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


party, both the orators and editors Of Democracy
have not ceased to hurl their anathemas against
it, as party which prescribed religiOn-that in
contradstinction to the hberqt doctrines Of De-
mocracy, it invaded mans relations with his ma
kcr and, rs trap to catch Catholic votes, which
it has kept constantly baited, Democracy las
charged the Americans with having placed an es-
pecial ban upon those protesting the Catholic
faith. To secure the political aid of the members
of that church the most infamous hypocrticai
professions Of love have been made to them, and
the most ridiculous stories, have been trumped up
To convince them that the whole American party
were their deadly enemies. They have been told
thousand times over that the Democrats were
their peculiar friends and protectors--that the
Democratic party had never entertained OF ex-
pressed any but the most fraterna sentiments to-
wards the Catholic Church. So far as these alb
surd charges against the American party, a
party, &c, they have been refnted by the Con-
ventons Of that party, and its recognized organs,
but it remains for us to give Catholic friends
in Louisiana some specimens Of that Democratic
love for their Church, which has been SO loudly
proclaimed. The extracts we give below are from
the Democratic Rspisw a periodical whose infu
ence with the Democratic party is all powerful
Could religious intolerance 20 further?
POLITICAL RELIGION.
a. have spoken openly to the world: have al
ways taught in the synagogue, and in the temple
whittier all the Jews resort; and ii secret have
spoken nothing. Ny kingdom is not ofthis world:
if my kingdom were Of this world, then would my
servants tight. that should not 'be delivered t.
the Jews: but my kingdom is not hsre.'-JEsUs
CHRIST, John XVII.
Whether militant ecclesiasticism which decks
its forehead, not with the divine halo, but with
threestoried scaolding Of tiaratedt felt and velvet
which preserves its temporal rule BY the discreet
use of Museovite sabres and knout wielders of
Croatic banditti, Austrian executiouers, Swiss
mercenaries and Monsieur Louis Bonaparts,t fas-
cinating butchers of Fincennes; which steals
from Judgment in the glise Of footman and
lies its way out Of Rome with the de&terlty OF
police spy; which grovels at the table OF para
gon of last re j0icing in the name oil Bourbon oi
Naples, and returns from court OF prostitutes
the hunbe servant OF its keeper; which offers its
devout thanks 10 London backleg fer his pious
services TO religion by the massacre OF young
women ON the I'd of December; which anhoints
the murderer with corouat oils, and decks an
usurper's head with the crown from the hands OF
n present Pope, which D. predecessorof the Holy
Alliance had pledged himself to ignore; which I'M
itates the incidents recorded in the Acts Of the
APOSTLES 50 far as to open the gates Of its prisons
occasionally and in rotation, for the purpose ot
lifting its victims out more into the open air
of heaven and then scatters sinstantane0usy their
brains upon the pavements by means Of gunpow- |
der and lead, las vas recently done on twenty |
four human beings for a long time being imprs- |
oned on suspicion of being Republicans, at Sene-
gaglia in Itaty, by order of his holiness the su-
preme father Plus ) )-whether, indeed, that ne |
be the religion Christ mag gined he was founding |
in the world when he delivered before the Roman |
magistrate the above sublime sentences; orwhttb |
er, on the other hand the religion of sccresy !
the church Of intrigue, the order Of misrepresen-
tatiop. espionage, and deceit, which trains boys |
to be dete ,tive policemen that they may become |
Catholic men: which uses words, Ike M de Ialiey- |
rand ex-nrchb;shop and ex-patriot,to htde the
thou ght which rules kingdoms with mistresses and
famiiiesby PLAYING on the confidence and superstl-
tious fwomen -whethert this be the church OF MN
Who s.spoke openly before the world and nothlngin |
secret: :" or, again, whether the divine lnsplra- |
ton of gubornsd press, the church built upon
imposing stone, the church OF hireu
editors. whose apostolic mission ls ~ pump V"t
90 many columns of mingled libel falsehood, ana
laughter moving rage at so much per week; who |
meet arpument with an anathema, history with |
stout accommodation, and mere fact with
senseless denial; the press-chnrch, which uses
every small and contemplate scheme of tenth |
rate hawker of catch-pennies to push It's hbeis
into o prurient circulation and which, when pea
ten. encloses itself in sacred theory OF Gamma
ton to all who will not subscribe, read, ana De-
lieve whether, indeed, any Of these, the church
IF the sword or of the detective, or Of the broad
sheet. be the church, public, non-combatant, ana
not Of this world" for which the Sayonr offered
himself to the q law and order party Of Jerusa-
lem under the Romans, we do not think it exact
lv necessary now to determine Little dlherences
nipht easily be got rid of, but to the lnquiring
and Interested student we leave the arduoas task
ot discovering the smallest similarity. Pope
pio,s kinedom is evidently of this world Mt all
eva,ts His servants, therefore, hght-badly IN /
the field we must eoncede, but yaliantiy against
unarmed men and women, especially II the latter
are chained together in gangs. AS to ppohelty;
whether teaching in the So nagogne' Whlthef all
the Jews resort be equivalent to the modern pub
licist process oflyiDg IN newspaper, we VIII not
venture to affirm. Possibly our lay divine Gath
olic editors may possess the characteristic 'alh-
glory to assert 1t is ~ ~
We have to deal with facts. The greed OF tenn
poral SWAY, at different ages of the world, lndu-
ced the ecclesiastical establishment represented
by the papacy to take into its service three seVe
"a, orders of men the militant order as In the
oo,o of Tho Crusaders in the ages of the ''Refor-