Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-02
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Americanism.


tablish that large portion of the anti-Ameri
can party may safely be set down as No.
Abolitionists, even in the South, to say nothing
of the West or North. This statement, of
lation. If it should be said that foreigners are
as nothing compared with the natives, let this
fact be remembered, that it only requires one
sixth Of the natives in Wisconsin to make,
half of the voters of the State. And let it
also be remembered, that the Germans in the
city of Galveston, can carry through all strife
into Office the man Of their choice; and that
one of their principles is, that the moment a
German becomes slave owner, he ceases to be
Turner" More of this, however, hereafter.
When we see five millions of Southern people
murdered by fire and the sword, as the result
of abolition enterprise, and this portion of
our hstory-then, and not till then, will the
freesoil question be one of equal Importance to
society with that of nursing, in our midst, men
who are sworn vassals to the POpe-men who
are subject to his bidding A portion of these,
| be it remembered, are under oath to extermi-
nate heretcs by sire and sword" We have at
hand some startling documents on these sub
jects-not "Know Nothing lies, gotten up to
ruin the old Democratic party" but facts from
! the pens of the SONS of Rome.
! In our last we spoke of Catholics, or CALI
cans We shall now show what they believe,
and that they are safe citizens, men, who can
honestly take the oath of allegiance.
In the days of Louis XIV, 1852, the clergy
| of the Romish Church met in Paris, and passed
four articles--we shall only give the first:
/ "The Pope has no power from God to inter-
fere, directly or indirectly, in the temporal con-
Germs of Princes or of sovereign States" If
men had looked at this fact, and taken into
consideration that the Catholics of Louisiana
are a branch of the Gallcan portion of the
Romish Church, they might have been kept
/ from susprise at the idea of the American
! Party there running Catholic for the Cover
norship.
How did Innocent II meet the act at Paris?
In the same year he responded thus: SPY
these presents, in virtue of the authority
! given to US by the Omnipotent God, we con-
denim and annul the acts of your Assembly"
/ How did Pope Alexander meet the issue2 Thus:
"All and singular of the acts OF the Assembly,
as we'll with regard to the extension, &c, and
the four articles contained therein, we do CON
denim and annul." Pope Plus VI walked by
the same rule, saying: "Wherefore, as The acts
of the Gallican Assembly were condemned and
anEulled, soon after their appearance, by our
predecessors Innocent II and Alexander VIII,
&c, We do reproye and condemn them, nd
decree that they are to be held as reproved and
condemned" See Bergier's DictiOnaiTe IheO-
! logic, Paris ed, 1854.
| 1t was qnite respectable and clever to see
three Popes annulling the acts of a body of
men in Paris under Louis XIV, 1852. And
what gives edge 10 the matter is, Bishop Ken
rick, an American Romish Bishop, says: "AlI
doctrinal definitions already made by former
Pon,iffs, are landmarks which no man can re.
move. "-Primacy, p. 800.
Mr.. Browuson, endorsed by all the American
Bishops, says: a only know that these articles
Creferring to those of which mention is made
in the outset of this communication,) are not,
and never were accepted at Rome; and seek to
to be Catholic as they are Catholics at Rome,
not merely as they are at Paris, (referring to
those who believe the four articles, } for Rome,
not Paris, holds the chair of Peter" Bravo!
January No, 1854.
The meaning of this is, l will not receive re,
gon as taught by Gallican Catholics, but as
received and taught by Roman Catholics, and
teach the same, endorsed by all the Bishops OF
the land, to those who live in the land Of
Washington.
We hope that these items will be sufficient
to convince men that the members of the
Romish Church ought not to be condemned in
mass The Gallicans are sound in civil affairs
True, they are but few when compared with
/ those who could not take the oath of ale
/ glance, if presented as set forth in our last
/ article. J. /. CHAPMAN.