The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-06-04
bishop Hughes Again-The Assassin and
POagnard at Last.

We have been furnished, probably by direction
OF his Honor Mayor Harper, with the annexed cor
respondence, disclosing" that assassn" and that
poignard," that brought out so strangely from his
pious retreat the Right Rev Bishop Hughes in his
recent Christian and Catholic correspondence to
the public, annihilating James Gordon Bennett and
the Neie York Herald, with It's dangerous and
deadly circulation of 10000 or 80, 600 daily copies.
Every one can what it all amounts to at once.
The whole thing is miserable hoax from begin
ming 10 end-and none probably know this better
than Bishop hughes, for it cannot be believed that
man Of his shrewdness could be so easily hum
plugged. IF he did really believe in the authent-
city of the letter and reality of the poignard, then
he is more credulous parsonage than we took
him for.
The most Maize portion of the correspondence is
the endorsement and canoni2ation pronounced over
the remains of Thurlow Weed of Albany, by the
amiable and credulous Bishop This is right II
any man is in want of effectua absolution for the
original sin of creating the first troubles about The
Bible in the Public Schools, that man is ThurIow.
No person Of the same standing calibre in public
life did more than Thurlow Weed to throw the
hist religious tirebrand into the politics Of New
York, or to set the Irish Catholics and American
Protestants in bitter array to each other in this
city Yet Thurlow could not have succeeded in
such bad purpose without the assistance of Bishop
Hughes, and that assistance given in the ia
nous Carroll Hall speech and movement of lS41, rs
reported in the Bishops own paper. Bishop Hughes
and Thurow Weed recprocally now endorse, alb
solve and canonize each other, and very proper,
too; and for this service, Thurlow eminently de-
serves Cardinals hat when his present old hat is
wora out.
As TO the real assassin if the whole is not hoax,
he, instead of "Native American" is just
az likely to be one who has written to order, and
put in the poignard, blood and ferocty in regular
proportions, according to contract.
The Letters Of Mayor HAarsR and Bishop HuoHEs Of Nep
York and Mayor ScoTT Of PHILADELPHIA in relation 10 the
threat upon Bishop HUeHEss life
263 MULBERRY ST. New York, May oath, 1874
Rks,xcrsD AND DEAN Sal have just received your
letter o yesterday You right in Your conjecture
motive in publishing my letter without having first
furnished you with copy. addressed il TO you the
chiemagisrats of the city both because it contained
matter hich might have reference to official cha
and also win for it, by the address that
am grateful for the kind in which you refer TO
it in your letter now before The good opinion OF one
whom ] reckon among the best of men-Mr Thurlow
long since secured for you the humble feeling
OF my sincere respect.
II you will have ne kindness to advise by bearer of
the time and place when it would be convenient for
10 give interview, shall do myself the honor
OF waiting youwh the letter referred and also such
other evidence you may be to require, and
may be in my power to communicate
have the honor to remain,
With sincere respect, your obj servt
JOHN HvGHEs, Bp N. Y