The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-03-31
Priests aud Death Bed Donations
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SiR:-lt would not be easy to convey to you an
idea of the avidity and sensation with which your
manly and sympathizing editorial Of tho 9th inst,
in relation to ''Prests and Death Bed Donations"
ton of our community For several days the al
most universal questions put by people to ono
another have been, ''Have you seen the New York
HERALD ? How manly and generous Of Mr. Bennett
to take part and lend his aid to rid ourselves
of these monsters. Can it be that day of deliver
ance is at hand THAT the chains of slavery which
bind US are about to be removed Who knows
what may result from the assistance Of it even
only one paper, to cause Z" These, and similar
remarks, were uttered by hundreds of joy-filled
hearts. Accustomed to living in such country as
the United States, whore villany is not long
practised with IMMUNITY, you and your read.
will no doubt imagine the picture |
have drawn to be exaggerated; but, sir, were
you and they to be subjected, for u short
time, to one-tenth part of the civil moral, and
religious tyranny which these surpliced vagabonds
and mposters are necessarily INJECTING upon us, you
would very soon cease to be surprised at our joy.
Not content with monopolizing all the wealth and
riches of the country, they must follow into our
very fresdes with their tortures homes mus, be
invaded with their spes through the confessional,
and otherwise, the secrets OF families got at and
specialized upon by them; our property robbed from
us to enrich themselves with; our Quot and renose
snatched from us by the continual and ccaseless
ringing, from morning till night of enormous bells
the sound of which makes our very brains dance,
and for every toll of which they arc heavily paid;
our courts Of justice and juries tempered with and
controlled and, what is than all, charac-
teFsylfed and maligned. and their atrocities CLOSED
over and made to appear as vrtu0us actions through
means OF infamous and siayish presses and periodi
Gals, which their unbounded wealth puts it i'll their
power to establish and circulate.
All these and numbeross other annoyances are
we cursed with by this unreepting common enemy
and if we find that you do not get tired of lis and our
complaints. means will be taken to have transmitted
to you such information as will make you and the
American public astonshed that there exist on this
continent. human beings capable of silently endur-
ing such state Of society these pettcoaed Jug
glers have succeeded in establishing and keeping up
here
Yesterday, the most inAammatory harangues,
stepped in lies, were yomted forth from their pull
pits in relation to the attempts of Mr. Lecourt and
the heirs q Mcmahon to obtain their Just rights
harangues evidently intended to push thefr ndher-
cnts to assassination-for you must know that this
is of the they to wheneve they wish
toget rid oany Objectionable persons They dare not
openly mention their names in the pulpit, but they
commence by immessing upon their hearers that some
great injury has been offered to religion, by parties
whom it would be act of respect to the divinity to
destroy without. Of course, there stating to whom
they refers but when theirservcesare over they avail
themselves OF theoppOTtunties afforded them by their
POSITION, to communicates, secretly, the names Of tho
persons they wcio afraid to name publicly, to the
faithful who never fail, when the opportunity
presents itself. to do what they have been given to
understand would please ttheir reverences'' Thus
persons exposed 10 loss OF character,
and sometimes of their lives through means OF an
undcihand and terrifying system, which, in this
country, there is no getting at. The most bare
fnced and audacious fnlsehoods uttered by them
on these occasions with GOODNESS and effrontery
which leave no doubt the mind of a careful OBJ
server that they have no fears whatever of any
future punishment for their iniquity-that they are
lot Christians ut heart and do not believe in the
doctrines they teach for the purpose Of feathering
their nests and rendering themselves masters of the
wealth oil tho country.
Let us, therefore, sir, oEce more implore you not
to desert us but, the contrary. TO let us state
our complaints All the newspapers in this coun-
try, with very few exceptions, either afraid OF
this priestly influence. (for they can ruin whomso-
ever they please with very little trouble.) or are
hteresied--some directly, others indircctly--in
keeping up the present system. expect to gain
something from our oppressors, by nbsiaining from
exposing them. Should you publish this letter. no
doubt you will be told by some of our periodicals
IN order to cover their infamy aud base servili-
ty in permitting such things to without no
tcing them, or allowing their columns to be had
access 10 for that purpose, by correspondcnts-that
we not quite badly of as is here represent
tie patience, and you viii gee that you have no.
been deceived and that tho worst has not yet been
tod. VERITAs
The Mexican Post ONCE.
We find in the official paper of Mexico city, the
report OF the Minister of Finance, relative to the
general administration OF courcrs. We translate
the most interesting passage for the readers Of the
NEW YORK HERALp:--
directly affects the clerks and it is the delay with which
they divide the ~ nnotbv aud