The New York herald., 1851-11-20

Cardinal Hughes ana Louis Ksssuth.
A very large meeting Wa held as the ssuyvssast
Institute on Tuesday evening last, for the purpose
Of forwarding the project Of sstabtshing Catholic
Universityin Ireland, by voluntary subscriptions.
Several speeches we're delivered during the evening,
the most prominent, it certainly the most sx-
trsordinary, being that Of Archbishop or Cardinal
Hughes, the head of the Catholic church in this do
cese. We published report Of the proceedings
in yesterdays HERALD.
Whom we consider that this meeting was cha
ritable one, called for the purpose Of appealing to
the American people for aid in esta blshing Ca
tholic institution of learning, in foreign country,
We are surprised at the tore of Archbishop Hughes
speech and the imprudence, ii not want OF courtesy
towards the American people, which he exhibited
on the occasion. The great feature of his
marks was hostility to the prin ,iples on which
American liberty and American government are
founded. He denounced, in strong language, these
principles, and the iuustrious men who supported
and advocated them in Europe, during the last
few years, at the risk of their lives. Kos
suth. the great advocate of human freedom,
and the enemy of despotism in every form
and shape, was especially the object Of attack.
He was denounced in the strongest language.
L
treatmen. Of the Irish may have been jus ssaab,e;
but his onslaught on the llustrious Kessu.h vas
uncaled for and unnecessary, and cannot be justi-
fed or palliated. IfKossuth had fling at Jesuit
ism and the Pope it was because Jesuitism and the
Pope do no. tolerate civil OF religious liberty within
their dominions. There is no liberty of any kind
in either Rome or the Italian States The friends
and advocates of lib Yty and of liberal principles
there, are immured in dungeons, and no one can
tell how many have, within the last three years,
pined and died because Of their love of hber-
ty. Surely the Archbishop, or the Cardi-
nal, went beyond the bounds of propriety
when he said that Kossuth recreant to his
principles. Certainly his attack on the illustrous
Magyar was as unwarranted as it was uncalled for.
We cannot account for this halluclnation on the
part Of Archbishop Hughes, such want of pru-
denee as he displayed at that meeting, and such
an entire departure from the object for which the
meeting was called The most charitable conclu-
sion is that he received by the last steamship in
tenigence Of the transmission Of Cardinals
hat, and that in the exuberance Of his exulta
and triumph at bis success, he was precipitated
into something like second childhood and said
what after reflection he would like to expunge.
The sentiments which be uttered on Tuesday
evening, will not pass unnoticed. Emanating as
they did, from such high authority as Cardinal
in the Catholi, Church, they will no doubt produce
profound impression on the American mind.
While they may tend to create an excitement
against the Catholich Church, as the advoc ate Of
despo.ism and the enemy Of civil and reli sious
liberty, in the United states, they will certainly
impair, if not Destroy the very object for which the
n.
the Of his ancestors, who glories in their
achievements against tyranny, will contribute to the
extension Of a system, either in Ireland or else
where, which is opposed to the prnci Piles for which
their fathers bled and died. Indeed, il would ap-
pear that the new Cardinal has received his hign
boDors from the Pope through the influence of mis-
orgars and that of Naples and Austria, rather than
through the wishes desire of the Catholic Bishops
or The Catholic church in this country, from Chief
Justice fancy down to the most pious chamber
maid that does the washing and securing Of any
private family in New York II is not to be won.
dered at, If ;uch was the case