Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-02-08
ANTI-ROMANISM.
From the American Protestant Vindlcator.
Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal.

Hotel Dieu Nunnery Of Montreal.
| We have received the article written
i by the Rev. Mr.. Miller of Argyle, n.
Y, illustrating the controversy respect
ing the true character Of Canadian pope.
~. 1t is very luminous and important
testimonial. The total wolthlessness of
Mr. Stones statements upon that subject
is understood by all Protestanta bur Mr..
Miller has advanced upon the enemy, and
has demonstrated what we hal ways
declared, that there is scarcely a particle
Of cerisimilitude in William L. Stones
mGrratare to the truth in any 0ne> circum-
stance which is cognizable by sight, or
touch, or hearing.
Mr.. Miller is a Presbyterian minister,
too well known to require any other re-
commentator than the ensuing essay fur
nishes.
MARIA MONK AND COL. STONE.
II have just returned from a soiourn of
six weeks in Lower Canada, spent chiefly
in the country ad jacent to Montreal, and a
part Of the time in that city; and while
there, | endeavored to avail myself OF such
opportunities as could meet with of form
ing correct judgment for myself, on the
controversy between Maria Monk, the
protested ex-nun of the Hotel Dieu Nun
merry, of Montreal, and Col. Stone of New
York. Although from the attitude which
the parties now occupy, the field of con-
troversy might, with propriety have been
left to themseIves,-bu from a bearing
which some of the matters involved have
on question of deep and vital interest to
the American people, it seems 10 be a du-
ty, which every citizen, friendly to the per-
petuity Of our inestimable religious and
political freedom, owes to the communi-
ty, to endeavor, as far as truth and facts
are concerned, to disabuse the public mind
on this subject Besides having since nv
return, been frequently asked my opinion
from what | saw and learned at Mon
treaI, respecting the comparative credit
due to Maria Monks and Col. Stones re-
spective statements, l have concluded to
present my opinion. The subject of Pope
ry has deservedly awakened a deep inter-
est among the American people, The
immense and increasing influx of foreign
paplsts into this country for some years
past, and the recent disclosures of the NOR
al condition OF the Popish institutions, are
circumstances which cannot, and ought
not TO be overlooked by the true friends
of American liberty, whether civil or re-
ligious.
The true state of the question, as it
ponds, between Col. VIM. l.. Stone, and
Maria Monk, seems to be this: Maria
Monk, in her book of lawful Disclos-
ures," charges the popish bishop and
priests, connected with the Hotel Deu
Nunnery, OF which she processes to have
been an inmate, with crimes and conduct,
which, if true, prove that that institution,
is most Ubiquitous, impure, and demoral-
izlng establishment; such an institution
f as ought not to be tolerated in any chris
tian or enlightened country. On the 9TH
er hand Col. Stone, having visited Mon
treal and the Convent, his volunteered
his statement as testimony to prove that
the priests, nuns and all connected with
the institution, are pure, innocent, and
righteous persons, and the nunnerv a
most beneficial institution. In order to
make good his point, he attempts 10 show
from facts, the knowledge of which he pro-
fesses to have obtained by actual personal
observation, that Maria Monk is liar and
, an impostOr, and never was in the Con-
vent at all.
The facts set forth by Maria Monk, If
true, prove that the Hotel Deu Nunnery
OF Montreal, is, in its character and the
uses made OF just what, every intelligent
j reader knows, from the most undoubted
testimony, similar institutions have been
, for centuries past, wherever they have ex-
listed. These circumstances give no small
weight to her testimony. If we consul,
Bower, Gavin, White, Baxter, and others
whose names might be given, their state
, ments prove that the Hotel Dieu, is, in nc
essential particular, different, so far as the
character and conduct of those connected
with it are concerned from what its kin
dred establishments were in Europe In
former times. More recently, even in our
own country, many facts strong y corrob-
orative of Miss Monks statements, have
been given to the public by Miss Reid, for
some time an inmate ofthe Ursuline Con
vent; by S. B Smith, Popish priest, who
had extensive opportunltlesot learning the
true character of those institutions and
many other isolated facts now before the
. pubic and the persevering silence or re-
fusal of the obstinate priests to the 1epeat-
ed calls, proposals and challenges of re-
spectacle persons, for an examination OF
the buildings by competent number oil
persons as suitable persons as witnesses,
with Maria Monk as their guide If the
charges OF Maria Monk were groundIess,
or If she never had been a nun in that in
stItutIon, as asserted by Col Stone and
: the papists. nothing could have been east
Ier than to have proved this, by an actual
81 examination im1hediatel,r nnon the first