The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-10-07
Rev, carroll,s Spleen.

BELOW we give an article written
by Priest Carol of St. AIMS
Church, which appeared in last
weeks Messenger We do not in
tend to comment upon it, though
we perhaps ought to ask the for
bearance of our readers. How sure
shot we must have delivered to
have hurt him so.
To THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL:
The viIlainous rascality of your last efiusion
induces me to leap the ropes of the prolemic
ring, not to continue the fight with q pugilist
who has been knocked clear outside and
whose 'ogles, pruboscis and mug are now ex-
| tinguishable, but to administer to an insolent
coward, q chsstisement which good matrons
are wont to bestow on wayward youth. Al
though most severely punished your disfgur-
/ ed mug is laughably employed in telling the
stoEid spectators that "nine-tenths of them
know the tenability of your position; that you
are suspended (prostrated) for few weeks on
| "; that Priest Carroll is not fighting got; but
| the Republican party; that you did not credit
/ it before, but are now forced to; that Priest
| Carroll is so dull Of comprehension he cannot
| perceive that you have not space to continue
the fight finally, he is so dascourteous as to bid
| you adieu in the midst Of your woeI' Miser-
| ere neil MiSefeTe me0 which, being interpre-
preted, meaneth, "Shoo, Priest, don't bodder
mel Don't bother youY Once upon a time
| the devils who possessed certain individuals
exclaimed, "Son Of David, don't bother us be-
fore our time" They must have been, ac-
cording to your diabolic logic, editors, for the
Scriptures ''don't deny it." They desired to
suspend the controversy until after the cam
paign but the Son Of David was not so "cour-
| teous." So now it is no use in you CRYING to
| one OF His Priests "don't bodder me for few
week." Ii Priest Carroll had commenced this
discussion, you could, without dishonor, delay
| your response; but since you are the reviler,
whose first etfuslon was a concentration of in
science and hate, and whose last would dis
grace Satanic degradation, you must submit
to the erCrcisBl notwithstanding your demoni-
&C walls.
"Interests of superior importance" demand
ed an armistic So, political interest is, tin
/ your mind, superior to religious Why, then,
do you detile your political sheet with sectari-
an excavations, the stencil of which cries to
religion for vengeance Why descend to the
| contemptible arena OF Catholic theology to
disturb its peaceful inhabitants? Did you
| think your intrusion would not be considered
| the nuisance it is ? Did you imagine its Priest
destitute the nOstrils to scent your intolerable
stencil, or OF power to exercise the demon
| Who, in the name of law, commissioned you,
from the celestial kingdom of politics, to de-
scend to the internal regions of Catholicity to
heal its ignorance, bigotry and superstition ?"
| All, the interests of the "Babylonish harlot"
| are superior in your mind" until the exor-
cism OF Priest Carroll becomes warm ! ! "Sup-
erior interests" indeed What interest, in
the name of heaven, is superior to that of re-
| hgion Religion is the foundation Of law.
As God precedes man, so religion, politics.
Hence, if Catholicity is the humbug, the har-
| lot, the monster you make If, how can you
leave it even "for few weeks" to rot the po-
litical foundation of this regionT If the infal.
hbility Of Antichrist, the Pope, means that he
| can do no I0rOHg, why, he will soon swallow
/ this whole district, and you, his particular
friend, will go down without mastication
| "fraudulent" votes are a mere heabite in COM
parison with the evil that 20O,O00,000 Catho-
lies, with Antichrist at their head, will infict
upon society u Ii this religious system is so
vemomous, the sooner that more is written on
both sides, the better will its hideousness ap-
pear By all means, then. let the reptile ex-
hibit itself that yo~ may have the glory of
stamping it out.
The aroma Of your last spew is that, if I sue
ceeded in "carrying out the third rerson of a
hbelous circular" by PROVING INFALLIBILITY,
why-why-why certain candidate would
be elected I! !! "The discussion could be post
poned without prejudice to either side p No,
no no There would be irremediable preju-
dice to my side, for the delay would infallibly
prove that the Pope was falhble u! Although
YOU BEGUN the controversy, yet you are ''free
to draw your own conclusions as TO my inten-
tions," and have "no alternative" but to villify
my character !! The devil or his associate
alone "assumes" such license with humanity