Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-12

We find in the w ashllSooh me
,oorning the following specimen OF ingenious Es
F5rneyisn,, which we present 70 our reaaeis' so
!, CONTRAST with tho form and manner OF giving We
s.o,s - tbe world, by honest and straightior- n
ward presses, to W.T. g
,.Tur LOCATION OF HE'LL DEFINITELY ShIfLAD y
A Nav York clergyman has caused no i''i0 - y
s,tIon by sermon recently preacncu ~ ana ana =
The tonic of his discourse was the locA.'on an :
torments Of hell He undertook 70 ee ahsasr.h q
.b.t hall was situated in the inside OF TINS
oaramencinp about twenty-one miles from the sur.
go where granite begins to melt he also az
fr,ned that heat was the predominant Cnafao.e'
;tc az this abode of the damned, ana iiiustfa.ou
the proposition by reference 70 the uh,'ornn,y h's
temperature Of everything when mao reaoheu 10
from that quarter Of our globe"
so;t was f" New York Clergyman twas
~, who preached such nonsense 70 ms con-
orepation. aud which caused no little sensa-
ton, viii the Union inform the country
what sort of clergyman 1t wasS Where uiu
the clergyman obtain his profound knowledge
Of certain localities
Who commissioned this impostor to impose
mon credulous ignorance! Gave US th' P0'''''
&C. 81, n,ease. We men of the Union, who pro-
Csc 10 furnish facts, to reading pubic!
.s;,nsss sworn upon the stand, TO tell the
...,,h the uhole truth and nothing but thc
trutb"is equally guilty of perjury, II no pur-
nosely on,its an important iact, as ne s'a.es
an absolute falsehood SO an editor' VINO e.'os
n.rh,ed Abatement emitting material iac''
q EQUALLY guilty Of Misrepresentation as u ho
80 70 f,bricate the entire statement.
Now tho point in the case, is not, Simply
n,a location of He'll had been definitely
satt,od nv Anew York clergyman, IN inc
,san,,oce Of the Union, but that " roman
nosbo1is priest" undertook to demonst'a'o
,.hore He'll was situated, and cited, wha' ne
NJ &C. vol, authenticated miracle" to prove
the truth Of his statements. ,
We extract the following from an eHch"a -
nsner. giving the following statement VI '''>
a,,,hor;tv of the New York Express;
A,,,x,so Misunderstanding New tolk ~, ha
.ss alleges that a Roman Catholic priest, . ~ sns
5 j: H. l ts.id IT. ,ssas|sf;5S into =
s.tsalco =. Mt fs eat down fbars IL
good father is said 10 have cited what he called
wellauthenticatcd miracle, to the effect that Co
once permitted certain religious person to receiv
visit for a few moments from one of the damned
In the course of the interview the latter thrust hi
hand Into vase of water in the apartment which
was thereby SO powerfully heated that bronze
oandlestick having been placed in it was immedi.
ately melted"
Now, 1t will be observed that the Washing
ton Union omits to mention the important fact
that 1t was "Roman Catholic priest who
undertook the aforesaid demonstration; and
the Union also omits the fact that the said
priest cited the miracle" stated in the extract
asove copied. The Union was quite willing
that Anew York clergyman" should be held
responsible for such demonstrations, but was
very willing also to Keep out Of cie,o The. fact,
that this ridiculous manifestation of arrogance,
this bald assumption of omniscience, came from
a tool Of the bastard Vicegerent Of the Al
mighty
Whether this priest succeeded in converting
any numskul to his theory, or to a belief in
the pretended miracle, which he alleged was
well authenticated" is not stated, but so 1t is,
the world is beautifully supplied with such i'm
posters, and with millions of dupes, upon
whose hard earnings they "grow fat and it |
is possible, nay, even probable, that the "Ro-
man Catholic priest" alluded to by the New
York Express, found hosts OF willing believers
in his revelations Our main objection TO Ro-
manism, and the only ono which we urge in
our columns, has reference to the temporal
power Of the Romish hierarchy, but II surely
does not lessen our opposition to that power,
when We find Its chosen opponents seeking to
impose upon the credulity Of the masses by
advancing opinions which are at war with both
human philosophy, and he Sacred Scriptures
We make no prctensions to such knowledge
as may be considered necessary to authorize
MS to discuss either theology or physics, but
We have some common sense notions Of things,
and one Of them is, that neither priests nor
popes know anything more at this time, about
those regions, the locality Of which the "Ro-
man Catholic priest undertook TO describe, as
above stated, than zoe know, which is precisely
Nothing, and yet we are free to admit, that
many Of them seem to us to be in fair ,cay
70 knop more hereafter, orperimentdlty Of this 7
matter than we have any desire to knowl
But our purpose in this article was mainly ,
10 unveil the attempts Of the Washington
Union to screen its friends and allies, from the !,
reproaches due to their arrogant assumptions ),
Tho Union in its terms used, evidently :
meant to create the impression, that some Pro-
tcstsnt Clergyman" as contradistinguished Il
from Roman Catholic priest" had caused &c
sensation" by the absurdity of his positions vi
II is this "Forneyism," which we have sought
TO expose, nor would we have hesitated, to :
make the Same exposition, had minister :,
Of any other description than Catholic, n
been the teacher Of the ridiculous opinions, VI
promulgated by the aforesaid Roman Catholic
priost"
E We copy to-day from the Louisville III
Journal, an able and conclusive refutation Of III
the stereotyped charge, that tho American vi
party /" is an abolition or free-soil party. We