Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-11-07

nv acquaintance some Of the most Intelligent
and enlightened protestants iiaboth hemis-
pheres. have been in close Intimacy with
catholics of almost every grade. assert as
the result of my close and continued observa
ton. that if Mr.. Whites assertion is meant 10
convey the idea, that there is amongst catho,
lies less true charity, less kind feeling, less oil
correct iberalty for those separated from their
communion than there exists amongst any III
vision fprotestants for catholics: more u"-
tenable and baseless position was never 'a AXE
Before close this series, we shall nave ioii op-
portunity TO prove it. AT present | shah aa-
vert but to one fact Has any body OF me cain
olic CLERGY of the United States ever been gun
ty of solemply recommending to their nocKs
the Ibels of any protestant clergymen, VINO
Joined their church, as the best mode OF learn
mo the tenets and character OF the protestant
neonlea-Has any one of the respectable clergy
men. who have Joined our church, made an a
trocious attack upon those whose communion
he had left?-Yet we have many SUCH amongst
ms. This at least is sort OF b:gotry which
does not belong TO our christianity. NO one OF
IF orr Bishops has made himself as VIGOROUSLY
CONSPICUOUS as Bishop Kemp. When we assal
their system il is not by such work as no
modest woman should read, such work as no
man of fine feelings or gentlemanly principle
could recommend if he had read II, as hope
and trust the Right Rev. and Rev. approbators
did hot.
But to return: White, having met this mud
and tolerant christian began TO perceive that he
might again become believer, provided he
saw religion Invested of all force but that 81
persuasion. VIII you believe IL? He would
tell us that this was the case in Engand!!! In
England whose disgraceful code OF persecution
according to Edmund Burke. was more barba-
rously affective than was that o. Nero or OF Dl'
oclesian! In England, which by her Persecu-
ton on the score of religion, has thrice depop-
ulated Ireland! In England, whose bloody
scourge has lacerated more christian flesh than
did all the pagan prosecutors In England,
whose myrmidons long desolated Scotland, and
followed her hardy sons into their most remote
fastness to massacre :hem for their dissent from
her liturgy, and their dislike of her surplice!
In England, whose bench of Bishops still rivets
the chains Of millions who refuse TO desert the
religion Of their fathers, and those, the men
who bled at Salamanca, at Orthes, at Vimlera,
at Taavera, upon the Pyrenees, before no.
louise, at Waterloo; and whom her spirit OF ag-
erosion led to the slaughter pen OF New-or-
oath of the craven of Dunkirk and OF the Hell
der, keeps shorn Of the mighty need OF their
large honors, the descendants Of the peers, who
with the catholic princes of catholic England
swept the fields Of Cressy, of PoiCters, and OF
Agincourt; the descendants OF the men who
claimed at Runnvmede the restitution OF their
rights, at period when he who o'sely gave to
his profigate concubne the patronage OF the
II - of NJ n e
would be at a loss to discover the stem or root
Of his German ancestry. Yes, IN that England
within the walls Of whose Parliament The un-
grateful Duke Of Wellington, but the other day,
declared, that it was by the sword the protes-
tant religion was planted in Ireland, and tha'
by the sword alone 1t should be maintained;
and to keep ii in which wretched country, an
army fevery species Of oppressive hlrellngs is
employed.- Yet,-ln that England, this man
tells US that he saw religion Invested OF all
force but persuasion! How Isl that even by
accident he will not write some truth?
He next read Paley's Natural Theology, and
was struck by the authors peculiar manner and
style: he was much interested. Did Mr.. White
study his treatise Of God, in metaphysics; On
religion, in ethics; On natural religion, IN theolo-
ey; every one of which was IN his course OF stu
dies al Seville, he would nave lpohu hotulnS
new in Paley, except his English and his false
assertions. But the gentleman quarrelled with
his professor of Philosophy and could no at
tend to the "dull divinity" lectures. Perhaps
the arguments he found were, to him, new
who will believe him when he says that he now
felt pious towards the great author OF nature!
Natural Theology establishes no revelation
White tells us tina, he only from being oatho-
lie. became hypocrite IAN in6del OF theFrench
school, presume, not an atheist; thong. really
it is impossible to say what the grade OF French
inGdelity is | have met 1t OF every size and
Shade and appearance, and after much reHec-
ton have concluded, that neither can the minded
himself or any other person tell what he be-
lieves; but like the man who began TO take a
catalogue Of the goods which he had not; there
is no knowing where or when you would be
likely to conclude, it you began to write down
what he did not believe: have known one OF
them to go so far as to assure me that he did
not believe his own existence, because he would
cease to be a Pyrrhonist If he could be certain
of his existence; yet | knew not how he escaped
the difficulty, by the absurdlty; Tor he '0as Ger
tain, that he did not exist. Unless Mr.. White
went as far as this good humored, facetious and