The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1844-05-31

man draw w hat Judgment must ne
pass Shall we forget, as nelghboring
press affects to do, while mourning over
the runs OF brick and mortar shall we
forget that life was taken aud dreadful
wounds inflicted Shall We forget--while
we read upon totlering wall that " God
seeth, that # his divine eye rests upon
the ashes Of temple made with hands,
and which hands may rebuild, 1t looks al
so on the liieless dust OF men whom no
power can call into existence. Ii II be
crime to destroy The SANCTUARY where the
soul seeks communion with God, what
must be the crime which cuts Oft soul
from that communion l' sympathy be
demanded for the people who have los,
| their places of worship for few months,
what must be the sympathy Tor those who
have lost fathers, husbands, brothers, sons,
friends, forever
Let US not be misunderstood. We can
not palliate the crime firing the churches,
nor do we wish 10 do SO. We wish TO see
the perpetrators OF il brought to Justice
and shall applaud heartily the Court which
will visit upon them the fullest penalty Of
the law. But we will not unite with by
pocrltical contemporaries, in endeaVorIng
To make the smaller overshadow the great.
er offence. Arson is bad enough, but muir.
der IS infinitely worse. The law has drawn
the distinction, when II ordains that nm
prisonment is the proper penalty for the
one, and death for the other To the law
tempered with mercy, we would leave the
case of all guilty parties, and TO the law
only /; but n is part of our duty 10 see that
the innocent do not suffer in public opinion.
From IKE " York FreemGu's Journal, (Cdtholie.>
1.-THE Natives mustered in overwhelming
force and the lrishmen now mere handful, and
worn out by the fatigues oft the previous two days
offered no -esisfonee, but leerc shot tr hoHt mer-
ca Here aud there some one with the courage
OF despair made a stand, kut he too after hide,
icds shot dorm. and ii is sickennC TO read how
such and sHch an IriShmGH-one named Rice for
instance--aftor keeping a mob Of his cowardly
assailants at bay for nearly an hour, was finally
sho, through the back Of the head by q \ alive
who stole round from the rear.
"1TONE THING is now plan--that the
promises Of the "Guthoftles " to protect the pro-
perry Of the Catholics IS all MOON. SIllNE =
On such promises the Catholics relied, and their
churches and houses were coolly destroyed viii
out let or hndrance
The inference is clear, LET EVERY MAN
DE PREPARED To DEFEND HIMSELF
AND HIS PROPERTY -!
From The Bulletin Board Of The irish Volunteer,
Of Sunday, IN letters several inches long.
MASSACRE!
"MURDER OF CATHOLICS
The above we take at second hand from
the New York Journal of Commerce.
" The Freeman's Journal" which uses
the language here citt L. is a Roman Cath.
ole paper, and no doubt in full confidence
aud favor Of the dIgntarIes Of that Church.
1t IS difficult TO comment in temperate
terms upon a publication so mean and 50
atrccious. What would any reader, be.
fore uniformed Of the true state OF the
case, infer from this extract and these ex.
clamatory lines Would he believe thai
an American, and a Protestant assembly
had been fred upon, and many Of its I'M
armed members shot dead or grievously
wounded by skuIklng assassias, whom the
Freeman's Journal claims as Roman Cath.
oics and irishmen Would he believe
that The " murder Of Catholics" thus an.
nounced in giarlng capitals, was the in
staut justice, visited upon the assassins By
friends Of the victims Would he believe
that, but for the force volunteered by a
Protestant community, not one stone would
now rest upon another of any Roman
Catholic Temple IN Ibis city Who could
infer any of these facts from the Infamous.
" calumnious article from the Freeman's
Journal.
We DO not believe that its editor wrote
~ ignorance Of the truth. We do not be
lleve that he wrote unadyisedly as to the
spirit OF his iIbellous eh0sion He knows
as every man, woman, and child IN Phlla
delphla knows, that if the Native Ameri
cans had rot been shot down by Irish Ro
man Catholics in the first instance, there
never would have been any disturbance
tie knows that there was nothing 10 lusii.
IS the murderous assault upon The meeting
Of last Monday week. lie may assert
that the IRISH Roman Catholics were irrl.
rated by the presence and language Of their
political opponents. What thcn1 Wa,
not their presence legal Was not thei
language that freedom Of speech which Re
publican liberty requires! If they wer,
rash IN their choice Of place Of meeting
If they were Incorporate in their modes 0
expression, were these sufficient reasons Il
excite the other party to shoot them dowr
like mad-dogs Such might be reasons
IT an luquisItlon were 10 the midst Of on
city but they are not reasons while free
dom Of faith and Of person are guarantee
By the spirit Of Professionalism and III,
Constitution Of the Republic.
So much for The bloody scenes of las
week. As 10 the CONGREGATIONS, the Free
mans Journal declares what il knows +
be false. From whatever cause the " au
; thorllies " may have failed to protect III
two Churches which were burnt, it Ger
taiuIy was not because they belonged t
: Roman Catholics. Under the same cir
, cumstnnces, they would have been destroy
ed, no matter to what sect they belonged
) That they should have been saved, tina
with earlier urpcauttons thev ,pfubt ha a.