inal principles, 99; of Va., protes:
against religious legislation, 112-
118; urge laws establishing reli-
gious liberty, 118; and persecu-
tion, 196; boycotting, 376; minis-
ters persecuted for preaching, 693.
Presbytery, Hanover, memorials of,
91-110;

church establishment

against all state interests, 93; ob-
jects of government, 94, 96, 100,
106, 139.

Press, free, the palladium of lib.
erty, 282.

Price, Edgar, trial of, for Sunday
labor, 724.
Priesthood,

269.

ambitious, irreligious,

Reformation, English, influence of,
on Sunday legislation, 751-755-
Religion, essential to full citizen-
ship, 48, 49; directable only by
reason, 83, 150, 151, 154; needs
no state aid, 93, 125, 203, 205,
309, 339, 384, 461; impaired by
ecclesiastical establishments, 125;
not in the cognizance of gov
ernment, 126; corrupted by civ.l
requirements, 134; essential to
good government, 136; meaning
of, 136, 137, 153, 154; pertains
to man, and not to a corporation
(Bancroft), 144; shorn of power
when adopted by Roman empire
(Bancroft), 144; civil government
and, 201; in public schools, 203,
204; exempt from civil control,
204; legal offenses against, 222;
Congress not to intermeddle in,
237; not to be introduced into
Congress, 242; basis of all Sun-
day legislation, 246, 268; inde-
pendent of government, 249; will
not restrain the persecutor, 283;
and Congress, 299; to be kept out
of legislation, -petitions to Con-
gress, 301; constitutional meaning
of, 460; and government, 462; an
essential in Sunday legislation,
732, 741.

Religions, all equal under proper
government, 17; equality of all
before the law, 163.

Religious educational amendment,
364.

"Religious Intolerance in the Re-
public," 707-716.

Religious legislation, subversive of
liberty, 96; wherein subversive,
98, 186-194; effects of, 100, 113,
115, 125, 133, 134; reasons for op
position to, 113; defeated in Va.,
120; signal of persecution, 126;
means the Inquisition, 126; equal.
ity in political platforms, 166-170;
imposters, laws concerning, 223;
motives in Sunday agitation, 231;
and superstition, 237, 238; legis
lative combinations dangerous,
237; despotism, how begins, 239;
teachers and ascendency, 253;
bondage, human race in, 253; and
the neighbor, 260; and selfishness,
261; and state legislatures, 263;
develops demons, 266, 267; re-
cent attempts at, 401; injures true
religion, 284, 299; inspired by
clergy, 286; declared unconstitu-
tional, 322; produces Pharisaism,

413.

Religious test, invades prerogatives
of Jesus Christ, 148; an engine of

tyranny,

148; forbidden, reason

for, 143.
Religious instruction in public
schools, forbidden by Ohio Con
stitution, 138; ruin predicted if
not taught, 203; James Madison
on, 204; Ohio Supreme Court on,
in Cincinnati school board case,
460-469, 478-486; inconsistency of,
464.

re-

Religio-civil proclamations, unconsti-
tutional, 28, 174; Jefferson
fuses to make, 174.
Religious measures introduced into
Congress since 1888, list of, 402-
408.

Religious questions, not decided by
magistrates, 93, 124.

Religious controversies not to be
settled by Congress, 237, 244, 250.
Religion and law, separation of,
sound, 205.

Religious liberty, little known by
early settlers, 30; not a Catholic
principle, 73; may be injurious,
76; cannot be permitted, 76;
guaranteed by second treaty with
Tripoli, 164.

Religious despotism

established

gradually, 285.
Religious opinion, Madison on, 193.
Religious freedom, guaranteed by
Constitution, 451; by State con-
stitutions, 523-555.

Religious parties, comparison be-
tween, 105.

Religious laws, injure the state, 93,
98; inconsistent with the Consti-
tution, 155; unconstitutional, 423.
Remonstrance against combination

of sects for political ends, 271.
Remonstrance, Sunday mails, 177;
from N. H., against Sunday-mails
agitation, 284; from Ky., 295.
Remonstration, reasons for, 112.
Repeal of Cal. Sunday law, 350.
Republican, liberal platform, 168,

170.

Rest, Sunday, foundation of, 179;
day of, sanctioned by nations,
234; government view of neces-
sity of, 234; bill, national Sunday,
360.

Restrain, what the law should, 167.
Resolution, relative to desecration of
Lord's day by Congress, 312; by
Boston convention, 334.
Revolution, value of spirit of, 253.
Reynolds v. U. S., 153.
Rhode Island, Williams and,
entire liberty of conscience in, 13;
influence of, 14, 62; Sunday law
of 1679, 57; comparison of with
Md. as to religious liberty, 68-78;
liberty extended to unbelievers,

13:

72; her Magna Charta, 72; Md.
or R. I., which? 68-78; conven-
tion of 1788 on religious liberty,
151; constitutional provision of,
regarding religion, 549; Sunday
law of, 629; cited, 774.
Richardson, Col. T. E., defends
R. M. King in Sunday prosecu
tion, 680-692; brief by, in King
case, 695.

Rider, Sydney S., on R. I., 68.
Ridpath (historian), 294, 694, 778.
Rights, not created by constitutions,
24; recognized by constitutions to
make more secure, 25; not sur-
rendered to society, 25, 83, 166;
our tenure of, 129; civil, not de-
pendent on our religious opin-
ions, 134; infringement of, 135;
Jefferson, Blackstone, Madison,
Spencer, Stephens, on, 188-192;
of conscience assailed under pre-
text of holiness, 155; not enumer
ated in Constitution, 156; of Sab.
batarian, how protected, 283.
Rights, Va., declaration of, 81; re-
ligious rights inalienable, natural,
etc., 91-140, 175; and toleration
242; Jefferson on natural, 244.
Rights in religion, as sacred as any
other, 129.

Rites, religious and the state, 324.
Robinson, William, hanged, 697.
Roman empire, injured Christianity
by adopting it (Bancroft), 144;
oppression in, 256; Sunday laws
did not save, 772-775-

Rose, Judge, says Sunday laws are
oppressive on Sabbatarians, 669,
670.

Ruffin, Chief Justice (N. C.), on
Sunday laws, 179, 433.

Russell, Rev. William T., on tolera
tion, 75, 76.

44

SABBATH for Man," quoted, 124.
246, 432, 698, 699.
Sabbath, early American observers
of, 38; Washington arrested for
traveling on, 38; differing views
on day of, 235; Christ and,
236; lawful to do good on,
266; gathering sticks on, 267;
first-day, 279, 297; and legislation,
287-294; seventh day or first, 298;
brought to attention of Congress,
303; Congress not to break, 312;
union, American and foreign, 330.
Sabbatarians, a protest from, 280;
first-day argument, 336.
Sabbath-breaking, Blackstone on
223; made capital offense, 267.
Sabbath observance, declared a duty.
15.

"Sabbath Recorder," quoted, 717.
Sabbath Union, American, 378, 379.

Sacred concerts, 399, 589, 592, 776.
San Francisco "Examiner,"

Sunday law, 352.

on

San Francisco "Morning Call," 352.
Savage, Minot J., on state attending
to its own affairs, 700.
Schaff, Rev. Dr. Philip, on liberty
and toleration, 154, 162, 257, 778.
Schools, public, and religion, 203;
religion in, 204; Wis. Supreme
Court, decision on, 478.

Scoles, J. W., trial of, for Sunday
work, 655.

Scott, Judge of Mo., quoted, 291,-
424; cited, 423, 425.

Scovel, Rev. S. F., majority must
rule, 348.

Scriptures, interpreted by state, 321,
331.

Sect, may be established by same

law that establishes religion, 163.
Sellers v. Dugan, 412.

Senate report on Sunday mails, 233;
on religious rights, 747.
Separation of church and state,
early settlers little acquainted
with principles of, 30, 385; which
colony first founded on, 68-78;
opposed by latest popes, 74, 75;
"Western Watchman (Catho-
lic) on, 76, 165; Justice Story
on, 143; not a conflict between re
ligion and infidelity, 148; objec
of first amendment, 143; intended
by founders of nation, 154; advo-
cated in national liberal platform,
170; only means of securing tol-
erance (Milman), 377; entire sep-
aration, American principle, 557;
Rhode Island firm to set example
on, 629; Wm. F. Vilas on, 748;
national government founded on,
772.

Seventh-day Adventists, attitude of
National Reformers toward, 345-
347; "unnecessarily alarmed,"
346; persecution of, in eleven
years, 347, 734; one hundred thou-
sand keep seventh day without
law compelling others to keep it,
353; Senator Crockett on, 357-
"take
359; exemption does not
wind out of their sails," 124, 369;
Washington "Post's " opinion of,
389, 390, 728, 729; memorial of,
to Congress, 380; trials of, for
working on Sunday, 653-730; rec
ord of prosecutions of, for two
years, 726.
Seventh-day Baptists, Washington's
letter to, 171; memorials of, to
Congress, 280, 391; appeal of, to
citizens of country, 314; aid ren-
dered by, during Revolutionary
War, 315, 396, 397; wish no com-

South Carolina, reference to Sunday
law of 1712,
53; constitutionai
provision of, regarding religion,
549; Sunday law of, 631; persecu
tion of Sabbatarians in, 727.
South Dakota, constitutional provi

sion of, regarding religion, 550;
Sunday law of, 633.

Spalding, Bishop, on liberty in
America, 68.

Speech, a great, 87; free, right of.
152, 155, 156, 769; of Senator
Crockett, 354; of Patrick Henry,
664.
Spencer, Herbert, on religious lib
erty, 17, 82, 85; on free speech,
155-157; on property-right in time,
158; on human freedom, 189,
442; on majority rule, 251; on
innate sense of liberty, 258; on
state teaching religion, 264.
Sphere of civil government, 187.
Spicer, W. A., 389.

Spirit of the Revolution, 667.
Spiritual tyranny, Washington on,

143; in-

religions, 115, 116; becoming head
of church, 117; providing teach-
ers of Christianity, 119; church
and, Justice Story on,
terpreting Scripture, 321.
State constitutions, 523-555.
State laws not guide for national,
772.

State-churchism fosters inequalities,

102; all injurious, 108; absurdity
of, 552.

State not Christian (Catholic decla-
ration), 165.

State religion is somebody's religion,
138.

State v. Ambs, 425.

State v. Williams, 433, 689, 690.
States, constitutionally debarring
atheists, 15; demanding morality,
15; other demands, 15; illicit con-
nections of, with religious bodies,

568, 579, 584, 595, 597, 600, 614,
624, 635, 645, 648; permitted in
New York and Saratoga Springs,
615; not injurious to society, 615.
Sunday contracts, 412, 413, 421,
565, 646.

Sunday enforcement, Roger Will-

iams against, 58, 60, 61, 66; not
in R. I., 73; instances of, in Ark.,
654-664; in Tenn., 672-717; rig-
idly secured in Tenn. without
statutory enactment, 710; in Ga.,
718-720; in Mo., 720; in Md., 722-
726; in S. Car., 727-729; in Va.,
729; ruinous, 744.

Sunday, government necessary

261; legislation, 277; legislation
not pious, 307; Congress com.
mended for observing, 312, 313;
and the Constitution, 320; work,
Rev. C. C. Burleigh arrested for,
329; law, Cal., repeal of, 350;
closing of Chicago exposition on,
370; closing of St. Louis Fair on,
378.

Sunday laws, of Constantine, 753;
of Charles II, 754; genealogy of,
756.

Sunday laws, early American, 33-58;
in Va., 33, 34; in Mass., 36; in
Conn., 42; in Md., 45; in Pa., 47;
in N. Y., 50; in N. H., 51; in Ga.,
51; in N. C., 53; in N. J., 54; in
Del., 56; in R. I., 57; manifestly
religious, 45, 48, 50, 51, 53, 423,
433; fine for violation of, 46; cre-
ate evil, 49; prohibit traveling,
52; require inquisitors, 52; theo-
cratic, 56; even in R. I., 57; first
opponent of, 59; Mass. clings to,
59; Pilgrim Fathers and, 66; relics
of old establishments, 99; violate
human rights, 160, 740; workings
of, 160; constitutionality of, 169,
434-459; Washington against, 171;
illegal, 173; rest laws, foundation
of, 179; incompatible with equal-
ity, 200; ministers and, 246; reli-
gious (Crafts), 246; government
report, 267, 268; Colo. "Graphic
on, 279; indefensible, 279; pave
way to union of church and state,
282, 738; injurious to true reli
gion, 284; to establish sectarian-
ism, 305; American anti-, conven-
tion, 328; against reform, 331,
a failure, 353; object of, fully
expressed, 417; discriminate be-
tween days on account of religion,
therefore unconstitutional, 424;
against the laborer, 431; unconsti
tutional, 446; compel religious ob-
servance, 451, 518; origin of, 511,
519, 751-754; are religious, 516.
517; outgrowth of system of re-
ligious intolerance, 518.
Sunday laws, present, of the U. S.

(557-649), Ala., 557; Ariz., 559;
Ark., 559; Cal., 561; Colo., 562;
Conn., 564; Del., 567; D. C., 568;
Fla., 570; Ga., 571; H. I., 574;
Idaho, 575; Ill., 578; Ind., 579:
Iowa, 581; Kan., 581; Ky., 583;
La., 585; Maine, 585; Md., 587;
Mass., 589; Mich., 593; Minn.,
597; Miss., 598; Mo., 599; Mont.,
600; Neb., 600; Nev., 601;
N. H., 602; N. J., 603; N. M.,
611; N. Y., 612; N. C., 616;
N. D., 618; Ohio, 619; Okla., 622;
Ore., 623; Pa., 624; P. I., 627:

P. R., 627; R. I., 629; S. C., 631;
S. D., 633; Tenn., 634; Tex., 636;
Utah, 638; Vt., 638; Va., 639;
Wash., 645; W. Va., 646; Wis.,
647; Wyo., 648.
Sunday laws, absurdity of, 457; op-
eration of, in U. S., 653-706; a
stepping-stone to further religious
legislation, 702, 746; why wanted,
732; "Before the Bar of Rea-
son, 733; Alexander Campbell
on, 737; Spurgeon on, 737; why
wrong, 738, 739; in conflict with
inalienable rights, 740; do they
preserve a nation? 742; ruinous,
744; verdict of U. S. Senate, 747;
House verdict, 748; views of Dr.
Albert Barnes on, 748; constitu-
tionality of, 773; written annals
of bloodshed, 776.
Sunday legislation, first enacted by
Congress, 370; and bloodshed,
377; religious, 399; attempts at,
402-408; increase of, in U. S.,
556; history of, 751.
Sunday mails, House report on,
quoted, 17; law, petitions, remon-
strance, and reports relating to,
176-186; citizen right to, 178; ad-
verse reports on, 180-185; Richard
M. Johnson submits report in
Senate on, 226; Senate report on,
233; House report on, 245; im-
portance of, 262; alleged author
of report on 268; tribute to John-
son for reports on, 269; Ind. as-
sembly memorial on, 271; Ala.
assembly resolution on, 273; Ill.
assembly memorial on, 275; N. J.
citizens on, 277; N. H. citizens
on, 284; Pa. citizens on, 287; Ky.
citizens on, 295; Vt. citizens on,
303; increase of, in recent years,
556.

Sunday observance must be secured
by human force, 427.

Sunday prosecutions, reasons for,
417, 433, 689, 690.
Sunday rest, Cardinal Gibbons on,
228; Senator Blair on, 228;
churches and, 228; bodies and,
229; place in American custom,
234; national bill, 360; Breckin-
ridge bill for, in D. C., 367; asso-
ciations, federation of, 379.
Sunderland, Byron, quoted, 557.
Sun worship, 752, 753.
Superstition and religious legisla
tion, 237, 238.

Supreme Court of U. S., view of,
on private rights beyond control
of state, 191; on limitation of
legislative power, 470; decision of,
regarding Christian nation, 487;
decisions on State Sunday laws,

TAFT, Judge, dissent of, in Cincin
nati school board case, 460.
Taft, President, quoted, 32; speech
of, at Norwich, Conn., 385; to
Catholics, 386.

Taney, Chief Justice, on contracts,
458.

Taxes for religious purposes sinful
and tyrannical, 134.
Teller, Senator, 378.
Tennessee, constitutional provision
of, regarding religion, 550; Sun-
day law of, 634; operation of
Sunday laws in, 672-706, 710, 716,
717; Supreme Court of, brief pre-
sented to, in King case, 695.
Terry, Chief Justice (Cal.), opinion
of Sunday laws, 351; in Newman
case, 434.

Test, religious, invades prerogatives
of Jesus Christ, 148.

Texas, constitutional provision of,
regarding religion, 551; Sunday
law of, 636.

Thanksgiving proclamations uncon-
stitutional, 28, 174.

Theocracy, government report ai-
luding to, 236; advocates of, after
state power, 313.
Theological discussion in Congress,
374, 775, 776.

"The Sabbath," quoted, 378.
Thurman, Justice, opinion of, 419,

421.

Time, property and relation to law,
158, 740.

"Times" (N. Y.), 390.

Tithingman (early civico-religious
official), 38; arrests Sabbath.
breakers, 59.

Tobacco, colonial penalty for Sun-
day desecration, 34, 35, 36, 45.
46, 514, 568.
Toleration, not liberty, 16, 154, 243;
Washington's view, 172; and re-
ligious rights (government re-
port), 242; Madison on, 242;
Lord Stanhope, Dr. Schaff, Judge
Cooley on, 243; and the Refor
mation, 260; of everything except
Sabbath, 338; and liberty, Chief
Justice Terry on, 439.

Treaties and the Constitution, 162.
Treaty, of peace and friendship

(with Tripoli), 162, 164; what
revealed by, 164.