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


From the New York Express.
The Romanism of Fremont,
EsrABLIsHKD BY Hrs PLACING THE RoMAS CATHo-
Lie SYMBOL or POSSESSION ON Rock ISDKrESp-
EscE.
We have established the fact, by the highest
authority in the Romish Church, that Roman
mont to Miss Benton, a Protestant, unless he had
professed Romanlsm, and had had his marriage
celebrated in the forms and rites Of the Romish
Church. We now proceed to comment upon the
following extract from his official report to the
Government, of his Rocky Mountain expedition in
l842: HskT
From Fremont's Report, page l74.
"Aug. 23.-Yesterday evening we reached our
encampment, at Rock Independence, where took
some astronomical observations Here, not un-
mindful of the custom Of early travellers and ex-
plorers in our country, engraved on this rock Of
the far West symbol of the Christian faith
Among the thickly inscribed names, / made on
the hard granite the impression Of ID LARGE
CROSS, AH which covered with black prepa-
ration OF India. rubber, well calculated to resist
the influence Of wind and rain. 1t stands amidst
the names Of many who have long since found
their way to the grave, and for whom the huge
rock Is giant gravestone. One George Wey-
mouth was sent out to Maine by the Earl OF South
ampton, Lord Arundel and Others and in the
narrative Of their discoveries he says, The next
day we assembled in our pnnace that part OF the
river which lies more to the Westward, carrying
with us cross--a thing never omitted by any
Christian traveler--which we erected at the ulti-
mate end of our route This was in the year
1906; and in 1912 / obeyed the feeling Of early
travellers, and left the impression of the cross
deeply engraved on the vast rock, one thousand
miles beyond the Mississippi TO which discoverers
have given the national name of Rock Indepen.
dence"
The point here TO be examined first, is
Who were the Earl Of Southampton, and Lord
Arundel, in whose expedition in Maine the symbol
of the cross was used as mark OF their discove-
ry They were brothers-in.law, and they sent out
from the Downs a Captain Weymouth, on private
account
The Earl of Southampton was the friend Of the
Earl of Essex, who was beheaded by Queen Eliza
beth. Southampton was compromised in Essex's
plots, and he represented the Roman Catholic in.
terest in these plots; he was confined in the Tower
during the life of the Protestant Queen Elizabeth,
and was Immediately liberated when her successor,
James /, came to the throne in l603-that James
SO often accused by his subjects of Romish ten
densies.
Lord Arundel volunteered in the service Of Aus-
tria against the Turks, and was therefore made,
by the Catholic Emperor of Austria, a Count OF
the Roman Empire. His Romish titles made
much stir and dispute as to his precedence in the
Court of Queen Elizabeth on his return to England
The authors and precedents, therefore, upon
which Fremont relied for the planting of the cross
in Maine were Roman Catholic Weymouth was
serving these Roman Catholic noblemen, probably
himself Roman Catholic; and was thus attempt
ing to found for them Roman Catholic Empire
in Maine. The year 1905 was the year of the
gunpowder plot, and many Roman Catholics in
England, alarmed by the rising storm, were pre-
pairing to emigrate to America. Lord Baltimore,
Roman Catholic, established the Maryland Ro-
man Catholic colony in consequence of this feeling.
The point next TO be examined is Fremont's al
legation that the planting Of the the cruci
fix in new countries is symbol of the Christian
faith. The only authority which he cites is the
act Of Weymouth, in the employ Of the Roman
Catholic lords Fremont could apparently find no
other case in history to justify the of the cross
and hence he cites this
The cross, our readers know, has been rejected
as symbol Of Christian faith by all the professions
of religion in country, except the Roman Cath
olic the Catholics of the Church of England and
the Lutheran Catholics. 81.
The Church of England Catholics limit it's reli-
gious use to baptism only, and then as form, not
as a substance. Even the form is not obligatory
by the Rubric, and may be omitted. The sign of
the cross was so generally abused in the Church of
Rome, especially when Popery inaugurated Itself
in that Church, as not only to disgust Protestant
ism with it, but even to excite Puritanism against
it. Hooks Church Dictionary, page $50, thigh
authority in the Episcopal world, says Of the cru
cihx: -.
sIt has never been used (eyen) in the Church
of England since the Reformation, on the ground
Of it's having been abused to superstition and idol
atry."
The Puritans IN England and in Holland, In con-
sequence of the Papal abuse of the cross and cru
cifx, became Iconoclasts, image breakers cross
and cruciix breakers, &c. The great English,
Scotch, and Dutch fathers of this country, well
as the Huguenots, had horror Of the abuses Of
the croas by the Romish Church.
THE SYMBOLS usED BY DISCOVERIES.
When Columbus entered upon his second voy
age Of discovery, the then Pope, Alexander the
Sixth, e. the Borgs,' "the infamous Pope" 40
called granted, BY special bull Cl49S,) to Ferdi
nand and Isabella of CASTLE and Leon, half of
the world (The other half was given to the Portu
guese.) The line of division was drawn from pole
10 pole. at a distance of 100 leagues from the
Azores. East Of that line was the Portuguese
world, and west the Spanish world and the Pope,
as the Vicar Of Christ made a grant of all this
then hesthen lands" in fee sinapie-as an Eng
lish lawyer would say-to Spain and Portugal
Hence the roman Oatnonc uiscoverers always used
the tcross, az a mark of title to the soil, and
a symbol Of the right TO that soil, from Heav-
en-, through Christ, and His cross. The ten
ure Of the grant was limited only in one thing,
that they send forth missionaries 10 propagate
the Roman Catholic faith.
The habit Of using the cross in such cases,
however, came from the Crusades, when war
was made upon the Mahometan to rescue the
Holy Land and TO propagate the Roman Catho-
lie faith elsewhere. All who engaged in the Cru
sades wore cross on their clothes, and had one
on their standards. Portugal, in l446, discovered
Cape Bajador, and Cape OF Good Hope. The mar