Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-10-14

tor. for his support. Good SIou. Wnat VIII
ness has the conclave OF discordant divines pro-
duced AGAINST catholicism!!!! Painful as is the
alternative between want and systematic i'm
posture. the wretch who is broughtto receive
sentence for his crime under verdict OF guilt
in our courts, may indeed plead the temptations
of want 10 mitigate the severity OF the sentence
Humanity will shed tear, and mercy Will sue
with Justice to alleviate the inaietion which the
laws Of God and man require. But Mr.. w hlte
cannot have even this excuse, unless ne was
guilty of deliberate fraud at the time OF his or
dinatiop. His first benefice was that which ne
calls fellow ship in the college OF st. Mary,
Je.u at Seville: because though as unlike as was
the frog to the OK, it would have the bloated APP
pearance of the dignity of fellowship OF one
Of the Oxford colleges, and our witness would
have the sembance of erudition. Previously
TO this he had been ordained snbdeacon. :. n.
Tn Spain he could not have received this order
&C secular. unless he had exhibited to the
Bishop or TO his official, his good title to be-
ne6ce. or to fixed patrimonial or personal pro-
perty fully sufficient to support him as cler-
pvman: and on the day of his ordination he must
have been soemny called to come forward for
ordination upon the ground of that special title
Mr.. White was secular, acithom Il 6enefce, and
consequently must have been ordained upon the
title of his patrimonial property fixed upon him,
and to which he had good legal and equitable
claim, or having good personal property: he
then must have been guilty of gross fraud upon
the very day of his ordination, or he could not
have been driven by want TO the necessity OF
being hypocri,e and an impostor, who repeat
ed those crimes daily during ten years leave
to the Right Rev. DIR Kemp, Bishop of the Pro-
testant Episcopal church OF Maryland, and to
his Reverend associates, 70 select which side
they please of the alternative; but one or the
other they must inevitably take. believe the
gentlemen will hardly contest with me now the
truth Of my assertion that their witness who
must have known his own motives, was guilty
of fasehood, when he asserted, that his tillal
affection and the cruel laws of his county, left
him no alternative; that it became necessary Tor
him to be an impostor and hypocrite.
To catch such man as this in trlfiing ibis,
is only to pluck leaf from forest, still there
are some falsehoods which for their very APP
pearance viii be sufficient to arrest our obser-
walton. Mr.. White is continually forcing upon
our attention, his fine feelings OF family attec-
ton. 1t may not be amiss 10 examine few
specimens. / have drawn you to view his by
pocrisy by his insiuuating that he was an I'M
poster cut of respect TO his parents; the same
motive be saws, made him take orders when he
knew that heiought not. In a word, nothing
was wrong in his whole conduct which did not
flow from affection for some one OF his family
In D. Is ofhis Evidence he tells US that he
Swallowed the pages of another work Letters
from Spain, by Don Leucadia DobladoO with
the character Of his parents, THAT such were
the purity, the benevolence and the angelic pie
ty of his fathers life, that at his death, multi
tudes OF people thronged The house 10 indulge
the last view Of the dead body" In p % OF
Doblado's letters he tells us of his father; "un-
der these unpromising circumstances (pecunia
ry lossess) he married his mother, who if she
could add but little 10 her husbands fortune,
vet brought him a treasure Of love and virtue,
which he found constantly increasing, I'LL death
remoUedhim on the first approaches of old age"
In p. Isl. Of his Evidence, he tells us OF a
younger sister"at the age of twenty she left an
infrm mother to the care of servants and strqn-
gers, and shut herself up in convent" OF
course if the old gentleman was not living, and
her good son Joseph, what PROCLAMATION OF the
name of two venerable patrarchs! would not
look after her, she was left only to servants and
strangers MIR. White gives us the account OF
MS nearing HIS SlSsCF COiiiCooiou oi'Si SiS ~
came nun, and she was in the convent when
he left Spain In p. %. this affectionate son is
nearly heart-broEen at the separation from thai
father when he was leaving Spain, and the more
so, as the old gentleman was now bending
suppose, with age and grief" 81 was too well "a
ware of the .frmness Of my resolutions, not TO en-
dure the most agonizing pain when irrevoca-
bly, crossed the threshold Of my fathers house,
and when his bending figure disappeared from
my eyes, at the frs, winding of the Guadal-
CULVER, down which sailed. Heaven knows
that time has not had power to heal the wounds
which this separation has inflicted on my heart .
This is that same Mr.. White who knew the
fymness of his resolutions, but yet who took Or
ders against his resolution because this mother
was in tears: the same Mr.. White who p"ac-
ticed systematic fraud, robbery, and hypocrisy
daily during ten years, lest. his flight would
have brought his parents with sorrow to the
grave But when the passages are placed IN
iuxta position who can tell how the dead'tather
came to life, or the living father was dead, and
his wife left TO the care OF only servants and
strangers? But this is not my object. sup
pose all this reconcileable. only wish to
know whether Mr.. White had this hlla attec-
ton, and whether it was necessary 10 be n.y.
pocrite in order to save his parents from sink
ing with grief into the grave.