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WOL. TZ. NO, 35.)
ry. tives respecting |
“the baptist of vel, ‘ately publsids in the religious
perivdicals, nothing ttempt on
the part of 8 some cunning romancer "to ascertain |
CONGRESS: ‘SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING THE 3
- FREE “EXERCISE THEREOF ART, I :
: ‘ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITIN G THE
AMEND. CON.. UNITED STATES. |. *
: THE PROTESTA NT.
we }
us led us to suppose what would be ite character. Wee copy
Tot ie following st srisie respecting it :— ke
Montreal al Vindicator, Fob, 5.
2 ihe «Bait of the Vindicator. i, -
1 2d day of the present month was|
commenced. i in. the city’ of New York, a -weekly
ELIGIOUS Publication, under the title of “Tas
conducted, ‘1 understands el th
‘Rev. G ourne; former tly of Qu an
known in T this eity by- the familiar ailiaios of
“‘the fire and britnstone re The charac-
ter of the publication may « -be gathered from the
two following articles, which [ fave extracted ve
Dati im from the first number,—the e Bai
tor himself, and the second given as come ies
Protestant correspondent in this city.
‘ass—Hov: B Beuts. .
ood natured’ persis n their’ non-ac-
- quaintance | ive he eupersttions ‘oleries of Pope-
+ Provesrant,”
on
taken ave fer bapnzed bells
-theie wlory and sanctity, : ceremony is sti
performed upon: all those. “machines in Canada.
That abomination, however,
1
fore good Friday, so called, ihe. bells in. all the
nadian mass-houses cease.tv resound, and continue
in n profound ene until the following | Saturda ay at
The on iss what of the
bells ? Tn ery sincere’ ain t believes that
by some incomprehensible eet the Priests
have transported etls to Rome, that they may
Pope’s wee
anxiety aed terror. y person
Bick or die, du srng the mi of the ‘als to-Htaly.—
When the mid- day urday aches, the
multit :
do wit
most transport, becaus ments are return-
Jed which chase away sickness, frighten the Devil,
“by their ding- dong keep souls out of hell or purga-
tory, aed 3 the e priests are pai aid for their mum-
CHARLESTON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, "Ia30. :
| ry upon’ the me harangues which we had last Pad-
dy’s d
e Irish priest cursed the. Protestants,
» by his Gods.” They
work all the time ; spouting
rath against all the Bible
tble readers, tract-socicties, and
{especially the | Sinise schools and ‘their teachers.—
They lay hold of -e bible and testament, tract
and Sunday s chou! book, which they can, and burn
them. A French bible was ately procured for hala
dollar, and it made a fine blaze. ‘That was a Swate
© | discourse, also which was delivered at, “when. the
Curd was telling the people to keep lent t and fast
=
summe itup. © Ab my friends—you
confession, hear mass, receive absolut tion, 7 "the
priests’ dues and obey: the commandments of- the
church: But propably. some of you say, are we to have
rour
“ "Sfrolies,and dances, and card p p playing? Every holiday,
ics
and feast day and all Sundays. But some of the heretic
say that the bible condemns all Sunday amusements,
Believe thei not--I ae read the Bible all through
many times. y, that is a prodigious
thumper! Ido not believe that he ever saw a bible
in his life, except’ when by chance he stole and
burned the ble The priest a added—and |¢
the Bible alloy o have your dances, and ci
fights, and cards, a other amisenvent—~
and you nay eat and drink and feast as much as
like, only take care not to quarrel and fight, for fear
t he law should punish you
“T thought I w:
race it will help’ to fill up a corner of your paper
when you have got nothing better to publish. You
yall have all the news~from Canada whieh I can,
get for you; and ope you will not be afra id to
give it tot the world.
Montreal, Nov. 19. 1829.”
The correspondent of the Vindicator remarke,
Such, then, is aspecunen of this tr uly religious
york! Need I pronousce the whole a continued
tissue of barefaced impudent false’ oods ? or isit no
sufficient to exhibit them in ‘Can ada, the preten aed
scene -of these © “supersutiods fooleries, ” that the
thor; if -he dare to acknowledge his maine, may be
held up to scorn wand infamy as the base, the-vile
traducer-of a people whose piety and virtue he ne-
bells goin why.
man or woman
in Canada would Jaugl at the idea—nor is there « pro
=
| whole an
- of ‘0 ap odium on the.Catholic Chu
Bas:
u quoted. Doe
(TOT. NO. 320,
other reply -can be. -given, than to pronourice: the , .
infamous lie? The [nick-named] relt-
gious publications. of the ony furnish us with d grant
many instances of prie ie barning b bibles—
what authority are such “facts 8 ated ?-~-Nothin,
ter, I confidently assert,than that of the idoitic natlor
of the letter from Montreal, Ifsuch be really the case,
need the writef be ashamed t to come forward andes : bee
his proper signat ure,and m in a single instance,
Montrea) where. a priest has burned a bible. But j it ‘
as T am very positive, he dare’not, can not state an ine
stance,—in what ‘Tight must every unprejudiced: per.”
son view the numberless. statements of the king ™.
which are continual wned u
facts, by such & hypeerittea? | rascals as the...
writer in the Protestant 2, Why Mr. Bourne, the”
virtuous religiosos: who thireted so much after the -.
spirit, and. obtained so many bibles from you in
chee, to Satisls his apiritual cravings, albeit he
Qu
stole the Minister's 8 * own, and was tried fer it, after.
me a convert to. your creed, would scarcely +
Neve. ‘the tnriboed fe annex his name to the bi ble.
eade:
burning letter. 1s may not understand
mesning boty you vil
‘In these two extracts we have not ‘only’ a : sainple
of the new publi ation, put a sad, a melancholy spe-
of the means which are continually made use
rch, by such
the unprincipled writer of the paragraphs. -
it not read a salutary lesson to those ~
who believe every slander that is uttered against -
Catholics? - May. that! lesson produce its Proper’
/ : VERITAS. : :
Tha fallowi, 1 £ i ft
my
ould put you in mind of this : be-| eg
the All Nbany Christian Register To Catholics we exhibit it ©
8 8. specimen o! anner in ‘which their religion is ae- ,
sailed by their ree events Here ‘hey are ‘od that whate.
ver be their ‘dispositions, the bare “reception © Bacra-
ment i in, by them, held to he effectual for salvation, Te thie
. Isnot t the Catholic taught that unless
as true contrition, which includes sorrow for past ain,
onda determination to avoid future guilt, tho absolution is
invalid ct is sacrilege? Is ho not told, that no sa-
ramen | no prayer, no Mass, no act. of religion will eave *
the. unjust man, unless he
hus power to those whom he hos injured? Hvis usc! lets. to
dilate upon it.
oy ta ily proclaim the
them of holding such aridiculous belief. Yet the
fac
is gravely asserted by the editor of a religious paper
dancing and gambling for the next three days an
i, ith i issi and to work all excess of
sin with greediness.”” : . 7
* Bo far the first article, We have often known Protestants }
a
published within four hundted miles of the place to
h his remarks ‘allude. Hharity would suppose
him ignorant of the subject o' whic
who
- eccupied Y Catholics, obstinately insist that they knew bet-
- “terthan IB
-tigion; bee: cause t
_ they were cmnoguctnteds when we endeavoured to coryect
” their mistakes, caused by the lying statementd of prior tour-
ista, or by the sndustifiable jokes of Cieeroi.es, who when the
“traveller would not be: satisfied with reasonable -explana-
tions and sought for extravagant accounts, practiced jokes
4épon their credulity and prejudice, and which they greedily
pwallowod. they insisted th k h but
thei td SA th a
” °y
c d
ous apes The: sifence of the bells is to, sa tect the af-
n-of the church at the périod when th ion of our
Sovieer i is commemorated. misrepresen- |
tation the peracions Protestant gives ! What must be the
enuné which-uses suc! ch means fori its ‘Sopport
| The other dthel;
veracity of pa Protestant-—Es. Mises,
“* Cher —I am heartily rejoiced to see e your
proposal ior ‘the Protestant yon will receive all my
assistance.
a One vf te Prieta has printed: an answer to the
lette 8, which | send you—I hope
8
minister, prefixes t me the title
Reverend, and who, I understand, is the editor of
‘the Protestant,” hae actually been in this eo ountry,)
will not every person who reads this pro ounce his
assertion a wilful atc filsehoo id?
Vith respect Jas t Pac Idy’s
day,”. (as the blackguard (a) ‘writer calls it) ge
falschiod of the assertion is. equally notorie
2
e&F
alluded: to, wha «
of su ficient moment
only different froin is represented
article Thave quoted. but they: are totally the reverse.
To give, the article as coming from a ce orrespondent
in Montreal, is another harmless imposition on the
art ofthe Re verend editor. - There is not (at least
! trust. there. is s not) one our. Protestant fellow-
per.
» With respect to the burning of the vibies, what
pe
you will aoa it ‘wibveoche Iti is a commenta-
butt cannot: avoid calling a a dog’ 's hond,a dog’s her
e sacred |:
8
assail it only by firet misrepre-
souiting it.”
The spintt oF Penercorion i is Shere but we thank Gon -
and the Constirution, : ue we SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE, thot we ure safe from its power:
ot rom the Protest)
DANGERS OF POPERY. .
Popery recuguizes those very antiseriptural princi,
ples to which the heart js so
rone—human merit ;
that man is pot an unpre rofita ble servant ; ; ‘he dis-
tinction between sins venial and mortal; the merit-
of God’s Favor by workssof supererogation ; com: -
ensation for sins by peuance ;
past tranagressions by subsequent obedienc
courage: :
ment to sin, ‘by the payment ‘lor mags es, to be pe
formed after death; that their guilt. may 7 purged
away, and ‘their souls be admitied into he;
Thes are just ‘suited to~
ney: of aur
aud against these principles a and ¥' views, the pre
}ers o | ihe Bopel must t continually contend —but the
emis of Popery eet n o euch innate dislike to. |
heir “doctrines + ; they et upon minds predisposed: ~
y receive their self flattoring delusions ; and when
ihe poison of Popew operates upon a mass so adapt- *
ed to receive it, sequence is a8 rapid defee- ‘
tion from the- ras “ sominal Protestantis.* a
“(a) The term’ “ blackguard? I acknowledge is tanh
¥ Tho popish priests in Canada are tiumphanty onstad
of the numerous Proselyteay who within the last ‘wo yea
~ oe
upon the public ag”
Wesvy to the Protestant.—" The charge ie...
jan atrocious us calumay”—To the Catholic 4 your r religion