The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-08-01

BISHOP HUGHES AND THE IRISH LEAGUE.-In the
organ Of Bis hop Hughes Of Saturday last, we find
an article condemning, IN no very measured terms,
the physical-force movement in Ireland and int this
country The article charges the confederation
with eoadlng the Irish people on to an insurrec-
ton, and with mourning the guilt of mortal sin and
the just retribution that awaits them, not only
this but in the world to come, for their dsloyalty
and rashness. Altf Ct'L ~ -ftfA 80
We do not believe the article was written by the
Bishop himself; but, as the manager and principal
editor of the paper, he must have stamped it with
the seal of his appreciation, and therefore the sem
tments it promulgates must be considered as has.
What efectsthe Bishops interference may have on
the present position of parties IN Ireland, and on
their friends in this country, remains to be seen.
We will not, by any remarks of ours, PREJUDICE the
question.
The following is an extract from the Bishops
leader
eve are sincerely sorry that we have room to-day
position of Irish feeling and sentiment it
in our extracts in other columns, to tell its own
story Such being, such having been; such being
about to continue to be- the state of opinion in Ire
land itself among her clergy and among her Catholic
people, is the agitation and working up Of an I'M
timely, unprovided, and unsustained instruction a
simple blunder lie it. moreover, well defined and
mortal sin On this point we beg leave to refer any
of our friends who may differ from us to any and all of
the approved treases of moral theology to ascertain
the terms and conditions upon which the Catholic
Church permit her oppressed children to endea-
the of the tyrants that Cypress them
The law Of God is express all those matters but for
the most part Of the physcaforce agitators both
sides Of the Atlantic we are sorry to apprehend that
they do not, when devsing means to aid Ireland stop
to inquire very particularly what that law is This
much are, however, Of that Ireland like every
other country cannot be helped, but must be deeply
which
religion reprobates and condemns"
The writer of that article places his readers
somewhat in the same predlcament II which the
writer of letter once placed Galwaypostmaster
A letter came to the post office, directed to Mr.
Patrick Blake, of Galway" Now, there being at
that identical time at least four score Patrick
Bakes in that shire, the difficulty the postmaster
had to overcome, was to find out to which of the
Patrick Bakes the letter belonged. The readers
of the Bishops journal are pretty much in the same
difficulty, in regard to the improved treatises on
moral theology; they are left in total darkness of
the names of the authors, the date of their works,
or where they are to be found in short, they have
no clue or reference to all or any of those approved
treatises on moral theology and the only resource
they have left is to take for granted, on the word
of the writer, that they are all sound, approved
works, containing the terms and conditions upon
which the Catholic Church can permit her oppress-
ed children to defend themselves from their OPP
pressors. For our own part, although we may,
perhaps, have the most unlimited confidence in the
orthodoxy of our friend the Bishop, and in the
soundness of his theology, we are not disposed to
follow blndy the teachings of himself or his de-
putty, but we devout and steadfast Catholics,
if hsy, or either of them, will, in the next number
of the organ, give us reference to their approved
treatises we hereby promise to provide ourselves
with them, to study them carefully and diligently,
and if we can bring our minds to the same conclu-
sion the editor of the organ, we will assist the
Bishop in scattering those physical force men to
the four winds of heaven, on this side the Allan
tic We must see this matter out.