Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1877 — Grant and the Pope. [ARTICLE]

Grant and the Pope.

[New York Sun.j It is well known that Grant’s celebrated Pes Moine speech against the pope and the whole college of cardinals was conceived in the puui brain of the late representative of the United States at Nineveh and the Garden of Eden. In the absence of Grant, Parson Newman is obliged to bold the fort alone and unsupported. Last week he preached a sermon in Washington, following up the Dos Moines idea with a startling proposition. The Roman Catholics, iu the opinion of Parson Newman, are secretly plotting to turn over the United States to pa pal rule. There is only one way so counter: ct their rnaehiuations. Let all “friends of religious liberty” unite in a secret organization under the lea e ship of some eminer t defender of the Protestant faith, General Grant, for instance, and thwart the insidious designs of the Vatican by opposing cunning to craft. Parson Newman’s continued zeal in this cause is in striking contrast with Grant’s present indifference. That eminent friend of religious liberty is junketing abroad, yielding, no doubt, to the seductions of Roman punches, while Newman, as we have said, is forced to hold the fort alone. If there is to be a knownothing candidate for president in 1880, Parson Newman, and not Grant, is the man for the crisis.