The New York herald., 1845-02-18
mr.. Levin's Lecture Last Night.


not wonderfully large, it was passaby attentive,
and if Mr.. Levin did not surprise and "astonish
the natives" that must be attributed to the vast
elevation Of their expectations-and certainly, so
far as words were fit substitutes for thngr, they
were not disappointed. The Pope was proved the
devil, as far as was consistent with human nature,
| aud Dan O'Coanell second edition of DR.. Faus-
tus, who sold himself so,cl and body to the ould
chap for love of money.
Our reporter went to report My Levin's lecture,
listened most attentivey, and wrote with all des-
patch through an interminable extent Of tooscap;
but he regrets that on coming to write out, after
giving the whole the most asslduous attention, ne
was unable to perceive the intent of the speaker
could not, tor the lite OF him, perceive what ne
proposed to prove by his excessively discursve
treatise Several long passages were dedicated to
the description OF llberty-its echoes, Its shrieks,
| its triumphs-how little some folks understood it,
how very ancient 1t was, and how wonderfully I'M
proved by being transpanted to American SOIL
Ireland he discovered to be the land OF genlus but
the nurse of superstition lrishmen were pretty
well cut out by the great arthcer, but wofully mar
red by Jesuits, repeal, the Pope and Dan O'Con.
nell. Father Moriarty, not to be nlgger, was
| as black villain as was among the 4O.UO
desperadoes whom he has silly confederated IN
this country, and all ripe for civil war and treason
He really OF opinion, that the repeal societes
| were nothing but portions of a system devised TO
| make popery and arbitrary power supreme,, 70
which "brass money and wooden shoes would IN
due time be added. Popery was nightmare
upas tree-popish countries ignorant, besotted, su
perstous, and all the rest. Whether in cloudless
Italy, or fertile Spain, in the Irish cabin, or IN the
palace Of the Escurie!, it was bad weed. Repeal
and slavery were antipodes to, and had nothing TO
do with each other, and the former was but pre-
text for violating the integrity OF this republic
| But one comfort it was they had not won yet; nc
| his forty thousand could not-aye, IT they did
their very best, and giving them credit for being
tough chaps-thsy could not effect their purposes
by physs!cLa L strength here. Ihsy were pretty wei
at the ballot box; therefore, every genuine Amerl-
can was bound TO open his eyes, see the danger
and avert the audacty, the ferocity, of this nefar
attack the Bible for the Bible being the source o.
religious liberty, and religious liberty the precursor
of political liberty, 1t was obnoxious to popery ;
but, that Bible they would support. Dan OCon
nell, he maintained, was not as great man as
George Washington. nor as good man as VIM
Penn, simply because he was bit OF scoundre
considerable of beggarman, and mighty greal
Inshman-and that was bad enough. But they
would yet get in fix, both Dan and the Pope, for
whom terrible catastrophe was yet in store-al
most great as that OF
| Jack and Jill, who climbed the hill,
For a pitcher of water;
When Jack fell down and cracked his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.
multitude more Of pithy sayings were inter
spersed through the lecture but the reporter begs
1
in the discourse; and, therefore, he caAnOt give
| connected synopsis of it.
N. B.-After concluding, Mr.. Levin candidly
stated that 1t was only PREDATORY lecture to ano
ther, and the principal one he intended to deliver
This accounts for the difficulty of seeing what h,
meant to prove What could be expected from .
| preface
| NEW YORK Pnors.-We stated yesterday thai
the article in the Journal of Commerce of Saturday
| relative to the pilots, contained many gross vi.
| truths. We pronounced them falsehoods, and nov
| give proof that they are so.
In the first place we will overthrow the assertion
that the Sheffield went ashore by the negligence
her pilot. The refutation is contained in the fol
lowing letter from the Captain of the s. to tn,
Journal.
/ NEW YORK. Feb, IL, ls45.
GrsTIrMrr~Having observed in your valuable journa'
of Saturday, Feb 18th inst, statement respecting H.
ship Sheffield which beg to correct You say that som
that it was time to tack-ths was not the Atsh
80 M when the men reeAng the fore-top SAIL the,
bore about W. this being direction the lights we,
expected to be seen the Pilot took for granted that it
Such fatgued, and judging the ship safety below
me to tack ship S 5sn hs asc s s u
or IS minutes when the ship struck As is likely the,
will be an investigation is unnecessary for me to
| JOHN r. GILLESPIE,
Master of Shin Sheffield
We will now add reply of can old pilot" to al
old merchant"
lst There was an opposition in l7o4 and yo.
3D. The statement Concerning the pilot boat Champar
is false
3d. The pilot boat said be run into was four mile,
south Of Sandy Hook bar and Captain Ames stated that
he did not the boat let alone hang her The watch
was on the lookout, and the boat laying dead tco
The undersigned and other pilot went in the yawl
pilot boat Hornet laying ashore in the cleaning
her bottom As for gale of wind, it must have been
when they pulled in the Hook against an ebb
tide with two oars the distance Of 10 miles As for bis
rigging being carried away that would not hinder him
from heavng too, the starboard side BEING
the sea side with moonlight night and moderate
weather.
4h The pilot boats do make harhor in the Horss
Shoe with the wind at northwest.
6th. That Mr. Michael Boomer died in New York vome
time after the death Of his wife. SO he could not hav,
jumped overheard the old merchant could
| onsred to help his widow. AN OLD PILOT.
/ These facts ought to be enough for any reasona
Bile man. They can be relied upon, and we hope
that, hereafter, the few who are opposed to the
pilots, will drop assertion and drop the pilots also.
unless they can find something little more suscep
tible of proof than what they have already pub
lished.
| City Intelligence.