The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1873-02-12

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fashion. and unions of Church and State
crumbling into ruin. What next? They
will reverse their tactics. They will en-
deavor so to monopoze and guide the new
movement, as to effect second triumph,
compared with which their work in the mid
die ages was a trife. Whereas then the
Romish Church allied itself with despOtism,
in order to enjoy a share of the spoils; that
Church is to be the despOtism, without any
ally or sharer, and enjoy all the spoilS.
To effect this, the JesuitS will throw them
selves with zeal into the radical movement
everywhere. They will pretend to approve
it. They will cover up their traditionary
and ineradcable hatred to all forms of libe
raj opinion, with floods of audacious lies;
and the self-suficiency and shallow ignorance
always characteristic of radicalism, will ac-
cept these lies. The Jesuits will egg on the
radical masses to destroy all the monarchies
and other conservative governments Of Eu-
rope, which are getting tired of granting
them prosecuting "concOrdatS." Thus they
will have their revenge out of M. Theirs,
Kaiser Wilhelm, the Austrian Emperor,
Victor Emmanuel, little Amadeus of Mad
rid, for deserting Holy mother Church. =
And then Popery hopes to find its opportu-
nifty, and to saddle and bride its beast-rad-
ical democracy, and ride it into grand, undi-
vided dominion. The Jesuits know perfectly
we'll, as educated men, what every histo-
rian and well informed man knows, that rad
ical democracy is one thing, and constitu-
tOnal liberty an opposite thing; that the
spirit of radical democracy is essentially
that of usurpatiOn; that its cry of "liberty
and equality means this-'Nobody above
me to control my license, that it has always
shown itself the most ruthless of all despots,
when in the ascendant. The Jesuts think,
very correctly, that the radical masses clothed
with universal suffrage, are inevitably inca
pable. Their attempts to use power always
result, and always must result in this diem
ma-the destruction of rights, private pro-
perty, national existence, on the one hand;
or a resort to military oligarchy or a mill
tary despotiSm, to save them, on the other
hand The Jesuits hope to man@vre things
SO that they shall be that olgarchy, next
time, instead of Cromwell, Napoleon, or
They will organize all the de-
mocracies meaning military despotismS into
baptized and sanctifed confederacy uni
ver8al Empire under the Roman Pontif, in
the "unity of the faith" We know what
Rome means by "unity of the faith" 1t is
not enlightened harmony of opinion and
principle; not at all. 1t is "organic unity"
an enforced uniformity and obedience under
an outward head. That elastic thing, "The
Faith of Holy Mother Church, which has
long ceased to be simply the doctrines of re
deDption, can be stretched to include any
political opinion which does not suit the pur-
poses of His Holiness: for he is infallible
now, in his own right, and can make Apos-
tolic creeds, to order. All conservative or
Protestant opinions will be among the
idols, which the monarchies could not, and
would not destroy; but which the "holy de-
mocracy" will be consecrated to demolish
The confederated peoples shall still be
free" "and equal" That is, they shall
bo permitted to play at putting ballots into
stuffed boxes, and getting money, plundered
from dissenting fellow citizens, as bribes to
the pleasant amusement; the decision always
being that dictated by "the ring" accord
ing to that science which the Jesuits can
learn SO well from modern radical dema-
gogues. Then the world will have zone
fold and one shepherd" We all shall be a
parcel of sheep, and shall have wolf to
shear US.
Now will the Jesuts succeed in this pretty
programme? 1 rather think they will and
for the reason that there are no parties in
Chrstendom who will have the aerve, and
the concert, to expose both the Jesuits, and
the "demOcratic sacree, their intended ally
For instance: You, Mr. Editor, agree fully
with me, in the principles of these remarks,
(not perhaps in their anticipations) and you
have chuckled over them with good deal
of satisfaction; but you will not publish
them; you will think you cannot. So, if
you we're to carry them to any "discreet"
secular editor, say, the respected editor of
the -: he would chuckie and approve
too, but he could not publish them any more
than you. For a different reason from
yours, indeed. He could not afford to of
fend his Roman Catholic subscribers; you
have no Roman Catholic subscribers. Try
him, and see. So do not see what is to
stop the Jesuits, the democratic sacr6e and
the Pontife souverain. except the
Providence which watches over US towards.
I'VE see no special danger in publishing what the
writer says other papers decide for themselves.
Cen. PREs.
This Louis Puillot is a saucy fellow. His sarcasm
is as light racy and biting, as it is devsh. Usual
y it is aimed against the TRUTH and its advocates,
Protestant and Gallcan. But sometimes it is used
in better cause. Take specimen. Introduction,
page 70
MY walks finished, 1 went to take turn
in the Capitol. There is hall, with the
nnrtraits of the Emnernrs. from Julins