New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-14
LECTURE BY O. 4. BROWNSON.


The audience was very large, aud received the lee
turer with three rounds Of cheers.
Mr. BRowssoS said that although ii was nearly
four years since he had spoken here he hoped that be
should be allowed to speak to those who had somph-
nerted him by their presence as If he was IN their
par,ors. The suhject-The Church and the Republic
he had chosen because just now greet objcc-
ton was made to the Church incompstible
with the Republic. lie was never pleased when
called upon to defend objections drawn from
politics. Religion, il anything, wasthe Supreme Law.
appealed to that which was highest in man, and and
every purpose Of its existence was 10 maintain the
divine law in human relations. II Politics and Religion
did not harmonEe Religion should not give way. Men
should obey their religion. That man denied morality
and asserted political atheism who subjected his re-
hgicu 10 his politics What after all, the essenc-
Of this ohiection II they looked at IT, they found that
their religion was not objected to as religion. Most
people would admit that religion for the next world
il was the surest and best twas objected 10 as re-
gion for this world. Men said that they did not see
such universal din of labor far into the night In
Cal ole countries as in Protestant countries This was
precisely the objection the carnal jews make TO Chrst.
They thought Christ TO bring item great temporal
BIZ SING. and they said, I" Ii let this man go on
1.-The Romans will come and take away our name
"and nauor.' Tia. was exeetly what people
were laid of now Cheers. Tie should
Church; he should determine the wants of Republic
and then see II the Catholic religion fulfilled those
wants. All governments were Republican which ex'
sted for the good of society and not merely for The
BEND upon the individual, the State, and Rel-
zion. In America we had two Of these ele-
m,uts-wc had the rights OF the individual and
Of the State. In the right of the individual We
The supremacy of the State under that civilization
Was perfect The individual, and even religion Itself
was subordinate tothe State. Athens with her 600
freemen and her 10000 slaves saw no incompatibh'
ity between the Liberty which she asserted and the
Slavery which she maintained. Rome fell, not be-
cause of the strength of her invaders but beeauce the
mas OF her population were slaves. We bad aided
ole elt nent 10 this ancient civihzatoni was tne ou
sprir of that Christianity which recognized the kingo
king, and the lord of lords In the dark ages the
pr cpe OF ndividualsm too strong for the State
In tie feudal system established under CharemagDe
the balance Sc. med to be complete Soon, however,
.udali-m gained the ascendancy and the balance was
lot. Our fathers fed 10 this country from oppres-
sion This was true both of the earlier and
the later emigrations. The Pufltans orough,
with them the elements OF Ldbefty psrer ana
stronger than they ever found before.
We had combined these elements Of individual liberty
ana the liberty of the State But We Jaw that we had
not vet secured all that We desired. heve was Ten
dercy TO social despotisDi, and tendency 10 ind
yidual anarchy. Here was q tendency 10 substitute
for le climate American democracy and French jacob
iri,n They were democratic in holding that the peo-
ue were the fountain OF power but they dd not ho'd
that the people were beyond all law. Inc uue amer men
icuu theory was that Government was limited. btiu
IL wa. seduced into overstepPIng its limits often Dy
the nobest motives. People might see great eyi o.
that of inemperance, and form associations and APP
neal 10 the eCiSature for Maine Liquor Law, for-
getting that they have no right to accomplish moral
ends nj the expense OF natural justice ana Individual
right lCheeIs Satan came under the guise u
desring to DO something good. There was nothing
which everything that was good in mans heart 30 re-
VOTED az Slavery ICheerl. Still we must respect
She Constitution and vested rights which alone rem
der.d Freedom possible for white or black lCheemI.
Men now undo tOOk 10 tell us what we should drink
soon would be what should eat, when we should
lie down and when we should get up. Phianthro-
pss were getting to be troublesome M the frogs Of
Eeypt They came up into our houses and into
our nesding-troughs Something was needed TO har.
monte these t,ndences 10 strengthen the indviduai
against the State and to prevent the State from de-
generating il TO anarchy. That mediatDg power could
be none other than their Christian religion But this
religion must not rest the INDIVIDUAL authority oron
the national authority. Ii must rest on higher author
iy than these II religion merely an opinion was
nothing be ond the private conviction OF an indivaual
il was nothing more than the Liberty OF the individual
II depended the state, as m Russia and IN En-
gland the ministers Of the religion lost their power IN
fiat Of the State and could be nothing more than
body Of coustabuLary. Could that church which de-
pended on the state administer rebuke TO the
state In old times when he made his Religion ne
always took the liberty OF modifying II ~ sun
himself Immense choenngl. Professionalism must
therefore follow public opinion, and not control
H. Had we not Methodist North ana
Methodist SOUTH Here Methodist was Anti-Slaveryj
In tie & nth Methodists were Pr0Slavery. But truth
and Justice were not to be determined by geographical
lines, and religion but Cathohc reiigion suhenng
Itself to be changed by no race or raton, having tne
tume creed for the Caucasian king az Tor the Af,can
slaye could effect this mediation Protestantsm taught
from below upward the people taught their preacher
if he did not preach TO suit them they sent him on 20
look Up a copgonal congregation. The Cathose
Church was not national she left 10 France ana In
land and Scotland al their customs which were not re-
nugnapt 10 the law Of God; she did not attempt TO
make Italians of all men. Her doctrines and dIsei-
pine must remain ever the same, speaking wtnin
divine suthorhy-an institution which The popular WIN
could not control leaving free 10 do night bat pow
cries. To do wrong. Here man needed an authority
When God made man be gave HIM co nmandincni,
that be might learn TO obey Without the element OF
obedience society could not stand. The Csahonc
Church ,oldifed society by demanding obedience 70
the law Of the highest. Such was the mis-
sion of the Church to the Republic. Parties
might be organized to driye her no'n .ee
country. but they did well 70 name thai hnow'
NOTTINGHAM Il was ignorant alike OF Afne.cani,n
and CatI6l;cty, Az man whose ancestry for eignt
generntons were Americans be protested against this
proclamation ofthe name OF Americanrin. II hs c?en,
nv were 20 command him to DO what inc iaw OF ood
forbid be should refuse 20 do Il. He should despse
bi,ef II be did not. But bis religion commanded HIM
N 10 everything for his country which the law Of
God ds NOT forbid. The hope Of the Republic was IN
the Catholic Church. lie would LAY more, WITHOUT le
Church the pull lie mus fiI The patriot must ook
nrucit ay 20 Catholic for without the conservative
tiement Of the Church the Republic could not be per
r-tua.ed They bad there mission TO perform, 70
make that country Catholic cheersl. The enemies a
liberty dreaded that; Satan Was working TO prevent
il but Lex them 90 forth with confidence. For by
TIER faith and patriotism they could change the hos-
t;fy against the Church INTO love for n. They were
few. but God might save the Republic even for mem.
Thsy were only two or three millons, bat .ncy
Iabored a. they should labor, the Repabte might De
saved loud cbeersl.
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