The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-08-27


and chivalry." Well, she had them along ,cith
the Catholic religion-for at that time Protest
antism had not get come.
| At this day it is a fact that the descendants
of the AZtccs, civilized and christiantzed. pos
sess the land of their fathers-while in our
country the original inhabitants have dwindled
away to remnant, itself about to disappear.
Even in this Territory of Minnesota, the Daco-
tabs have not been able to preserve the ALSO
lutte ownership of a rood of land once all theirs.
So much for the influence of the two religions
in the two similar cases.
The man who from the wars of Spain in the
new world can infer the falsity of the Roman
Catholic religion. possesses bOundless power
of inference. That man can, by parity of rea-
soning, draw any possible proposition, from
any suppOsable premises. lie ought, decided
ly, to turn his attention to the botany of the
moon-the subject could present no serious diff
| ficulties to such mind, so we'll qualified as
it must be for lunatical observations
Where are the facts for the fppant charge
against Spain of "punic faith ~ In her prompt
rendition of a merchantmen of ours, carried,
under Mexican letter of Marque, into her
port of Barcelona during the late war? In
the exact fulflment of all her treaty engage
NETS with us? or i'm our invasiOns of her soil.
pronounced by our national executive to be
pratcal?'
But, finally Spain is unprogressivew Well,
sir, human life is better protected in that coun-
try than in this. There are fewer proportion
ate instances of street murderings illegal hang
ings. &c. &c. We hear Of no conventions as
scmbled there. as in New England to reyile the
Bible no spiritual communications :" with
the devil. filing their asylums with persons
possessed y no Unclc-Tom-foolery the law
there does not permit polygamy, as it does in
Deserct. They have no Mormoifsm, no Miller
ism. They have not progressed" as far as
that in Spain. And the common people in Spain
are perfectly able to comprehend that sinner
may be whirled along railroad, ever so many
miles an hour, or be blown ever so high in a
steamboat, without making a jOt of " progress
towards his sure and proper end, the salvation
of his soul.
The heather poet saw that
Coelam, dnimum mutant, qu trans mare currant.'
But my hiefpurpose, Mr.. Editor, in remark
Ing upon your copied article is to express nv
regret that the Minnesotian should condescend
to copy any such stuff into its columns which,
so far as have seen, have heretofore been COM
mcndlbly free from such offensive misuses-
We're your paper, or were the Pioneer, a pro-
fcsscd anti Catholic Journal l should expect to
mud the KIND OF alIment SO unsparingly fed out
to their gullible readers by papers of that class.
l should know all this in subscribing. and per-
haps should subscribe precisely for that reason.
But with secular newspaper, the case appears
to he wholly different For example, l. las is
the tact) Catholic layman. subscribe for your
paper and pay for it in advance. | find the
Mnncsotlan an excellent newspaper, edited
with ability, clever, forcblc and all the time
advancing in itself and rapidly making its way
to the reputation of being the best journal in
this part of the Northwest Now. if | begin to
notice certain little dirty squibs and inuendoes
drawn possibly from that Omnium gatherum of
absurGlty, the Model American Courier,"-
directed against my religion. am to paw for
the privilege of Introducing this sort of thing
into my family? Would not have just cause
to think that the fair relationship between the
Editor and myself, HIS subscriber had been I'M
fairly broken up9 This is precisely the case as
between the Pioneer and its Catholic subscr-
bcrs during some months. 1t forms another
ground for expecting the grave phenomenon
lllntel at lately, by yourself-for the late Edi-
tor escheWcd such misuse of his type.
In conclusion, will only add, that so long as
an Editor does not feel it his duty to put into
his paper assertions that Epscopalianism, Pres
byteransm, &c, are false religions. so long he
may spare that assertion against the Catholic
/ religion, and thereby consult the reasonable
expectations of his Catholic readers and sub
| scribers. NJ
! REMARKS on THE ABOvE.-Thcre are two or
three classes of literary adventurcrs that infcst
all communities, who appear to he sent upon
earth as special annoyanccs to editors. One class
is those who write because they can the sec
ond those who write on all questions and on all
sides of all questions, Dalgctty-likc, because it
pays and a third write to vent their malicious
spleen upon persons with whom they differ on
questions daily arising in the public and pri-
vatc affairs Of life We always find persons
belonging to either of these classes too coward
ly to cntrast the editor with their names. They
invariably stab i'll the dark. after the fashion of
the anonymous scrib,lers whom the late editor
OF the Democrat encouraged last winter to ma
lciously assail private character pure ms any
in Our midst. To one of these classes the wri-
ter of the above undoubtedly belongs. If he is
writing for amusement, he has chosen an unfit
subject to exercise his wits upon: if he writes
for pay, we think he will have good time in
getting it from the respectable branch of the
Christian church he labors so hardly a1d I'M
successfully to place in false position and if
he is writing toplace us in false position to-
ward that church through any malicious motive
be may have running in this direction, we can
tell him at the outset that he is smoked and
his game won't win. We have not the rcmot-
est idea as to who is the author of this string of
clap-trap and baldcrdasll, but nevertheless feel
well assured he is no good Catholic We
give the communication merely as a specimen
brick OF the numerous cart loads which are
weekly hurled at Independent editors. The
wrterwill please consider himself down among
! the dead men, 81 far nc ,ny ;nHuo,no mr. oil
that we can advance will be devoted to render
ing him conspicuous, or entering with him into
the discussion he seeks
WASHINGTON, Aug. l0-The dispatches rca-
ting to the kOsta affair, it is understood were
read before the Cabinet to-day. They fully sls-
tain Capt. Ingraham's conduct not only as a
| brave and efficient officer. but also man Of
calm Judgment. In every respect his proceed
ings were worthy Of the American character
The dispatches will not be made public at pres