THE Roman Catholic press is well pleased with the Independent, of this city, because it has been rubbing the papal fur the right way. Sycophancy is always well-pleasing to Rome. Centuries ago inspiration said of this wicked power: “Through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by prosperity shall destroy many.” But at last “he shall be broken without hand;” for he shall be “cast alive into the lake burning with fire and brimstone.”
As noted elsewhere in this paper, the Congregationalist thinks that the custom of giving quiet dinner parties on Sunday evening must cease if the “Sabbath” is to be preserved. This shows the extent to which the Sunday movement is to be carried; spies must intrude into the very homes of the people, in the interest of this pagan-papal day that is to be crammed down the throats of everybody by the National Reform combination backed up by the civil law.