The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-21

from sending deputies 10 this convention Tho Doctor
quoted from journal Of 1894 70 show that church
In union having been organized In accordance With
the rules Of the Episcopal Church.
Mr. G. NJ WHARTON contended that the passages quoted
by Dr. H. proved that the applicants then considered
the fellowship Of the church. and in communion but not
in the convention, by their deputies eolorsd minis
ter was ordained them by the biahops but the
ground that although the bishops and clergy discharged
the duties Of the church TO coored yet
no way could be shown that they any admitted
claim 10 send deputies to legae for the church and
The Rev Mr., HENRY s spAcKxAs again spoke at length
in favor Of the repeal and the admission Of the deputies
from the Church Of st. Thomas to seats In the
ton The real question not much Of social
familiarity whether it not for the advantage Of
the religion Of the Lord Jesus Christ admit coored
churches to equal privileges with own, and there
fore TO seats by their Their participa
non in the proceedings would injure the egsla
bers in their esteem, and in every way advance
them morally religionsy, and intellectually It
expedient to do what was inexpedent formerly.
Judge STROUD contended that the extracts which had
been read from the records Of the Church OF St Thomas
proved that the church in question pso ao In union
with the church, and therefore with the convention.
The question taken in the afternoon, and the
motion TO rescind the regulation lost, there being
majority of nine churches against it. Among the clergy
there majority Of forty in favor OF repeating the
regulation and admitting the negro representatives OF
st. Thomas church into the convention
To His Grace, Archbishop Hughes.
My LORD ARCHBISHOP
beg a thousand pardons for not Fastening to
present, at an earlier day, my fluctuations and
congratulations on your safe return from the
"Queen of the Antilles In truth, it was in my
heart to do SO as you had fairly set foot at
Savannah, on our glorious American soil; but my
many engagements prevented. Again / beg you
to pardon this great derelc.ion, and impute it to
irresistible necessity.
ar Ijet ,,,e roJcf r.fy And fret N all allow mo
to say that am most happy to hear that your
eminence has returned in good health This is a
great thing. Your many and most pressing duties
and cares in not only managing the archdiocese of
New York, but also the vast anxieties which the six
other archdiocesses and the thirytwo diocesses OF
our great country must occasion you-to say
thing of your occasional interest in politcs-are
quite enough to crush any man. 1t is absolutely
necessary for you to make voyage from time to
time, for the purpose of recruiting your health and
increasing your energies for the mighty labors and
conflicts in which you are involved in your attempts
to recover for his Holiness the vast domain which
the pestlent heresies Of Professionalism have created
and up to this day still holds, this mighty CONT
nent Of North America. As you have returned
from Spanish island take the liberty of most
respectfully and in true Hdalgo style, expressing
to you my wishes that you may :" live thousand
years."
Dearest Archbishop, you must indeed be pri-
dent man, after the model given by the "wise man.
Of the Bible, who says that "the prudent man FORE
seeth the evil, and hideth himself" A few ye ~
ago, when hard pressed by that obscure and con-
temptibe antagonist, as your Grace considered him
one Kirwan-you made hegira to Halifax. And
few months ago when you foresaw the storm which
the visit of Monsignor Bedni likely to create in
our country, you suddenly found yourself unwe
and made second hegira-not to the bleak coast
of Nova Scotia (for it was III the wnter,) but very
properly you took the opposite direction and went
down to the ''Sunny South and landed on the
shores of that island which, like jewel, SO adorns
the brovs of the Queen of Spain. 1t was not only
prudent, but wse in You to take that course, for it
has enabled you TO discover that the Cubans-Sna-
nards, Creoles, and negroes-are not only an intel
lgent, moral, and religious people, but also indus
rious enterprisng, well governed and happy, under
the sway Of Isabella II. of Spain. This is great
discovery, and l. for one, heartily thank you for
making IT. Let me beg your Grace to lose no
time, but enter at once on mission through
our States-begnning at Washington city
for the purpose OF convincing our filibusters
that there is no need Of their putting themselves
to such trouble, and the expenditure of much pre-
cious sympathy and valuable treasure, in behalf oil
IL
their help. Dearest Archbishop, pray you TO un.
dertake this good enterprise without moments
delay, for the case is urgent Now is the moment
for You 10 render immense service to our country
and humanity
But, mon caer, permit me to say that think IL
was hardly kind in you to fly from your post and
abandon your venerable italian friend, the Arch
bishop Of Thehes, in the hour OF need. Has any
one told your Grace, since your return, what dread
full troubles the poor old amable gentleman fell
lutO-h0w
well visit to President Pierce and his other good
friends at Washington city-including those COM
passionate Senator's who, out OF the purest kindness,
tried to yindcate his character and his name 10
the city of New York, and took refuge, not in yur
archiepiscopal palace, but in obscure lodgings in
the upper part OF the city, few days before thu
steamship Atlantic sailedg Have you learned the
great difficulty our worthy Mayor, Mr. Westervelt,
had in finding the Archbishop's place of conceal
ment and the still greater difficulty he had in quiet
ing his most distressing fears-the cogitatons
o. % hath about the best aeJe Of escspe-the
refusal OF Mr.. Collector Redheld to allow
revenue cutter TO be used to take Monsignor down.
to Staten Island--the chartering Of steam.
tug to bear the august representative Of his
Holiness in gnominious flight from the city OF New
York down our noble bay. Has any one, my Lord
Archbishop, among the faithful in this city, told
you all these things? We all felt much conc arned
fully condemned in the person Of the ilustrcus
Bedni the first Nuncio, or quasi-N uncio, whom the
Pope has ever deigned to send us. Really II W,
too bad that Father Gavazzi and other Italian X
lies should have been naughty to expose the
duct of Mcnsignor, when acting as Legate of the
Pope at Bologna But you know how it is, dearest
Archbishop, with us in this wonderful country.
Our people are sadly deficient in respect to mere
official dignity and pretension, unsustained by ac
knowledged merit. Alas do not see much prospect
of their mending their manners in this particular.
My dear Archbishop, l feel constrained to say that
during your ortship's absence, that strange organ
cation of extraordinary patriots-the " know-no-
thingsn-has been making great progress among
us. ! fear that we have not seen anything more
than the commencement oil this great movement.
II is sad to think that all this is owing TO the grow
ing insoence Of certain persons who claim to speak
for "Holy Mother Church in this America of ours.
| pray you, good Archbishop, to look after the
editor OF your own organ the r ecaian's jour
ael-as well as the ShQdefd Of The Ya2ey, which i
the organ of the Bishop of st. louis, bears his i'm
plinatur Notwithstanding the assertion OF Senator
Mallory to the contrary. Still more pray you to
have sharp eye upon Mr.. Orestes A. Brownson.
These nroselYtes OF Professionalism often hecone ton