Romanism

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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.

From Washington Post

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

From Salon

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

From Washington Post

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

From Project Gutenberg

The tendency is far more toward Rationalism than toward Romanism; with the Newman who withdrew from all churches rather than with the Newman who renounced one church to enter another.

From Project Gutenberg