Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-02-27

Ihe question recurring on the secsion @S
amended
Mr.. MONTGOMERY moved to strike
from the section, the words exclusive of the
houses occupied by the society and grounds
thereto attached" which was agreed to.
The section was then agreed to as follows I:
Yeas So; Nays 80.
The second section was read, when
Mr. MONTGOM moved to amend by
adding in the fourth line, after the word " So
oietY." the words g not exceeding FIVE acres, I"
SO as to.exenpt only so much from taxation !;
which was agreed to.
Mr. MONTGOMERY moved to strike from
the fourth line the words !" and fhe income
used in their support )" which was agreed to.
The third section was readsand agreed to.
Tue: fourth section was read and
Mr. MONFGO merry moved to amend by
striking from the third line the words - or
any of the members" which was agreed to.
The section was then agreed to.
The bill was ordered to be transcribed
The rule prohibiting the reading of bills
twice on, the same day was suspended and
the question being on final passage.
Mr. MORRIS took the floor in opposition
to the bill, when
Mr. McCOMB moved that the House ad-
journ, which was not agreed to.
Mr.. MORRIS said, that his opposition to
this bill was based notupon seetarian grounds
but upon great principles, which were, be-
yond question, true, and could not safely be
departed from in this country. The majority
of this House were about to give its sanction
to the establishments in this country of a
branch of one of the Orders of Europe
which had not It's origin in the high motives
which gave birth to the Union, the Constitu-
ton, and the liberties of this Country--which
had its origin in the dark ages of history,
and whose object is to arrest the progress of
free inquiry, and effect the extinction of the
Protestant liberties we enjoy. He called the
attention of the House to historical facts, to
the origin of all these orders, This order is
one of the most insidious of all, in working
out the. particular purposes of the Roman
Pontif. 1t combines the clergy and the laity
upon certain CONDITIONS, and its aim is more
insidious, and in its mischievous intents, than
those of any other order of the church to
which it belongs 1t originated in Rome,
and is welded by its Superior General Is
he an American citizen, known to the citizens
of this Commonwealth Has he ever mani
tested hls sympathy with the institutions of
our country? or is he not subject of the
despot of the Pontifcal States? And to this
foreign herd of foreign Order, American
citizens, if they enter it, compelled to
take the oath of implicit obedience-an oath
which makes their Order so potential for mis-
chief, and SO iInpotent for good-which sacri-
ces every manly feeling on the altar of pa
triotism, and which makes them the instru- !
ment of one man. who is the instrument of
another
The mendicant orders of the Romanist
church have ever been regarded the stand
ing army of the Pope, whom he regarded i'll
this discussion a temporal sovereign, and
responsible to cotemporary history, divested
of all the charm of infallibility, which has
been thrown around him--a man to whom
the majority of this House are about to give
direct control over American citizens. Daily
occurrences warn us to beware how we yield
compliance to the demands of such a power
as this When was the Head of the Fran
ciscans an advocate of Republican liberty :?
In 1913, the men of Rome, animated BY the
dreams and recollections of the past, thought
that their grievances and wrongs entitled
them to insurrection, revolution ard liberty
They made an effort. 1t was manly one.
They were congratulated from this country.
They established government, which pro-
claimed religious liberation to men of all
faiths, and permitted the fee reading of the
Bible. permitted worship unquestioned, un-
manacled the press, abolished the college of
censors, and drove from the country the
Jesuits who composed it--an order which is
the head of all the secret mischief plotted by
all the secret religious orders in Italy.
But the cruinbIng despotisms of Europe
clustered around the walls of Rome, and the
overwhelming numbers of France and Aus
tria crushed the republic, and liberty fell
With the return of the Superior General of
the Franciscans, came back the black pail of
christian intolerance. The reading of the
Bible was suppressed, and it is now crime
there to read the scriptures. The Protestant
chapel was closed. The right of religious
worship is only possible in the Amer can EN-
bassy--under the flag of the American Re-
public, and unoer the guarantees of the laws
of nations. In Sardinia recently, all the re-
forms contemplated by its king, met the op-
position of the Head of the Third Order of
the Franciscans, whose head, the Pope, claims
everything for himself, yet gives nothing in
return Mr.. NJ alluded to the Bulls of the
Pope concerning the various reformatory
movements of the king of Sardinia, and in
1852 concerning the attempts at reform in
the Republic of New Granada, in South Amer
lea, and quoted from these Bulls to show the
essentially tyrannic and intolerant nature of
the Head of the Third Order of the Francis
cans While the wise monarchs of the Old
World are extirpating these Orders as the
greatest curses with which they have been
afflicted, we are requested to implant upon
our shores these enemies of civil and religious
liberty.
The aim of all these orders is to take the
education of the people out of the hands Of
the State and place it in the power of the
priesthood That battle is being fought in