Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-03-25

lew particulars, been somewhat a"eho'o'.u'
but enough Of disabilities, on the part oil the
Catholics remain, TO crush the moral, soci'',
and political energies OF that vast majority OF
the Irish population. The population OF ife>
land, consists Of about seven millions OF homa"
Ca holics, and about half million OF .rotest'
ants,-mosty Dissenters, very few oeins OF me
established church. The Catholics have the
burden Of two Church Governments TO bear
| the one bv which they pray, and the other by
which they pay For the support Oh me la''er'
the enormous sum OF million sterling per an :
mum, is rul.g from the sweat OF labor, and goes
10 pamper bloa,ed hierarchy, WHO reside any
where but in their dioceses; and OF the lesser
sort, they descend like swarm OF locus's,
blac kening the land, and devouring the pea
SAINTS harvest. And when the poor irish pea
san, ias paid his rythe, often out OF the neces>
sites Of his starving family, can he say OF MS
supremacy paslor-When 1" ! Was an hunger
ed. he gave me meat; athirst, and he gave me
drink; naked, and he clothed me; IN prison,
and he visited mel" Not SO, forsoolh. - ne
reverend type OF ascendancy who de'ours the
| poor mans morsel, will rather be foun6 am q
" the perfumed chambers OF the great" lac
queying on power, than administering the ON
ces Of christian charity, amid The hhh ana ram
inc, the rags and wrelchedness, OF the irish
peasants hovel. IT'S on the deSpised Priest
must drvove the duty of healing the sick, and
comforting the afflicted; Ills he who must a.
rise al the midnight hour, and, Drawing the ter
rors Of the midnight storm, carry the consoia-
lions Of religion to The pallet OF The dying Peni'
tent. Will not even Brunswick Americans
say, "ihese offrnces are rank they smell TO
Heaven"
The orator continued: Thanks TO tina, Hea,
ven, and The wises,, best, and most 'Iruous Of
Governments, in our happy country there Is no
Chsrch supremacy, here The hon oil The tenn.
poral, lies down it'll the lamb of the spiritual
authority; thanks 10 gu, Republican insti-
iu,es, here The religiopiss, Of all manner Of
crecds live in peaceful; and social harmony,
extending christ ian charity and kindness 10
each other.
! Iwell remember the venerable and illustrious
digni,ary Of the Catholic Church, the la,e DIR.
Carroll, Archbishop Of Baltimore, who was a
patriot OF the Revolution, and the friend Of
! Washington. |, was the invariabe custom OF
his excellent man, to wait upon aud pay his
respects, TO the Protestant Prslate OF Maryland,
whenever the latter came to the city OF Balti-
limore: the Archbishop, s'edrast in his own
a,h, had, withal, candor, hberality, and res
pect for the faith of Others; hence, this estima-
HE prima,e and patriarch of the Catholic
Church in America, lived beloved, and died Ia
men ed, by all he Americans.
Again: Look upon he thousands, and tens OF
thousands Of Prolestants, who crowd The tune.
raj train Of the venera,ed, the good Catholic
+ tther d. Sedia. This aged apostle OF the
mex and humble Saviour Of the world, has
followed in The footsteps of the Divine Master,
claiming all mankind as his brethren-the cha
rites of his hear, flowing through the charities
of his hand. have, in their wide-spre ading be-
neGcencs, known neither sect or fai'h-hence,
the good Sediila, full Of years has sunk to rest,
"with whole peoples wishes bJest;"
and hence, the tears Of Pro,estants, mingling
with those Of Catholics, will embam his me-
mory, and the mild sun Of true christian glory
ever shine upon his tomb. Such should be
church supremacy-,he supremacy OF christian
love, philanthropy, and virtue.
The orator proceeded: Ii was religious in
tolerance which drove the Pilgrim forefath ers
of New England, TO seek refuge in the New
| World, and 10 land on the rock of Plymouth
1t was that they might avoid the prosecuting
spirit cf church supremacy, and 10 enjoy the
rights Of conscience, tina, the Puritans left their
homes,
"And nobly dared to brave,
.sThe untried perils of the western wave"
They debarked upon the bleak and dreary
shores Of the North, and erected the tahernacles
OF their faith amid The solitary grandeur Of
forest wilderness; where their active industry
soon caused The moose and the panther to dis
appear before The march of civilization, and the
whoop Of the tawhy savage, bowling his orgies
10 the moon, 10 give place to hymnal praises,
offered 10 the throne Of the everything God.
That persecution, whether civil or religious,
like an ovrroharged culverin, recoils upon those
Who lev l it,-look to The race who have sprung
from the ioius Of the Pilgrims; see fine peo-
Pile, sfford ding, in all their bearings, models for
republicans industrious, temperate enterpris-
ing, intelligent, brave, moral and religious
equally 10 be admired, whether you view them
engaged in The patient pursuits Of agriculture,
improving soil unkindly by nature; or whe-
,her you behold their n.se2id march on the
mountain wave," pursuing their gigantic
game 30 the remo,es, corner of the globe;" or
whether engaged in the independent la bors Of
the loom; whether in :he endearing moral
ard social excellence Of their village 6resdes;