Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-04
NUMBER 249.
20 The Editor cf Ms american Organ

hope that might be able to have Mr. BIS letter
published at the same time with my letter to him.
But, inasmuch as there seems to be some doubt
whether my letter to him, or his reply, may not
have miscarried--and inasmuch as there is sys-
tematic attempt being made to pervert and mis-
represent this whole. matter feel that, in justice
to myselfand to the cause Of truth, ought not to
withhold my letter any longer from publication.
My letter will probably reach Mr. Barringer through
the press, sooner than through the mail It is to
be hoped Mr. Barrnger will reply, as he can, ana
probably will, through the public press His an
swer will be as anxiously waited for by me, as il
will be looked for by those who feel any interest In
this matter.
| at one time intended to have made publ
eltlon over my own name reviewing all the facts.
and reasonable inferences growing out Of this affair
may do 80 hereafter. For the present, ON this
letter rest the vindcation Of my opinion, often
expressed in public, that there was an under
standing between the Roman Catholic Hierarchy il
this country and some of Mr.. Pierce's leading
| friends, that the Roman Catholic vote should be
given to MIR. Pierce on condition that some mem
Der Of that Church should have seat in his Cabi
| net
| There has been made unworthy attempt on
the part OF portion of the anti American press
and the anti-Amcrican advocates to evade the
force and effect Of Mr.. Barringer's statement, in
his letters to both Mr. Ellis and myself, by prr-
tending to discover an issue of veracty between
Mr.. Barringer and mysef--and some OF them
have been base and mendacious enough to pretend
that had been exposed in Misrepresentation All
this Is designed to divert the public attention from
the real question at issue. 1t is to screen from
public indignation, the parties to the bargain, by
trying TO get up a neac issue. No one who has
read all that has been published on the subject
believes that there is the slightest ground for i'm
pngning my veracty or that there il the color Of
an issue of veracity1 between Mr.. Barringer and
myself Some wilbp 20 doubt try to believe it.
and some viii ilSPxefSnd that they do believe IT,
but all such xNp the seEcondemnation Of
their own corsfien6 for denying with their lips
| the conviction Of thek hearts
Responsibilities, k. RAYNER.
RALEIGH N. O., August /, 1855.
My DEAR Sir: / have just reached Raleigh.
after an absence Of more than two weeks and on
my return | find yoar letter Of July goth. In
this letter you request me to publish your letter
Of tile 9th July. Had ! been here when your last
letter arrived, might have published the first as
| requested--but since the appearance Of your en-.
tire letter to Mr.. Ellis, can hardly suppose you
desire the publication of your entire lctter'to me.
IL you do, however, you herein find q, copy of il,
which you can have published il you desire Its
publication
must confess feel surprised at the tur,, this
matter has taken. And you must pardon me, Tor
my review of all the facts and incidents connected
with 1t, and for trying to recall the same to your
| recollection.
Tis true, there is no issue between us in regard
TO any matter Of fact. Your statement 10 both
Mr.. Ellis aud myself confirms my account given Of
the conversation between us the subject alluded
to. But in regard to the inference to be deduced
from your statement, the impression made on your
! mind by the communication Of the Popes Nuncio
at the time as stated In your letter to Mr. Ellis IL
entirely different from what mine Is now--and en-
trely different from what l understood yours to
be at the time OF the conversation between us.
! Allow me to call to your recollection the cir
cumstances under which this conversation occur
red between you and me. / called to see you at
Yarboro's Hotel sometime about Christmas, /
think. After talking on various subjects the sub
i ject OF the american movement was introduced, L
forget whether by you or myself stated to you
that really felt alarmed at the progress and grasp
ing policy Of the Roman Catholic Church in this
country. You replied that our people here knew
nothing of the Roman Catholic Church, as you did
who had witnessed its action in Spain, where il
| had full power. You then went on to speak OF the
sale OF indulgences, which was still practised ia
SpaiR--that on certain festivals or saints-days Ia
the year, you had often seen large pacards put up
at prominent places along the streets Of Madrid,
containing regular tarlU OF prlcee at which indul-
| Rences would be granted for the commission of
sins-among other things, recolect you men
toned the item Of release from the obligation Of
an oath, TO be obtained by paying a certain sum,
&C., &c.
AT this recollect / expressed my surprise
and said, that badly as thought OF the Romish
Church, did not suppose this sale Of indugenccs
was practised by that Church anywhere in this
age. You replied oh, yes, il ia still kept up IN
Spain" Yoa then went on 10 speak Of the denial
| by the Spanish government OF the right Of decent
burial TO nny Protestant who might die in Spain--
t at no religious service was allowed to be had at
his bural-that not moro than three persons we're
allowed TO attend bis body TO the gravt-that they
were not allowed to take the body to the crave in
any vehicle more respectable than common
cart--that they we're required take the body out
OF the city along some obscurc way, and bury Il in
the ields--and that most OF the bodies OF Pfotest
ants thus buried were supposed TO be disinterrcd
| by the anntomists. You mentioned some instances
of Protestants OF high social position that had died
| in Spain, whose bodies had thus been disposed Of
| and whose graves could not be afterwards found
| by their fiends. a.ked you how IL would have
been with yourself " you had died when there.
i You stated that you had your arrangements pro-
vided, that In case Of your death, your body was
10 be einbalmed and brought home to the United
States. You spoke further Of the intolerance Of
| the Romish Church in Span--that there was not
single Protestant place Of worship allowed in the
whole kingdom. Here again expressed my sur
prise, and asked you If Il was possible that the
English government with all its well known infu
ence in Spain, did not exact from the Spanish gov
ernment the privilege Of Protestant chapel con
nected with the English embassy in Madrid. You
| replied mott was not allowed even 10 England
although the British government bad long been
endeayoring to obtain the privilege. You spoke
Of many other enormties and expressions of the
Romish Church.
In the course Of the conversation, said that
considered the Romish religion to be utterly in-
/ compatible with the existence Of free government;
that their assumptions Of power in this country be-
| gan TO be alarming that as you we're not in the
country at the last Presidential election, you were
probably not well acquainted with the nfaenccs
which prevailed in deciding IL; but that there was
very little doubt, but the Roman Catholic vote
in the North was given TO Mr.. Pierce, in pursuance
Of an arrangement with Archbishop Hughes to
that effect You replied, You have no idea how
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