The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-09-03
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employ nay pen in opposition TO Ro
man Catholicism. yet. If / can exert III
influence, nO matter how limited, upoI
this question, the appellations which
Iuay receive Oh account of such infiu
enc", shall H. regarded by me as OF lii
tie consequences If. however. ;iFtel
having fired, a. shall do la this article
into t!ie 7sck am informed 10y any one
a. to who the parties arr that liutter and
give. vent to their anguish in the expires
sion he has turned politician" fe, ling
warranted Of a direct aim. shall. at
once examine my quiver, if perchance
have II single political arrow with which
+" 'i"i-i ~" work Of deadening the spir
If whirI, would pander to the interests
Of Cathulicity and thus jeopardize our
free institutions for the mere hope of
party predOminance. Others, solicitous it
may be, Will say that | am in the wrong
| position to speak openly upon this ques-
ton. While | am always glad Of friend
ly solicitude, yet if it is true, that | am
i'll the wrong position to do my duty to
my fellow man, to my country and to
God, | think the sooner | am expert
mentally informed of that fact, the bet
ter it will be for me; for If / should al
low my lounge to bc bridled and my pen
suppressed 10y the consideration Of
1'"sitiDn, | should uniappily find my
self clicrishing that spirit Of slavish sub
mission, which, as n protestant, ! feign
to condemn i'll the Roman church. 1 am
an earnest lover of my country, and
wleneve she is attacked feel like raj
lying to the standard with whatever
weapon | can successfully use, and if
tliat Is my pen, | shall mole than ever,
thank God that | ever learned to write.
Whenever my country is injured I am
hurt. Whenever Catholics ask for po-
litical power, | am requested TO sacrifice
my personal freedom. Whenever they
demand control Of the public schools, 1
am commanded to become II willing IN
instrument in the wholesale destruction
OF our free Institutions These things
are true from the actual antagonism ex-
isting between the spirit of Republican
ism and that of RnInanism, hence I and
every other citizen must be entitled to ii
response to these requests and demands.
Ii is owing to the silence OF Protestants
that this giant Pope, which Bunyan, in
his day, represented as being so disabled
that he could do little else than sit in the
mouth of his cave, grinning at the pill
grims us they pass, has been enabled to
come forth again and place his snare
across their pathway. When Catholic
leaders succeed in keeping the people
totally ignorant of their own God given
liberties as individual men and woman,
then they have prepared the hot-bed
from which we may confidently expect
the richest harvest and most delicious
fruits of Roman Catholfcism-exceSSi
credulity, ignorance and superstition.
When these blind leaders of the blind |
get their followers to understand how
that all the liberties which it is lawful to
enjoy, have their origin in the kind con
drscension Of the priesthood, they have
made comparatively easy their tyranni- |
cal control OF their subjects. The Bish- !
of Cleveland says TO his people: "When |
a difference of opinion arises, the priest |
must be Obeyed, until the matter in dis |
putc can be referred to the bishop, |
whose decision is iinal;' thus putting |
quirtus upon even IL wholesome cumpar-
ison of views, which must he acknowI- |
edged to he the master wheel la the |
machinery 10y which humanity advan
ees. The priest of this place, only
short time ago, said to his congregation
that the Professionals have not the grnu-
inc Bible, hut that the Catholics have
the only reliable Word of God, and IL
lustrated the folly Of giving the Word
that of giving the little child the knife
and fork with which to eat IL we all
agree, as we certainly must, that reason
was given us by God, why is it that we
do not all agree that accursed should he
the human devices which seek to de
prive men of its usel There can be but
one answer TO this question, viz: Some
men, like Esau, are willing to sell their
birtlIright for a mess of POttage. This /
country is drifting toward anarchy at
the alarming rate at which it is gliding |
into the hands of Roman Catholics, and |
certainly, any man or set Of men who |
are willing to nerve the arm that now .
raises to plunge the dagger inio the
heart Of the nation, are assuming IA fear
full responsibility, and "a responsibility
which time will not enable them to
meet.
If you see fit to publish this article, | !
Imay write again. JOHN roE