Religious Liberty in New Jersey

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Oct 3, 1854

Religious Liberty in New Jersey.

The Elizabethtown Journal says that it has been informed, that in consequence of the Romanists threatening injury to a Protestant Church in Woodbridge, on Sunday last, a large party of Americans went from Rahway for the purpose of protecting it and the congregation worshiping in it. The occasion of the disturbance was the renunciation of Popery by a young man whose father and friends stationed themselves at the church door, with the avowed intention of taking his life if he entered the church. They afterwards waylaid him and would probably have murdered him but for the protection given him by the Americans.