the side of Protestantism. Everywhere and how he grinds down to the dust what little in all things, in church and state, in monar- constitutional freedom he was compelled, in chies and republics, from the old notion of a day of consternation, to concede. Look at an ecumenical or universal council, to a Papal republics, without a representative modern charter, in Pennsylvania, for the in-worthy of the name. France, ignominious corporation of a Catholic cemetery, the France, truly, in one sense, a constitutional Church of Rome has labored for 300 years to government, for she has had five constitucrush the principle of representation. One tions in less than fifty years. Mexico and of the first open quarrels after the Reforma- South America-wretched alternations betion, with this principle, was with the repub- tween popular anarchy on the one hand, and lic of Venice, where, but for the influence of military despotism upon the other. Paul Sarpi, himself an enemy to Rome, the I have hinted already how the Papal power Venetians would have joined the followers of raged against the Presbyteries, Synods and Luther. Look at Spain, which was once General Assemblies, with which the Huguethe most highly representative country of nots once spread over France the beautiful Europe, not excepting England herself, but development of representation, and ceased having become the most devoted of all king-not to wrong, outrage and perfidiously bedoms to Papal Catholicity, how has despot-tray it, until the revocation of the edict of ism annihilated the powerful Cortes, and the Nantz banished it out of her sight. Within existence of her municipal immunities - a her own bosom no general council has ever` work of absolutism, which Ferdinand and been held since the Council of Trent, at the Isabella began the Catholic Isabella, who Reformation, and no one asks any more for established the Inquisition in Spain, and stip- such a representation, corrupt and managed ulated for one-fourth of the slaves that her even as it was by the overshadowing power missionaries could gather in America-whom of Papacy. Dead, utterly dead in the bosom Archbishop Hughes delights to honor, and of Papal Catholicity, is every movement towhose "ear-rings" he pants with pious long-wards a representation of the popular will. ing to find, that he may have them tied to the hilt of Washington's sword! Yes, unfortunate Spain, having sprung to the highest renown, from an almost completely democratic representation of the people in her govern-dent, without any election, and gives him ment, which had been sustained by her an- four votes out of the twelve managers, and cient independent Gothic church, has become four more to the clergy of his diocese, thus the basest of kingdoms in Europe, by sacri- leaving to the whole body of corporators ficing to the genius of Popery the last grain besides, only one-third of the votes in any of that glorious admixture of Castilian aris- management of its interests. Sole corporatocracy, Arragonese republicanism, and Cata-tors they will be, as far as it is possible to lonian democracy.

Remember, also, how the Papal hatred of representative government once filled the cellar of the British House of Parliament with gunpowder, and had the train laid, and every thing ready for blowing to perdition the whole representation of that constitutional realm. And the wretched Garnet, a Jesuit conspirator in that plot, who was executed by the hands of the common hangman, is enrolled as a Saint in the Calendar, and actually worshipped in Rome and Spain under the name of Saint Henry. "O, Saint Henry, by thine intercession and thy pure merits, procure for us the pardon of sin!" Look at the tyrant of Naples, the special friend, and dear son, and generous host, of the fugitive Pope!

Even the charter for the incorporation of the Cemetery of Saint Mary, in the neighborhood of our own beautiful Allegheny Cemetery, makes the Bishop himself always Presi

manage the legislatures of this land; and, unfortunately, Papal intrigue now manages them quite successfully.

The law of 1730, in Pennsylvania, which limited so carefully our Protestant Corporations in the amount of property they might hold for religious uses, has been repealed, by the influence of Catholic Prelates, and now millions in this tax-ridden commonwealth may be held by these sole corporators, in mortmain, free from taxation. Too well, indeed, they boast that our country is not a Protestant one, and avow the hope that it may, at no very distant time, be decidedly Catholic.

Not a Protestant country! says Archbishop Hughes. And does not this vaunting itself

followers would have drawn down destruction
on their government. The great body of the
Colonists were themselves Protestants, and by
their numbers and their participation in the
legislative power, they were fully equal to
their own protection, and too powerful for
the proprietaries in the event of an open col-
lision. The safety of the latter was, there-
fore, identified with a system of religious
toleration."

show the contempt of that prelate for major- | torian of Maryland, McMahan himself, in the
ities; and therefore, in fact, for all represen- following language, where, speaking of hav-
tation? But Catholic Maryland, it is said, ing the opportunity to persecute for conscience
was the first among our States to give free sake in Maryland, he says, "the proprietary
and full toleration in matters of conscience. domain had never known that hour. The
The first proprietary of Maryland was George Protestant religion was the established reli-
Calvert, or Lord Baltimore, an amiable gen-gion of the mother country, and any effort on
tleman, who was born and bred a Protestant, the part of the proprietaries to oppress its
and became a Papist because he had not
strength of mind or patience enough to deter-
mine which was right of the three competing
denominations, the Episcopalian, Presbyte-
rian or Independent, and who carried along
with his good natured lethargy of soul, the
feelings and fond associations of a Protestant
education into the Roman Catholic Church.
And whence did Catholic Maryland get the
charter which thus made her free? Not from
Spain or Portugal, Italy or Austria, but from We might evince the opposition of Rome
Protestant England, at a time when Puritan to the right of representation from her prohi-
mightiness, like the injured Samson of old, bition of the Bible, where it was first revealed
was laying its hands on the pillars of uncon- to the human mind, and established in the
stitutional despotism. A time when the Hebrew commonwealth. We might evince it
Hampdens and Cromwells, Vanes and Pyms also from the unblushing avowal of contempt
and Miltons were abroad in the majesty of for the right of private judgment by the Bishop
popular rights. The "sublime declaration of of Pittsburgh, along with his declaration that
freedom" for conscience in that colony, our institutions are founded on religion; that
which Bancroft admires, and Hughes applauds is a religion-which, taking men for lords over
him for admiring, as the politician had ex- the conscience, and annihilating individual re-
pected, was simply in all its circumstances, sponsibility, is based upon the most perfect
as these are betrayed upon the pages of Ban-slavery which the human mind can imagine
croft himself, a craven manifesto which a slavery which a great philosopher of his-
trembling Papists put forth to protect them-tory thus characterizes :-
selves in their weakness, under an apprehen- "We can conceive the notion of that phi-
sion of being dealt with by Puritans as the
Protestants in Ireland, the Hueguenots in
France, the Lutherans in Germany, and the
Waldenses in Piedmont, were just then dealt
with by Papists. No sarcasm of the prelate
can avail to hide the evil conscience which the government of one's self, to deliver over
the Roman Catholic Colonists of Maryland
must have felt when they saw the powers of
their church employed all the world over, to
crush liberty of conscience wherever it lay
in their grasp.

losopher, who, when one told him that his
house was on fire, said, 'go and tell my wife,
I never meddle with household affairs.' But
when our conscience, our thoughts, our in-
tellectual existence are at stake, to give up

one's very soul to the authority of a stranger,
is indeed a moral suicide, is indeed a thousand
times worse than bodily servitude-than to
become a mere appurtenance of the soil."

If the Papal religion be so congenial with But there is another aspect in which we our free institutions, why do the most absomay view this boasted example of Catholic lute despotisms in Europe labor and lavish Maryland. Were the Roman Catholics ever their wealth for the propagation of it in these a majority of the people there, and especially United States? There is the Leopold Founwhen that "sublime declaration" was made dation in Vienna, under the very brow of the in the Assembly of that colony in 1649? If despotic house of Hapsburgh, and within the not, then the admiration of Bancroft and the purse-strings of its liberality, founded immeboast of Archbishop Hughes are simply ridi-diately after a course of public lectures there culous. And that they really were not, is by Frederick Von Schlegel, a celebrated pertestified by no less an authority than the his-vert to Popery. One memorable sentence in

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those lectures, when he speaks of the detestable progress of free principles in government, is as follows:

For The Casket.

TO MY ANGEL SISTER.

BY MISS S. E. WEBSTER.

Thy beaming eye and joyous smile, thy kind and gentle tone;

"But North America has been to France and the rest of Europe, the real school and nursery of all those revolutionary principles. Natural contagion, or wilful propagation, I miss thee, gentle sister, in thy sweet and quiet home, spread this disorder over many other countries." Was Schlegel ignorant of the political tendencies of the Roman Catholic Faith - and Metternich, too, the most sagacious statesman in Europe - that they would both labor to establish the Leopold Foundation for curing this great source of revolutionary principles, by disseminating that faith in this country?

The Savans of despotism and Popery know

Thou com'st not now to greet me with affection's fond
My aching head to pillow, and my mourning heart to

caress,

bless.

I clasp thy faint resemblance, and from it fain would

seek

The gentle pressure of thy hand, thy warm breath on

my cheek;

But thy gaze so calm and holy, bids me low in reverence bow,

now.

too well that just as surely as the effect fol- And worship thy sweet image, for thou art an angel lows the cause, the glorious fabric of our constitutional liberties so much detested, will tumble to ruins as soon as they shall have I sapped and mined it, by the dissemination here of Papal Catholicity.

miss thee, angel sister, when smiles the beauteous

morn,

For thou hast with kisses waked me to list the warbler's

The reverend gentleman finding his strength On my cheek with fresh culled flowers, in wild confuexhausted, was constrained summarily to indicate a few topics more without illustration, and desist. He concluded by stating the ne- But methinks the joyous songsters, that fly from bough cessity which he had felt to call things by their right names. Honied diction. said he, may suit the deceiver who comes softly upon you, as the Romish Priest at Madrid lately did

upon the Queen of Spain; professing to kneel in reverence to her Majesty, and unfold an humble petition to her clemency, while his traitor hand was grasping a dagger for the heart of his gracious sovereign. So Catholic prelates come now upon the sovereign people of the United States; and accustomed as I have The shrubs send forth their fragrance, and the zephyrs been, in studying the history of the church and the world for years, to mark the features and versatilities of their treason against the welfare of man, I cannot forbear to cry out a dagger! a dagger!' even when the people Less radiant now the sun-a shadowy vèil is on it may shout 6 a petition! only a meek and modest petition!'

GEMS. Instruct your son well, or others will instruct him ill. No child goes altogether untaught. Send him to the school of wisdom, or he will go off himself to the rival academy, kept by the lady with the cap and bells. There is always teaching going on of some sort—just as in fields vegetation is ort comes with sad and mournful tone-"Where is my never idle.

They say she sleeps beneath the ground, by yon green in a low condition, I had some hopes of sal

vation. When advanced to be a cardinal, I greatly doubted it. Since I came to the popedom, I have no hope at all.” How many could well afford to give up all their wealth and honors, if they could but recover the lost joys of salvation. Newton says: "Sinners have no right, and saints have no reason to complain." Let us welcome all these trials :

In clustering ringlets decks her brow, and such thou they are for our good. God says of the

May thy angel spirit watch her, and her pathway strew sons are learned in the school of adversity.

Or when within his happy home, and its cherished idols Home," gives a curious anecdote of father

I miss thee in thy childhood's home, by thy mother's He says:-
tearful eye-

I miss thee, as I listen to thy father's deep-drawn sigh;
Each other, then, as sisters, ne'er again on earth will

Thy beaming eye and joyous smile, thy kind and gentle tone;

Natural contagion, or wilful propagation, I miss thee, gentle sister, in thy sweet and quiet home, spread this disorder over many other countries." Was Schlegel ignorant of the political tendencies of the Roman Catholic Faith -and Metternich, too, the most sagacious My aching head to pillow, and my mourning heart to statesman in Europe - that they would both

Thou com'st not now to greet me with affection's fond caress,

bless.

seek

labor to establish the Leopold Foundation for I clasp thy faint resemblance, and from it fain would curing this great source of revolutionary principles, by disseminating that faith in this country?

The Savans of despotism and Popery know

The gentle pressure of thy hand, thy warm breath on

my cheek;

But thy gaze so calm and holy, bids me low in reverence bow,

now.

too well that just as surely as the effect fol- And worship thy sweet image, for thou art an angel lows the cause, the glorious fabric of our constitutional liberties so much detested, will tumble to ruins as soon as they shall have sapped and mined it, by the dissemination here of Papal Catholicity.

I

miss thee, angel sister, when smiles the beauteous

For

morn,

thou hast with kisses waked me to list the warbler's

song

On my cheek with fresh culled flowers, in wild confu

The reverend gentleman finding his strength exhausted, was constrained summarily to indicate a few topics more without illustration, and desist. He concluded by stating the ne- But methinks the joyous songsters, that fly from bough cessity which he had felt to call things by their right names. Honied diction. said he, may suit the deceiver who comes softly upon you, as the Romish Priest at Madrid lately did upon the Queen of Spain; professing to kneel in reverence to her Majesty, and unfold an humble petition to her clemency, while his traitor hand was grasping a dagger for the heart of his gracious sovereign. So Catholic prelates come now upon the sovereign people of the United States; and accustomed as I have The shrubs send forth their fragrance, and the zephyrs been, in studying the history of the church

from heaven.

and the world for years, to mark the features Though the streamlet glides still on, with its murmurand versatilities of their treason against the welfare of man, I cannot forbear to cry out ́a dagger! a dagger!' even when the people Less radiant now the sun-a shadowy vèll is on it may shout a petition! only a meek and modest petition!'

GEMS.Instruct your son well, or others will instruct him ill. No child goes altogether untaught. Send him to the school of wisdom, or he will go off himself to the rival academy, kept by the lady with the cap and bells. There is always teaching going on of some sort -just as in fields vegetation is Ort comes with sad and mournful tone-"Where is my never idle.