The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-28 00:00:00

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TO THE REN

THOMAS YOUENS, D.D

(LETTER II.)

REV. SlR,—The sole and entire question between you an
the Rev. H. M'Neile is, whether or not the Creed of Pit
IV. be a novelty ; and the closer each of you adhere to thi
and the less extraneous matter is introduced, the more ed
fled your readers will be.

My last letter treated on a subject introduced by you
which was foreign to the debate ; my object was to expos
your fallacies, and the present letter has a similar origin
a similar design.
You say, "Mr. Alßeile ought to be suffi-'
" ed with human nature to know that -
" for a man to persuade himself that
" cies have taken possession of his •
" of God's word, delivered in the Ii
" wild the fancies are, and the more fans,
" which they have entered, the stronger vviti
" tion of their truth and accordance with the
" history bears ample testimony, in recording
" travagancies into which men have run when, under tt
influence of religious excitement, they have
pounders of the Gospel of Truth." Page 7,
Allow me to inquire, in what sense do you
" human nature" and " man?" Do you r
that " human nature " is so constituted, tl
execution is a guarantee for performance ?
because human nature is depraved and c
all men easily adopt " religious

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Scriptures ? Suppose we say, " Dr. Youens, you ought
be aware ,that the human frame is so constituted, that
thing is easier than for a man to commit suicide or murder
but, does this render every man either the one or the otht
or can any charge be brought against the Creator, becat
he has not so fenced in and protected the vital functions,
to make this impossible ? Again :

Nothing is "easier" than fora Roman Catholic to wol
ship the image before which he prostrates himself, becau:
he may not be able to distinguish the boundary which b
church places between " Dulia " and " Latria." Does
therefore follow that all Roman Catholics worship image;
(I allude to this apart from the divine prohibition, " The
shalt not bow down," &c.)
Do you mean to affirm that " every man " adopts " rel
gious fancies" as an inevitable consequence of studying tl]
Scriptures? If so, your proposition is a self-evident fallacy
You would lay claim to manhood, and would doubtless co►:
tend for exemption from " wild extravagancies." Yet
presume you do (at least sometimes) read the Scriptures
Or,

Do you mean us to understand that " some men,
under the influence of excitement (and therefore to an extent
insane), have adopted erroneous views? If this be your
meaning, no one will deny the truth of your assertion ; but
your admission annihilates your argument ! Some men; while under the influence of improper feelings, comiait for-
gery ; but no one therefore objects to his children learning
to write. Some men have committed suicide with a razor,
yet the government of the country has not therefore prohi-
bited the manufacture! Some men have poisoned them-
selves and others with prussic acid ; yet its use in medicine
no man has ventured to deny.

Human nature has fallen from its " first estate," and that
is the source of all our weaknesses and all nur errors ; but are
we to sit down bewailing this, without attempting to apply
the remedy ; or shall we blindly attempt a.cure by removing
the specific by which alone the disease can be acted upon ?
The specific. and the only one, is that contained in the Re-
velation which God has given—the Scriptures !

But you charge human nature with producing in some
minds "wild extravagancies" from a perusal of the Scrip-
tures : and this is not denied ; but I challenge you to pro-
duce the record of any " wild fancy"—which you can prove
to have resulted from studying the Scriptures—which will
bear any comparison with the cool and deliberate fanaticisms

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contained in book high in repute in your church—" Butler's
Lives of Saints." Put it is* not here alone that the labours
of the fanatical, the blind, and the ignorant of your church
are found. What are the prayers you address to so-called
saints ? Just the result, the outpourings of fanaticism in its
worst form ! You address the mother of our Redeemer as
" The Queen of Heaven," " The Refuge of Sinners," " A
Mystical Rose," " A Tower of Ivory," &c. What is this
but an ignorant and " wild extravagance," resulting from
the throes of short-sighted human nature?
In the missal from which I select the above, I detect an
awful interpolation of your church, attributing to Christ
words he never uttered ; and you repeat these words on every
occasion that you officiate as priest in " The Sacrifice of the
Mass." Did you never detect the gross fraud ?
The only version of the Scriptures which is authorized by
your church is the Latin vulgate, and this, of course, pro-
hibits the word of God to all who cannot read Latin. Lat-
terly, however, the Scriptures, in defiance of Trent, have
been read and circulated among poor people •, and we may,
therefore, express a hope, that as the prohibition of them
did not 7:reserve you from fanaticism and wild fancies, the
reading and circulation thereof will soon have the effect of
destroying every thing which is not in accordance therewith.
In my next I shall remark upon your views of " Proving
a Doctrine from Scripture," and shall show, that your
church can and does foist into Scripture, or rather passes off
as Scripture, what is no where found therein ; and this is
something more than a " wild extravagance" or a " wild
fancy."—l am yours, &c.,
25th January, 1842

BAPTISMS

O'CONNELL AND THE DOLLARS

The repeal of the union is now an assured event. Fallen
Irish members of the House of Commons, immediately ticket
your trunks and carpet-bags for College-green ; for one Felix
O'Neill. of New York, has, by will, bequeathed to D.
O'Connell, " commonly called the liberator, the sum of 500
dollars, to be used by him" (who doubts the fact ?) " in ef-
fecting the repeal of the union." This heavy news for Eng-
land was, a few days since, published at the Repeal Asso-
ciation in Dublin, whereupon—
" The Lord Mayor accepted that legacy in the spirit which
dictated the liberal donation, but he received it the snore
readily because it incurred a pecuniary obligation on his
part never to desist from the prosecution of repeal. It would
before have been political dishonesty. No man would ever
believe him again if he ever relaxed his efforts, but now it
would be personal knavery. (Loud cheers.) He was now
bound to make his native country legislatively free. It was
in this solemn manner he received the sum ; he trusted that
association would join with him in a tribute of regard to the
memory of that excellent man who thus animated them from
the grave. (Cheers.) That was his retaining fee for the
repeal. (Loud cheers.) He could now remit no exertion in
the most sacred cause that ever the human intellect was em-
ployed in ; he accepted the retainer—he held the brief for
Ireland."

Oh, the moral force of dollars ! Before O'Connell might
have been politically dishonest to the living, but how can he
now swindle the dead ? Before, the cause was a good cause
—an excellent cause ; but now it is hallowed by ready money
—made holy by five hundred bits of transatlantic silver.
The cause, even before the death of Felix O'Neil, was a " most
sacred cause ;" but what is there divine or lofty that Mam-
mon will not further sublimate ! O'Connell was before a
patriot, but now he is the patriot par excellence for he is a
patriot with a fce ! Mere amor patrice is a flourishing, frothy
rascal, playing the bully and the mountebank ; talking much,
but receiving little. The only mode—hear it, oh ye nations !
—to make him a serviceable, under-handed giant is—to give
him a " retainer !"

The future philosophic historian of Ireland will trace her
liberation, her commercial greatness, and the whole sea of
blessings that is to flow in upon her from repeal, not to the
tardy, yet invincible vindication of justice, but to " 500 dol-
lars." On her house of Parliament we would have this
simple legend—

500 DOLLARS
And is there no way to turn O'Connell from his purpo:
Is there no way to make him forego repeal, bound as he
to it by five hundred dollars ? Yes one way there is :—o
him—six !—Punch,

The Gazette of Friday night contains a list of sixty-six ad-
dresses of congratulation on the birth of the Prince of Wales.

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has distributed the munifi-
cent sum of £lOO amongst the poor of the crowded parishes
in the neighbourhood of the castle.

A shocking accident happened on the 10th instant, at Bid-
denden, to a young man named Grounds, about 20 years of
age, and the son of a farmer in this parish. He had just
loaded his gun in his father's house, and in turning round
struck the butt against something, when it exploded and shot
off one side of his face. He lingered in great agony until
the 19th instant, when death put an end to his sufferings.—
Maidstone Journal.
MOST BRUTAL MURDER AT NEW YORK.—One of the
most brutal murders ever committed in this city, took place
on New Year's Day, at No. 89, Orange-street. The mur-
derer's name is Thomas Tappan, a native of Ireland, and the
subject of his enormities was his wife Elizabeth. aged 35
years. They occupied apartments in the above dwelling,
and were both of intemperate habits. During the morning a
dispute arose between them, relative to his wife's going out
for a pail of water, she desiring to go and he objecting. This
terminated in his giving her a blow with his fist, when she
again endeavoured to leave the room. He then locked the
door, and commenced beating her with a chair, which he
broke to pieces over her head, and then took a broomstick,
and broke it up by striking her on various parts of the body.
Having so disabled her that she could not stand, he threw
her on a bed in the room, took a knife and fork, and stabbed
and cut her head, body, and face in six or seven places. Not
having finished his biutal work, he then caught hold of a
shoemaker'shammer, with which he deprived her of the little
life that was remaining. He then stamped upon her with
his feet, and threw her on the floor. Having satisfied his
horrible passion, he laid himself down on the floor, saying
he would wait until his son George came in, when he would
cut his throat. A woman, named Catherine Kelly, was lying
sick in a bed in the room during the whole time he was com-
mitting this more than brutal murder, but was afraid to make
any alarm or attempt to leave the room, on account of his
threats to kill her if she moved. When the son of Tappan
came home, he found his father asleep on the floor, and his
mother a mangled and murdered corpse. Alarm was imme-
diately given, and the murderer immediately arrested, and
after examination and verdict of coroner's jury, was com-
mitted to prison. Dr. William S. Toinkins made a Post
mortem examination of the body, and found ten wounds on,
it, besides a slumber of abrasions of the skin. She presen,t!:d_
a distressing sight, such as we never before witnessed ialLirn,e'
examination of a murdered person. The wretch was I
hours beating her before she died.

last g eat CX
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—OR Thursday
d,
Fleshire,
having been
citement prevailed in St. Clairtown, Path-head,
N. 8., and neighbourhood, in consequence of it
i, lived with
made known by Inspector Bett, of the county
the body of Janet Forret, an aged wows:,
(watches, in St.
one Fergus Wilson, teacher and repaire!sen,s _,
gareet.t. The
Clairtown, had been found buried in I
147' and been re-interred
body has since undergone examination,:,
apprehended and
in gt. Clairtown churchyard, Wil..s°.aa taken up by the
circumstances, we can only
hopolice, that
lodged in Kirkaldy Gaol, and the '
strange and suspicious
proper authorities. Under these ccisarcsums
Forret has lived with
St. Clairtown many
allude to the general features of tehdl in
looking affair. Wilson has live
years, and is 70 years of age. J
For several years they have
session for relief, which
him for upwards of 30 Year.sc'ircumstances, and a few weeks
. Wilson's house is situate
uoflaadt,saacnrda Chapel.n
ol
d r
al. -allei
been in extremely reduced the
was to the
fsoinrcesoNmVeilsorenasoariplied refused.
and Janet occupied
nydt the
itshcah scholars digging
the,al
also
on
the gro
in St. Clairtown, neathe
und floor. About three weeks
secondq
ago
taught a school oned
nhoitsi c
noticed harden
that Wilson was observed
uting tins
and mess
had ceased coughing for several days, and that no light
Janet
din the room where she slept. Having made known
appeared
reutustances, one of the neighbours called and in-
quiredthese et
her, grotbt
but Wilson gage
an evasive answer, and said
for ,
she was not at home. Day after day passed without any ap-
pearance of the woman, and on Thursday last suspicion was
so excited that Mr. Walker, Bailie of the barony,
and Inspector called and made the same inquiries. To
them Wilson said that she was unwell, and in the
house, but that they could not see her. Not being
satisfied with this, the inspector proceeded to search, but
did not find her in the house, as stated by 'Wilson.
The scholars having told what they had seen, forcible en-
trance was made into the garden, and the body of the woman
found in a grave, carefully dug, by the side of a well. The
grave was about four feet deep. The body was wrapt i❑ a
shirt and an old sheet, and a muslin cap covered the head
.and face. Some straw and a large board were placed upon
the body. Altogether the burial, although betokening the
utmost poverty, had been decently gone about. Wilson
asserts that he has done no wrong, that the woman died a
natural death, and that the session having refused aliment,
he did not apply to them for burial.