The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-09-03

toveAts Of the publisher, and TO drlve the WholS
Lie vote over to Mr.. Van Buren. We are
we k,,oso that there are tiInid and timc-serv
IN, Protestants of our own party, who viii be
fr;rhtened and censure us. We act upon no such
principle. In the first place, we believe that
there are many Catholics who concur with us
in all our regrets at the publication OF this letter
who will admit the justice of our remarks,
and who will regret it no less on account OF
its tendency to nure the Catholic cause, than Tor
anv bearing it may have on politics We are
not preuared to say how far it may operate on
Catholic votes, but we arc prepared to de our
dutv. as the conductor of free press, regardless
os snch influence. The candid Of his own adj
m;rers cannot but see in Bishop England's letter
and the circumstances to which we refer, Justi-
fcat;op for all that we have said, and more.
The following is the reply of Bishop England
TO an invitation to the dinner recently given by
the Democratic citizens of Columbus to Judge
Colquit:
COLUMBUS, July 25, 1910.
GENTLEMEN: Ihave been honored by your in
yitatiOn to attend, Oh Tues lay next at the ieast
IN he piven in honor of certain distinguished
cratic citizens of Muscogee county.
Generally speaking, should feet it would be
more nrndent for me to unite with my fellow
citizens only at the ballot-box, in using my right
as member of the Republic, to approve or to
censure the conduct Of those to whom we en-
trust the guardianship of our liberties. On the
present occasion, feel the additional force OF
monition given by my brethren at the last coun-
ell "a few months sInce) upon this very subject,
in pastoral letter. / trust, then, that my re-
spectfully declining your invitation Will not be
considered as wanting in courtesy to you. The
body to which l belong processes to be one oil
peace and Cancellation: should its members unite
actively with political parties mutually opposed,
while each declares that it seeks only the pros
perity of our Republic, their capacity to pro-
mote peace and Cancellation would be at an end.
You will feel that the influence OF such a minis
try of good will would, in our present state OF
excitement, be useful, if not necessary, and am
sure YOU will approve of the determination by
which am bound. ! think, however, may
venture to say that the best remedy for our pre-
sent unfortunate position is to be found in pre-
ferring industry to speculation, labor to caoal,
economy to ostentaton, patient and pefsevering
frugality to dissipation. / therefore consider
that man who aids in making our lands produc-
tive to be our most useful citiZen; regard the
laborious, well conducted mechanic, as prefera-
BILE to the speculator in stocks, to the usurer.
latter endeavors to get into its possession under
the pretext of its management. l also believe
that our Federal Government has had as little
influence in producing the present distress in our
States, as had in producing that which afiicts
| Europe; and that II has as little power to ale
yiate that distress as it has constitutional right
| to interfere with its causes.
| Some of our most eminent citizens have ex-
pressed deliberate opinions widely different from
| mine I have given full consideration of their
reasoning, but cannot come into their conclusions.
In one point, however, should hope we could
all unite. That laying aside unkind feelings,
bitterness, Strife and mere partisan attachments,
we should endeavor to bring back our habits of
good Republican simplicity, and jealous for our
countrY's good, endeavor, by the Peaceable pro-
cess of the ballot box, to place in the admins
| tration Of our Government those citizens whom,
| in the presence of God, we shall consoieHtiously
regard as the best qualified to promote the gen
| eral coed, by the sacrifice Of predictions, by
preserving us in peace and safety in our domestic
relations in our sacred homes, and maintaining
us in full possession of our rights, having ou
commerce untranmelled by monopoly, by sec
tional preferences or by facilities created by thu
use of the public purse, and by sustaining US il
our strength by having the bond of our Union
| most firmly interviewer by our affections, so as
| to secure to us the respect and confidence of the
which requires that we should endeavor to unite
all our fellow-citizens for this desirable object.
Let us endeavor, by an afectionate interchange
of views, to effect it.
Believe me to be, with sentiments of high es-
TEEN, your obliged fellsw-citizen,
JOHN, Bishop of Charleston.
| To JOHN H. Howard, Esq, Chairman, and the
other members Of the Committee, Democratic
citizens, Museogee county.