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About The American. (Omaha, Nebraska) 1891-1899 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1895)
HENRY TO ORANGEMEN He Addressed Them Last Sunday In His Church. la Able S-rtiti b AM JUa llmi l ull r lbkliil4 1'strluU. U a Tt: Err-tiy cotilo4 for tb. fb bk-k u owv l'IWl4 U U lnl. Judo. HU Chimgorlh said: "T Bible 1 the religion of rroUtanU." I'roUsntant Ism cm a revolt against the papacy, which nought to rob the world of spir itual and biblical CbrLtlanlty. The fundamental truth for which It stands are: Justification by faith; the suprem acy of the Scripture aa sole authority tn all thing pt-rtalnlug to life and god llne; the rUrtatof private judgment in th tniornretalion of the Bible: the plrituallty of the chuirh; freedom of conscience tn tho worhlp of Almighty God, and the eternal separation of church and elate. In the maintenance and nromulcatlon of theno doctrine Protectant Christianity 1 brougnt Into vol" "jonlura with the 1 loin an Cathollo hierarchy, which repudiate and cure each and erery one of these distinguishing and divine doctrine of the "Faith once for all dollvored to the aalnta." American Protestantism 1 therefore a sincere and emphatlo op position to all form of falsehood, out rage, persecution and tyranny In either church or state. It 1 tho Inalienable prerogative of every human being to protest against wrong and Injustice which relaxes publlo moral or menace tho social well-being of the people. This principle underlie all reaction ary measures against superstition, Ig norance, vassHlage and vioo. Protest 1 always preliminary to emancipation and progress; agitation, education, co operation, legislation and emancipation are the watchwords of reform and vic tory. The work of Protestantism must re main Incomplete until the last veetljje of dense Ignorance, hoary superstition, uoscrlptural tradition, or social perils flee away. The discovery and settle ment of America meant radical changes and throughgolng revolutions In the condition of mankind. For centuries the civilized world had been dominated by two stupendous falsehoods the monarchy and the papal hierarchy both flagrant usurpation and fatal foes to the peace and happiness of the race. They were hugo vampires In politics and religion. They were mutually cor runt and corrupting. They were the tyrants of church and state. Papal and princely persecution drove Protestants and dissenters to the American wilder ness, and, when planted here, sought to oppresi them by a policy of the most outrageous cruelty and Injustice. It was then that the spirit ol independ enoe be ;an to stir in the thought of the suffering people. They had been trained in a mighty school or adversity; helr leaders were men of learning for it was In the universities and schools -of the reformer that the genius of lib erty and free thought aw ike to the eon scloubiiess of it great responsibilities. Convictions long broodid by individ uals and communities began to crystal llze, as In the resolutions of the Scotch Presbyterians at Mecklenhurgh, North Carolina; and in tho followlt g year, on a day ever memorable, the Declaration wa adptd, and American Protest antism was born. Henceforth it was to be American, not European. That was the advent of a new force and a new doctrine in the history of civilization a force and a doctrine never heard of !n tbe world before; and while it was not perfect in its applica tion, it subserved the cause of human emancipation as nothing t he had ever done since the exodus from Egypt. Seven j ears ot blood and suffering aud beroio valor sealed the mighty Instru ment, and then a government was framed the like of which had cever appeared on earth. It was the first grand protest against monarchy and papacy, and an astonishing stage in the progress of emancipation. It was to be a government, as the immortal Lincoln said, "of the people, for the peop'e, and by the people." It was a government in which there should be "a church without a bishop and a atate without king." The spirit of American Prot estantism was embodied in these two grand documents the Declaration and the Constitution; and, while it was not then universally applied, it gave free scope to human thought, and made it possible to advance the cause of eman cipation a the logio of event should dictate. The founders of the Republic builded better than they knew. By permanently separating the church from the state by generous provision for primary and popular education, by abolishing every vestige of nobility in rank and the claim of primogeniture by investing the citizens with suffrage under limitations then thought to be adequate by establishing the right of private judgment, free conscience, free speech and the freedom of the press they defiance to the despotism which has bo long crushed down humanity and opened the door of a future in this land which not the most fertile imag ination among them could fully con alve. In that great period there were but comparatively few Humanist In evi denceonly om papist signed the Deo- Urstlcn. It tM thoroughly Protestant in all It salient feature, and it wa maintains d by the whole body of Amer ican Protestants, who sought deltver af ce from European oprrlon. The persistent claim of the papal hierarchy that their adherenU did so much in founding the lie public 1 thus sen to be without foundation, and It 1 a claim so repugnant to the fundamental doc trine o( the Itomlsh system that it i a marvel that It should be set up at Jail except for Jesuitical purpose. From the very beginning of our na tional history these great principle of civil and religious liberty have been pitilessly assaulted by the manifold foe of freedom. No year ha been wanting in the presence of traitor and traducert who have sought to betray or besmirch our jeweled independence. All the constructive forces of our civi lization originated in the Protestant religion. This biblical faith ha been the creative spirit in all the noble In tltullon which are distinctively Amor- lean. The principle of freedom and fraternity were never bt rn of that ty rannlcal and liberty -destroying Institu tionthe papal hierarchy. It I lm possible to conceive of American free dom a the offspring of this cruel, op pressive, ignorant, superstitious, pagan and pestilential power. Its history in our Republic confirm it record of fifteen hundred year a the assassin of liberty and the remorseless foe of man's emancipation. Tbe battle has not yet been fought to a finish. TLe irrepres sible conflict between Protestant Chris tianity and It foe 1 still on; more over, slirns are not wanting tnat lead us to believe that we have only experi enced the first shock of a battle so co lossal in significance, to Indescribable in it import, as to mate it tbe verl table Armageddon of human history The Protestant religion in America Is on trial for its very life; it is entering a struggle with alienism and atheism, In fidelity and indliTerentism, ignorance and immorality, pauperism and prol acy. paean Ism and papacy, In which It will either go down in disaster and Ignonilulous defeat or out of which it will rise, with sublime and unconquer able strength, to the rapid conquest of the whole world. America 1 the battle-ground of liberty, life and joy. Our Republlo enshrine humanity' holiest hope. Americans are to determine the career and destiny of the Anglo-Saxon race, which In time is to settle the future of the world. The American citizen stands to-day at the conflux of eternities. We are living, we are dwelling In a grand and awful time; Age on ages telling; To be living is sublime. Oh! let all the soul within you For the truth's sake g abroad; Let every nerve and sinew Tell for truth tell for God. IMMIGRATION. Among the grave perils that threaten the extinction of Protestant Christianity In Amerloa Is immigration. Of the millions who come to us from across the sea. nearly "o per cent, refuse to become thoroughly Americanized This unasslmilated foreign element has assurted such gigantic and alarming proportions, especially In our great cities, which are the storm and criminal centers of our clvlllzttlon, that the cry Is hoard from every quarter of our land 'Close Hell Gate on the east and Golden Gate on the west!" For the present we have enough of this alien horde. Already our country has bean too long the dumping-ground for the offal of tbe old world. This aggrega tion of evil characters constitutes a menace to moral and a fearful foe to faith. They corrupt our cities, de bauch our politics, fill our jails, breed every form or vice ana crime, assaun dur schools, Insult our flag and defy our laws. The time has come to quar antine against forelgnism with Its fear ful vices and false faith. In this alien horde we find Jesuits, plotters, paupers, exiles, ex-convicts, anarchists, nihilists, socialists, communists, all of whom are parasites, sucking the life-blood out of our civilization and utterly ungrateful for the privileges they enjoy. They represent a lawless, defiant and un- assimilated citizenship. They represont every nationality and every shade of relic-ion and irrelitflon. Nearly all of thl undesirable, threatening popula tion are identified with the Roman Catholic church, which Dr. Brownson himself declared was a "foreign colony It is just because our cities are so largely foreign that Romanism finds in them its chief strength. No man can deny that our cities have been Roman ized, and they have given to the world the most terrible object lesson of munic ipal misrule that modern civilization has ever witnessed. Dr. Dorchester is authority for saying that 14 per cent. of Irish discharged convicts come to this country. We honor them as patrol men, politicians and mayors. Twenty five per cent, of New England's popula tion is of foreign extraction, and furnish 75 per cent, of all the crime. This foreign element fills our prisons, our workhouses, almshouses and reforma tories. The policy of European gov ernments has been to ship their de Dendent and criminal classes to America. Many notorious offender have bees give a immunity from arrest on condition that they would migrate to America. Tary have come, and under the influence of a Jesuitical and unscrupulous priesthood have located In the great cities, where they have created little Ireland, little Germany, little Italy, little Spain and little Hungary, In which they preserve their race distinctions, language, wor hip and custom. These district con stitute a dead-line of intelligence, be fore which our free institution will fade away. The people in these foreign district belong to the papacy. Within the past fifty year the character of Immigration ha radically changed. Every yiar we receive more an J more of the vicious and ignorant and less of the desirable element. From 1880 to 1890, Immigration from England, Ger many, Sweden, Denmark and .Scotland fell off rapidly, but their number were more than replaced by the far less de sirable, which come from Italy, Hun gary and Austria la thl closing century, immigrants) have come to us from every quarter of the globe, and especially from the papal countries of Europe, with no adequate idea of our form of government, and no sympathy batever with the spirit of our institu tions, and they are threatening to over whelm us. Thl form the opportunity for the pope of Rome to dictate Ameri can policy, ana to gain a complete ascendancy in thl country. The civil ruler of the nation tremble and look on, hoping for the destruction of the greatest free, popular government on the face of the earth. All that was said in the day of the revolution is far more applicable and cogent at the present time. John Adams, the second president, depicted the situation In the following terse and comprehensive language: "The most refined, sublime, extensive and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by the mind of man was framed by the Romish clergy for the aggrandizement of their own order. This must be allowed to be so when it is considered that they even persuaded mankind to believe faithfully and undoubtedly that God Almighty had Intrusted them with the key of heaven, whose gates tbey might open and close at pleasure; with power of dispensation over all the rules and obligations of morality; with authority to license all sorts of sins and crimes; with a power of deposing princes and absolving subjects from allegiance; with a power of procuring or wlthhotulng tne rain of heaven and the beams of the sun; with the manage ment of earthquakes, pestilence and famine; nay, with the mysterious, aw ful, incomprehensible power of creating out of bread and wine the flesh and blood of God Himself. All these opln Ions they were able to spread and rivet among the people, by reducing their minds to a state of sordid Ignorance and staring timidity, and by infusing into them a religious horror of letters anot knowledge. This was human nature chained fast for ages in a cruel, shame ful and deploring servitude to him and his subordinate tyrants, who it was foretold would exalt himself above all that was called God, and that worshiped." It was against this latter class that Thomas Jefferson warned us when he said: "Tdey will infuse into our legis lation their spirit, warp and bias and render our civilization a heterogeneous mass " Madison, with prophetic eye, sa'd: "Foreign influence is truly Grecian horse to the Republic; we can not be too careful to exclude its en trance." Van Buren said : "Foreigners will render our elections a curse in stead of a blessing." General Harrison declared: "Americans must do their own voting and tneir own ngnting." Jefferson adopted as his own the senti ment of Silas Dean, who wished that there was an ocean of fire between this country and the old world. Gouverneur Morris affirmed, in 1778: "I do most devoutly with that we had not a single foreigner among us." Again he wrote: "It does not accord with the policy of this government to bestow offices, civil or military, on foreigners, to the ex clusion of our own citizens." What a marvelous comment upon this prophecy o! more than 100 years ago, that every city of note in the Union should be in the hands of an alien and un-American race! That the three and one-half millions of Roman Catholic Irish should furnish from 60 to 80 per cent, of all the office-holders of all the cities in this great Republic! The real problem of American politics Is, Shall we have Irish or American rule which? When the Chicago irishman was launched on the sea of journalism, February 11, 1894, it used the following language, editorially, under the head lng of "Our Greeting": "Let it be known that Irish-Americans will not submit to be taught, protected or patronized by smart Alecks of an alien race or creed. The Irish in America have bought the right to religious and political liberty. This right is theirs by deeds of heroism on America's battle fields, and by words and acts of states manship in her halls of legislation. The Irish race in America has fur nished the ablest and foremost de fenders of the United States Constitu tion. The race is a superior one. A u per lor raes should lead, not follow; should dictate, not submit. We shall demand home rule f-r An erica as wdi a for Ireland." - These utterance, in voicing the sen timents of the Irish people, are very ignlfioant to any oou who will give them carvful study, and measure ttiem with tbe well-known characteristic of that race. Wbeo the claim 1 made that they "furnish the ablest and fore most defenders" of our Constitution. naturally referring to those who, "by deed of heroism on America' battle field'" the mind Instantly turn to that record of desertion in the army during the civil war, which say that 72 per cent of this "superior race" deaerkd at a time of the country's greatest ne-ai. They may also hare just pride in boasting of their able statesmen, who, "tn the hall of legls Ution" of the state of Illinois, nave by tneir acta contrived to pas law by wnlch the Roman hierarchy, wnotn tbey for the moot part serve, is able to own and control real eeUto aud per sonal property to the value of upwards of elgnty milium uoiiai in this siate alone, without paying one cent of tax. The important question for tuosd "of an alien race and creed" t j decide is Who pay or makes good this deficit in our tax receipts? There aro thousands in thl state who, Uougj unable, are compelled to bear an unjust proportion of thl burden to support an ecclesiasti cal institution for wnich, down deep in iheir hearts, tbey hold no sympathy whatever, but rather a most pro nounced ab bor re nee. This la unlair, ana it l utterly inconsistent wttb our boasted claims for civil and rellirlous liberty. Proper laws should be enacted to maae an persons wno bold any per sonal properly ol rateable, value to bear their share of the taxes, whether priest or layman, without discrimina tion. Tho hour has come when America should be preserved for andby Ameri cans. No alien must arrogate to him self greater rights and privileges than native born citizens; loyal Americans should govern this country, and all alien and un-A mar leans must be sat Isfled to take what we give, or make quick-step time back to the country from which they came. The spawn of tyranny, they come to this land of liberty to teach free mea their duty. The narrow-brained products of ignor ance and bigotry, they would constitute themselves the guardians of American tolerance and American enlighten ment. I acknowledge the debt which this country owes to tbe foreign laborer; thousands upon thousands of our for eign-born citizens are useful and honor able men, an acquis! nun to any country. But I believe tnat I express the con eervative opinion ol tnougbtiui men everywhere when 1 say that we have reached a period in our history wben Immigration without limit is not ad vantageous to the country nor to the immigrant. It is within the mark to say that fully three quarters of our immigra tion since the civil war has been drawn from the lowest strata of European society. Is it not time that we demand protection against tnis mighty Euro pean army that is moving upon us? Tne more Intelligent citizens of foreign birth see this danger more clearly than the native-born Americans who have a supreme indifference to the fate of the Republic. We have permitted the accumulation of explosive and in flam liable material in our political cellar, and we should not be surprised If sjme day our house catches fire and is burned over our heads. Romanism is essentially a foreign in stitution in spirit and purpose; indeed, the only organization beneath the flag that has persistently refused to be Americanized. Hence the absurdity to expjet that the papacy will ever Americanize these vicious, criminal classes that constitute an imminent peril to our cities and to Protestant Christianity. INFIDELITY. Another menace to Protestant Chris tianity in our land is widespread infi delitypractical skepticism concerning the importance, truths and duties of evangelical faith. The doubt of our day Is not that unbelief which results from acute and accurate thinking along religious lines, but is rather the coarse and vulgar infidelity of the market place. It is the skepticism of ignor ance, immorality and an evil . heart of unbelief. It Is the infidelity of the street and the shop, the store and tbe factory, the railway train and the busy mart, rather than scientific and philo sophical distrust. 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