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"+ CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING THE
_ FREE EXERCISE THEREOF. —ART. 1
VOL. XX. NO, 39.]
INQUISITION. ‘
om THE Jesuit}
tthe numerous, assassin attempts which
8 made to exterminate the
Nquisition oF Spar has.
‘consideréd by her ag a favorite, topic, w
deemed -it politic to work ‘upon the minds of the
ignorant and the profane, as well as upon the moral
and the virtuous. : She invariably, from her’ natural
disposition, perverts tf ruth, and from the lamentable
period of a nicknamed reformation, W which was en-
aed i in bload, to the pre
sent stage of its i inveterate a
lopement, she mocks authentic history, closes her
eyes against the t ‘rae light, and with her unhallowed
nfidelity, anarchy and falsehood, violently
agitates the calm, and tranquil, ocean of social confi-
dence, harmony and lov *
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It would really appear from the conduct of pulpit
sec!
operative engi of : sectart
presses, that the promoters of the cause of Anti-
christ have neither see, ears to hear, nor
hear:s to
understand, and that actuated by the unho-
ly, principle of sel elfish agerandizement on the ruins
vofreasalty wperty and religion, they glory in the idea
of duping the moral, ublican, but not sult
ciently cautious, good Pp reple of our jan It ist
ese we address ourse because they are faily
sensible of the steady, the *‘eresistible march of the
catholic religion throug hout this hemisphere.—
erous conversions of liberal,
sensible and cnohtenaa members of the various
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that a rcligion w
of eighteen cunturies eid, and to which the world is
indebted for knowledge, sound poli-
cy and piety, is wnat the doctrine ar ay that it
must have come from heaven ; a Religion
which requires the renunciation of self "the subju-
gation of-the passions, and on the part of he
hood, an immense gace tifice and.a seclusion ‘froin the
world and its ways, as characterized by their great
original Chris’ practised without varia-
dlencss, al
eir legitimate succe: ‘must b
which was built upon St. Peter’s faith, ands must last
to the end of the world.
8, (continue they) our ministers are more so-
licitee ouate provide a fortuné for themselves and their
JSamilies, than for the Promotion | of Christ's sternal
kingdom, and hence we can account for their assum-
ed avd indefatigable exertiuns * Continually ringing
ears “the Bible, the * Send o
Missionaries to foreign lands to ealighten the heath.
“ ** Ras e.contributions for the spiritual -king-
dom ; whereas, we do know that no heretical sect
has ever converted a nation, not evena aH and that
such proud glory exclusively surrounds the sacred
temples of the catholic faith. Ni vivithstanding ue
incalculable sums which have been crim inally ox
ed from us for such an ostensible we now
have solid grounds to believe that there i is a coali-
on between the home and foreign missionaries, and
that while the former enjoy the spoil of the land,
they allow a genteel salary. to the latter, for the |v
tons, | ©
on nopolivts|
ane sea- board towns, and sending
ast credulity and ‘unguarded ik
herality the tot goseipings of tnaginary chapue
Ve are willing ‘to confess that, at first, we
could not bolieve such to have been the case.—The
CHARLESTON, SATURDAY, WMARCEH 27, 1830.;.
the Romian catholic papers have, within the. fast six
months, In id before us, awa aken ed our curio sity as
well as surp to exam
necerta a the: complicated system 6 of pi
ture, ad farther, to become ae
ith th cal principles of the catholic’ church whi
from ur r earliest recollec i nso unspar-
ingly vilified by those who feta interest in so-do-
ing, and to learn from the catholics themselves, or
their books, and-not from our ministers, the whole
truth, and nothing but pete —_—*
The result, thanks 0 heer ven, is sufficiently. ob:
vious, and the real, the numerous conversions of in-
dividuais, who will read and contrasts and j jud ge and
F s n favor of the One
TRUE Cuur
‘To all such herefore, we dee em it an imperative |
duty to explain the nature and origin of the Inquist-
Tion oF Srarn—Our information from ire
refragable facts, and indisputable authorities, by
which “it will manifestly’ appear with what obloq'
i P the catholic rl
and the
agon, the. virtuous
erous ‘monster, Henry
angland: (and who by the byé was the pro-
mising and pious father of the Reformation in lng-
land,) every effort to fradace, the civil as well as re-
ligious institutio 3 been: must provok-
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land, when she lust her catholivity, public -conli-
dence and the strung holds of her European, conti-
Tgnorant as her bireling ‘and infidel
scribblers have been ar nd still are of ths genius,
» | character and fan) uage of Spain, they crue lly fabri-
at eho! ent country. in her
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yes, improve
hearts of the Anglo-Ame-
of course her policy to hunt down
eatholicity, ~ that she night do it the more effect-
ually, she thou it wise to couple the inquisition
withit! Asif the abuses ofa political institution]
ofa country ought to be visited not: only upon the
religion of that country, bat upon. the catholic world
in extenso !' Is this logic ?* t jus charity,
or christi nity? Shame upon “such nora obliquity,
and audacious i yt far be it from us to in-
Jade in ha proscriptive band, the goo ‘vite
the vilest, - civil and religious despot-|
ism ! eel
Ta the following observations, we shall neither
extenuate, nor set down aught in malice ; ; and we
request our numerous fiends to bestow on the p
sal o
catholic religion has been
several other points, We sha
an orgeroler ary form.
: Sir
give our fomarks in
Tfelt extrenie satisfaction in exciting your interest |
and astonishmen in the cours:
on the subject of the Spanish Inquisition, Numer.
ous were the sonyersations which we have had a
* W, : br } hie
We v eptions evidence | I eg
the mre ie missionaries in Mahe, Secon Caleutta,
&e. The e fact is, that the people of those respective places
treat 6 Sissionarios with ridicule and contempt—and
when | laug ed‘out: of one part of their mock vineyard, they
elter Reancclves in obscurity, whero, contrary to con
scjenve and truth, they © enéeavor to seek consolat a by
abusing their time in forging accounts ot their ideal labora,
‘and usefulness in the udvancemon| Spiritual King-
lying before” you
n
tuous people of England, who are crushed under the
wh of d
of iny observations | as
“Tron, WO. 324.
bout this «fa Gua inatitation. “ it was your “gieat
desire | that I should embody ‘m arks aud give
suitable form, I cheerfully comply with your
wishes, and acc’ orgingly ‘seize this opportunity of -
ua hast of authority which could |
so well brought: forward in the course of our
voltoguiat recreations.
Without fuither preface, therefore, I shall! com,
mence the history’ of this tribunal.
~ Fdistinetly’ remember to” have mentioned to ye uj
in n general, that the most Cute
oft he Inquisition was off
whieh this tribunal we eupessed in the year
“which the s of ‘philosophic me whos
object, i scent. carecr of their "absolute
power, wag self-a agera andizement.* If you reflect
upon the Teelings of that assembly, and particularly _
of the-private committeé who drew up the report, ~
you will ‘acknowledge that any declaration favorable .
to the Inquisition, and emanating {rom such a source “
y | precludes all reasonable reply. Some modern inf-
dels, the echoes'of protestantism, « wo'
o
age
e. Inqui
usual consistency; : assailed him with un
mensared, declama atory USC. . t, however,
is, that he ne rcised an’ inquisitorial act, and |
that the Iniguisi it ont w whieh can be traced as‘far ‘back
as the council-of Verona, which” was held i in pia4t-
was not. entrusted to the Dominicans,
in oer rords,. twelve, years after the Veath of Sine
Domin
Me he J ‘Ma nichean heresy, better. known in.moder
es by that of the Albigenses, in the efeelfih cena
equalle iratned the churcli an the Ecclesi-
astical ¢ wera de ted. ‘to ‘find out the.
seditious. eur, "aod were thence called Inquisi-
tors. . Pope Inn cat TH, approved of this, institu-
tion in 1204. Th Dominicans first. acted as the -
deputies of the pope and his legates.” ‘The Inquisi-
on, so far as th re concerned, was a part of
their preacbing department, and: they were known ©
by the name: of Preac ing Friar rs, and Brothers,
which title they still retain. - The mniencement
of the Inquisition, like all institutions which are des-.
[tine to produce great effects, was not what it sub-
sequently became. - Called into existence ecue
liar circumstances, opinion first sanctions them, and -
nite seeing the advantages which are likely to -
follow act ions and giv ma leg a form. °
as. y to assign ‘the or ecise .
ure. ever, an
@ Ingu isition, | prope erly so termed, was: ‘not lawful-.
iy, established with its ‘Character and attributes, but
virtue of the Bull Me .humant. generis of Pope
ory IX, addressed
louse, on the 24th of April, 1
It is, moreover, solidly proved that ihe first In--
quisttors, and Saint Dominick especially, never cppos-
a
aFe
oO
eble’ hoginning, but ~
to the provincial . of Tous, .
ed heresy with any other aris than those of Praven,:. oe
InsrRuction,
ou wil ve here, Sir,
sant, that w emu
‘it were, the pri
with the variations, which the necessities, or Pas-
_ *See Inf 1 Tribu
ion, x &e. ” Ge dix 1812, .
s No, . LIV. ST
of Sci cience, 0 of Parise
se which have heen established by Edicts are
by no moans os lawful, and nover- “promise the same suc-
cose.
No opu
que ta oracion, la pac
seron (los inquisitores) a lot hereges otras armas
tencia + y la instruccion, entro ellos. S."
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dom—This Kingdom nm, to. be gure, hast two _ departments, |
darkness and! ight.
Wea Wn possersio on of important facts in relation to all
the ticks of that trade. The will come, when we shall |
pre them to the Epon and ‘anach insulted 'p ople of our
sh fleecing
andos,y los Padres Echard
et Touron. tie de Dominique, a .
inieains, et A
Encyclo;
Inguisiteurs. literall
mittee, and Feller‘s
does appear ithat tho 0 Reporter: is mistaken in enrolling St.
plausible and truly
f isitors. -Buteven according
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such an antichristian, antrepublican practice; bic
speculatore, ect:
to his Declaration, itis fn consequence
aw
acerca de los Prana i oteelree de i “Re- ve