The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-07-30

ANOTHER WANDERING STAR IN THE EccLEsIAsrr
CAL FIRMAMENT--BIsnoP HUGHES AND THE CArHo-
Lic CHuRCH.-Venly we eat, drink, and sleep in
queer times. We have just looked the last issue
of whrey-brown sheet, called the Freeman's
Journal which is generally recognised the organ
of Bishop Hughes, and have been somewhat
toDished by sundry indications which it affords Of
the character and designs of that ecclesiastical Dig
nitary. We are informed by this journal, that at a
late distribution of premiums at the Convent ofthe
Sacred Heart" the Rt Rev DR.. Hughes was present,
and that " at the right hand Of his Lordshp n the
Chair of honor" the venerable Father Mathew
recognised. Again, we told that " a splendid
piece OF music greeted the entrance of his Lord
ship" And then, to crown the whole, we are no.
tilted that "his Lordship made short address," to
the great edifcation no doubt, of the young ladies'
and all the auditors present on this peculiarly ine-
resting occasion.
+" His Lordship!" Thus we go.-Poor, simple,
unambltious men, as they were, Peter and Paul,
and John, and James, and their brethren of the
blessed twelve, who followed the despised Redeem
er Of mankind through good report and through evil
report, never dreamed of the honors and glories
which were to crown and illuminate their success
sors in this latter day. " His Lordship!' Fleeing
like hunted hare from his pursuers, his Holiness
Pope Plus the Ninth, could hardly have imagined
that in this land of the heather and the hereto,
the hierarchy of the ancient church was thus to be
ennobled by the faithful In America. ellis Lord
ship!' There is potent magic in the very sound
of the euphonius appellation. Poor Snow, the
messenger of the King of Kings as he blasphe-
mously styles himself, must now knock under
ellis Lordshipr' Silly, puerile and ridiculous,
all fhe linz nth cf he
now that ''his Lordship" has entered into the field
of handful and newspaper grandeur. ellis Lord
SHIP" Covering, shrinking, abashed, hiding their
diminished heads, we may now, In the early morn
ing, when mlkmen's carts do rattle, and chimney
sweeps do below, behold your ''excellencies'' and
your "honorables," and your magnlicoes of all
grades, scampering away into utter oblivion and
nothlngness, before the transcendant lusre of this
new grandee-this rising monarch Of the ecclesias-
teal heavens. ellis Lordshipr What now be-
comes of your aldermen, and your assemblymen,
and your members Of Congress, and your heads Of
departments, not to speak fyour majors, and your
colonies, and your generals ellis Lordship"
Why, even the illustrous Major General Sanford
himself, and the immortal Mayor Woodruff, must
at length submit to destiny, and give way to a
celebrity of more imposing front and more start
ling name. Their laurels,-
"Blood bought and watered by the widows tears"
are mere weeds, of doubtful odor, compared with
the verdant wreath of celestial glory which adorns
the brows Of his Christian, pious humble Catholic
Lordship"
Truly, this Is a spectacle for gods and men,
Here, in this nineteenth century, in republican
America, we find priest of the Catholic church
impudently assuming the title which was claimed
by ecclesiastical despots in the feudal ages. Instead
of exhibiting the modesty and Christian grace of the
fishermen of Gallilee, this professed follower and
minister of the 'smeek and lowly Jesus" presents
himself to the public of the United States in the
character of one Of those bloatedand pampered dig
natares who have prostituted religion the service
of the corrupt hierarchy of the English Episcopal
church. "Not so" have the great body of the
Catholic clergy o. this country, "learned Christ"
A more modest, unassumng, unobtrusive, virtu-
Gus, self.denying body of men than the Catholic
priesthood Of this country never before ministered
70 the spiritual necessities Of any people. AS for
the Catholic laymen, they singuarly attached to
true republican principles Their attachment to their
religious faith and to democratic principess equally
strong and enthusiastic. And yet here this John
Hughes, Catholic Bishop of New York, and who
has been recently made an Archbishop, assuming
the ridiculous title, aping the ecclesiastical hum
bugs of Europe, and playing these fantastic tricks
to make the angels weep, and all good men sick
and sad. His Lcrdship"' Quite on par is
this with his eulogies of the despot, Nicholas of
Russia and his pcrsevering assaults upon the
ofrepublicanism in Europe. His Lordship!'-
We really dread the pernicious influence which
the folly and vanity of this Bishop Hughes may
exercise upon the fortunes and progress of Catho-
licity and true religion in this country. Are the
Catholics Of the United States prepared to tolerate
such conduct Is His Lordship" really pillar of
the church or is he not one Of those " wandering
stars Of which st. Jude speaks, who are to be
consigned to the blackness of darkness foreverl.