Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-07-23
From the New York Express
Know Nothing Manifesto against Colonel
Fremont 1 s1
Colonel Fremont's sMarriage--Hc must have
been a Roman Catholic.

fremont.
Colonel Fremont's Marriage-.Hc must have
been a Roman Catholis.
There is point now made one of great inn
portance in the Presidential election--by the
denial on the part of Colonel Fremont's friends
and by authority, as we understand it, from
him-that he is, or ever has been, a Roman
Catholic. The point is one of this importance,
in political view first. because many Amer
leans who support him in New England. es-
pecially support him upon the ground that be
is anti-Koman Catholic-and second, because
if he ever has been Roman Catholic, he de-
nies the fact, and has ostensibly changed his
religion. The Rev Mr.. Beecher saws. in his
independence, apparently by authority - 81
'' Until he was fourteen, Col. Fremont was
educated in the hope and expectation that he
would become an Episcopalian minister At
| sixteen, he was confirmed in the Episcopal
church, and has, ever since. when within
reach of the church, been an attendant and
commitment And since his temporary So
journ in New York, he has been an attendant
at DIR. Anthon's church until recently; aud
now he worships at Grace Church Mrs.
Fremont was reared strictly in the Presbyte-
rian Church, and united with the Episcopal
Church upon her marriage with Colonel Fre-
mont. Their children have been baptized in
| the Episcopal Church, &c, &c.
These are strong statements-there is pro-
digious wrong somewhere, and we propose to
find out where e.
There are two periods in . mans life when
his religion, or the feeling for the reli Qion he
was educated in, first discloses itself-the
first, when he marries for life; and second
when on his death-bed It is admitted-and
nowhere denied that when Lieutenant FIRE.
mont married Miss Benton of Washington. a
Roman Catholic priest, of character and stan
ding in his church there, married them No
body compelled Mr.. Fremont thus to 60 to a
Roman Catholic priest. He went there of his
own free will and choice. True. it is said,
that in consequence of the social influence of
Senator Benton, in Washington. no other than
a Roman Catholic priest could marry the
runaway pair; bnt it is not proven, aud 1t is
does not vitiate the fact that Roman Catho-
lie priest cannot under the ordinances and
councils of his church. unite parties '' in the
holy sacrament of matrimony" unless one OF
them, at least, processes to be of that church.
To understand the laws and the councils,
and the customs of the Romish church, we
must take our readers little way into the
theology of that church.
crament. The Protestants have but two sa-
craments the Roman Catholics have seven,
aud among them is matrimony Hence, d
Roman Catholic priest would no more admin
lister the sacrament of matrimony to party
not of his church, than be would the Lord s
Supper confirmation, or baptism, for mat
rimony is. in the Romish Church, just as much
sacrament as the Lords Supper The high
est written authority of the Romish Church is
the famous Council of Trent, and there it is
decreed -
3D. Whosoever shall say that the sacraments
of the new law were not all instituted by Jesus
Christ our Lord, or that they are more OF less
in number than seven; that is to say, baptism,
confirmation, the Lords Supper, peuance, ex-
| treme JUNCTION, odrers. and matrimony; or
that any one of these seven is not truly and
properly a sacrament, let him be accursed
Marriage among most Protestants-nc. all,
however-is but a civil contract, but in the
Romish Church it is an obligation, to be taken
only before priests-it is sacrament. The
Romish Church is rigid, and stricter in its
rule of marriage than any other religious de-
nomination Marriage in that church is an
indisso'uble tie, and never to be loosed, even
| hy the civil law of divorce. The marriage of
heretics by priest is crime, except under
| some special Papal dispensation-just as much
| of a crime as it would be to administer the
! Lords Supper to heretics. When Colonel FIRE.
| mont, therefore, went before Father Van Hors-
! eigh and asked him, as Priest of Rome, to
marry him to Protestant woman he must have
been or pretended to be, Roman Catholic,
and ne must have promised to bring up the
offspring, if any, in the Romish Church.
| That promise Col. Fremont fulfilled in an adop-
| ted daughter now grown woman, for he ed
ueated her in the convent. on the heights Of
Georgetown, D. c., and he cannot deny, OF
authorize any one to deny the fact The sa-
amental delegations of the marriage have
been fulfilled till late period; and if they
are not fulfilled now, il is because OF late q
| change has taken place in Col. Frcmont's pro-
fession of religion-it may be for the purpose
of OBTAINING the Protestant vote for Presi.
dent.
The Roman Catholic celebration of the mat
rimony sacrament Ritas cefebrandi naqtr1mo-
nii .Sucranensun) is one of the august GER
emonies of that church The priest puts or
his cassock and white stole, and he brings ou
| his missal and holy water to sprinkle the mar
ryins parties, and he then unites the parties
according to the rules of the Holy Mother
Church, and the priest spriEkies the marriage
ring with holy water, in the sign of the cross
THE PREPARATION FOR MARRIAGE. 3
From the Roman Catholic Catechism o
tue Christian Religion. chap. 8, sec. 8. pag'
/ 37S-Donaho's edition. sF
/ Question. How should we prepare our
| selves for marriage?
Answer. BY prayer, good works, and tn
| reception of the sacrament
Other authorities say by confession. 'ant