The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-01-29

Here is An aggregate Of 4, ABB, 465 commandments
at various places ut religious worship; an those
who are members of other religious societies, NOT
here enumerated, will increase the number to
$1,000 OO IL 10 these COMMITMENTS be added tn
younger members of their families below the re
quisite age, we may fairly make the number OF
communicates, and those whom they represent and
influence, being not less than 10, 900 900. Does
any other population OF ~ 900 900 Christians cx
hibit so large number, not OF mere attendants a.
public worship but of church-members and COM
municants! We are afi aid not. We do no. want,
however to prove that the absence Of religious edu-
cation Of particular kind has made the people
OF the United States more attentive to their rehgi
Gus duties; our object rs TO prove that i, has not
produced a contrary effect
We need not be surprised at finding that pro-
lessons OF the Roman Catholic faith rapidly
increase in the Uniled States. The vast annual
Immigration from Ireland, Germany, and other
Catholic countries of Europe, will, in great mea-
sure, account for the The authorities al Rome,
and their feo w.laborers of the Propag anda school
In The United States, are not unmlndful of this
TACT, nor Of the future consequences TO arise from
their making the most OF IL. His Holiness Pro
Mono has lately erected three new archiepiscopal
sees in the United States-at New York, Cincin-
pali, and New Urleaasi those Of Baltimore, st.
Louie, and Wslla Walla in Oregon, were pre-
uously established; 70 that there are now six
Catholic archbishOps. and certainly not less than
thirty Catholic bishops IN the United States Be-
sides the thirteen Catholic colleges already in
operation in the United States, a very extensive
additional one is now in course OF erection in the
city Of New York. This institution will be under
the direction OF the Jesuis, and is to accommo-
date about two hundred students and their in
structors IL is designed 10 double the capacity OF
this building in a few years. An elegant and
capacious church Is also being erected in New
York. for the use OF the Jesuits.
We make no comments upon these facts, but
they certainly afford plentiful food for reflection.
Nor can we institute any comparison between the
United States and Great Britain in this respect 10
the former country there is no supreme head of
the church, therefore, no action of the Pope can
attack there even shadow OF supremacy. In the
United States no particular church has any vested
or exclusive rights and privileges; therefore, no
Catholic enactments can be construed into an IN
Engagement Of any pretence to such things. The
Catholic Is as free TO promote his faith the Pro-
tesiant Episcopalian or the Methodist, provided he
does not endeavor to trench upon the liberty of
conscience, or the night of private judgment which
the constitution Of the United States secures TO
every citizen. In England, the supremacy Of the
sovereign IN matters OF religion. and the rights of
the established church, are part OF the laws Of the
land, and so long they remain so, il is the boun-
den duty OF every Englishnan to protect them
both from open violence, and insidious and covert
attack.