Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-02-17
THE BISHOPS CASE.

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time since that the Board Of Bishops, setting
in the case of Bishop Onderdonk, had sold
the report of the trial 10 the Appletons for
$3.50. 'Why," we were fan TO inquire,
''docs the book bring this sum. We could
conclude only because Of the obscene de-
tails it contained which there are SO many
in society always seeking after. And was
this a fit thing for board Of Rev. Bishops
to speculate upon Alas; for the holy
church. Let us not scott at nor condemn,
the infidel. The church makes him. We
copy the following pointed remarks from the
N. Y Morning News.
1t is truly sickening sight TO soc the pru-
rlen' depravity OF appetite with which the
public taste, for the last couple of days, has
been bat,onng upon the dead carcass of the
Bishops case. In every direction. in al
most every hand, is 10 be seen nothing but
the pale yellow fat bulk of that most ntol-
cradle Of pamphlets, out Of which the Apple
tons and the Court Of Bishops are reaping
a most Iuxuriant crop of dirty profit like the
noisome vegetation spring.ng rankly oat of
some foul fertility Of Shiny SOIL At every
corner we see grave bishops, not indeed in
grave canonicals, but personated, for the
nonce, by the little ragged newsboys, cry
ing aloud and sparing not, TO vend the dis
gushing and disgraceiul wares with which
they have rushed into the market 10 turn an
honest penny, for the Expenses ofiho trial.
'Qm facit per alum fact per se,' is sound
maxim of law and sense, and we cannot
help imagining that we see the lawn in the
'atters which hang from these little ju; emile
agents and representatives Of tina, most right
reverend ofcourts; and hear in their shrilI
cries, ''Here's the Bishops tral-only fifty
ccn;sm. rev meditation of the voices iha,
once declared, in edlIying sincerity, 81 do
not wish TO be Bishop"
Altogether this is most disreputablc bu-
sIness all round. 1t seems hard 10 find
single sound satisfactory spot in the whole
transaction to set the sole of ones foot up
on.
The morbid fullness OF sensual ,empera-
mcnt, On The part of so high and reverend
a d:gnitaiy of the Church, revealed by the
testimony-lhe fact of his having INDUCED
these mcanly vile appe:ites of depraved
Imagination in the actual presence, though
behind the backs, of the husbands of the
ladies' thus outraged by him, and now al
most as abom naby outraged by his brother
Bishops, in the publication of their reluct-
ant, painful and Notifying testimony-.he
peculiar relation of ecclesiastical fatherhood
which he bore to them-the evidence of,he
manner in whichthe whole has been smoih.
cred for years, unexposed and UNPUBLISHED,
though known to many high responsibilities
of the Church-the bad spirit of the "thoo-
logical hate" which has evidently tainted
so deeply the character Of the prosecution,
md then tho money-making transaction CT
the sale of the copyright 10 the highest bid
der, with view 10 the filthy gain to be har-
vested out of the widest possible popular
sale Of book made saleable only by the OBJ
sccnitics it is supposed to contain, and does
! in fact contain-what a nauseous business
! il is all round
The conduct Of tho court in publishing
this c7'dsncc,in the manner they have done,
reminds US of the amiable Yankee whose
brother was drowned, the body being some
time afterwards dragged up from the bottom
half devoured by the fishes. The stomach
being found full of coiling nest of famous
fat GELS, "Emp'y 'em OUT" was the i,a,er-
Ial remark, 'and set kim agGinr' Could
not the Bishops turn their penny over again,
and make another "ihiny pieces of silver"
out Of their ruined brother, TO put into the
treasury could they no, "set him again ?''