Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-21
What Nextf

1t was but few days since says the New York
Express, that we were called upon to record the
fact, that a Romish Priest in Jersey City had full
minated there threat of accommodation against
military company, for the heinous offence go
ing upon a certain excursion, contrary to the
recommendation Of the reverend father that they
should patronize one Of another description. The
arrogance and presumption of the thing occasion
ed no little feeling among both Catholics and Pro-
testants, and hardly has this begun to subsde,
when our attention is called to another outrage Of
a still more aggravated description, on the part
of n Popish Priest, at Hartford, Connecticut.
Without further preface we submit the following
welIauthenticated statement Of facts
Saturday evening, August IL, 1855, David Dali
ton and Mrs. Mary King, OF this city, went before
the town register declared their intentions OF mar
riage, and were by him, as justice Of the peace,
duly and legally married. Sunday August 18th,
the very Rev. Hughes, pastor OF the Catholic
church. informed Mr.. aud Mrs. Dalton that they
were not married-were no better than the beasts
Of the field-were living life of prostitution, but
that he would marry them all right for ten dollars,
and they must pay that or he would Danish them
from Hartford and that wherever they went he
would have them banished, unless they paid him
the $40. The man Dalton, being poor laboring
man. had not $40 to spare, but told Father Hughes
he would (rather than have any troube) pay him
five or even six dollars but that he could paw no
more. The Rev. Hughes said
mo, not a cent less than $40" and he then took
from Dalton the marriage certificate he had and,
although urged and requested to return it. refused
and turned Mrs. Dalton out of the house, and said
they should not be allowed to live in Hartford.
The above can be s,bstantiated by the oath Of
4 he Mrq ri hat bo
would publish him if he did not return her mar
rage certificate. Hughes said, 81 will publish and
Danish you in church next Sunday
Here IL a beautiful revelation now Well may
the Hartford Courant, from which the statement ia
copied, ask
What are we coming to- IL this a country
where priest and clergyman are no better and
worse than other people? or are we living in Spain
or Italy, where the priest has legal powers and the
laity are mere beasts Of burden for their greasy
re screnccs to straddlep Let any American, with
the feelings Of a man, read the above statement Of
facts, and if his blood does not boil we pity him.
Has IL to this, that the laws Of our State are
TO be traduced and despised by this Irish priest,
fresh from Popish seminary--that our women are
to be- insulted, and their most delicate and shrink
ing scnsbiites are TO be ruthlessly played upon by
this Eercenary emissary of foreign power? Is Il
to be endured that this hedgling priest but little
that he may live 20 the age of Methuselah and
never acquire the judgment Of man, shall under.
take TO coerce men and women Of Connecticut
to hold at his pleasure legal documents belonging
to other people-that this boy j. to fancy he can
Danish citizens Of our State
We apprehend he is more likely to get banished
himself-we apprrhend he will have to be cautious
how he uses language applicable TO three. fourths of
our citizens II applicable at ALL when he intimates
that persons Of different sex, cobabiting but not
married by the Catholic Church, are not married.
are better than the beasts OF the field are lv.
ing life Of prostitution. To say So is to bastard
izo more than three. quarters Of our population
is to heap the most degrading epihet our language
contains ON the beloved mothers who bore US and
the fathers who sired u.s. This free country, yet
awhile--no thanks TO Priest Hughes--and he will
find il altogether too free country for him to live
in, if he persists In such talk. The statement
comes TO us from responsible sourcc-ii Priest
Hughes wants hearing he shall have il, provided
lie keeps reasonably close TO the point