American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-07-30
From Niles u eekLy Register.

1 PRAyING AND DOING. An English paper, 10 re
*trence to the disiresses of Ireland, says"A letter
from the archbishop OF Tuam, to the secretaries at
liverpool, says, Il PRAY the relief of your benevo
Dent committee to the perishng population of this
#town and immediate neighborhood. Our distressed
state is truly deplorabe, and have the same lo
REPORT of almost the whole of the province OF Con.
naught, over which, as Metropolitan, preside II
am appalled, at the conviction that many must die
from ctual hunger, and many more from the Ell
lecs OF bad, scanty, unwholesome, unnutrous food 1
/ Now, we are of those odd fellows, who, if an OK
or an ass was in ditch, would be more grateful to
one man that would take hold of the rope and help
us to pull ii out, than to fifty others who would
stand by and pray that the animal might be got out
Praying is well--but doing is better.
The "most reverend father in God,s as he is
Queerly called would do more good to the people
Eof Ii Gland BY one honest act, than will come OF all
the prayers that he can ever make. He receives
about 10000 dollars per annum of poor and opprss-
sed rishmen, in the shape of tythes-for, perhaps,
reading one or two sermons in year. Let him
give up this "livng" 10 the needy and goto work to
earn his own bread, and then we shall have respect
Tor his prayers in full belief that they will be avail
able. This yiperous race * brotherhood OF leeches,
the priests in ireland of the national church, grnd*
/ the people out of more than 100000 dollars a
! year in tythes alone-though they are not hated
and despised, they at least unistened to by Tour
! hths of those who are compelled at the point Of
/ the bayonet, to guzze them with the most costly
wines and add 10 their rotundity by the most deli
/ cate and delicious food When is mankind to be
relieved oflhese robber bands Of government priests?
| IL the IRISH horde were broken up, it would afford
many times more relefto the reasantry in one year
than charity will do for them in century Indeed,
appears to be rather doubtful whether 1t IS real
charity to relieve people permitting such MUS
tlce, unless perfectly assured that they cannot re-
dress themselves of it by united effort; "peacea-
bly, il they can, violently if they must" This arch
/ bishop is appalled, at the conviction that many
must die of actual hunger'-he ought to be appa
led at the conviction that he himself is plunderlne
the wretched people of the little that they have.
The occasion is proper to mention, that the arch
bishop Of Canterbury who, with his tribe of hang
ers.on, receives about 100000 dollars year, ha
most generously gwen the enormous sum OF 1901
4 to relieve the distresses of Ireland, and the sam
has been published in all the newspapers, as eydenc
4 of his great christian liberality and kindness =
n What an excellent man-so modest and so good
u The two following articles present themselve
81 quite oPportunely:
Il The good Pastor -" Boni Pastoris est tonder
Il percus The Will OF the late Archbishop OF .ar
yet many parishes, paying ythes, are without ohurc
or preacher of the national religion. correspondent
aCork paper, writing from Freemount, gives the follow
Ing account of his parish "Iiere We are peculiarly an
Unfortunately crcumsanced not having single resldeI
landlord, magistrate, resident rector or curafe nethe
there single gentleman protestant or catholic, III tn
parsh neither is there church; and what is probab
more strange neither is there single protestant Ands ST.
We pay the and church rates, which, under such clrcun
Stances seems to Us 10 be great grievance and al Ieg
tax"