Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1853-02-10


name was Michael Wicklam.
PRiEsTcKAFr AND ALGEBRA. Bishop
Hughes on Sunday evening last,
delivered another hroadside of igotry
against our" godles system Of Common
Schools The Bishop contends tina, Tho
on y way to keep n nations virtue
sweet is to pickle it with holy water,
while passing through The mysteries Of
algebra and comic sections. The Bis
hop may be right in these positions bu,
II he be, why are we not iIrendy bless.
would certainly drop from the tree Of
knowledge, were lis roots properly
nurturcd with the waters of Priest
craft.
The very schools which he would
have opened in NV York. have exist.
ed IN Iceland for centuries. Are TIC
people OF Ireland lrss inclined 10 un-
gonlincss than other people Does n
Co-soninn yield more willi"g ear 10
the charities of the Gosrtl, than is
Yielded by a man born on Manhaten
tslanl Are the people of Limerick
less inclined 10 riois aud skull cracking.
Than a citizen of New Jersey 2 Ii he
BE- not, will Bishop Hughes please iurn-
iah the world with the reason where
fore. The first thing put in The hand li
gentleman born nj Cork, is Il cate
chsm the second arlicl- If furnished
Ly l,uself, ard looks very like a
shillelagh.
Mixing religion with cyphrring, gives
boy di,tnstc for reiiginn-being con-
nected with his other tasks he
soon comes to look upon it in the same
light ae Il bore Vi the frs, magnitude
"a something 10 br got over with as
little lovsan0 az much haste as possible.
Boys who have " knowledge OF the
TRINITY infused into the heart through
the medium OF Il rattan, mny give an
assent to the doctrines connected with
il. hut il viii be of the most mechanical
Kind.
Force religion on n scloo,-boy, and
the result will be indifference or lDfdel-
iiy. That this has been The case in
Ireland. is shown by the statistics OF
our prisons and gallows. Out of every
thousand men arrested IN this city for
breaking The peace or their wives
heads eight hundred are gentlemen who
were educated ia schools where know =
ledge of" The only true relIgion' Was
sandwiched between the rule Of three
and meusuratlOn, OF the SIX men now
under sentence oil death AT the Tombs,
tour are known 10 be open and decided
enemies TO our " Goddess common
schools they think on all Theological
subjects as Bishop Hughes does, ana
could they voio on the 23d instead oi
beng hung, would deposite, with the
utmost CT cert ulI ess. Il ballot in favor of
IransubstanIiaiion aud pricsl-governed
school houses.
The Bishop, Ike his first ficr, the
editor OF he Freeman's Journal has an
UP hill Job before hlm. They are fight
ing against common sense aud figures,
and will as surely accomplsh-no,hjng,
as il they were shooting against Il Z
Pyramids with pop guds. Our Common
School fund Will remain jus Ms It is
lor all tme to come. 1t can no more G
made TO contribute TO the advance 4
sectarianlsm, than you could convc'
the Sun into an ice house. Bishop
Hughes may blarney and bIuster-he
may use sophislry aud resort to soft
soap-but all his efforts will prove vain
When lie gets the American public to
believe that the interests or this State
will be best subscrvcd by blending un'
ineligible green's with tie s'll.eviden'
propositions Of the Arithmetic II will bc
when the Mississippi runs towards the
Moth, and our great lakes are reduced
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