The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-05-21

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i!eyes Of freedom it does not merit, en-
! ploy> it, various abilities in complaints
and dcnunciations Of the government
under which it has sought refuge, and,
having been expelled from nearly all
other free count ries, now plots the ruin
Of the land where it has found Eome
The papal priest is everywhere the
harbin2er Of public disturbances or pri,
vate crimes, and the whole busy HE
rarchy Of cardinals, ,archbishops, bishops,
and metropolitans, clad in crimson gar
ments, and covered with the painful
memories ofcenturies Of spiritual tyran-
ny, seem as destructive to the welfare of
mankind a a general pestileuce or fam
inc. In Brazil they defy the laws and
invoke insurrection, in Mexico they mas
sacre and rebel ia Ohio they threaten
and overawe the obedient Democracy,
and in New York they corrupt the public
morals; in Europe his unhappy sect en-
| forces a general armament, and sum
mons mankind to war 1t must evident
| ly become question for Europeans to
determine how they can best repress the
rancorous spirit of their priests. and how
convert the papncy into AN agency of
peace. Except, indeed, the religious one,
and that absolute rule which the Pope
insists upon imposing upon the nations,
there is no other point oi controversy
that might not be determined readily by
"a general congress and a public treaty;
and with the absence of the indictments
to discord, given by the army of cardinals
and prelates, there appears no reason
why the European powers might not
dismiss their standing armies to the
pruning-hook and the plOw. There
seems, indeed,a strnng tendency towards
this pacific feeling in the liberal parties
OF France, England, and Germany;
it pcrvades naturally all the laboring
CLASSES; and as the people grow in pow
er and unity throughout Europe, it is
not wholly utopiHn to hope that n con
federation of nations may succeed
that anarchy of states which is now liza
bI,. to be thrown into fierce convulsions
by priests and politicians, and that the
people will at last put an end to the ter
rors of war. let, unhappily, so impor
tant is the crisis, one more violent ap-
peal from the Vatican may cover Europe |
with bloodshed, and the intrigues of the |
.Jesuits in feeble Belgium are sufficient |
to startle mankind with the Cmens of |
universal discord. Our own country is
the only one that is, as yet, almost be- |
yond the power Of the papal malice ;lIere |
the priesthood cannot, as yet, stir up the |
flames of civil strife; here they have not |
heretofore been able TO rule in our politics |
or govern the opinions of our people.
Our example for the past six years of a
Republican administration has been one |
ola sincere and resolute pursuit of peace,
and the European governments and peO-
pie NAV learn from our practice how TO |
abandon their standing armies and re-
duee their iiavies 10 an inconsideIable |
force Il Is, indeed, the highest praise
Of ouE Republican, administration that,
at the close OF n violent internal strife, |
il at once disIanded its vast armies, |
lla, ed all lis trust in the free support of |
the people. and found everywhere, except |
iii IA few DISTURBED districts, n swift re- |
turn To good order and peace. 1t has |
steadily sirunk with horror from every |
Il, IB,.I5fs..,l I
and Democratic politicians have labored |
to bring Ts ia: conflict with neighboring |
nntious al he will of the Republican |
mnin:,ti.S li;s commanded peace; and |
under has policy Curing the six years of |
Republican rule our country has flour |
isiIrd as il has never done before. Its |
imports and exports have increased with |
in six years from $500, 0GO. 600 to 81 200,
COG. Geo; The population Of the free North |
has grown with rapid strides; the nation |
is throwing of the effect of "A nome ntary |
depression; and nothing but the acces- |
sion to power of political ROmanism and |
a Democratic oIigarchy of Southern rev
olutiuuists and Tammany Hall caD de |
stroy tile fair prospects of freedom ia the |
New World. So long as we remain Re |
publican we may defy the foreign priest |
hood wlo have brought warfare and dis |
cord to all other lands
But one party among us persists in |
procaimiug lis servility TO the foreign |
hierarchy. and every Democratic leader
seems anxious To win the favor of the
JeSuits and ihe Pope. Ohio and New
York arr already at their feet The Dem
ocriiic Governor of Massachusetts is not
ashamed to attend the vOnsecratiOn of
IA papal archbishop, and to lend his po-
litical sanction 10 the interference Of
foreign prelate in our religious affairs.
Would lac have gone to join in the ordi-
nation of a Congregational minister, n
Methodist or Episcopal bishop! Why
should Massachusetts officials attend n
sectarian and dangerous rite, OminOus to
freedom and peace! Do rot our Demo-
cratic lcadrrs know that the cardinals
and priests whom they have assisted TO
consecrlte are stirring up war in Ger
many, France, Italy, Austria, and that the
papacy has always been the bitter foe
and prosecutor of popular progress and
human freedom? \ pope annulled the
Magma Chrata. the foundation of English
liberty. The papacy destroyed AIbig-
enses, Wyc!iifi;es, Hussites, Huguenots,
and Lutherans, the author Of modern
progress. Popes ravaged Germany two
hundred years ago, and Jesuits covered
the Netherlands with horror. HugGe-
nots, HoIlanderS aud Irish Protestants
He'd from the papal murderers to settle
the New World. The papal party in
France strove to prevent Lafayette and
the liberal French from lending aid to
our ancestors, and all Catholic Ireland
praved for our destruction The priests
excited the horrors of the French RevO-
luton by a fanatical and unyielding big
otry. The Pope and the Jesuits flour
islled amidst the reactiOnary days of the
Holy Alliance. In every Spanish State
in America the hand of the papacy has
been raised against popular progress. But
the other day it declared invalid the
laws of Guatemala and Brazil, as it has
done those OF Prussia Already the Jes-