and engraved
the cross on the Rock Independence. Other Uni
ted States explorers-Lieutenant Lynch, Lieute-
nant Herndon, Lieutenant Stansbury, used no such
" symbols,s though Christians, and Lieutenant
Fremont would not have used the Roman CATHOLIC
symbol, but that he wished TO e1at and aggran-
disc the Church Of Rome