The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-07-07

States dsvout CAaAots, and has the well
fare Of the ohu oh at heart. We do not doubt
that If his counsel is sought for properly, be will
that the people the United States do not need
or wish any such dRnitaries sent to them.
The Church Of Christ, II has been said,
like the ohammomie flower, nourishes most
when trodden upon or persecutea. This saying is,
doubtless, q pa adox. But we have no hesitation
in declaring our conviction that the true policy Of
the Catholic church In this country, at this time,
certainly, Is to take great pains to avoid having
in its priesthood Of any rank, any amb-
tious, arrogant, proud, meddlesome, forward,
intriguing, or mischief making, suspicious. pas
sionate, malignant, or vain and fussy men
Of those disposed to domineer and diotate, or to
slander and backbite, and especially those who
would draegle the sacred vestments in the vile mre
Of political puddle. And clergymen should be
interdie.ed from all connection, editors pro.
pretors, with the newspaper press, incompatible
With the faithful fudlment Of the moro legitimate
duties Of their calling, and being calculated to
entange them in disputes, and to cause disrespect
and odium to be cast upon them. Humble, de-
voted, sincere disciples of the gospel Of truth. un
ambitious, except to serve their God, and, like tho
apostles and primitive Christians, omulous Only to
do good to their follow-men, for the reward they
will receive in heaven not men looking to their
own worldly exsltation, but those who would be in
fuenced by the holy desire to advance the of
religion-who would take pleasure in training up
the rising generation properly who woald go into
tho country villages aad secluded settlements, and
establish schools and superntcnl the instruction OF
the youth OF both sexes-who would go to the
fron hos ~, and ov
ships, and encounter the perils Of frontier life, as
pioL and missionaries in the great cause-these
are the men wanted by the Catholic church in the
United States, and these are the men whose exer-
lions and labors will, under Providence, do her
most service, and cause her to prosper aud flourish
on this continent. Cardinals, ani papal legates,
ard nuncios, and her prin ,ely magoates and
lOrdly dignitaries, who sometimes have been, like
Official nobility, mere lazy drones aud bloated
crefcences upon the church, and society, and re-
beion, and science, al dpolitcs and the newspaper
press, and philosophy, and the people, and govern
ment, We have little for in the United States.
Their red hats, and gaudy gold and silver bedzened
vesments, and mitres and croziers, and other fnsry
ard paral herDalla, can be dispensed with by the
American People. They are out of place here, as
much as the and coronets and other insignia
OF olitical rank in Europe, would be. Such ,hngs
do not compoIt with the tastes of the American
people, and they should all be kept in tho old coun
Try, though there, and everywhere, and in every
age. they have been i'm pedmonts to the progress
oftruth in religion, and in everything else practt
cslIy useful. We cooscion,iousy believe tina. =
h na tae live, flesh and blood cardinal, with laced
robes and rcd hat, being appointed for tho United
States, even if a popular man should be selected,
would not in any degree promote the good Of
the Catholic faith. 1t such appointment should ex.
cite and arouse prejudice and hostility amongst tho
p otesiaDt sects, (,hough VIC have too much cona-
ien:c in their good sense to believe that such would
be tho case,) it would most certainly result in
being what our Western country boatmen call "a
Tremendous hack set" to the prosperity Of Catholi-
city; and such parsonage would, in any event, be
= dead weight" upon the church, neither useful
nor ornamental. We sincerely hope that his Holt.
ness Pope Pho Nino may read these remarks of the
Herald written chiefly for the benefit Of his couu-
cillors,) ard reflect seriously upon them, when he
decides upon tho subjects of which they treat.