Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

DANGER IN THE DARK. 45
before elections. I know a class of men, who are all
the while busying themselves to get up a feeling that
papists are being trampled upon; that they are badly
used and are circumscribed in their privileges. These
men have an object in view-but that object is not to
promote justice and good-will: being a set of selfish,
dishonest, renegade politicians, who have no other
hope of climbing into office than by becoming fawning
sycophants, they think to ingratiate themselves
with papists by this kind of maneuver, so as to
obtain their votes. Those of us who refuse to flatter
the pretensions of the Hierarchy and are unwilling to
submit to priestly rule and dictation, are to be
denounced by these demagogues, as uncharitable,
illiberal and vile calumniators I"
"I take it, Squire, that all the churches are a little
given to persecution when they have the power; and
I reckon Catholics are not worse than the rest."
"Unquestionably, there is too much illiberality and
a great want of charity among all sects; yet the
Catholic, is the only denomination in Christendom,
that teaches persecution and openly avows and defends
the principle of religious intolerance. All Protestants
unite in condemning the principle as wrong and
foreign to the spirit of Christianity; and often do they
confess themselves at fault, in being betrayed into a
spirit of persecution toward one another; indeed it is
common to hear them deplore a want of charity in
themselves. Such being the case, there is a chance
for correcting the evil; but in those who do not