The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-10-07
from the New York Observer
Political, Not Religious.

The representative in Spain of the Pope o
Rome, has made known the will of his maste
as TO the relations of the State to religion il
| formative condition, and the policy of the gov
ernment is not well defined, it is favorable op
portun1ty to learn the precise views of the Vat
| lean, in regard to the great question of the age
religious liberty. We have them now distinct
| ly defined: and they of use to us in our bat
| tie for liberty in the United States.
| What the RomiSh Church demands in SpaiI
silence, where, as in the United states, it wouic
| be folly and madness to proclaim the real prin
| Spain it would enforce in this country if it hat
| the chance, and we will take particular pains
| TO see that it does not.
The Pope demands of the new government IL
Spain that it shall prohibit the exercise of any
religion in the kingdom but that of the Roman
| Catholic: that the education of children shall
| be committed to the care of the Roman Catho
| lie priesthood: and that the government shall
suppress by law and its penalties all heretical
Mi Gnat Is Protestant, instruction and literature
Ihese demands have been officially made, and
piled with, the Church will give its aid in fa-
Xor OF the Carlists, who will then be far more
fonso out of his seat. To us, it is of very little
Importance who is the nominal king of Spain.
heHolQton will follow revolution there,so long
as that dense Ignorance and the Roman Catho-
llc religion prevail. But it is of infinite impor-
lance, to the people OF the United States, that
Ine true ends and aims of a political inStitu-
tion, known to the world by the deceptive
name of Church, should be distinctly under
stood, that we may see what is to be the effect
OF that political institution when established
among us.
The Church of Rome is political institution:
1t claims to be above the State, and it demands
that the State shall be administered for the ben
eht of the Church. -.r
In the official declaration Just made to the
government in Spain, the Nuncio asserts three
by the government is the price at which the
favor of the Church is to be purchased.
the Papal g.
2. The control of public schools by the priests
of The Papal Church.
3. The suppression by force of all Protestant
literature and instruction.
These requsitions imply the revival of all
the machinery of the dark ages, the re-estab-
lishment of the Inqufsition, and the extirpa-
tion of Protestants by fire and sword. The
ton were held has been in later times convert
ed to commercial uses, and when we stood in
'front.' OF 1t in 1867, we saw comforting sign over
the front door Insurance against Fire" That
sign will come down. if the building should be
restored to its former tenants, and the work of
converting Protestants should be resumed in
It's cellars and chambers.
We point, without hesitation, TO the recent
outrage in Canada, where the government of
Great Britain is openly deffed, contemned, and
as yet successfully resisted by q few priests who
are determined to deprive a British subject of
the rights of sepulture in his own burial lot
we point to the recent outrages in Central Ann
erica, and III, South America and in Mexico; we
point to the recent attempts of the Roman
Catholic bishop and priests in New Jersey to
prevent the adoption OF Salutary amendment
OF the Constitution, we point to these events a5
evidence that the Romish Church is mora po-
utical than religious; that it claims the right to
interfere with and to control the action Of the
people in their secular affairs and that it is the
same in spirit and purpose now that it was in
the days of So-called darkness; the same in
New Jersey that it is in Madrid or Montreal;
and that it is as manitestly the duly of the
American people to be united in resisting its
interference with our institutions, as it was one
hundred years ago tor our ancestors to combine
IN resisting the obnoxious government of Great
Britain.
We have just seen what can be done by the
union OF patriotic, intelligent men in New Jer-
sey. No State IN the Union is more evenly di-
Ylded between the two great political parties
Elections are always uncertain in their results
and are never determined by very large major
tiles At one time the Presidential electoral
ticket was actually divided by the voters, SO
that some of one and some of the other party
We're chosen to cast the vote of the State for
the Romish priests were instructing their peo-
Constitution il regard to sectarian appropria-
lions, the American people, the inter- GENT pat
riotic Protestant multitudes, of bun political
parties, without distinction of name or sect,
rose IN righteous Indignation and, with the spi-
Tlt of Jersey Blues, gave majority of more
than AZ 600 in favorof the provision that forbids
any Sectarian institution to get the peoples
money. We shall be glad to learn how many
votes were given on the other side. But we al
ready know enough to assure US that the people
OF this country are not so welded to party poli<
ties as to be the slaves of Romish priests. And,
although for a time we may be obliged to sub
nit to the modification of seeing men elected
to office who are mere tools of the priests, yet
the tSober second thought of the people will
save US from the fate of Spain.