Year: 1876

are right, and therefore il would be very


wicked for you to prevent 10y force Other


people from believing or protesting any


religion they please to hold but we Ro


man Catholics know that our religion il


tie only true one. and it is therefore


kindness in US to restrain Others from
fol owing any other than ours. So the


Tablet says OF its church.


"Inasmuch as the loss or salvation ol


soJls hangs on the rejection or accep


tance of those precise dogmas and no


other, instead OF her zeal to obstruct


heresy being detrimental to the interests
of mankind and encroaching upon their


liberty. in no way does she more amiably
exhibit herself a. the mother OF liberty
and the beneiactOr OF the race Indeed.
with her belief il would be inhuman tn
do otherwise: with her divine conscious


ness she could not


On this avowal we. like the Professor =
wife. lifted up our hands and exclaimed.
ave didn't know that there was such a
| fool"


We supposed. in our innocence, that
all those fools were dead. long ago Well
did we know that in obedience to this
infamous doctrine one Romish priest
bur ned 10000 of his own countrymen at
the stake; we knew that this infamous
doctrine had filed the Vandois valleys
with martyrs, and heaven with souls
clothed in garments made while in
blood that the noblest race Of men in
France were butchered in the fierce min
istry OF this Internal dogma. But we
did not know that in the city Of New
York, while the bells OF the Centennial
year Of Liberty are ringing joyously in
all the land, there Is an Organized COM
munity. with churches aud priests and a
c.rdinal prince at its head, and newspa-
pers too. prnclaimIng that il has divine
consciousn Q Of It. r ght and duty to put
allen to death who will not become Ro
man Catholiclll Nay more. who not
only claim the right. but insist that to
exercise that right is a Christian kind
ness, and claims this monster of wicked
ness to be "the benefactor of mankind


To say that this avowal by the Romirh
church Is the avowal OF a fool. is to treat
the matter too lightly. IL is too solemn
and terrible an avowal to be regarded
with any sentiment savoring Of levity.
We hold it up in print aud in the sight
of the American p. ople, and before God,
who is the judge of all. AID unto whom
cries all the blood Of the prosecuted
from Abel whom his brother slew at the
altar. down To that Of Annie H-ffrrnen,
or whom her brother and mother laid
violent hands at MorTistown last week,
because she wished to assert this dogma
of the Romish Church. we denounce
this principle as incompatible with the
law OF the land and the religion OF Jesus
Christ. The men who proclaim il are
enemies of the human race. They are
bad citizens of a free country. They are
dangerous persons in the community.
They ase unfit to be trusted with polite
al power Of any kind, because they deny
to others the rights they claim for them
selves. And an intelligent, tree, relig
ious people like ours will mark them a.
enemies Of huIIan liberty. to be shot on
the spot when they move a finger to-
ward the practical application of the
doctrine they have now so unblushingly
ID unguardedly avowrd


We thank the Tablet for its confession
Of faith. Ii was madness TO come out
with it; but it was an old Roman IN KIM
of which the Roman Tablet is a modern
illustration; whom the Gods destroy
they first deprive of sense "quem deus
vult perdere piius dementat And IL
only remained for the success OF the
great conflict between Truth and Ro
manism. that we should have, unde- ade
quate authority, the explicit ayowal of
the right and duty OF persecution Ton
the good of the soul. the oldfsshioned
bloody dogma of this prosecuting soci@
ty. in all the ages and places Of its
power.


To know your enemy is half the bat
tie. We now know the enemy with
whom we are i1hIiug and we are pleas
I'd that our repeated citation OF the Tab
let's assertion. has at last exorted from
that journal this horrible but frank and
fatal confession.