The Portland daily press., 1895-10-18
DR.. WHITAKER ON "AMERIcANlsM.'
Large Audience Listened to Him at City
the American Protective Association.

At City Hall last evening, Rev. N. L.
Whitaker, formerly the popular pastor of
the Chestnut street church in this city,
delivered his lecture upon American
ism.'' A large audience was present,
nearly every seat on the ground floor be-
ing filed On the platform with DR..
Whitaker were Liberty B. bennett, ESQ.,.
Rev. E. p Woodward and Rev. Francis
Southworth.
At the beginning of his lecture DIR.
Whitaker described in detail the tremen-
dous dimensions and resources in every
respect of this country and it's people
and its Christianity.
He then said that gigantic evils, all
having their tap-root in political Rom
anism imperil this country today. He
referred to the history of komanism and
Professionalism in this country. He then
referred to public statement by Bishop
Healy in this city some years ago, that
Catholics welcomed any investigation OF
| their history. He declared that all Catho-
| lies were loyal in the Revolutionary
times, and paid a glowing tribute to
Catholic patriotism in the Rebellion.
| If the Roman Catholics church was in
| sympathy with the suppression of the
great rebellion, why did Pope Plus TX
recognize the Confederacy, and why did
the Roman hierarchy organize an expe-
dition in Mexico to aid the cause of the
Confederacy?
Mr.. Whitaker quoted statistics to show
that of desertions from the Union army
during the rebellion, 70 per cent were
Irish, 16 per cent German, 5 per cent
American, and per cent all the rest.
The Irish furnished percent of the en-
listments ands72 per cent of the desertions
from the Union army during the rebel
lion.
When Bishop Healy said that Catholics
welcomed Investigation of their history
in this country, he made aimistake. The
records of history so serious blemises.
There is no doubt that the Romish
church intends to dominate in this
country. That is openly declared by
Romanists.
At the time Of the great parade OF the
knights in Boston sort time ago, a
prominent Catholic prelate said, "That
parade has set back for 40 years our SUI
premacy in this country. /" The speaker
spoke at length of the avowed purpose
of the Catholics to take part as a church
in politics and to hold the balance of
mower. He'meDtioned in detail various
evidences of the political Epower and am
bition of the church and declared that
the organization of the American Pro
tective Association was necessary to
counteract this Catholic purpose to domi-
nate politically.
Archbishop Ireland has declared that
it is the object and purpose of the
church to conquer this country for
Catholicism In this event what becomes
of our civil and religious. liberties.
At the first of this century Lafayette
made the statement several times that
if the civil liberties of this country are
ever disturbed it will be done by the
subtlety of the Catholic priests, for they
are the most crafty and dangerous enc
mics of civil liberties
The present Pope has made statement
that when the Pope deems civil law in
furious to the Roman Catholic church il
is then a duty of Catholic citizens in
this country to resist that law and s
crime to obey it.
DR.. Whitaker devoted the late part Of
his lecture to the value of the public
schools and the danger of the parochia
schools to our civil and religious liber
ties