Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-05-16

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ion, that princes excommunicated by the Pope
and Council or any authority Of the see of
Rome, or by any authority whatsoever, may be
deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any
person whatsoever"
But this oath was exacted, not on re-
ligious ground, but with. q, view to insure
the. safety of the State, and preserve the
life Of the King. This law was passed in
the 31st year Of George III. Whatever le-
gal enactments OF. Great Britain, of q more
stringent nature, previously existed grew
out of the apprehension felt in that cOun-
! try that Roman Catholics might be led by
their principles, and in obedience to the
Pope, TO attempt to overthrow the Governs
\ meht Tor murder the King. These Aregula1
| tons of the State were merely adopted for
| the purpose of self-preservation, but their
| date was in the last century.
THE REneIous PHASE OF Tns suBJEcrs
| Your correspondent, 'sThe other Side,n
at the opening OF his last paper, finds that
I the best image Of intense darkness he can
use is the darkness Of the gloomiest dun
geon of the inquisitionn as it seemed to a
! recaicitrant sinner who had merited the
displeasure of that tribunal" No doubt
| he is correct in this. The prisons of that
cruel institution of the church Of Rome
CONSISTED of vaulted apartments, each dis
vided into several square cells, which were
about ten feet high, and stood in two rows,
one above the other. In the upper cells q
ldim ray of light fell through CRATE; the
tosOer acre smaller and darker. Each dun
geon had two doors. The inner which
was bound with iron had crate through
which food was introduced for the prison
er. The other door was opened early in
the morning to air the CELL The prisoner
| was allowed no visits from his friends or
| relations, no book of devotion was given
| him; he was compelled to sit motionless
and silent in his dark cell, and if his feel
| ings'foahd vent in . tone Of complaint or
even in pious hymn, the ever watchful
| keeper warned him to be silent"
| And who do you suppose, gentle reader,
were the sinners who as 1.-THE Other
Side puts it,n merited the displeasure Of
| that tribunal By an ordinance of 17s4,
| insSpain, they included all who observed
| the law of Moses or even spoke favorably
of it, that is the Jews" all "who follow
| ed the doctrines of Luther" that is, Pro-
| testant Christians; all who possessed
the Bible in the Spanish tongue or any
| heretical book, +" that is, any book which
| taught sentiments contrary to the Romish
| dogmas; and in fine, "all who harbored,
| received or favored heretics.n And how
many think you were the victims OF the
| Spanish inquisition in SPAIN. to say moth
| ing Of its victims in other lands, from
| 1481 to 1908, when'it was abolished by Ma
| poleon p Don Juan Antonio. LloFent, a
noble Spaniard and a Priest of the Church
| of Rome, was made chief secretary to the
| Spanish Inquisition in 1885, An 1917, he
published in French, a history OF it, drawn
| from its own records. According to his esti-
mate, thenumber of its victims during the
| time above named, amounted to- three
hundred and forty one thousand and twen-
/ ty-One, of whom thirty-one thousand niue
Il u
| hundred and ninety-one thousand four hun
| dred and ffty-six were seyerely punished
| in various ways 1.-The Other Side again
alludes to his charge of Professionals having
''been guilty of persecution.n Why, his
tory shows such a meagre count against
them in this way, that it isl really mot
worth mentioning in comparison. The
reign of Queen Elizabeth in England, was
probably more sanguinary in that respect
Professionalism. Her sister, bloody Queen
Mary, put two hundred and seventy-seven
persons to death for refusing adhesion to
the Church of Rome and Elizabeth, fol-
lowed her example by prosecuting Papists
and Puritans, but it was at a distance, for
the records show that although her impris-
onment of many worthy persons was the
means of shortening their days, the actual
executions for the sake of religion which
also the number of the Quakers who were
put to death some two hundred years ago
by the Puritans, of New England Over
such instances Of wrong as these Roman
Catholic writers are in the habit of raising
great cry, in order TO cover upsand divert
attention from the awful enormities i'm
persecution Of the Papal Church. A re-
spectacle writer states that exclusive of the
lives Of multitudes Of Jews, Moors and
others sacrificed by Popery, sit has been
computed that millions of Protestants have
at different times been the victims of the
prosecutions of the Papists, and put to
death for their religious opinions" The
Other Side" seems to be fond or quoting
Bancroft. commend to him the follow
ing from that writer: I'm Spain more per-
sons have been burned for their opinions,
than Massachusetts then contained intab-
itants. Under Charles W., in the Neither
lands alone, the number Of those who were
hanged, beheaded, buried alive, or burned,
for religious opinion, was fifty thousand,
says Father Paul; the whole carnage
amounted, says Grotius, to not less than
one hundred thousand. America was gull
ty of the death of four Individuals and
they fell victims rather to the contest of
will, than to the opinion that Quakerism
was capital crime" See Bancroft, vol. I,
oh. x, p. 455. r.a., s-psfrt4.sI
praise, but note that the charter by which |
he held Maryland provided for freedom Of
religion, and was issued by the Protestant
King of Protestant nation. See Ban
croft's History, VOL 1, Oh. vii, page 243.
The Other Side complains Of the eva
schools, &C. ''Rustieusn plainly signifed
that he does not think the fact of the sepa-
rate education of coiored children eopsti-
tutes a sufficientreason for granting the de- |
mand of the Priest and. others for . part Of
the school money, to be used at their dis
erection in the work of education. - 4 =, i
There are several Of his statements, adj
ditional, which might be noticed. But
why prolong the work of refutation ? Lest
it should grow dull by very repetition, and
shall weary your readers. by performing
it j bid YOU adieu. .lhafn. llaI -saie Faam Ia