Religion And Politics Classic Reprint

Author : Benjamin J. Webb
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ISBN 13 : 9781330544129
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book The Catholic Question in Politics (Classic Reprint) written by Benjamin J. Webb and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Catholic Question in Politics From the beginning of the controversy, which necessarily grew out of the recognition of so strange a doctrine in republican party politics by a very considerable minority of the American people, the Catholics have acted entirely on the defensive. They have been attacked, as they conceive, without any shadow of cause, and on a point wherein all men are peculiarly sensitive. Further, these assaults frequently came from quarters, whence Catholics had no right to expect any other than fair and generous treatment. This was particularly the case with reference to the Editor of the Louisville Journal. Many of them had been, for years, his warm personal and political friends, and the editor could show no cause for doubting either their honesty or their patriotism. But, even in the hypothesis that he was honest in his conviction of danger to the republic on account of the peculiar religious views of the Roman Catholics, still I hold that the previous good understanding between Mr. Prentice and a large number of those holding the faith deemed by him so dangerous, should have induced him to treat them with, at least, some degree of courtesy. But, instead of this, the most rabid sectarian sheet has been mild and gentle, when compared with the Louisville Journal. From the position of an open and consistent friend, he jumps, at a single bound, to the attitude of an avowed and implacable enemy, and out-Heroding Herod, he produces a paper, surpassing, in uncharitable invective and naked abusiveness, the vilest of his thoroughly vile Popery-hating cotemporaries. Formerly, a votary of the gentlest of all the muses, he has tuned his pipes to another lay. "Arma, virumque cano;" - war is now his theme; and the object of his highest ambition is to break a lance with the "Papal Dragon." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.