The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-28
Ts HIS Grace Arohblsk.op Hughes,

To Has Grace ArohblsS.op Hughes,
Ny DEAR LORD
have been reading, with q ach astouishment, your
recent epste to your sar Irish children In this city
-''" -ok. You must permit me to say that, In
nv very humble Judgment. it Is about the worst
thing you have ever written. What has come over
your Grace? Can it DO that you are becoming pre-
maturely old? Surely there must be something
wsong. Just look at the case.
| man who has for many years been in the habit
Il addressing companies Of people in the open an
on Supdays-not in the streets and thof0ughfares,
but on unoccupied grounds belonging to men wno,,e
permission he has taken care to have-was interrupt
ed by Irish Roman Catholics, because he said some
thing which they construed into insult tosher
gon Nor was this the first time that some of your
children, natives Of the dear Emerald Isle, have
done such acts. The next Sabbath our welLmean-
ing but misguided Mayor sends posse Of policemen
to arrest the preacher, without going himself or
sending q proper officer, to inquire first OF all
whether any law or ordinance of the city had been
violated 1t is not wonderful that such conduct first
on the part Of some Of your clearly beloved children
Of the laity" and, secondly the part Of our Dutch
Of respectable American Protestant citizens to re-
solve to be on the ground the following Sunday, and
see that no attempt to interrupt the preacher either
by your "dear children" or any body else, should be
made. The worshipful Mayor having heard the
rumbng Of the gathering storm, forthwith proceeded
to issue the most unnecessary and the weakest procla
nation which has met the wondering eyes Of the
Men Of Gotham since the blessed days Of old
Wouter Van Twiller.
And you, dearest Archbishop, not to be 0utdone
by the worthy Hollander who occupies the Mayors
throne, must needs issue Pastoral" addressed to
the reverend brethren of the clergy and dearly be-
loved children of the laity. Really have reached
wonderful times We have sort Of return Of the
good old Jewish state No sooner does our Moses Of
q Mayor issue proclamation to the people, than
another Aaron, in the shape Of Roman Catholic
Archbishop, takes his stand by his side and issues
his And so we are to have Church and State, or,
should say, State and Church, to govern this city
Let it be known then, that new era has been in.
sugurated-if We may speak Calico.
And what has all this been done for? To restore
tranquility, which had scarcely been disturbed and
was there such great ado without cause. Had his
Honor the Mayor informed himself of the facts at
the outset, and done bis duty in having proper staff
Of police on the spot afterwards, this city would
ty has brought upon its character abroad and you,
dearest Archbishop, might have retained the "letter
to your reverend clergy and your dearly beloved
children Of the laity In your drawer until the arri
val Of more appropriate occasion.
My dear Archbishop, am greatly concerned for
you. A few more such "epistles- Pastoral will do
you great damage. Everybody has seen through the
thin disguise Of your letter. Under pretence Of dis.
suadiDg and warning your "dear children Of the
laity, you have nsdiously done all that you dared
to excite them to violence Month after month your
mans JotrnGl, has been doing all that he could to
instigate to violence; at one time broadly and
plainly trying to stir up the Roman Catholics, by
saying what Protestant preachers and lecturers de-
serve at their hands at another, saying all sorts Of
rbaldy and fasehoods against the Protestant clergy
missionaries, churches, etc. Many people, in their
ignorance, supposed that his Conduct was his own
that it displayed only the usual violence Of Of man
who had abandoned the faith Of his fathers: in .
word that it the ebulition Of neophytic zeal in
the cause W hich he had recently espoused. But it
now appears clearly enough that he has only been
following your will.
The same thing has happened in the case of the
editor Of the Shepherd the VALLEY, another convert
from Professionalism la all his raving against Pro
testantism-against the education of the people, and
against religious liberyit now turns out that the
Bishop Of ST. Louis his diocesan, approves of every
word And is this to be the order Of the day! Are
vain yoHng men OF some talent, converts nom Pro
testantism, to be pushed forward by you and the
Bishops Of st. Louis, Albany, and Chicago-young
and reckless men-to do the desperate work OF as
sailing in the West manner both Professionalism and
Its sdherents in this Protestant country, (seven-
-
preparing the minds of the lowest classes Of Irish
Roman Catholics for acts Of violence whenever an
opportunity offers? And you are to come in at the
proper moment, and give the finishing impulse.
With your Grace's permission, will say that this
will not do.
It is well known that in many places il our coun-
Try where the Irish Roman Catholics are very nu-
merous there have been serious indications of dis
position on their part TO break up Protestant meet
Dgs held to discuss any Of the tenets of the Roman
Catholic Church. This has been the case in Cincn-
natl, Detroit, Pittsburg, Wheeling, Newark, ~,
and other and smaller places And where there has
been weak or insufficient municipal government,
there has been browbeatng insolence and violence
And how has all this been brought about? just by
the Roman Catholic prizes thood-encouraged in their
folly by some (not all, thank God) Of their Bishops
NOT nstructing them in the great DUTY Of respect
ing the laws Of maintaining tranquility, and OF
holding sacred the great principle Of freedom Of
speech They could and should have taught their
people better There is not Protestant in this land,
minister or layman, worthy OF the name, who would
justify or approve Of the conduct OF any man who
would interrupt Roman Catholic meeting, however
violent the sermon or lecture might be against Pro-
testantism, TO which they were listening. Let Ro-
man Catholic priests and bishops instruct their peo
pie to follow the same rule Of forbearance and Of
Justice.
But it would seem as il these gentlemen do not
care to have their people follow any other rule than
their will in all matters 10 Is not law, not justice,
not right set forth In Christianity and the code OF
the land, much as their commands, which they de.
sire to have their people folow-and all this to in
crease and render perpetual their power and infu-
ence over them. 1t il no wonder that they are
afraid of " free schools, where the children OF their
clearly beloved children" may come in contact with
Protestant children, and be made to think and in
quire for themselves and indeed, of all schools, ex
cspt those over which they can have unlimited con-
troll, and where the instruction may be made subser
Went to their authority.
Ny dear Archbishop, you seemed to think that it
would favorably strike the minds OF many Of our
people, and especially Of the politicians, in regard to
the Roman Catholic Church, TO see how q Roman
Catholic priest Or archbishon can sppress violence