Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-17

State religion, and although Protestant
Christians who are really united upon the
essential doctrines of religion might be
rallied as one man to resist unlawful en-
croachments upon religious liberty, their
very love for such liberty, and their sense
of propriety, will prevent them from work.
| ing to obtain each one for itself domi-
| nant control over the State. and to turn
the streams of money from the State or City
! Treasury into its own Golfers. And what in
| the mean time will become of the common
! school system 1t will be gone! No room
will be left for harmony in feeling and ac-
| ton among citizens, without distinction of
political party or religious creed, in the
work of popular education. The civil au-
thority, so far as that work is concerned, |
! will have been made defunct. But | have |
too much confidence in the good sense, the |
patriotism and mutual liberalty of the peo- |
pie, and of Protestant Christians, to believe |
that they will accept the suggestion of
Father Finnegan, and by dividing out the |
common school money among different |
religious denominations, break up the
common school system. AS Americans
they will demand that the children of the
city shall be so educated by the civil author
ity as to prepare them to become moral,
intelligent and orderly citizens, but not
therefore, by any means irreligious citi-
zens. ' ..-h
sCHooLMAsrERs IN IRELAND. r
"The Other Side" AYERS that under q
g law of Parliament a Roman Catholic could
not at one time (when precisely he does
, not say teach school in Ireland except at
the penalty of banishment or death. Now,
this much is true that formerly, according
to a law of the British Parliament, Ro-
nanist was allowed to teach school If he
would take an oath which was partly rs
n follows:
: Il do swear that l do reject and detest as an
{ unchristian and impious position that it is law
Z fll tO murder Or destroy an Or
a whatsoever, for or under pretence of their being
l. heretics or nfdels; and also that unchristian
c and impious principle that faith is not to be
is kept with heretcs or inhdels. And do further
J., declare that it is not article of my faith, and
il that do renounce, reject and abiure the opin-
a. ion that princes communicated by the Pope
:, and Council any authority of the see of
- - Rome, or by any authority whatsoever may be
~ deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any
e. person whatsoever"
a ~ But this oath was exacted, not on q re-
81 lgious ground but with view to insure
NJ the safety of the State, and preserve the
,"1 oe life of the King. This law was passed in
~ the 3lst year of George III. Whatever le-
"a -" gal enactments of Great Britain, of a more
80 stringent nature, previously existed grew
,e ~ out of the apprehension felt in that coun'
- try that Roman Catholics might be led by
~ their principles and in obedience to the
20, Pope, to attempt to overthrow the Govern
~ ment or murder the King. These regula
Wv Wv tons of the State were merely adopted fo
al the purpose of preservation, but thei
nd date was in the last century.
,s- THE RELIGIOUS PHASE OF THE SUBJECT
.e- Your correspondent, "The Other Side, ;
es at the opening of his last paper, finds thai
ty the best image of intense darkness he ear
ny use is the darkness of the gloomiest dun
&c, geon of the inquisitionD as il Seemed to
es. recalcitrant sinner who had merited TIN
displeasure of that tribunal No doub
tn he is correct in this. The prisons of tina
- n. II. n. II
Is. consisted of Vaulted apartments, each di
I vided into several square cells, which wer
an about ten feet high, and stood in two rows
5 / one above the other. In the upper cells
ds. dim ray of light fell through CRATE; tn
IS? Io,Oer ,Ucre smaller and darker. Each dun
is geon had two doors The inner whic
nd was bound with iron had CRATE throug
ch which food was introduced for the prison
lsk er. The other door was opened early /
~ the morning to air the cell. The prisone
en- was allowed no visits from his friends O
to relations, no book of devotion was give
ne him; he was compelled to sit motionles
and silent in his dark cell, and if his feel
eY- ings found vent in a tone of complaint o
all. Feven in piOus hymn, the ever watchfu
cry keeper warned him to be silent.n
cry And who do you suppose, gentle reader
am were the Sinners who as 1.-THE Othe
nls' Side puts IT, merited the dspleasure
that tribunal? BY an ordinance of 49,
in Spain, they included all who observe
leir the law of Moses or even spoke favorabl
'ur- of it, "that is the Jews" all "who follow
70 ed the doctrines of Luther that is, Pre-
J, - ~ testant Christians all who "pOssesse
oTN the Bible in the Spanish tongue or an
nde heretical book, % that is any book whic
,wn taught sentiments contrary to the Romis
tes- dogmas and infine, "all who harbore'
received or favored heretics.n And no
or many think you were the victims of Il
the Spanish inquisition in Spain, to say notl
the ing of its victims in other lands, fro
ch 1881 to 1908, when il was abolished by n
'uc- poleon? Don Juan Antonio Llorent,
no noble Spaniard and Priest of the Churc
ing of Rome, was made chief secretary to q
as Spanish Inquisition in l7S6. In 1877 |
the published in French, a history of it, draw
ans, from its own records. According TO his es
his mate, the number OF its victims during u
able time above named, amounted TO thr
)us) hundred and forty one thousand and TIVE
ere ty-one, of whom thirty-One thousand nil
hey hundred and twelve were burnt and "
fter hundred and ninety-one thousand four hi
lich dred and fifty-siX were severely punish
non in various ways! 1.-The Other Side' aga
sire alludes To his charge of Protestants havil
1nal "been guilty of persecution Why, h
ther tory shows such a meagre count agaiI
Itter them in this way, that il is really I
ac- worth mentioning in comparison. L
ex reign of Queen Elizabeth in England, "
lreh probably more sanguinary in that resp
ton than any other period in the records
lie a Professionalism. Her sister, bloody Que