The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-10-23
BISHOP ENGLAND.

In the Catholic Miscellany OF the 10Th Sep
tsmber, Bishop England says:
We again adduce Gen. Green, as a witness, to
show more distinctly the nature of the charge
In his first article Of Sept. Sd, he says:
ft'rhe Protestant community have been warn
ed,as well from the pulpit from the press, that
the money expended in getting mp schools, as
well as that used in sending P4uPER and other
Catholic population TO this country, is part of
system which looking to the nature OF our insti-
tutions, contemplates great rell gious, as well
as civil, revolution by means Of imported Catho-
lie votes"
Now SO far as relates to the charge of the Ca
tholics contemplating change i'll religious as
well as in civil matters, we admit that the Cen
eral gives very fair representation of the I'M
founded assertions of the preJudiced accugers, >
but although we have attentively perused the IT,
rates that for years have been printed and cir
eulated upon this subject, we must avow that we
have no recollection of any charge made upon
either the Catholics of Europe those of the
United States, that they expended money in
sending or bringing hither Cntholic popula-
ton; for it is notorious fact that the Catholic
immigrants paid their own expenses. They
themselves, and not agents or others, bargained
at the foreign ports and paid the passage money,
and we defy any one to prove any agency but
that of the individuals themselves. We shall,
for the present, hold the opinion that this is a
serve the purposes Of party, until he shall
have shewn evidence that this was previously
AID openly charged.
He specially states that this money was spent
in bringing kither Catholic pauper population.
The General has been guilty of wantonly in
hictlng the grossest insult upon the great body of
Catholics in the United States unless he can
shew the truth.of two propositions, neither Of
which is true.
j. That Catholic paupers were sent hither. q.
That it was commonly and generally charged
that they were sent hither by the Catholics of
E@Y6p~. Ue may add. That they were sent
by them for the purpose Of revolutionizing our
institutions.
We dislike retorts, but we must here give tn,
General what he richly deserves. The only I'M
ported paupers that we ever have known sent
to these United States, were Protestant paupers
sent by the Protestant overseers of the Protes-
tant Warehouses of Protestant England, in or
der to sive their own good Protestant country,
the expense OF supporting its own Protestant
pauPeFs. Our Protestant brethren will perceive
that this IS no assault upoA them it is bat gen
tie admonitiop to liberal patron of Catholic
schools, who is justly desirous to procure for hi.
children u best e.. ration . / CAUTIOUS ho
he insults Catholic imnigr W +.
member the commoien createa - le of OF,
Northern States at discove - ragged, y
wretched, the MANNED, the lame, the dac-. "a,
dcceS
sion from sstle bulwark Of Professionalism" w,
fully concnr in the propriety, as we have wit
messed the efficacy, of the American remedy
The poor creatures re-shipped, and sent t.
the doors of their heartless exporters We de
sire that when cargo of Catholic paupers ma
be landed on our shores, they who sent thei
may have them in like manner returned upo
their hands,
But who are they whom the General style
paupers? They are the bune and sinew, tn
nerve and muscle, of the country; they are tn
men who give unceasing labor in return fo
common wages, but upon whom the generosit,
Of General Green's associates bestows more thai
they bargained to receive. Yes, for they bestov
obloquy, they bestow insult to themselves, re
Proach to the country Of their BIRTH vitupcratiol
10 The religion of their choice: and their best ell
forts TO keep them helots during life; to allo,
thena the enviable privilege of seeing hemselye.
surrounded by men enjoying political and civ
rights, without being permitted hope of eve,
becoming citizens themselves. This is NOR.
than their contract required
We know also, thai not unfrequently the
have been swindied and cheated of the mono
thsJ contracted to receive; and when worn dow