Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-11

Maine TO California. aud he immense
weal,h held by the Ramish Church n
America & managei by the Hgeuis Of an
Italian priest. Tie patriotic soli-devoiion
Of the Protestant sccts. which Jed them
AZ oDee to sever their dependence upqn
European leaders. bas never been initiated
by the Rom'sh priesthood they nave even
increased ,he rieors Of their own slavery;
they have bauished from their church or
CARNATIONS any trace Of popular rule :
They have made the Romi.h Church in
America more rigidly dependent upon the
Pope than even the Gcrnsn or the Calf
can Church they have scofcd at those
instincts Of freedom that have led the
Episcopalian aud the Presbyterian to IT.
troduec some elements Of independence
into their church governmc0t: they de-
nouncc as herciical every check upon the
papal power; they have thrown them
selves abiecily at the feet Of the papacy
eager to be iramplcd upon and they have
created 10 our midst a vast organization,
stretching its chain Of desPotlsm from the
81. Lawrence TO the Rio Grande, rich,
powerful, united, whose single aim is to
extend the papal influence, and which is
governed in all its policy by the subtle
guidance of Rome.
That such an organization must be nuc-
essarily hostile to the institutions of free
dom can scarcely be doubted. Aud the
Romish Church has grown year by year
more turbulent and aggressive, the
source of increasing lawlessncss and dis
ordered. In its early weakness il alb
stained from political action: as it rose
to power it clamored against the restraints
Of American law. While all other sccts
submitted peacefully to the few limitations
upon religious liberty, the Romish Church
has never ceased to fnd new grievances
Its foreign rulers have never permitted it
to rest from its persistent attacks upon
the principles Of freedom. 1t demanded
that all its property should be deprived
Of the control Of the secular affairs of the
church; our Legislature imprudently
yielded. and placed the property of ma
tive citizens in the hands of the agents
of Rome. The Pope appoints and re-
moves the bishops at will; the bishops
control the possessions Of "he church. :"
no other sect swallowed this extraordinary
privilege. 1t clamorcd against the Ri.
bic, aud the Scriptures are no longer read
10 the schools Of Cincinnati or of Hunt
er's Point. 1t denounced public iustitu-
ton as ga social cancer; it is wagng a
dcathlcss war against the common schools
it refuses TO permit its children to mingle
with the children of Prolestants and
while it furnishes thrce.iourihs Of the
criminals aud the paupers who prey upon
the Protestant community, it is loud IN
its denunciations ofAmerican civilization;
while its great mass Of ignorant voters
have been the chief source of our politi.
cal ills, it cries out against school tax,
aud would drive its children from public
schools.
The unpatriotic conduct of the Romish
populace in our chief cities during the
rebellion is well known. They formed
constant menace and terror to the loyal
citizens; they thronged e the peace meet.
ings; " they strove to divide the Union
and when the war was over they placed
in Office their corrupt leaders, and plum
dered the impoverished community. AT
length the Presidential election approaches
and our foreign church has assumed more
openly they ever before the form of po-
litical faction. With remarkable unan-
unity the whole Romish press urges the
defeat of President GRANT and the elect.
of his competitor. Romish priests, in
the Catholic Telegraph, sound the praises
Of Mr.. Greeley, declaim with bitter de-
nuneiations against ''the four years mis-
rule" of the Republican Administrations
and Join with their defense of Jesuitism
an exhortation to all their followers to
vote with the opposition. No other reli-
gious sect among US has ever before en-
tered into political contcst never be-
fore did religious Journal abandon, like
the Catholic Telegraph, its proper sphere
to nominate candidate for the Presiden-
CIV. And it may well excite reasonable
alarm in the Protestant portion of our
community to find a foreign church, guild
ed wholly in its policy by its Italian iu-
lers-by that Jesuit influence which has
won the mastery iu the Romish councils
thus imprudently active in our nation-
al affairs What do Romish bishops hope
to win from Mr.. Greeley that they ha
not obtained from President Grant The
Catholic Telegraph is noted chiefly for