The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-05-05
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TuE cauEc Il KNOWLEDGE or rus HEART or Man
o'CoSs EiI 8 OPINION OF IIiSH CATHOLICISM
THR u. LIGloUs RIGHTS o. Tnn CATHOLIC SET
gLrRs ~ TINE TERRITORY Acquired ny THE uSI-
TED STATES SINCE THE REVOLUTION, SECURED TO
THIN sy TREATY srIrrLArioNs AMY GUARAN-
TEN or THIS KIND ny THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT
LISITsp THE STATES Sor oaLi1rp TO ToLE-
RATE ANY sEsIGIor-AAy KycrrpE ANY SECT
IF THIS COUNTRY Is NOT PROTESTANT, MARYLAND
SsvER WAS cATEoLIc-PUBLIC soHooLs-AHCH-
BISHOP HUGHES, TIE PORE. AND On. CULLEN
THEIR SYSTEMS ~ EpucATIoS.
WASHINGTON, April 20, 1852.
The Archbishop Of New York is no believer, it
seems, in this old Spanish provcrb, 'rho most fool
ish knows better what is in his house than any
other person. how wise soeycr he may be-" for he
says that the Church-his Church, OF course
s'knows what is in the heart Of man, the bad Us
we'll as the good, much better than he knows it
himself" Now, suppose that Governor Brigham
Young, or Patriarch Strang, of the Mormons should
toll Archbishop Hughes that the Mormon Church,
being diyinely inspired, knows what is in his (ho
Archbishop's) heart much better than he knows it
himself. What would he say, or what would he do
Doubtless lie would pity him for his folly, laugh
him to scom for his presumption. So, let not tho
Archbishop be offended should similar rebuke be
visited upon him by every really rational man.
slsord Howe" he says, ''could not depend on
Irish Catholic soldiers in the war against the
volted colonies. O'Conncl had different opinion.
for, in his celebrated letters to Queen Victoria he
alleges, as fact greatly to their honor, that in
every contest in the kingdom between the people
and the crown, the Irish Catholics were invariably
found ON the side Of the crown. ] confess do not
recOllect an instance where it was not so, with the
exception Of some liberty-loving individuals Per-
hans he Arcl ishQ On wus
in error. cannot.
Speaking of the cession. Of France to Great Bril-
tain, in 1863, and which passed eventually to tho
United States he says - This country was bound
in honor TO respect the clause which had secured the
rights Of property and religion to the inhabitants"
And it has respected those rights whether there was
any such clause or not. and whether bound thereto
in honor or not But | defy him to show that any
power as much Roman Catholic as ours was Protes-
tant, ever respected in similar degree the rights,
civil and religious. of Protestant inhabitants of any
country acquired in like manner by such power. |
Will not say positively that what the Archbishop
says Of the act Of cession of 1868, by France to Eng
land, viz. That it secured to the inhabitants the
rights of property and religion, Is not correct, be-
cause tie ontiIc treaty is not before me- but it is
certain that no such provision is contained in the
fourth, seventh and twentieth article, and it was
ny these three articles only that the King OF France
ceded to the King Of Great Britain, Nova Scotia
and Canada. and ali the territory to which he had
laid claim east of the Mississippi river, excepting
New Orleans; and that the King Of Spain ceded to
the same all his claims east Of the same river. in
Guiding Florida Not word is there said about
rights ofreligion. l therefore believe there is no
such clause in that treaty. The treaties between
England and the United States are silent on the
subject The latter power, therefore, was certainly
under no legal obligation in that respect, and
had it been SO bound by treaty sipulatons such OBJ
legation must have ceasad-that is, so much Of tho
treaty would have become imperative and void--as
the ceded territory was received into the
Union in the form of sovereign States.
In reference to our territory, acquired since the
revolution, no says" In all these territories and
States, the rights of property and religion have
OF Texas. which he names among the rest, he is
mistaken The only guarantee Of such rights in
that State, exists only in its own constitution,
formed by the free will Of its Protestant
done without fear obligation from any quarter.
In the treaty by which France coded Louisiana
to the United States. the third article is in these
words -" The inhabitants of the ceded territory
shall be incorporated in the Union Of the United
States, and admitted as soon rs possible, according
TO the principles Of the federal constitution, to the
munities of citizens of tie United States and, in
the mean time, they shall be maintained and pro-
tected in The free enjoyment OF their liberty, pro-
perty, and the religion which they profess"
so maintained ard protected by the general
government, I'LL they were admitted into tho
Union, when its Jurisdiction must yield, in
in which they = should be found ' Our III treaty realty.
making power was aware that, under tho
constitution Of the United States, the protec-
ton Of the general government could not be
tended beyond the time of their being re-
ceivcd into the Union : and just SO it must he in
every where there is similar treaty stipula-
ton. There is obligation of the people OF the
States TO tolerate Roman Catholics or any othsr
sect, saving only they choose to yield-as I
trust they always will-to TIE influence Of that
great, that exalted, that fundamental principle Of
Protestantism and republicanisn. which is pro-
y
bishop Hughes-,he natural and universal right Of
private iudgment-thc right OF every human being,
Of sound mind and lawful age. 10 form and enjoy
his opinions all subjects, independently Of all
Others, and without being called TO account for
doing, by any earthly power whatever.
The archbishop manifests no little indignation
at the old Catholic inhabitants of kaskaskia, Vim
cenDes, and other places rs. settled by French and
Spanish Romanists, now being told that this is a
Protestant country. Well, it i so, notwi,hstand-
ing. lfany country is entitled to religious desig-
nation, this country is Protestant country; and
this, think, demonstrated in previous number,
as well as that constitution and government are
ALEC Protestant. Archbishop Hughes may vince,
and smart under it, and call it an unjust and unha
lowed ASSUMPTION rs much as he pleases but no
cannot charge the irr-rragable fact, that !" Roman
Catholics are permitted TO live lin these Statcs)
by the gratuity OF Protestant toleration;" because
when the constitution formed the Protestants
could have excluded them easily as Louis the
Fourteenth excluded the Huguenots from France;
and the States can 10 so when they please
In reference TO those old French settlements
those at least, east Of the Missssippi-he to
forget that The first settlers nruders-tbat the
charters Of Virginia, ana New York, and Connecti-
cut covered the whole ground-that Of Virginia
bearing date nearly hundred years before those
settlements were made, and including all the coun-
try, west and northwest. not only 10 the Mississippi
but from sea 10 sea; and she efectually asserted
her claim by sending force against them under
General George Rogers Clarke, who reduced those
places and brought them under the jurisdiction ef
min and Int ntla old Gtotn in bar IN
the general government Of that great Country,
stipulated, III her generosity and magnaDimity, for
the security Of the liberty and property Of those old
settlers. and four hundred acres Of land for each
head Of family.
IL the Archbishop viii not consent that this ccun-
try shall be called Protestant would like to be in
formed why be cals Mary land, under the proprietary
government" Catholic The proportion OF Catho-
hes was not 80 great there at any period that OF
Protestants Is ~ the whole country Then,
agnin, Maryland w. nndcr . Pretes ant king, was