New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-26
TRINITY CHURCH YARD.

To the Editor Of TAe Y. Tribs-e.
SIR: While thanking you for allowing my conmunica
ton upon The Sancty Of the Grave to find place in
your psrer this morning hope may not appear ungr,
cou, IN me 10 complain that you thought proper nuy
The effect Of that communication by strong editorial ar
ticIf / have 20 right perhaps. to complain, bat |
think have right to say that 10 your editorial eonnun
cation Won have begged the question on every point in
DISPUTE You base your approval Of the application for
street through the Church Yard upon the following
grounds:
Instances Of other having been taken for secular Pur-
5 The invasion Of the grave by Trinity hsssE
Now, the first point Is eiectually disposed Of by the
suboned report Of the Committee of the Board of Alder
men, wherein il is shown that neccsstty erists,
openings being already made between Broadway AID the
Hudson. than between that street and the East River.
Ihamesst. is within forty odd feet Of the proposed
new opening; and the grade of Thames and Rector is
easier than that through the buying ground the latter re-
curing an excavation Of a feet by 239 through bank Of
human ashes. The dire necessity, therefore does not
exist which would alone justify the invasion Of the regions
of the dead.
O. That other burial grounds have been converted to
secular uses no argument where the well know axiom Is
considered that abuse does not justify another; but
leaving out Of view this consideration TIE TRIBUSE can
lot point to single instance in this City where church
yurd has been taken for the purposes of life
against the Of the invariably his been
done by the churches themselves in sefdeense and not
in the Of Trinity without absolute necessity AMI
nganst her consent.
Trinity has not aded the ssncy her burial ground
by The erection Of her splendid Church the contrary
she las dOuby cOnFecrated her sacred soil The nsI ed
fee erected the cite of the old one because it
the old site though the applicants for Albany st extension
have charged her thereby with obsructiog Wal St Ia
street laid out after old Trinity built The
Church being larger than the previous structure
some private vaults moro honored than with sim.
PIE stone and less likely to be disturbed by the hand Of
Improvement
that TIE TRIBUNE the poor mans champion has seen
f 10 eIessisf in favor OF the desecraOn Of the poor
usn Only resting place" in this crowded City, is matter
Of pnn and surprise to one who believes and knows that
Unity has earthly motive to influence her in opposing
the opening Of grounds she has long ceased to and
which IL taken from her. she must be largely paid for aud
Tat due regard 10 her sacred trust custodian Of tho
kes Of tie dead Of past ages alone actuates her in
sistne most uncslodfor dissertation OF her soil Her
refussl in 1894 TO scquiesce in this when
award Of 10000 mtdo in her favor is a sufficient
IreOf of her dsinersstednes II is sad to resc, that
raper protesting like TIE TRIBUNE great devotion 10 the
cauo Of the poor and destitute should oppose and not
sustsn institution that daily hourly and col'tantly
contributes blessings TO the poor of Christie flock
thUn all the millionGires Of Wallet
Your oBt servant, SUBSCRIBER