Washington telegraph., 1856-07-23

Jul la'ioih Is pIleII Dut explicit anC
comprehensive
"Opposition to any union between
Church and State: no interferference will
religious faith or worship, and no tes
oaths for Office
1t only needs q reference to the thor
ough and complete manner in which the
claims Of the Bomish institutions to uni
versI supremacy, the alarming strides
which i: has made in this country during
the last thirty years, and the bold and ar
rogant claims Of those who speak by au-
thority- of Rome, have been discussed
TO perceive the full force and effect of the
causes which have rendered the declara-
tion contained in the first clause of this
section an absolute and imperative neces-
sity. And the gist of this matter as it
relates to Rome, lies in a nutshell, to use
1 homely and current phrase. On the
one hand We have Rome asserting. through
the mouths Of her recognized declarators.
that her power must become paramount,
her authority absolute, in order that the
people may learn to reverence. and to act
In obedience to authority, thus conto2dins
for the supremacy of the spiritual and the
merging Of the temporal into the spiritual
power. On the other hand we have the
American party, the American people,
protesting against the recognition or ex-
ereise Of such power by Rome in this land
1t Is one Of the prerosatives of the Amer
lean freeman to make free use of his iudg-
ment and act in accordance Herewith; ifI
the people see through the artfully cloak
ed-but thank Heaven, not concealed
designs Of the foreign despotic hierarchy
they have a right, in their sovereign ca
Pacity, to set the seal Of their yondcmna-
tion upon their perGdious and trsaeleryus
efforts to rob them of their DIrJHrlS5Is-.
And rightly considered this Is what the
American people are doing now-it is
what they intend hereafter to DO; aud the
time has now arrived when the self-consti
tuted teachers, who arrogate to themselves
the diciine right of showing American
freemen the way in which their liberties
are to be preserved, and the manner in
which democracy IS to prove something
beside "a nIischievous Dream may them
selves learn Of those whom they would
teach, that there are some few still
left to contend against their attempt
ed usurpations, to rebuke their Infamous
treachery, to set the iron heel of the sense
Of outraged justice upon their incendiary
hordes. This is the opposition which the
American party wage against the .'union
between Church and State, an opposition
which has its foundation in determine
tion to give, secure and perpetuate to ev-
cry man the right to worship God as he
may see fit. when, where and how he may
choose; and determination to demand OF
this man, that in the worship which he
pays to his Maker, he recognizes no earth
ly mediator, no earthly vicegerent-whose
commission gives him the power to bind
fas; and make loosc-as superior in his
attributes and power, to the laws emana-
ting from a free people under which We
live, and which not interfered with by the
fanatic, the traitor or the foreign emissary
OF the foreign despot, are all sufficient for
the welfare and happiness of the people OF
a mighty continent.
..No interference with religious faith OIL
Worship" say the American people. Let
every one of the thousand sects which
preach the name and bow to the divinity
Of the God head, rear their altars untc
Him; let the song of praise and the pray
er of thanksgiving ascend hourly to Hea
ven, and there shall be none TO molest ol
TO make them afraid. This Is the righ
which the American party declares ina
lienable-the right OF which the people
cannot be divested by the operation of any
means short of the subyersion of tn,
Constitution Of the Union, which calami
ty may God avert. But the peopl
have retained and they will exercise tn,
right to declare by their voice at the bal
lot-box, that neither the priest, the ennis
sarv, nor the native-born who recognize tn
dogma OF the uhiNeIsSu supremacy Vi sh
form of worship, shall have 1t, by thei
gift, in his power TO advance the arrOgan
pretensions of such 4 class. When tn,
opponents of the American party strike
blow by which they would seek to depriv
Americans of this right, they themselve
are guilty of that very prescription
which they would falsely charge upon us