The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-01-24
BISHOP POTTER on PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN TIL
UNITED STATES.

ton in these candid suggestions
BISHOP POTTER on PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN THE
UNITED STATES.
There is in Canada association called the aChurch
Society which holds annual meetings in the city of
Montreal AT the last meeting which was held on
the evening the 10th inst Right Rev Horao Potter
provisional hop of New York present and is re-
ported 10 have made the following remarks We quote
from the Montreal Transcript
" Ii something foot the soil Of her gracious
Majesty the Queen tCheers God bless heri He had
prayed for her on the land and on the and hoped to do
again. She had his sympathy, his deep sympathy the
noble efforts she making the present subdue
barbarous power who had attempted crush feeble nation
and oyerwhem Europe Maehhad been said about Aaeri
feeling and AHcrcan sentiment regard the
he would tell Ats tordshp taat the people Canada isEed
Hnderand the pebble sentiment Of the country they
search for IN the nsr.papsrs Loud eheers.l They
% the educated de clergy of The Church those
who studied Shakespeare, and Milton, and Hooker and they
could iad that they heart aud soul ,siA England
struggle. and daily offered up their prayer. for success
tCheers."l
Why the worthy bishop should be socitous for the
welfare Of Queen Victoria in his aquatic well
trial devotions is not stated, shall inquire But if
the allies look to the educated of America to the
clergy to those who study Shakespeare Milton and Hook
er, for sympathy and oonn,enance the and quail
y of the moral aid and comfort which they are likely 10
receive would not OCCASION fancy, the slightest sur
prise dissatisfaction apprehension part of those
whose feelings with the Gar in the presen, struggle
The spoken of in the restricted sense by Bishop Pot
ter-thosc who rudy Shakespeare Milton and Hooker-do
amount to many hundreds in the United States and
with all due respect for their intelligence and the peculiar
character Of their literary pursuits disposed to
admit that they the refecors Of public sentiment
and feeling in this country 1t is the intelligent millions
to the pedantic ewto the who if they are not
familiar with the ancient modern classics have stil
shown wisdom enough for sef-government and courage
enough preserve those liberties which were wrung from
the grandfather of the good whom the good bishop
pays by land and seahat look to as the true
and only opponents of American sentiment and American
feeling
Bishop Potter guilty of grosswe will not say will
Misrepresentation when be sought convey the idea
that The of this country did reflect the senti
wishes of the people II is notorious that the
press Of this country the direct opponents and reflect
the various shades political and religious feeling
existing in the land Democratic wing, FREE soil Catholic
Methodist Presbyterian newspapers sustained bv
their respective readers because they are identified with
certain dogmas Of political religious faith and SO true
is this, that if the New Hampshire Patriot should sud-
of the odor of nationatyr-or If the New York Cou-
rer should be tempted into abandonment of some fed
era docirineor if the Freeans Journal should cease
to regard ansubstantiaton orthodox doctrine Of
the ehurehor if the New York Observer should insist
that the works Of John Calvin should be read for edc
ton and not for nstrucon-their respective publishers
would soon discover that they had msreprescnted their
respective puhcs by the loss Of thousands subscribers
The editor offs journal gathers about him friends and sub
sceers in consequence of formal declaration of his pn-
cpe and belief in his integrity and capacity and he
Is implicitly bound pay the respect 70 the wishes
OF his readers that mem her Of Congress accords the
wishes of his constituents. is to be supposed that
thepublc journalist and veers with every idle evan
escent excitement matter how widespread but the
deep and settled convictions Of the people viii and do
find an expression through the press.
When find the journals Of all parties denominations
and creeds pretty unanimous in their opinions regard to
the merits a. well conduct of the Eastern war il NAV
be taken as fair expression Of American senmentthe
opinions Of those who study Shakespeare Milton and
Hooker, to the contrary notwithstanding
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