Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-09-08
COWrrCNICA TlON.
To the Editors Of he Inglnlan.

your Kindness, | will state 10 your readers. w
some, the subject may he con>i Tered unlmporant
but as ii has caused some considerable excitement
in various parts OF our country, aud been present.
ed to thi, community through your columns, aud
the Book being for sale at our highly respectable
Bookstore, lhink my remarks will not be consId-
cred useless.
Frst-ihe author was, 10 human appearance,
about 10 die aud. under the solemnty and hon
estv of the iying hour, deemed ii her duty 10 dis
close the contents of that Book II this bn 80, II
was sense OF duty, and nol " 10 I'LL her pockets by
a tax on the gulliby of the community Which
induced her io do So But were these the circnm-
stances under which she acted +" This thing
not done in a corner" 1t was in New York, al the
Amshouse. Ms. Johnson the Marion, the l.
rish woman employed IN the institution, and Mr..
Conrov, a Roml,l Priest, are alluded to- aud 9th
er circumstances bv which She might have been de-
tccted if speaking falsely facts which are nnds
pu,cd, and which 90 to shew the facts OF the dis
closures being thus made. She aso alludrs In
Mrs. Ford, nurse IN No. p, To whom she told her
desire about di-f losing before she died. She h
nally disclosed IN pant to the Chaplain. Would
she be such simplcon a, 10 relate these things In
New \ ork, where she says they tianspircd, II they
were false
Sccond-Wnh the publication OF her Book, ,hr
makes proposition, which, II taken up, would
destroy her statement, II II did not result IN pro-
wing her disclosures to be true. give II IN her
words Impressed, as continuity am, with
the frghttul reality OF the paTnl communications
that have made IN tins Volume | can only oier
to all persons who may doubt or disheleve my
statements, these two things Permit me 10 90
through the Hotel Dlcu Nnnncry, at Montreal,
with some impartial ladies' and gentlemen, that
they may compare my account with the interior
parts OF that building, into which no p but
the Roman Bishop and the Priests ever admit
ted and II they do not ind my description true,
then discard me rs an impuStor. Bring me before
court OF jnstIce-thcrc | am willing To meet La
targuc, Dnrcsnr, Phcln, Bonn and Richards
and their wicked companions, with the Superior
and any oil the Nuns before ten thousand mcn.'
Neither Of these two proposition, being taken up
infer that ear oi the 7 snlt prevented It.
Ihlrd-A delay OF the examination ms been
made from LAST winter untl July, and thtaNt WIS
made contrary To the proposition, rScudIngth The a-
thor from that examinations Why this dcinN
Read What the Icy. MI. LAZY oi Montreal saNN,
as published by the respectable Editors oil the
New York Jonrnd OF commerce " Bat the COM
mun''y who kho" the i"ets will not be satisfied
with such an eNlmn"''on tor all the bce stitle
me-" "ho tfamtal@ me toa'fnf were strongly pre-
JUDGED against the Book, aud nonr OF them more
SO than Messrs. fothlnN and Curry and that PIE
Jndice IN them Is the result ol Il personal dislike
TO tioyt, and perhaps 10 others here, who werr
active IN the first movement thlt was made IN r.
gard 10 t1ese disclosures -Alr CIary also saNs,
mr. ,ffi