Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1864-01-14

JANUARY IA, 1864.
the measures taken by the Emperor Mich
olas to force the United Greeks or Bosil-
Iians-about three millions Of peop!e-into
the regular Greek Church.
s'1n most of the parishes" says Czyrma,
"a strong opposition was offered by the
clergy, but all III vain; the recusant priests
were expelled their parishes and deprived
OF their ivings. Many were sent off to
schlsmatlc monasteries, and there incsrcer
ated, with no food but bread and water;
some had even that denied them, but re-
NAMED in cold, dark dungeons &c.
AS for the method Of dealing with the
laits. take two extracts from the same wri-
ter. After forced recantation, relapse
was thus provided against:
GAS to appostates, an ukase Of the 21st
Of March, 1910, declares, besides the pun
ishment already provided by law, that
their real and ALL other property shall be
confiscated; they cannot employ any orth-
odox peasantry, nor sojourn where ortho-
dox people live. Their children shall be
taken from them and brought up in the
orthodox church, &c.
cup to the 9th January, one hundred
and seventy of the clergy had fallen vic>
Tins of inhuman treatment. The younger
portion, who would not turn schisnatics,
had their heads shaved, and were sent as
recruits to the Caucasian army"
The nature of the penal code in Ireland
is, perhaps sufficiently well known A
Catholic turning Protestant was to take
the fee-simple of his fathers estate, avoid
ing all settlements made by his father,
and turning his father into tenant for
life Catholics were prohibited from TAX
ing land by lease for a longer period than
thirty -one years; prohibited from purchas-
ING any Of the forfeited estates; prohibited
from exercising The office of mayor. sheriff,
baliff, alderman, burgess, town clerk or
common councilman in any corporate
town. A Catholic could not legally own
horse of five pounds value; and if any
Protestant discovered Catholic possess
sing such quadruped, he had nothing to
do but get constable, break open the
stable door, bring the horse before mag
istrate, and then and there paying down
tive pounds five shillings, take and keep
such horse, 'as il bought in market overt
All Catholic clergylnen, of every rank,
were ordered to depart the kingdom be-
fore the LIST OF May, 1898; and those who
should return were to be hanged without
benefit OF clergy. It would be tedious to
varrate the long curiously elaborate code
which was In force in Ireland tor nearly
century The point to be remarked is
that the atrocity Of this code only made
the people of Ireland more attached to
their church and clergy; and this had been
forseen and intended; tor thereby the real
and personal estate Of that kingdom came
by degrees into the hands of orthordox be-
lievers. The very obstinacy of the Cath
olics was the profitable circumstance; and
if they had allowed themselves to become
converted, that would have defeated the
whole scheme, and another scheme would
have become necessary.
We do not do our very ingenious neigh
bors at the North the injustice of suppos-
ing that they can b at any loss for an eff
fcient system of appropriating real and
personal estate with such plain examples
before them. Indeed it seems almost Ger
tain that the religious machinery we have
suggested would be worked with the most
decisive effect; because murderous fanat
acismis more easily excited in that direc-
ton than in any other. The Southern
schismatic churches could be easily desig-
mated as the enemies, and indeed, calum-
niators OF God himself; men who falsify
the Bible and pretend that the Saviour of
the world was slave driver Out of this
controversy could not fail to come much
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