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NUMBERING THE NON-CATHOLICS IN THIS COUNTRY WITHIN A HALF CEN-
TURY-THE CONSEQUENT DANGER TO CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS
LIBERTY IN THE FUTURE-AND WHAT SHOULD BE
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THE FUTURE CONFLICT.
The Danger of Roman Catholicism Gaining the
Control of our Government.
"This glorious liberty, these benign institutions, the
dear purchase of our fathers, are ours; ours to enjoy,
adherents of this liberty-hating hierarchy
ours to preserve, ours to transmit. Generations past it capable of the simplest arithmetical
are advancing in this country. We find
and generations to come hold us responsible for the
sacred trust. Our fathers from behind admonish us
with their anxious paternal voices, posterity calls out
to us from the bosom of the future, the world turns
hither its solicitous eye — all, all conjure us to act
wisely and faithfully in the relation which we sus-
tain."-DANIEL WEBSTER.
proof, that at the present rate of increase
the Roman Catholics in this country
will outnumber the non-Catholics with-
in fifty, possibly within forty years:
Warned by the unvarying records of the
past, we can realize the tremendous risk to
our immediate descendants that will flow
from such a numerical superiority of that
intolerant sect in the future, which is
almost inevitable.
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We do not propose to make war upon
the peculiar doctrines of the Roman Cath-
olic Church; all we propose to do is to
show the dangers that menace our coun-
try within the next half century from
the domination of that Church, and to
suggest measures to protect our children
from being trodden under the iron heel
of Rome.
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ECOGNIZING the force of the eloquent
language of Daniel Webster above
quoted, if "this glorious liberty, these be-
nign institutions, the dear purchase of
our fathers," are ours to preserve and
transmit as well as to enjoy, it becomes
our imperative duty to call the attention
of the American people to the dangers
that menace the future of our country
from the remarkable increase of the Ro-
man Catholic element in our midst; also
to show the necessity of our taking steps
now, when we still have the power, to
preserve for our children and our chil-
dren's children the enjoyment of the
principles of Civil and Religious Liberty,
and to hand down to them unimpaired
the priceless inheritance secured to us
by our Protestant forefathers.
The Romish hierarchy has never by a
single act favored, sanctioned or estab-
lished the principles of Civil or Religious
Liberty in any form whatever. On the
contrary, as is abundantly shown by
quotations from Papal encyclicals and
Romish ecclesiastical writers in the ap-
pendix to this address, it has constantly
opposed those principles. Even in this
age, in many Roman Catholic countries,
neither civil nor religious liberty exist.
In Rome itself, before the re-establish-
ment of a united Italy under King Victor
Emmanuel deprived the Pope of his
temporal power, Protestant churches
were not allowed by Pius IX to be erect-
ed, and Protestants were forbidden to
assemble for the purpose of worshipping
in their own way.
With these facts in
our memory, we turn to the census tables
and see the giant strides with which the
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The alarming increase in our country
of the most intolerant of all sects, whose
history is embodied in these words:
Jesuitism, Priestcraft, Ambition, Perse-
cution, Superstition, Intolerance, Inqui-
sition and Massacres, can be shown by
the following statistics:
In 1785, Bishop Carroll estimated the
Roman Catholic population in this coun-
try at about 25,000.
There was one
Romish Church in New York City, one
in Philadelphia, and the rest were settled
in Pennsylvania and Maryland. This
estimate must be nearly correct, as the
Bishop's position as the head of the
Catholic community in this country ena-
bled him to obtain accurate information.
M. Rameur (article translated and pub-
lished in the New York Catholic World,
April, 1865,) states the whole number of
Roman Catholics in the United States in
1790 (eighty-eight years ago) at 30,000,
of whom 16,000 were in Maryland, 8,000
in Pennsylvania, 3,000 at Detroit and
Vincennes, and 3,000 in other parts of
the country. To-day (1878) the number
of Roman Catholics in this country is at
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least 7,500,000, an increase of two hun-
dred and fifty fold, while the Protestants
and non-Catholics have increased from
3,900,000 in 1790 to 37,500,000, an in-
crease of less than ten fold! Estimating
the total population at 45,000,000, the
increase of the general population has
been 11 fold. The annexation of Louis-
iana in 1803 added about 30,000, which,
with that added from other sources, in-
creased the Romish population to 100,000
in 1810, or 120,000 according to our
table given elsewhere. Taking the latter
estimate, and dating from 1810 (sixty-
eight years ago,) the increase of Catho-
lics has been 62 fold, while the increase
of non-Catholics has been slightly over
eight fold.
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This result was arrived at from the
Census Report of total population, and
from the following estimate given by
Romish and non-Catholic authorities at
different periods, and from the number
of sittings in Roman Catholic churches,
according to the census for 1870:
Increase of Catholicism in the United States.
1785 Bishop Carroll's estimate at this date.
1790-M. Rameur's, a Catholic writer, esti-
mate...
1810-M. Rameur
1832-Bishop England's estimate.
1836-Bishop England's estimate, after a
"careful revision and calculation”
1848-Catholic Directory..
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1860-M. Rameur's estimate.
1866-The Civita Catolica, Papal organ,
Rome, (published in the Catholic
World, 1866,).
1868-Prof. A. J. Schem.
1868-Robert Dale Owen..
1869-American Year Book.
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1870-N. Y. Catholic World..... 6,000,000 to
1870-U. S. Census Report. Catholic sittings
in churches, allowing an average
of two and one-fourth masses each
Sunday, and allowing 25 per cent. of
the whole for non-attendance of
children, indifferent Catholics, sick,
etc...
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1871-N. Y. Observer Almanac..
1871-Calculations from Catholic Directory.
1875-Sadlier's Catholic Directory, from re-
ports of Bishops-Sees of Baltimore,
Erie, Brooklyn, and Charleston esti-
mated...
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1875-American Cyclopedia.
1875-Kehoe, Manager of Catholic Publica-
tion Society, N. Y., made up a calcu-
tion from report of Bishops; "several
Bishops refused to report "
1876-Father Stack estimated three masses to
each priest, and each priest repre-
sented a congregation of 2,000 devout,
indifferent, children, etc.; upon that
basis he estimated...
25,000
30,000
100,000
500,000
1,250,000
1,490,000
4,400,000
5,000,000
4,500,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
7,000,000
6,301,000
6,000,000
1876-Wm. Van Nortwick, a Protestant
writer....
8,000,000
7,000,000
1878-Mr. Kehoe, in his Report to the Bureau
of Statistics, Washington, over......
1878—A priest in Indiana made same kind of
estimate that Father Stack did.
1878-Catholic newspapers have estimated
the Romish population as high as.. 10,000,000
1878-Generality of newspapers have esti-
9,000,000
mated, ranging between 7,000,000 and 9,000,000
9,000,000
YEAR,
Taking M. Rameur's estimate, 30,000
Carroll's estimate for 1785, 25,000, as a
for 1790, which is confirmed by Bishop
basis to date the increase of Catholicism
from, it will be found that that sect has
almost exactly doubled every ten years
from 1790 to 1860, producing the follow-
ing results:
1790..
1800.
1810..
1820...
1830..
1840..
1850..
1860..
1870...
1878..
No. of
TOTAL
CATHOLICS. POPULAT'N.
25,000
30,000
60,000
120,000
240,000
480,000
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...
17.069,453
960,000
1,920,000
23,191,876
3,840,000 31,443,321
5,760,000
38,558,371
7,500,000 45,000,000
PROPORTION
CATHOLICS TO
TOT. POP.
3,929,214 1 out of every 131
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5,308,483
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5,000,000
5,432,000
The proof of this table not being overes-
timated consists in comparing the figures
with those given of different authorities.
For instance, the number of Roman
Catholics in 1810, in this last table, is
120,000; M. Rameur puts it at 100,000.
In 1830, the Romish population, ac-
cording to the 100 per cent. increase
every ten years, was 480,000. This agrees.
5,971,548 with Bishop England's estimate in 1832
of 500,000, after making allowance for
two years' increase. In 1850, according
to the same ratio, the Catholic popula-
tion was 1,920,000. The Catholic di-
rectory had it 1,490,000, for the year
1848, which, after allowing for two years'
increase growing out of the extraordi-
nary immigration from famine-stricken
6,000,000 Ireland, would make our figures about
right. In 1860, continuing the same ra-
tio of doubling up each ten years, the
Catholics would number 3,840,000. M.
Rameur's estimate was 4,400,000. So
The war, and the consequent falling
off in immigration, having reduced the
foregoing ratio of increase, we have esti-
mated the increase for ten years, ending
1870, at fifty per cent. instead of one
hundred per cent., and kept that ratio
down to 1878.
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future numbers of Roman Catholics, re-
gardless of the fact that on the return
of prosperous times immigration will be
greater than ever, and the percentage of
increase of Catholics will be as large as
ever. The increase of the general pop-
ulation has scarcely varied from 35 per
cent. for each decade for seventy years
previous to 1860. But the war and hard
times, and the falling off in immigra-
tion, have reduced that ratio to 22 per
cent., which we will adopt in estimating
the future increase of the population.
The reduction we have assumed in the
ratio of increase of Romanism for each
decade is fifty per cent., while that on
the general population is reduced only
thirty-five per cent. We give the follow-
ing table, showing the respective increase
of Catholics and general population, based
on these reduced ratios of increase:
Estimate of the Increase of Roman Catholicism in the Future.
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our figures cannot be too high. In 1870
we have reduced the increase for the ten
years previous from 100 per cent. to 50
per cent., giving 5,760,000, which is less
than the Catholic World's estimate, and
practically agrees with Robert Dale
Owen's estimate for 1868, and with the
United States census report of church
sittings, after averaging the several
high masses every Sunday. The esti-
mate of the Romish population for
1878, 7,500,000, is at the reduced ratio
of increase, namely 50 per cent. for
each ten years, and gives a less figure
than several authorities we have quoted,
and it nearly agrees with the esti-
mate given by Mr. Kehoe to the Bu-
reau of Statistics. Father Stack and
some other prominent authorities esti-
mate the average number of Roman
Catholics to each priest, considering
that each holds several services or
masses on Sunday, at 2,000. Sadlier,
in his Catholic Directory for 1875 (three
years ago), gives 4,873 as the number of
priests then in this country. It is, there-
fore, perfectly within bounds to estimate.
the number of priests in 1878 at 5,000.
Giving each priest an average of 1,500,
which, after making allowance for those
who do not attend masses regularly, the
sick, children, etc., giving an average
of less than four hundred to each ser-
vice or mass, would make the total num-
ber at 7,500,000. This statement will
remove any doubt as to the correctness
of our estimate. According to this, the
Roman Catholics have increased in eigh-
ty-eight years two hundred and fifty fold,
while the non-Catholics, or Protestants,
have increased less than ten fold.

Now, having shown that the Romish
population has increased from 1 in 131
in 1790, to 1 in 6 of the total population
in 1878-that is, that there is one Cath-
olic to five non-Catholics-the question
arises, what will be the proportion of
Catholics to non-Catholics in the future?
We can only judge of the future by the
past. The war, and the hard times since
the commencement of the panic in 1872,
have caused a great falling off in immi-
gration—hence our reducing from 1860
to the present year, 1878, the ratio of
increase in the Catholic population that
actually existed previous to 1860, from
one hundred per cent. to fifty per cent.
in each decade. We will take that ratio
of increase by which to estimate the
YEAR.
1880..
1890..
1900..
1910...
1920...
1930..
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CATHOLICS.
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8,640,000
12,960,000
19,440,000
29,160,000
43,740,000
65,610,000
TOTAL PER CENTAGE
POPULATION. CATHOLICS.
47,041,211 17 per cent.
57,340,000 221
69,954,800 30
85,344,856 35
104,120,724 42
127,027,283 52
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It should be borne in mind, we repeat
again, that the ratio of increase of Ro-
man Catholics in this last table is only
one-half of that which that Church had
for seventy years previous to 1860, and
that the ratio of increase of general pop-
ulation is reduced 35 per cent. compared
with what it was previous to 1860, thus
giving the Catholic the heavier reduc-
tion in the ratio of increase. Accord-
ing to this, in thirty years from now
they will number one-third of our popu-
lation; in forty years two-fifths, and in
fifty-two years they will outnumber all
non-Catholics.
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The question will naturally arise, what
are the causes that have produced such
a remarkable increase of Roman Catho-
lics in the past, and what will be the
causes that will produce such a gigantic
increase in the future? This weshall
endeavor to answer in brief:
First. The great immigration from
Germany, Bohemia, Ireland, France,
Poland, Italy and other Catholic coun-
tries.
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Second. The annexation, at different
periods, of Louisiana, Florida and Mexi-
can territory, with their Catholic popu-
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lations, which did not exceed however,
80,000 all told.
Third. The conversion of Protestant
women through the convents and Rom-
ish educational machinery, resulting in
their children being brought up in that
faith.
Fourth. The children of mixed mar-
riages between Catholics and Protestants
generally being brought up Catholics, the
priest requiring an ante-nuptial pledge
to that effect before performing the cere
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mony.
Fifth. The constant inculcation by the
priest, in the privacy of the confessional
(as well as publicly in the pulpit) of the
necessity of multiplying children, osten-
sibly for the purpose of carrying out the
Biblical injunction, but in reality for the
purpose of increasing the political power
of the Church in the midst of a Protes-
tant community. It is a singular fact,
that in exclusively Catholic countries
like France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Aus-
tria, Belgium, Mexico, and the South
American countries, there is scarcely any
increase of population whatever. But
in Protestant United States, Ireland,
which is under a Protestant power, Hol-
land, England and Canada, the Catholic
portion of the population is increasing
more rapidly by births than the Protes-
tant. Why? Because these latter coun-
tries are governed by the majority, and
Rome is methodically using the machinery
of the church to increase the number of
her adherents in Protestant countries for
the purpose of gaining the political con-
trol! She does this through the confes-
sional, where the devout and ignorant
married penitent is enjoined to multiply
all the children he or she possibly can for
the good of the Church. This however
is not enjoined on the intelligent and edu-
cated penitents, for reasons which are self-
evident. In exclusively Catholic coun-
tries the necessity does not exist for
increasing for the purpose of gaining
political power, and the machinery of
the confessional is not used for that pur-
pose in those countries. Compare the
census reports of all those Catholic coun-
tries with the Protestant countries
have named. That will tell the whole
story.
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are more hardy and healthy, and conse-
quently are better able to bear children.
than the more delicate native women.
Sixth. The great body of the Roman
Catholics belong, men and women, to the
laboring class, and as a result of their
habitual physical exercise, the women
The future increase of Roman Catho-
lics in this country will not probably
be helped by annexation, but this will
more than be made up by the addition
of the vast army of recruits they are
gaining at the South from the immense
efforts now being made by the Church
to convert the ignorant blacks, who are
so easily captivated by the gorgeous and
incomprehensible ceremonies of the Rom-
ish form of worship. When the blacks
were in slavery, the Romish Church
never made any efforts to convert them.
But the moment they were endowed
with the ballot, then for the first time.
the Church discovered she had a mission.
to perform, and that was the conversion
of the blacks, ostensibly to save their
souls, but in reality to control their bal-
lot in the interest of the Church! Owing
to the indifference of Protestants in al-
lowing the Romish missionaries to almost
monopolize the Southern field, there is
a great probability that millions of blacks
will be converted within a quarter of a
century, and be abjectly under the com-
plete political control of the priesthood,
who may even be able to decide the elec-
tion of a President by the yote of that
element alone!
In about thirty years the Romanists
will number one-third of the population,
and they will then be enabled to control
the national Government, a majority of
our State Governments, all our municipal
governments, just as that Church has
had, and has now, the political control
of New York city, although only num-
bering one-third of the population of
that city. Owing to the priesthood in--
directly controlling the solid vote of that
Church, they will be enabled to do all
this simply by holding the balance of
power and dictating terms to a political
party bidding for its support. It was
in this manner they ruled New York
city, and it was in this way the priest-
hood of that Church succeeded in forc-
ing the Ohio Legislature to pass the
weGeghan law" in the winter of 1874-5.
This law was passed solely in the interest
of that Church, and its author was a
Romanist. It required in effect, that a
separate room be given in all State penal
institutions exclusively for holding con-
fessions and worship, and that the priest
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What Romanists will do Should they Obtain Control of our Government.
cease altogether-which it will not—or even should
in this source of augmentation will be fully com-
it greatly diminish, the supposed loss or diminution
pensated by the relative increase of births among
the Catholics as compared with that among other
portions of the population."
should have the exclusive spiritual con-
trol of minors of Catholic parentage who
have no parents or guardians, and that
the officers having charge of such insti-
tutions were forbidden in their works of
reformation to touch on any religious
subjects whatever, so as to give the
priest a monopoly of that work as far
as irresponsible criminals were con-
cerned. Priests went among the Dem-
ocratic members of the Legislature, and
threatened a withdrawal of the Catholic
votes from their party if they failed to
pass the bill. The Catholic Telegraph,
of Cincinnati, the organ of Archbishop
Purcell, of the 11th of March, 1875,
lished editorially the following threat:
"The political party with which nine-tenths of
the Catholic voters affiliate on account of past ser-
vices that they will never forget, now controls the
State. Withdraw the support which Catholics
have given to it and it will fall in this city, county
and State, as speedily as it has risen to its long lost
position and power. That party is now on trial.
Mr. Geghan's bill will test the sincerity of its pro-
fessions."
After the passage of this bill, the Cath-
olic Telegraph was so well pleased with
the action of the Democratic members
of the General Assembly that it said:
"The question put to us a few years since with a
smile of mixed incredulity and pity, 'Do you be-
lieve that this country will ever become Catholic?'
is changed into the question, 'How soon do you
think it will come to pass? Soon, very soon, we
pub-reply, if statistics be true."—Catholic World.
"The unbroken, solid vote of the Catholic citi-
zens of this State will be given to the Democracy
at the fall election."
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Leading ecclesiastics and writers of
that Church, and Catholic newspapers,
have frequently declared and boasted
that even within thirty years they will be
in the majority, and will then have
things their own way, and will make up
for being obliged to pay taxes to support
our public school system, either by abol-
ishing that system, or by demanding
that all their educational sectarian insti-
tutions shall be supported out of the
public treasury. As samples of their
utterances on this subject we will give a
few quotations from them:
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After describing the progress of Romanism in
England, a foreign writer in the Catholic World for
April, 1875, says: "The evidences of a move-
ment toward the Catholic Church are still clearer
and more general in the United States. There is
less prejudice and hostility against the Church in
the United States than in England. The Catho-
lics, in the beginning of this century, stood as one
to every two hundred of the American Republic.
The ratio of Catholics now is one to six or seven of
the inhabitants. The Catholics will outnumber,
before the close of this century, all other believers in
Christianity put together in the Republic. This is
no fanciful statement, but one based on a careful
study of statistics, and the estimate moderate.
Even should emigration from Catholic countries
"It will be a glorious day for the Catholics in
this country when, under the blows of justice and
morality, our school system will be shivered to
pieces. Until then, modern Paganism will triumph.
Cinicinnati Catholic Telegraph.
"Within thirty years, the Protestant heresy will
come to an end."-Papal Bishop of Charleston to
the Pope.
"Effectual plans are in operation to give us the
complete victory over Protestantism."-Papal
Bishop of Cincinnati.
"The man to-day is living who will see a ma-
jority of the people of the American continent
Roman Catholics."--Boston Pilot, Papist.
"They (Catholics of the United States) are as
strongly devoted to the sustenance and maintenance
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of the temporal power of the Holy Father as Catho-
lics in any part of the world; and if it should be
necessary to prove it by acts, they are ready to do
So. Cardinal McClosky.
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'We number seven millions in this country, and
in fifteen years will take this country, and build
our institutious over the grave of Protestantism."
Priest Hecker.
opposite can be carried into effect without peril to
"Religious liberty is merely endured until the
the Catholic world.
the Catholic world."-Bishop O'Connor.
"The Catholic Church numbers one-third of the
American population; and if its membership shall
increase for the next thirty years as it has for the
thirty years past, in 1900 Rome will have a ma-
jority, and be bound to take this country and keep
There is ere long to be a
country, and that State religion is to be Roman
Catholic."-Priest Hecker, 1870.
"Our country contains a large number of Cath-
olics. They increase year by year, and it seems to be
merely a question of time, and that not very remote,
when their numbers will preponderate over all
religious faiths. **** IVe make this assertion,
that at any moment the Catholics move as a body
We know that they
they can decide any election.
cannot, nor do they desire to form a distinct po-
litical party, but they can make any such party
-Catholic Review.
triumphant or insure its defeat."
Father Stack, a priest of the Papist Church,
says: I am no prophet, and I am not anxious
to hazard a prophecy, but I am bold to say that I
anticipate contention and angry strife from the re-
lation of the Catholic Church, under the sway of
the Bishops, to the American Republic." And
again: "The power of the Roman Catholic Bish-
ops of America is a tyranny within the Church, and
a standing danger to the liberties of the country.
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Papal Opposition to Amendment Forbidding Sectarian Appropriations.
The Shepherd of the Valley, a Roman Catholic
paper published in St. Louis, and endorsed by
Bishop Kendrick, week after week denounced the
Protestant Bible and Free Schools, and proclaimed
boldly to the world the long-cherished dogma of
the Romish Church in the following strain: "Pro-
testantism of every kind Catholicity inserts in her
catalogue of mortal sins; she endures it when and
where she must, but she hates it, and directs all
her energies to effect its destruction. If the Cath-
olics ever gain, which they surely will do, an im-
mense numerical majority, religious freedom in this
country is at an end."
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This conspiracy against the liberty of this country
was long since projected. The Duke of Richmond,
once Governor of the Canadas, when he last visited
Montreal, was invited to a dinner where he made a
speech, from which the following is an extract :
"The government of the United States ought not
to stand, and will not stand, but will be destroyed
by subversion and not by conquest.
this: to send over the surplus population of Europe;
The plan is
they will go over with foreign views and feelings,
and will form a heterogeneous mass, and in the
course of time will be prepared to rise and subvert
the government. He further said: "The Church
of Rome has a design upon that country. Popery
will in time be the established religion, and will
aid in the destruction of that republic. I have
conversed with many of the sovereigns and princes
of Europe, and they have unanimously expressed
these opinions relative to the government of the
United States, and their determination to subvert
it."
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"Our country contains a large number of Cath-
olics. They increase year by year, and it seems to
be merely a question of time, and that not very
remote, when their numbers will preponderate over
all religious faiths."-Catholic Review.
Rev. Dr. McGlynn, a distinguished priest of
New York City, in an address to the Irish and
German population, said:
"The wealth of this country is its population;
and there is no religion like the Catholic for spread-
ing its population over the earth; and that is an-
other fact showing that the religion of this country
must be Catholic.
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Dr. McGlynn thus unwittingly confirms the state-
ment in reference to using the Confessional for the
purpose of increasing the Romish population.
The table we have given, showing the
imminent, we might say inevitable dan-
ger that exists in the future of the ad-
herents of Rome obtaining control of
our Government within a comparatively
short time, and the bold utterances
made by Romish authorities that they
expect, sooner or later to have that
control, should command the attention
of every American citizen who desires
that his children should be protected in
the rights we have inherited. Owing
to the perfect state of denominational
freedom existing in our country, the
religious views of non-Catholics are
numerous and varied, although nearly
all profess to be governed by the Bible.
It is this disunited opposition that gives
the Romish church with its solid front
and military form of organization, all
under perfect control of shrewd and
unscrupulous cardinal and bishops, such
a great advantage over its disorganized
opponents, and enables it, even while it is
in a minority, to carry out its schemes.
In this connection we will call atten-
tion to a suspicious movement of the
Church, which shows that she expects
to have the power in the future to gain
control of the public funds for her own
advancement.
In 1876, Mr. Blaine offered in the
House an amendment to the Constitution
for sectarian purposes.
forbidding a division of the school fund
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An amendment
to this was offered by some Catholic
sympathizers, and thoughtlessly adopted,
forbidding Congress from enforcing the
amendment by necessary legislation,
which practically made it a nullity.
that shape it passed the House nearly
unanimously, only five voting against it.
The Democratic and Roman Catholic
members voted for it because they saw
that the proposed amendment as amend-
ed would necessarily be a dead letter, and
because it contained nothing forbidding
appropriations out of a general fund or
a special tax being levied for the support
of Catholic schools. When it reached the
Senate its defects were so palpable that
the Judiciary Committee reported a sub-
stitute forbidding any appropriation
whatever out of any public funds for
the benefit of any institution under
sectarian control. This iron-clad prop-
osition immediately provoked the op-
position of two Roman Catholic Sena-
tors, Kernan, of New York, and Bogy.
They both stated it was aimed at the
Roman Catholic Church, and they
should vote against it. They had no
objection to the defective House amend-
ment, however. They succeeded in
whipping the Democratic Senators into
voting against the iron-clad amendment,
and it was defeated for want of a two-
thirds vote. Sixteen Democrats, includ-
ing four Roman Catholics, voted against
it, while twenty-eight Republicans voted
in favor of it.
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The discussion of this proposed amend-
ment came off immediately following
the Ohio campaign of 1875, when the
school question and the Geghan law
Her Present Quiet on the School Question-Her Advantages.
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were the issues, resulting in the defeat
of the pro-Catholic party. When the
Blaine amendment passed the House al-
most unanimously, and came up in the
Senate in its iron-clad form, Archbishop
Purcell, of Cincinnati, evidently became
alarmed for fear, judging from the
public sentiment then prevailing, it
would be adopted by Congress. To
quiet the feeling growing out of the
fear that the school fund might event-
ually be divided for the benefit of the
Catholic Church, he issued an address
to the people of the United States,
through the Associated Press, for the
purpose of creating the impression that
the Roman Catholics were not opposed
to the public schools, and that the school
question should be withdrawn from po-
litical discussion. The object of this
address it was evident, was to influence
the Democratic members in the Senate
to vote against the proposed amendment.
Now comes this curious coincidence.
We all remember what a violent oppo-
sition was shown previous to 1876 to the
public school system, in the Catholic
pulpit, on the lecture platform and in
the Catholic newspaper. Since the pro-
posed amendment was discussed in Con-
gress, Archbishop Purcell's suggestion.
has been adopted by the Catholic pulpit
and press, evidently under instruction
from a superior, and there has since.
been no discussion of, and no apparent
opposition to, our public school system!
Why this sudden cessation of hostility
to that system? It was because the
Church feared that its demand for a
portion of the school fund might pro-
voke the American people to amend the
the Constitution forbidding sectarian
appropriations out of any public fund.
Consequently the Church has adopted the
policy of quietly waiting a few years, when
the superior numerical increase of Cathol-
icism will be sufficient to enable that
Church to prevent the ratification of any
such amendment by the assent of three-
fourths of the States, calculating that she
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will be able to control more than one- Although the Church has opposed
fourth. Hence her present singular and
suspicious silence on the question of
dividing the school fund. This fact,
with the foregoing quotations we have
given, shows plainly, beyond a doubt,
what the Church expects in the future
-the control of the Government and
the money of the tax-payers.
secret societies, yet it does not hesitate
to make itself a gigantic mass of secret
associations. For instance, take the
Ecumenical Council which met in Rome
in 1870. It was composed of 1,000
Archbishops and Bishops, all sworn to
secrecy, and their doings have never
been known to the outside world. The
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The great advantages the Romish
Church has over all other denominations
and non-Catholics, to which will be
added her probable future numerical su-
periority, we will sum up as follows:
1st. All her ecclesiastical gatherings
from the meetings of the Cardinals and
Ecumenical Councils down to the meet-
ings of her priests, including the great
Society of Jesus and many of her lay
organizations, are secret and oath-bound
and their doings are not known to the
outside world.
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2d. Her military organization, en-
abling the Cardinal Bishop of New York
to wield the whole mass of her adherents
in a solid body at his will.
3d. The vast amount of wealth she is
accumulating.
4th. The title of all her property, in-
cluding churches, convents, colleges,
school property, asylums and so on, being
held entirely in the individual name.
of the Bishop of the Diocese in which
the property is located.
5th. Her parochial school system, by
which nearly all her children from in-
fancy to maturity are thoroughly imbued
with the doctrines and intolerant princi-
ples of the church.
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6th. Working under the infamous.
maxim that the end sanctifies the
means.”
The history of the Roman Catholic
Church shows it to be the most intoler-
ant, bigotted and unscrupulous of all
religious denominations. Its principles
are: that the Church having been estab-
lished by God Almighty, must necessa-
rily be above all human institutions and
laws; that its devotees must obey the
priests and other Church authorities in
all things; that there is no salvation
whatever outside of the Church; that
the head of the Church is infallible and
cannot err in spiritual matters—which
is stretched to include temporal matters
at times-and as far as the interest of
the Church is concerned, "the end
sanctifies the means.
!
The Secret Character of the Church-Her Military Form of Organization.
College of Cardinals is an oath-bound | this they endeavor to do under the
secret association. The whole move- maxim, "that the end sanctifies the
ment, governing over 200,000,000 Ro-
man Catholics, is discussed in secret at
the meeting of this College, and the
outside world knows nothing of their
doings. The Roman Catholic Provin-
cial Council, which meets in Balti-
more, is a secret association, consisting
of some sixty Bishops and Archbishops.
Their doings are never known outside.
There is no doubt that the great Ro-
mish movement against our public
schools originated at a secret meeting of
this Council.
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The Romish Order of the Jesuits, an-
other secret organization, numbers 20,-
000 of the most crafty, deceitful and
intriguing set of religionists the world has
seen. They carry on their secret work
entirely upon the maxim of Ignatius
Loyola, the founder of the Order, that
"the end sanctifies the means. Their
history is mainly that of political in-
trigues. They have in the past' been
driven out of Italy, France, Portugal,
Belgium, Germany, Austria, Venice,
Brazil and other countries on account
of their intrigues and continually plot-
ting against the Government. Their
insisting that the ecclesiastical laws of
the Church should have the preference
over the laws of the State is what com-
pelled Bismarck to pursue the course he
did against them. These undesirable
tools of Rome are flocking from Ger-
many to this country-two hundred of
them have already landed on our shore
-and it is estimated that there will
soon be more Jesuits in the United
States than in any other country in the
world. They will, as soon as the Church
shall have sufficient numerical power,
commence their intriguing work with
our National and State Governments, if
they have not already done so, and we
have no power to expel them as has been
done by other governments and even by
a former Pope when the Order was sup-
pressed by him in 1814. In the oath
they take they swear "to renounce and
disown any allegiance as due to any
heretical king, prince or State, named
Protestants, or obedience to their in-
ferior magistrates or officers." And
they also swear "to do their utmost to
extirpate the heretical Protestants' doc-
trine, and to destroy all their pretended
powers, vague or otherwise;" and all
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means.
The Church is also greatly aided in its
operations by the different orders of
priests, friars, monks, nuns, christian
brothers, all oath-bound, and working
secretly and solely for her interest.
There are also numerous lay societies,
each with a priest at its head, all of the
same character.
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Recently a new organization has been
formed, called "The Catholic Union,
which is under the entire control of the
priesthood, and it has taken in the en-
tire Church throughout the country,
and is probably the largest society inside
of a church in the world. The pro-
fessed object of the Catholic Union is to
advance the interest of the Church,
morally and religiously, but the real ob-
ject is to add to the political power of
that Church by increasing the solidity
of its votes.
In addition to this advantage possessed
by the Church, of being able to work
secretly to accomplish her purposes, is
her military form of organization. She
is in this country officered with a Car-
dinal, Archbishops, Bishops, priests and
deacons. Cardinal McClosky is Com-
mander-in-chief. He issues his orders
to his archbishops, who in turn issue
them to the bishops, and they issue them
to the priests.
The priest (to-day numbering about
5,000), being bound by his oath to obey
his Bishops, feels obliged to carry out
any order he may receive, and conse-
quently he brings his priestly authority
to compel his flock to obey them, no
matter what they may be. In that
way the Cardinal Bishop of New York
City, by the aid of the secret charac-
ter of his Church and its military
organization and its blind bigotry, can
command to-day 7,000,000 of Roman
Catholics to do almost as he pleases in
There is
the interest of the church.
great danger that the orders he may
issue will be based on the maxim that
"the end sanctifies the means.
The Catholic of the future in this
country will be an educated bigot. He
will have been brought up in the paro-
chial school, and taught from infancy to
maturity the necessity of implicit obedi-
ence to the priest. In no other Catholic
country in the world are the Catholic
Accumulation of Property by the Romish Church.
children being educated so thoroughly
in the school of bigotry, for they have
not the parochial school system. It was
necessity that prompted Rome to estab-
lish her system of parochial schools in
this country to neutralize the influence
of our public schools. To show how
thoroughly bred in bigotry is the Ameri-
can Catholic, it is only necessary to give
this fact, that not one word of encourage-
ment has ever been extended by an
American Catholic to Victor Emmanuel
in his efforts to establish civil and re-
ligious liberty in Italy; but, on the
contrary, immense meetings were held
by the Romanists all over the country
denouncing Victor Emmanuel for his
tolerant course. Hence it is that the
Catholic of the future will too readily
obey any command that the Cardinal
Archbishop may issue, no matter how it
may trample on the rights of non-
Catholics.
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five thousand dollars! The Atlantic
Monthly of April, 1868, in an article
it published on
It was it published on this subject, gave
the value of the Romish property in
the archdiocese of New York City at
$50,000,000. According to that, allow-
ing for ten years' increase, the property
of that Church in that city to-day
exceeds in value the entire amount of
the whole country falsely estimated by
the priesthood to the census officials in
1870. At the lowest calculation, the
value of the property owned by the
sixty Archbishops and Bishops exceed
$250,000,000, which is an average of
about $4,000,000 to each diocese. Or
deduct $60,000,000 for the dioceses of
New York and Brooklyn, $15,000,000
for the diocese of Boston, $15,000,000
for that of Philadelphia, $10,000,000
each for Baltimore, New Orleans and
San Francisco, and it would leave an
average of two million and a quarter for
each of the remaining dioceses. The
motive of the priesthood in falsely re-
porting their property is the fear that
its enormous real proportion would set
the American people to thinking of the
propriety of so much property being held
by a few ecclesiastics, exempted, as most
of it is from taxation. Another motive
for undervaluing, is the effect it would
have on their trying to collect money for
the Church, if the immensity of the
amount was known. Even with their
false representation as to the value of
their property in the Census Report,
it trebled in value from 1850 to 1860,
and more than doubled in the ten
years ending 1870; and at that rate,
it would reach into the thousands of
millions in thirty or forty years. Vide
Mexico, Spain, Italy and other Catholic
countries, where thousands of millions of
property have been held by the clergy.
When a congregation is formed and buys
a lot and builds a church on it, it is re-
quired to deed the property uncondi-
tionally to the Bishop of the Diocese.
Should this congregation see fit to follow
the lead of Bishop Dollinger and become
"old Catholics," the Bishop would in
that case turn them out in the cold and
lock the church against them. Al-
though they paid for the entire property,
the Bishop can do all this and they
cannot help themselves. It is in this
manner the Bishop can exercise a reign.
of terror over his people by simply
To the secret and military characters
of Rome may be added another feature
pregnant with danger to our institu-
tions, that of the accumulation of a
vast amount of property which she in-
tends to have exempted from taxation
as soon as possible, if not already ex-
empted. We know that great moneyed
men have influenced legislation by
bribery. In the same manner the
church could influence legislation to
further her ends. With her untold
wealth she could crush out opposition.
She is accumulating property to-day at
the rate of millions every year. The
accumulation of this property is increas-
ing yearly in amount as the church
increases in strength. In the Census
Report for 1870, the priesthood of the
Church of Rome reported only $60,985,-
566 of church property, while the
Methodists, with their cheap church
edifices reported $69,854,121! Any in-
telligent man knows from personal ob-
servation that the Romish property
exceeds in value thee or four times that
of the Methodist Church. Look at the
ten million dollar cathedral in New York
City, the five million dollar cathedral in
Boston, the million dollar St. Alphonsus's
church, New York city, the million
dollar convent at Bloomingdale, and
their nine thousand churches, schools,
colleges, convents, monasteries, asylums,
and other institutions, costing from as
high as upwards of a million down to
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Donations to Roman Catholic Institutions out of the Public Treasury.
by the authorities, a majority of whom
are Catholics, or sympathizers with
that belief, we give a list of appropria-
tions made in the year 1869, 1870 and
1871. It will be borne in mind that one-
third only of the population of that city
are of that belief, and that nine-tenths
of the taxes were paid by non-Catholics.
threatening to turn them out of their
church building and lock it up, if they
fail to do so and so. This peculiar fea-
ture of the Bishops owning all the
property of the church gives them an
immense power whenever tney choose to
wield it. Owing to the priesthood own-
ing several hundred millions dollars'
worth of property in Italy and Mexico,
the evil became so intolerable that the
governments in
in those countries were
obliged to confiscate the property for
the benefit of the State-this was all
done since 1870. This, added to the
secret organized character of the church,
its purely military organization, and its
maxim that "the end justifies the
means," makes the Roman Catholic
Church in the future a most dangerous
institution for the existence of religious
freedom and equal rights, and shows
the necessity of the National Constitu-
tion being amended, so as to require
all church property to be taxed, and
also to be held by trustees consisting of
the members of the church, institution Sisters St. Dominie.
or society owning or using the same.
..
Sisters St. Dominie Asylum
School Sisters St. Dominie..
Church Dominican Fathers.
Dominican Church, Lexington Avenue
School St. Nicholas, Order St. Dominie
St. Nicholas Church
St. Patrick's Orphan Asylum.
St. Patrick's Cathedral..
St. Patrick's Cathedral School..
St. Patrick's Orphan Asylum, Mott Street
St. Bridget's School.....
St. Peter's Church German School.
German-American Free School.
St. Lawrence Church
St. Lawrence Parish School..
Added to all that has been stated,
there is the certainty that as soon as
Rome gains the power, she will de-
mand that all her schools, seminaries,
convent, monasteries, colleges, hospitals,
etc., be supported out of the public.
treasury. Her leading writers have.
boasted already, as we have before
stated, that in less than thirty years
they will number two-fifths of our popu-
lation if they increase as rapidly as they
have in the past, which they claim they St. Mary's School, Grand Street.
will, then they will have things their
own way, and make up for being com-
pelled to pay tax for the support of our
public schools, either by abolishing our
schools or by having all their institutions
supported by the tax payers. This last is
exactly what Rome has done in New York
City, where the Catholics number one-
third of the population. By selling her
votes to the Democratic party she has
been enabled to obtain out of the pub-
lic treasury in the space of fifteen years
over $12,000,000 for the benefit of the
institutions under her control, while all
other sectarian institutions under Pro-
testant and Jewish control have received
less than $1,000,000.
St. Mary's Church, Grand Street.
St. Mary's Church, Sisters Charity.
School Most Holy Redeemer..
St. Francis' Female Parochial School.
St. Francis' Male Parochial School..
St. Michael's Parochial School..
St. Michael's Church Schools.
St. Gabriel's School........
Church of Transfiguration..
Transfiguration School.
st. James' Church
St. James' Parochial Schools.
School of Lady of Sorrow.
St. Columbia Week-Day School....
Church Holy Innocents...
St. Andrew's Church...
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St. Bridget's Church..
Sister Helena....
Sisters of St. Joseph
St. Joseph's Church.
St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum
St. Joseph's Parish School.
St. Joseph's Parochial Female School
St. Joseph's Parochial Male School...
St. Teresa's School...
St. Teresa's Church.
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St. Teresa's Chapel School...
St. Ann's Parochial Church………
School attached to St. Teresa's Church.
St. Ann's Church, Eighth Street..
St. Peter's Free School..
Convent Sacred Heart.
School Academy Sacred Heart.
House Good Shepherd...
House Mercy, Bloomingdale
Sisters Mercy..
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Church Immaculate Conception.
School of Immaculate Conception..
Church St. Paul Apostle
School St. Vincent de Paul...
German School, Nineteenth Ward.
Church of St. Boniface…….
St. John Evangelist School for Girls..
As a sample of the manner in which
the Romish Institutions were subsidized
out of the public treasury in that city Church Nativity Parish School,……
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$5,000
4,318
5,000
5,271
15,000
9,788
5,984
7,000
17,415
1,280
5,000
5,000
6,920
2,172
14,099
10,000
6,170
70,222
5,000
457
15,000
11,000
5,600
5,550
7,000
11.890
365
8,152
17,858
15,000
5,000
50,512
1,500
18,456
1,500
12,445
46,368
400
140
31,800
4,250
3,750
8,056
10,000
23,380
388
34,340
35,418
800
19,700
18,370
1,125
2,014
5,182
32,104
10,005
6,628
5,859
966
6,880
640
Appropriations out of the Public Treasury for Romish Churches.
Second Avenue Catholic Church..
Church of Holy Cross.
Parochial School of Holy Cross.
Church of the Holy Name..
Church of the Assumption.
Church of St. John Baptist..
St. Vincent's Hospital....
St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum..
Catholic Protectory
St. Stephen's Orphan House
Lots of Church Property.
Free German School...
German Mission Association.
St. Francis Zavier College.
St. Peter's Church...
St. Columbia Church..
Church of the Covenant.
Sisters of Mercy.....
Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum..
Church Nativity.
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St. Gabriel's Schools...
St. Alphonsus' Schools
St. Vincent Free School
Church of Holy Redeemer.
School St. Francis Assissi….
School Holy Cross..
School Nativity
School St. Chrysostom
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Church Epiphany.
St. Vincent de Paul Orphan Asylum.
St. Joseph's Home.
Shepherd's Fold.
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School of Bethlehem.
St. Boniface's Church School.
St. Patrick's Free School...
St. Francis Xavier Schools.
Sacred Heart Female Academy.
Church Annunciation.
Church Annunciation School.
...
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Aggregate to Catholics.
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Orphan Asylum, Prince Street.
Sisters of St. Mary
R. C. Fonndling Asylum..
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Aggregate..
Reformed Dutch Churches..
Presbyterian Churches.
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PROTESTANT SECTS.
Episcopal Churches.
Episcopal Schools...
Episcopal Hospitals and Homes.
Episcopal Miscellaneous..
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Baptist Churches...
Methodist Churches..
Lutheran Churches.
All other Protestant Institutions.
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645238, out of this $635,217 were given to
8,505 the Romish Church, while about one-
1,27%
third of the balance was paid to Protest-
ant institutions.
483
918
535
Total to Protestant institutions...
To Hebrew Institutions....
Grand total………
26,000
In 1874 the Roman Catholic institu-
tions received $454,194, while the Prot-
15,000 estant institutions received only $4,461,
and the Hebrew $25,293.
310,168
8,000
505
A single Romish institution, called a
13,080 Protectory, received over $1,500,000 out
out of the public treasury since it was
organized.
15,000
7,272
1,043
1,897
652
645
766
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All the children of the prisoners and
paupers on Randall and Blackwell's Is-
456 lands, some 700, of both Protestant and
30,762 Catholic parentage, are sent to this Cath-
olic Protectory, and boarded and edu-
cated at the expense of the city, at four
dollars per week, making $2,800 a week.
The cost to the Protectory does not ex-
ceed $700 a week, as they are fed on the
cheapest and plainest food, leaving a net
profit of $2,100 a week, equal to $109,000
3,000 per annum! These children are educated
in the Catholic faith, regardless of the
2,240 | creed of their parents. The most likely
ones are selected to be made priests of,
5,240 and are educated to a life of celibacy, all
at the expense mainly of the Protestant
2,820 tax-payers.
13,826
3,174
12,000
2,500
3,000
5,520
700
1,120
10,000
1,000
9,173
$1,369,389
12,000
6,090
10,000
770
2,270
7,384
In 1857 the City Council donated to
to that Church a tract of land, worth at
that time three-fourths of a million of
dollars, but valued to-day at about four
millions of dollars, on part of which the
magnificent Fifth Avenue Cathedral is
erected. The plea that this gigantic do-
nation was a charitable affair cannot
avail, inasmuch as a ten million dollar
cathedral was a recipient of a portion of
the gift.
13,961
When Bishop Hughes died several
years ago, the City Council appropriat-
22,210 ed out of the public fund several thou-
sand dollars, for the purpose of erecting
to his memory, in the Council Chamber,
an elaborately carved wooden tablet.
5,326
7,271
3,694
2,874
25,216
10,500
14,257
7,333
$56,957
$112,293
25,853
$1,534,534
Catholics got 91 per cent., and Prot-
estants a little over 7 per cent., although
the latter paid nine-tenths of the taxes.
Beside the above gigantic donations to
the Roman Catholic Church, from the
public treasury, there were collected the
same years from excise the sum of $754,-
If Rome can do this in New York city,
where her population is only one-third,
what is there to prevent her from doing
likewise out of city, State and National
treasuries thirty years hence, when she
will number, at a low estimate, one-third
of our population? and what will she do
fifty years hence, when she will probably
outnumber the non-Catholics? In Lou-
isiana, since the accession of the present
State government, Rome has obtained
possession of the State School Board,
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Donations to Rome-Timidity of the Press-Romish Mobs.
resulting in Protestant teachers being
turned out almost entirely in some lo-
calities and Catholic teachers appointed
in their places.
A great portion of the teachers in the
public schools of New York city and
Baltimore are Romish, having been ap-
pointed through priestly influence, this
too when Catholic children were almost
entirely withdrawn from those schools,
thus enabling that Church to indirectly
prejudice the minds of the Protestant
pupils in favor of Romanism. In Balti-
more a majority of the public officials
are Romish, and are favoring their
church at the expense mainly of Protest-
antism. In Nevada or Wyoming, (we
have forgotten which), the parochial
schools of the Romish Church are sup-
ported out of the public fund. In Con-
necticut and Georgia the same state of
affairs exists in many towns and cities.
For many years the general govern-
ment has supported Providence Hospi-
tal, in Washington, an institution under
control of the Romish Church, hundreds
of thousands of dollars having been
appropriated for that purpose. Three
years since, Congress donated to the
"Little Sisters of the Poor" $25,000,
which was used to build a church.
The members, both Democrats and
Republicans, dared not vote against
these appropriations for fear of losing
Roman Catholic votes. In the same
manner the Legislature of New York
has voted at different times over a
million dollars to Romish institutions.
In California Romish institutions are
largely supported out of the public
treasury, all brought about by a gentle
reminder that Catholic votes could be
retained by being liberal with the
Church. As fast as the number of the
adherents of that Church increases, just
so fast do they augment their demands.
These facts illustrate unmistakably the
of Rome to obtain control of the
purpose
public revenue as quickly as possible for
the purpose of aggrandizing herself.
While all this unjust discrimination is
going on against Protestantism, which
pays nine-tenths of the taxes, the so-
called guardian of the public interest
and of the rights of the people, the
press, is silent. Why? Because the
Republican editor is fearful of losing the
vote of the few Roman Catholics that
vote with his party, or is afraid of losing
Catholic patronage, and he dares not say
anything. The editor of one of the most
prominent journals in New York city
gave as his reason for not opposing the
monstrous grants to Catholic institu-
tions, that one-third of the population
were Catholics, and he could not afford
to lose their patronage! The Demo-
cratic editor, of course, will not oppose
these appropriations, because he is bound
hand and foot, and gagged by the re-
minder that the priesthood can defeat
his party at will, simply by telling their
people to refrain from voting; and the
least
opposition to the wholesale subsi-
dizing of the Church will kill his party.
To further illustrate the danger result-
ing from Romanism, when it shall have
gained sufficient power, we have only to
refer to the numerous Catholic mobs or-
ganized for the purpose of suppressing
the right of speech and the right of
Protestant processions to march in our
streets. Although Fathers Burke and
Hecker can go from one end of the
Union to the other vilifying Protestant-
ism, as they have done without ever re-
ceiving the slightest disturbance, yet
when Rev. J. C. White, or the "Escaped
Nun" undertake to lecture against Ca-
tholicism, they are frequently attacked
and mobbed by brutal Romanists. St.
Patrick and other Catholic processions
can monopolize the streets twenty times.
a year in all cities without the slightest
molestation, but when a Protestant Or-
ange procession undertakes to march,
they are almost invariably mobbed by
Roman Catholics, as has been frequent-
ly done in New York City, Lawrence,
Mass., Montreal, and other places. In
1869, while a party of Orangemen, with
their wives and children, were quietly
and peacefully holding a picnic in Jones'
woods, near New York City, they were
attacked by a mob of Irish Catholics,
and several of the picnic party were mur-
dered and wounded. The authorities
being mostly Catholics, never arrested
the perpetrators of the outrage. In 1866
a St. Patrick Procession monopolized
nearly the entire length of Broadway for
hours, keeping all the vehicles on the
side streets waiting till the procession
had moved by. A truckman, who had
been kept waiting for two hours, seeing
a break in the procession, improved the
opportunity and drove through it. For
this act of temerity he was attacked by
Romish Lawlessness Educated Bigotry-Special Legislation.
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several of the mounted Irish marshals | only ones in the spiritual domains of the
and nearly clubbed to death. These Pope that are taken possession of by the
Green Isle ruffians were never arrested priesthood and put into their parochial
and punished by the authorities, for fear schools from the tender age of infancy to
of losing Irish Catholic votes.
maturity, and imbued in the most thor-
ough manner with the doctrine that there
is no salvation outside of the Church, that
heretics have no rights the Church can re-
spect, that the Church is above all human
institutions, not even excepting the State,
that the Pope is infallible and cannot err,
that they must obey implicitly the au-
thorities of the Church, and that in mat-
ters where the Church is interested "the
end sanctifies the means."
With a large
portion of our population, receiving such
an education, having a military form of
organization, composed of oath-bound
secret associations, and all sworn to obey
their priestly officers, how can it be
otherwise than that it will involve,
sooner or later, civil and religious free-
dom and the peace of our beloved coun-
try?
The great so-called draft riot of 1863,
in New York, was in reality, a Romish
mob, which hung and burned inoffensive
colored men, and gutted and burned a
Protestant orphan asylum.
On Blackwell's Island the authorities
erected a thirty thousand dollar church
for the inmates of that island, to be used
by clergymen of all sects. A Roman
Catholic priest took possession of this
church, erected his altar, and refused to
allow ministers of other denominations
to preach in it. The matter was referred
to the authorities. They dared not in-
terfere, for fear of losing Catholic votes,
and to-day that priest holds undisputed
possession. To such an extent has Rom-
ish arrogance been carried in that city,
that St. Vincent de Paul Church, on
Twenty-third street, New York City,
refused to pay its assessment for the cost
of the paving of the street, although
Protestant churches on the same street
paid their assessments promptly. Not
daring to compel the payment of the
amount assessed on that church, for fear
of losing Catholic votes, the authorities
voted to pay it out of the general fund.
A street railroad company, availing it-
self of its chartered right, served notice
on St. Peter's Church on Barclay street,
New York, that it would be obliged to
appropriate the land on which the church
stood, in order to cut its road through
to the next street, and that the company
was ready to pay the appraised damages.
The members of that church replied that
if they were disturbed there would be a
riot! The authorities were intimidated
for fear of losing Catholic votes, and the
company had to appropriate somebody
else's property.
We have thus given a few instances of
Romish mobs against civil and religious
liberty; sufficient to show the animus of
the devotees of that Church. If the
Romish Church should gain the political
power in this country in the future, all
these examples of flagrant outrage will
be multiplied a thousand fold.
The Roman Catholics of the future in
this country will be the most bigoted of
any in the world. Why?
Why? Because the
Romish children of this land are the
With the advent of Rome into con-
trol of our civil affairs, comes inevit-
ably special legislation for the sole
benefit of that Church. We have had
an instance in the passage of the Grey
Nuns' Act by the New York Legis-
lature, and the law of New York city
giving that Church entire custody and
the religious education of the orphan
and pauper children on Randall's Island,
without regard to the religious belief of
their parents. The Grey Nuns' Act al-
lowed all graduates of the Grey Nuns'
schools throughout the State to become
qualified as teachers in the public schools
without being obliged to be graduates
of the State Normal School, or to pass
an examination; graduates of Harvard,
Yale, Cornell or Vassar being still re-
quired to pass an examination before
being allowed to teach in the public
schools. By this law, the Grey Nuns
would have been enabled to swarm out
half-educated Catholic teachers, without
being obliged to go through the ordeal
of an examination, and inoculate our
schools with Catholic doctrines. The
law was repealed the following winter
when its character became known. The
history and claims of that Church
show that she will not hesitate to avail
herself of the power, should she ever get
it, to fortify and aggrandize herself and
eventually become the State Church.
Especially so, if the Papal Court should
Supremacy of Papal Authority in the United States.
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ever be moved over here. Many, per-
haps, will accept this last statement with
some degree of incredulity. But there
is a great possibility that the Pope may
move his quarters to this country in the
course of time. There is no doubt, at
the rate of progress made by our country
during the last hundred years, that
within the next century, America, with
its population of 150,000,000, will be-
come the centre of civilization, while
Europe will be on the decline in that re-
spect. Rome, looking at the case in
that aspect, has marked this magnificent
country of ours as her own. She has
now no more power in free and united
Italy than any other religious denomina-
tion. To a great extent, Catholicism is
played out in that heretofore priest-
ridden land. Roman Catholics, accord-
ing to the statement of the late Pope,
have more privileges in America than
they have anywhere else in the world,
and should they ever obtain the political
control, this land will then have been
captured by the Pope for his own head-
quarters, should he decide to move over
here. We all know what a power Brig-
ham Young was, even with his limited
resources. What must the Papal power
be should the Papal throne be brought
here! The Pope has said, "The only
country in the world, to-day, where I
am really Pope, is the United States of
America." It simply would become an
opposition government to our own, re-
sulting in the latter being abolished, and
a thorough union of Church and State.
For the first time in the history of the
country, the authorities of New York,
Brooklyn, Baltimore, New Orleans, Cin-
cinnati and other places, at the demand
of the Roman Catholics, lowered that
emblem of civil and religious liberty,
our flag, at half mast, over the death of
a liberty hating Pope. The courts in
New Orleans adjourned when the news of
his death was received. This is a certain
indication that the next step they will
endeavor to take will be to have their
Church and religious holidays legalized.
An attempt was made in the New York
Legislature to make St. Patrick's Day a
legal holiday, but failed. When Pope
Gregory died, in 1846, nobody ever dared
to presume to suggest that the flag should
be lowered at half mast. But since then,
Rome has got our country under its con-
}
trol to a greater or less degree, and that
control is growing stronger every day.
The Romish Church claims to be in-
fallible-that it never errs-therefore
she never erred when she established the
inquisition. In Spain the subject of the
re-establishment of that horrible institu-
tion is already being discussed by some
priests. It was in existence in Rome
previous the revolution of 1849. Pro-
testants were flayed, imprisoned, and
banished as late as 1860, in Tuscany and
Spain. Rome never favored by words
or acts civil and religious liberty, but,
on the other hand, all her authorities
from the Pope downwards, have de-
nounced the doctrine of religious free-
dom and boldly proclaimed that the;
Church is above the State, and that it
is necessarily intolerant, because it is a
divine institution. For proofs we refer
to quotations from Papal encyclical let-
ters and from Romish writers in the ap-
pendix.
This Church is rapidly planting in
our midst a system that will in time ut-
terly destroy our Republican form of
Government; she is binding her laity
together in secret societies to the hazard
of the peace of the nation, and these so-
cieties are but branches of similar bodies
in Europe, all controlled and inspired
by the Pope; she is teaching dogma and
faith to millions of youth (who will in
time be voters) that are directly opposed
to the spirit of our institutions; she fails
to teach in her schools loyalty to our
flag. She is organizing military com-
panies in all of our cities, entirely com-
posed of Roman Catholics, no Protest-
ants being allowed to join.
From the foregoing statements we
have given, showing the remarkable in-
crease of Romanism in this country,
there is imminent danger that our chil-
dren and children's children may be com-
pelled to live under the domination of
Rome; that this great and richly endowed
country of ours may be finally subjugated
by the most powerful hierarchy the
world has ever seen. A slight inkling
can be obtained of what kind of treat-
ment will be meted out to our descend-
ants in case this foreboding should come
to pass, by referring to the history of
the Church from its establishment dur-
ing the fourth century down to the pres-
ent time, and to the intolerant course
How to Avert the Threatened Danger to Our Free Institutions.
pursued by her in this country, as we
have already shown. It is enough to
give one a most melancholy feeling at
the bare idea of Catholicism becoming
the paramount religion, that our grand-
children may possibly suffer from the
arrogance, perhaps persecution, of that
Church, and that the principles of civil
and religious liberty our Revolutionary
Protestant forefathers shed their bloodchise.
for and established, may eventually be
swept away by the disciples of Loyola.
The great question before us is, how
shall we avert this terrible danger of
civil and religious liberty being abolished
in the future? How shall we protect
our children from the intolerance of
Rome ? How shall religious freedom
and the equal rights of all sects be main-
tained for all time to come after we have
passed away? How shall we avert a pos-
sible religious civil war, with all its hor-
rors? The only feasible way to oppose
the future encroachments of Rome that
is left to us, is to take steps Now, while
the Roman Catholics are still in a great
minority, to have the National Consti-
tution so amended as to take away the
power from Congress and all legislative
bodies to vote public money to any insti-
tution under religious control; to pre-
vent Bishops from holding the immense
church property in their own individual
names; to prevent any special legislation
for the benefit of any one sect, requiring
all property, including that controlled
by ecclesiastical bodies, to be taxed, ex-
cept public property, and requiring all
new voters, after the adoption of this
amendment, to be able to read and write.
By the adoption of this amendment now,
WHILE WE HAVE THE POWER, it will be
impossible for the Church to get it re-
pealed in the future, for the reason that
she can never control the necessary three-
fourths of the State legislatures to ratify
a repeal of this Constitutional amend-
ment.
A
The following is a draft of the pro-
posed amendment, which is submitted
to the American people for their consid-
eration:
ARTICLE XVI.
SECTION I. No public money, property, fran-
chise or credit shall be appropriated, directly or
indirectly, for the benefit of any institution under
sectarian control, or for the benefit of any religious
or non-religious sect.
SECTION 2. No special laws shall be enacted
for the benefit of any one religious or non-religious
sect.
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SECTION 3. All ecclesiastical property shall be
held in trust by Boards of Trustees, numbering not
less than five members to each Board, to be ap-
pointed by, and composed of members of the con-
gregation owning or donating the property.
SECTION 4. No property shall be exempt from
taxation except public property.
SECTION 5. All new voters after the adoption
of this amendment shall be required to be able to
read and write before exercising the elective fran-
The first section, forbidding sectarian
appropriations, will protect the public
treasury from being raided upon by the
Romish Church, as has been done in
New-York City, and will forever protect
and preserve intact our school fund
from being disturbed by that Church.
K
The second will guard against any
further "Grey Nuns' Acts," or special
legislation for the benefit of that Church.
The third section, requiring all
church property to be held by the trus-
tees, to be composed of members of the
congregation owning or using the same,
is very important. An ecclesiastical
clique, oath-bound and secret in its char-
acter, which has unsurpassed facilities
for raising money by taxing and assessing,
by selling masses, by appealing to the su-
perstitious feelings of the devotees of the
Church, and by influencing the dying to
will property to the Church through the
power to grant or withhold the sacra-
ment of extreme unction," thereby
accumulating hundred and thousands of
millions of dollars, is a most dangerous
organization to exist in this or any other
country. This section simply means
that the property shall be held in the
name of the congregation which contrib-
uted and really owns it. The Bishops
claim that they hold the property in trust
for the Church, therefore no injustice is
done them by substituting the real
owners or donor of the property to hold
the same in trust for themselves or the
Church.
The fourth section, requiring all prop-
erty, excepting public property, to be
taxed, will commend itself to all just
minded men as eminently fair.
It is of the highest importance for the
protection of future generations that
the principle of a perfect separation of
Church and State should be thoroughly
imbued in the minds of the American
people. This cannot be done so long as
church property is exempted from taxa-
tion. By requiring that church property
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United and Prompt Action the only Hope of the Republic.
should be taxed in common with other
property, the line of demarcation be-
tween Church and State would then be
so clearly defined that the difficulty of
crossing it would become so much
greater, thus rendering an attempt to
repeal the proposed amendment, if
adopted, impracticable for want of the
control of the necessary three-fourths of
the States to ratify such a repeal. To
exempt churches from taxation would
simply be letting down the bars to allow
all kinds of church property to be ex-
empted, such as convents, protective
retreats, monasteries, bishop's palaces,
educational institutions, business prop-
erty owned by the church, and so on.
Why
should a few Romish bishops, hold-
ing in their individual name hundreds of
millions of property, which will be swelled
in a few years to thousands of millions,
be favored and exempted from taxation?
That Church has a mania for accumu-
lating property because it means power,
therefore she should not be exempt from
paying her proportion of taxes, and the
same rule applies to all other sects.
ふ
​The clergy in Mexico owned $400,000,-
000 of property previous to its being
confiscated by the Government, and
which never paid any tax. If the Ro-
mish power in this country held as much
property in proportion to population-
45,000,000 to 9,000,000-it would have
reached $2,000,000,000; or if they
owned as much in proportion to Romish
population 7,500,000 to 9,000,000—
they would have owned $323,000,000,
and it now already controls $250,000,000.
The case of Mexico, as well as other
Catholic countries, shows clearly what
the hierarchy contemplates doing in this
country—namely, to accumulate a vast
amount of property, reaching into the
thousands of millions, simply because it
will give an immense amount of political
as well as financial power.
App
The fifth section, requiring all new
voters after its adoption to be able to
read and write, does not disfranchise
any voter, but it applies to new voters
only. This amendment will give us to
some extent an additional safeguard
against the priest and demagogue con-
trolling the vote of the ignorant. Fur-
ther argument in favor of this proposi-
tion is unnecessary.
In conclusion, the undersigned, in be-
half of the Order of the American Union,
an association organized for the purpose
of opposing the encroachments of the
Church of Rome upon the rights of non-
Catholics, would submit the subject
treated in this address to the earnest
consideration of the American people.
The fact is manifest beyond contradic-
tion, that a portion of our people, now
on the stage of life, will live to see the
day when they will be under the domi-
nation of the Church of Rome, and be
obliged to pay tithes for its support,
unless steps are taken, by a proper
amendment of the Constitution, to guard
against that terrible calamity. Unless
this amendment is adopted, when that
day arrives, the principles of civil and
religious liberty, which have been hand-
ed down to us by our Protestant fore-
fathers, will have been abolished by the
frocked Jesuits and priests, and the
blood-stained principles of the Church
substituted, which allows only liberty to
obey its behests and to worship according
to its forms and not according to the
dictates of conscience. Can we afford
even to run that terrible risk of our
children being subjected to the eccle-
siastical tyranny of a great intolerant
Church? Is it not our duty Now, while
we the non-Catholics have the power,
to take measures to incorporate in the
fundamental laws of the land that which
will protect generations to come from
the encroachments of the great Romish
hierarchy?
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Remember that every year's delay only
adds to the power of Rome, by reason of
her more rapid increase of population,
to prevent the foregoing proposed amend-
ment from being ratified by three-fourths
of the States. Immediate action should
be taken to inaugurate a movement to
bring the proposed Sixteenth Amend-
ment before the American people.
That political party which adopts this
just amendment in its platform will
sweep the country, for nothing appeals
so much to the heart of the American
liberty-loving citizen as a measure de-
signed to protect his children in their
rights, and to preserve intact this glo-
rious liberty, these benign institutions,
the dear purchase of our fathers," from
being trampled, within a comparatively
few years, under the iron heel of intol-
erant and persecuting Rome.
THE ORDER OF THE AMERICAN UNION.
APPENDIX.
The Roman Catholic Hierarchy boasts that the
Church never changes-never erred-that its action
in the future will be the same that it has been in
the past. We call attention to the following quo-
tations from Papal encyclicals, writers, ecclesiastics
and newspapers, where they candidly acknowledge
that the Church is intolerant, is above the State,
and that heretics have no rights in the eye of the
Church:
"If we will hold our own amid the universal
war that is going on, we must be more united.
Nationalities must be made subordinate to religion,
and we must learn that we are Catholics first and
citizens next. God is above man, and the Church
above the State. At present we have nothing to
hope for from the State."-Bishop Gilmour's Len-
ten Letter, March, 1873.
The Rambler, a Roman Catholic paper of Lon-
don, contained the following:
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*
*
*
"Religious liberty, in the sense of a liberty pos-
sessed by every man to choose his religion, is one of
the most wicked delusions ever foisted upon this
age by the father of all deceit. The very name of
liberty-except in the sense of a permission to do
certain definite acts-ought to be banished from the
domain of religion.
It is neither more
nor less than falsehood. No MAN HAS a RIGHT
TO CHOOSE HIS RELIGION.
None
but an atheist can uphold the principles of religious
liberty.
Shall I, therefore, fall into
this abominable delusion? Shall I foster that
damnable doctrine, that Socinianism, and Calvinism,
and Anglicanism, and Judaism; are not every one
of them mortal sins, like murder and adultery?
Shall I hold out hopes to my erring Protestant
brother, that I will not meddle with his creed if he
will not meddle with mine? Shall I tempt him to
forget that he has no more right to his religious
views than he has to my purse, to my house, or to
my life blood? No; Catholicism is the most in-
tolerant of creeds. It is intolerance itself; for it is
the truth itself. We might as rationally maintain
that a sane man has a right to believe that two and
two do not make four, as this theory of religious
liberty. Its impiety is only equalled by its absurd-
ity."
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Brownson, in his quarterly of 1845, also disclosed
their purposes, as follows:
"But would you have this country under the
authority of the Pope? Why not? But the Pope
would take away our free institutions! Nonsense.
But how do you know that? From what do you
infer it? After all, do you not commit a slight
blunder? Are your free institutions infallible?
Are they founded on divine right? This you deny.
Is not the proper question for you to discuss, then,
not whether the Papacy BE OR BE NOT COMPATI
BLE WITH REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT, but
whether it be or be not founded in DIVINE RIGHT?
(17)
I
If the Papacy be founded in divine right, it is su-
preme over whatever is founded only in human
right, and then your institutions should be made to
harmonize with it, not it with your institutions.
The real question, then, is, not the compatibility or
incompatibility of the Catholic Church with demo-
cratic institutions, but is the Catholic Church the
Church of God? Settle this question first. But
in point of fact, democracy is a mischevious dream,
wherever the Catholic Church does not predomi-
nate to inspire the people with reverence, and to
teach and accustom them to OBEDIENCE TO AU-
THORITY. The first lesson for all to learn, the last
that should be forgotten, is, TO OBEY.
You can
have no government where there is no obedience,
and obedience to law, as it is called, will not long
be enforced, where the fallibility of law is clearly
seen and freely admitted. But, it is the intention
of the Pope to possess this country.' Unboubtedly.
In this intention he is aided by the Jesuits, and
all the Catholic prelates and Priests.' Uudoubtedly,
if they are faithful to their religion.
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*
"That the policy of the Church is dreaded and
opposed, and must be dreaded and opposed by all
Protestants, infidels, demagogues, tyrants and op-
pressors, is also unquestionably true. Save, then,
in the discharge of our civil duties, and in the or-
dinary business of life, there is, AND CAN BE, NO
HARMONY BETWEEN CATHOLICS AND PROTES-
ANTS.
>>
*
"The Catholic who says the Church is not intole-
rant belies the Sacred Spouse of Christ."-Shep-
herd of the Valley, Papist.
"Catholicism is the most intolerant of creeds.
It is intolerance itself for it is truth itself. We
might as rationally maintain that a sane man has
a right to believe that two and two do not make
four, as this theory of religious liberty. Its impiety
is only equalled by its absurdity."-New York
Freeman's Journal, Papist.
Papal Bishops in the United States profess tole-
ration of all religious sects, and maintain that the
same tolerancy is practiced abroad. They pretend
that theirs is wholly a religious organization, and
that whatever their Church may have done in for-
mer times, it no longer interferes with political
affairs. To get at the truth of these declarations,
we propose to summon certain Spanish Bishops as
witnesses. Prior to the late elections in Spain, the
Papal clergy of Catalonia called upon their Bishops
to determine the course of conduct to be pursued.
The Bishops considered the matter, and under date
of January 18, 1876, returned the following reply :
"DEAR BRETHREN IN CHRIST:
"In gathering up into one question the different
requests which you have addressed to us in reference
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Appendix.
to the course to be followed by all ecclesiastics in
the approaching election of deputies, and of the
delegates who are to nominate the Senators, we
believe it.to be our duty to answer you briefly and
pointedly as follows:
That liberty of worship is condemned in the
77, 78 and 79 propositions of the Syllabus of the
reigning Pontiff, the immortal PIUS IX., that no
Catholic can vote for this disastrous liberty, nor send
by his vote to the Cortes those who are determined
to establish such liberty of worship in Spain.
"That we are bound in duty to employ every
legal means in our power to drive from the Assem-
bly and Senate all who cherish such a design.
"And that we must have recourse to every le-
gitimate and honest instrumentality at our disposal
to secure that the Spanish people shall be repre-
sented in the Legislature only by men who, setting
aside all political opinions, are firmly resolved to
re-establish, and, in case of need, to defend religious
unity in our dear native country.'
The above precious document bears the signatures
of Constantine, Archbishop of Tarragona, Frere
Joaquif, Bishop of Barcelona, and Isadore, Bishop
of Gironne, for themselves, and on behalf of Messrs.
the Bishop of Tortosa, and the Vicars General of
Lerida, Vich, and Solsona.
"Only a few years ago the Roman Catholics in our
midst were an insignificant minority, but now the
immense increase of this sect, in wealth and num-
bers, is obvious to the most superficial observer.
It is well-known that our large towns and cities far
surpass the rural districts in the rapidity of their
growth in population, and consequently in political
power. Now all these centres of commerce and
industry are gradually becoming the strongholds of
Romanism. In New York City the privileges en-
joyed by the Catholic Church actually exceed those
which England grants to her Established Church.
The Church of England pays taxes upon its prop-
erty like a private individual. Our Established
Church has never contributed a penny to the mu-
nicipal treasury, but has drawn from it, directly or
indirectly, millions of dollars. All over our land,
Catholic churches are springing up like the dragon's
teeth sown by Cadmus. And these buildings are
never rude, temporary structures, as are many of
the churches built by other sects. There is a deep
significance in the solid masonry characteristic of
all Catholic edifices. The priests build for centu-
ries. Where their feet are planted they intend to
remain, and, like the 'Old Man of the Mountains,'
they are patiently awaiting the time when this na-
tion, imitating the folly of Sinbad, shall allow them
to mount upon its shoulders. If the Roman hier-
archy has no political aims, why is Celibacy still
enforced among its priests? Celibacy forms no
part of the Catholic creed proper. It was en-
grafted upon the Church by ambitious Popes, lust-
ing for political power, and knowing how greatly
their schemes would be aided by a host of priests
having no ties of country or kindred, no father save
the Pope, no wife but the Church, acting in every
land the role of spy and plotter, with their whole
souls concentrated upon a single purpose-the
eternal perpetuation of a spiritual and political
despotism."-New York Conflict.
The Philadelphia Catholic Standard manifests
great indignation because a statue of Prince Bis-
mark is to be set up in the Centennial grounds.
Among other things it says :
"A greater outrage cannot be conceived than
this will be, should that statue be received and
erected by the Centennial Commission. We
should as soon expect to see a statue of George the
Third, or of Nero or Domitian.
On the same ground are statues to Irish Catholic
dignitaries. According to the above, German
Protestants have no rights Catholic Irish are bound
to respect.
The New York Tablet mourns the defeat of Don
Carlos, and consoles itself with the idea that King
Alfonso will have a short reign. We make a single
extract from the Tablet's article of the 18th inst.:
"He (Alfonso) has found himself under the ne-
cessity of making a somewhat ostentatious profes-
sion of liberalism and constitutionalism. This is
his weakness, a weakness which will make his
reign of short duration. The Spanish grandees
are either ambitious intriguers or chivalrous men of
action. Constitutionalism has but scant charms for
them."
"IS CATHOLICISM INTOLERANT?-The Catholic
press and priests of this country generally teach
that all they want as a class of citizens is equal
rights and privileges in all civil and ecclesiastical
matters. This, we believe, is not true, and we also
believe that these Editors and priests know that it
is not true. The Roman Church has been an in-
tolerant body from the commencement of its history
to the present date, and has never failed to exercise
its bloody intolerance against all dissenters when it
has had the military power to do so. We are
astonished to see how English and American Prot-
estants are being duped with the beguiling soph-
istry and satanic duplicity of Jesuitical priests,
while they are forging chains to enslave them and
faggots to burn them.
"The spirit of that Church and its present designs
may be seen in its demands upon Spain, the only
government over which it exercises political control.
correspondent writing from February
22d, says:
"The Archbishop of Toledo and other
prelates have petitioned the Cortes to grant Catho-
lic unity, and prohibit any other worship in Spain.'
"We have no doubt that the prelates of this
country would petition Congress to-morrow for the
enactment of a law closing every Protestant church
in these States, if they thought there was a proba-
That Church designs to be a
bility of its passage.
unity, governed by the same policy everywhere:
therefore, what they would do in Spain, they would
do everywhere if they could."-World's Crisis.
"If any think that Christ, our Lord and King,
has only given to his Church power to guide by
advice and permission, but not ordain by-laws to
compel and force, by anterior judgments and salu-
tary inflictions, those who thus separate themselves,
let them be ananthema."-Canon XII of the Vati-
can Council.
"Protestantism, of every form, has not, and never
can have, any right where Catholicity is triumph-
ant; and therefore we lose the breath we expend
in declaiming against bigotry and intolerance, and
and in favor of religious liberty, or the right of
Appendix.
any man to be of any religion as best pleases him."
-Catholic Review, January, 1852.
"As the Church commands the spiritual part of
man directly, she therefore commands the whole man,
and all that depends on man. From the darkness
of the catacombs the Church dictated laws to the sub-
jects of the emperors, abrogating decrees, whether
plebian, senatorial, or imperial, when in conflict
with Catholic ordinances. Did the Christian em-
perors become insolent, the Church armed against
them their very electors. To every rampant her-
esy the Church knew how to oppose the power
either of the people or of their princes; and when
these supports seemed at last to have been snatched
from her by a universal rationalism, behold, there
is a sudden turning back of both of the nations,
fearing an unbridled royal power, and proclaiming
the necessity of a supreme spiritual power; of the
princes, beginning to understand, at the light of a
bloody communism, that the principles of the
Church are a firmer foundation for their thrones
than bayonets, which must always be entrusted to
a part of the people. The conclusion is, therefore,
that there are no limits to the exercise of the coer-
cive power of the Church, either in view of her
means or of her aim."-Civilta Cattolica, 1854,
organ of the Pope, published at Rome.
"We confess that we are grieved to see distin-
guished Catholic statesmen searching history to find
examples of resistance to papal authority by the
temporal power, and concluding from them that a
man may be a Catholic and also loyal to his tem-
poral sovereign. Let us, in God's name, have no
more of this. Let us dare to assert the truth in
the face of the lying world, and, instead of plead-
ing for our Church at the bar of the State, summon
the State to appear at the bar of the Church, its di-
vinely constituted judge."-Brownson's Review.
"The Pope has the right to pronounce sentence
of deposition against any sovereign, when required
by the good of the spiritual order."-Brownsen's
Review.
"The power of the Church exercised over sover-
eigns in the middle ages was not a usurpation, was
not derived from the concession of princes, or the
consent of all people, but was, and is, held by divine
right, and whoso resists it rebels against the King
of kings and Lord of lords."-Brownson's Review.
The (Catholie) Tablet of October 9th, 1864,
printed a sermon delivered by Archbishop Man-
ning, now Cardinal, in the Pro-Cathedral, Ken-
sington, England, in which that prelate puts the
following sentences in the Pope's mouth :
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I acknowledge no civil power; I am the sub-
ject of no prince; and I claim more than this-I
claim to be the supreme judge and director of the
consciences of men-of the peasant that tills the
fields, and of the prince that sits upon the throne;
of the household that lives in the shade of privacy,
and the legislator that makes laws for kingdoms;
I am the sole, last, supreme judge of what is right
and wrong."
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Moreover, we declare, affirm, define, and
pro-
nounce it to be necessary to salvation for every hu-
man creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff."-
Archbishop Manning.
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Pius IX., in 1854, declared the laws of Sardinia
to be "absolutely null and void." He has since
excommunieated King Victor Emmanuel, and at-
tempted to interfere with the execution of the laws
in Italy, Spain, Prussia, Austria and Brazil. In
1875 he demanded a restoration of the Catholic
houses in Spain, intending thereby to close Prot-
estant places of worship, and prevent the burial of
Protestants in consecrated ground.
The present Pope has reaffirmed all the powers
exercised by his predecessors, and claims the right
to use them. Cardinal Manning, in his reply to
Mr. Gladstone, says: "Pius IX. cannot repudiate
powers which his predecessors justly exercised,
without implying that their actions were unjust."
PAPAL INTERFERENCE IN PRUSSIA.
With a view to absolving his Catholic subjects
in Germany from obedience to the present laws of
the empire, the Pope, under the date of February
5, 1875, issued a bull, which was sent privately by
special carrier to every German Bishop. The fol-
lowing passage will show that Pius IX. tenaciously
upholds the Papal claim to interfere with civil gov-
ernments:
"But the desecration of the episcopal dignity,
the violation of the freedom and rights of the Cath-
olic Church, and the persecution to which not only
the above-named dioceses, but all the dioceses in
Prussia are exposed, induce us to raise our voice
and to condemn those laws which are the source
of all this mischief and of all these calamities. We
oppose this impious power with all the energy and
authority of divine right. In virtue of the apos-
tolic charge with which we are invested, we de-
clare by this letter to all those who are concerned
in this persecution in particular, and to the whole
Catholic population, that these laws are void, be-
because they contradict the institutions of the
Church."
PRINCE BISMARCK'S VIEW.
In a speech delivered April 16, 1875, the Ger-
man Chancellor said: "The worst is, that after
the Vatican Council the Bishops, too, have ceased
to be independent, and the Roman Catholic Church
is governed by the Pope alone. Accordingly that
clause in the charter which leaves the affairs of the
Roman Church in Prussia to itself means nothing
but that they are left to the Pope. Now, this Pope
is a foreigner-an Italian priest-elected by Italian
priests, and advised by Italian priests, who care
exceedingly little for the welfare and prosperity of
these poor, sandy marshes of ours. Still, having
every priest in Prussia under his absolute orders-
as to the Catholic laity, they never were consid-
ered by their Church anything but misera contrib-
uens plebs-this Pope, this foreigner, this Italian,
is more powerful in this country than any one per-
son, not excepting even the King. And now,
ندا
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please to consider what this foreigner has an-
nounced as the programme by which he rules in
Prussia as elsewhere. He begins by arrogating to
himself the right to define how far his authority
extends, and where King and Parliament may be
permitted to claim same slight prerogative, too.
He then goes on—of course I am speaking of the
Syllabus and other new statutes-to condemn con-
stitutional government, the liberty of the press,
liberal education, etc. He likewise hands over
heretics, including the great majority of the Prus-
sians, to eternal perdition, and orders us to accept
the Romish religion, as we value the future salva-
tion of our souls. And this Pope, who would use
fire and sword against us if he had the power to do
so, who would confiscate our property and not
spare our lives, expects us to allow him full, un-
controlled sway in our midst. This Pope, who
has semi-official papers of his own in Prussia, more
numerous, more actively circulated, more skillfully
edited, and cheaper than those of the Government,
expects us to allow him an imperium in imperio,
though he is pleased to use his political influence
all against us.
""
"For our own part, we take this opportunity to
explain our hearty delight at the suppression of
the Protestant chapel in Rome. This may be
thought intolerant; but when, we ask, did we ever
profess to be tolerant of Protestantism, or to favor
the question that Protestantism ought to be toler-
ated? On the contrary, we HATE Protestantism
-we DETEST it with our whole heart and soul,
and we pray our aversion to it may never decrease."
-Pittsburgh Catholic Visitor, 1848.
"No good government can exist without re-
ligion-and there can be no religion without an
Inquisition, which is wisely designed for the pro-
motion and protection of the true faith."-Boston
Pilot.
"After the flight of Pius IX. from Rome, one
of our first cares was to open the dungeons of the
Inquisition, to free its many victims, to destroy the
relics of these priestly cruelties, and to change the
inquisitorial apartments into alms houses for the
poor people deprived of their habitations during
the Roman seige. But the first care of Pius IX.,
on his return, was to renew those inquisitorial pris-
ons. "-Gavazzi.
The Austrian Government, between December
21, 1867, and May 25, 1868, established laws to
protect freedom of conscience, freedom of worship,
freedom of instruction, freedom of the press and
civil marriage. The last means that a marriage is
valid solemnized by a civil magistrate, so that now
Protestants may marry Catholics without promis-
ing that their children shall be baptized and brought
up in the Romish Church. The freedom granted
by the Austrian laws is a part of free institutions,
and is essential to them. But the Pope in his allo-
cution, denounces these laws as "odious,”—“ "in
flagrant contradiction with the doctrines of the
Catholic religion," and "with natural right." Is
this the changed spirit of Popery?
1 When, in 1864, the Pope issued his Encyclical
and Syllabus, condemning, as in the allocution, all
the liberties and the progress of the nineteenth
century, and adding that civil rulers ought to en-
force the decrees of the Church, the Archbishop of
Cincinnati spoke of it thus: "We receive it im-
plicitly. We bow to it reverently. We embrace
it cordially. We hail it gratefully. To us it is the
voice of God on Sinai." And this is tolerant Ro-
manism !
In 1868, Mary Ann Smith, a girl sixteen years
of age, was imprisoned in the City of New York
for becoming a Protestant. She was made to work
and sleep among abandoned women.
She was
kept in durance vile by the decision of a New
York Judge, after another Judge, who granted a
writ of habeas corpus, had declared that "no father
had a right to place his daughter in such circum-
stances," and after the Catholic priest, who insti-
gated the father to put her there, was compelled,
under oath, to confess that it was done because
she became a Protestant.-See Christian World
for August, 1868.
The foregoing was simply a case of flagrant per-
secution for religious faith which a New York
Judge encouraged and protected. Is not this the
Inquisition begun in the United States? Do such
things teach us that Romanism becomes more lib-
eral as it grows stronger in our land? It should
be borne in mind that this Judge had the girl con-
fined in that manner in order to please the Catho-
lics and get their votes !
All Catholic newspapers published in the United
States speak only by inspiration of the Bishops,
hence we have the Western Catholic saying :
"Whenever any law of man, whether relating to
spiritual or temporal affairs, conflicts with any law
of God, as it is interpreted to the world by the in-
fallible Pope of Rome, it is to be disobeyed, and the
latter is to be substituted for it.
>>
"The power of the Roman Catholic Bishops of
America is a Tyranny within the Church, and a
standing danger to the liberties of the country.".
Father Stack.
"If the liberties of the American people are ever
destroyed they will fall by the hands of the Romish
clergy."-Lafayette.
"If your son or daughter is attending a State
school, you may be as certain that you are violating
your duty as a Catholic parent, and conducing to
the everlasting anguish and despair of your child,
as if you could take your oath of it! Take him
Let him rather never know how to write
away.
his name, than become the bond and chained slave
of Satan-than rise up at the last dread day of ac-
counts, to curse you in all the unavailing repent-
ance and bitterness of final despair. Take him
away, if you do not wish your bed of death to be
tormented with the spectre of a soul which God
has given you as a sacred trust, surrendered to the
great enemy of mankind! Take him away, rather
than incur the anger of his God, and the loss of
his soul !"-Western (Chicago) Tablet.
As the
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Appendix.
WHO ARE CONDEMNED BY THE PAPAL gion of any country, and no claim even to toleration.
SEE.
All who maintain the liberty of the press. -En-
cyclical Letted of Gregory XVI., in 1831, and of
Pius IX., in 1864.
The Catholic Missionary has the right because he
goes clothed with the authority of God, and
because he is sent by authority that has from God
the right to send him. To refuse to hear him is to
refuse to hear God, and to close a Catholic Church
is to shut up the house of God. The Catholic
missionary is sent by the Church that has authority
from God to send him; the Protestant missionary
is sent by nobody, and can oblige nobody in the
estant friends should bear this in mind. They
name of God or religion to hear him. Our Prot-
have as Protestants no authority in religion, and
count for nothing in the Church of God.
They have from God no right of propagandism,
and religious liberty is in no sense violated when
the national authority, whether Catholic or Pagan,
closes their mouths and their places of holding
forth.'
* *
Those who assert the liberty of conscience and
of religious worship.-Encyclical Letter of Pius
IX., December 8, 1864.
All advocates of the liberty of speech.-Syllabus
of March 18th, 1861: Prop. lxxix., Encyclical of
Pius IX., December 8th, 1864.
All who contend that Papal judgments may,
without sin, be disobeyed or differed from, unless
they treat of the rules (dogmata) of faith and mor-
als.-Ibid.
Those who hold that Roman Pontiffs and Ecu-
menical Councils (meaning Roman Councils not
recognized by others) have transgressed the limits
of their power, and usurped the rights of princes.
-Ibid, Prop. xxiii.
All such as maintain that the Church may not
employ force.-Ibid, Prop. xxiv.
All who believe that any method of instruction
of youth, solely secular, may be approved.-Ibid,
Prop. xlviii.
All who insist that marriage, not sacramentally
contracted, has a binding force.—Ibid, Prop. lxxiii.
All who assert that a religion other than Roman
Catholicism may be established by a State.-Ibid,
Prop. lxxviii.
All who maintain that in countries called Cath-
olic, the free exercise of other religions may laud-
ably be allowed.—Ibid.
All who affirm that the Pope ought to come to
terms with progress, liberalism, and modern civili-
zation.-Ibid, Prop. lxxx.
Protestants should not fail to note that Pius IX.,
in condemning those who affirm that the Roman
Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have trans-
gressed the limits of their power, and usurped the
rights of princes—thus justifying and approving all
that was done by former Pontiffs and Councils--not
only holds on to the Pope's right to depose rulers,
but to the Church's right to renew the Inquisition
and renew the stake and the faggot.
In a letter to M. Perin, Professor of Jurisprudence
at Louvain, the Pope says:
“Would to God that these truths were understood
by those who boast themselves to be Catholics,
although they obstinately adhere to liberty of
conscience, liberty of creed, the freedom of the press,
and similar kinds of liberty which were established
by the revolutionists at the end of the last century,
and which the Church has always condemned."
Thalheimer's General History," an anti-Cath-
olic print, is stricken from the list of public school
text-books in New York. This action is due to the
manful persistence of Commissioner Laurence G.
Goulding."-Catholic Universe.
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The N. Y. Tablet, as quoted in the Christian
World, of July 1867, has this view of religious
liberty:
"No self-appointed missionaries of self-created
societies have any rights against the national reli-
W. J. Stillman, Esq., late U. S. Consul at
Rome, writes to the N. Y. Tribune, of January 9,
1871, respecting the Roman Papal Government
from 1861 to 1865:
"I know that spies were placed at the doors of
the places of Protestant worship, to see if any Ro-
man went in, and that one friend of mine, a sur-
geon in the French hospital, was arrested for hav-
ing waited on his wife, (an English woman,) and
carried at night to the prison of the Holy Office,
(the euphonic for the Inquisition,) where he was
menaced with severe punishment if he not only did
not abstain from courtesies to Protestantism, but
compel his wife to leave the Anglican communion
and enter the Roman, and he finally escaped from
them by an appeal to French protection as an
employee.
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The brother of one of my most intimate friends
was arrested in his bed at night, carried off by offi-
cers of the Holy Office, and never heard of again,
until years after, when a released prisoner came to
tell the survivor that his brother had died in the
prison with him, and was buried in the earth of
the dungeon.
"Another of my friends, Castellani, the jeweller,
was under so severe police surveillance, that for
several years he had not dared to walk in the street
with any of his friends, and when his father died
the body was taken possession of by the police at
the door of the house, the coffin surrounded by a
detachment of officlals, carried to the church, and
the next day buried, all tokens of respect to the
deceased being forbidden, and all participation in
the services by his friends. He and his sons were
liberals in opinion.
"The system of terrorism was such that liberal
Romans dared meet only in public, and never per-
mitted a stranger to approach them in conversa-
tion. I never dared to enter the house of a Ro-
man friend, for fear of bringing on him a domicil-
iary visit.
"I can conceive no system of torture worse
than this terrible espionage, under which every
patriotic Roman lay, fearful of his own breath
-one scarcely daring to speak to another ex-
cept in tones and inuendos. They suffer the pen-
alty of crime for the wish merely to be free.
Had it not been for the system of counter-espion-
age, kept up by the Roman Committee on the
Government, no Liberal could have lived in Rome.
When suspected they generally had warnings by
their own spies.
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'The Roman Government of my time was the
embodiment of the Papacy of the middle ages. It
had its rod over its subjects, as it always has done.
If the world made progress outside its walls, it was
strong enough to repress mercilessly all evidence
of it within."
The only Protestant houses of worship allowed
by the late Pope Pius, before he was deprived of
his temporal power, was the British chapel, under
the protection of the British Minister, the chapel
of the Prussian Ambassador, at his residence, and
a chapel held in the residence of the Hon. Lewis
Cass, Jr., American Charge d' Affairs. Previous
to the opening of the latter, an American clergy-
man, Rev. G. H. Hastings, held Protestant ser-
vice at his own house for the accommodation of
Americans, but it was closed by order of the Papal
Government, necessitating it being held at the
house of Mr. Cass. This chapel was finally closed
by the Government.
The case of the Mortara child illustrates the ter-
rible intolerance of the head of the Romish Church,
the late Pope Pius. Edgaro Mortara, a Jewish
boy of seven years of age, was kidnapped from his
parents, about 1853, by authority of the late
Pope, and placed in a monastery, and afterwards
brought up as a monk. The reason for this dia-
bolical outrage was that the child, when an infant,
had been baptized by a Catholic servant girl,
and consequently the Church claimed it for the
purpose of seeing that he was brought up in
the faith of the Church. The affair created a
great deal of excitement in the civilized world at
the time, and the hopeless mother of the child died
broken-hearted.
In Tuscany, before Italian unity had been estab-
lished, the laws against religious freedom were
very stringent and cruel. In 1851, Count Grucci-
ardini and five others were arrested and impris-
oned, and afterwards banished, for the crime of
having had the Bible in their possession. The
following winter, Francesco Madai and his wife
Rosa, were arrested for reading and teaching the
Bible in their own household, and after being con-
fined for many months in a loathsome dungeon,
they were sentenced, the husband to fifty-six
months' imprisonment at hard labor, and the wife
to forty-five months' hard labor, separated fifty
miles from her husband. These cases excited
most intense indignation throughout the civilized
world. The Pope (Pius IX., who died recently,)
refused to interfere in favor of these unfortunates,
thus tacitly approving the persecutions of these
devoted Protestants. Appeals were made to the
Grand Duke of Tuscany, by men of high position
in France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland,
Switzerland and the United States, to liberate
those persons. Finally a mass meeting was held
in New York City, and the President, Mr. Fill-
more, was called upon to use the influence of our
Government to procure their liberation. Mr. Ev-
erett, then Secretary of State, wrote a letter, ask-
ing the Grand Duke to liberate the Madais, and
allow them to come to this country, which was
finally done. Persecution did not cease with them,
however: some thirty or forty other persons, men
and women, were arrested and imprisoned for the
same offense, and over a hundred others were har-
rassed by the police, under suspicion of having
read the Bible.
In France no Protestant clergyman can preach
without a special license, although Catholic priests
can preach without any restriction whatever. Fa-
ther Hyacinth was forbidden by the authorities to
preach against Romanism in Paris.
In Spain, in 1860, Manuel Matamoras was sen-
tenced for eleven years to the galleys, for the crime
of preaching Protestantism. At the same time
some forty Protestants were arrested for reading
the Bible. Joseph Alhama was arrested for the
crime of having suggested that a petition be pre-
sented to the Cortes, favoring religious freedom.
He was sentenced to the galley for a term of years.
All this occurred under the reign of that royal har-
lot, the licentious Queen Isabella, who was re-
warded for her inhuman persecution by the Pope's
calling her the eldest daughter of the Church.
The revolution of 1868 resulted in this miserable,
disreputable woman being driven out of Spain, and
the establishment, under the leadership of that great
friend of civil and religious liberty, the eloquent
Castellar, of restricted religious freedom. On the
re-establishment of royalty in Spain, the late Pope
made several attempts through his Nuncio to have
the clause in the Constitution favoring toleration
of religion repealed, but he failed, although the
Cortes passed unjust laws putting restriction on
religious freedom.
Said Castelar in his speech in Catholic Spain,
before a Catholic Cortes in 1869:
"There is not a single progressive principle that
has not been cursed by the Catholic Church. This
is true of England and Germany, as well as of
Catholic countries. The Church cursed the
French Revolution, the Belgian Constitution, and
the Italian independence; nevertheless, all these
principles have been unrolled in spite of it. Not a
constitution has been born, not a single progress
made, not a solitary reform effected, which has
not been under the terrible anathemas of the
Church."
For the first time in the history of Spain, after
the promulgation of the new Constitution, after
the expulsion of Isabella, Protestant worship was
held the first church opened was in Madrid, in
1869.
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In 1852, by a royal decree, issued in Portugal
whoever offends in respect to Roman Catholic re-
ligion (by advocating another religion) must be
imprisoned from one to three years, and heavily
fined.
under its dominion, and be made to obey all the
laws that he and his hierarchy shall choose to pro-
mulgate! and that this same Church shall have
power also to inflict whatever penalties he shall
prescribe upon all those who dare to violate any of
these laws! The Constitution secures the right to
every man of worshipping God according to the
convictions of his own conscience: yet the Pope
calls this insanity, and declares it to be 'most per-
nicious to the Catholic Church.' The Constitu-
tion guarantees liberty of speech and of the press :
yet the Pope says this is 'the liberty of perdition,'
and should not be tolerated. The Constitution
provides for its own perpetuity by making its prin-
ciples 'the supreme law of the land :' yet the Pope
says that if he shall find, as he has already done,
any of its provisions against the law of God, as he
interprets it, they do not acquire the force of
right' from the fact of its existence, as the funda-
mental law of the nation. The Constitution re-
quires that all the people, and all the churches,
shall obey the laws of the United States: yet the
Pope anathematizes this provision, because it re-
quires the Roman Catholic Church to pay the same
measure of obedience to law that is paid by the
Protestant Churches; and claims that the Govern-
ment shall obey him in all religious affairs, and in
all secular affairs' which pertain to religion and
the Church, so that his will, in all these matters,
The new Constitution of Peru allowed liberty shall become the law of the land. The Constitu-
only to the Roman Catholic religion.
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tion subordinates all churches to the civil power,
except in matters of faith and discipline: yet the
Pope declares this to be heresy, because God has
commanded that the Government of the United
States, and all other governments, shall be subor-
dinate to the Roman Catholic Church! The Con-
stitution is based upon the principle that the peo-
ple of the United States are the primary source of
all civil power: yet the Pope insists that this is
heretical and unjust, because God has ordained that
all governments shall rest upon the foundation of
the Catholic faith,' with himself alone as the source
The Constitution repudi-
and interpreter of law.
ates all royal power:' yet the Pope condemns
this, and proclaims that the world must be govern-
ed by royal power,' in order that it may protect
the Roman Catholic Church to the exclusion of all
other chuches! The Constitution allows the free
circulation of the Bible, and the right of private
judgment in interpreting it: yet the Pope denounces
this, and says that the Roman Catholic Church is
the only living authority' which has the right to
the only one allowed, and should be protected by
interpret it, and that its interpretation should be
law, while all others should be condemned and
disallowed. In all these respects, and upon each
of these important and fundamental ideas of gov-
ernment, there is an irreconcilable difference be-
tween the Constitution of the United States and
the papal principles announced by this encyclical
letter. The two classes of principles can not both
exist, anywhere, at the same time. Where one is,
there it is impossible for the other to be."
In 1867, Austria passed laws legalizing civil
marriage contract, granting the fullest religious
liberty, requiring that orphan children be brought
up in the faith of their parents, whether it be Cath-
olic, Protestant, or Jewish, and taking the public
education of children out of the hands of the clergy.
The Pope (the late Pius IX) issued his encyclical
letter denouncing the establishment of religious
freedom by Austria, and notified all of the faithful
that these laws were null and void. These laws
were passed through the influence of Count Von
Beust, a Protestant statesman.
New Grenada, South America, in 1851, passed
laws granting religious freedom, and correcting
certain abuses in the Church, and the Pope in his
allocution of September 27, 1852, declared these
laws null and void.
Another illustration of the plans and expectations
of Romanists is contained in significant hints in a
recent lecture of Rev. Edward M'Glynn, a Roman
clergyman, at the Cooper Institute, New York. He
chose for his subject, "Our Religious Destiny,
"Our Religious Destiny,"
and in summing up the substance of his lecture, he
said:
"This country must become Catholic, or else our
religious history will not be as God designed it to
be. The Catholic religion is grand enough, broad
enough, noble enough, wise and prudent enough,
and divine enough to bless and sanctify all the
countless energies and indomitable will, the ardent
affections and keen intelligence of this American
nation. [Applause.] He believed for himself that
the future religion of this country ought to be
Catholic. Whether it will or not, is another
question. This is the religion that is destined to
prevail in this land.”
Hon. Richard W. Thompson, Secretary of the
Navy, in his great work entitled, "The Papacy
and the Civil Power," published by the Harpers,
speaking of the claim set up by the Pope to uni-
versal supremacy over civil rulers, makes this logi-
cal statement:
"Nothing is plainer than that, if these princi-
ples should prevail here, our institutions would
necessarily fall. The two cannot exist together.
They are in open and direct antagonism with the
fundamental theory of our Government, and of all
popular government everywhere. The Constitu-
tion of the United States repudiates the idea of an
established religion: yet the Pope tells us that this
is in violation of God's law, and that, by that law,
the Roman Catholic religion should be made exclu-
sive, and the Roman Catholic Church, acting alone
through him, should have sovereign authority 'not
only over individuals, but nations, peoples, and sov-
ereigns,' so that the whole world may be brought
The Catholic Columbian, edited under the imme-
diate supervision of the Rt. Rev. Bishop of Colum-
bus, Ohio, says:
"Our judgment of purely secular schools is:
They are unfit for Catholic children, and that Cath-
olic parents cannot be allowed the sacraments
who choose to send their children to them, when
they could make use of Catholic schools."
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Appendix.
VICTOR HUGO'S ESTIMATE OF ROMISH
EDUCATION.
The following is found in "The Question of the
Hour," by Rufus W. Clark, D. D. :
Every American should ponder the truthful,
earnest words of the foremost intellect of France,
the gifted and eloquent Victor Hugo. The follow-
ing is an extract from his speech, in relation to the
effort made, a few years since, by the Romish
priests, to procure an act of the General Assembly
of France, restoring to the clergy the entire in-
struction and control of the national schools. To
understand his position, we should state, that be-
fore the time of Napoleon Bonaparte, every school,
even the primaries, was instructed by a priest, and
very little was taught in them except the Creed and
the elements of the Papal faith.
The emperor
changed the system entirely, and removed every
priest from the schools. The Bourbons, at their
restoration, restored the priests; but the last rev-
olution set the schools free again. In relation to
a renewed effort to bring the schools under subjec-
tion to the church, Victor Hugo said to the
priests :-
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This
Ah, we know you! We know the clerical
party. It is an old party. This it is, which has
found for the truth those two marvellous supporters,
ignorance and error! This it is, which forbids to
science and genius the going beyond the Missal,
and which wishes to cloister thought in dogmas.
Every step which the intelligence of Europe has
taken, has been in spite of it. Its history is writ-
ten in the history of human progress, but it is
written on the back of the leaf. It is opposed to
it all. This it is, which caused Prinelli to be
scourged for having said that the stars would not
fall. This it is, which put Campanella seven
times to the torture, for having affirmed that the
number of worlds was infinite, and for having
caught a glimpse at the secret of creation.
it is, which persecuted Harvey for having proved
the circulation of the blood. In the name of Jesus,
it shut up Galileo. In the name of St. Paul, it
imprisoned Christopher Columbus. To discover
a law of the heavens was an impiety. To find a
world was a heresy. This it is, which anathema-
tized Pascal in the name of religion, Montaigne in
the name of morality, Moliere in the name of both
morality and religion.
For a
long time already the human conscience has re-
volted against you, and now demands of you,
'What is it that you wish of me?' For a long
time already you have tried to put a gag upon the
human intellect. You wish to be the masters of
education. And there is not a poet, not an author,
not a philosopher, not a thinker, that you accept.
All that has been written, found, dreamed, de-
duced, inspired, imagined, invented by genius, the
treasure of civilization, the venerable inheritance
of generations, the common patrimony of knowl-
edge, you reject.
*
*
"There is a book-a book which is, from one
end to the other, an emanation from above-a
book which is for the whole world what the Koran
is for Islamism, what the Vedas are for India-a
book which contains all human wisdom, illumin-
ated by all divine wisdom-a book which the ven-
eration of the people call The Book-the Bible!
Well, your censure has reached even that. Un-
heard-of thing! Popes have proscribed the Bible!
How astonishing to wise spirits, how overpowering
to simple hearts, to see the finger of Rome placed
upon the Book of God?
"And you claim the liberty of teaching. Stop:
be sincere; let us understand the liberty which you
claim. It is the liberty of not teaching. You
wish us to give you the people to instruct. Very
well. Let us see your pupils! Let us see those
you have produced. What have you done for
Italy? What have you done for Spain? For cen-
turies you have kept in your hands, at your discre-
tion, at your school, these two great nations, illus-
trious among the illustrious. What have you done
for them? I am going to tell you.
Thanks to
you, Italy, whose name no man, who thinks, can
any longer pronounce without an inexpressible
filial emotion; Italy, mother of genius and of
nations, which has spread over the universe all the
most brilliant marvels of poetry and the arts;
Italy, which has taught mankind to read, now
knows not how to read! Yes, Italy is, of all the
states of Europe, that where the smallest number
of natives know how to read.
"Spain, magnificently endowed; Spain, which
received from the Romans her first civilization,
from the Arabs her second cilivilization, from
Providence, and in spite of you, a world, America;
Spain, thanks to you, to your yoke of stupor,
which is a yoke of degradation and decay, Spain
has lost this secret power, which it had from the
Romans; this genius of art, which it had from the
Arabs; this world, which it had from God; and in
exchange for all that you have made it lose, it has
received from you the Inquisition.
"The Inquisition, which certain men of the
party try to-day to re-establish, which has burned
on the funeral pile millions of men; the Inquisi-
tion, which disintered the dead to burn them as
heretics; which declared the children of heretics,
even to the second generation, infamous and in-
capable of any public honors, excepting only those
who shall have denounced their fathers; the Inqui-
sition, which, while I speak, still holds in the
Papal library the manuscripts of Galileo, sealed
under the Papal signet! These are your master-
pieces. This fire, which we call Italy, you have
extinguished. This colossus, that we call Spain,
you have undermined. The one in ashes, the
other in ruins. This is what you have done for
two great nations. What do you wish to do for
France?
"Stop; you have just come from Rome! I con-
gratulate you. You have had fine success there.
You come from gagging the Roman people; now
you wish to gag the French people, I understand.
This attempt is still more fine; but take care; it is
dangerous. France is a lion, and is alive!"
The Catholic Bishops of Quebec justify priestly
interference in politics, on the following grounds,
which it may be useful to put on record:
"Can a Catholic, we repeat, refuse to the Church
the right to defend herself, or rather the right to
defend the spiritual interests of the souls confided
to her? But the Church speaks, acts, and com-
bats by her clergy, and to deny these rights to the
clergy is to deny them to the Church.
The priest
and the Bishop may, then, in all justice, and should
in all conscience, raise their voice, point out the
danger, and authoritatively declare that the vote on
such a side is a sin, and to do such an act makes
them liable to the censures of the Church. They
may and should speak not only to the electors and
candidates, but even to the constituted authorities,
for the duty of every man who wishes to save his
soul is marked out by the divine law.
Appendix.
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July 6, 1856, Bishop Charbonnel of Toronto
(since resigned and become a Capuchin in France)
excommunicated four members of the Canadian
At a meeting of the National Council of the
Order of the American Union, held in Washington,
February 22d, 1878, the following resolutions were
adopted :
;
Government (Messrs. Couchon, Cartier, Lemieux,
and Drummond) for not voting in the Provincial
Parliament according to his requirement in respect
to education and legacies to priests.
You ask if he (the Pope) were lord of the land,
and you were in a minority, if not in numbers, yet
in power, what would he do to you? That, we
say, would entirely depend upon circumstances.
If it would benefit the cause of Catholicism, he
would tolerate you; if expedient he would im-
prison you, banish you, fine you, possibly he might
even hang you; but be assured of one thing, he
would never tolerate you for the sake of your "glo-
rious principles" of civil and religious liberty.
Rambler.
WHEREAS, Such a favoritism of the Romish
Church is but the entering wedge towards a union
of Church and State; therefore, be it
Resolved, That, inasmuch as the deceased Pope
was an enemy of civil and religious llberty, as he
has shown by his encyclical letters denouncing the
establishment of religious freedom and the taking
of the education of youth out of the control of the
as is shown by his interfer-
priesthood in Austria
ing to prevent the incorporation into the Spanish
Constitution of a clause granting freedom of wor-
ship; as is shown by his authorizing the kidnapping
of the Hebrew Mortara's child for the purpose of
bringing it up in the Romish faith; as is shown by
his encyclical letter denouncing free schools, free
distribution of the Bible, freedom of the press, and
the progress of the spirit of the age; and as he has
shown by his constant endeavor during his entire
pontificial reign to subordinate the State to the
Church, -that act of displaying at half-mast the flag
of our country, which is the emblem of civil and
religious liberty, was an outrage upon the rights
and views of the non-Roman Catholic portion of
our people, as it placed them in the position of
having endorsed the intolerant acts and theological
views of the late Pope.
Resolved, That Mayors Ely, of New York City,
Moore, of Cincinnati, and others have by this act
shown that they do not revere the grand principle
of the rights of conscience, or regard the well-
known views of the great majority of the citizens of
this country, and that they value the votes of a
priest-guided mob more than they do the future
welfare of our Republic.
Resolved, That we call upon the American peo-
ple of all nationalities to unite with us in a deter-
Church whose history is a persistent effort to sub-
mined war upon the political encroachments of that
The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings
in defence of liberty of conscience, are a most pesti-ject all civil government to itself; and is the em-
lential error-a pest, of all others, most to be
dreaded in a State. - Encyclical Letter of Pope Pius
IX., August 15, 1854.
bodiment of intolerance; and has declared to the
word that "ignorance is the mother of devotion."
I declare my most unequivocal submission to
the Head of the Church, and to the hierarchy, in
his different orders. If the bishops make a decla-
ration on this bill, I never would be heard speak-
ing against it, but would submit at once unequivo-
cally, to the decision. They have only to decide,
and they also close my mouth; they have only to
determine, and I obey. I wish it to be understood
that such is the duty of Catholics.-Daniel O'Con-
nell, 1848.
!
Heresy and unbelief are crimes; and in Christian
countries, as in Italy and Spain, for instance where
all the people are Catholics, and where the Catho-
lic religion is an essential part of the law of the
land, they are punished as other crimes.-R. C.
Archbishop of St. Louis.
A heretic, examined and convicted by the
Church, used to be delivered over to the secular
power, and punished with death. Nothing has
ever appeared to us more necessary. More than
one hundred thousand pis ed in consequence of
the heresy of Wickliffe; a still greater number for
that of John Huss; and it would not be possible
to calculate the bloodshed caused by Luther, and
it is not yet over. As for myself, what I regret, I
frankly confess, is, that they did not burn John
Huss sooner, and that they did not also burn
Luther. This happened because there was not
found some prince sufficiently politic to stir up a
-Paris Universe.
crusade against the Protestants.
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WHEREAS, The flag of our country has been hoist-
ed at half mast in respect to the memory of the late
Pope, by order of the officials of New York, Brook-
lyn, Cincinnati, New Orleans and elsewhere;
and
WHEREAS, The elevation of the flag to the
memory of a deceased ecclesiastic is without prece-
dence in the history of our country, and contrary
to the spirit of our institutions, which forbids the
State from favoring one religious sect more than
another; and
You should do all in your power to carry out the
intentions of His Holiness, the Pope. Where you
have the electoral franchise, give your votes to none
but those who will assist you in so holy a struggle.
-Daniel O'Connell.
Protestantism of every kind, Catholicity inserts
in her catalogue of mortal sins; she endures it
when and where she must; but she hates it, and
ILLINOIS.-In East St. Louis, Ill., the Roman
Catholic schools are supported by the public school
fund. The editor of the Louisville Catholic Advo-
cate was curious to know how this was accom-
directs all her energies to effect its destruction.-St. plished, and wrote to the priest for information.
Louis Shepherd of the Valley.
Here is his reply:
The Toledo Catholic Review says:
"The Catholic vote should be cast solidly for
the Democracy at the coming election. It is the
only possible hope to break down the school system.
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"The Board of Education permits us to select
our own teachers, and they are appointed by the
Board. The catechism is taught outside of school
hours, but in the school-rooms. You seem anxious
to know how it comes that our schools are sup-
ported by the public funds. Well, it
Well, it is in this
wise: A majority of our population are Catholic,
and they elect Catholic directors. This is the key
that solves the grant.
"P. J. O'HALLORAN, V. F.”

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