Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-10-24


and Mr.. .Wylie's treatise on The Papaey-,a
Bnt here, must go a shorter way to work,
comforting ourselves with brief but a conclu-
sive array of facts bearing upon the question.
In England the Population is twenty-q mill
ions. OF these, AeSs thaiisa quarter of ambition
were Romanists when The last census was taken.
By Parliamentary returns, obtained and print
ed by the yea lous Popeliug Lucas in his Tab
let - the whole number IF prisoners in the
jails of England ON the 25th of September,
1852, was % ,622. AS to 662 of these, the re-
ligious belief was not known. OF the rest. =,
$50 were what are called Roman Catholics.
That is to say, the Latter, tho bat one eighty
fourth part OF the population, furnished sew
cnth part of the criminals, iuelre times
many as they would have done, had the morals
of the Ronafist part Of the population been as
as good as those Of the Protestant part. In.
ireland. inztnc year 1851 in the six Protestant
counties of the North. Antrim, Down, Lon
donderry, Tyrone, Fermanah, and Armah,
with a population of Loo, coo, the number
convicted Of crimes was 293S or sc less than
were convicted in the single and thoroughly
Popish county of Tipperary, with popula-
ton less than one fourth as numerous. a-
By the last census of the United States the
whole population was returned at almost TWEEN
millions, 19,98t.3i7.) or these, 2,2l6 S28
were foreign born. The number of cr min Is
in confinement at that time was about "a 900,
of whom more than half, or 1900 were for
eigncrs. Hence the latter furnished about ZEN
fines as many criminals as they would have
done, if the standard of morality had been as
high among them as it was among the natives.
BY the prison statistics of the four cities of n.
York, Albany, Buffalo, and Brooklyn, in 1853
itlwas foundl that out If 5 256 criminals. 4005
were foreigners, and ofthese last , 600 were of
Irish birth. a very striking case is afforded
by the returns made last year by the city Mar
shaI of Jersey City, who states the whole num-
ber who have been committed to the city pri-
son from the beginning was A. 100: of whom on
IL sgrenty-fre were natives. Of the rest, 8 $50
were from Ireland. the other foreigners being
but 325. The Master of the AImshouse in the
same city reported that last yeer, II were adj
mitted of whom but f,reire were Natives. 2
Scotch. German 4 English, and 22l Irish I!
OF nearly 500 families of ont door poor reliev
ed, only SIX were American. Thus, but for the
foreign population, the city might almost dis
pense with the allnshouse and PRISON hoth.1
Now the religious connections of all this
population are not given. But as the whole
mum Der of Romanists in this country, accord
ing 10 their own statements, say three millions
does not very greatly exceed the number Of
foreigners here, and as it is known that the
vast nlEjority of immigrants who land on Our
shores is Popish, especially Of thos. from Ire
land, the inference is irresistible as to the
vastly inferior morality OF the Romanists.
But our labor in this inquiry is greatly less
cnvi by the investig gitions OF the Rev. II. Say-
nlonr. This gcntitn1sn was clergyman Of the
Church Of England. Stumbling into PnSeyism
.-that c7oss-road TO Rome,' he went over IT,
that :sseat of SATAN" Visiting Rome itself.
where he,. in his sincerity AMI ex,ted f.rvor.
expected TO fad the very air frlgm mt with
the oder of sinctty, he found the atmosphere
redoient OF corruption, heavy and d ,rk With
the foul stenches of Papal pollution. Shock
ed and -astonished, he reviewed his religious
convictions, and, as the result, went penitent-
IL bark 10 the Chreh he had forsaken. Moved
5y what he hid felt of the effect of this prsct-
cal argument upon his own mind, he busted
himself in collecting. the authentic criminal
statistics of various European countries, con
fining himself to offences against the Sixth
and Seventh Comm ,ndments, or offences
against life and chastity, From an able re-
view of this pamphlet in the '.Bulwsrk,'' - we
give the following condensed summary: ss
l. As to Murder, From fables laid before
Parliament, ard published by order Of the
House, in 1852, it appears that the total mum
Der of conamitsais for murder in England and
Wales for the ten years ending 1852, was 71S.
which gives an average of less than - for
each year-pot FOUR 10 each million Of the
Again from return laid on the table Of the
House of Commons, it appears that from Jnly,
1886, to April, 1889, the total number OF com
initials for murder in Ireland was Chs being a
yearly average of 235, or aTHIRrY-THREE muir
ders to each million! And il is remark able
fact that within the last ten years, just since
the relative proportions of the Protestant and
Popish populations of Ireland have began to
change in favor of the former, frelind $ moral
condition has been getting so.much bette, that,
according to another return laid before Parlia-
ment in 1851. the annual average ofcommittals
for murder in the previous seven years Was on
" 1870. or about NINETEEN to each millionlt
Again. from the last returns laid before the
King of Belgium by the Minister Of fJustice, land
published in 1852 it appears that the yearly
! average ofmurders in that country'is 81 which
gives EIGHTEEN murders to the million, or foa5
aud half times more than in England. 5A
/ Again, from the sCompts gensraIde i'ddn'in