Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-08-22

stand up fight between the two lead
ing forms of Christianity. 1t was not
so. The religious difference was
false pretence of the political preach
ers for the promotion Of their own
schemes. There was not sane man
on all that continent, who would have
felt himself impelled by motives mere
ly religious to murder his neighbor for /
believing or disbelieving in transub-
stantiati. Ifproof Of this were want
ing, it might be found in the fact, that
long before the war ended, the secre-
tartan cries were abandoned, and
Catholics as we'll Protestants, were
fighting on both sides
1t is utterly impossible to believe
that the clergy of England and Scot
land, if they had not been politicians,
would have thought of waging bloody
wars 70 settle questions of election
and reprobation fate, fore knowledge,
free will, and other points OF meta
physical theology. Nor would they,
apart from their politics, have encour-
aged and committed the other horrid
crimes of which they were guilty in
in the manner of religion.
Can you think that the Irish were
invaded and conquered, and oppressed,
and murdered, and robbed for centur-
les, merely because the English loved
and believed in the Protestant re-
ligion? | suppose you know, that
those brutal atrocities were carried
on for the purpose of giving to politi-
cal preachers in England possession OF
the churches, cathedrals, glebe lands
and tythes which belonged to the Irish
Catholics. The soldier was also re-
warded by confscations and plunder
The church and the state hunted in
couples, and Ireland was the prey
which they ran down together.
Coming down on our own country
you find Massachusetts, and Connecti-
cut in colonial times under the sole
domination of political preachers.
Their trcacherous wars upon the lndi-
ans for purposes wholly mereenary ;
their enslaving ofwhite persons as well
as red ones, and selling them abroad,
or Swapping them for blackamoors !,
their whipping, imprisoning and kill
, ing Quakers and Baptists, for their
/ conscientious opinions; and their base
/ Il eatment of such men as Roger vii
J Jams and his friends, will mark their
| government through all times as one
of the cruclest and meanest that ever
l existed
Political preachers have not behaved
/ any better since the revolution than
before. About the commencement Of
| the present century they were busy in
: their vile vocation all over New Eng
land, and continued it for many years
, The wilful and deliberate ISLANDERS
: habitually uttered from the pulpit
= against Jefferson, Madison, and the
: friends who supported them, were a
: disgrace to human nature. The i'm
E mediate effect of this was the the
' Yankee plot to secede from the Union,
0 followed by corrupt combinations with
/ foreign enemy to botray the liberties
; of the country. Its remoter conse-
a auencos are seen in the shameless ia
). pacity and bitter malignity which
Q even at this moment, are bowling foi
y the roperty and blood of an unarmeC
G and deienceless people.
}. You and both remember the polit
t ical preaching which ushered in aLC
o supported the reign of tho Know
Nothings, Blood Tubbs and Plug Ug
l. lies when Maria Monk was Saint
IS and Joe Barker was Mayor of Pitts
IS burg; when pulpits resoundeC
o every Sunday with the most injur
1- ious falsehoods against Catholics
r when the public mind was dcbauchc,
c by the medication of hypocrisy an,
If deception when minister met thoi
n political allies in sworn secresy topic
% against the rights OF their fcllow-citi
zens. You cannot forget what cam
IS of this-riot, murder, church-burning
Ie lawless violence all over the land, an
N the subugation of several great
r States to the political rule of a part.
n destitute alike of principle 4 capacity
,t could easily prove that those cleI
e ical politicians, who have tied thei
n- churches to the tail of the Abolito
n party, are criminal on a grandr seal
re than any of their predecessors. Bu
9. forbear, partly because | have n
a time, and partly because it may, ft
pit aught know, he sore subject wit
Y. you. would not excite your wratl
9. but rather provoke you to goo
st works"
RS Apart from the general subiec
- there are two or three special ide;
as expressed in your letter from which
ne venture TO dissent.
le. You think that, though minist'
Is may speak from the pulpit on polite
er he ought not to indicate what part
IS he belongs to- 1t strikes me, that
ce he has party, and wants to give
nm lacclesiastical aid or comf0rt he shOu