Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-06-14


theirs is the only true Church and to perpetrate
thousand ridiculous mummeries the members of
the American party, with one accord will say mo-
lest them not-the religious privileges of this coun
try are free to them they are 70 Us and we VIII
not, by law or by violence interrupt or interfere
with them in the slightest degree. Bot knowing
that the Catholic Church was for thousand years,
allied to the State; that it claimed dominion in
poral as well as spiritual affairs over the Kings of
the earth; that it regards the Pope the Vicege-
rent of the Almighty that he the tiara the
symbol of his power in heaven, earth and hell; that
Romanists treat all other professions hereTcs;
that its ArchbishOps Bishops and Priests are sworn
to persecute all who differ with them that the per-
scouting spirit of that church has been displayed,
for centuries, in the most odOus acts of cruelty,
well as the most despotic tyranny that cursed
the EARTH that fire and iaggOt cOn6scation and tor
ture have been its vorite weapons; that no age,
sex or condition, has been exempt from its inhu-
man butcheries and demoniac uS;s; that it exterm-
mated the Albigenses and Wadenses; that it caused
the cutters of Paris TO run with human blood st.
Bartholomew day; that it lighted the fires of
Smithfed; that through the instrumenality of Tyr
council and Catholic and Irish Rappadees, perpe-
trated the inhuman atrocities of the Irish Massa-
crees; that it drove the HuguenOts from France and
the PurIans from England; that it has delighted in
the chains and dungeons of the InquisitiOn and
shouted, with fendish exultatOn, at the cries and
groans of the victims in the aHto da fs; that no
republican government has hOurished under its
sway that it regards ignorance the mother Of de-
votion and denies the obligations of an oath; that
it gave rise to the order of JeSuits the most detest
able sect that earth has seen that in the midst
of the blaze of the nineteenth century, it has
burned the Bible in America and imprisoned men
and women in Europe for no other offence than that
of reading it; that, abusing the freedom of the
press and of speech secured in the United States,
it unblushingy avows that all professionalism is here
sy-that is a crime-and puniShsd in christian
countries LIKE SPAIN AND ITALY a crime; that it
has banshed the Bible from Protestant schools when
under its control that it has ntermeddled in poiti
cal elections and is struggling for political power;
that it wears mask and claims to be harmless in
this country for present effect, although it has new
er renounced one of Its dogmaS in any authOrta-
tive mOde, that it is typifed, in the Bible, the
Man of Sin and the Great Who're of Babylon; that
it comes to US angel Of light but is allied with
the Prince of Darkness:-knowing all these things
and believing that the Roman Catholic Church,
now that it is covered with the broad wings of Mod
ern Democracy, partakes of its meat add Is PAM
pered by its patronage, is, infinitely the most dan
gerous political power with which the people of the
United States have been compelled to grapple,
the American party invites all who love national
liberty more than Democracy; who prefer civil and
religious freedom to the spOis of Office; who revere
the memory of Tyndale, Luther and Calvin; of
Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley; of the seven bBish-
ops of Fox; Of the Puritan fathers; of Wesley,
and Hall; of the Reformers and Protestants, Of ev-
ery name and more than all, of our revolutionary
ancestors burst the letters of party and come to
the rescue of their bleeding country-beedng at
every pore from wounds inflicted by Democratic
hands, amidst the eers of European despOts the
shouts of foreigners in our midst and the taunts
and sneers of Catholics and Jesuits all around us
Let not Protestant ministers be inundated, by
the impudent assaults of venal press the fierce
denunciatiOns of Infatuated politicians from doing
their whole duty in the pulpit and at the polls No
Presbyterian has ever denied to a Methodist the
right to question his religious faith and no Metho-
dist will dispute the right of other denominations
to impugn his creed. Methodists have assalled the
Presbyterian doctrine of election. Presbyterians,
in turn have assailed their ideas of perfection and
falling from grace Both have cOntroverted the
Baptists' views of immersion, and all have denied
the Episcopalans doctrine of apostolic succession.
These and many other points of difference have,
from the foundation of our government, often been
the subject Of earnest protracted and excited dis
cussion; but when did any American Protestant
ever deny 10 another American Protestant the con-
stitutona right to differ with him in opinion, and
to express that difference through the press, in the
pulpit or any other constitutional mode? Yet it
has been reserved for Democratic presses TO at
tempt for eectiOneering purposes to curb the free
spirit of Protestant ministers TO denOunce them as
" REVEREND HYPoCRTEs;" and, when beholdng,
| at home and abroad, on the land and on the sea,
among Christians and Pagans, in the halls of legis
lation III churches and Schools in free speech, and
| in a free press and in ten thousand other forms,
| the magnificent and glorious results of the Refor
! nation, to ask, with impudent assurance, WHAT
| HAS PRorEsTANTisM DONE FOR THE WORLD - Not
satisfied with the of execration which such
infamous interrogatory produced, the Nashville
Union and American the leading Democratic paper
in Tennessee, in a very abusive article, entitled
. What has It accomplished" under date of April
g. 1856, thus speaks among other things, of what
he STYLES " the KnOw-NOthing Organization " -
ST has done more than this. 10 has gone into
the Church and CONVERTED THE PULPIT INTO 20
LIrICAL RosTRUN-d has turned the attention Of the
Ministry from THE PEACEFUL PATHS OF CHRIsTIANI-
TY TO THE ARENA OF POLITICAL TURMOIL-t has
pulled dorm the banner otNthe Cross and placed in
| its stead THE RED FLAG OF INTOLERANCE AND PRO-
| sCRIPTIOS"
While Protestant Minister'S in the enjoyment of
the rights secured to them by the Constitution have
as before stated, often engaged in controversies
with each other as to their differences in matters OF
! Church government and speculative faith, they
have, with one accord, from the foundation Of the
government preached and published their views
against the Roman Catholic Church-whieh AFRO
gates superiority over them all and stigmatizes
them as sects-ong before the American party
ever had an existence. But because in, the course
of events il has become necessary for pOliticanseO
| inquire what effect acknowledgment of the tenn
| pora supremacy OF the Pope may have upon our
free institutions, the Democratic party-if it is TO
| be Judged Of by its Organ-would gag the Protest
ant clergy, deny TO them right which they have
always exercised, and if they dare to oppose the
colossal strides of Rome, denOunce them As having
converted the pulpit into political rostrpD,"
and as having raised ''the red flag Of Intolerance
| and Prescription"
Il is not for me to prescribe do | desire to
dictate the duty of Protestant Ministers; but if in
the combined efforts which the Catholics have been
making under the patronage OF European despots
and nOblemen, and the encouragement OF Demo-
cratic demagogues in our own country, they see
that this tremendous corporation has planted its
footsteps in all our large citess possessing itself
of the Northwest and the Mississippi Valley-and
il encircling them as il were, with wall Of FIRE; it
they see that the newspapers and periodicals OF that
corporation have published doctrines, in this free
| country, which they would scarcely aVow in the
Roman Catholic countries of Europe; if, in one
word, they believe that they are TO be prosecuted
and exterIninated by Catholics, take care OF
themselves before It is too late--then Protestant
Minister'S agreeing as they do on all great doctrines
and differing only as to those which not absO-
lutey essential will to disagree among them
selves az least until after they avert common
danger, and viii rally band OF brethren, to re-
sist in such mode as they may deem proper, the
encroachments aud the insults of Rome and all her
satellites and allies
If do not greatly err in the estimate which
place upon the Protestant Clergymen Of America,
the Democratic party and the Catholics viii dis
cover sooner or later, that the spirit which
caused the Protestant fathers TO brave the pers OF
the BOOT and the srAEE; 10 stand, EithOat finch
ing before such misercant judges as Jegreys and
Scroqgs 10 yield two thousand pulpiss and look
beggary and starvation in the face, rather than
compromise with conscience, and, above all 20 risk
the nnsried dangers of the ocean and settle among