Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-03-05
DR.. cahil and the Earl of Carlisle.

The following Is the triumphant answer of this
distinguished Divine to the rccentiy-publisht let
ter of the noble Earl:
TOthe Rt. Hon. the Earl Of Cm Hslc:-
="I am aware that it is thought by mary that,
so far from the of the Aladais being solitary
instance, the prisons Of Lniy this moment
crO'oded lrih the victims Of religious of persecu
ton.
| irhey have continually assuIel us tina. the old
principle and codes of intolerance once certainly
(andl readily admit, not exclusively attached TO
their Church, had fallen into practical deseutud,
and were viewed by them with at least as much
adherence rs by ourselves. We gave them cred
il for the generous self-aSser:ion. will not waste
your space bYa reference to what is of SO little
moment as my own career; but feel that on the
Whole, It has not Jagged sympathy for their just
rights. What has since happened? A man is in
danger of meeting with his death under a judicial
sentence, far the reading Of the Bible. The fact
as lar as yet know, not converted. 1t is known
there are Some-lt is believed there many-un
dergoing similar risks.
Unjust repeat. that upon the mod: in which the
Roman Catholic body at large treat these contcm
porary occurrences, their pLaces i'll the estimation
even of their most sincere nell IoshcrS must large
iy depend.''-Ertructo Of Lore! CarlisLe's Letter to
the "Lceds Mercury.'
CAMBRIDGE, JAM 81, 1853.
My Lori Earl have Eeen very much impress
Sed indeed to learn from the Lontion journals of
yesterday morning. that your lorlShip has allied
your most respected name, and ladded the prestige
of your exalted character the Unsuitable calum-
niatorS of the Catholic creed; and that in The
composed moments of deliberate letter you have
not only thought proper TO make statements at va
rance with HISTORICAL legal and ecclesiastical rec
ordS, but even, as may be gathered from the above
extract, TO introduce half-nSsertionS and covert
situations. almost approaching TO Il Snecr, below
the dignity Of Lord Morphet, and tne world wide
reputation OF the Earl of Carlisle. Having follow
ell for many years, the influential language OF
AL nj my Nha NV - a.,
great pain that have lead your authority quoted
at Excite Hall by the unreenting enemies of Ire
land; aud although should not have condeScen-
dcd TO the ScandaIouS mis- statements which issue
like Il foul torrent against Cathocity f:om the
overlooking daily publications of this country, your
name demands an immediate leply, and your long
SsrviceS 20 Ireland commands the most graceful an
swer, which personal respect and public gratitude
can dictate.
You ell aware, my lord, that the writings
Of Voltaire, Dederot, D'Alembert, and Frederic
of PRUSSIA, with many others, deuged the eastern
aud southern parts of Europe during the latter
part of the eighteenth century. These political
aud reiiglous revolutIoniSS prescribed all monarch
ical and Christian institutions; s.liberty and eqna-
ity', were the two principles published ard advo-
Gated; and the united efforts of the most abandon
cd men that the world ever saw were concenira-
ted IN the unchrIStan, SacrllgeouS, and treaSona-
bic combination To uproot "the altar and throne."
In orde. to carry out the principles OF disorder, in
hdellty, and vengeance, they met together under
the name of ga new and higher degree of freema-
Sonry called IilumaniSm,' aud their places of
meeting were SO numerous, particularly in France
that Dederot was heard 10 say, awe have at this
moment enrolled in our society upwards of six hun
dred thousand men, opposed to civil tyranny and
papal authority" The German ProteStants fol-
lowed in the wake of these revolutionists and
the pretex. of holding meeting for religious wor-
ship, aided-aS history aSserts-the progress of the
lnhdels against Catholicity. 1t was under these
circumstances that both France and the Italian
n M coed Io,uc IN 4
State aud the Altar; and hence, in the year 1885,
the Tuscan government enacted law against
"prlvste conventicles," which prohibited any one
10 hold meeting III his own house, or to form
meeting in the house of n third party, under any
pretext whatever-even of religion, without the
sanction and the written legal license of civil au.
thoriteS.
Two points are therefore clear from these premi
ScS, namely,-this law, which was never befor,
known IN Tuscany, grew out of the acknowl lodged
and patant danger Of civil revolution; and secondly
that law had reference whatever, either direct
ly or indirectly, to fuIbdding the circulation of the
VOID OF God, or Furnishing the reading of the BIZ
Bile. Its object defpedly to refuse hiding
places to bands OF sanguinary indes. and to scat
Ter the dens OF perjured revolutoniSts. This is
the law under which 'the martyred Madia' have
been condemned-a law, be it remembered, intro
duced fer the first time into Tuscany in 1855, and
framed no. against the Word of God, but against
FERTILITY; not against religion of any kind, but
against blasphemy; not against liberty, either civil
or religious, but to protect God and man from
scene of blood and devastation, which these mon
sters soon after enacted in of Paris the
autumn of 1871. The slaughter i'll that city on that
disastrous day, the succeeding war of Europe, the
blood spilled in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Rus
STA and Italy, and your own National Debt-all de-
mons. rates prudence OF Tuscany in the laws Of
1887, and prove beyond all contradiction, that your
!ordship has made mis- statements n ascribing &C.
cleSiastcal tyranny in what you pleased to call
"the Roman Church, to the prudent and essential
enactments oftheTuscanGove The Catho-
lie Church, therefore. has no necessity to rerace
her steps, her Office at present. is rather to teach
history TO English lords and to enreat poets that,
before they make speeches or write letters, they
will pay attention TO their loose statements,
and be convinced that the applause of Leeds is a
small compensation for the cutting and lasting irony
ofthe Catholic historians of Europe.
am now come, my lord, to the precise case at
issue. viz:-the verdict against the Madai, and