The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-21
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n lrTegularlty 10 the desperate 'u St1S'
S of the Post-ofioe; indeed have fears that tiit
NAV not reach vou, and if it does net, it may eK
n pose me 70 the reckless Indignation Of some
r wretched Papist in thi, country, for there are
;, some of them employ in the Department Or
d binary oaths are not binding on them-they are
d therefore, dangerous persons
e regret deeply, that Wing evfnn'ittca should
have seen no danger in addressing sou, as It has
: in Baltimore: the danger Is in The tTe'a'iLor''
, POTTERY the address exhibits TO those who will
chueltle over it as 50 much gaiaoa.
You know, a few years since az l5) a
great mar said. "What is public man worth, il
he does not, On some occasions, expose HIMSELF
= l, small man, presume 10 say, ''what is dis
tinguished old editor worth, when, holding the
principles YOU profess, If he 1inches from or re-
Trains from unfurling and exposing the deepest
and most deadly Vaccinations against the public
liberty of mankind that ever yet existed on this
earth rejoice, therefore, that you have adopt
cd the resolution you express relative to POPery.
am not. nor never have been, member of any
Church or sect; but the general Protestant re!i-
gion is, as believe, founded in truth.
Some .; or IS wears ago, neighbor OF mine, a
papist, Zone Herber0 went to Georgetown, Ky,
to get his SINS pardoned he having went on tick
since ne enlisted under Wayne, near Baltimore.
! 1t took the price OF good horse and a new sad
| die to paw up for sias committed, and he offered
ten dollars for an Indulgence, to shoot and break
one John Smiths leg, (his enemyl-be could nos
| obtain it at that price, and Smith kept his leg
! Fifty dollars, he said, was the price. always
believed Nerbert's statement as to that matter,
! and so did the neighbors.
| Some years ago, and when acted as Justice
of the Peace in Hamilton, Papist was about to
be sworn as a witness on a trial for debt; one OF
the parties objected to him as evidence; the
objection was overruled; I called him forward to
the book, on which had placed a plain cross !;
Ae was told tn Law his hand on the book; be lid
| so, rather reluctantly; then added to the ordi-
! nary form Of the oath, the words-''and the
cross OF Jesus Christ,7-on which he instantly
and tremblingly withdrew his hand, and was in
the utmost confusion, and told the man he was
about TO swear for, that he had forgotten the
subject, and withdrew, to the great astonish-
ment and indignation Of every one present-as
he had before stated, he would swear to GER
tain fact of only ten days old.
About two years since, shortly after Mr.
CLAY delivered speech abolitioRism, near
the end of which, you know, he alludes to Dan'l
O'j'snnell, as an agiator, &c, was gu >stioned
BY Papist Irishman, teacher Of a Latin class,
whether M. CLAW was not a violent Presbyte-
, rian or Methodist. told him he was neither,
but that he probably leaned in favor Of the Bap-
j. fists as his father was distinguished minister
: of that sect, ae. The Papist then went on t'
q saw, that Clay would not dare to express HIN
/. self in that way before Daniel O'Connell; tina
O'Connell would tranple him under foot-tha
Stevenson was puppy, and that Clay might
2 vet see the day when it would endaager his life
to speak thus about d, O'Connell; that Mr.. O'C.
: was no agitator, but that he could be such, for
that he could, as easy crook his finger, raise
, FIVE millions of men IN Europe, and no mean
number in North America, and more in South
America, but that the time, he said had not yet
! arrived, but it was not very distant, when the
; screams of the revolutionary bird would be
heard from the Rhine to the Pacific ocean, and
that Eve years exertion would set the world to
rights Sc That conversation terminated in a
d manner not likely to occur again between tn
same persons.
Being 81 years old, my right arm much aftact
ed. partly by rheumatism and partly by palsy
a renders writing so laborious, that cannot bene
u fit or crafty, with my correspondence, even my
: personal friends, and much less yourself. Bu
s cannot forbear expressing to you the deep feel
o ines Of regard have for the man, who dareS BE-
II honest in the worst of times-who dares to ex
n hibit the cloven-foot of Popish hypocrisy as il
= exists in its struggles for political ascendancy
n its sole aim-and for daring to do so in the midst
e. of population containing greater number o.
l. Catholics than any spot in America
a rejoice with you in the election Of Genera
d Harrison; if there be three good men on earth
e he is one He has lived for MS country, not fol
II himself Between this time and March, we lool
i for the burning of Offices, to balance accounts il
IN the flames.
in God save Gen. Harrison, Duff Green aad tn
I'd public liberty.