The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-05-22

| IHE BISHoP HUouks CONTROVERSY 1--WE RiVo
in this mornings paper, tho first portion Of the sx-
traordinary poli,ico-religious document issued by
| Bishop Hughes. We have divided il into short
chapters, prexns to each short table Of contents
in order TO facilitate the general reader, and in the
manner in which many ancient and holy epis,les,
as St Pau's to the Corinthians, for example, have
been divided and illustrated.
This first portion of the Bishops epistle does not
demand particular notice. Only few points pre-
sent subect-naiier OF criticism. The statement re-
specting the threatened attack on his life is anus
ing. Ii Is certainly about the first time we have
seen an assassin SO polite and obliging as TO give
his real name beforehand TO his victim. We think
we know the wretch who has threatened the BIZ
shop We have avery strong suspicion that he will
turn out 10 be Of those somewhat notorious per-
sonases, who are well known in our courts OF law
John Doe and Richard Roe. The piety, forbear-
ance, and love of peace and order expressed by the
Bishop, are highly creditable, and no more than
what we expected from him, for the Bishop is d
man Of unquesionable piety-most amiable tenn
per and most devout christian.
The little bit of autobiography is extremely in
teresting But we think the Bishop has fallen into
slight error with respect TO his early ancestry
We fear that he has not studied the family genoa
logical tree of the "famous sept OF the Hughes"
with sufficient care. He says that HE ancestors
went from Wales to ireland under the command of
the famous Strongbow, but we have, after careful
examination of the Welsh authorities on the subject
came TO the conclusion that it was not Strongbow,
but TO the famous Major Longbow that Ireland was
indebted for the "sept of the Hughes" This con.
clusion of ours receives very strong confirmation in
tbop oh Iob
very clearly evince his possession of reasonable
share of the hereditary talents and virtues Of that
chieftain, for the Bishop in many points most dec
dedIy "draws very long bow" and settles the
question of his descent to satisfy all reasonable
people.
The attack on Mrs. Chds has panied us a good
deal. 1t Is very ungaant-very ungentlemaniy-
very un-priesily, and, we need not add, very un
Irish. We do believe it is the first re-
cord in which an Irlshman has-caed lady "silly."
We doubt whether, after all, the Bishop has got the
real Irish "stufi" in him He may have--indeed,
he has shown that, Mrs. Chds in her own
charming, maize, and picturesque way, has said, he
has in him the ''stuff that cardinals ana bishops
are made Of" but by our devotion to the sex, we
ready to maintain against all odds, that he has
not got in him that instructive, ardent, hallowed re-
spect and veneratlOn for the fair creatures-our
solace in adversely and ornament in prosperty-the
want of which is no to be excused in
Bishop, than in any other man of woman born
More Of this curious epstle tomorrow In the
meantime, we merely add, that this letter will have
very beneficial effect at this crisis, as it will afford
us an opportunity of calmly and deliberately re-
viewing the pernicious results of religious bgotry
and fanaticsm, and of the interference of the
priesthood in political affairs. We shall thus be led
to enforce still impressively those lessons of
christian charity and forbearance which we have
endeavored, to the best of ability, to in
culcate upon all men. And we do not despair of
being thus able to contribute in small degree, to
the promotion of harmony amongst all classes of
the citizens of this country, and the determination
OF the accused spirit of sectarian jealousy and
hate.