Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-27


the terrible wars between Christian nations
and Mahomedan were the natural offspring
of conflicting ideas. Psganism held Pau
in chains for years in Rome for his re
ligious belief; yet he and others OF the
same principles fought paganism out o.
Rome, and out Of the great Roman EN-
pire. Christianity has ever been aggressive.
The central idea of Cesarism, Bonapsrt-
ism and Grantism is to inspire popular
faith in man, whether General, President
King, or Emperor, which is due only to in
finite wisdom, and infinite goodness. Bis
marck, who probably did most to elevate
the King of Prussia to the throne OF the
Empire of Germany, says In behalf of i'm
perialism, that Christianity must be de-
stroyed aud "the State worshipped." This
is but one feature of Grantism and Repub-
licanism in the United States. They mean
that the best investment q citizen
can make of bis capital is to
lend it TO the Government, to be used as
corrupt politicians may see ft, whether to
build barbors, steam ships, costly public ed
ifices in Washington and all over the Unio2,
or to construct railroads, canals and great
Roman highways, or to control all State and
federal elections, and all legislation, as well
as every department of the National Gov
eminent. Imperial bonds which are issued
by class of patriots who are willing to
steal public lands and divide the spoils with
railway monopilies of their own crea-
ton, are made the basis of
all bsnk-currency and credit.
In this way it is calculated that every Ia
boring man and woman who holds a shin
plaster or dollar note, issued by act of
Congress, is directly interested in uphold
ing Cessrism at the head of the Federal
government. Thousands of millions of our
money have already been invested in this
central, imperial power, which promises to
absorb, By a first mortgage or government
lien, all the farms and other property in
the United States. The avoWed
policy makes ga public debt a
bond of alion and public blessing"
The public debt of Francs is over five
thousand million dollars-a precious legacy
derived from the "glory" of seventy years SIS
cendancy Of Bonaparte ideas over the French
nation. For seventy years to come, these
anti Christian, supremacy selfish ideas,
which have neither God in heaven nor
consciene in man, but regard stealing as
respectable, and rob man of his slaves
AID burn his plantation as highly meritori-
GUS haveigot vest deal ofhard work already
laid out on this continent, and in Europe
Propagandism has been a tremendous power
in the world for over two thous and years.
II was the fruitful mother Of our late civil
war. The apostles of atheism were most
active in fomenting the bloody revolution
in France in 1879. They created the oppor-
tunity for young Caesar from Corsica, a
Roman chip of the old block, to fight his
way to the head of The armies of the Revo-
luton and to an imperial crown in foreign
land. Modern CGesarism labors constantly
not only to absorb all the wealth of the
people, as Joseph in ancient Egypt
took their proper y in a time of great fam
inc, and gave it to the king whom be served,
but to break up the most sacred family re-
lations. This policy has been SO far sue
cessful in Psris that more children are born
out Of wedlock than within. Atheism, free
love, military despotism, the worship of the
the State, and Grantism, are all garments
made from one piece of cloth. They mean
anarchy, cruelty and desolation in their
wort possible forms, where human
science, labor and capital greatly excel |
savages in the magnitude oftheir atrocities. |
Our schoolcOys in college are taught to ad
mire the words of Caesar, Ve1ai, Vidi, |
Vici: 81 came, saw, cocquered." If |
Bengal tiger could talk, it could say with |
equal truth, came, l saw, l conquered a
biped brute. Why not worship his jungle |
and the conquering beast that governs it as
a Estate" as well as auy other State gov
erned by Cesar? The author of the ar
tic.e in the Catholic World accuses the law
yers of France in the Legislature of 1889. |
strongly imbued with Roman law and its
Pagan sympathies, of favoring the introduc-
ton of C@sarism into France, to make war
on Christianity and all its moral teachings.
We suspect there is a good deal Of truth in
this statement, and the pagan ideas taught
so iudustriously in European and American
colleges and universities, will account in
part for the sorrowful decadence of true
christian piety in nearly all nations that
profess christianity. A great reformation is
needed that shall extinguish all sectsrian
jars, al narrowmindedness, inspired by a
true apostolic devotion to the highest and
best interests of man. 1t is this, or crime
In its worst aspects at tire head of all gov
with no adequate power of resis-
lance. We now make crime respectable in
high places, to multiply its germs.