The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-05-13
THE ITALIAN POPE'S LAW
WHICH ANNULS AMER
ICAN LAW.
"a Catholic Layman,'' i'm the
Macon, Georgia, Telegraph.
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e2g1 0uthO17ty and o. foreign SYSTEM of L1aOS
Ii the Baptist Church to which [ have be-
!onged since the age of fourteen, were violat-
ing the laws of this State, as the Catholics of
the Brown-Boifeuillet type are doing, [ would
combat it, as earnestly as [ now combat z0aO-
less, political Romaa9a5sma.
Ii the Baptist Church had it's hands in the
State treasury, draooireg out funds to support
my oo07o alma mater, Mercer University, I
would denounce the violation of our Constitu-
ton, as emphatlcally as [ denounce the Cath
ollc priests of Savannah and Augusta. for
d70aoang State money to finance the P0peS
Sect01ad7o SCHOOLS.
It isn't the freedom of Catholic worship that
| am fighting.
No. Not an act, or word Of mine can be
SO construed.
What [ am fighting is, foreign hierarchy
E that Is n0o0 beginning to reveal its political
anti-American, and anti-democratic nature;
and whose fundamental laws are irreconcil-
ably antagonistic to the fundamental laws of
this Republic which our heroic forefathers
cemented, and consecrated, with their precious
blood.
Let not American Catholics, or American
non Catholics, underrate the terrible mean
ing Of this deadly antagonism between the
Law of Rome and the Law of the Republic.
Our Constitution stands for everything that
Romanism declares to be "damnable heresy."
Romanism stands for everything that was
combated and overthrow by John Calvin,
John Knox, Martin Luther, William of
Orange, John Hampden, Oliver Cromwell,
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson. John
Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Patrick
Henry.
The papal curse which pope launched
against the Great Charter of our liberties,
qcas required Of HIM By the fundamental Laa0
Of Rome.
The same Law of the papacy denounces
our American liberties, as danaoabze here8ies
quhich must not be tolerated, any longer than
can be helped.
To every honest. loyal American Catholic
comes the issue, and he must decide whether
he will take his religion only, or his religion,
and has lar, from foreign potentate.
Bernard Brown and Frank S. Boifeuillet
decided that they would take both their
ligion and their law from Rome; and it is
extremely fortunate for these two law break
ers that the women whom they cast aside in
obedience to foreign law-onzy seve1e gears
old IN this c0mtry-had no male relatives
who were disposed to redress the dastardly
wrongs of those innocent wives, by the usual
route of the unwritten law.
"a Catholic Layman" may possibly know
that the source of this Infamous Ne tenoere
law. is the Council of Trent, wherein the high
priests and the Jesuits labored, off and on for
eighteen years, to unity the Romanists,
harmonic papal dogmas, and prepare creed
that would not only solidify the papists,
but would disrupt the Reformation.
One of the articles agreed on at this Coun-
Gil of Trent was, that no marriage q0as vazid
unless performed by the Roman Catholic
Church.
Thus miscellaneous gathering of nun
keeping bachelors, arrogated to themselves the
exclusive power to fix the marital status OF