San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-31

majority in this country religious
| freedom Is at an end.
January 1854, DR.. G. A. Brownson
in Catholic Review said Protestants
of every form has not and never
can have any right when Catholicy
is triumphant.
l can give Mr.. Wahrenberger
some 10000 quotations with proof
that they are authentic, such as
1--WE hold the state to be only an
inferior court receiving its author
ity from the church and liable to
have its DEGREES reversed on
appeal"
Brownson's Essays, page 2S2:
In case Of conflicting laws between
the two powers, the laws Of the
church must prevail over the state.
Pope's Syllabus of 1864: We do
not accept this government or hold
it TO be any goVernmentata all, or as
capable of performing any of the
functions of government. If the
American government is to be sus-
tanned and be preserved at all it
must be by the rejection of the
principles of the reformation,
Chat is the government by the
| people, and the acceptance of the
Catholic principle, which is the
government of the pope. -Catholic
World, September 1871.
Now say with
$4,000 A. p. AS in New York,
100000 A. P. AS in Ohio,
100000 A. p. AIS in Pennsylvania,
100000 A. P. AS in Indiana,
$4,000 A. p. AS in Illinois,
2S5,000 A. p. AS in Michigan,
$4,000 A. p. AIS in Kentucky,
10000 A. P. AS in Wisconsin,
100000 A. p. AS in Iowa,
$4,000 A. P. AS on Pacific coast,
100000 A. P. A. in the south and
southwestern states,
| 100000 A. p. AS other states,
do not believe as these au-
thorities do and propose to vote as
/ please, one vote honestly
counted it will be, too.
| If the Catholic church does gain
the ascendancy, then, according to
Brownson, heresy and infidelity
will be declared to have no rights,
| according to the church no person
car be married except by priest),
then, according to Archbishop
! Kendrick, Professionalism will be de-
clared crime, and punished as
such. Then, according to Arch
bishop st. Louis, religious liberty
will be no longer endured. Then,
according to Hecker, the Catholic
church will be compelled to take
the country and keep it.
This is an hour of crisis and this
a day of destiny, union or separa-
ton, freedom or slavery, fortu ne or
| contiscatior, cooperation, or the
inquisition, one or the other is in
evitable. A few more years and
the die will be cast-the decision
irreversible. In this critical year
every citizen should vote to put
none but Americans on guard.
l am glad that my friend has in
formed me no good Catholic can
be an Odd Fellow, Mason or X. p.
as in one of the three lodges
l belong. In the above
named, we have some good men
who attend faithfully to their vows
as far as we as body know and
still claim to be Catholics. To the
best OF my knowledge they are
good, faithful, conscientious men
and we would be glad to welcome
more OF them.
Now, Mr.. O'Callaghan, by villify-
ing US and producing no proof to
sustain your villitication, you only
strengthen US in our position. Prob
ably had You read the article l re-
ierred you to from the pen Of the
greatest law maker who ever lived
you might think as do. 1t is hard
for people to get hold OF all articles
such as Demo Theology and Black
stone, so for the benefit of those
who cannot, l give in full word for
word, Blackstone's commentaries,
Vol. ,, Book 4, Chapter 4:
"If once they (the papists) could
be brought to renounce the suprem-
acy of the pope, they might quietly
enjoy their seven sacraments,
their purgatory and auricular con-
LESSONS, their worship of images
and idols, nay. even their transub-
sanitation. But while they &C
knowledge foreign power superior
to the sovereignty Of the state they
cannot complain II the laws OF that
state will not treat them upon the
footing of good subjects"
That is the opinion Of the &C
knowledged master of all law. He
is the father OF all jurisprudence in
all Anglo-Saxon countries. He is
the rock upon which all our con-