The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-07-31

relative, believe, King Solomon, TOR his Chris
tian name is Solomon, and native Of Dublin, Ire
land. The gentleman possesses much wit and
humor, and never fails TO keep his auditory in a
roar oflaughter, when he addresses them in ami
versary time or in class meetings. He breaches a
good sermon, too, and evinces profound an aver
sion to Catholicism, Romanism, Popery, or what
ever other name that religion may be known by, as
the most fanatcal Protestant could desire. These
high recommendations, of course, are sufficient to
commend him to all the revilers of the Catholic
religion in the United States, and the consequence
sthat he has been taken by the hand by all of them
here, and in other cities, and the celebrated Irish
clergyman Mr.. King, made lion of. He Is shown
about, and is frequently requested to preach and
frequently complies with the requests by detail
ing the benighted, moral, and religious condition
of his countrymen, which he attributes to the dog
mas of the Catholic chnrch, the Bulls of the Pope,
the secrets of the confessional, the spiritual sway
of the priests over their focks, and not at all to
their political condition, or the infamous system of
oppression practiced by England towards them for
a series OF ages.
Thus much for Mr.. King; now for the object of
his visit to the United States. We beg our read
not to burst their stays their strap buttons,
while we tell them that Mr.. Kings visit
to the United States has for Its object the or
ganizatlon of an effort which shall ultimately re-
suit in converting Ireland to Protestantism-of
clearing away the scales from the eyes of Catho-
lies, that they can see Professionalism in all Its
simplicity, and enabling them to perceive
the errors, fallacies and superstition of the re-
glon of their fathers. To commence this move
ment requires money-the snews of all religious
movements nowadays, as well as of all wars
and MIR. King wishes to beg as much as he can,
so that an American mission can be erected
in Dublin, from which the whole of that country
would be flooded with tracts, essays, and other
religious publications This once done, and the
ultimate result of Mr.. Kings visit to the
United States would be in fair way of accom-
plishment.
This programme must certainlybe very flattering
to the ultra and fanatcal Protestants and we have
no doubt that the celebrated Irish clergyman, Mr..
King, will collect good many coppers from the
ultras, and go on his way rejoicing in his success.
But we hardly think that his ultimate object will
be accomplished SO easily as he thinks. If we
had railroad to the moon, it would be great
thing, and would doubtless, be attended with great
many advantages, in variety of ways; but be-
fore we would subscribe to the stock, we would
certainly enquire whether there is abundance of
fuel and water on the route to supply the engines
after the road was in running order. And we think
that many of our liberal people will enquire into
the probability, or possibility of success, before
they take shares in this Joint stock corporation
project, of which, the reverend Mr. King is the
head Be this 1t may, however, we protest
against this religious begging-tbis obtaining Of
money under representations which cannot, in the
nature of things, be realized.
Another consideration strikes us in this case.
There are among the digntaries of the Catholic
Church in Ireland and among the Catholics them
selves, men of as great talent of as large
mental callbre, of as great learning and &C
quirements, as there in any country, or in
any church, christian or infidel. They are as de-
votedly attached to their religion as the Rev. Mr..
King is to his, or the Rev. Mr.. Tying is to his
salary of six thousand dollars year. They can
show reason for the faith which is in them,
as well as the Rev. Mr.. King can for his; and
what right has Mr.. King or any body else, priest
or ayman, to come to this country and beg money
for the Conversion of men, who actually, IN their
daily prayers implore the conversion of Mr. King
himself, and all like him, from the errors of
Professionalism. But it is part and parcel of that
mistaken zeal which has, ere this, hanged quarered,
burned, disembowelled and tortured thousands and
of as pure and as religious people, with
out regard particular form, ever were created
1t is part and parcel of the same system of perse-
cution which has helped to reduce Mr.. Kings own
country to its present degraded and impoverished
condition-which made it penal for a Catholic
priest to celebrate mass; which conferred on one
member of Catholic family all the property
which that family owned, provided he embraced
which gnlted their of Smithfield;
which, in fine, under the name ofrehgon, lnstsgated
and committed the vilest, most atroclous and most
barbarous crimes that stain the history OF the globe
we live IN. Notwithstanding all the attempts that
have been MISUNDERSTANDING all the pains
and penalties and burnings and massacres that
have been resorted to for the suppression of the
Romish religion in Ireland-with consistency be-
yond parallel, that country has maintained its
ancient faith, and is, to this hour, much Catholic
in proportion to the increase of population, it
ever was But the Rev. Mr.. King can effect
change. Only hand in the collections; so that an
American mission-house can be erected in Dublin,
and the final result of Mr.. Kings movement will
be in fair way of being achieved. Fudge.
For our ewn part, we wonld rather see Mr.. King
at home, laboring to remove an oppression, far
greater than that of the RomIsh church, from his
countrymen-an oppression which, within the last
two years, has sent more than million of them to
an untimely grave by the slowcst and worst of all
deaths-we mean the yoke of foreign dominion
than to see him begging coppers in a foreign coun-
try, to expend in project which every man of
common sense and liberal ideas must pronounce
as Quixotic and wrong.
IRISH AFFAIRs.-We understand that the SUBJ
scriptions are pouring into the Golfers Of the Irish
Provisional Committee of this city at rate which
Is hardly credible Fifty thousand dollars will, 1t