Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-10-25

vulgar parance as The Church - embraces
militant system more powerful than at any
former period Of its history and the two re-
manning orders, and is, indeed almost wholly
made up Of them. The parochial clergy, the sec
uIar priests, the curate creation, and not few Of
the bishops, isuch rs the former archbishop of
Paris, are, as it were, the exESeric representa-
tlves to the people OF q system from which they
are excluded. They are, in the main. whrn
wholly disconnected from the state, and not inn
PEELED by that ambition which, in churchmen is
always unscrupulous, or that avarice. which,
clothed IN a "a nty exterior. is d0mineering over
the unfortunate, good and estimabe men. who
have not abandoned their rights Of citizenship,
nativity, Or manhood who have not bound item
selvos By any secret oath or to any secret order;
who have affections and passions, Ike other men;
who prosecute their lives by a severe and ancient
ordeal; and who, in doubt or difficulty, refer on
all subjects to the books Of the holy fathers or
the pandccts Of Justinian, but who, in their pro-
found ignorance, never think Of applying for ad-
vice TO st. Petersburg OF Niehna, TO BuOl Shauen-
stein or Count Nesselrode. In their rubic you
will seldom find chapter from Machiaval printed
side BY side the Lords Prayer and, on the whole,
where governmental influences or personal ambi
ton DO not bias them, they are single minded,
harmless, and estimble men. They are, as we
saw the exotcric members, the masks OF the great
battery within. Within, the Church has
entirely different character. 1t is Mt once gov
ernment and conspiracy, militant, secret, and
a publicist,-represented in these several charac-
terstcs by the Holy Alliance.
They educate youth, they console women, they
set up a golden calf before the unfortunate stung
to despair; they tend the sick. they bury the
dead: they clothe themselves in the vesture of
charitv:--yet is their order Infamous 1t would
be folly to imagine that all its members personally
partake Of that infamy, are cognlsant Of the enor
mity of their principles. or Of even their own acts
0r vet are hYpocrites. On the contrary, so per-
fectly and astutely do their systems OF training
teaching and espionage warp young minds natn
rally honest and independent, that hundreds, and
we doubt not thousands Of young men belong to
their order, who believe its practices and rules to
be the paragon of religion, Christianity and VIZ
tue and who lay all the acts OF dubious moralltyo
the good OF the church. Occasionally indeed ri
contact with the living world lifts the veil Of
NokanDa,' and dscloses the horld features Of the
power to which they are subjected. The victim,
then rebels outright, or shrinks back in terror
into that form OF rascality to which he has been
so deftly accustomed. Young men under such
discipline become indeed, in certain walks Of life,
4 few Of them great, notably great in any art one
of whose requisites is deception. But the greater
nortion continue for life ahject and sneakng pre-
varicators or seek in q wild and baseess lnhdell-
tv q mental revenge for the base artlhces practl-
ced on their youthful. existence. Hypocrlcy or
Atheism is the dilemma Of the Jesuit scholar.
With the Jesuit rulers practice IS everything be
lief of little moment BY means OF animated Or
der- of pious and coDfIiug women, Of dreaming
and well-intentoned boys, such as the Society oil
Vincent de Paul; by, too the ordinary machinery
of the church. distorted into police system; but,
more than all, by their schools for youth,-they
debase bovhood, enchaln manhood, and sway EN-
pires and nations hlther and thtLber IKE feedS--
.Obedence is their only law, esr oInage their
earliest and omnipresent engine. In their schoos,
among children. in their colleges, IN their houses
of residence in their retectores ana III their beds
the same law obtains. No teco can be toGether-
They make war on family, on friendship, on soci-
ety: as they have always done on the princ1pie OF
nations. One may 60 alone; no two can 60 alone;
there must be three, one Of whom Is spy, all
three of whom may be spies each upon the other,
and vet not one is certain that he Is not the victim
or the detective The innocent conversation OF
bovs becomes with them the text of secret IN
ouisition the confessional becomes hospital,
where they note down in books, place on record
and manipulate the pathology Of the SOUL, su-
preme person near the pope rules this vast order;
nne in Paris one in each of the great cities OF Eu-
rome. one we believe here, take their orders from,
and communicate their designs to the FIRST
We see. therefore that Conservatism IN Church
and State is in fact the one great point dPpus
AGAINST Repabhcanism in this the niReteentp OF
the centuries cal ed Christian, The military power
of the combined imperial armies the prlestly or
ganization Of the Church and Churches, the ele
mants Of hirher classes wealth and titles, and the
nropapandist power of the press religlonlsts form
tne grand combination which Repubhcan1s1n must
confront. The childlike oithe
French rustics the stupidity of the people,
and the epenchant for antiquity which rules the hlgh
er classes the profound faith and OF the
German and Irish populations, are the great reil-
ance of this Conservative League. Ignorance and
nreindices are as much and as naturally their
weanons as progress of Democracy popular 1n-
stitntions. in science. art, knowledge, the freedom
of the mind of the person. OF the state, are OURS
The only formidable antagonist OF the consplra-
cv whose fundamental principles we have aeseri-
bed. is our country. The institutions OF the Uni
tod States are the embodiment OF the IDEAS most
antaaopistc to the league between despotism ana
the church her example is more potent among
the subiusated nations so hateful to the high con
tracing conspirators of Verona and her power,
the only frst-class organized, democratic power,
has vet to be exhibited in Europe. The vast I'M
nortance therefore, Of limiting her progress, Ell
thor in democratic freedom or in territory, or IN
manly condemnation of the crueltes committed oy
the governments of the Old World,-the impor-
tance of debasing the spirit of our institutions IN
the estimation Of the people of the old world ana