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VATICANISM UNMASKED;

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ROMANISM IN THE UNITED STATES.

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CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS:
PUBLISHED BY THE PRI^X1PIA CLUB.

1878.

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FINANCES, POLITICS AND RELIGION.

ADMITTED PROPOSITIONS.

The Pulpit and the Press of this Protestant Republic are
the educators of the people, but the people are the govern-
ors of the pulpit and the press. Each of these powers has
its special work to do. The duties of the pulpit pertain to
the ethics of religion, while those of the press have more to
do with the science of politics. Under a republican form
of government like our own, these two powers are not
wholly confined to their special work. While the pulpit in-
structs its pews in the ethics of religion, it should also in-
struct them in their duties as citizens, and while the press
educates its constituency in the science of politics, it should
also educate them in the sacred use of the elective franchise.
But the people, who are "the powers that be," elect govern-
ments which ''are ordained of God," and are superior polit-
ically to both pulpit and press. "While, therefore, the ministry
is of Divine origin, the occupants of our pulpits are elected
by the people. So are the occupants of the editorial chairs
generally and in one sense universallj^, for our newspapers
of private enterprise are as much dependent on public sen-
timent or the money power for patronage, as incorporated
companies.

These are general propositions which cannot be successfully
controverted. We now propose to apply them to the present
state of society in thia Republic, and point out, if we can, the
causes which are at the foundation of our unsettled and
disturbed finances.

Five years ago a little cloud arose in the financial horizon,
not bigger than a man's hand at first, but which soon expand-
ded into a panic which covered tins country, and the money
marts of Europe as well. The cause or causes of "the panic"
have been discussed b}' the press, the pulpit, the rostrum,
and in the halls of legislation by men who "darkened coun-
sel by words without knowledge." This national upas tree
has been boldly enough clipped in its branches, while its
roots have been left unmolested.

The Irist six years of commercial distress, financial ruin,
and shrinkage of values, have causes back of them which

must be called by their right names, looked fully in the face,
and met with appropriate remeilies. We do not propose
now and here to go into the difference between a silver
dollar and a gold one, or the difference between tweedledum
and tweedledee or how many greenbacks shall be issued or
how man}' legal tenders cancelled, for we now have more
money in the coimtry than can be legitimately used until
the causps of our distress and danger are removed. The
lo3'al people then must take this matter in hand (for the
dislo^^al will not) and demand of the pulpit and the press a
recognition of the fact that the great struggle between the
elements of despotism and republicanism in this republic
must be met by the latter with more powder and ball or
something more conciliating with rebels, than the coun-
terfeit'' conciliation" of which we have had quite enough
during the present administration. It is more than a blun-
der, it is a crime for a majorit}' of the pulpits or the press,
or the governments, both state and national, who " derive
their just powers from the governed," the people, to con-
done crime, to cover up with soft words and common-place
phrases the elements now combined for the destruction of
this republic, and, of course, our republican liberties. A
few pulpits and a few newpapers, to their honor be it
written, are out-spoken on these matters, but alas ! what are
they among so many ? The conspiracy of the said elements
to substitute a sJiam republic for a real one, can no longer
be covered up and concealed by fictitious names without
condoning crime, and the loyal people at least should at
once withdraw their patronage and cease to support the
newspapers that do these things, by protecting criminals.

The Indianapolis Journal thus answers the question,
'' What is killing business?" that it is not caused, as is
frequently charged, by a contraction of the currency, for
there is more Government currency in circulation now than
there was before the panic in 1873, and the money centres
of the country are glutted with unemployed funds, but it is
the growth of communism, the agitation of the inflation-
ists, and the threatening attitude of the Democrats in Con-
gress. What manufacturer, it asks, would be fool enough
to enlarge his operations, what capitalist would be idiot

enough to invest his money in active enterprises, or who
that has money to lend would care to lend it when the com-
munists are threateuiur^ to rise in a dozen cities ; when the
inflationists are clamorin^i for an unlimited issue of green-
backs ; when the nationals are holding state conventions
to denounce "credit-mongers" and demand an issue of
*' legal-teader fiat money," and when the Democrats in
Congress are pushing forward a scheme to Mexicanize the
Government? "

It is about time that the Democratic part}' was laid bare
and dissected so that " the wayfaring man though a fool may
not err " in regard to it. We propose to do our part of it, as
that party, as now constituted, is not a democracy in its
true sense but a Triune Despotism, to be abandoned.

Take from it the papal element and the rebel element, and
what would be left of it would constitute a factor not
worth mentioning. Let us look at some of the preliminary
movements for a new rebellion, a revolution or a coup d'
etat, or whatever it ma}- be called.

The XLVth Congress is a disgrace to the country.
Never in an}^ previous congress have we had so few states-
men, so many members below mediocity, so many notorious
drunkards, and so many bogus members whose constituent
majorities liave been unconstitutionally disfranchished. Of
such material is the Democratic majority which is now run-
ning the nation to ruin with railroad speed.

THE PRINCIPAL FACTORS IN THE CONSPIRACY.

Tlie cunning, crafty, corrupt papal priesthood constitutes
the pi-iiicii)al factor in the couspiiacy against republicanism
in this country. This power stands between the Vatican at
Rome to whom it owes supreme allegiance, and the masses
of Romanists over whom the priests in their turn exercise
supreme authority. No army of the United States ever
executed the orders of its commander-in-chief with more
alacrity and abject obedience, tlmn do the Romanists in this
country their priests. These pious frauds make their vic-
tims believe in the infallil)ility of the church and the Pope,
and moreover that they aie sent here by God and in his
stead with power to loose and unloose — to bind and unbind

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— to release and absolve whom they choose from every
command of the decalogue. In the sixteenth century Mar-
tin Luther and his coadjutors were more than a match,
under God, for this power, but the protestant churclies of
the nineteenth century have followed the newspaper press
until both have degenerated into a reiuge of oppression for
crime and criminals. Not that they deliberately purpose
eitlier to condone crime or sanctify criminals, but the effect
of the let alone and reticent policy of both pulpit and press,
we affirm, without fear of successful contradiction, is just
that and nothing else.

The next factor in the political trinity is the rebel slave
power, largely composed of Romanists and other white
trash. These two factors, working in and through the dem-
ocratic party, constitute the danger to the Republic, and the
peril to our liberties, and unless this conspiracy is broken in
pieces speedily our liberties are gone. This can never be
done by ignoring these facts and adopting the let alove policy
as has been and is being done by a majority of our pulpits
and newspaper presses ; nor by suppressing the most impor-
tant facts, or worse still, by misrepresenting them. To show
that we are not writing at random, we will give a few speci-
mens to elucidate our meaning, both from the pulpit, the
press, and then the legitimate fruits of the reticent policy.

Rev. James Freeman Clarke, D. D., in his Fast-day
sermon made some reckless statements which were reported
in the Traveller as follows : '* First, that the colored peo-
ple of the South have more political rights now than under
Republican rule ; second, that the white authorities as a rule
punish the crime of killing negroes ; third, that the Demo-
cratic authorities have a habit of appointing colored men
to oflSce ; and fourth, more reckless than all, that ' we have
the astounding fact of men going to the legislature, or to
Congress, poor men, and in a few years becoming posses-
sors of colossal fortunes.' " Every newspaper reader, ex-
cept the policy-organ readers, know that every line and
sentence of the above quotation is the direct opposite of the
truth.

Dr. Clarke, like multitudes of others, who glean their
news from such papers as the Boston Journal, is woefi^ly

misled. We do not believe he intended to lie about it, but
he is so dazed with the southern policy and its organs that
he does not seek information from the most reliable sources,
and consequently, like many other public men whose inten-
tions are good, appears ludicrous in the eyes of better in-
formed people.

If any one doubts that our obsequious policy organs sup-
press the most revolutionary and rebel utterances of the
leaders of southern public sentiment, let him read the pro-
ceedings of the late memorial da}' at Macon, Ga. The bell-
wether devil of the slaye holders' rebellion — we beg pardon—
" President Davis " — " our ex-President " as they called him
was not there but sent a letter more revolutionary and rebell-
ious in its utterances than anything we remember to have
seen before the first rebellion. The more disloyal, rebell-
ious and revolutionary the utterances, the louder and more
uprorious the applause. But the northern policy organs
fooled their readers by giving a few of the tamest sentences
or none at all, and thus it has been in regard to the southern
policy all through. Our northern doughfaces face but one
way and that souths while the south faces both ways, north
and south. They pursue the anle-Bellum policy of two sets
of letters and speeches, one for northern, the other for
southern ears. Such sentences as the following, in the
letter of Mr. Davis, were not intended for northern ears but
to fire the eouthern hearts for another rebellion. He tells
the Georgians what their monument to the dead heroes of
the *' lost cause " was raised for, and his statement, says a
Traveller correspondent, " was cheered to the echo by every
Georgian who heard it."

This is what the unhung traitor to his country says : —
*' Let posterity learn by this monument that you com-
memorate men who died in a defensive war ; that they did
not, as has been idly stated, submit to the arbitrament of
arms the questious at issue — questions which involved the
inalienable rights inherited from iheir ancestors, and held in
trust for their posterity ; but that the}' strove to maintain
the State sovereignty which their fathers left them, and
which it was their duty, if possible, to transmit to their child-
ren." There you see the assertion is boldly and badly

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made, not only that the south was right, but that the war
did not destroy the principle of State sovereignt}* for which
it fought. And if any one doubts that the hope ofa new and
more successful trial of the cause is looked for by the south,
let him mark well the next sentence in this remarkable
letter : " Away then with such feeble excuse for the aban-
donment of principles, which may be crushed for a while,
but which possessing the eternal vitality of truth, must in
its own g^ood time prevail over perishable error." There
you see Mr. Davis, and assembled Georgia that cheered
him as one man, assert plainly' that '^ in its own good time"
the great truths of the Rebellion must prevail over " the
perishable error" of the Union cause. The closing para-
graph of the let^ter concentrates all that has gone before in
a fervent peroration, so unique alike in its phraseology and
spirit, that I will quote it in its entirety :

*'Let this monument teach that heroism derives its lustre
from the justice of the cause in which it is displayed, and let it
mark the difference between a war waged for the robber-
like purpose of conquest, and one to repel invasion, — to
defend a people's hearths and altars, and to maintain their
laws and liberties. Such was the war in which our heroes
fell, and theirs is the crown which sparkles with the gems
of patriotism and righteousness, with a glory undimmed by
any motive of aggrandizement or intent to inflict ruin on
Others. We present them to posterity as examples to be
followed, and wait securely for the verdict of mankind, when
knowledge shall have dispelled misrepresentation and delu-
sion. Is it unreasonable to hope that mature reflection and
a closer study of the political history of the Union, may yet
restore the rights prostrated by the passions developed in our
long and bloody war?"

In California, the political trinity has recently appeared
with the workingmen's flag. In San Francisco they have
held several meetings. "The Bernal Heights Club" is com-
posed of Irish hoodlums, French communists and German
socialists, which are the same elements that in New York are
called slums. At one of their meetings they inaugurated rebel-
lion of the boldest and most defiant kind. Their leader, Dennis
Kearney, threatened ''to burn the city to ashes, and drive

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every chinaman and pale-faced yankee into the sea." These
rebels cowed the civil power and the press into the *'let alone
policy," by which they were encouraged to go on with their
meetings.

Id the American Missionary for May, we have an account
of the next meeting of this Bernal Heights Club. These
papal foreigners call to account in true Vatican style, the
Rev. W. C. Pond, whose church is located in the vicinity of
Bernal Heights, and who is guilty of educating the Chinese
in the protestant religion. In the resolutions adopted at that
meeting, we have the papal rendering of our Saviour's com-
mand to his disciples " Go ye therefore and teach all
nations ; baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Ghost." We will quote from the
resolution itself the very language of these pious frauds.
They say '' we do not object to your following the com-
mands of our Divine Master. When He enjoins you to go
out to all the world and teach and preach, he did not
command the whole world to come to you. He said, go out
to the world and preach. Therefore, if you must preach
and teach Chinamen, go to China, and you will there find
an opportunit}' to unburden your full load of Christianity for
the heathen lepers." They then go on to tell the protest-
ant church that " we shall and will handle this question
without gloves " and sundry other great things they are go-
ing to do, ?/they can. The San Francisco correspondent of
the New York Mail of March 29th, informs us that the Chi-
namen " are well armed and will fight like devils," but that
the pale-faced yankees are leaving for the east as fast as
they can settle up their affairs and do so.

Further on in the resolutions above alluded to, those
pinks of papal piety say " we tell you you must stop this
Chinese business." Be it remembered that this language is
addressed to the proies/a??^ church, by the papal hoodlums
of San Francisco. Mark the language *' you MUST stop "
etc. Stop what? why your missionary efforts to convert
the Chinese to Christianity ! first b}* teaching them the Eng-
lish language.

This foreign anti-republican element in San Francisco,
who have been naturalized and enfranchished have taken

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timely care that the Chinamen should not be permitted,
like themselves, to enjoy the privileges of citizensliip and
the ballot. After the southern pattern they control the
elections and no man is elected to office, municipal, state
or national who is not craven enough to pledge himself be-
forehand to use his political power against the Chinese.
The consequence is that the 150,000 of the latter have been
denied, by Act of Congress, tlie privilege of being natural-
ized which carries the right to vote with it, and thus puts
them in the political power of the hoodkmis, bound hand and
foot. This was done by the assistance of the governor of
the vState of California and the Mayor of the city of San
Francisco by the most barefaced falsification of the truth,
and downright lying, which ought to shame the " father'of
lies" himself. These political demagogues in league with
the Irish Catholics and hoodlums, have not yet succeeded
in getting the Burlingame Treaty between China and the
United States abrogated in form, while they have utterly
disregarded it in practice.

In July 1876, Congress appointed a Joint Special Com-
mittee with power to visit the Pacitic Coast, and investigate
the character of the Chinese and report at the next session
of Congress. The Committee attended to the duties
assigned them, and summoned some twenty- five or more of
the first citizens of San Francisco, "composed of judges,
bankers, merchants, farmers, railroad officers, manufac-
turers, physicians, clergymen, secretaries, ex-foreign min-
isters and consuls, missionaries, insurance agents, editors
and lawyers, nearly all of whom are pioneers." The testi-
mony of these witnesses was uniformly in favor of the
Chinese character, and marked a striking contrast between
them and the Irish catholics who have disgraced their citi-
zenship, and also between a pagan and christian country.

In Chicago the same elements are at work, but in that
locality they are called ^'communists." "'The hair is PZseau's
but the voice is Jacob's." Says a despatch to the Boston
Herald of April 28, they " threaten a grand massacre and
a grand conflagration." But the civil authorities of Chicago
took a very different course from those in San Francisco.
Instead of taking off their hats and bowing obsequiously ta

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these unhung rebels, they gave them to understand that
this time there would be no fooling with blank cartridges —
that that mode of dealing with rebels was played out last
summer, during the raih-oad riots. They lost no time in
reorganizing the military, providing arms for the citizens
and other precautiooary measures, on the basis of meeting
''fifteen to twenty thousand thugs, reckless, rumsoaked vaga-
bonds, who would regard neither life nor property as sacred."

These combined elements of despotism are the sources
of our weakness, the antipodes of republicanism, the
destroyers of confidence among the capitalists and business
men of the countr}', the cause of the panic and its long train
of disasters. They are the slave power of the south and the
papal power of the north working in and through the dem-
ocratic party, and constituting the triune despotism of
the country, which the bogus republican administration
has tried to "conciliate" b}' surrendering the republican party,
shorn of its strength, into their power and keeping.

This system ot intimidation, by fire and murder and rapine
and plunder, has succeeded so well in the south, that it is en-
couraged to spread devastation over the north and west,
just as fast as it can awe the civil authorities into " the let
alone policy." When state authorities become so weak and
cowardly as to surrender to mob violence, they are too weak
and cowardl}' to call on the national government for assist-
ance to suppress it. These state authorities know full well
that the national government has shut itself up in the tomb
of home rule and state rights, and has itself set the example
of yielding to armed rebellion. The infamous doctrine of
supreme slate authority over national, to a degree that the
latter has no riglit to cross the boundaries of the former to
protect its citizens and punish criminals, is a disgrace to
civilization, and unworthy even of a cabinet of grandmams,
with ever so " good intentions."

" Sedcum ita sint." Since things are so, we shall have
no 2^ermanent improvement in business matters (for the very
good reason that like causes produce like results), until we
have a radical change in the causes which have produced,
and will continue to produce impaired confidence, shrinkage
in values, dull business, hard times and financial ruin. We

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have had enough of all these things already, and now the
question is a pertinent one, '• what are we going to do ahout
it ? " Tlie tirst thing to be done is to break in pieces and
grind to powder, politicall}', the powerful combination
against republicanism, by whatever names its elements may
be called. We won't stop to quarrel with Webster's dic-
tionary about definitions. The cunning and crafty devils
engaged in that work will, as heretofore, assume different
and fictitious names, as we have seen, according to locali-
ties and circumstances, but they will all bring up under a
counterfeit democracy, in opposition to republicanism.

The republican party, then, must arise in her strength,
and put on her beautiful garments, with the democratic
patches, which have been pasted on in the name of " con-
ciliation," left otf. Tliese are a source of weakness, like
rotten timbers in a frame building, or like a union of bank-
rupts to make a strong firm financially. The republican
party has no need of such materials. It is the onl}' party
on which the country can rely to preserve its liberties, but
it must be renovated and purified, and so far reorganized.
It must not sacrifice principles to expediency, in order to
catch a few votes from the liquor interest, or either of the
hree factors of the combination we have named.

RELIGION AND POLITICS.

The union of church and state in this comparatively
young republic does not exist in the sense that it does in
many of the countries of the old world. In what we have
before said to the capitalists and business men of Boston,
we have indicated what we believe to be some of the real
causes of their present commercial distress and embarrass-
ments. In this country, with a republican form of govern-
ment, onr finances^ our religion and our politics have so much
to do with each other, that it is ditficult to separate them.
Our preaching and our practice, our professions and our per-
formances are so critically compared by the world around
us, with the Bible standard which we profess, that it becomes
the occupants of the pulpits to take an occasional sounding
to ascertain, if possible, whither the ecclesiastical ship is
drifting. This is done to some extent, but a great majority

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who are placed as sentinels on the watch-towers of Zion,
**see the storm coming and do not blow the trumpet to wara
the people of their danger." The watchmen are busy, here
and there with their parish duties, and leave the more impor-
tant duties of warning their people of approaching danger un-
til too late. This was true when the slave power inaugurated
the last war, and it is equally true now, with the papal power
united with it, and both working through the democratic party
to seize tiie reins of the national government. When this shall
have been accomplished, as it surely will l)e, unless the pulpit
and the press lead the people in the opposite direction, you
gentlemen of the protestaut pulpits will receive your orders
from the Vatican at Rome, through its hierarchy and corrupt
priesthood. The papal church is a unit against protestant-
ism the world over, while the protestant church is divided
into sects, and if ever the democratic party comes into power
it will be by papal votes, and the rudder of its ship of state
will be guided by papal hands, whose supreme allegiance is
due to the Vatican at Rome. The papal church has a dual
character of religion and politics. Its priests instruct its
voters from the pulpit, what candidates they may and may
not vote for. A majority of the protestant pulpits ignore
politics and leave their hearers to vote for slavery, rum, and
the devil himself if he were in nomination for office They
have no advice to give. It is eas}^ to see that while the
united papal party continues its aggressive policy in the
political direction, and while the protestaut forces, with the
white feather flying, ignore politics and flee before the
enemy, we repeat, it is easy to see whicn will be the most
likely to succeed, unless one or the other changes its policy.
The new pope, Leo XIII, renews the audacious claim of
civil supremacy over the world, which is certainly no change
in that direction, and as to the abrogation of the law of
celibacy, so far as the said contract between the Vatican and
the 3,000,000 Episcopals of England is concerned, that law
was practically a dead letter before. This was recently
demonstrated in Boston, where a large sum of money was
paid to shield an adulterous priest from the penalty of the
civil law. His crime consisted in violating the civil not th«
canon law.

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The following statement of the above ease was offered for
publication to a Boston Daily, and refused. Simihir state-
ments have been offered to other papers and also refused.

FRUITS OF THE PAPAL SYSTEM.

CRIME CONDONED AND SANCTIFIED.

There are at least two laws which are practically a dead
letter in the papal church viz. the seventh commandment
of the Divine code, and the law of celibacy in the papal code.
While the Roman hierarchy claim that tlieir priests are holy
men of God and can commit no sin, and while their poor de-
luded dupes believe it as much as they believe their own ex-
istence, facts are more or less frequently brought to lii^ht,
which prove the contrary. One of these facts was alluded
to in the last annual report of the Principia Club of Cam-
bridge and Boston, in March last.

The vicar general — the holy Father — not 1,000 miles
from Boston was sued for adultery — put under 85,000.
bonds, ( an Archbishop being one of his bondsmen ) — the
damages placed at ^25,000. and the papers filed in the
Supreme Court — the writ returnable at the April term of
said court.

The evidence of the plaintiff's wife was of the most posi-
tive kind, showing that the paternity of her four children
was divided between her husband and their libidinous priest.
The case for the plaintiff was streugthened by corroborative
testimony, and the evidence of the crime was so overwhelm-
ing, that the defendant and his condoaers and sanctifiers
dare not let the case go to trial in our courts. The only al-
ternative left for the defendant and his backers was to pay
the damages and costs, and let the clerical libertine look up
the next victim. This they did, in consideration of which
the suit was withdrawn, and the papers delivered up to the
defendants' attorneys tor destruction. A portion of the
money thus paid was placed in the hands of trustees, for
the support of the illegitimate children, and, within a few
days of the settlement, the father of these children was
summoned to the bar of God, to answer for the violation of
the seventh commandment, from which the Roman hier-

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archy had absolved him. It does not yet appear whether he
was removed by divine Providence or otherwise.

A system that ignores the ten commandments, and ex-
pects the law of celibac\' to be observed among its priests,
is a sad failure ; and more especially so, since the auricular
confessional was invented for the undoubted purpose of
operating as a substitute for that law, and giving free rein
to a currupt priesthood. The papal system claims infalli-
bility for the church, and holiness for its priesthood When
a priest enters the confessional, he officiates as God (or in
his stead), not as man, and consequently the seventh com-
mandment has no binding force on him nor his victim, be-
cause he professes to absolve her from the crime of adultery.
In a majority of cases this may be satisfactory, but iu the
above case the lawful husband did not quite relish support-
ing another man's children. Hence the action for damages,
and the consequent provision for the support of the children.
It may be claimed that the '* hoi}' Father" violated none of
the canons of his church, but be it remembered that the
laws of God are yet unrepealed, and the statute laws of
Massachusetts, based upon them, are quite likely to be exe-
cuted, at least until the papal power gains the ascendency
for which it is striving, which, God grant, may never be.

PURITAN.

Above we have an instance, in which the press was more
to blame perhaps, than the pulpit. After the death of the
Vicar-general, the ''Holy Father," the daily press of Boston,
published columns of wiiitewash and laudation all of which
was the direct opposite of the truth, but refused a plain state-
ment of the real facts in the case showing that they had been
lauding to the skies, not a saiut. but a siuner of the worst
type. Tin's shows the alarming extent to which the protes-
tant press is ali-eady subject to the papal power.

The following perversion of history aud falsification of
facts, was published by a Boston daily, without a correction
or protest, or any hint even, that it was not in perfect
harmon}' with the truth of history. Our newspaper editors
had better read ** Vaticanism Unmasked," and leani some-
thing of the character of the papal priesthood. It might
save them a great deal of trouble hereafter. The priests

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now seem to liioio that any thing they may write will be
swallowed b}' the press as law and gospel, and published
without note or comment, but that an}- thiug against them
will find no favor with the stupid ignorance that prevails in
the editorial rooms of man}' of the newspapers of the country.
It may not all be charged to the account of ignorance to be
sure, for the counting-rooms may control the editorial rooms,
as in case of the life insurance companies whose briberies,
Id the shape of a large advertising patronage, have com-
pletely subsidized the press, so that the best writers on life
insurance have not been able to expose their perversion of
trust funds to illegitimate, base and dishonest purposes,
through the newspaper press, but have been obliged to do
it in pamphlet form at their own expense. Criminals seem
to hold the fort in pulpit and press. The perversions of
history and falsification of facts, are as follows :

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE BIBLE.

The Eev. Thomas A. Shaw, C. M., of the Catholic Col-
lege, Suspension Bridge, N. Y., delivered a lecture before
a considerable audience in Music Hall, last evening, in aid
of the Carney hospital. His subject was "The Catholic
Church in Relation to the Sacred Scriptures — The Old
Church and the Old Book." He laid down the proposition,
to begin with, that the Catholic church is the guardian of
the Bible, and he divided this proposition into three parts :
first, that the church has proved herself the guardian of the
Bible by preserving its existence at the risk of all that was
valuable to her ; second, by multiplying versions and copies
of the Scripture, and spreading a knowledge of it among
the people ; third, by exerting her authority to prevent any
perversion or misrepresentation of its sense. In discussing
the second point he criticised the indiscriminate distribution
of the Bible, and endeavored to show that copies given by
missionaries are generally put to sacrilegious uses. On the
third point he said that the church was willing and desirous
that her children should study the sacred Scripture, but that
the version must be one approved by the church. He would
not dwell on the history ot private interpretation, nor attempt
to enumerate its evils. From it sprung sects as numeroua

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as the stars about the moon, as worthless as the dead leaves
falling from the trees. The children of the church -were to
believe that the Scripture was inspired solely because the
church paid it was inspired. The church gave the Bible to
the world, and lived and conquered before it was written.
Even without the Bible, which was the church's written law
and rule of faith, the church would live as it had lived
before the Bible was written ; but without the church all
would be disorder and spiritual ruin.

"We cut the above from the Boston Daily Advertiser, of
Oct. 1st, 1877. ''We seldom or never saw so many falsehoods
in so few lines. If the propositions of the lecturer are cor-
rectly reported, the facts of history are sadly perverted.
The special pleading of the priest will appear more con-
spicuous when we remember that the papal church was the
same kind of '' guardian to the Bible," that the wolf is to the
lamb, viz., that no other beast shall devour it but himself.
All through the dark ages "the Bible," was buried under
the debris of the monasteries, until Martin Luther in the
sixteenth century accidentally discovered an old moth-eaten
copy, at the University of Erfurth, which he translated from
Greek and Latin, into German, for distribution among the
people, and which he nor they had ever before seen. It is
true that a translation had before been made by the Roman
hierarchy, to prep up and fit their system^ which had been
growing up for several centuries previous, but on compari-
son with the original, Luther found it was a gross fraud,
only intended for the priests, and not for the peojjJe at all.

Consequently when he had mastered the Hebrew and
Greek languages, he made a true translation, and scattered
it in parts like leaves of the forest, among the people of
Germany. But as there were no traces in Luther's bible of
the hierarchal system, the papal power ordered every copy
of it to be collected and burned. This is the way the church
of Rome guarded "the Bible." That is to say, the true
translations from the original Hebrew and Greek, and
especially the latter, (the new Testament,) the "Catholic
church " made bonfires of, while it palmed off the fraud
upon the world, as "the Bible." For a more particular ac-
count see "Vaticanism Unmasked," chap. I, pp. 21-25.

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When a papist talks about "the Bible," he means the papaU
not the protestant^ ''the version approved by the church,**
the one that "was inspired, solely because the churcli said
it was inspired." We are glad to have this testimony from
a satellite of Rome in the nineteenth century, that their bible
includiug of course the Douay testament, is inspired by man,
not God.

Again we have some faint idea that our Bible was writ-
ten in part some 4,000 3^ears B. C, and so along down
through the first century of the Christian era, and yet this
pious fraud would have us believe that the papal church
*' lived and conquered before it was written." Whereas
that church was never heard of as an organization until
hundreds of years after Christ's advent, and the organiza-
tion of the Apostolic Churches.

But what were these churches organized for? Christ
bade them " go teach all nations" etc. Teach what? Why
of course Christianity. But here comes anti-Christ in the
nineteenth century teaching another doctrine, and our pul-
pits are silent. Our newspaper press publish their dogma-
tics as if they were the pure Christianity of Christ and his
Church !

Moreover they frequently publish columns of laudation of
the most corrupt and dangerous iuslitution the world ever saw
called the papal system or church, and when the moral putre-
faction of any of its heirarchs or its priests, is uncovered
by a protestant, they not only refuse to publish the truth, but
both pulpit and press are as silent as the tomb in regard to
the wrongdoing and the wrongdoers. Of course the church-
going and the reading public are left to infer that, accord-
ing to the testimony of the pulpit and the press, the
Roman Catholic Church is all right and ought to succeed.
It is true we may look into history and learn the reverse of
all this wrong teaching, but no thanks to the pulpit or the
press. But this is not all nor the worst of it. In the mat-
ter of the most important institutions in society (next to the
true church), we mean the life insurance companies and the
savings-banks, our advertising-subsidized presses not only
refuse to publish the wrongdoing, when exposed by the
most competent authorities, and have no word of censure

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for the wrongdoers, but they turn square around on their
more righteous informants and abuse them like so many
pick-pockets. The freedom of speech and the independ-
ence of tlje press shows a wonderful elasticity in this direc-
tion because it waxes fat and kicks on stolen money. Is
there no diflierence between independence on the wrong
side and the riglit? Are the leading newspapers of our
most populous cities to be bribed by advertisements paid for
out of the trust funds of the life insurance companies, equit-
ably belonging to poor \Yidows and orphans, lapsed policy-
holders and their heirs, we repeat are they to be thus bribed
into condoning crime and protecting criminals? Are there
no editors independent enough of their counting-rooms to
approve the rigiit and condemn the wrong? Two bribing
life insurance presidents are now in state's prison. Ought
not the bribed editors to be with them? The bellwether
criminals are yet under editorial protection. Trust funds
have been and are being spent by hundreds of thousands if
not millions to protect them in their crimes and keep them
from hammering stone for the benefit of the state, as justice
requires they should be.

But we have another instance of wrongdoing by whole-
sale, by enacting iniquity into laws, and then shielding our-
selves behind those laws. We mean the

CRIMINALITY OF LIQUOR LICENSES.

Selling licenses in the new world and indulgences in the
old, is on precisely the same principle. In both systems
the ten commandments are, to all intents and purposes,
abrogated.

The papal hierarchy of the old world authorized the vio-
lations of the ten commandments by the sale of indulgences,
fixing the price of each commandment according to the
enorrait}' of its violation, in a regular scale of prices.

The civil power of this protestant country has copied the
exact plan of the papal system of the old world, but instead
of calling them indulgences, we call them licences. The
principle adopted is one and the same. One of the worst
features of it in this country is that ihe civil authorities
dragoon our Church members into their support, until they

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are elected to power, and then as seon as they are warm in
their seats proceed to selling licenses to rumsellers, to make
drunkards, in spite of the protests and remonstrances of the
best part of the community. Take the city of Cambridge for
an illustration. The state license law leaves it optional
wiih municipal and town authorities to license the liquor
traffic or not, as they choose. If the present municipality
of Cambridge follow in the foot-steps of their illustrious
predecessors they will disregard the remonstrances and pe-
titions of the churches and the temperance organizations of
both sexes, and proceed to the sale of licenses to sell liquor
or intoxicating drinks. And what is a liquor license? In
plain Saxon English it is just this. It is a contract be-
tween the city (representing the tax-payers of course) and
the rumseller, by which the city agrees for a given amount
of money paid into the treasury, to allow the vendors of in-
toxicating drinks to make as many drunkards, to ruin as
many families, and manufacture as many paupers for the
tax-payers to support as he can in a given time, say one
year. In selling this indulgence the city further binds itself
to protect the liquor seller in his nefariou-s business while
every one knows that every dollar paid in to the tieasury
for license takes out five to ten for pauperism and crime.
This is not a very good financial operation, to say nothing
of the infamous train of crimes which are the legitimate
fruits of it. How long, then, we ask in sorrow, are we to
be fooled and humbugged bj' the law-makers and execut )rs
of the law we create by our votes? How long shall the
political power we delegate to them by the sacred ballot
be prostituted to such base purposes as crime licensing,
liquor poisoning, pauper making and the like?

We answer, until the press, the pulpit and the pews
demand in thunder-tones that these things shall be placed on
the catalogue of crimes, with thefts, adultery, murder and
the like. If one is to be protected by law, and to that
extent made respectable, why not all of them?

The license system has been tried for hundreds of years,
why not try prohibition. Generation after generation has
been dazed with the idea that regulating drunkenness would
Qur^ it, until the idea hj^. bec<W3Qe an exploded humbug.

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But politicians will never see it until we make prohibition
a paramount question at the polls. It was done in Maine
and proved a success, and should be done here and every-
where.

Does any one suppose that if prohibition had been made
a paramount question at the polls, the selectmen of Saxon-
ville, Mass., would have licensed six criminals just after
being convicted and fined for selling liquor without license,
as was done a few days since?

Will an}' one tell us that the selectmen of Saxonville,
who sold those six indulgences to as many criminals for
making drunkenness, ought not to be treated also as crimi-
nals ? But it ma}' be said there is no law to convict them.
That is just the point. I^Iake one that will put the crimi-
nals also in the same boat and send them to the peniten-
tiary or Botaney Bay or same other safe place. Begin with
the Legislature ; make Prohibition the paramount question
at the polls. Send men to Beacon Hill who will make a
strong Prohibitory law, which will embrace in the catalogue
of criminals, both parties to a license contract — those who
sell indulgences as well as those who buy them, with
equally severe pains and penalties, holding both parties re-
sponsible, both morally and pecuniarily for all the damage
done to society and also to individuals, by the drunkards
they make.

Is it not about time for us to stop fooling with the license
system, and treat the crime of liquor selling, for beverage,
as we do other murders ?

With such facts before us, which are only specimens of
jDultitudes of others we might quote if we had room for
them, we see mob-rule and rebellion, revolution and des-
potism staring the nation in the face. We see a majority of
the protestant pulpits, and a majority of the newspaper presses
of the country fast becoming accessories before the fact or
abettors of the above crimes by giving their countenance
and aid, or becoming involved in them, either before or after
tbe deed is committed, by their silence and let alone policy.
Many of them look on in silence with apparent ignorance
and innocence. The monster of rebellion, revolution and
despotism rears its hydra-head and assumes to govern the

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nation, bnt these occupants of responsible positions have no
warnings to give the people, no alarms to sound in tlie ears
of a nation in peril no responsibility in the matter beyond
publishing telegrams of crimes as they are committed in
detail, as items of news. Let us apply this principle on a
smaller scale and nearer home. A man is put in possession
of information that his neighbor's house, on a given night,
is to be burned, and the family to be murdered and robbed.
But the man is boiling over with " conciliation" towards
murderers and robbers and incendiaries and therefore does
not warn his neighbor of his danger. lie adopts the reti-
cent-let-alone policy so popular now-a-days, and though he
sees the criminal at the appointed time approaching the
house to apply the torch he looks the other wa}^ and affects
to know nothing of it at all. As if that would wash his
hands in iunocency or cleanse his soul from the blood of
those whose death he consented unto, as did Saul of Tarsus
to that of Stephen. And yet that is just what the watch-
men do on the towers of Zion who see or might see the
sword coming, if they would look the right way, and yet fail
to warn the people of their danger. It is also just what the
conductors of the press do who receive their telegrams from
all parts of the country informing them of the progress of
the second rebellion and probable revolution, and yet shut
their eyes to the facts and cry "peace" when there is no
peace, and "conciliation" when they ought to blow the
trumpet and arouse the nation to a sense of their danger.
Oh ! the guilt of the pulpit or the press — the statesmen or
politicians who have sung the lullaby song of" conciliation"
the last year, and who are still trying to persuade them-
selves that the southern policy is a success for republican-
ism, while on the other hand it is an exploded humbug, or
if a success at all, it is for bulldozing democracy, which is
worse.

The practice of the newspaper press in lionizing criminals,
has become so common, that the best part of newspaper
readers are getting tired of it. The Boston press gave us
a specimen of it a few days since in the case of a clerical
libertine, an account of which we have already given in
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their columns with the prison lives in detail, of two notori-
ous murderers, who have expiated their crimes on theg^allows.
They could thus pander to the morbid curiosity of the lower
classes of society, while the mob elements were gathering to
capture their railroad trains, but a few hours from them.
But neither Chicago nor St. Louis dare warn the people of
their danger, for fear it might affect their trade. The sta-
tions between these two great rival cities of the west, were
fast filling up with the mob elements. East St. Louis, Mo.
is said, by private letters, to be swarming with them. God-
frey, 111., June 15th, had 150 of them, and on the 16th, 200
more. Alton had 400 on the 17th, but the daily press of
the two great rival cities, in their race for mammon, let the
gathering mobs, which threatened their nei<;hbors. severely
alone by which we infer, that the commercial Christianity
of those cities does not require them to blow the trumpet in
Zion, to warn the people of their danger, and consequently
mob-rule holds the fort instead of home-rule.

We see that the political trinity of dej^potism now called
the democratic party means rebellion and revolution. It
means payment of southern claims by the yankees, amount-
ing to thousands of millions or billions, in which are in-
cluded payment for emancipated slaves — the rebel war-
debt — the pensioning of rebel soldiers and their heirs, and
a thousand other bogus claims already before Congress.
It means the destruction of Hayes' title to the presidency,
and the accumulation of political capital for future elections
and as soon as democratic despotism rules the nation, the
southern claims will be allowed, aud what the revenues of
the country fall short of payment, will be put into Ameri-
can consols for future generations to redeem or repudiate.

One of the " other bogus claims " alluded to above is one
of $189,000,000 only, brought before Congress early in
June, by a representative from Alabama, for the purpose of
some corrupt bargain between northern and southern demo-
crats who will vote for Potter rascalities or anything else,
provided northern doughfaces will vote for soutliern claims.
The avotoed purpose of the appropriation is to repair old
dilapidated canals, but the probable purpose is to repair
dilapidated fortunes, of the governing race of women-whip-
Dere.

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Bat thank heaven the obituary of the first session of the
XLVth Congress can now be written.

As we go to press we have the thrice welcome announce-
ment from Washington, that the rebel congress has ad-
journed sijie die. It is the best thing for the country that
the XLVth Congress has done, except possibly, one or two.
One is the passage of the act to ameud the constitution, for-
biding the payment of all rebel claims. But will it do this?
"We now have the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth amend-
ments of the constitution unrepealed, but yet nullified,
trampled under foot, made of non-effect, and for all practi-
cal purposes rendered a dead letter by the rebels. "What
guarantee have we that the seventeenth, even if approved
by the requisite number of states, may not share the same
fate? We maybe sure that the southern rebels never per-
mitted their northern allies to go for such a measure with-
out an equivalent, of course under a fictitious guise, such
as the ^189,000,000 proposition for an appropriation to
repair absolete canals iu the rebel states, which every man
of ordinary intelligence knows, simply means "spoils for
the victors,'* not including " the niggers." Another one of
the best things the forty-fifth congress has done, was to
strike out the appropriation of $6,000 to pay the six com-
missioners, who were sent south to give away two republi-
can states to the armed and defiant rebels, that Mr. Hayes
might occupy the white house in peace. As there was no
authority in law or precedent for the outrage, and as the
said individuals were all rewarded with fat oflBces, it was a
good thing to stop the leak, not so much on account of the
paltry sum of money, as placing the seal of condemnation
on so bad a precedent.

We may not have given the rebel congress credit for all
its good deeds, nor have we charged to its account a tithe
of the bad ones.