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

"I too shad mother and such mother, as
did possess the talent of your great poetten
fold, they would have been honored in doing
homage to the powers of her mind and the
goodness Of her heart. No woman could love
her children more ardently, and none OF those
children was loved more vehemently than my
self But the Roman Catholic creed had poi
soned in her the purest source of affection.
saw her during long period, unable to restrain
her tears in my presence. perceived that she
Stunned my conversation, especially when my
university friends drew me into any topics a.
bove those of domestic talk. I loved her, and
this behaviour cut me to the heart. In my dis
tress, applied to friend, TO whom she used
to communicate all her sorrows; and to my Ut
ter horror learnt that she suspected my anti
Catholic principles; my mother was distracted
by the fear that she might be obliged 10 accuse
me to the Inquistion, il incauliously uttered
some condemned proposition in her presence.
To avoid the barbarous necessity of being the
instrument Of my ruin, she could find no other
means but that o. stunning my presence.
The good old lady must have been better
theologian than was her son, or than he is at
present; and must be qualified to fill one OF the
chairs of dull divinity, if she could so easily de-
tect condemned proposition or else Mr..
White must have been openly and elarlngly an
ti-cathoic in his expressions Why need he
remain then deliberate impostor, detained by
fliaI affection "untl the approach OF Bonaparte' S
troops to Seville enabled him to quit Spain,
without exciting suspicion as TO the real mo-
tive which tore him for ever from every thing
that he loved?" More than suspicion had been
excited. Affection and honesty would have
warned him to the same course.
If Mr. Whites mother Stunned his presence,
and saw him only wth'tears, because she feared
he would speak, and she should denounce him
to the inquisi,ion, would it not be greater al
deviation to her grief that he should be out Of
the reach of this tribunal Was it then affec
ton which detained him to practice imposture
ten years? Was it affection that kept him
within view Of that mother who Stunned his
presence, whom he forced to tears?
have done with dssecting his heart, to
search for, what, if it ever contained, it must
have long been void Of Affection for his ia
miIy. My soul has been oppressed during the
operation. have risen from it with feelings
which no one need envy. have been intimate
y acquainted with the base and the proAigate,
sassin has led me through his history Of crime;
in the dead Of night and in the depth OF his
dungeon, the murderer Of his own child has
turned away from viewing the innocent COM
panion of her upon whom he once doated, but
afterwards slew,to pour the story Of his woe into
my ear. ! have recalled to my memory what
| knew Of their affections. have compared it
with what conclude MIR. Whites to be. |
must unhesiatlng aver that if that mans ia
mlly affection, and that Of the worst OF those,
were weighed against each other, | doubt whe-
Their that worst had less than believe him TO
possess. Though they were great criminals no
one Of them attempted 10 palliate his own
crime by defaming even the victim which he
slew. In my estimation this hypocrite is be-
low any one of them, and can only say that
there is but one alternative which can bestow
upon him claim TO any semblance OF aHec-
ton, and which hope is the fact: that is, that
a considerable portion of his narrative is tic-
ton think shall easily prove much of it to
be papably false. But yet the man had at least
father and mother: he tells us that he hal
lowed the pages of book by the record of her
virtues, s then tells US those virtues because the
fears of superstitious weakness, add the pub
LEGATION Of weakness 10 the world in order 10
enslave his fathers fathers country, is the f.
Ilal affection Of the Rev. Joseph Blanco Whte!!
Come, Bishop Kemp, take this man to your bo-
som: cherish him who stung his mother; en-
brace him whose fangs have not spared his ia
Their; hold forth to your flock as model Of al
fiction, the reptile who has bedawbed his Sis
ter. Doctor Wilmer recognizes in him some
congeniality of feeling as regards the ancient
church, the Rev. Mr., Hawley is too modest to
march in front to the attack, but covered by
you both, he believes himself secure Before
close my examination of this apostate priest,
| shall convince even you, if you do not already
know it, that he is as completely at variance
with the doctrines Of the Church Of England
as he is with mine. / have already shown tha at
he likes Methodists as little: assure you, your
Presbyterian associates shall have no victory
Why then did you bring him forward? My
friends this Right Rev. gentleman and his
associates shall get Mr.. Whites character more
fully developed in my next.
Yours, B. G.
Yen NO\\avS Reward