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Are American Institutions Worth
Preserving ?
S. G. McLendon.
IERE are jn the United States
60,000,000 non-church mem
bers. There are 23,000,000
communicants in Protestant
Hi
churches and 15,000,000
communicants in Roman " Catholic
churches. To all of these Pope
Gregory XVI., says:
“It is not lawful ... to hold
in equal favor different kinds of reli
gion.”
To all of these the Constitution of
the United States says exactly the
opposite. To all of these Gregory
XVI., says:
“The unrestricted freedom of
thinking and of openly making
known one’s thoughts to others is
not inherent in the rights of citi
zens.”
To all of these the Constitution of
the United States says exactly the
opposite.
Those priceless principles of the
American Constitution represent the
crystalized blood of coifntless mil
lions and express the greatest
achievement of the human race.
“Leave to live, by no manjs leave,
underneath the law,” is the keynote
of American institutions, and yet
Papacy says to Romanist, to Protest
art, and to 00,0 00,000 other Ameri
can citizens that these liberties are
shameless liberties.
Said Gregory XVI., in 183 2:
“Nor can we hope for happier re
sults for religion or for the civil gov
ernment, from the wishes of those
who desire that the Church be
separated from the State.
Ji is clear that these men yearn for a
shameless liberty . .
Pope Leo XIIL, in his Syllabus of
Errors, 1864, denounced these prin
ciples of freedom when he denounced
as errors these propositions:
“The Church has not the power of
availing herself of force or any di
rect or indirect temporal power.”
In other words, Pope Leo XIII. de
clared that the Catholic church can
employ force, and again:
“The Church ought to be sepa
rated from the State and the State
from the Church.”
In other words, the position of
Pope Leo XIII., was that the Church
and the State, that is the Roman
Catholic Church and the State, ought
to be united. So we have as the
established principles of Papacy these
doctrines:
1. Union of Church and State.
2. Right of the Church to use
force.
3. No citizen has the right of
thinking, or of making known his
thoughts to others.
This is the formula of Papal pre
tention which is deadly to the Consti
tution. A general acceptance of this
formula will mean that 31 Italians
will rule America, the Constitution
will perish, and the fairest Republic
which has been evolved in the pro
cession of the ages will va’hish.
This is not a religious question at
all. The cry that the discussion of
the amazing pretentions of thirty
one Italians, in terms of sober deco
rum, and in a kindly spirit which
embraces within . its affectionate
solicitude the endangered liberty of
every American is religious persecu
tion, may frighten the timid and con
fuse the stupid, but cannot alter or
obscure the impending danger to
free institutions.
Leo XIIL, only a few years ago, in
his Great Encyclical Letters, said:
“To determine which are the doc
trines Divinely revealed, belongs to
the teaching church, to whom God
has entrusted the safe keeping and
the interpretation of Ills utterances.
But the supreme teacher in the
church is the Roman Pontiff. Un
ion of minds, therefore requires, to
gether with a perfect accord in one
faith, complete submission and obe
dience of will to the church, and to
THE JEFFERSONIAN
the Roman Pontiff, as to God Him
self.”
Romanism exacts this submission
in matters spiritual. To that extent
it is a religious belief which cannot
be prohibited by Congress, under the
Constitution, nor by any of our
forty-eight State Legislatures since
the adoption of the 14th Amendment
in 186 S. But Papacy defies the Con
stitution which protects the liberty
of Romanism, and wraps the Ameri
can flag around the dagger which is
to be driven, at the command of
thirty-one Italians, to the very heart
of the American Constitution.
Church and State were Divinely
divorced when the Master said, “Sur
render unto Caesar the things that
are Caesar's, and unto God the things
that are God’s.” Papacy denies this.
The right of the church to use force
was Divinely prohibited when the
Master said: Aly kingdom is not of
this world. Papacy says this is not
true.-
The Constitution says all men are
free to think, to speak, to write, and
to worship. Papacy holds that these
things are not lawful.
What law- is violated when these
rights are freely exercised? Who
made the law? Who is subject to
the law? Are Romanists alone im
mune from the penalties of this pre
tended law? In what book is this
law printed, and by whose great seal
is it authenticated? Let 60,000,000
non-religious Americans answer. Let
23,000,000 American Protestant
church communicants answer. Let
the 15,000,000 Romanists, many of
■whom are not Papists answer; for
their freedom to think, to speak, to
write and to worship, is as much
denied as the freedom of other men
because no exception is made in their
behalf.
Italy has a population of 34,000,-
000 and has 30 cardinals. The
British Empire has a population of
410,000,000 and two cardinals.
France has six cardinals, Germany
did have one, until the recent death
of Cardinal Kopp. In Ireland, with
a population a little less than 4,-
500,000, there are 3,308,661 Catho
lics and one cardinal. Ireland is
ruled by 670 members of Jhe British
House of Commons. Under Home
Rule in Ireland, always supported by
Papal authority, its government,
through an Irish Parliament will
pass into the hands of thirty Italian
cardinals. Ulster prefers civil war
to Italian rule, and Ulster's tragic
story is an appeal to mankind. That
tragic story has not yet been com
pletely told. In Ireland there are
3,308,661 Catholics, 581,089 Protest
ant Episcopalians, 4 4 3,276 Presbyte
rions and 6 2,00 6 Methodists, accord
ing to Whitaker’s Almanac 1912,
page 519.
At the highest estimate, one-sixth
of American population is Romanist,
and part of this is Papist. Passive
protest at Papal presumption is the
meat on which Papal presumption
thrives. The cry of religious perse
cution, when Papal presumption is
mentioned, is the narcotic spray with
which Papacy benumbs ignorance
cowardice, and under - the cover of
which it pushes forward its con
quest. Papacy is reaching out to get
control of every department of our
government. It seeks the control of
Army and Navy, it frightens weak
politicians, ambitious for the emo
luments of public office‘and too dull
to realize what is going on around
them. It silences a free press, and
while all this goes on, Americans in
large asesmblies adopt resolutions
and quarrel with each other over
trifles.
In 1 862 Congress thought the Uni
ted States and the Constitution of
the United States were in danger.
Congress therefore, passed a law
which required all persons elected or
appointed to civil, military or naval
service, to subscribe to an oath,
-which was in part as follows:
“I do solemnly swear that I have
not yielded a voluntary support to
any pretended government, author-
ity, power or constitution, within
the United States, hostile or inimical
thereto.”
This was aimed to exclude from
the service of the United States per
sons in sympathy with the Confeder
ate States, whose Constitution was
adopted March 11, 1861, and the
Congress of the United States passed
this law requiring an oath of alle
giance July 2, 18-62, but the oath of
allegiance prescribed by Congress,
reached forward as well as back
ward. Another sentence in that oath
was this:
“And I do solemnly swear that to
the best of my knowledge and abil
ity I w r ill support and defend the
Constitution of the United States
against all enemies, foreign and do
mestic, that I will bear true faith
and allegiance to the same—that I
take this oath freely without any
mental reservation or purpose of
evasion; so help me God.”
The South was not the enemy of
freedom of conscience, or freedom of
speech, or freedom of the press. The
South took with it the Constitution
when it left the Union, making only
three important changes, and these
related to the tariff, to internal im
provement and to slavery. The Con
stitution like the Decalogue is a
■written instrument. It can have no
enemies except those who oppose its
principles. Search the globe, and
its only open, avowed, and organized
enemy, is in Italy, and is composed
of a body of which the majority is
always Italian. The Constitution
establishes a separation of Church
and State. These Italians decree a
union of Church and State, but' it is
their church which must enter into
and control, by force if need be, this
unholy union. This makes the issue
between Papacy and the Constitu
tion.
At the present moment the oath
of allegiance required for all persons
elected or appointed to the civil,
military and naval service of the
United States, except the President,
whose oath is fixed in the Constitu
tion, is as follows:
“I do solemnly swear that I will
support and defend the Constitution
of the United States against all ene
mies, foreign and domestic, that I
will bear true faith and allegiance
to the same, that I rake this obliga
tion freely without any mental reser
vation or purpose of evasion, and
that I will well and faithfully dis
charge the duties of the office of
on which I am about to
enter: so help me God.”
If I were a member of the House
of Representatives or the Senate, I
would insist upon the amendment of
this oath so as to make it read as
follows:
“I do solemnly swear that I will
support and defend the Constitution
of the United States against all ene
mies, foreign and domestic; that I
have not yielded and will not yield
a voluntary support to any man,
body of men, power or authority,
within or without the United States,
which advocates or believes in a
union of Church and State, that I
take this obligation freely, without
any mental reservation or purpose of
evasion, and that I will well and
faithfully discharge the duties of the
office of on which I am about
to enter, so help me God.”
This oath would exclude from the
civil, military and naval service of
the United States all Papists, as ene
mies of the Constitution.
In the charter of our noble State
are thees words:
“There shall be a liberty of con
science allowed in the worship of
God, to all persons inhabiting, or
who shall inhabit or be resident
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The proposed oath could not . ex
clude any Romanist, such as the late
Patrick Walsh. The United States in
1862 undertook to protect the Con
stitution and the principle of separa
tion of Church and State the Mn em
bodied, by requiring an oath of alle
giance and defense as against the
South. The States, re-united,'in
1914 should protect the Constitution
and the separation of Church and
State embodied therein, by enlarg
ing that oaj,h and requiring allegi
ance to and defense of the Constitu
tion, and the separation of Church
and State, as against the presump
tions of Papal power.
I say to my Romanist neighbor,
the Constitution protects you in your
freedom to be a Romanist, and it
protects me in my freedom in the
exercise of the rights of conscience.
I say to my Romanist neighbor the
doctrines of Papacy may protect you,
being a Romanist in the matter of
your religious belief, but the doc
trines of Papacy deny to me and to
you the right to think, to speak. Th©
doctrines of Papacy are therefore,
fatal to human liberty. The pat
riots and Protestants of Ulster real
ize that they are upon the verge of
on open volcanic crater, and are
fighting, not the religious beliefs of
Romanism, but the political and gov
ernmental pretentions of Papacy.
To the American citizen I would
say freedom of conscience, freedom
of speech, freedom of the press, are
involved in the issue in Ulster and
in our own Union .
Are these rights worth preserv
ing? If you act in time, using free
dom of speech, freedom of the press
and your ballot, you may save all
three.
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you going to leave it to your child
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