The Alamo Star (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 30, 1854 Page: 1 of 4
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The emblem iliat will tyrant'* temitid
Belongs to the la tul ot the tree,
May that (lag ever iloat, as of yore,
When bl •<<•({ hv our forelathei's wíii shci!,
Who rsisrd it and boie it before
And followi*d wheje, victory h ad,
í^till haflowed ib- Stati and the St jipen—
The emblem (lull floats o'er the tree ;
May it never l>e sundeieu by strife,
In the land w here grows liberty's tree.
RIILHaoN AMI rOPERV.
We copy the following elegantly and well
Written article from the August number of the
Masonic Review, li is ui tl worth a perusal;
On*;i.orsAs,yLa., May .r ih, t%l.
Dear Brother Moore—I take the liberty to
write to you on account of a remark von made
in your last Review. You say, speaking about
Bailey, that you " hate popery as heartily as
heean.'' Now, Brother Moore, I would like
to know how yo/i « an publish such an opinion,
,%hen in your Review you profess to teach and
encourage ti/e tine spirit of Freemasonry'?
What right^r cause have you, as a Ma-on, to
say that yoXi hate ihis or that religion I Why,
fciy dear Brother, if you wish your readers to
have any-sort'of confidence in you as a con sis.
lent Mason, \yu would admonish in the same
number of your work your Brother B. to follow
'he old fliarges of the Order. This will not do:
it will discourage many a worthy candidate,
and prevent our citizens from joining our an-
< ient aotf worship ful Order, wl^pBirjrliear of
«ueh doing;. My dear Brother, go and sin no
more. Your# fraternally, \ II. Solomons.
cd for the public eye or not ; but from its char-
acter, and..íl being addressed to u as editor
of the Review, we pt'esume there can be no ob-
jaction to making it public :
We think the writer neither understand*
Jtimself, no| ua, nor Masonry, or he would nev
tiritar* written u* suoh a letter, "What right
hare yot^to^ay that yon hate this or that re*
1 if ion V *JPfc did not tail st. On the contrary
we now declare, 9* we ever bate, that we en-
tetllil ÜUI B|heit respect for' tcligioft.. We
love the Bible on which reTTg <Sft it
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of the «Me.
Weeleo respect Ike l U*iot «Éftfa— of
otll<-| peik oil*, U h**ll stieli «'plul« lls * i I f í«" I ilolll
cm( ow ri, rohsideiing that every man has on
Mtidonhtmf i r-jht v«> think jor himvM in a mat*
i i in viu\li b ' alone is an* wetable to his I're
a:"I We \ai I we " hat¡* ; ep# y not tf'ijwn,
ami we «.-tui'Vive that tloie is a a*t dijJeienre
I v* -t v. in i't e\n attm^ ot llu" t«<t wnnK. It i i -
;.rTon í> 1 V7ty In aspect, a luiable Tn it-
* jm í it ' umtoi ? i\iij in it" i nil nence, ainl t ion l ike
ill i > tf-ndeji i- vv Reliiiioii ii fioiti heaven
st d j p. i< > ihcatt which submits to iLs in-
(¡-o !;« v ft>i the enjo^p^tts of heaven. Reji
gion is pure peaceable, gentle, easy tobe en
Itea'ed,. inl! of good frui^, without partiality,
and without htpt^et tsV','*- It Wefe a burlesque
upon language to say t^e same of popery. Re
1 iit'll t rinas Minshine i\nd happiness into tlie
dark patlsways of.cail.li, it.cheers the n rrow-
ing, and wip<-s away the tears of the aiHicted.
It encourages the possessor to endure patiently
the Afflictions of the present life, by assuring
him of a better and happier one hereafter. It
has thrown up a 11 high way from these dis-
tant shores, on which linger tears and pain and
death, to a land where the flowei> bloom forev-
er a land of living streams, of trees of lite, of
, angel harps - of songs and crowds—of entire
I and « ternaI freedom ; of a home in {he n< ic and
i heavenly Jerusalem, and the companionship
with the pure and blessed i wtc Hi genres of that
world for ever and ever. This is Religion —
this its fruits.
Now what is popery 1 Would that our pen
could do justice in daguerfeoiyping it-^would
that we could draw its portraiture in colors
black a«< its own gloomy nature, or terrible as
the track of tears and blood that has marked its
foot prints for a thousand years. A pencil nipt
iu the " blacknes* of darkness," and wielded
by a democt*á Ijíind could alone do it jtiMlcy.
Go read the history of Europe, if you woulU
know what popery is. Its harpy iaugs havá
been upo|ar every crown and kingdom within its
reach : its demoniac spirit of bloodshed and
persecution has been felt from the cottage to the
throne. Childhood in ita innocency and age
it> its infirmity,—woman in her weakness and
manhood in it# power, have been the victim
over which has rolled this Juggernaut of per-
dition. The inquisition has sent its groans to
heaven against it ; the martyr has died at the
stake appealing to the justiee- of God for its
redrgM¿ itod the prison* of oppression and
dowiiAi^deik ftumanity hav# scut out .their
wailiíg* upon the wings of the wind—the hand
of popery trasMp9H them! It has walkfd abroad
over the lace life fair earth, monster like
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beautiful and torety fn Ita wif. And while Its
pestiferous breath Matt every thing that I*
hopeful in the present lifet it tanda lta demo
curse after iu affrighted victimslo the shadea
of a fiitttre worldr H Is not enoagh that-Its
let ions rest upon the present, it would
ibotb soul and body in tha future. Ml-
md popery tha samef No, no, Hwmtbe.
I'ojvry ii*vesta the piW witH <p tirit>utes
of r^etty, and glre# Mm fn etiar|e étt keys tif
he a veil It roN the people of the Bible—the gift
Ot the meiciful Go ; it relucí learning tintlia
child, unless if conté through the inv.iuuteatij*
ty• uf the cowfesnional, wrirt^s Isout its dupes
the most sacred privaces of private life. It
eírtTíTi* tor the priesthot^l a parent^ pirvategvf
vi.r our ehiltiren^ and hcaitlessly robs the
young of that whit h i* uearer than life. While
w * rue p lining llu e lines, a Roman priest i«
before the jnolicc court of this city (Cinciiinati)
charged with a brutal ami revolting assault up-
on a voting woman who had been sent to con-
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fession f These are faets: the records of the
day attest them, and the «lient past still repeats
them front the grave where its honor is hurried.
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líate popef v ! Who can help hating il j
Religion hairs iti heaven hates it r it is a inof*
at stench iu the nostrils of every being who is
good and pure. At this very moment it is iu-
triguing for political power in our country,
has tlie honesty to declare in advaoce (the only
redeeming trait we ever saw in it/} that grhen
it obtains that power there will be an end of all
toleration. It would lay hands upon old free-
dom, in the very land of its birth, and binding
it hand and foot, lay it a victim upon the altars
of Rome. It would drive Protest ant ism—the
freedom to worship Goo—into the mountains
or the sea: it would place a «haven Jesuit at
the door of every school-house iu the land ^ it
would gather the BiMesof our homes and make '
a bon-tire of them to appease u his Holiness/'
It would invade the sanettiary of our Lodge
rooms, and scatter tie brother-hood to the four
winds of heaven. No fire-side would be secure
— no home would be sacred; the priest wouhj
be every where, the lord and master. Its nature,
its language, its history, aüdeclare it j audits
own "Shepherd of the Valley ^Juries in mak-
ing proclamation of its jnreOttonS iu the ears of
Protestant America!
Hate it 1 From our soul we knit It! Long
á\s we love our wife and children and home, Wo
mbst haft¡ it; long as we cherish a freedom in
ouV heart of hearts ; long as we entertain a re-
gañí fur h%knau Weal, ami bow with reverence
at the shrine ofour country's freedom, we mmU
hate it! Long as we love the Bible that Qon "
has given us, and indulge a hope of realising
its promises in earth and heaven, we u u t A#ls
popery, thll |a not farther from heaven than
the tout monster With its appendages OT Jesuit*
ism is from that which can be loved. Goo save
our country and our domestic institutions from
the tender mercies of this out-growth of ignor-
ance and depravity. We love religion; ire
lEiend at Its altars; #a cherish Ha hopes ; nod
we revere its minist*rafits Bible, and ifa ImH«
tutions. But popery,—tsA* dtm %M JUHt it f
A ms. yo Ranos— Room;
A vs. to Gvansna.—Mistake.
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Newcomb & Lambert. The Alamo Star (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 30, 1854, newspaper, September 30, 1854; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth176992/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.