Romanism

In the 1840s, it was Catholic immigrants, said by a presidential candidate to be besotted with "rum, Romanism and rebellion."

Hence, he was appalled by Presbyterian preacher Samuel Burchard’s “rum, Romanism and rebellion” dig against Democrats, and Blaine afterward noted publicly that his own mother had been a Catholic.

In the 1840s, it was Catholic immigrants, whom Republicans in the 1884 presidential campaign said were besotted with “rum, Romanism, and rebellion.”

A week before that election, at a Republican rally, a prominent Protestant minister impugned Democrats as the party of “rum, Romanism and rebellion.”

As we go to Rome to see Romanism, we come to Benares to see Hindooism, expecting to find it in its purest form.