The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-17
OUR WASHll,,, LITTER.
,AueuT PARsON NEwmAN's ATTACK
,0s THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

auorrT PARsON NEwMAN's ArTACl
ON THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
a rrouer s,ox,,~~ UP Of the Methods
Church Worth.
Especial Correspondence OF tho N. " Ds"oo. rS
WARRINGTON, June - lon.
Brother Newman does not rest easy mt. : "
late withdrawaloi the official worship Of ths Al
ninistration from his sanctuary, but his heart
full Of sll manner Of spite and iii will towsfd biz
fellow men, not TO speak OF the evident plethora
OF bile In his evangelical liver / had hoped thai
Brother Newman would .subside; for that fell
called upon TO repel his constant incursions out
Of HE pulpit into current politics, and the task
wAsin no wise agreeable TO me. But our Brother
Newman
WILL NOT DOWN.
This week he Frances to the front as Of yore, and
ifeshes his lance anew for this hundredth time In
the quiverng bosom Of the Pope's Toe, 30 to
speak, utteriug the while his widest whoop
lin the columns OF the National Republican. The
immediate pretext upon which our Brother New
smAn has this time seized isa sermon delivered
recently by the Rev. Father White, in which q
former attack OF our Brother Newman upon he
aforesaid Zoe was met and combatted.
Let me say here that exceedingly regret this
unseemly action Of our Brother Newmar1f because
10 forces me 10 temporarily suspend the bylaws
OF promise recently made TO some very dear
friends who worship at the Metropolitan Church,
that l would let him alone. Nothing but bis
reckless and totally gratuitious rush into print
nnnld have itnpelled me to TINS anapend the by
laws OF promise. OF course the burden OF
Brother Newman's discourse is what he calls
the "poliucal pretensions of
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
But let nae quote him absolutely
against the Roman Catholic Church. as q re-
iigious body, have not word to say, but against
Che political pretensions Of those within that
church most solemnly protest"
Now, lot us suppose that the late Claude Duval
had written letter containing the following:
against the Hon. Jack Sheppard as gentle
against his pretensions to the character OF foot
pad most solemnly protest."
In this illustration must not be understood To
lay the Roman Catholic Church, as rebuked,
upon the same par with Jack Sheppard, as / am
compelled, for the sake Of being graphic. TO lay
Brother Newman with Claude Duval In his char
acter of censor. Politico-relgionism 10 4 vice by
no means unknown TO the Catholic Church. On
the other hand. IT has been temporal agency
for ten centuries and to-day, with pillows OF
blood upon It's head and mountains Of cruel his
tory piled around 1t, is atil struggling rs Of old
to make its priests princes and princes its priests.
For this IL IL suffering. The colossal power OF
Germany has bsen bulded almost solely upon
the protest OF thinking men against the cant of
priests In politics. and, In the utter ferosness OF
resentment and reaction, that nation has we'll nigh
repudiated God along with those who have mis-
represented Him upon earth so long, until the
Black Eagles OF Prussia have become the
~ EMBLEMs OF aoDLsssNEss
and her Krupp cannon the most dreadful preach
era OF atheism. 1t has come to DO m indisputa.
Ole truism, that as human thought advances and
The enlightenment Of mankind is enhanced
Church and state become disAssocIated in the
minds of men, and the line Of demarcation be-
tween the spiritual and the temporal grows 10
'deHniteness. Time was when the Pope was an
arbiter Of the temporal destinies OF nations. At
his beck armies moved, clouds Of cavalry rose
upon the horizon and through them flashed the
red lightning Of artillery, while empires shook in
thunderstorms OF fanatcism, whose raindrops
were blood and tears. Such has been the di small
history of politioo-religionism
IN THE OLD WORLD
Times may not have changed altogether for
the better at this day; but certain 1t is that the
headsman's axe Is no longer red every morning
in London Tower. and there are no massacre o.
now In In Vendee to curdle the veins Of centuries
Wherever In Europe the Pope's temporal power |
has waned law, order aud the material fellow. |
ships OF men have grown, and fanaticism, inter- |
neciHe strife and holy blood-letting generally |
have vanished. 60 far Brother Newman and | |
will agree cordially, and, 80 far as am conc rn-
ed, oonsoientiously. But there is an eternal ft- |
ness of things which is most poorly subserved;
nay, which is most Aagrantly and
FLAoITIousLY OUTRAGED,
when an apostle OF the North Methodism that
up for censor Of any of the devilment that any
religious intrusion Into politics has wrought any
where. More particularly is the fitness OF things
outraged when the selfappointed censor hap
pens, as in this instance, to be one OF the fore
most howlers Of partisan gospelry, and one of
The most inveterate practitioners of religio-po-
liticsl officeholding and emolument-grabbiDg.
True, the political gospelry OF the North Metho-
dist Church In this country has not been promo
1--we OF bloodlettting, stake. burning, or other
CORPORAL 1NFLIcT1oNs,
but that immunity has been due to the spirit
of the age rather than to the moderation oil the
nilitants. 1t is not at all doubted by me that
simpson. who. living in tho nineteenth century,
must content himself with preaching hatred
against the South and the divine right of Yam
zeedom to rob the rest of the conn,rv had ha |
ived in the time OF the Tudors, would have been
confessor Of Bloody Mary. In our age, however,
md in this country, 1t was not consonant with
events. or with the possibilities OF public SEMI
nentt that the preachers Of politeo-religious cru
'ades should seek the lives of heretics; but be-
ween the natural impulses of &
NEW ENGLAND THRIFT,
md the artificialy engendered tastes of specu-
alive era, the orthodox faith became fixed
lankering after the here les pocketbook TINS