Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-09-12
John Mitchell and Archbishop Hughes.

per controversies. He has at least one or two
every year. He seems to enjoy the exercise
His last piece of recreation in this line was
series of anonymous letters to contemporary who
certainly did not have the best of it.. In one Of
these letters, finally acknowledged by the Bishop,
he administered some smart las6es over Mr.. John
Mitchels shoulders. The following are speci-
mems:
Mr.. Mitchell is the Irish patriot who made the
magnificent discovery in military tactics, that
good plan would be to fling vtriol from the tops of
all Dublin houses more than one story high, on the
passers by in the streets, without nquring wheth-
er the fiery liquid should fall on the head of the
friend or the enemy Of his country.
Mr.. Mitchell is the same Irish patriot, who, if he
had good plantation in Alabama, well stocked
with fat negroes, would treat them no doubt with
the utmost humanity, and this we say on the
strength of our opinion, inasmuch as we have
always known Irish Orangemen to have in their
nature immense residuum of humanity and
benevolence towards the captive under their do
mination.
Mr.. Mitchell in this weeks Citizen, gives the
Bishop, " tit for tat" Here is an extract:
Your Grace says once recommended as a good
plan, ''Hing vitriOl from the tops of all Dublin
houses more than one story high on the passers by
in the streets" Humanity speaking, this is q
falsehOod; but in some relative and spiritual
sense you may be, perhaps, assured of its truth.
Would it be too presumptious, however, if ven
ture to ask your Grace to point out the passage
where recommended that "good plan.''
Of Course, when my man has abuse to dis
charge upon me,he takes care Copying the English
Press) to throw vitriol upon me- and also Copy
ing the Abolition Press) to cast an Alabama plan
tation in my teeth. Your Grace is not original:
and being able to find nothing worse, you come
out with these old stories as fresh as ever. Nor
does your Grace sec anything so horrible in
plantation of negroes! Are you not aware that
priests, bishops, monasteries, yea, Popcs, have
held slaves? Yet it is not wonderful that uou
| should not covet plantation in the South, so
long as you posses that enviable place of proper
ty, the Calvary Cemetery, where l see BY the
week at fee of five dollars per corpse to you.-
l wish your Grace joy. shall almost be tempted,
instead of we'll stocked plantation in Alabama
to wish for we'll peopled graveyard on Long
Island.
And, in concluding his letter, he says:
tell you, Bishop, that nothing can so grossly
outrage the feelings or tend to damage the civil
position of your countrymen, (but beg pardon,
your Grace, believe, lisa Welchman) Of the Irish
in Americans the teachings of the Catholic press
especially your Grace's Organ and Dr. Brown
sons Review, in favor of the intolerant despot-
isms of Europe. If half the nations of the earth
must be held in evil bondage forever-if Demo-
cratic freedom itself is to be openly denounced in
the Old World, and undetermined and sneered at
in the Newt American Republicans and Cath
olic Irish to be set against each other in dead
ly strife--and all because the Pope rules, and
rules badly, petty principally in ltaly-be as
sured that the Irish here will begin to curse the
Pope and his tiara, and his inquisitions, congre-
cations, conclaves, colleges and the rest of the
clerical apparatus. -