Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-03-20

les, Republics he curses, no matter who
ire in power.
1t has been part of the policy of Rome
in all ages to support the crown. The
Church and State went hand in hand in
deceiying and depressing the people. The |
priest and the prince went hand and glove |
with each other The prince protected |
the priest, and the priest aided and abetted
the prince.
No wonder then that they played into
each others hands. The priest said, ''The
powers that be are of God" however
bloody and abominable the tyrant might
be. And the tyrant, on the other hand,
gave privileges to the priests that they
might effectually serve him.
Among all other devices of the dark age
of oppression, that of the confessional
was the darkest and most abominable.
Here is a little kingdom with Roman
king, and an established church. They
have all things their own way. The peo-
pie had no rights which a prince or a
priest was bound to respect, The king
was a soldier, whose hours of peace were
spent in drunkenness and debauehery.
Civil affairs were in the hands of the
priests alone.
But no community could be crushed to
death without some discontented spirits
perceiving the wrong, apd exciting their
fellows to resistance. And how to detect
and prevent these outbreaks was stand
ing question for the king and the priest.
ffI have it! Eureka! have found it!''
said a cunning Jesuit, And he laid his
plan before the priest. sour priests can
do this thing nicely, safely, and our gov
ernment shall be secured forever. They
shall thus learn the secrets of every fami-
Iy. Conspiracy cannot whisper breath
but it shall come to us. We will tell it to
you, and you can nip it in the bud!''
SIT is good, y said the King. "But will
the people do soP viii they tell you their
secret thoughts? If they will, we have
nothing to fear forever
s'They will :" said the priest. tFWe will
persuade them that if they only tell US
these things, we can forgive them. We
viii make clean sweep of it, because we
will say that if they do not tell all, they
cannot be forgiven at Rllr'
g 'Tis well!'' said the King. "But in
regard to consp1racies against me, know
ing that you are my friend, will they not
fear that yOu will tell me, and so defeat
their plans?''
''Oh, 1 have thought of that" said the
PriestI 'sWe will teach them that this
confession is a secret, not to be told, ex-
cept to Heaven! We will persuade them
=, n ooo xr,i1I 1,yo die
close these secrets to you, or your Off
GERS"
sfAnd mind, you will confirm this idea
and order all your courts and judges tC
respect the priest, and not call on him tt
tell what he has heard in that way. In NJ
public court must we be compelled to dis
close the secrets of the confessional.
would break the charm and shake the con
fidenee of the people. We should hear NJ
more, and could serve you no longer!''
The King agreed, and the confessional
became a fixed fact. But it made tn
priest the master of both the people ant
) the king. They heard all. And they toll
just what suited themselves. The kin;
was hoisted with his own petard. Th
people ruined and enslaved by their owl
credulity. The priest knew all and gov
erned ALL
In the great Republic we have no nee
of this secret spy system, and it shoul
have no countenance among us. It ha
but one effect here, and that is to smothe
and encourage crime.
If Protestant commits a great crime
it rests on his mind, on his conscience
He broods over it. He cannot rest. b
some word or sign, or change in his man
ner, the truth is revealed, and the crime
punished.
But with Romanist it is different Fl
, has his confessor to speak to-. He tells hi
story, he relieves his conscience. He doe
some penance, or pays price, and is at
solved He is at ease. Another know
his dark secret. When he feels heartsic
he can speak to that one again and again
And thus his mind acquires ease and res
and his crime goes under cover.
And our laws are baffied. We call o
. the priest, or we have a coroner's jur
over the dead body, to inquire who was tn
assassin. The priest who heard that cor
fession stands by, and says not wore
He knows it all. Summon him as a wi
ness and he is dumb. He says he know
nothing, though the whole dark, diabol
. cal murder has been told to him.
j And our law does not open his moutl
1t does not say to him as it should. eth
- object of law is to reveal, and not
smother crime. 1t will not permit an
: man to be repository of criminal secret
i Outside of crime keep what you will. Bt
when criminal knowledge comes to yol
it must be revealed, or you will be hel
guilty as an accessory after the fact.
We can not allow this advantage to tt
, criminal of funburthening his conscient
to the priest. 1t encourages crime.
" obstructs the proper and healthy operatio
of the law. The Republic does not wal
: the priests advantage, and it will NJ
grant the tyrant's immunity .-Erchaag
II
d In the current number of the Medic
g Record, DR.. Hammond says that whe
you poke the end of your finger in yol
+ ear, the roaring noise you hear is tt
IS sound of the circulation of your finger
which is fact, as any one can demo
: strate for himself by first putting his fl
= ger in his ears and then stopping the
e up with any other substance. Try
e and think what wonder of machir
your body is, that even the points of yol
st fingers are such busy workshops tn
e they roar like small Niagara. The roa
II ing is nothing more than the circulatio
e of the blood. 1t is the voice of all tn
l. vital process tegether-the tearing dow
and building up-processes that are a
ways going forward in every living bod
from conception to DEATH
-, The Chicago Tribune pretends to thir
" tn at hereafter JEFF. Davis will be +