The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1856-01-30
Mystlcism.

To look by glimpsss into The very
depth and bottom Of thiogs botto'nless.
is pleasure comparable to none other.
We are free to admit any new propo-
alton a. solemn fact, If It strikes our
fancy a. such, and ~ willing are we to
give it up for something else. which
in the light Of imperfect reason is
proved untrue. Thus it il that one
may keep pace with. the onward and
upward movement Of time and things,
and not be run over by the car Of
progress.
After the coffin makers. perhaps
the newspaper business is by all odds
the funniest. The Editor hears all
manner Of complaints Of all manner Of
people; knows their wants ; moves in
The under currents, and rides on the
aerial stscd on which is mounted "the
Spirit Of the Times" He sets in his
Sanctorum, and by means Of triAing
bits Of type metal sends himself out to
tho utmost ends Of the Garth. getting
in return for tho calico patterns Of bis
own mind. the very soul jottings Of al
creation. It's the most exciting Of all
other occupations, this Of printing
newspapers.
Here We are in direct communica.
ton with the four quarters. and have
just opened letter from Dublin, Ire.
land, 10 one corner Of which. we find
Private" written, and for that very
reason We spread it before this enlight-
cned community, to ask our friends
better versed in religious movements
than We are-what it means. Here's
tho letter:
Priests Protection Society.
10, URN sAcxvn.s srassr, DusL,n, Dec. st.
The directors Of this Society pre-.
sent their compliments and grateful
Acknowledgements to the Editor Of the
Comet, with tho accompanying Ad-
dress. and will feel obliged to him to
publish it in his paper on New Years
day, or on whatever day afterwards in
the New Year may 10 most convent
ent to him.
We make one extract from the
pamplct-only, and call on any ono
who lie in the State secret, to como to
our aid and tell US what it means:
The new decree. only passed on the
9th Of December, 1854, in the face of
enlightened Christcndom, is accom-.
panied by a penalty, in the seventh
section, Of accommodation on every |
priest of Romarism who declines to |
believe and teach it. That is, every |
priest Of hers is sworn 10 credit and
inculcate what he knows ip his heart is
fabulous, vain, and foolish and if
tested by the canon of Revelation, he
will find il to be groundless, hopeless,
and idolatrous But, to perfect the
Bull in that which is still moro mon.
strous, tho concluding clause enacts
that-"if any one be so guilty rs to
impugn the definition, or to stop the
Bull, let him know that he will incur
the wrath Of Almighty God, and of the
blessed Apostles Peter and PAUL.!
How any man, much less Pope
Plus, could conceive such a fiction. and
promulge it as reality for an article
Of human credence. is beyond our
except that this Plus is
mad, and that in his madness he has
reached the very bottom Of the apos-
lasy and from that bathos of degrade
lion he shall set up, Unexpectedly and
Internationally, now superstition. or
religion if you will, to be called here
after, the mary;sm Of Pho Mono, and
her adherents shall be denominated by
he style and title of MAnYIsrs.
In Maryism, then, the immaculate
'irM Of the Virgin can no more be
proved from the Book of Revelation