The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-24
no RlSHOP ENGLAND.

To BISHOP ENGLAND.
sia:-In the Catholic Miscellany of October
A44h It is said, that tine editor is authorised TO
assure General Green that Bishop England nei-
sAez had nor has any concern in editing any po-
&ifScal paper in the United States. | wish
n know whether | am TO understand this as a
disclaimer on your pert of all responsibility for
the editorial management Of the Catholic Mis-
eeaIany The relation which it is understood
yUu bear to that paper, warrants me in holding
you responsible for whatever mag be said in its
columns; and, until it shall be manifest that |
Dc yoG injustice in that respect, you shall be
held 50 responsible.
The Presidential election being disposed Of,
propose to treat Of the subject matter directly at
issue between Is. In your article in the Mis-
sglleny Of October 2lth, you say:
- We charge General Green with having, in
his article OF September 18th. deliberately aim
ed at the whole Catholic body of the United
States, the worst and most poisoned arrow that
has ever been cast against them in this Union
He involves his own g eminent clergy " of Balti-
more. and his own 'Ienlightened Catholic" " of
the monumental city, as deeply in the charge, as
he does Bishop England.
q He undertakes TO examine "the power OF
the Pope" sc TO see what it is" " and how it
raay be made to act fit be 6rotghtfo bear upon
cae politics IF the country"
" Iva treating of this, the General does not
give, as the surmises OF others, nor as charges
meade by Sectanans, nor as questionable asser-
tione, the direct propositions which he writes;
BAT Generai Duff Green puts forward upon his
own responsibility, as known facts, the follow
ing allegations. 1. e''rhat the Pope is a tenn
eoral as well as a spiritual MONARCH"
'<Tbat the Pope looks upon the members of the
Cathslic Church every where as subject to has
dominion" Now, the truth or falsehood OF those
assertions is in no wise affected by the question
rs u whether Martin Van Bartn or General
Rsrrison is to be preferred for the Presidency
wf the United States, nor has Bishop England's
expression of opinion, being silent, any inhu-
euoe upon their truth or falsehood. And we
uzonouncc both the one and the other, as they
stand in the Generals context, to be VIGOROUSLY
untrue; we add, that If the General knew their
untru b, in the sense which they obviously and
uoouestionably have in bis article, he has been
sziiitv of what we need not desoribe and if he
Believed them to be true, he is most miserably
aniHfoTmed. We leave it 10 his "eminent "
friends and his s intelligent friends to indicate
the category which tsfts him.
"The whole drift of the article is to create
la tire minds OF our fellow citizens, indeed
rather TO confirm and extend the false impress
sions already in many places existing !. That
Catholics owe civil or political allegiance to the
Pope. 2 That the Pope claims such allegiance.
5. Then he insinuates, in application, that MIR.
Var Burcn, anxious to get the Catholic vote,
fattered the Pope, that he may profit by his in
fuence over his American subjects. a. He
charges Mr. Van Buren, with having interfered
in a misunderstanding between two priests of
Philadelphia, thus blending Church and State,
to get political capital, by enlisting the good
= y. Al Al: = l.
then declares that Bishop England's conduct
should awaken the fears of the Professionals,
when they shall have taken this view,-thereby
intimating that, in this case, the I" Inquistor
Gcneral" is but the instrument of the Pops, di-
rscting his American subjects how to vote.
Now what should be thought of Gen. Green,
by his g eminent friends and his g intelligent"
friends, when they all ought to know, and some of
them do actually know, that each and every one
OF the above five assertions is an unqualified
Rl.ebeod'
|. The Pope is,the spiritual and visible head
OF the Catholic Church throughout the whole
world, but he is the temporal .uler OF only a
small portion of Italy. 1t is therefore untrue
that he is temporal msnarch in the sense in
sinusted by the article, viz: that his temporal
jurisdiction is territorially co-extensiye with his
spiritual jurisdiction.
9. The Pope does not look upon the members
III Tue SdlnOllC OnurCn every WntTc dS SuuISCt
10 his temporal dominion, though he does look
upon them as subject to his spiritual jurisdiction.
He regards those in the Papal States, in Italy,
as his temporal subjects, and is BY them acknow-
lodged to be thsir temporal Sovereign; but he
makes no such claim outside that territory, and
Il he did it would not be recognised. Was Gen.
Green ignorant of this9 We think not. The
General is not so little versed in history, in
geography, in the common topics of the day
What then was his object? Was it to increase
groundless Jealousy, to excite worse prejudice,
70 commence his war of determination against
Catholics, including his own sseminent cleri-
Gal y friends, and his own " intelligent Catho-
Iics," because Bishop England wrote that, in his
opinion the present administration did not begear
the country? No! If Gen. Green did not hold
the Pope and all the Catholics, schoelmasters
and schoolmistresses included, in as great detes-
tation as he does the adopted citizens, he would
never have cast this poisoned though powerless
weapon at the Catholic religion. IL Bishop
England was criminal because, being an inn
-ofted Catholic pauper eoter, he dared to ex-
press his opinion, he, and not the Catholic body,
should SITTER"
twill be seen that the propositions which
YOU cuntrovc1t aIe, flst, that tie Pope is tenn
porslas well as spiritual monarch; and second,
that the Pope looks upon the members of the
Catholic Church everywhere as subject to his
dominion; and you charge, that, in making this