The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-12-16
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terferance by any sectarian movement: that the
church and state shall remain forever free ana
independent, and that to all citizens OF the
United States, by whatever name known, shau
be accorded all rights, civil and religious, pro
pidcd they obey the letter and spirit Of the A1se
and support the gouernment made by TIE peopae
Gen. Daniel Ullman submitted proposed
amendments to the constitution of the United
States, and Of the several States, in accordance
with the spirit of the above, which were
adopted. na1 D 1917 t1.5 .s.ats rsjtlt4
Mark that significant proposition, "all
citizens = '*s5aQs5fe" shall
be accorded all rights, civil land religious,
provided they obey the letter and the sPIR
II of the law." But if they don't obey
the ''spirit Of the law" they shall not be
accorded civil and religious rights
And who are to determine what the
.'spiritof the law is? Why, Generals
Negley and Ullman, and the rest Of the
Know Nothing pack. And if they con-
clude that the Catholics are not living
up to the sspirit Of the law" then they
propose 10 deprive them of their civil
and religious rights, to-wit,: the right
to vote, to worship God according to the
dictates of their own conscience, &c.
And what better way to do this than to
burn their churches as they did in the
old time?
| And this ,pronunciamento of the
IlUnicn League of America comes, Is
will be observed, right on the heels CT
1.-The Presidents message. The war is to
commence on this platform. Fdn1. titA
| Ii it were fact that the Catholic
church was everywhere advancing to
|conquests and dominion if it was sub
verting dynas,ics and overthrowing ma
tions, as in ,he olden time, such an or
ganized crusade against it as Grant pro-
poses to in ugura.e, might be justitllble-
But how ever great may be its hold up
on the cpnscicnces of its followers, it has
ceased to be political power. Its es-
ltates have been confiscated in nearly
l;every Catholic nation OF Europe; IN
IIGermany, France, Spain and Italy its
Influence is being sapped and under'
mined by an almost universe: unbelief;
one Of its archblshops was shot the other
day by the populace Of Paris several Of
them are now in Prussian prisons; the
ljPope himself has been deprived OF his
temporal power, and his kingdom re-
duced to a palace, so that he has to-day
little more authority in Rome than
Bishop Whipple has in Faribault. The
church as moral agent, working through
moral instrumcntalities for the saving Of
souls, the conservation of virtue and the
A incubation of tenn Derance, remains q
mighty power; and every just man even
though he might believe its dogmas to
be absnrtiities, would regret to see such
gigantic moral teacher driven out Of
society; and all its splendid institutions
of charity, its hospitals, orphan asy-
llums, and Magdalen relormatories, with
their attendant Sisters of Charity
wiped out Of existence.
/ Blu. here in America, where six
sevenths Of the people are nom Catholic,
and where, outside of few cities and
western settlements peopled by emil
grants, they are politically powerless, the
: horrible phantom OF papal supremacy -
called up by the chief magistrate Of the
nation, and under the cover Of this theo-
logical bug-a-boo, he proposes to stalk
into the Presidential Office for third
term.
We clip from the Pioneer-Press the
: following standing advertisement:
DIVORCES LEGALLY OBTAiFED
for incompatibility, ETC.; residence unnecessa-
! ~: fee after decree. Address r. o. Box 1887,
|. Chicago, Iii.
This country has more TO fear from
that kind OF thing than it has from the
Pope. divorces obtained for incom-
. . pafibility. etc. That s.etc." covers ev-
! erything. Residence unnecessary"
That IS to say, citizen Of St. Paul Or
Crow Wing who has tired Of his wife. or
fancies younger or more buxom lass,
can, without leaving home, for an
I "etc. !" cause, obtain q divorce, without
. notice to ilis wife, and turn the partner
of his bosom out OF doors, perhaps onto
the town, to make living by adding to
, the maelstrom of vice which threatens
to swallow society. Surely any belief
as to the next world which preserves
! virtue and morality in this world, is bot
ter than this worship OF the god Prapus
which is now taking possession Of the
world. and turning society into pro-
longed Roman Saturnalia And any
friend Of his country and his kind
would cry God speed to all the churches
, Of the land that are working together
for good, and seek to unite them n :
: liveIier sense Of Christian brotherhood,
as Moody and Sankey, and other mcm-
bers Of the 4Broad Church" are doing
to-day, instead Of reviving the passions,
hatreds and bigotries Of by-gons ago.
: But alasl in The armory Of tyrants -
ligion has always been the readiest and
! most formidable weapon; and il may -
that the history Of America il to fnrnish
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