The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-06-27
Protestant scots Persecutors.

In reading the ,siip-shod articles of the Pres
byterlan and Methodist papers of this city
for the most part ~ TechdmBe of ADLER minds,
spoiled in the dressing-that is, in style and
distorted appiication--one would suppose that
Protestant sects were the most tolerant, liberal
and dove-like people in the world. IT. the face
of the irrefrigable testimony of history--his-
tory as written by Protestant historians, they
go on reiterating the old refrain, commencing
themselves as though they were the very elm
-bodiment, the undertaking advocates of reli-
gious liberty. But the truth is, SO far rs Ca
tholics are concerned,o they maintain aud act
as if they were-not entitled to it|Judging
Catholics by themselves, they imagine that if
we get power, it will be used in the same I'M
scrupulous manner history demonstrates
they have done, not taking into account the
principles which nnderlie the two systems In
reply to a sectarian paper, the New York Tablet
comments as follows:
fEA1f Protestant sects, till unbelief and indif-
] ference disabled them, were prosecutors and
the iHtetiigencer ITSELF in view of the growth of
Cathohcity, has quite recently suggested that
| it may be necessary to modify the views of re-
/ ligious liberty that obtains in the countryI and
asserted, virtually that Professionals are not
! bound to maintain religious liberty for Catho-
| lies. Calvin procured the burning of Servetus
| over a fire of green wood, and wrote PAM
phiet in defence of the burning of heretics. Me
| lancton approved of what, on this point, Cal
vim wrote. Anglicanisni is gorged with the
! blood of Catholics martyred for adherence to
! the Church. The Calvinsts of Holland were
Prosecutors, as Arminius, Episcopps, Hugh
Grotius and Olden Barneveldt can bear wit
ness. The Presbyterians in the VestlniRster
Confession, declare it the duty of the civil ma
gistrate TO eXtirpate idolators and heretieA
and the General Assembly in this country
struck ont the clause only in 1888, after the
| adoption of the Federal Constitution. In all
,NYi.n
power, it used it to deprive Catholics Of their
civil and political rights, confscate their prop
4 erty, and suppress their worship. 1t therefore
! i'll becomes the htcftigeRccr to speak of "tbe
! prosecuting dogmas" of the Church Let it
! wipe the blood from the skirts of Professionalism
before accusing the Church of God.
! We have called the attention of Protestants
again and agai IL to these facts yet they ignore
/ all we say, aud go dcclaimng against the
Church rs spiritual despotism, and applaud
ing themselves as if they We're, and ALWAYS
had been, the unhinching advocates of religious
| liberty. Yet the Episcopaliahs Of Virginia en-
! -acted-the cruel and brutaiizing laws of Eng
| minister OF Boston, called liberation the DEVILS
doctrine, and the Colony of Massachusetts
hing Qnakers, banished Baptists, and bored
| the ears and tongues of Dissenters. PROTEST.
ants have generally, till becoming unbelievers
or inditterentists, If they defended freedom of
conscience, taken good care to secure the mo-
! nopoly of it to themselves.
The real, rght-down earnest Professionals are,
we may believe, strongly opposed to the liberty
the Church enjoys in, this country. All their
arguments and declarations against her prove
it. If Catholics exercise tlieir franchises as
citizens, aud vote at eloctionsy Rome, they pre-
tend, is at the bottom of il, and is seeking to
get the political power of the country into her
hands, so as to it for the destruction of our
free Institutions; if we exercise our natural
rights to defend our religion against the asper-
sionssof its enemies, or to set forth in public
lectures or from the press our doctrines as they
are on the points most frequently misrepre-
scented, it is all Roman aggression, and forth
with the press teens with the denunciations of
the Aggressive Policy of Rome" Indeed,
exercised without censure by the meanest sect
in the country, is aggression" on freedom,
and universal Shrek is heard all the Pro-
testant old women of both sexes, set up a regu-
laf howl over the danger with which the pro-
gress of Catholicity threatens our free institu-
tons, and grave editors suggest that the
country cannot afford to ALLOW Catholics the
liberty of conscience. -----