THEY ASKED TOLERATION — LIBERTY;
SHALL CHRISTIANS NOW ASK MORE?
Report of House of Representatives on Sunday Mails, 1831 Did the primitive Christians ask that government should recognize and observe their religious institutions? All they asked was toleration; all they complained of was persecution. What did the Protestants of Germany, or the Huguenots of France, ask of their Catholic superiors? — Toleration. What do the persecuted Catholics of Ireland ask of their oppressors? — Toleration. Do not all men in this country enjoy every religious right which martyrs and saints ever asked? Whence, then, the voice of complaint? Who is it that, in the full enjoyment of every principle which human laws can secure, wishes to wrest a portion of these principles from his neighbor?