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United estes Cathotte fe lect
{ESTABLISHMENT oF RELIGION, ¢ ‘OR { PRONTBITING THE
FREE EXERCISE THEREOF.—ART. I “AMEND. CON. UNITED STATES.
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VOL. 1X. NO. 40.) CHARLESTON, SATURDAY. APR: 3, 2830. ; (TOT. NO. 325.
INQUISITION. . . . But what shall we say of -Rome ? It is unques-] “Now, * Sir, alow me toask you how can's such a
_ a . |tionably here in. the government of the Sovereign {glorious charac er, stamped with a seal of uncloud-
y [Faom rxe Jrewir. Pontiff, that the genuine spirit of the priesthood a evidence, be ‘positively falsiied ina comparatively
Who does not’ know that, in countries where per- | ought to be unequivocally displayed. mall corner of the globo? By what kind of magicy
fect obedience is practised, the priest is dispense Now; Sir, it is. an universally amited fact that|¢ or legerdemain does it happen, that a religion esse
m depos ing as a witness in all capital proceed-|this government was never upbre t for its} tially: mild, tolerant charital te aad conelaory
ings, and that in’ states where this privilege has not{mildness. In ot of the civilized goth can! throughout overy ‘nation f the should wear
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been allowed him, he enj oys at least the benefit of| there be found a gove ent more paternal, just- Spain, [which Y roverbially tie and reenerour
the protestant act, whereby he testifies in pure abedi-| ice more impartially . administered, a system-of -res-| the horrid costume of bloody extermination
ence to justice, and sues all for mercy 2 ever did a} traint whichis. at.once more humane pnd judictous, |-- This is a question of the greatest - impo ortan
priest, asa functionary of the Jaw, ascend the scaf-|and a toleration more instructively perfe
r h h . and in the examination of every subject which comes i
‘old. Whenever he appeared on such a: tragic]. Romeis prob.bly the only part o ar Burope, where within. the range of human ‘consideration, - there ts
stage, his part was tu act the martyr forthe cause the Jew feels himself neither maltreated, nor humn-/ nothing so exsontial as to avoid a confusion of id eae.
f trath, or, asthe happy consvler, of condemned | ble es, Rome is the holy, the liberal, the chari- When, therefore, i of the Inquisition, let u
humanity. - He preaches mercy and clemency, and table, the “onli htened shot where he frels most
in no part of the globe did he ever shed any bloud happy, and which, the persecuted [sraclite has, al-| the s escesiastionl were
but his own. most from time immemorial, distinguished by the ef severity, terror, or death the Inquisition’
The church, the chaste-spouse of the Son of God, | glorious epithet,.‘* the Jewish Paradise. ingens is s exclusively cau sed and performed by the
who, in imitation of her glorious bridegroom, we ‘Open the page of history, and then answer, what governmn ment,. It, an alone, is responsible for
Rnows how to pour out her blood for others, but not| sovereignty has ever exhibited more clemency to an-|every act of this tribural. Clemency, which; like :
to draw that of others, entertains with regard to] ti-religious crimes of every description ? Such was] the tutelary angel, . in
r, a pe Mise horror, and in a manner fully | the uniform tenor of christian, catholic ‘Rome even, all its proceedings, is the uniform feature of the.
prope ortionate to the special “light, which her God a: the epoch, which has been termed; the. dark oges|charehyweh never interferes, except it be to arrest, |
has given her. he views’ men, not only as men, | of ignorance and fanaticism. Allow ine, Sir, to ) or mitigate the tortures of the culprit.
but as likenesses ofthe God whom she adores. She mind you ofthe conduct .of Pore Crement Tie Such is the indelibles immutable charactor of the
feels for each aholy respect, whic 3 to ve-| Fountu, who, in his letter to Lewis, king of France, {church of. Chr and it is not only.an’ error, but
_meration, knowing thet gach has been ransomed. a rebuked him for the severity of the laws, which that| even a crime to eapposé, much more to maintain,.
an_ infinite. price, 3 become a temple of the |monarch enacted against blasvhemers.* © The su-| that, catholic priests can be-in any way instrumental
Hsing God. 8, therefore, believes that the oath | preme pontiff, the vicegerent of the prince of mercy,| in compassing the death ofa fellow bein, yo
man, aho iskilled without the order of God, is} requested him in the official i ear rf of nee, there isa v prominent
not ron homicide, buta sacrilege, which deprives idate July 12, 1268, to mitigate forwith | their aspe- fact, which, notwithst: standing. has not-been sufficient-
her of one of ber members, for, whether the individu-| rity, and observed to the king of Nay a Bull} ly noticed, .I ‘allude.to rae Kuichss Tempians.-—-*-
al belongs to the household of her faith, or not, she| of the same date, that ‘ Jt is by no means » proper to hese noble-minded,: bat unfortunate men; whether:
invariably considers him either asone of her chil-| imitate our dear: son in Jesus Christ, the French king, | criminal, or otherwise, i r present object to’.
dren, oras capable of bec« omin, in relation to the extremely rigorous laws which he has | enquire {although the vilainy ‘of Philip the Fair,
Every one knows, that private ‘individuals are not) enacted against crimes of this sort.{ : Voltaire, when} a ipled agsociates, it
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and hence arose the necessity of estaUlishing public | cy over his justice and judgment, paid a most honor-
functionaries to require it on the part of the king, or| able tribute to the papal government. I shall quote
tion; ‘for they were con ’
government, or rather, on the part of God, There fit. You can find the re emarkable passage in 1 his says the Rutorian, . © If they had suck judges that
fore it is that the civil powers exercise this right only | poem on the Natural Law. - : they could: not: be. condemned to death But the
according to the deposition of witnesses, and as such, king of France, who had prejudged them, and who.
act as faithful dispensers of the divine power in de-| Mare.Aurele ct Trajan notaient a au champ de Mars knew the inevitable result of such a reference, con=!
priving men of life ; consequently they must consci-) Le bonnet da Pontifo au bandeau des Cosars, | vened-his state-council, and after ba poate audience,
entiously pronounce sentence, in Co onformity to the L'Univers roposunt sous lours bheureux genie, . an immediately ordered the ‘poor Temples to. be
laws, and consignanly those g and | . g ; g tlamanio, . dered !! ,
-awtul fate, whom the law: ndemn. If, ijowever, Cos grands legislatcura, d’un saint zele animes, ‘Aceordi ng to. the very principles of the Inquisi
the order ot deity obliges them to we oo hat eee _ Ne combatirent point pour leurs poulets sacres, tion, and ata period which: loudly called-for ia
are carried into effect in relation the greatest severity this - ion confined: itself to the’
crinminals. ane same divin o order compet is them to "Aurelius and Trajani in Mars’ wide field . Si ek roperty. and even'that
make a table pr: ‘vision for th ouls of such un-| .. (To whose enlightened minds the world did yield y
sentence a ‘revers sed aetording to. an: ‘act of.
ace, by the criminal : cabjuring his errors Acs
cording to the report to which we refer, it is s. impos: *
sible precisely to ascertain at what. epoch: the In-
fortunate eings— Al this is meritorious & becoming, | When war scholastic worano maniac frown)».
nevertheless, the church holds the cffusion of | Had joincd the Mitre to great Cesar
blood in suet abhorrence, that she deems all who Thaae noble statesmen full of zeal and peaco
abet, promote and effect a capital of B 8 Beeses ~" ‘l quisitorial tribunal rst pronounced a capital con-
‘ello a being: “although it be accompa anied by every re os ay pict . demnation.- It is fully sufficient for our purpose,
ligious consiiler ation to be disqualified from eet Rome encore adjourd buigeontevant ces maximes however, to be onvie need of an incontestable
» tag at her alta Joint lo trone a I’ autel par des noouds logitimos. that it never. could have ac equired this: right, ate
- Behold’ then, Sir a ‘beautiful theory. But you Sos citoyens en paix, sage ement gouvernes, . became exclusively a royal, or political Sustitution,
probably’ curious to: ‘know the 2 actoa the true i Ne sont plus sonquerans etgontplusfortuncs, and that every judgment; which affects: life in any. .
ty oriesthood upon this important point. oi I must ever be most cunscientious-
Study i holy ries ountries Pp where the Pottholie bi hierdr-| Such maxims oven now groat Rome upholds, Iv discountenaneed by the € e hur 0 fons eps ane
chy bins swayed and still holds the sceptre of power.| Joins throne and altar in her lawful folds 5 ' |eertainty.on this point, is nknov We know that
A circle of ecclesiastical sovereignties, was, owing to Her happy sons inhale the air of peace in every important sentence, even ‘in case.of » sim-
pectin to ean circumstances, estabiish- | Forgotting war, they reap 8 just increaso.t
ed in Ger v, and to judge of the effect, of the just-| . oe oo pardon the comparison) i is bone into our chores (Suche
e: ced in the |——— rocess may not come under the signification of the torm
ice and popular a o y prodnced: you of co the: ¢ of Du Can nge on Joinville. Collec proces : but however slight istho allusion to tho basis of
_social compact, it may be su cie b eiomoires concernant Phiatoire de France, Tome'll, p. 258.) Natural Feligion, Voltuiro might have seen in ‘tho history of
the old German prove * Un term Krumstabe ist note3, the Bacchantes, which is well described by Livy [xxxix: 9.
ut wohnen,”” i in other words, “ bei ts ‘good under the|. g, Louis s ordered that the tongues of blasphemers should sqq-) how they would have been treate d. "wher ehristiani-
& roster.” bo perforated, if I mistake not, rite ter noticn “he aver % He q Ith +f od-th tthe " n="
¢ t| was an awful punishment. It is worthy of notice. powevers | un arultl e foroeity. thas been remarked. tha! mon-
r + Proverbs, whi ch are the voice of Face and. rau viet Ulagphe when nt jy extablined, is death by the law wo ; BE tein en ante fe. id not molest
of popular experience, are never’ KnoK in some modorn and wel “governed nations. on’; while the perpen Trajan, Antonius,
oan. + Sed fatemur quod. in panis hujus: smodi tam acorbie— Me ous ne Aurelios am nd Julian wi eo its uncompromising ene-
~. To: such a testimony, thereto. do I appeal, ‘and chariasimum in Christo filium nostrum regem -Francorum mies !Feller's Hist. Dict. art. ‘Marcus Aurelius]--It is,
it is gratifying to reflect; that it a. ti Ibid. p. 259. therefre, -ineontestibly certain. that the soversign christian:
thi i i e + s the ii ire Was
ted by the unaninons: suffrage of all who have any} + Sce his Poem on Natural Religions Vth Part: Itisi -| Pom of did Porsee te w nrerdonable falsebeods whe
pretension to judgment, or recollectitn. Never | de std vingalar that Voltaire, who mi im ce etn he coxdpared them te the pagan eeaperors ‘and heathen pane
was there any question proposed in these mild and person nified, who is reasonable 8 and “fet in. what hi otten: Ufs: Marcus Aurelius and Trajons The insipid panegyrista
, pac overnments,-of a ersecution, of c2pital of the g the Ano ately preceding 8 rses.. How. gh of toleration in pagan. Rome should .have recollected, at
t 1 enatnies of the rei ning ° e the Romani to fi ght te ‘iheit viz i
convietion of the spiri ua. s aekedy and with whom were th he R is ri ee ave chee “i fo ace that no "hall be admitted in Tomes
at ?: Did tion nee in arm: ‘ a .
: “| ere ee pense? “taay 7 now. God woro oe cented to yf he he be nota Roman, and adored fatter the Homan eustom
7 “Pascal XI TVth Provincial Lt ttor_—Infamous as this ve pagan. Romo, he was introduccd by the detente of the the} | .. Vide Report p39. . 5 :
ter was. he, notwithstanding,- sometimes a.told the trut ate, (r i . :
Erat quod tollore ve elles. . - .
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