The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-05-21

peace-maker. But from the unhappy
Pope to the obscurest Jesuit the Who'll,
power of the papacy is employed in ex
citing the evil passions of men, and urg
ing on European war. The Pope
does not attempt to hide his rage. His
enemies, or rather his oponents, are
"vipers or hell-born miscreants, devils;'
he covers them with his maledictions.
involes upon them the judgments of
Heaven; an inundation or an earth.
quake he thinks proper chastisement
for them, and in the midst of profuse
profession of piety and devotion, clam
ors for his revenge in Europe and
America His bishops and his people
repeat bis language and swell with his
rigging passions. In Belgium they men,
ace Germany, in France they threaten
Italy, in Spain they close universities
and schools, in America they assail pub
lie instruction, and awaken a furious
discord in the heart of the republic that
has given them shelter. The whole
Jesuitical faction among us, unconscious
Of the rare privileges of freedom it
does not merit, employs its various abil-
tiles in complaints and denunciations of
the government under which it has
sought refuge, and, having been ex-
PEELED from nearly all other free coun-
tries. now plots the ruin of the land
where it has found home.
The papal priest is every where the
harbinger of public disturbances or pri-
vate crimes, and the whole busy hierar-
chy of cardinals, archbishops, bishops,
and metropolitans, clad in crimson gar
ments and covered with the painful
memories of centuries of spiritual tyran-
ny, seems as destructive to the welfare
of mankind as general pestilence or
famine, In Brazil they defy the laws
and invoke insurrection, in Mexico they
and rebel, in Ohio they threat
en- and overawe the obedient Democracy,
and lin New York corrupt the public
in Europe this unhappy sect
a general armament, and sum
mons mankind to war. 1t must evident
y become a question for Europeans to
determine how they can best repress the
'ancorous spirit of their priests, and
low convert the papacy into an agency
If peace. Except, indeed, the religious
me, and that absolute rule which the
Pope insists upon imposing on the ma
ions, there is no other point of contro-
-ersy that might not be determined
eadily by general congress and a pub
ic treaty and with the absence of the in
'itements to discord given by the army
# cardinals and prelates, there appears
10 reason why the European powers
night not dismiss their standing armies :
0 the pruning and the plow.
here seems, indeed, a strong tendency !
oward this pacific feeling in the liberal
arties of France, England and Germa-
y; it pervades naturally all the labor {
lg classes; and as the people grow in
ower and unity throughout Europe, it
) not wholly utopian to hope that con-
ederation of nations may succeed that
narchy of States which is now liable to
'e thrown into fierce commissions by
riests and politicians, and that the peo-
lie will at last putan end to the terrors of
'ar. Yet, unhappily, SO important is
he crisis, one more violent appeal from
be Vatican may cover Europe with
loodshed, and the intrigues of the Jes-
its in feeble Belgium are sufficient to
tartle mankind with the omens of uni
ersal discord. Our own country is the
My one that is as yet almost beyond
he power Of the papal malice; here the
PRIESTHOOD can not as yet stir up the
lanes of civil strife; here they havenot
been able to rule in our poll
les or govern the opinions of our peo-
lie. Our example for the past six years
# Republican administration has been
me of sincere and resolute pursuit of
'eace, and the European governments
nd people may learn from our practice
low to abandon their standing armies
nd reduce their navies to an inconsid-
rable force. 1t is, indeed, the highest
raise of our Republican administration
hat at the close of violent internal
trife it at once disbanded its vast armies,
laced all its trust in the free support
{ the people, and found every where,
kept in a few distured districts, a swift
eturn to good order and peace. 1t has
teadily shrunk with horror from every
of war. Political Romanism
nd Democratic politicians have labored
0 bring as into conflict with neighbor-
ng nations, but the will of the Republi-
an majorities has commanded peace;
nd under this policy during the six
ears of Republican rule our country
las hourished as it has never done
'efore. Its imports and exports have
increased within six years from $780,
$1,000 TO 81, 200, 900, 900; the popula-
ion of the free North has grown with
apid strides; the nation is throwing off