The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19

The Marquis de Lafayette, the true
and tried friend of our nation, once
gave expression to a sentiment which
deserves to be needed by the Ameri-
can people. 1t is as follows: "Amer-
lean liberty can be destroyed only by
the Popish clergy"
The Papal Church declares that the ter
ritory we occupy, having been discov-
cred by one of its members, belongs to
it and its lord, the Pope. It declares
that Protestants have invaded its ter
ritory, but that il has never relin-
quished it's claims, and will yet try to
make them good.
Many Protestants think that they
ought to regard Papists as belonging to
one of the many fraternal Christian
sects. But in this stretch of their
liberality they do not seem to recog-
nize the fact that the Papists refuse to
acknowledge Professionals, as in any
sense Christians. They are unwilling
to be put on level with them. They
have no part or lot with them. They
regard them as sons of Belial and
children of perdition without God or
hope.
y IT is matter of absolute certainty,
resting upon indubitable evidence,
that on every Thursday of Passion
Week annually, according to the Bull
"Inc9na Donaini," our Protestant
President and all our Protestant magis-
trates, Governors, and every Protes-
tant member of our city corporations
are publicly, formally and solemnly
communicated, cursed and sent to
perdition in every Romish chapel in
the United States. But all this terri
BILE curse is pronounced in Lntias, and
hence is not understood by the great
mass of the hearers. 1t ought to be
understood thoroughly by every Amer
lean citizen who has been taught to
read that the so called Church repre-
sented by Cardinal Gibbons abhors and
nauseates every form of government
that favors the liberties of the people.
It has an unconquerable horror of a
republic. With it the liberty of the
press is insupportable licentiousness.
Hence no Romish priest can be a re-
publican at heart. The moral atmos-
phere Of Rome-worse than its own
malaria-breathes death to all liberty
civil and religious. The priests and
bishops and cardinals are the vassals
of that foreign, naughty and turbu-
lent despot, the Pope, whose court has
kept all Europe in confusion, and has
involved all its nationalities in rapine
and desolation for upwards of twelve
hundred years.
A volume from the pen of Count
Joseph De Maistre, and entitled "The
Pope" and purchased by myself in a
Papal book store, contains many SEN
timents which may startle somewhat
the so-called liberal Protestants who
are occasionally inclined to regard the
the subjects of the Pope with sys-
tematic and fraternal feeling. He
says:
"The rebels Cthat is, the reformers)
of the sixteenth century attributed
sovereignty to the Church-mesning
the people. The eighteenth century
did only transfer these maxims to poll
tics. The system and the theory are
the same, even to their remotest con-
sequence"
"The government. of the Church
(the PapaD must be naonarchical, and
if monarchical, as it certainly and in
vincibly is, what authority shall re-
ceive an appeal from its decision ?"
"Without the sovereign Pontif1
there is no real Christianity. Chris
tianity is wholly based upon the
sovereign Pontiff, and without the
sovereign Pontiff the whole edific ol
Christianity is undermined.
"The will of man goes for nothing
in the establishment of the govern
ment."
1.-THE sovereign Pontiff in absolvine
subjects from their oath of fidelity
would do nothing contrary to divine
right"
"Would to God the faithful were al
as we'll persuaded as the infidels of the
truth of this great maxim, that TIT
Church and the Pope are all one.'"
1.-THE opposition Of the foolish asser