Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-10-12

of Canada. = =
You have also heard of, or mofe prob
ably seen, the volume that Maria Monk
published, after endeavoring in vain DUR
ing four weeks, to procure a personal
meeting with the priests and nuns of Mon
treal. Her forlorn and dependent situa-
ton after her return to New York, at
tracted the sympathy of Christian beney-
olence. Her statements were critically
examined-her narrative was most mi-
nutely explored and tested-every meth
cd which ingenuity could devise was a.
dopted to elicit information upon the top
ic, by inquiries of citizens of Montreal,
and of persons now residentin New York,
but who have long been inhabitant of that
city-and from the irresistible corrobora-
tive evidence which was thus obtained,
after the most cautious investigation ofal
the conflicting statements, and after pro-
tracted scrutiny Of the testimony, both
oral and written, and especially OF the
ahdavits which were published in Mon
treal in November 1885, it was deIiber-
atel y concluded, that the two grand and
essential points in this momentous affair
were indisputable. That Maria Monk
has been Nun in the Hotel Dieu Con-
cent; and that, her de'1neations of the
Priests and Mans IN Canada are graph
1calIy correct and undesirable.
You have been further informed with
out doubt, that almost Immediately after
Maria Monk returned to New York from
Montreal, in September, 1885, her situa-
ton was divulged in the Protestant VIM
dictator, religious newspaper, issued in
New York-that upon the credit given
to her Narrative as sustained by separate
and collateral evidence, the Roman Pre-
late and Priests who were directly impli-
Gated in her charges Of rapes, nfanticides
and murders, were invited to meeting,
at which the truth of her indictments
should be tried; and as compendious,
easy, and decisive method Of determining
the whole mysterious affair, II was pro-
posed, that the interior OF the Hotel Dieu
Nunnery should be examined by several
impartial, disinterested, and honorable
gentlemen, both Protestants and Roman
lists, who should publish their report oil
the result, and by whose authentic state
ments, the credibiIity of the facts nara
ted by Maria Monk, or the certainty that
she is an impostor, should be definitely
established. That offer has been con.
temptuously disregarded by the Canadian
Ecclesiastics during the whole period
which has elapsed since the month of Oc
tober, 1885.
You have also seen it published at diff
ferent periods, commencing IN Octobe,
1885, until the month of July 1886, thai
4 arti6cers of various kinds have been EN-.
pioyed during that whole interval in max
ing alterations in the premises, in the
walls, gates, and avenues Of the Hote
Dieu Nunnery Convent, and in the inte
rior of the edifce-which fact is indubi
tably'con6rmed not only by the solemn
testimony Of the neighboring residents O
the nunnery, but by the very workmer
themselves, who have been employed anc
paid by the Roman Priests to stop up the
subterraneous passage from the Seminary
to the Convent and also in Transforming
entirel y the position of certain rooms, anc
the course of the passages; so as to mako
them altogether different from the descrip
ton given of them by Maria Monk II
her volume entitled lawful Disclos
ures.'
You have likewise understood, that at
ter all the changes and arrangement!
were completed the Roman Prelate Lar
: tigue granted permission to Mr. Jones
editor of "LAmi du Peuple," news
paper issued at Montreal, to take into tn,
:. Nunnery with him, under the stipulated
plea of examining that institution, fou
gentlemen of Montreal, all of whom dur
r ing year past, have been the most &C
tive partizans whom the RomishPriest
: hood have rendered subservient to thei
i designs, in concealinS that mystery o
f iniquity and working of Satan," 2 Thes
ii, 7, 9; which Maria Monk has devel
;. oped. That pretended search amply rat
It i6es the prior published "Awful Dis
r clusures'
!; A year having now elapsed, and TIM
Il having been obtained to arrange tale
to procure supposititious testimony; t
d compile a systematic series of afhdayits
n and to impose upon the world a mass Q
; 6ctions, which it is infallibly certain, diC
e not exist even in Imagination, anterior t
n the appearance Mara Monks Narrative
the Roman Prelate and Priests of Mon
e treal have delegated two of their subor
+ dinate Agents to- publish in New Yorl
l, those Jesuitical frauds and forgeries, ex
j. presslv to turn away public attention from
e the only true and important questions Il
y the controversy, and TO blind the eyes an
st bewiher the judgment of the inconsider
y ate and irrelfgious portion of the Amer
1t can and British people.
y | Therefore inform you, as holding tn
I exalted and responsible Office OF the Chic
y Justice Of Lower Canada, that the Chris
!. ltians of Canada, Rritain, and the Unite
e States cannot be imposed upon by the n